jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>According to [1], HFs are shorting ETFs with GME shares because there aren't any more shares to borrow

Why would be the shares be hard to borrow? Isn't short interest relatively low compared to a few weeks ago?
Alright, split the fees! Now you need someone to count the days paid out, calculate how much each member has to pay, send payment requests, follow up, manage the account, ...

A professional Union needs funds to do its work. Over time the benefits members get more than pay for the union dues. If there's a strike at least in Europe the union will also use the dues to cover the salary for the days striking.

The imaginary alternative would be to have somebody do this for free in their evenings and on their weekends. Have you ever tried to manage even a class representative and budget for your kids' school or a little league or any other kind of long-term engagement? Already at that small scale things tend to break down quote easily and few stay involved more than a few years. How can you expect volunteer union reps to work 8h+/day, spend their nights writing legal briefs, researching, organising events, managing members and expenses, etc while being up against an army of professional lawyers?

Unions brought the five day work week, end to child labour, 40/38 hour weeks, the right to breaks, vacations, medical leave, ... If you don't have those right now then that's likely because you are in a non-union workplace (and/or country).
> So you feel the right solution is to give millionaires massive tax breaks and have middle class folks who can barely afford a house pick up the slack?

I did not say that so I don't mean that.

If a low/middle class person buy the house they can afford to pay and live in it, they don't become millionaires just because other people around them bought houses more expensively later. They're most likely still in the same career earning that same low/middle class income. They don't have any additional money to pay much higher property taxes, they are certainly not millionaires.

Tax them after sale, sure, if the property value is still high when they sell (it might not be).
> Are these two related? I've had dodgy experiences with Bluetooth on Linux in the past, but no issues on Mac.

Both may be Linux only, but not related. If I understood correctly, the bootup issue was because bluetooth drivers are loaded only after LUKS unlock. Missed/stuck key connection issues could have been Linux specific.

> Can you expand on this a bit? From what I've heard and from the look of it, it looks to be an improved typing experience, especially coming from the awful F-keys of the sculpt.

I don't have the keyboard any more and it was a couple of years ago, so I frankly don't remember that well. I didn't like the sharp key corners vs. rounded keys on Sculpt. Could be that otherwise the typing experience was similar and my memory is just colored by the connection issues which obviously destroyed the typing experience, I'd check what other sources say about this.
The API compatibility is pretty far down the list of bottlenecks with IPv6. There was some churn related to it 20 years ago.
Yes, I think the doom-and-gloom predictions are dramatically over-hyped.

I'm pretty sure that software development has had by far the most effort put into automating it of any job that has ever existed, simply because every person capable of doing the job has the same skills necessary to automate it.

That has done nothing to decrease salaries for developers. If anything, it has raised them, simply because developers can now produce more useful things in less time and at lower overall cost.
Market share does not a monopoly make. Do you really consider Bing to be so bad that you don't even count it as a competing product in the same product category as Google Search? The cost to switch is literally nothing.
Now a lot of games have enough internet features (including things like leaderboards or hybrid features, eg Luigi’s Balloon World in Super Mario Odyssey) that often exploits require you stick to a certain OS version, locking you out of those features, regardless of if it’s a pirated copy or not.
Slavery is not a trade you choose to practice. Not sure how this is constructive.
Nice to see this! There are surprisingly few solutions that support SSH session recording.
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Ramp is looking for experienced front-end folks who live and breathe UX

Our front-end stack is React, TypeScript, and a shiny component library.

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See the job posting at https://boards.greenhouse.io/ramp/jobs/5646274002
We're also hiring for other roles, see all openings at https://ramp.com/careers#job-openings

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We're a young hypergrowth startup with ~50 engineers building top tier product in the B2B fintech space (3y old, $8.1B valuation, Series C, ~380 employees, ~70 engineers)

Cool breakdown of our business: https://www.notboring.co/p/ramping-up
That user interface on the "gonkai" really looks like Rockbox(http://www.rockbox.org/).
You could run a topic model [1] to display, say, the top 20 topics discussed on Twitter. LDA [2] is a good one.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_model

[2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lda
This isn't really fair, you can't trust 100s/1000s of children you don't know to look after systems well.
If you bump into enough of these devices you'll learn that most use a limited keyspace for their encryption key. Case in point, the Motorola NVG510 used by AT&T Uverse HSI ADSL2+ (not to be confused with AT&T Uverse VDSL). They are all programmed with a SSID of ATT### and use a ten digit numerical PSK. As far as brute forcing them, it took my GeForce 550 three days to find the key of my test unit, and if I remember correctly five days to scan the entire keyspace. A newer and faster video card could have done it in hours.

If manufacturers stopped using fixed length keys for a particular product line and made use of the entire alphabet it would make this kind of exercise infeasible.
I looked into this and you could get HD on locked down devices (phones, tablets, TVs), but not computers, regardless of operating system. This was weird to see given that EME made it into Chrome recently and now Netflix works without silverlight. I ended up renting it on Youtube, then googling for an HD copy. Found one hosted on Google Drive (!), which produced quite a chuckle.
hey...no specific program...almost all of them follow the same format (which i think is largely influenced by the success of YC)
Coding Horror discusses this:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/01/flattening-arrow-co...

Worth another look. I've found this style much more readalbe and maintainable down the road and it prevents the "arrow code" in the link above.
Or a Fugger. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugger)
I like the last point - "if you are building a server, either don't use Ruby or use EventMachine"

Perfect timing, I'm giving a ten-minute talk on BERT and Ernie tonight at the Buenos Aires Ruby Meetup, this is a good reference to point people to.
When I go a suitable period of time with no Wordpress 3.0 users contacting me for a de-hacking job, then I will upgrade. :)
Whoa, someone else from Pittsburgh? I've been looking for hackers/tech culture around Pittsburgh and haven't managed to find too much so far. I think I will check this out tonight.
I'd have to brush up on my quantum mechanics, but IIRC they don't have the concept of "force" ?

(F=ma being replaced by Schrodinger's equation.)
I used to be like the parent poster, but yours is the position I evolved to, also.

And, I make sure to leave a negative review or call attention to the shittiness of the company involved somehow, much as the OP as done.

It is annoying, and possibly not the most effective use of my time, but I have come to see it as a kind of civic responsibility.
Could use a CaaS product (credit cards as a service), basically a custom card for each subscription you use, so you can cancel it... There's often legal and contractual issues with this though...
This is the feature I want most. I have my EDC and then I have a "if I drop it in the ocean, oops" phone.
Being less severe than the flu is not my definition of mild. A flu is a pretty bad illness.
That video is 122 MB. Not exactly small for a 6 minute video. Your average dvdrip is ~3-7 MB/minute and this is ~20 MB/minute.

I think you're noticing their production quality more than anything to do with encoding.
I have also thought of lots of problems with this business that need to be solved... But that's ok, that's why we always say the execution is more important than the idea: "Execution" is often a blanket term for "Negotiating all the hurdles and picking the right trade-offs and which problems to solve to make it a reality."

One that would keep me up at night is an employer who 'tastes' their employee's resume by sending it to a fake job ad. If it has a positive spray score of any magnitude, they have just learned that the employee is job seeking. Bad!
HTML5 is a documentation spec, not a video encoder. I think you knew that, but language is surprisingly precise, so before commenting I wanted to ensure that we were talking about the same thing.

Having got that out of the way, the HTML5 spec for the VIDEO tag is a bit tenuous at the moment. Though the API is laid out in full, there are essentially three competing encodings vying for the default: Ogg/Vorbis, MPEG-4, and VP8. Only Mozilla supports Ogg as other parties feel uncertain about its defensibility in a patent war against MPEG-LA. MPEG-4 is not F/OSS, ergo Mozilla isn't supporting it. Google has purchased and opened VP8 in hopes that it will become the open standard, thereby assuaging Mozilla's and the F/OSS' community's fears, though Apple has yet to be sold on VP8's defensibility again MPEG-LA.

To wrap this up, if you do a little digging you'll find that Apple used the MOV container to hold an MPEG-4 video. This is just fine and dandy in the current state of the spec, though it would have been nice for Apple to use a different container format.
It's better than iphone 3GS but this is not surprising. Hardware wise is catching up with some older HTC models for some features or lagging behind the newest models. High resolution display being the only thing really better than any other phones out there.

If the fight is on software, I put my money on android: big time! Android is quicker at introducing new OS features because it's open source. I am thinking wifi tethering, customization beyond folders, web integration... and it offers a more competitive and free app market.
Yep, it's pretty neat. If you're familiar with haskell (I'm not sure if haskell invented it, but it's probably the most well-known example) this will be familiar to you. For example, factorial could be written as:

fac 0 = 1

fac n = n * fac(n-1)
The only reason they are ignorant to how much people hate AT&T is because AT&T has the iphone.
The minute the iphone is available for tmobile, verizon, or sprint, AT&T will see how much people hate them.
Because Apple had control over, maybe, 10-20 APs in the room (and those almost certainly only constituted one mesh network). The 569 other networks were from devices controlled by journalists and other attendees, the majority of which were MiFis (according to Jobs), which don't even have ports for external antennas.
I had not really considered college yet, but I think I would rather focus on self study for the moment. I like the idea of having a few good starting points that I can grow my knowledge from in a "what would I want to know today" kind of way. Still a good idea though, its probably worth investigating if there are any _good_ courses out there.
The advert is in its entirety incredibly cheesy and pretentious to the point I could barely sit through some passages, but fact remains: what they mention about the phone is real and actual; it's an ace product, inside out, and no doubt the technically finest, most sound and solid smartphone available on the planet. Metal frame and glass cover - good lord!
Here's a report by McKinsey that suggests "a correlation between high numbers of female senior executives and stronger financial performance" [PDF]:

http://www.positude.com/Images/A_Business_Case_for_Women.pdf
One thing I never understood:

My family has had an AOL account since v2.5 (1995?), but the discs never stopped coming. Always seemed like an obvious waste of money, with a trivial fix.
it's _Artificial_ !

Maybe their example sucked but Search engines fall into AI in my book.

I think the author is emphasizing the complexity behind very simple things. Obviously, it's not intelligent but it's doing way more than expected.

To me "intelligence" in software is about hiding complexity, making decisions and deducing things based on data, predicting and adapting based on input to deliver unforeseen results using a simple UI (where UI could be keywords in a search engine or a warehouse reorganizing itself to deliver and locate stuff faster based on new input/output).

The next generation of software is not about building actual intelligent systems. It's about accomplishing specific tasks and delivering more than expected.

Think of your IDE fixing your most common typos because it's constantly analyzing your input, or a file selection program that saves patterns/dependencies between your opened files and tries to guess which file you mean when you hit `gt` etc.

To me, this is smart behavior or _artificial_ intelligence. This is as far as software will ever get unless you start mixing it with biological stuff.
Apple didn't single-handedly invigorate (if not invent) two forms of consumer-class electronics in the 90's, and they didn't have strong leadership to continually innovate on their leads.

Android could be the new 1995-era Windows; but who's saying Apple is the same Apple?
There's also the element of chance. A technical acquaintance of mine has a daughter who went to school for TV and film writing, and managed to land a job writing for a popular show a few years back (Ugly Betty), and make a considerable amount of money in the process.

His take on her success was as follows - in that career even if you were really good, you have a small chance (2-5% he estimated) at being in the right place at the right time (had writing credits on a show that didn't get canceled, and became popular) in which case you could make a very impressive income.

On the other hand, you could go get an engineering degree and get a job at an engineering firm. You'd have a much better chance (85-95%) at getting a job that paid well provided you did the job properly, although possibly not as well as the wildly successful writer mentioned above, and it may not be what you wanted to do. The implication is that he would have rather had her get that kind of job, but considering the outcome was quite proud of her.

I tend to think of internet startups like the TV writer gig - it's a way to have a small chance at hitting the goldmine, but less of a sure thing.

Similarly, my father is a pediatrician. He often sees kids for physicals who want to get into professional sports because they really dig soccer/basketball/football/etc. He does a math exercise with them, going over how many people are drafted a year, and basically it comes down to "Are you the best person this year in the entire state?", which the answer is usually no. Not to crush their dreams, but it's an honest dose of reality

So, in short, people should look at the chances of success before pursuing a field. Internet startups are a pretty good chance, especially considering that doing them often involves a lot of technical and business self-investment that can carry over into other jobs if it doesn't work out.
It seems like a number of requests are very similar to other existing requests. For example, many organizations are asking 'How do we improve our donation process?'. Rather than have volunteers answer the same question numerous times, it would be helpful to have a resources page that is shown to the nonprofit before they post their question. I am reminded of systems like Digg/reddit that alert you a story has already been submitted or systems like the Stack Exchange family that show duplicates and similar questions.

Instead of having volunteers copy and paste their answer repeatedly, having a page comparing and contrasting the various online platforms (PayPal, Razoo, Convio, etc) could prevent things from getting lost in the shuffle. These FAQ and Resources pages could be edited wiki-style and non-profits could periodically request reviews and additions to the wikis rather than opening up completely new support tickets.
I bet that runs screamingly fast on a modern PC.
Money quote. If Android were serious about their developers, they would bake in standard animations. Make it easier for developers to build good-looking and good-feeling apps, fragmentation issues aside. The beauty of UIKit is if you think like an Apple Engineer (see WWDC10 'Designing Apps with Scrollviews'), you can build almost all of the user interfaces and apps that are standard. Even iMovie. They give you the tools to succeed. No other conference I've been to (WWDC10) was it so apparent they want to give you the framework and knowledge and expert advice to build apps that look good. Apple loves its developers. Not sure about Google's love for their Android developers.

> Emotion is a huge factor when people choose what to buy — I’d say maybe even the biggest one. Apple understands this. All iOS devices — all Apple devices, for that matter — are designed with the emotional experience in mind. Why does almost everything in iOS animate? Why did Apple create CoreAnimation, and base UIKit app development so heavily upon it? Because animation, even in small unobtrusive doses, has an emotional affect. It results in a feeling.
Looks great. Biggest thing missing in my opinion is the date/time of the tweet.

Good work!
At least SourceForge still offers a download option for the hosted projects, unlike Google Code...
That's likely - I wasn't sure whether anyone implemented the optimization of stopping as soon as you've maxed out a fixed width table but you could certainly do something similar by hand when rendering the page and set fixed widths based on the ratio of column sizes.
No, in my circle of friends no one had modems.

Our main interests were games and demoscene related (assembly programming and pro-tracker).
My friend has this exact same degree (spanish and french), she wandered off to get a masters in International Development and then went on to create various programs around north-east Africa and Central America.
Who says it's a worthless degree? It just sounds like this author didn't manage to do anything with it.

Also good writing (taught by these 'useless' BA degrees) is a damned handy thing to have. I know people that have gone into marketing, tendering, publicity, reporting, technical writing ... the list goes on... it's possibly longer than the one for STEM degrees, which can pin your skills to one sector or role.

edit: quoting her response:
"That is an absolutely preposterous article!! If I hadn't studied Spanish and French I couldn't have worked abroad and I wouldn't have the job I have now. Language skills are vital!
If she had written this about a history degree then maybe..."
Nonsense, the dictionary says it was used correctly:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/thusly
Crashes and slowness that vary with Firefox versions is Firefox's fault, and in this case the note about tab switching points pretty clearly to a problem with the debugger service.
Being more or less problematic shouldn’t be an issue.

If you have moral issues with a company, you should have it with all companies, regardless if one is more or less problematic. Otherwise, it’s just hypocrisy.
Arguably this is the first successful assault on the capital building since 1814, when British troops took over Washington DC and burned the White House down.
I think the problem with rail is economic.

Market forces are much more powerful with trucking for instance because anyone can buy a truck and start a business. Same thing with container ships - buy a ship, go into business (don't know about port berth complications)

So with rail, the rail owners get in the way. It's like if someone owned the roads or the ocean and worked on collecting rent.

I wonder if there were a model where anyone could use the rails, like anyone can use the highway system, and then rail shipping/use would go up.
she is writing for a general audience, please lets not get upset about that one and focus on actual lack of evidence.
I don't think it's FUD. If the Chinese government wanted to destroy BTC (because it violated their currency control laws), they could do it by coercing the owners of the mining pools located in China and those pools do do currently have over 51% of hash power. They could do a reorg of blocks resulting in a double spend attack, as you point out. A successful double spend attack by China would cause a huge crash in the price of Bitcoin and threaten its future viability. How is this FUD when it could be carried out tomorrow?
Indeed. In the past I moved from business software to embedded. Great fun, it made me a noob again. Now I changed back and am still happy.
> It also implies that the gap won't exist for very long, as AMD will move onto 5nm soon

... yes, if there is any capacity left. Capacity for the new process is a limited resource after all.
I wonder if historians will see Gamergate as the start of all this.

It's a meme on 4chan right now that this is the case and I can see the lineage.
I'd love to see a diagram type that produces Git commit graphs (either top-to-bottom or left-to-right).
How do you differetiate a manager that outperforms by luck from one that outperforms by skill. Data shows that managers that outperformed in the past are not more likely to outperform in the future.
Wow, I had heard of and thought there might be something to the IQ studies that show Ashkenazi Jews as smarter but now that I see the supposed evidence on that Wikipedia page I'm just laughing. If those 4 studies are the best proof they can come up with then I'm left to believe this is all part of some jewish propaganda.
I switched to using Bing Maps about 70% of the time fairly recently - largely because here in the UK they have full Ordnance Survey 1:25000 coverage.
The only ads I run in e-mail are text (since text converts better with my geeky audience and they hate images as it is). I'm not sure what mainstream e-mail people do but images seem to be a lot more common there. If someone's paying $275 CPM to Thrillist for an ad - http://www.businessinsider.com/what-a-275-cpm-ad-looks-like-... - then I hope they're getting the full value on that ;-)
Too bad that google app engine seems to only allow subdomains, so www seems the only sane choice for now. Or have they fixed that by now?
The default text in the search box "eg. Spa" could be improved. First of all, if you're going to abbreviate the Latin phrase "exempli gratia," the including the periods "e.g." is the correct way to do it. Just using "For Example:" would be better, and it would also be easier for non-native English speakers.

Giving more examples besides just "Spa" would also help.
Matt's point is that while some algorithms will fix this particular case, you can still come up with a different edge case which makes it break. The whole "prefect merge tool" was very popular five years ago (during git's and mercurial's infancy), but it didn't lead anywhere.

Simple merges strategy are "good enough" in practice.