jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You started your responses to me in this thread by arguing that because "Texas's separate grid dates back decades, and was driven by a conscious desire to optimize for the needs of manufacturing", the mere suggestion that it could have done something to prepare for the recent situation was nonsense. Now you are saying that "the only winterization recommendations that would have made a difference for Texas came from within the Texas energy sector itself", so, whether or not these were in fact the only recommendations made, your belated acceptance that such recommendations were made represents complete capitulation on that point, and tacitly acknowledges that your response to my original post was the only nonsense to be found at that time.

It is, of course, irrelevant where the criticism of the existing infrastructure came from, what is relevant is that it was not acted on, and therefore, the question of why it was not acted on is very pertinent, just as I have been saying from the beginning. And, for the third or fourth time, you are trying a slightly different version of the nonsensical notion that if other jurisdictions' infrastructure is not perfect, then what led to Texas' debacle is a question that should not be asked.

Furthermore, your newly-found claim that Texas' infrastructure was criticized from within can only raise additional questions of why such recommendations were ignored - was the Texas energy sector prevented from implementing its own recommendations?

>Dishonesty is the sort of rhetoric...

This is just a continuation of the childish outburst in your previous post, which does nothing to rehabilitate your reputation for critical thinking, which has been thoroughly trashed, by your own hand, in this thread.
Pet peeve: people should stop saying "even better" in their announcements as if simply saying "better" implied that your previous version was crappy. Be more lucid in your self assessments, more humble in your comms and just say you improved it.
It must be tumbling bitcoin....
There’s a great 99% Invisible podcast episode called “Derelict Dome” that tells the story of a geodesic dome restaurant built in the 1950s.

“The glass windows heated the restaurant up like a greenhouse, so the owner installed fiberglass over most of the dome, blocking the ocean views. It leaked constantly, and was difficult to maintain.”

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-64-derelict-do...
I had thought they just used Captcha to "turk" it out to unwitting users. After all, they've been using house numbers in Captcha for a while.
How about the classic games of Hangman, Word Search, Concentration, Match, 4 Pictures 1 Word, and Word Scramble? I put all these in one iOS app.

Spanish: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/h4-spanish-lite/id388918463?...

French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese: http://appstore.com/h4labs

I agree that some sort of interactive game would be great but it would be so much harder. I was thinking either comics or some sort of illustrated story might work too. First, I'm going to spruce up my current app then try to design some "story" that covers the basic nouns and verbs.
Different techniques work well depending on your current level. Immersion always helps, and for me recently that meant diving into reading online news articles in French, which really helped with expressions, idioms, and jokes. I tried a few "Google Translate" chrome extensions but none were good for looking up just a phrase effectively, so I wrote my own, BabelFrog. It has almost no options (just From and To languages) and instantly displays of the translate of the word or phrase you selected. Give it a try maybe. http://babelfrog.com/
*makes ... sorry about the typo
100% correct!
What I say ... there is no moderation in anything. We have people going way out of their way to find something offensive in anything.
It's quite easy either way... but if we're talking about systems that are vulnerable to this ie flaw the chances of it having shipped with acrobat pre-installed are like 99%.
I've wondered the same thing: let the oceans rise twenty feet; I own property in Indiana.

Too bad about the whole probable breakdown of civil order and thus property rights.
Hey, someone's gotta paint the roses red.
Typically the thing to look for at the top is a falling marginal utility of capital. That is, capital can't find a place to invest itself so it starts chasing after dumber and dumber investments. The high production cost oil sector (e.g shale) is probably going to be the first thing to go.
> "To me video games are the so-called 'real America,'" he said. "The real America operates according to a video game logic, and that game logic is neo-liberalism

Homelessness is a real problem, but, uh... yeah. I'm going to flag this as essentially a political article (most everything vice.com publishes is).

Maybe for his next book he can chronicle how Quake is the real America too, with the mutant monsters representing ... well... whatever the hell you want since you're willing to make such huge non-sequiturs.
I've seen that too! I have a lot of sympathy for what you're saying here but I think classing it as it's own ISA is a bit of a stretch! How much flexibility Apple have with the ISA is an interesting point - I suspect they are pushing the limits of what they can get away with (what's Arm going to do?) Might be different when Nvidia own Arm?
I started to watch shoe shine videos to lull me to sleep ever since the lockdown in March.

https://www.youtube.com/c/JasonDornstar/videos
PS3, and supposedly that was because some jurisdictions treated game consoles and computers differently for import tariffs (computers being cheaper to import), but those jurisdictions changed to not having a distinction.

Agreed with the underlying point you're making though. They allow this because it aligns with their current strategic objectives, and changes to those objectives can be arbitrary and capricious, at least from the viewpoint of the consumer.
We would also have accepted: Duplo
A low interest mortgage has a longer duration which means the probability is much higher.
There are indoor 5G radio units for use in malls and large buildings (see Ericsson's Radio Dot products for example [1]). That's probably what they were thinking.

[1] https://www.ericsson.com/en/portfolio/networks/ericsson-radi...
I don't think practicality and moral outrages are in contradiction. There's a practical reason to get outraged here - because it would be bad for SK if everyone starts taking hostages and because SK has a duty to its citizens.
mamba is (nominally) a drop-in replacement for Conda's CLI and dependency resolver. I've been using it for a couple of months and it really does run an order of magnitude faster for anything that requires dependency resolution. You'll still want to keep ana/miniconda around, but it goes to show how some of Conda's performance woes are entirely self-inflicted.
I've worked with systems that used USB tokens with X509 certificates for authentication and the tokens still required a password (as with Chip-n-Pin cards).

The "something you have" only really works as an additional authentication factor to the "something you know" of the passwords.
Except that wildlife is a limited resource that needs to be protected from poachers. It's only like piracy if you think there is an unlimited supply of wildlife that anyone should be able to take as they like.
Previous submissions, same story, different source:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2000127 - apple.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2000320 - engadget.com

No comments (yet)
True. There are people who invest a lot of time proclaiming their entrepreneurial advocacy in public forums. I have a hard time distinguishing this advocacy from a routine lead generation strategy, where the entrepreneur is a sales prospect.
Actually this is canvas.coffee. I would be much more interested if this was actual Javascript.
I really wish I could do this, but Duck Duck Go really just seems subpar when it comes to anything I actually still use a search engine for these days (technical searches).

A better solution for my use case is to 1) avoid search engines where possible (far easier than you might initially think) and 2) just use googlesharing with ssl to provide myself with some anonymity while using google.
> I don't understand how "suitability for teaching" and "suitability for industry" differ

Industry is made up of people who have by necessity cultivated a patience with excessive complexity.

In particular, I suspect that many unnecessarily complex or counterintuitive language features arise in imitation of what the designers have learned to live with in other languages, even as their focus is on "improving" some aspect that they think is important for industry.

If you did design a language which favored learnability at every opportunity you might not end up with something that flattered everyone's preconceived notions of what is suitable for industry, either.

I hesitate to name examples here, as there is a significant risk of trolling...
As above, what would you do if someone set off an explosives detector?

I pat them down, and search their luggage. If I don't find a bomb, I let them go. It should take 3-5 minutes, tops. What I don't do is detain them for hours, grille them over and over again, and deny them food and water during the detainment.

but at the same time they need to be persistent enough to deal with the attempts of guilty parties to conceal the truth.

It doesn't even matter what they say, they either are or aren't carrying a bomb. That can be determined through physical inspection. Persistence doesn't enter into it.
That is the #1 part of the last Batman movie that annoyed me. "ohh he's broke because ... of an attack on the stock exchange during which a giant totally weird trade was made".
For word processing, sure, but Thunderbird and Swype are two examples of software that I use on a daily basis that have uses for spell checking.
Exactly. Give us the cow and the milk and we’ve got some awesome beans you’ll totally love.
Nobody here is going to claim that you can't tell a barrel-aged Belgian-style ale from a bottle of Newcastle.

There's lot of very drinkable wine at a $20 price point, but a $20 bottle is unlikely to surprise you with its complexity.
That's no worse than most site registration systems. Banks aren't going to use Facebook logins anyway.
Accounting: Assets = Liabilities + Capital. This deals with the Balance Sheet.
Expenses/Revenues are reported on the Income Statement. Two completely different things. An income statement basically explains how well you're using the items on your balance sheet.
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=color,colour&...

Note the effects of the world wars.
That's a fair point, but still, the posts were made by a bot, who can't decide if there is useful discussion on another page or not.
I'm in Dc bro :-(
That will just get you the data. Favbot makes it available online.
Yes, IMHO it comes from this: What would be on the news if he was a terrorist and they find out that he actually set off the explosives detector before doing his deed? So basically their response is more about fear of embarrassment (to an extreme) than actual effectiveness.
I've been surprised to see this as well. The advent of a first-child seems to drastically change a family's priorities and I'm seeing many of my friends move closer to their parents to get the additional support for raising their child.

I actually observed one couple do the opposite. They subsidized one of their mothers expenses so that she could move to this area, work part time, and act as their primary daycare provider for their new child. They ran the math and found that it was cheaper than daycare and with healthcare reforms the mother was no longer tied to her old job and could so afford to quit and move.

However, this parent was renting to begin with, and I don't expect most parents to leave their hard-earned homes and communities to come support their children rather than the other way around.
I just purchased Knock to Unlock. Comments so far;

Locking the Mac requires me to go to the Knock menu bar and clicking "Lock" with my mouse. I suppose this can be remedied by setting up an applescript shortcut and running it quickly via Spotlight Search.

Secondly, when it locks it - the screen goes black. I don't necessarily want this, as I don't want to "wake up" the computer when I return first using my keyboard. It takes a split second or so before I get to the password prompt (I have to tap a key on the keyboard or move the mouse) at which point I can knock on the phone twice to get in.

Thirdly, this is not the fault of the app - but I can type my 8 character long password faster than I'm able to (on average) locate my phone and tap it twice.

Interesting - but I am not sure if I'll end up using this app.
What an investigator says during an investigation isn't testimonial. There isn't even any obligation that it be truthful; it's OK for investigators to lie in the hope that it'll lead the suspect to incriminate themselves.

Simple example: Cop tells Joe Blow that they have a witness to the crime, and Joe Blow may as well confess. Joe Blow makes a full confession. Turns out there was no witness. Perfectly legit; what Joe Blow should have said (if anything) was 'there couldn't be, because I didn't commit that crime.'

Yes, that means that agents of the state (LEOs, prosecutors etc.) have an incentive to misbehave, but in the common law system the adversarial nature of the legal process allows the defense to challenge that. In a civil law system the investigating officer is supposed to be compelled to search for truth above all else, but if the investigating officer is corrupt or inefficient it is much harder to challenge in court, and defense attorneys are much less aggressive on behalf of their clients.
I love the little spinning glider in the lower left, I don't know what it represents or how I got it to appear but, COOL!

I want to like this so badly, but so far I can't justify spending the time to learn to use it just yet.

It might just be a problem with the docs, and maybe I'm just not understanding what light table is on a conceptual level but:

* docs reference tabs that do not exist in my version of the interface ( a trip to the view menu produced no option to show or hide them, so I assume they're from an older version?)

* they expect me to already have created files elsewhere?

* cmd/ctrl-o dialog? what does this do? (seems like nothing, looks like file prompt, but no tab-completion....am I supposed to type out /home/uname/file/x/y/z?)

* cmd-shift-o opens files....but not directories, how do I get a file tree like in the screenshots?

* if the browser tab has focus, cmd-shift-o dialog will not show (as I'm asked to do in the docs)

* control-tab doesn't switch between tabs

* what is the relationship between this browser window and my js file?

after this I gave up.

I guess I am late to the party? Where can I find the real docs?

I have high hopes for this to mature and someday become something that I can say goodbye to vim/sublime, but at this point, I'd need a better onboarding to really give it a go.

Despite their perceived difficulty to use, both emacs and vim provide extensive awesome help without having to resort to a third party.

Sublime may have help somewhere, but since it works just like every other desktop program I've never needed to refer to it.

If this is going to be something that's so wildly different from the text editors I'm used to, I'm going to need more hand-holding to get excited about it.
I don't understand the ethical dilemma many of you are raising.

I've never believed there's such a thing as plagiarism of style, only things like algorithms and methodologies. If someone makes a wierd looking chair, and I like it and make my own, and they try to tell me I'm stealing their ideas they can fuck off, especially if I'm not selling this chair but just using it for myself and helping others build their own chairs, too.

Style sheets are within these same bounds as far as I care. They're not intellectual property or content. There's nothing profound about aesthetics. No hard work in refining it. It's something that's composed entirely of intuition and trying to copyright that seems immoral to me. CSS is dressing, not content, and dressing is the only thing they have stolen from trello.
Which messaging platform has a user friendly data backup and data download option? Say if I get a new phone, or need to factory reset the phone?
So how ‘open’-source is that car now? This actually might make Nissan more attractive to some people.
Is that just a rebrand? Wasn't Raku one of the implementations?
Whatsapp still hasn't made it to my US-based circles whatsoever, from ATL, Chicago, NY, STL, to Seattle. I downloaded it when I went on a Europe trip in 2016, and haven't used it since. I have a single group chat on Telegram full of mostly Europeans. I predominately use iMessage/SMS, FB messenger, and Discord with my local friend groups.
The BLM riots resulted in a lot of arrests actually that’s why so many orgs were doing bail fund drives.

That storming the capital doesn’t result in a similar slew of arrests is weird to me
>completely based on the greater fool theory

No, it's not. People desire it for what it can be used for. It has some intrinsic value. Crypto has exactly zero value outside of being a store of value, and because it cannot be used as currency, it's value is determined by what it can be exchanged for in actual currency.

By your logic I would think everything trades on the greater fool theory because it's only worth what someone will pay. Well, yeah, that's true across the board, but people pay for things because they see value in it. Crypto's value is only what it can be sold for.
I think that called confiscation without compensation which is against the law?
My boss has a couple of children, and he is very much a night person. He'll be working on stuff till 2, and then be up again at 7 because of the kids. I'm sure that isn't healthy either, but that is when he is most productive.

I myself have found myself to be more productive at night as well. For some reason I am just able to get more work done, faster, and more efficiently and best of all with less distractions from "the real world".
Nice job.Can you please tell me what you used to code it:RoR,Python or just HTML5 only.i have an idea to develop something like that.
amen to that. the problem with the luxury of time is that you tend to piss it away on things you don't really need to do. having kids, or other time sensitive commitments really forces you to make the most out of the "spare" time you do have.
It's been tough overnight getting the facts as they come out, many poker sites have been going down due to the strain, lots of news outlets are behind.

Along with a journalist friend we put up http://pokerfuse.com and will be updating it as news breaks. Hope it's okay to link here (my weekend project!).
Anyone got any thoughts on how to convert these figures to an equivalent for London in the UK?

It'd be great to compare for those of us based in the UK.

Incidentally I also noticed a comment here that mentioned that everyone is hiring, presumably in the Valley, and suggested you brush up your resume and go to networking events and look for a better offer. If you do decide to dust off your resume then you may be interested in my new startup http://www.mightycv.com/. You can sign up for the beta with this code: 22MARCH2011. It's a resume builder aimed at developers/hackers and integrates with HN, StackOverflow and Github. It imports from LinkedIn too. Here's my MightyCV by way of an example: http://robeastham.mightycv.com .
from reddit: "Eleven people just went to jail for bank fraud in running essentially harmless poker sites. Funny, that is eleven more people than went to jail for the bank fraud that bankrupt our entire economy."

this is exactly how the internet should frame the issue. don't let anyone think about the government going after online poker without thinking about the government failing to go after the banking executives.
I'm not sure about that in the long run (it's easy to make the argument that hosting pieces of this data is the same as hosting all of it), but one thing which does work really well is time shifting -- basically, encrypt your data so it is innocuous seeming and get it widely distributed, then leak the key (much smaller amount of information, much easier to distribute) which then retroactively makes all the previously distributed innocuous data awesome.

Another trick is to make the data you want to distribute "viral" in the social media sense -- make it catchy and funny, or at least easily understood, so people want to distribute it on its own merits. Or, attach the boring thing you want to distribute to something catchy and funny (stego, or just make it an element of it somehow -- like make a cool t-shirt with the secret key on it).
Someone changed the title, so if the parent comment doesn't make sense to you, the original title was:

Never Read Another Resume By Jason Fried
You can just use an Emacs that is displayed in an X-Window and use menus and clicking. You do not have to rely on all the shortcuts.
Barring coders from specific countries from using open source sounds totally wrong to me. The people are not the government in those countries, this ridiculous law harms the people more than the government. Still anyone able to read code will probably have no problem accessing the projects hosted in US based servers anyway.
beautifully designed? really?

The item titles lack padding so it all looks a bit clumsy.

The gray in the top bar is way too light compared to the source-bars. The source titles are stripped off so I can't see the full title of my source altho it's only 20 characters.

and when you click on an item the 'option' bar in the bottom right corner you get with aA, share options etc. looks cramped in the little tab as well.

No, definitely -not- well designed imho.
At $200/mo just to start, it seems awfully cost prohibitive to experiment with Gnip's services to make an informed decision as to their usefulness. This is why Amazon goes with pay-for-usage, to encourage experimentation, because its so damn cheap.
Seeing this reminded me of continuous elevators: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx3MHm9WjBE
Definitely a principle of the lean startup, which leaves out the possibility of what potential bright minds can do to expand a company's horizon. This point mainly points out on core competency: do what you do best and let the others do what they're really good at.

But it doesn't leave room for opening to other perspectives and untapped creative ideas from different sources.
> Why have we never seen a blog post saying that it's not worth it?

Because it's worth it.

I know some folks who are not-extremely-satisfied with YC, but even then they were mostly-satisfied.
How do radar detector detectors work? A video.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=upCm4ONlvBY
I wrote a small application in Haxe earlier this year. The task was to contact a Flash server (FMS) and sync the RSOs. This needed to run as a cron job, so without a browser or a Desktop. That meant Adobe's tools in this regard were not useful at all.

I was able to get a small program working with Haxe, however I figured out that you still need Adobe's runtimes, so it didn't solve our problems. I ended up using Smaxe ( http://smaxe.com/ ), which is a commercial (non OSS) library that allows you to work with all sorts of Flash technology from Java.

I found the whole Haxe system to be intriguing. The Neko VM appears to be quite sophisticated. The idea of writing PHP in another language is certainly appealing, as is developing Flash and ActionScript outside of Adobe's IDE.