jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
on your profile page fill in these fields

noprocrast: yes
maxvisit: 15
minaway: 180

That will allow you spend no more than 15 minutes every 3 hours
Looks like it's also working in Firefox 4.0beta.
I think at the heart of the feminist movement lies a belief that marriage is a tool devised by society to control women.

Why do you think that? As far as I know, the feminist movement is a part of a greater civil rights movement focused on equal political, economic, and social rights regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, and yes, in the particular case of feminism, gender. What makes you say that feminism is mainly focused on destroying marriage?

On a separate anecdotal note, I grew up in the former Soviet Union where religion was largely absent and yet marriage was very strong.
What constitutes a full dev environment?

- Some kind of database: easy

- Editor: easy

- Version control: easy

I guess you have never tried to build LLVM on Windows if you think that's hard ;)
Stuff like this is why I use an IMAP client instead of webmail.
I'm guessing that the guy in the leather pants probably got the idea from reading about Godel numbering. If you're interested in this, you might like this book: http://www.amazon.com/Godels-Proof-Ernest-Nagel/dp/081475816...
Some of these apps imply an Emacs like ability for customization. Considering that touch screens have only recently stopped sucking, I think that's very important. As sexy as the iPhone is, it doesn't have swipe or 8pen. We don't really know what all the optimal touch interfaces look like yet.
How does #3 reduce the national debt? The debt includes the amount the government owes on those bonds. Private millionaires buying more of them provides liquidity to the government, but doesn't actually reduce its debt.
I used to like whatismyip.com. However it seems like their page has gotten more crowded since I last checked.
Thank you for such a good answer.

To answer your last question first: none. Or, I'd use a more techy system, since I' a geek. But I'm not the target user.

I too would say there is no modern CMS for non-tech users who wants a custom site, but with a good ux for handeling updates and managing their site.

I think the tasks you list is a bit to technical for what I see as essential tasks for a website owner. The modern CMS I'm looking for is good at putting in and editing content, with looks defined by a webdev/designer when the site is implemented.
But does it have a friendly interface for non-techies?
One of the downsides of allowing legislation like this that imposes compliance requirements on organizations is that it creates widespread law-breaking by the otherwise law-abiding. It can also inadvertently stifle key technical standards. Would you be willing to switch on DNSSEC validation in client side software (browsers, operating systems) if it only talks to nameservers that are compliant with government censorship?

Yes, this is a stupid law, but it's technical implementation is possible because there is a single root for public DNS.
Oh thanks, what a newbie mistake.
If your doing self promotion, please elaborate on why it's great.
Thanks for the insightful refresher on how presidential campaigns are financed, because the last time I read up on it was back in '08 at the time of the last presidential election. I'm very much in favor of private financing, actually, but with a sufficient level of transparency. I really liked how Obama seemed to get his money from small contributions by individuals. That is very different from the image of powerful special interest groups financing elections. That doesn't mean, however, that I think money from special interests groups should be fully restricted. I much rather have them pay than the government, but look favorably upon candidates that avoid creating the wrong impression by concentrating on small contributors.
You need to install the addon and plugin, instructions are at http://docs.heroku.com/logging
I know this is a very difficult question, but if you could choose only one book to convey the main ideas in each of those four areas you mention (software architecture, system design, algorithms, data structures), what would they be? I ask because I'm looking to buy some good books on the subjects.
If we need to get rid of religion first, so be it. Win-win.
From 2007. Would love to see something updated!
Actually, the best part about the "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" is that it refers to whipping. It's an expression that comes from ship life, where shipmates would be tasked with whipping each other when they misbehaved. The idea was that if you whip me more softly (scratch my back), then when it's my turn to whip you I'll do the same.

http://eifuku.co.uk/etymology.htm#You%20scratch%20my%20back%...
In any case, once this is out, they will have to take the Moonpig case study from their site.
I'm going to give you some quick advices:

in page optimization is important, use well your url and your h1 tag. Other than that, what really is important is the number and quality of links that you get from other websites, and the anchor text they use.

So for example if you want to rank for "web development", you need to get a lot of organic links from people with the text "web development".

Of course there are many other factors, but this is the essential.
It's been a decade since I have written a BF program, but if I'm not mistaken, the winning strand in the gif example has quite a bit of dead code, for example here:

[[]+<-,<<.><+>+,]

This entire loop must always be skipped, because if entered, the inner [] loop will also enter, and run indefinitely.

It would be cool to run it through more iterations, to get to the local minimum of length, rather than just a correct program.
> On the other hand if you don't aggressively send signals for poor performers you are left with a bunch of unmotivated people.

I never understood this rationale... It's lacks accountability all the way back to the beginning of the employer-employee relationship. Why did you hire these folks in the first place?
As far as I'm aware, HHVM isn't something that FB is charging for. If that's true, what's the business interest?
Fraud. A false representation of a matter of fact—whether by words or by conduct. . .
What's wrong with the pricing? I wish ebooks were cheaper, but honestly? I'd be willing to pay at least physical-book price because ebooks are more convenient in every way. They stream to all my devices so no matter where I am I can read if I want to. I have all my (e)books on my devices so they aren't taking up a wall or two in my house. I'm not a free market "true believer" [1], but pricing is based on what something's worth, not what it costs to produce.

I agree with epynonymous though; it would be nice if I could get a discount for books I already own. On the other hand, I might just apply this discount myself by selling my physical ones and buying the ebook versions.

[1] That is, I don't think it's the solution to every problem.
Here was the original thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1794196

There was some great discussion around it from HN members, I wonder if the person who created the plugin read the comments?
How do you define "succeed"? Does something only succeed if it has the largest market share?

Anyway, Linux has certainly succeeded. In the server and embedded realm it is used a lot.

If you can't find more exceptions you're simply not looking well enough. There are many other exceptions: Wikipedia is open source. And don't forget OSX is based on an open source kernel.

In databases many open source products are used. BerkelyDB is used a lot in applications, so is MySQL in web applications.

Many tools used regularly by developers are open source.
Intellectual property will become even more of a problem in a post scarcity society. Those that hold the IP will not want to give it up just because it's value is no longer in the physical creation.

The music recording industry is effectively already becoming a post scarcity industry, and look how unwilling they are to give up their copyrights. Industries will cling on to things like rights to reproduce, rights to distribute etc. Don't expect these problems to go away because of some sci-fi future tech.
Absolutely - email in my profile, including the passphrase to bypass my spam filter. You probably don't want my ideas, but you're welcome to have them.
I certainly hope it is not too late.
At least I hope for an open, distributed system. "open source" is not the thing that is important here,
Example: E-mail. Many E-mail clients and servers are not open source. But the protocol is open and well-documented which means open-source and closed-source can interoperate without any problems.
The absurd is that you're paying for electronic delivery more than for physical goods. It's like getting JPEG of Picasso's painting for more than the canvas.

I see price like this (naively perhaps):

Paper book:

author's revenue + publisher's revenue + printing + shipping

e-book:

author's revenue + publisher's revenue + 0 + ~0

From that POV e-book should always be cheaper than a paper book, and it has nothing to do with ripping off authors or publishers.
Yeah, but most of that goes to...anyone?

Bueller?

THE LAWYERS!

> She was awarded $324,000 in damages and more than $800,000 in attorney fees and court costs, according to the arbitrator's award posted online by her attorneys.

That's from the CNN variant of the story.

To be fair, they likely earned it, in this case. It seems to have taken a while.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/02/business/uber-blind-passenger...
I see that intellect is valued more and more intensely by a smaller and smaller group of people. I'm not sure what that means, but it gives me some small hope.
I'd like to go out on a limb and say that I don't agree with the ADA. I don't think any private person or organization should be compelled to provide facilities or services for anyone else, regardless of what their need is.

I have no animus toward people with disabilities - I'm just saying that no one should be forced to help anyone else. If you want to do something for someone else's benefit, you should be free to do so, at your own expense. When you compel others to do something, whatever it is that you've coerced them into doing cannot be a noble act. No good ultimately comes from that which is not freely chosen.

When you help a friend, you are involved in his life. Because you're there, you get the reward of achieving a personal value of your own. You get feedback about how your acts are impacting his life, which helps you be a better friend.

When you try to coerce a group, you have no knowledge of the actual impact your rule actually has on anyone. And because you're not in the loop, it takes a great deal longer to change your rules. This ends up hurting more people than you help.

EDIT: downvoting me won't change my mind, but it will make me try even harder to spread the above message
Once charging is widely available/reliable and the luxury makers can compete on range, it will be the same playing field as it is for non-EVs.
I hope not. It shouldn't show any information about their protected disabilities, just in the same way it shouldn't show their age, religion, race, etc. What would anyone legally do with that information?
"It’s also only two years old and venture backed"

Ampere is 3 years old, though PE and not VC backed.
If you mostly trust your local government, perhaps your national ccTLD would be fine?
Reddit was not happy with the r/Blizzard mods during the blitzchung thing.

Redditors are basically never happy with anything. Their ideal world is some place with no rules except that everyone else is forced to read their comments. Unfortunately, such a place does not exist.
wow. thanks for that. It's _really_ impressive.
In my interpretation of the reply, they were "lucky" in that the field took off and became economically viable to be good at it.

Frankly, back 20 years ago I would have never thought that watching someone play a game would become a form of entertainment.
> combination that is increasingly rare in an economic system designed to squeeze out the inefficient

As a result, more and more areas of science and technology get stuck near local maxima. The same happened in all ancient civilisations.
Why? Afraid of Skynet taking over?
Thanks for a correction, I was obviously misinformed.
Of course it's a legitimate question, it's an obvious question, which is why the CMO mentioned clean room building it and the founders having worked on a combined 100 patents. VC's do plenty of due-diligence, they don’t invest blindly when there’s such an obvious risk.

The Uber case was quite rare and egregious. It's not as simple as working on similar stuff.

Uber directly acquiring a company (well after raising hundreds of millions) made by someone who worked at Google to work on the exact same thing which is far riskier than working on a completely different product category you're building from scratch. But even then the case against Uber heavily relied on the fact he stole IP directly from company computers and used that as the base of the product.
> Why would Google care about how good chips for Android are? Google only cares about the Android ecosystem being good enough to deliver ads.

Considering Google paid Apple 12 billion dollars this year to be the default search engine on iOS [0], they have a very big incentive to build a high quality android phone to get iOS users to switch over.

Those 3 or 4 million pixels could have been iOS users as I was one of those people last year when I decided to try out android again and the pixel was the first android I have ever used that didn't suck compared to my iphones (looking at you samsung galaxy s4). With apples draconian enforcement of what I can run on my iOS devices and set as defaults, I think I'll even stick to android unless it goes to shit or apple makes something radically better.

[0]: https://fortune.com/2018/09/29/google-apple-safari-search-en...
python.

Nash, http://joday.com
I don't know how a profile of Chris Sacca could omit how he was a math prodigy who hated math, never went to class for law school or lost $8 million dollars trading in the stock market and refused to declare bankruptcy, instead paying back creditors over many years.
> Nintendo: what if we try <any number of crazy and interesting ideas>.

This is called "lateral thinking with withered technology", an engineering principle articulated by Gunpei Yokoi. In Yokoi's day, the rationale for "withered technology" was that it was cheaper and much easier to second-source, meaning that a shortage from a single supplier wouldn't hold up the production run.

It wasn't until fairly recently (Wii and later) that Nintendo realized that participating in the red queen's race of ever-increasing console specs was going to get them trounced by megacorporations with much more cash to burn selling consoles at a loss, so they had to pivot to producing cheap hardware with unique value adds in order to get the console profitable fast.
Yes it is, because you can't join two servers at the same time. You run your own server, I run mine and we can't communicate until one of us decides to drop our whole network and join the other server.
> "These people" also couldn't allege fraud in Georgia if we had fraud-proof systems. It's not rocket science.

What evidence do you have that they couldn't? Plenty of people would make claims of fraud, even in a "fraud-proof" election systems. What would that even look like, in theory, let alone in practice?

What specifically out our current system leaves it open to the widespread, multi-state fraud that is being claimed by the president and others?
Japanese corporate operations are quite different, historically, than the US. For example, Japan has over 33,000 companies that are over 100 years old. Many are several hundred years old. The oldest is around 1300 years old, I think. Continuously operating.

Obviously most of these are not 'technology' companies, but the culture of corporate creation/destruction/merger is somewhat different.
In the SF map, what's in the Contra Costa county subdivision over on the right side that makes rent there more than double it's surrounds? Rent there is comparable to the heart of SF.
You even had to run unapproved software on the 2000 iMac! How far we've come.
Many think that all we have to do is show:

1) we are here

2) that we're savages who have nuclear weapons and who are perfectly willing to use them on each other.

3) we're going to develop interstellar spacecraft

I think many civilizations worthy of the name would want to bomb us before we get out of Earth's gravity well en masse.
Of course.

If you can't understand how this can happen you need to read The Peter Principle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
I don't like the idea that paper maps will disappear though. But I also don't like the idea that 'always on' Internet everywhere means that everything should reside in the 'cloud' (for as much as the term even means any more). If paper maps are going to disappear, I would want there to be some sort of an off-line replacement b/c maps are probably one thing that is used more often in areas outside of cell service.
Your problem reminds me of this story:

A little boy sat on a stump, contemplating a chunk of wood in his hand.

"What are you going to do with that?" his father asked.

"I'm going to carve an elephant," the boy said, confidently.

"Do you know how to go about carving an elephant?"

"Easy," the boy replied. "All I have to do is
cut away everything that does not look like an
elephant."

Figure out what really needs to be on your home page. Don't put everything on there. In fact, remove as much as you can. Merge the two brief explanations (what web app is + what it does). Put the links to FB/Twitter in bottom or top bar so that they do not detract from the main contents.

Primarily, add a "Get Started" button or some other action cue. If at all possible, include a short video that shows how to use your app. I wouldn't bother with newsfeeds etc. unless it is core to the app's functionality.
Yeah, but it doesn't have to be your money.
I'm no doctor, but even on the show, House's expertise is portrayed as extraordinary.
Fun right up until the first five-letter word.
I have always felt the existence of pages like these, picking apart House and actually analyzing the content, was a good sign. If House was way off base, it would simply be dismissed out of hand.
If everyone in the patent pool is making money of H264, who is paying that money?

What big player that sells H264 is not on the list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_LA#H.264.2FMPEG-4_AVC_Lice...?

Also, MPEG-LA does have costs to pay.

I guess that, for most of the companies on that list, it is a 'pay a bit to prevent legal troubles' scenario, where 'a bit' is a couple of millions. Some of that they will get back when MPEG-LA gets disbanded.
I once used Mechanical Turk to filter leads taken from a keyword search on Twitter, generate customized responses, and vet those customized responses through a voting process. My goal was to add a very human element to direct marketing and do it cheaply. I ended the experiment as sales weren't converting enough to justify the expense. It was a fun experiment though.
http://hubzero.org is just a suggestion. See the nano science implementation at nanohub.org
In what universe is 'moving' a basic concept for dogs?

PS. I probably didn't see what's funny here, yet I've been living with dog(s) since I was 5.
Why would MS be on a 3-6mo release schedule when their big money comes from bigcos who are slow to require vetting of any new OS release and aren't going to invest the time/effort required to do that more than once every couple years?

(works for company only now rolling-out Windows7 as a beta for a small group of developers)
If you want to argue that we should take the long view with respect to Chrome and Android making money, then I would counter with needing to take the long view with respect to their being a success as well. The OP was (IMO) correct - a product's success, when done by a private company, is whether or not it improves the company's bottom line. I don't think that that claim can be made about Chrome or Android at the moment. I certainly doubt whether the little money they are currently making out of Android would not be largely blown aware by another allocation of that energy and resources.

That's not to say that in the long term these products don't end up being major successes, but until they start making money, that claim can't be made.
The point is deftly avoided by focusing on the high-denomination chips that nobody with a brain would try to fence and ignoring how many lower-denomination ones the thief got away with.

Casinos don't like to admit that they've been stolen from - they like to appear impenetrable. So here, they've successfully fed the AP a line that the theft that happened really doesn't matter, and the AP will spread their marketing for them in every outlet that reprints their stories.
Since you are making outbound calls, I'm curious how you will handle verification of phone numbers? It looks like I can enter whatever phone number(s) I want, which seems like it could be abused by spammers.
If it's unofficial its 'An' instead of 'The'
I would skip the jQuery-ahm, especially since you are already committed to jQuery as a dependency.

//Overly simplified example
$.get('tooltips.php?id=tooltip-id',function(data){$('#tt').text(data);});
I got such a disappointment when I opened the link and it wasn't about baseball, I'm actually thinking of coding a baseball simulator and this looked like the perfect reading.
There is no situation where you can make money from the tax system. At most you can only enjoy cashing in on tax losses against current tax liability.

Getting a refund from your filing just means that you overpaid during the course of the year, hence the term 'refund'.
Facebook is becoming more boring every day, though. I've never really used it that much, but I have friend who have, and they are starting to quit it and ignore their accounts because it's becoming boring and spammy.
Loved Anathem both for the language and for the ideas in it. Rationalist monasticism has such a weird draw for me, despite being something I'll never do.

If you like books with their own language, Hannu Rajaniemi's Jean le Flambeur trilogy does it more and better than anything else I've read (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7562764-the-quantum-thie...). It actually makes me question my interaction with regular language, since there's so many words that you can barely grasp in there... but I wasn't super bothered and thought I understood it sort of ok. But I doubt I could really explain them if pressed too, they just sort of felt well defined based on context that I accumulated.

It made me think that my brain just doesn't go very in depth with words and is pleased with a shallow contextual understanding of what they mean. Sort of like the protagonist(such as he is, more like primary victim) of Blindsight by Peter Watts(he's a science communicator that can sort of get the shape of concepts at a shallow level, but never really understands them).
The books are philosophical works that do consider counter-arguments.
That's a big assumption. In fact, that's the only thing that may be different this time.

If machines are more productive than humans at everything, it break down. If the most productive infrastructure relies on big capital, it breaks down. If Bob and Joe become too poor, it breaks down.
Unshortened URL: https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/manufacturing-the-talent...
"We have to clarify that 5 is an Int? Seriously?"

Yup, just like you do in most statically typed languages.
You will be lonely, and making new friends takes a lot of time away from your work, and you'll not know where to get cheap stuff or where to go and all that. If you just go to one place, it's doable, but travelling around the world alone and trying to bootstrap something sounds near impossible.