jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Considering that you posted the article, it was completely reasonable to assume that your comment was based on something mentioned in the article. I didn't see anything that led me to think the same thing, assumed that I had missed it, and asked for clarification. How could this be a leading question since I had no specific expected answer in mind?
Sean and Pion are awesome! Definitely talk to Sean.

I'm happy to talk to you, too. I do a lot of "let's just talk about real-world things you'll encountering building video features" calls. You don't need to be a Daily (my startup) customer or even plan to be one. I'm kwindla at daily dot co.
I was totally indifferent when I deleted Facebook. Maybe for a week after I would catch myself subconsciously opening a new tab and typing `fb.com` when I was bored before realizing what I was doing.

I held out on deleting Instagram for literal years until about 2 months ago. I finally got fed up when they overhauled the UI to focus on selling cheap and crappy goods. I always thought it provided a lot of benefit to my life because it was fun to share pictures. Turns out I didn't even care when I deleted it lol.

I think about deleting Twitter too, but it's just so darn useful for breaking news. And I could never get rid of Reddit. It is certainly an echo chamber but unless something bad happens it's basically the best website to find other hobbyists and even ask technical questions.
Nope I am not missing that, because enterprise CMS still allow that kind of stuff.
I think the point the parent is trying to make is that saying that "participation of women in the workplace" isn't a directly-correlated metric for the "how happy / empowered / established / productive are women in this society" metric that we all care about improving.

To put it another way, if we just take the former metric as the gold measure it is better to be payed to care for someone else's children than to not be payed to care for your own.
Marc from StockSnap.io here! We honestly couldn't be happier that Flickr is doing this and we'll be sure to add their CC0 photos to our repository.
I understand the business move, but I never understood the "cash cow" reasoning. Most apps appear to be in the $2.99 to $.99 range. The 60 cents Apple gains from a $1.99 app barely covers credit card fees (for multiple currencies), bandwidth fees, bank fees to send money to developer, and paying salaries for all those app reviewers.

Occam's Razor suggests that they want to build "only the best apps" so the way to do that is to "completely control the build toolchain". Has nothing to do with "cash cow" conspiracy theories.
How bout a pic?
1. Education should be good & free(in both ways) . This is essential to a democratic and efficient populous.

2. Whatever you get, you have to make it work for you. Education is no exception - you drift through school - expect it, to make almost no substantial difference to your quality of life.

3. Posing question with so many broad implications from different angle is bating. Listing who gets jobs more is narrowing use of a degree to establishing a career. Degree, as in piece of paper is good for just that.

But education is so much more then just ability to earn on a slightly higher pay scale. Its a tool to change the world, make it better. It is sickening to see all these 'repeat' articles pepper various syndicated publications.

Education is essential and yes it is worth it, if you want to get it to better yourself.

Go to a technical school if you need a paper to get a job. With a piece of paper and a bit of networking you will get a job.

Education is beyond that - its what you can give to your kids. How can you put a price tag on that?

But I digress.
To some Christian fundamentalists, the oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico heralds the apocalypse.

Is this "some" you speak of statistically significant? Hmm? Here's how the media works, if you don't know:

1. Identify the group you detest. (Christians, liberals, whatever.)

2. Find the stupidest member of said group.

3. Pretend said member is statistically significant.

4. Spew bullshit. Repeat.
It seems like Mozilla might benefit from developing and promoting tools like Modernizr, to encourage the standard use of feature detection instead of filtering by user agent. Some kind of complimentary repository for web developers to contribute and discuss equivalent rich web app functionality implemented for various browser capabilities, with sample code ensuring compatibility with Firefox, IE and Webkit browsers using Flash fall-backs when needed, would be the bee's knees. The benefit to no one owning the HTML5 standard means that Mozilla can also define it however they want. Given their relative browser market shares, Mozilla's take on the matter carries more weight than Apple's. It's sad to see Mozilla acting threatened by Apple on this, rather than throwing its own weight around, presenting their own case to web developers, and taking advantage of this transition to shiny HTML5 goodness to replace the crusty old user agent string method of compatibility checking with the shiny new hotness of discreet feature detection.
Won't speak for other potentially negative effects, but there is no smoke (not even minimal) in vaporizing, as no combustion occurs.
It is a misconception that the NSA is an anti-terrorism agency.

It is a general signal intelligence agency. It's job is the gather as much foreign intelligence as possible. And that sure includes:Like tracking the intricacies of various global markets, cultural movements, politicians, judges, activists and other influencers in society. Like basically an opportunity to see everybody at the table's cards (including your friends) in order to maximize power?

Where you go wrong is assuming that means they have some dastardly plan to subvert global democracy.

The government just really wants good intel. They want to know if Russian sanctions are working. They want to know if N. Korea is really just bullshiting or do they mean it. They want to know how much longer with Germany prop up Southern Europe. They want to know if Cuba is serious about opening up trade. They want to know if some French scientist is about to develop software that beats US electronic warfare defenses on their AEGIS destroyers.
Thanks for the advice. It does look like my pricing is a bit off. But before I make any changes, I think I'll talk to the customers who are actually using AvatarPicker on their apps. I will definitely keep your advice in mind though. Thank you.
FWIW, from the "Large Text Compression Benchmark" linked from that page:

Compression Compressed size Decompresser Total size Time (ns/byte)
Program Options enwik8 enwik9 size (zip) enwik9+prog Comp Decomp Mem Alg Note

lzham alpha 3 x64 -m4 -d29 24,954,329 206,393,809 155,282 x 206,549,091 595 9 4800 LZ77 45
gzip 1.3.5 -9 36,445,248 322,591,995 38,801 x 322,630,796 101 17 1.6 LZ77
bzip2 1.0.2 -9 29,008,736 253,977,839 30,036 x 254,007,875 379 129 8 BWT

Salient point is the decompression time (ns/byte), which is 129 for bzip2, 17 for gzip, and... 9 (!) for lzham. So on that point it blows them out of the water, while still achieving higher compression rate on this type of input. As the original webpage implies, this is perfect for stuff like video games.
'they say they get distracted, pulled away to other things.'

This is probably the biggest draw away from e-readers for me and the reason I gave up on them.

For prose, Amazon's Kindle achieved the right form factor, battery life, display combo many iterations ago for me; but I seemingly can't handle having so much information available with a button press. It's just too little effort.

It's one of those oddities of being human, I feel. It seems perfectly possible in theory to learn about a complex field fairly rapidly by simply using Wikipedia and Google, but in practice the discipline required to not wander off-topic I find impossible to manage.

The sort of semi-procrastination that occurs when you're still being productive (because you're still learning), but you realise that you've gone from studying waveforms to ventricular fibrillation.

The thing that's so strange about it to me is that books themselves are alien concepts, there's nothing inherent about them - humans chugged along for millenia without them. Yet somehow, clicking off of an e-book for 'just a few seconds' to look something up seems to function differently to, say, closing one book and opening another.

Reminds me of the Doorway Effect.
It didn't say it was - it was talking just about China.
The majority of streets in American cities are massive. Single lane streets are generally slower traffic so separated cycle lanes aren't necessary...just some markings to remind drivers that cyclists might use this part of the road. Paris has a lot of those.
So by that logic Obama should be small capital black since his father was from the wrong side of Africa and not a slave … Oh the racialist hierarchies we build.

Not sure why you’re injecting inflammatory bile into an otherwise civil thread. If you read past the first sentence, you’ll refute your own point. Think before trolling.
This has to pressure Clubhouse to actually launch. It’s been what, like a year in “invite only” beta?

I feel like Clubhouse is riding their exclusivity clout at this point. They should have had more than enough time to validate and scale by now.

Facebook is going to hit this fast, and they’re going to launch to a far larger audience. If FB beats Clubhouse to mainstream, pretty sure it’s game over.
In a related news, the Pope is said to be Catholic and the bear is said to have taken a dump in the woods.
It's not challenging at all. I did taxes in NZ for a contract once. You do make a few choices if you want add some exemptions to save money, but it doesn't amount to much either way.
Agreed! If you pay attention in class and do your homework, you shouldnt have trouble with tests because tests are just a measure of how much you pay attention to the work you've been doing. At least thats the way I saw it.
Yeah, and this: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9229611...

The piece I remember most (not sure if this is the one) was where the reporter got caught in the middle of a lockdown in a crowded San Quentin gym (former gym, now dormitory because of overcrowding). When the alarms go off, everyone has to get on their hands and knees or the guards shoot them on sight. The reporter was told to keep standing during the whole episode, and everyone in the gym was staring at her. Unbelievable moment. I thought it was in this story but the transcript doesn't contain it. Perhaps it doesn't cover the whole audio or perhaps there are more pieces in the series.
I'm reading comments on this app on other blog sites and people say things like "translations suck", "not worth your time".

Times like this remind me how ridiculous consumer expectations can be. People still don't get that product development takes time and energy -- they just like to criticize with their elitist expectations only because they own an iPhone.

But yes, this app is great. Keep it up!
This man offering the scholarship to 'stop-outs' won't instantly make the university system collapse.

If I had a great idea and an investor was $100k confident in the monetization of it, I would probably drop out, too. The author's whole premise is that dropping out is universally bad and should be discouraged, and that staying in school is universally good. Neither are true.

The article also misses the point: Where might we be if some of the 'usual celebrity dropouts' hadn't dropped out? What if they had said, "I'll get a real job first, then work on my idea." The world might look very different.

Non-Ph.D. entrepreneurs and academics can peacefully coexist.

EDIT: I concede to gxti that my statement about the author's premise is false. I stand by my other opinions: The scholarship is a neat idea and will not convince most people to drop out.
Yes, this same thing happens on the ship I work on in the summers. There are about 300 people, and about half have to reset their password when they come on board. There is the arbitrary 8 character, at least 1 #, at least 1 special character, at least 1 capital, can't match a dictionary word, and can't be close to the previous password. Also can't contain their name. Try explaining that to 150 people over and over again...it is so painful to watch some people try half a dozen, even a dozen times and still not get a password that will work, and then the vast majority will either write it down in a public place, share it, or forget it.

I'd based on the available data that could have just as much security, without all the user hassle, if we just require long passwords, no other requirement. Can you see how much easier it is to just say, your password has to be 16 characters or longer. Just think of a passphrase. For instance: IWa1kmydogonSaturdays
Easy to remember, and I would argue, though would want to try to provide some evidence, that this would be just as, if not more secure than 8 characters with ridiculous requirements.
This looks like a good way to generate the passwords you put into 1password or another similar password tool. If the tool fails, you can regenerate the passwords if you need to.
A duplicate of a submission yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014344

That submission, however, got no discussion. Perhaps it will fare better this time.
With all due respect, Peter Thiel doesn't encourage everyone to drop out. He thought that college is indeed suitable for probably a great majority of young people.
I entirely agree. You can sustain a travelling lifestyle with web work, whether a niche, "muse" product or freelancing work, but that's not a startup. A startup requires a lot of "personal, on site" touch.

I put my thoughts together here too: http://swombat.com/2010/12/27/startup-vs-travelling-lifestyl...
Thank you for letting me know. Was it not letting you play anything at all? Which device? Yes that's exactly the idea. You can also watch specific topics.
Thankyou Sir!

I am planning to brush up my SQL knowledge in coming weeks and will read your stuff. Already enjoyed LPTHW
"There is no point having the optimal colo between TSE and NYSE because they have no overlapping hours nor do they have anything that trades on both and is fungible."

There is tremendous overlap amongst various stock exchanges, OTC's, dark pools (12% of US trading), and of course there's Forex which is 24/7.
> That's the great irony of the copyleft movement -- it's about restricting what people can do under the guise of "freedom".

This is extremely misleading: Copyleft is about making sure everyone has the same rights.

> Basically what I'm trying to say is that RMS is a nutcase.

And here you prove you have no serious argument, by devolving to insults.
That is some very good advice and I think the opposite is equally as important (do things to others that you would appreciate if done to you). Putting the two statements together, you essentially get the Golden Rule.
I have a lot of physician friends who say that testing vitamin D levels is the latest "fad", so to speak.

I got tested out of curiosity and was in the intermediate range (30-40 ng/ml) (technically not "normal" (>40ng/ml), but not "low" (<30 ng/ml)).

Amazingly, I had higher levels than anyone else I talked to who had been tested. My friend said it was the highest level he could remember (of his patients). My doctor still suggested that I take 1 or 2 2000 IU D3 capsules per day.

If you're curious, get tested. I did have to convince my doctor that I wanted to know the number. He said, "trust me, it will be lower than it should be."
Just bought the ebook of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. I liked Bruce Tate's talk on it at Lone Star Ruby Conf; I was going to wait to buy it until I actually had time to read it, but I figure it'll never be cheaper than right now. Looks like a really good book.
"Ugly" s-expressions?

I find them to be quite beautiful, like matryoshka dolls. I am a bit disappointed when I have to work on code that doesn't manifest its own structure so explicity, looking like a tangle of words and punctuation down the page, like what becomes of balls of yarn after a kitten has gotten through with them.
Except in Firefox which redirects to the Mozilla website instead.
Is this a poll to see what philosophy/ideology is dominant on HN? Or just a general thread to discuss philosophy?
Once I got to this idea, I heard about longest chain. So we can randomly cut existing chain keeping it at safe length. It could be done even per client (server will store the whole chain, while smartphones will keep only "safe"-length chain)

Anyway, all of this is just implementation problem which, I believe, could be solved.
A few angles to work simultaneously:

Freelance work. If your experience is in web development there's a lot of demand for low-budget projects, and you can probably mine your existing network to find them. Granted these are probably not prime clients, but you can get a lot of them under your belt and build up your skills.

Open source. Get involved in some interesting project. This will look good on a resume, and will also give you a chance to focus on solid engineering principles and building something for the ages (something which is all but impossible with low-budget client work).

Meetups. Simultaneously brush up your skills and make connections with professional developers. Being involved in open source (or at least some personal project) will help break the ice.
Shift + CMD + /? Three button shortcut for help? What happened to F1 being the universal help key?
I'm still trying to figure out how "hackers are like political dissenters" .... =)

Amusing read nonetheless. Reminds me why I'm very thankful for the friends I have with similar interests/lingo. Not that I introduce myself as a hacker, but the word comes up in conversation—any non-programmer immediately thinks I'm talking about some crazy Neo wannabe.

It's interesting how different vocabularies can really set people apart.
There are better things to invest in than Russia, but where does the "could not pay me enough" attitude come from? There's nothing wrong with Russia right now that hasn't been as wrong or more wrong in the 90s, when there was much less meanness in the West toward Russia.
Where do you get internet access for $8 a month? I'm paying $20 for 100KBps, and it's the only DSL in the area for a city of ~100,000 (with the area containing ~300,000).
Would love an invite! - kmadura AT googlemail
you ain't going to get native look and feel from atom.
Yeah and my dad (Brazilian) is fond of saying that Brazil is not a Latin American country because of language and cultural divide between Spanish vs Portuguese colonies.

Fine, both of those are valid beliefs. But you shouldn't feel the need to inject them as a tangent in random conversations to educate people. You will never ever win this battle.
I've been using Goodreads for years and am kinda tired of the UX (in particular not being able to access private notes on mobile) but this doesn't look too much better.

For those curious here's decent youtube video giving an overview of LibraryThing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuYOcRiXLcU
Better is the way I learned it 25 years ago. Burn up your 386sx CPU while doing a kernel build, then get a loan for a nicer computer. It should have at least 4 MB of ram. Spend about 200x minimum houry wage on a nice monitor, then be very careful with manual modeline settings in your xfree86 config so that you don't destroy the monitor.

Get yourself a bulldog clip to hold that send book open to the page you are repeated referring to. When you graduate to Stephens' UNIX Systems Programming, the bulldog clip won't be needed.

If your monitor doesn't stand tall enough, 4 reams of copy paper are much cheaper than the same thickness of X programming manuals.
Has your step dad had to worry about viruses, malware, adware, and ransomware on his iPad? Has he had to worry about popular video conferencing software installing a web server in the background that reinstalls itself every time you uninstall it (Zoom)?

The “music industry” isn’t complaining about Apple. iTunes and now Apple Music gives more money back to artists than its competitors.

What do news paywalls have to do with Apple?

As far as revenue, the App Store generates more revenue than the more “open” Play Store even though Apple has less than a fifth of the market share.
I'm working on a paid library that sends exceptions/errors generated by your application to your datadog account.

If this is something you are interested in, hit me up.
Can layer 0 be sources supporting the content?
Oh not _this_ again.

IT WAS NOT AN INVESTMENT.

This is a widely-repeated lie.

Gates did not “save” Apple. Microsoft did not “invest” in Apple.

Microsoft stole Apple code. Apple sued. The companies settled out of court.

The famous US$150M payment from MS to Apple was not an investment. It was punitive damages. Microsoft Video for Windows contained code stolen from Apple QuickTime. The money was MS paying the penalty.

Citations:

• Stop the lies! The day that Microsoft 'saved' Apple | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/stop-the-lies-the-day-that-mic...

• San Francisco Canyon Company - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company
You are correct, there is no doubt. I just don't see this as likely enough to happen, so I take the convenience of using credit cards and the benefit of credit card points / free stuff.

I would not want my detailed transaction history being public, but am okay with it being used for targeting in a pseudo-anonymized way.
This is a great question.

There's no question that physical controls for the most common tasks in a vehicle (there are actually very few) take less attention.

Additionally, it seems like one great promise of software in a vehicle would be to augment and improve upon that fact by design. But it's terribly obvious that this has not been a design goal ever. The goal has been to take the familiar UX of your phone and transfer it to your car so that the media component is immediately familiar (this is nice), but all the while we could have been making the act of driving safer too...
I wasn't clear; I meant some kind of reusable 3D mask, not cotton.

I know nothing about 3D printing, so if you do you might want to search and see if what you find looks workable. I got many results that indicate it is possible.
Alternative is mailcow https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized
If the page is to be presented as is though, with no other information, I am not going to store my CC# with yet another .com that hasn't been around that long.

Why not? Any fraudulent activity is your CC company's problem, not yours.
You’ve got to admire the ingenuity
He didn't call a Thai navy diver that, he called a British expat diving expert that, & the guy was/is quite the douche. That doesn't excuse Elon's handling of it all, he eventually took things too far (but did win the court case brought against him by the expat, which levelled ridiculous claims).
That's not too bad, thanks.
For me it forms part of the flow state, but yeah if there's something that demands my absolute full attention (some complex algorithm for instance) then I'll pause it.