jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't see how posting links to to old articles (2006) with sensationalist titles adds value to a _new_s site. Sorry.
Thanks, never heard it that way.
Nice. I was able to read and understand the whole implementation on my phone.

Of course, thanks to Apple, I can't load and eval it, but I will take it for a spin when I get to a machine. :)
McDonald's does give away straws, however.
Hmmm, I guess I'm something of an anomaly then. I can easily skip meat for a few days, or weeks, depending on what I'm cooking. I essentially never eat meat for breakfast, and my lunches normally don't involve meat either (typically a peanut butter and banana sandwich on wheat, some carrots with hummus, and a yogurt). If I eat at work, I prefer to make a salad. Dinner's the most likely culprit, although there are a lot of curries I enjoy vegetarian. Now that I think about it, I guess the last time I ate meat was Saturday, and someone else made the meal.

I guess it depends on how much you cook too, you're right about it being harder to find good vegetarian options, but I eat out one meal a week at most normally, and prefer none because I love cooking. I live in a small-midsize town in the south, so there's plenty of meat about.
Essentially it's proprietary, but with a viewable source.

Similar to Microsoft's "shared source" licensing models.

Still proprietary at the end of the day. Let's not dilute this with misleading euphemisms like "closed source" and "open source". Freedom is no priority here, it seems.
So what's your view on Open Source/FOSS projects where people contribute and write code and share it for free without asking for retribution ? Do you consider that "free" work ? Don't you benefit from that anyway ?
It is because every Electron app starts it's own Chromium instance.
> I use https://fly.io now for this purpose.

That looks pretty cool, thanks.
Why wouldn’t black and brown kids get any use out of these classes? Are you saying only white and “white adjacent” kids can learn faster? If so you might want to rethink your preconceptions.
Just a few days ago, I saw their promotions on their page offering a bit of new coins to learn more about their specific utility and technology behind them.

I dunno.
Can you turn it on/off without logging out? I use i3 at work, and I'd guess I would want it 20% of the time for my personal computer.
The US makes this hard. A case of Nati Ice at a state university will be cheap. In a craft beer bar in a big city they charge prices of $1/oz, and $2/oz is becoming more common. Many will stand in line for the privileges of paying these prices for bottles that sell quickly.
This is a great thing that people intend to align what they’re paid to do the greater part of their lives with what they find just.

This is hackernews, the place where people intend to make positive change with their brain, their time, and sometimes, their money.
Worse than that, getting rid of advanced classes in public schools increases the divide between rich and poor, because the private schools attended by wealthy children will still have advanced classes.
Isn't every algorithm reversible if you save the inputs?

If you have some algorithm A that turns an input bitstring N into an output bitstring M in K steps going through states S(0) ... S(K), then:

1. None of the states can repeat or you have an infinite loop.

2. For some step 0 < K0 < K, (A, N, K0) uniquely determines both S(K0-1) and S(K0+1): Run A on input N for K0+1 steps and record { S(K0-1), S(K0), S(K0+1) }.

3. So all computations are reversible given (A, N, K).

Maybe physics wants something like "local reversibility"(a reverse-step must execute within fixed time), whereas CS works with "mathematical reversibility"(is it a computable one-to-one function?).

The construction above doesn't execute within fixed time, but I don't think that's the correct fix: There are lots of dumb things I can do in constant-time.

So why does Physics not allow me to write off all my electricity expenses, as long as I keep the data on backup tapes in a closet in case I get audited for reversibility?
Stratton Oakmont v Prodigy Services is only tenuously related to your gripe about websites removing content. Stratton didn't sue Prodigy for taking down posts by Stratton. They sued Prodigy for not taking down allegedly defamatory posts by users.

I asked you to provide a cause of action for "censorship" by a web site. SOvP isn't that. A more recent, federal, and better-fitting case would be PragerU vs. YouTube. There, PragerU sued over their content being remove/restricted. They lost on 230 grounds. But even without 230, they almost certainly would have lost on 1A grounds, because YouTube's exercise of editorial discretion about what content they host is clearly 1A protected activity.

Going back to Stratton Oakmont for a moment: I understand the argument that, absent the liability shield in 230, content moderation of less-than-clearly-illegal content would be vanishingly rare. Web sites would seek to avoid potential liability by getting out of the content-moderation business, which would fix your issue. I'm not convinced that would actually be the outcome. Even if it were, I wouldn't enjoy every web site devolving into 4chan-but-covered-in-spam.
That makes sense. You (and your customers) definitely know the market, so data-backed decisions are best. Could also be an A/B opportunity for the future. Good luck, the product looks great!
> As the article says, climate change won't destroy human civilization.

It will devastate part of the population. Climate change is just an inevitable change. To cope with the change, certain portion of people will be sacrificed and certain people's position will be leveraged. So the view depends on the perspective. If you looking at humanity as every one together and equally, then it is apocalyptic. There is little hope that we can sustain. If you are looking at human civilization as something carried on by elites (as we always have), then such changes may even be welcomed -- all the reason that one need be prepared.
china and India are large contributors only because they have large populations. Even then the US is a larger total contributor than India.
Very much so. It's also not included in the original title, so not much of an excuse here.

If "Facebook Portal" is not descriptive enough, a case might be made for minor editorializing, but e.g. "Facebook Portal: Privacy Assessment" would be much less (mis)leading.
It provokes more distrust when people arent fooled, and it harms your case with the very people you seek to convince. It seems right to you, because it is preaching to the choir. But skeptics see the huge amount of (well intentioned) misinformation and make judgements, right or wrong.
Far too many people apparently. New phones every year or more often. Apple products built with the intention to prevent their repair.

I was reflecting on the increasing gap recently between price and quality. If inflation were the cause of increased prices the expectation is that quality would stay the same. Quality is going down however.

Where is that difference going then? Shareholder pockets.

What is the value of hoarding all that cash? If the Fed didn't print more there would not be enough currency liquidity in the market.

This is what we see today. Deflation is staved off only through QE. It should be through incentives to spend, but there are too many incentives to hoard.
Somewhere along the line, neo-liberalism got marketed as a left wing ideology (it's not) and has since caused all manner of confusion as to why its expressed values don't materialize out of neo-liberal policies.

The answer is that leftist messaging is just a thin veneer over staunchly capitalistic and globalist politics. As long as people look to "liberal" messaging from corporate America, it seems unlikely to change.
But can't you link the folders using ln -s ? Then you don't need to have all your folders/files in the Dropbox folder
I've just moved into a truly open office for the first time. I hate it so much - even a little privacy helps. I'm a big fan of chest height walls onto the 'public' areas then those table tennis height things between people. But I do not like feeling that every man and his dog is watching me all the time.
I agree with this completely. If you enjoy his novels, then read them. No where does it say that you have to agree, or even read, his personal and political views (yes, I realize they seep into his novels, but this goes back to my "if you like the novels, read them" statement).

On the subject of his political views, I looked at the referenced Wikipedia site and don't see anything "vulgar" listed there. Perhaps I use a different definition of "vulgar" than others... [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vulgar]
Yeah, there really isn't that much excuse for all those people out there with a 4th generation iPod touch not to upgrade immediately given that Apple licenses Amazon's one-click purchase patent: they are just one button tap away from a 5th generation iPod touch, and then they can use iOS 7... that's pretty lazy ;P.
"Who is the author of this well-reasoned, thought-provoking comment? Oh."

Not to sound like a major kiss-ass or anything ;)
hmm, this could be very viral: smart idea.
An article about language with a confusing title[1]. I found that studying Latin made me pay more attention to English use.

[1] https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/19/bias-biased/
Another option: pre-fill some content with some FB or Twitter content.

Then you have "users".

Whenever a user's "front' page is visited, increase that user's counter, and then display popular users on the main page.

Sure, you don't have true "true active" users, but at least it's users that generate some activity, indirectly.

If some users become popular, chances are they'll want to have a look at your service.

This might be a very bad idea, your call.
This has happened to me three (3) times in my life.

First of all, there is nothing wrong with using old tests to study. This is an acceptable practice, and, at SFU, our Computing Science/Math Student Societies had a Filing Cabinet of old tests that we could photocopy to study from.

The first time this happened to me, it was Physics 12, 100 Mile House - Some of the students had siblings who had taken physics from the instructor. We got the test ahead of time. Took the test - which was identical to one from years gone past. Did well in the test. Teacher Found out, got pissed off with us - I felt like crap.

I ran into this precise situation in my Second Year Data Structures class in '88 in Coquitlam College - there were about 120 students, and we were studying from old test. Only problem is the instructor had used the exact same test at BCIT (another technical college) a week earlier, and so we had a copy of it (unbeknownst to us) - We started taking the test - I realized by question number 2 that I had seen this test, and stood up and approached the instructor letting him know that I had already seen this (I had learned my lesson from High School) - Ironically, he asked me to just try my best, and seemed to hope that I hadn't memorized all the answers. He later asked me to become his Teaching Assistant and Lab Instructor. Honesty pays off. :-)

The final time was at SFU, the instructor had accidentally printed out her new test for students to study from - I picked them up, saw the date, and immediately told her _before_ we took the test. That time she just re-wrote the test and we took it a week later. Once again - zero doubt on how to handle the situation. (Clearly, my high school "cheating" experience was had been a formative experience.)

Net-Net - The cheating is NOT in studying from old tests, it's from realizing you've already seen the test and not letting the instructor know. I didn't realize this when I was in High School, but had matured enough ethically that by 2nd year of college to not even consider taking the test without telling the instructor I had seen the questions.

I think it says very, very sad things about students these days that not ONE of the the 200 had the moral fiber to stand up and say "Hey - I've seen this exam already."
It was known when they launched, that xiaomi's interface look was apple "inspired", but besides that I dont know why it can be called shameless ripoff, sure there must be other reasons. The feel and look of the phone actually have some kind of own personality, is different from IOS and different from stock Android, and probably will get more different with time. Apple, probably, somewhere in time also took "inspiration" from other companies ideas.
"Whereas an incubator like Y Combinator looks for applicants who already have a strong startup idea in mind, YouWeb prefers those who don’t. “I’m not looking for the next Facebook, Microsoft or Google,” he says. Instead, Relan is decidedly people-focused. He wants “brilliant technical developers” who are not necessarily passionate about one concept or idea, but about the bigger industry in general. YouWeb then works with young, unproven entrepreneurs to target markets that are “interesting” and create the idea and the company."

I thought YC stresses that it's decisions aren't idea-driven?
It's mostly the new ammo that's being developed and most weapons aren't scheduled untill block 3F, Block2B is just JDAMs and AMRAAMs.
Language changes whether you like it or not. There are plenty of changes happening that I don't like, but I realize that in most cases it is a waste of time to fight them.
When it's regulated, it will be called a cab. The only reason Uber works is because it's not regulated.
Here's an ArnoldC->Ruby transpiler based entirely on regexps : https://github.com/franckverrot/arnoldc.rb

I urge the author of the language to create ArnoldCSpec, so that other implementations can be given the opportunity to challenge the main one. :-D
I don't think so. If you listen to them both speak about their companies, Jobs was more interested in revolutionizing how humans use technology. Musk is more interested in saving the human race from itself. Solar City is about renewable energy, Tesla is about vehicle safety and renewable energy, and SpaceX is about establishing life off of earth.

You are certainly right to draw a parallel--they both want to change the world--but Musk literally wants to evolve humanity.
It's all about the inner eyeballs.
I am still waiting for Node.js on Mozilla Gecko javascript engine (instead of V8).

Is someone working on it?
The author is forgetting that this is very unattractive for remote developers. Maybe not so bad if you live in a country without decent health insurance and retirement, but for others you'd lose these benefits by becoming a contractor.

EDIT: being more explicit I was specifically thinking of remote workers from other countries when writing this statement. Obviously, remote work within the U.S. wouldn't make you a contractor. But how would this work for non us-citizens?
Remember that Sinclair aimed for the heart and hit the stomach. His goal was reform of industrialized labor conditions, but he got food purity and safety laws.

To use his book as a metaphor implies that Snowden's leaks will do nothing to stop domestic dragnet surveillance and everything to seal the system against future whistleblower leaks.

I find that I must agree.
I think your voting ring detection logic is perhaps overly simplistic, then. :/

(I tried to post it myself after seeing it on facebook in a swedish/scandinavian group.)
> That's not an important distinction at all. It's like saying "Ooh George talked to Mary when they were alone in the elevator. That's what rapists do", and then later defending it by saying "well, I did not say that George is a rapist".

Installing an HTTP server on your client to bypass security control is not talking to Mary in an elevator. It's following Mary home, and making a copy of her house key.
someone I know in Italy, Lombardy, decided one month ago to go on a ski vacation.

It was ok though, because they were going with a scientist and a doctor so they must know what they are doing!

When they got back from the vacation they spent a week going out to the park when they could with the kids.
Natural language processing for posts and video analysis via machine learning could work.
Well, net neutrality is to protect us from corporations. Protecting us from the government is something the government won't do.
The site looks fine but growing the economics section might be a big ask. No offense to the operators but the name isn't the best either.
No there isn't. Anonymous paper money is still used in every country in the world, anonymising P2P networks like Tor and I2P have not been outlawed, you can buy pre-paid VISAs and pre-paid phones legally and anonymously and many people send routinely anonymous donations to political organisations.
I have a continual internal struggle between two competing thoughts:

1) Internet social media is a young, rapidly evolving ecosystem, heading towards better understanding of consumers, better solutions, and longer product lifetimes.

2) Internet social media is basically entertainment, where sites, platforms, and communication strategies rise and fall in popularity like yesterday's television shows and networks, but on a much, much shorter timeline.
I fundamentally disagree. The purpose of currency is to facilitate efficient trade. It is dangerous when currency is seen as an appreciating asset (deflation) as this will encourage hoarding (speculation) and discourage spending and investing.
Why is a corporate guy wearing a jacket showing the datacenter ? Doesn't represent the startup spirit IMHO.
Ah, no comparison of video resolution.
What, and let shareholders wait for three years for any profits? These businesses operate on the edge - in the margin as an economist would say. They need every single bit of competitive advantage to survive. Storing capital that can be put to productive use in a warehouse is a liability, to be remedied asap. Every business has risks, credit risk is just one of the many. When managed well, there is no problem with relying on outside credit to finance short-term debts. Running a big company (or a country, for that matter) is _not_ the same as balancing a household budget. Risk is an essential part of doing business, and managing risk is one of the aspects that can give a company a competitive advantage.

A few days ago there was a link here on HN about marginal advantages in game design, how the best Starcraft players thrive in environments where they are just a smidgen ahead of their opponent, and maneuver themselves in such a position, in contrast with the amateurs who want to 'win big' - have a big lead and crush their opponent in an overwhelming fashion. It's an eye-opening read, putting in words a property of winners that I never quite managed to capture myself. The theory applies to businesses equally - in a mature market, you can never be hunkered down, playing an all-defense game while you build up resources and then crush the opposition. By that time, that competition will have eaten your lunch and driven you out of business.
foursquare?
Here is an unofficial "errata", mostly stylistic issues should you get a copy:

http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/academics/courses/325/reading...

ANSI CL was the first book that helped me enjoy Lisp. My previous books were all vintage "AI" books that were dull. However, one quickly grows out the Graham subset of Common Lisp and ends up using the language to its full potential (i.e. with proper iteration, condition system, object system, exceptions, packages and modules.)
None of those happened within the last 2 years, so they don't count.
Agreed they don't have a compatible product in their back pocket. I was contending they need to make a TMobile-like move and partner up quickly to create a new product line. Huge opportunity if you have the marketing vision + manufacturing abilities.
I apologize for being unclear. Late night, complicated issue.

I should have just said we have empirical evidence that teachers themselves aren't that necessary. At the bottleneck where most failures happen -- lecture hall weed-out classes -- students have essentially the same non-relationship with profs that they have with lecturers on YouTube.

But even supposing universities are 30% better, internet learning is a classic disruptive technology. Old players in the market are too big to innovate. The new technology looks like a toy. It's lightweight and flexible. It's $200k cheaper. New players will emerge to capture some of that savings in exchange for removing some of the inefficiencies. Eventually they reach feature parity with the old guard, but with a lower price point, etc. etc.

The worst case is Worse Is Better. I'm bullish.
Right, I'm thinking of the "embarrassingly parallel" sort of problems, where you can shard the data (for example by city, country, company or some other obvious classifier) and give one shard to one server.

I'm you were trying to do anything that's O(n.log n) or O(n^2) (think graph processing) then you'll run into trouble at much smaller scales.
Could you elaborate on the "summary of my year and what is coming next" please? How do you make it relevant and interesting to clients, eg if your contracts tend to involve disparate kinds of work? Or is this possible because you operate in such a niche area? Thanks. Will follow the referral.
With enough customers, dealing with everyone who can't use your slapped-together form will be more expensive than doing it right.

The way you write shows some deep assumptions: that this is a case of "slapped-together" vs. "great" software, for example. And those assumptions are, I'd assert, counterproductive to the discussion at hand.

The comment I was replying to actually was a real-world example of what you're missing, namely that this is a trade-off. Every time you support another 0.0001% of corner cases, you're increasing the surface area of potential failures for other cases. And since the other cases are far more common, they're going to bite you more often.

Supporting the most common cases, to a 99.9% or so level, directly and then having an escape hatch for the rest is not "slapped together" -- it's deliberate design which takes the problem and the cost/benefit of different solutions into account. It's also, from that perspective, almost certainly the correct design.

And yet it gets blasted repeatedly in articles like the OP here, which assume that the only possible reason for such design is ignorance/incompetence on the part of the developer. That simply is not true, and you should stop implicitly buying into that (it's another assumption that's hidden in the way you write).
Exactly.

Europe announcing QE on the scale of the US markets lead directly the CHF moves.

My comment below that showed the media reporting of this is now "down-voted".

>>Out.

Funny. HN - the new Reddit.
I tend to prefer the oauth options myself... I don't want to have to enter a bunch of information, or add yet another site to lastpass if I can avoid it... Though, if they ask for too much, I tend to just deny and move on...

For example, it's interesting that a site within the past couple of minutes to sign into could use a local account, facebook or google... I clicked fb first, they wanted contact info and my full friends list... google, just my email... so I let it in with my google account.

I think it really depends... I wouldn't offer social logins without also having a local option, but it really depends on your audience.
Yes but you can't just print currency indefinately. And with the current economic situation of Europe, you don't want to have too much euros in you reserve either.
What, you don't enjoy scanning your mouse over the whole page to see where it turns into a finger?

Come to think of it, that behaviour is distracting .. it's only a matter of time before visual designers catch on that a uniform mouse icon "ehnances usability".