jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sorry, this is just wrong.

I am currently working on a drag-and-drop uploading tool, and would really like to use html5 to do it. The new interfaces involved are the drag and drop (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...) and File (http://www.w3.org/TR/file-upload/) APIs. Unfortunately, everyone except for Firefox have been slow in implementing the File interface, leaving me with a situation where the only shipping browser where standards-based code runs is Firefox 3.6 (fwiw, it works in Webkit nightly and Chrome 6 dev).
In shipping webkit (safari 5, chrome 5), File is implemented (which gives meta data about a native file) but not FileReader (which gives the actual data) (btw if someone knows of a non-standard way to get the data from the File object in shipping webkit please let me know, i just want this to work. FF had a non-standard getAsBinary() method on the File object before FileReader was implemented, for example).

Opera doesn't even have File implemented.

Again, FF is the only shipping browser that native os-to-webapp uploading drags work in a standards compliant way. Give them some credit.
More to the point: Bananas are radioactive precisely because of the large amount of potassium they contain -- naturally occurring potassium contains a radioactive potassium isotope. You must consume some amount of radioactive material as part of your daily potassium intake regardless of whether it comes from bananas or other food sources.

Brazil nuts are another matter, as they are radioactive because they contain radium, which your body doesn't need.
At all stores in the USA. Not worldwide.
Look for customers posting work on the underlying platforms you'd build your interface on top of (e.g. SAS, Cognos, etc.). I'd suggest being willing to take work related to, but potentially outside of your immediate interest in improved interfaces. Otherwise as many people are alluding you will have a very hard time finding work. The benefit of this is that you will learn a ton more about what customers want beyond what you're already imagining and establish credibility with them.

I started consulting about 6 months ago. I was very picky about which customers I took on. The ones I did turned out to be amazing sources of problems that could be whole product categories. Now I am getting ready to build my first product and I feel very confident I have my first sale lined up.
Actually, it's base 29, but no one has won the prize by checking my code. Funny how that works.

Want to fix it? ^32^29 in the code.

Update: I changed it.
Just for those curious about the Fry quote, I think it might originate from his blog, himself quoting Alastair Campbell. At the very least there's a nice reference to it, and I'm happily crawling along the links enjoying it.

http://www.stephenfry.com/2013/06/24/only-the-lonely/

http://www.alastaircampbell.org/blog/2013/06/10/response-to-...
Isn't the converse statement just as valid? The buggy experience of a person with an older Mac doesn't provide any useful information about the code quality of OSX for someone considering buying a new Mac. People using a version of OSX on a Mac it could have shipped with, and people using that version of OSX on a Mac that shipped with something completely different in many ways, are separate groups that really only need to communicate their issues within themselves. Crosstalk between them is mostly mudslinging, rather than useful evaluation.
"Apple _fails smoother_."

Umm.. not any more apparently

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/10/01/it-just-works

"My iPhone 6 rebooted after I changed the home screen wallpaper. Tapped a new image in the wallpaper settings, and poof, it rebooted. Worse, it never stopped rebooting. Endless reboot cycle."
Have you noticed Target, Sony, Paris Hilton, and other hacking victims are still in business?

You could get promoted to support level two somehow. You could talk to them in person. You could have someone else do the hacking. Does the UK have a civil liberties union?

EDIT: you might be able to get someone they do business with to fine them for not following best security practices. But hacking seems ethical compared to that :)
Actually people who live in the US don't live in a democracy, it's actually a constitutional republic. It's a subtle, but important difference.

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%." — Thomas Jefferson

"Democracy is the road to socialism." — Karl Marx (father of communism)

"We can keep a Republic, or we will eventually end up with an Oligarchy - a tyranny of the elite." — Benjamin Franklin

"We are a Republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of democracy." — Alexander Hamilton
Although there is a lot of data here, it seems all of it is roughly repetitive, relational data. Why not store it in a central database?

I have a (much smaller project) that stores all data in a postgres datastore.
As the article points out, .org is the for non profits like .gov is for governments. It adds legitimacy.
So you can change the password to the management portal and prevent access to the API / admin panel which provides access to all of the mentioned settings?
Difficult to do for a nonprofit with a history. This is extortion.
Want to change your audio output device

This you can do right from the volume control widget on the taskbar. One of the few things that's arguably easier and more obvious in Win 10 than in OS X (where you either have to hit the control panel or know to option-click the menubar doodad).
It seems like the bottleneck should be the memory hierarchy, not executing instructions. /RISC4EVER
Slack notifications are cancer.
I do like to share links @ work, so sounds like I'm the target audience. But this is a near empty landing page, asking for my e-mail with almost no information about what the product is or how it works.

It would be nice to get a little more information. Screenshots, descriptions, pricing ... anything. Why would I want to just blindly sign up for something based on one sentence & 3 bullet points?
Host your own website? I have a web server, I manage a VPN for myself (good for traveling and questionable wifi points).
Much of the joy of the early internet came from the small groups and light website's.
Website's at scale gave a want hard time being small. Share what you care about on your own platform.

Ignore everyone's ring. If you aren't hosting a part of the internet you want. Why would you expect others to?
I started programming when I was 11. Taught myself C++ from that age. Solved tons of tough problems in personal and school projects before going into industry at age 22.

Now at 35, I definitely think it's time to move on. I won't lie about my lack of interest in the field. The problems are less difficult to solve, but also much more frustrating. A lot more black boxes that you can't reverse engineer when you get stuck. Working with other people in a big company means things move far slower than my ability to get things done.

Plus the proliferation of different tech stacks means that despite the big job market, most of the new jobs require specific knowledge that I don't have, and my existing experience with low level coding and problem solving don't carry much weight.
Is a requirement of this framework to only use PNG for graphics?
On a more serious note this is awesome! Good job PNGR would be great for a new project.
You are. You are conceptualizing currency as debt, as if currencies represented finite deposits of gold which implies the value of the currency. Even with the gold standard, governments still decide the value of the currency.
This is mostly nonsense.

The am pm thing isn't everywhere, in Europe they often say "19 o'clock" so that's just an accuracy issue (honestly it's a made up problem since am pm will still be used).

That Monday/Tuesday thing is also made up since there are offices, bars and clubs with overnight opening hours and they still separate the days, made up problem.

Lastly, the entire issue one has with not knowing if the offices are open in Australia is still happening today, and we mostly solve it via Google, like we can solve this one too
Don't feel sad - this is just a set of numbers. While the big picture trend doesn't look very good, that graph still shows that hundreds of companies just like yours are closing deals. Keep the faith and keep working hard - fortunes are made during downturns...
Sounds awful. For me social situations always tend to be boring or exhausting after a while and then my phone is my saviour until I feel like getting back into the action again. Without it I wouldn't even attend.
This is huge! Sustainable, scalable, and inexpensive. The lethal trifecta. Nice work Phase Four!
Do you come into contact with Twitter advertising? Then you’re probably fine.
To follow-up: we'll definitely post on HN once we get there, in the meantime we'd love your feedback on OSes we should support - here's a quick poll:
https://shorturl.at/koJX3
Here's a quick form where you can capture your interest and stay in the loop: https://shorturl.at/koJX3
> Twitter will begin deleting accounts that have been inactive for more than six months, unless they log in before an 11 December deadline.
My point isn’t that we shouldn’t deploy more solar/wind. Of course we should. We will need more nuclear power plants as well. The time for all of these is now. We can’t afford to wait until we hit the limit of what current renewables can provide before we build up our nuclear infrastructure.
When you combine old inventions in new novel ways, that create a better product, your are inventing something new. And this results in not necessarily a small or insignificant inovation. In my opinion Apple innovates in a big way.

Apple's ideas may look obvious and their decisions my look easy to decide after the fact, however, the same can be said for a winning chess move after its made. This is an easy fallacy to make.

"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." - Isaac Newton

- http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/268025.html
Hmmm.

When I interviewed at Google there was no third party aptitude and personality screening. There was also not an incredible amount of variety. And I don't know how the reference check went. But the rest of your list looks accurate.

Even so, I guarantee that Google has not solved hiring by a country mile. The biggest single problem is that (for obvious reason) they are willing to settle for a lot more false negatives than false positives. But getting the false negative rate down would be huge if they could do it.
Haha, neat stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Or perhaps the value of working for TechCrunch.
One should keep in mind http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html and note that the analysis is post-fact, and for any shred of credibility, the author ought to look for similar patterns in the past and in the future.

This is about as content-free as Cramer.
opera has done everything before every browser...
It’s not quite as simple as that – that becomes plainly obvious pretty fast in this related discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1411779

They seem to use the video-tag in some cases (Safari, maybe Chrome) but not in others. We don’t yet know how exactly they decide whether to use the video-tag or QuickTime.

The mystery isn’t yet solved so if anyone wants to help …
This is a rant about Apple using Quicktime for video on their site.

I can view Quicktime on Firefox on Linux - while Flash only has one halfway decent player, Quicktime files are supported by many different tools & players.
Oh, hey, that makes way more sense than Cmd+Shift+T.
Diceware is great, though the paper fairly points out that algorithms like that and https://xkcd.com/936/ necessarily often choose very uncommon words.

I suppose the Markov model could just as well use whole words (as done in all sorts of other scenarios), at the expense of substantially longer passwords.
As long as it has COBRA-esq provisions, where you can pay the same rate for 3-6 months after your employment is terminated or you quit, and as an employee you know of this lease provision, I don't believe it poses a problem.
FDB's source was never on GitHub.

FDB was closed-source with a few open-source official bindings.
Why not just get a battery case? I've got the Lenmar, ~$30 on Amazon. Couldn't be happier
It's still very difficult to verify or ensure that the sites you know you'll need will actually be cached when you need them. For instance, you may not need page XYZ of the documentation now, but you might later when you're coding on the beach, and there's no way to force Chrome to crawl it besides preemptively visiting the page - and even then it might be evicted for any number of reasons!

Batch Save Pocket [1] is my stopgap solution, but Pocket's not at all optimized for documentation.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/batch-save-pocket/...
That does not solve what I consider the biggest problem, the clean merge that actually results in a logical bug. Without being able to review the diff between the tip of master that will happen with your solution regardless.

EDIT: currently I always rebase our feature branches before submitting the PR to try and mitigate this and make sure review happens quickly after that. it doesn't fully solve the problem but it's the best flow I've found.
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/doyle/gallery/minsky...
Venmo doesn't charge a fee for debit or bank account transfers.
Totally! Here's a couple tips:

>>> WHAT TO BRING >>>

Headphones or external speakers for the music

A cozy blanket!

A journal for some special reflections (only needed for the "Chorus" class - not for "Chorus 30" or "Sleep")

Other options
> Eye mask or something to cover your eyes
> A pillow under your knees to support your lower back

>>> HOW TO SET UP >>>

Find a quiet, soft place to LIE DOWN, where you won’t be disturbed (bed, couch, or yoga mat are great)

Set up where WiFi is strongest (it helps the audio not cut out during class)

Settle in a few minutes ahead of time so you can make sure your space is comfy and ready for class

>>> Here are a couple videos on what to expect for your first class too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyuh0cQjKSU&t=2s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUJhfjxvNDE&feature=youtu.be
What I think about bitcoin and crypocurrencies in general that are based upon a "proof of work" with no tangible production of anything useful in society?

They are a giant waste of electricity.

Even renewably-sourced electricity is in finite supply, even near large hydro-electric dams or geo-thermal plants, and thus this deprives the world of metal smelting or other energy-intensive activities we urgently NEED to adapt to electrically-driven processes.

I should expect to see intelligent folk like those in tech to understand the multiple environmental crises we are in, and how bitcoin and it's ilk are not aiding resolution of this in any way, and indeed can be shown to be hampering efforts.

Wasted CPU cycles have environmental costs.
Proof of work is a giant waste of electricity that could be better spent.

Introduce a cryptocurrency that actually incentivizes goodness through it's creation instead of further destruction and spare me the hypotheticals. As currently implemented= BAD FOR PLANET EARTH and a diversion of resources to literal waste.

Imaginary money burning real joules of energy
This is fantastic. I have hemmed and hawed in doing similar things to build a serverless database. (both in the embedded sense and the FaaS sense) I could have a file or more per client and pay nothing until they load the app. There are a lot of use-cases as in mine that have low read frequency and low or no updates yet high write throughput. I would love to not have to pay for keeping all my indexes in hot ram If at all possible by sacrificing a cold-start and maybe some latency. I could see doing that with Litestream.
I'll admit I haven't tried a laptop designed for Linux compatibility. It's a tempting thought, actually. But, and I realize this may sound absurd to some, I also have some very specific form factor and physical durability requirements for a laptop, namely that it fit into and withstand the stresses of the laptop sleeve built into a Lowepro Flipside 500 camera backpack.

Wildlife photography matters to me enough that I'd switch careers if I thought I could make it pay, which is sadly next to impossible. None of the equipment that backpack is built for does me any good if I leave it at home, and some of the best wildlife shots I've ever gotten have been on breaks at work. So a laptop has to be able to ride along, and I've never found anything but a Mac that can do so and still have a good enough spec for the work I do.

On the other hand, I expect to be taking on full-remote jobs for the foreseeable future, between my own preferences and the effect of the pandemic on the industry. So maybe I can think about going back to a satchel for carrying work equipment on the likely infrequent occasions when I need to be onsite somewhere, and that would let me relax the "thin and sturdy" requirement that's partly kept me on Macs for a while now.

I'll freely admit, there's a lot not to like about the MacOS UI. It would be nice to have a daily driver running KDE again, and not have Emacs be a second-class citizen in the windowing system.
> why buy something today when it'll be cheaper in a week or a month?

Because you need it today?

We already see this all the time in subsets of the market which experience deflating prices. If you wait a year to buy that fancy device you're wanting there will most likely be a better model available at a lower cost. People still buy the current model, though, because there is a cost to waiting which offsets the expected price deflation.
Android has been one of the most negative contributors to general computing.

We entered the new millennium with the concept that most computers could use most extension hardware with (relatively) little effort, and you could upgrade your computer's basic operating system at will; even change it to another one entirely.

I'd love to update my still-decent Android phones that have long since stopped receiving security updates, but I can't. This is objectively inferior, a massive regression from general computing.
It is a pity that Machine Learning achievements at this level have become only possible for the select few with enough capital, no matter how much brains you throw against it.
Have you ever used a floppy or are you just trolling?

Sure, storing it in a floppy would render it unreadable, even for them.

Please go ahead and back up your data in floppies if you think it's that good
Is this consulting? Your company was supposed to eat the cost, or have hired someone junior for clients like that. Funny they never raise your pay when client pays well.
That's a very good analogy. Much of role is just coordinating; expecting your team to self-coordinate is expecting your team to do your job for you, and leaving things up to chance.
Call me biased but I happen to think that being at a “protest” that results in the storming of the Capitol during the tallying of electoral votes for our country’s leader is not equivalent to the occupation of a public park after a man was suffocated by a police officer. I happen to think that storming the seat of government is worse.. Chaz was two (maybe three square) blocks, and the news was acting like it was a country. Also absolutely nothing was stopping the police from doing their job, they literally abandoned a precinct which made zero sense at the time. I acknowledge there were shootings, but yeah like I said, I went there on multiple occasions and didn’t see a single firearm, but the news (both CNN and Fox) described checkpoints and anarchy when all I saw with my own eyes were art booths and a stage with speakers giving lectures.
I would bet he will have a difficult time finding a research post at another university. He has self-identified as a person who will be very difficult for university administrators to work with. That works when you have tenure; when you are looking for a job, not so much.
Does it need some sort of trigger? Must all things be connected by a thread?
More like, they already laser etch the back of the iPod. Why, not take a small step further to differentiate your product and make customers feel even more attached to their purchase? And the reason they charged for it before was not to offset the cost of an extra step in production, but to monetize something that the customers want.
I'm curious how big a role sports play in terms of TV's bottom line and how that will play out online.

The networks and pro leagues seem to have a very tight grip on distribution and I don't see a lot of attempts at innovation there. MLB.tv is cool but why can't I pay $2.99 to watch an NFL game on demand on my AppleTV or Boxee?
The DNS root servers are already decentralized. The issue here is that the domains in question are registered with registrars (and/or utilizing name servers) that are under US legal jurisdiction.

If you want to do something that you don't want US authorities having control over, then move it to a jurisdiction that does not care what the US says (and good luck finding such a place, unless it was Iran or DPRK).
what are the alternative DNS systems?
Look out for healthcare costs if your partner is not employed.

We don't really want my wife to work when we have kids; however, as a self-employed person, the cost of purchasing you r own health insurance is outrageous. For a family of two adults and two small children, it'll run me over $12,000/yr and that's with a high deductible plan so there will still be out of pocket costs.

Unfortunately, this sole fact is pushing me away from self-employment. That people say the USA is friendly for entrepreneurs is absurd: perhaps if you're well capitalized with other people's money, but not if you're doing traditional self-employment / small business.
Yeah I lost quite some coins on bitgrail :) gone ... with the wind ...
Quadriga still up?
Be careful with that. The most common commercial TV units run slightly-modified copies of consumer smart TV software too. (especially the units for digital signage, hospitality, and healthcare)

For example, many of LG's commercial TV's run 'commercial' WebOS ("Pro:Centric"). Many of Samsung's commercial TV's run 'commercial' Tizen ("SMART and/or LYNK + REACH")

You can still get dumb displays, especially if you ask for "monitors" instead of "televisions" or "digital signage". But it's getting way harder than it used to be, even if you exclusively look at the Commercial / Business models.
None of the above. Instant messaging is not necessary. Use email, or make a phone call if it's really so urgent.
> There are people who go to universities to study how to do this well, then go to work for institutions committed to doing this well.

And a lot of these people have lost their minds. I’m trying to explain to my college educated friends right now why using “whiteness” as a pejorative is a bad thing. As an engineer I’ve always been skeptical of liberal arts education. But I didn’t think it would destroy America.
same reason apple doesn't take a cut when you buy a jar of peanut butter using the amazon app, or get a ride using lyft.
Too low price then.
Telegram dude.
I agree, I did message them also over this. I picked up a Bluevine account incase, but it might be time to switch to a traditional brick and mortar bank for me. If they do move us to BBVA and then PNC though, that would be great.
WeWork crashed and burned before IPOing. Private investors got burned (i.e. SoftBank vision fund).
For people of the world, that's about 121°C. BTW, I've been in a sauna in Sweden where the thermometer displayed 100°C. The women sauna, according to my mother, was only 96°C.
Why is this story not as big as the Brazilian guy held at Heathrow? that was for 'only' 9 hours!
It's real. I think jwz uses foot pedals. People should just remap annoying keys, e.g. CAPS -> CTRL