jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> and there are dozens of movies about how awfully students treat each other

This is a generalization. There are plenty of places where humans treat each other awfully - roads, corporative politics, queues in supermarkets. This all doesn't mean the solution is to don't buy a car, don't go to work or do only online shopping.
> Why didn’t we have videos of the curriculum prepared nationally instead of still relying of thousands of individual teachers to teach classes as though students were in a class room?

We're talking about school, not university, right? Kids don't do lectures, it's all interactive.

Plus what do you reckon the teaching unions would think about that plan? You want them to just put all of education on YouTube, and then be done?

Have you ever met a teacher in school who was better at using a computer than you? (Assume you're a dev). How could you expect them to have everything done between April and November when they're as lost as the kids?
The kids are atypical because they want to be back with their friends again? That sounds pretty normal to me.
Looks like you need to select only the line of code that you want to execute before you press "Do it". Works on Firefox for me.
We have put in effort to make kids connected in lockdowns. They are not completely lonely. (Video chat is useless to them, messaging is useful and playing games together is useful. ) But, their social circles shrinked - they were in contact with more kids before. After first lockdown, some good friends had really hard time to adjust to more social way of living.

Examples of issues: a kid got very jealous whenever friend paid attention to other kids. That escalated to bullying of the "if you play with him I wont play with you anymore" kind. This worked well, because other kids were generally more needy then usual, so it was harder for them to say "so what".

Then there was reduced ability to solve conflicts or deal with them. They escalated much more quickly over much smaller things. Other kids having different opinions was sudden new shocking unpleasant experience.

Finally, reduced ability to deal with frustration. At home, you are not confronted with interpersonal issues nor new situations. Mostly, you get your routine and that is it.
As is yours here.
The babysitting service argument is a bit too general for me. I’m talking more about the situation where parents don’t care at all or are just not able to cope with their own life. The authors argument sounds more like lazy parents. I agree that school is not an ideal solution though.
That page reminds me a bit of time cube :)

Here is a good introductory article about the topic:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/25/wage-stagnation-much-m...

TL;DR: Inflation plays at most a secondary role, the majority of the effect is a result of stagnant real wages, i.e. the capital owners kept a larger share of the productivity gains.
I don't think many people believe "this is a weapon China created." It doesn't really make sense - it would be a rubbish weapon just killing the over 80s and why release it in your own country?

On the other hand asking if a bat type coronavirus could have come from the nearest place with lots of bat type coronavirus doesn't seem that unreasonable to me.
This was already a modified procedure:

"NASA defends decision to proceed with modified SLS countdown test" ( on April 12 )

https://spacenews.com/nasa-defends-decision-to-proceed-with-...
They're pulling out v1 of their software (which is in the app store now), until v2 is approved.
Take a deep look at both Flickr and Twitter's APIs. Follow their model as much as you can.

Use JSON and as consistent an interface as you can come up with.

Think through how you'd rebuild your website using only your APIs.

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/

http://www.flickr.com/services/api/
That four part series is stunningly good. Even if you aren't interested in history very much, give it a go.
I was quoting Larry Wall who said that a programming language should "make easy things easy and hard things possible". (Or something close to that... the internet seems a little uncertain on his exact wording.)
"Bottom line, you can’t create a large, sustainable company without external funding. Think I’m wrong? Name me five bootstrapped companies of national significance."

Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Cargill, American Tobacco (now known as R.J. Reynolds), and McDonalds.

A lot of the other assertions in the article are questionable. Doubling-down on Ruby on Rails to power a scalable business? But I think the article's core point is a real problem: too many businesses are "me too" copies with very little innovative technology of their own. I really wish we could see more Googles, Amazons, and BitTorrents instead of an endless parade of social news sites.
It is oppressive just like Hawaiian shirt days are oppressive. Pasted-up fake smiles demotivates.
We are doing all we can;

Google's Chrome has silently upgraded from 1.0 to 5.0. Could you do whatever they're doing?
On the pricing page, I would make each 'feature' button area clickable to activate the button. As of now you have to click on the checkbox or the text label.
do they list the airlines somewhere? they dont seem to be listing ryanair for example.
Already taken: https://lwn.net/Articles/131657/
I think the response would be: For these groups that are deemed "in power", their "safe space" is technically everywhere. That is, the default state for any space is that it is a safe space for them, and specific action must be taken to counter that.
From their site:

Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of IF.

Inform's source reads like English sentences, making it uniquely accessible to non-programmers. It's very easy to get started. Watch a screencast.

Also of interest:

Inform's first website was a single hand-coded HTML page in the primitive, 10,000-site Web of 1995. Today the Web has a hundred million sites, and we're larger and better too.
So that explains where they were sourced from. Thanks!
Ah bolo - so many schooltime lunches engrossed in the magic of network gaming.

It was nice to see it got ported to Windows / Linux too: http://www.winbolo.com/.

And of course, JavaScript: http://stephank.github.io/orona/bolo.html
5.25" floppies were on their way out in the mid 1980s, USB was born in the late 1990s and 3.5" disks were still around and in high use then. It's a generational thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#History

The same reason there aren't Apple, Amiga, or Android branded Morse code keys.
Nintendo is also the only one of the bunch selling their hardware for profit. MS and Sony now have to maintain selling hardware at a loss to keep up the perception of advancement.
>No - Before the gas crisis we has a much larger lust for big powerful engines.
>But - In the last 20 years especially there has been a mandated (i.e. NHSTA/etc) effort to make vehicles 'less harmful' to pedestrians in case of an impact. You can see some of this in the changes to front fascias/bumpers.

You hit on some of the complexity here. Cars are actually much quicker now. In the 1950s, a V8 police car made 85-150 horsepower. So, the bigger engines prior to the 70s were quite slow compared to cars today. As you note, the speed gains must be partially offset (fully?) by the advances in safety: tires, anti-lock brakes, pedestrian-friendly bumpers, and more.
I don’t think this is a problem caused by centralization. As I think about the past 4 years I think the blame lies with Congress, whom have effectively gridlocked themselves into inaction for the last decade. The powers that they have have already been spilling into other branches (such as using the courts to audaciously overturn laws) so it makes sense that those powers are spilling into the private sector as well.

In other words, the less Congress does, the more easily corporations turn into an authoritarian arm of the government
> Parler... A platform which is known to kick off liberal voices.

What? Parler doesn't seem to censor political content at all. A lack of liberal voice does not mean Parler "kicks them off."
It’s not a matter of belief. I’m reading the words you wrote, specifically your last paragraph. If your ideas hold up surely you’d be able to answer his fairly basic questions. But they don’t which is why you resort to asking for peoples email addresses and identities, as if that has any bearing on the merit of what you’re saying
>Nowhere near 700 million revenue.

Ubisoft alone makes more than $2 billion in revenue per year.

edit: Square-Enix is another $2.3 billion in revenue. Capcom is around $700 million per year. And Sega is even more at $3.4 billion per year.
So this is an app-based equivalent of the long-running http://freerice.com/ site?
If you swipe from the right side of the screen to bring up the notification center, you'll see a "Tablet Mode" button on the bottom that makes the OS more tablet friendly.
This was overdue, but definitely a good announcement.

For people who think this is absurdly slow, I would point out that undergraduate enrollment in the department has grown 5-10x in the last four years. In 2011, I was in a four person class with a professor and a TA, and some core classes had <20 students. Now those same classes have well over 100 students. Top tier universities just can't react and find talented faculty that quickly.
I have a aver c670 and was 159 and I love it. Would love to get a chrome bit instead of the stupid chromecast
That's great, thanks for the explanation. Does the battery life stays the same with Arch?
This info has been around for months, if not years. Glad to see it’s finally coming to light in the mainstream (however Mainstream the New Yorker can be deemed).
For keyless entry, cars are always transmitting. They look for a response of a key. In case of my car, if a keys comes close enough, it lights up the doors and doorhandles.
OO is just a slightly bigger scale (1:76) at H0 track. Since UK loading diameter is slightly narrower than on other standard gauge railways (which is the reason for there being OO at all, as H0 motors wouldn't fit models of UK locomotives), there wouldn't be much of a noticeable difference. To me, this looks bigger than H0, but there are other scales and gauges, as well. Admittedly, my knowledge about these is pretty limited.
Another point, I have diplomas, am patient, like precision... then I watched youtube videos about electronics, woodwork etc.. and I saw how things are done. I expected easy transfer, yet when I tried to do them I struggled.

The reading knowledge is not know-how.. these are two distinct categories. The web gives you metadata in a way.. but so far it seems only experience gives you know-how. You can see all the diagrams about how to cut wood straight .. but until you saw all the ways you can fail your edge, curve your blade .. it's not 'can do' knowledge, only potential.

And I found this in dev too.. I've done tutorials, moocs, books about non trivial stuff.. but making an app was a totally different kind of effort. It wasn't intellectually hard, just different and you don't know that until you do it. Like hundreds of stupid details to juggle and go around to finish something properly.
I really hope that in the near future, we can look back at this period as a moment of temporary cultural insanity.
Highly recommend getting a pet, specifically a cat.
The GPUs going into the mining cards, are GPUs that would have become e-waste anyway—just at the chip validation step, before they ever got used for anything, because they had flaws that made them unsuitable for gaming on.
Take a look at the YubiKey NEO.

https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/yubikey-neo...

It's basically a smartcard in the form factor of a nano-USB-stick. You can generate a pair of public/private SSH keys, with the private key remaining forever on the token.

Then setup gpg-agent in ssh-agent emulation mode (it's three lines in a file) and voila! you have hardware-backed authentication.

I'll probably write a HOWTO soon, but until then have a look at this:

http://forum.yubico.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=1171

It's unnecessarily complicated as described in the top post, but read the comments below, too. The real setup is dead simple - just a few lines in gpg-agent.conf and one of the .*profile files.
I asked myself a similar question some time ago. I came up to a conclusion that it would be worth developing something that would help me in my day-to-day pains so I started this little project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/intelligentloganalyser/ (still in planning phase, sorry for self-advertising).
If I felt like it was possible to get refunds from the App Store when I bought something that promised more than it delivered, I would be more likely to spend money there. As it is, way too often I've lost $1 or $2 to an app that I immediately uninstalled. It makes me very hesitant to pull the trigger on a bigger purchase.
As a company, we dont normally do large scale hiring. When we do large scale hiring, we can bring on junior devs.

If we are hiring for single spots, we need experienced developers.
We make about $300 in donations a month over at http://moodpanda.com , we don't do it for the money, its a good way of opening doors and getting invited to events etc.
Its a pretty cool shortcut that requires only counting and no real math. One of my professors at the University of Washington showed me yesterday, so I figured I would share it :)
"Profitable side-project" might be an unstable equilibrium. If you're doing something without scale, it will die when you lose interest. If you're doing something with scale, perhaps it should grow into a bootstrapped startup.

inquicker.com started as a hobby / learning opportunity (2005) and grew into a side project with about $20k/yr in recurring revenue from corporate customers (2008).

Eventually, it turned into a full-time job (early 2009) and I found a co-founder (late 2009). We hired our first four employees in 2010. In 2011 we signed our 100th customer and hit $1m in recurring revenue. In 2013 we hit $5m in recurring revenue.
Per episode with the size audience mentioned, you're looking in the hundreds. Start out with one advertisement to test the waters. I ran one advertisement that had good results (5-10x return). Like an idiot, I assumed I milked the cow dry and should look for other podcasts or advertising mediums in general. That was dumb. I booked a couple of episodes again with Release Notes that produced the same ROI.

If you're having success with an advertisement, don't be afraid to double down and spend thousands. Ideally, you should get a bulk discount from the show.

I don't have conversion rates based on % listener or cost per listener. Would love to see podcast advertising evolve to this point in the future, but it certainly hasn't yet.

The folks at Baremetrics (https://baremetrics.io/) run an awesome service for monthly recurring Saas companies that use Stripe. If you know what your lifetime customer value is, you really have more faith in your advertising dollars.
Our company was in a unique hiring period where we were bringing on a relatively large number of junior developers. We dont normally have that case.
Cool!

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Company Phone: +1-877-324-7759

I'm Lee, few free to call anytime!
If this directory is special, why doesn't Windows treat it that way? Put something in the EA that means "This file can't be read/modified by normal programs" so people can't make the mistake in the first place.

Obviously making it so programs can modify these files successfully would be great, but that's a much bigger job.
Probably. Happiness does not (more like shouldn't, but that's another topic) have a direct correlation to the amount of money or luxury possessions a person owns. But even if having the Jag would make me happier, that's not the issue at hand. I don't need to live in Manhattan, drive a Jaguar, own a million dollar apartment, and date Emmanuelle Chiriqui to be happy. Granted those things might make me happier... the same way I might be less happy because I have to fight horrific traffic in Manhattan, the car is actually too expensive on the maintenance side and under performs, I make a bunch of improvements to the apartment but then realize that because of the market it's now undervalued, and Emmanuelle Chiriqui is actually cheating on me with an Irish midget.

So yeah... Having a Jaguar, might make me happy. Having a Jaguar might also make me unhappy. The real question is if I need the Jaguar to be happy, and I can truthfully answer that I don't really need it to feel I have a fulfilling life. Once again, if you NEED to have the - enter whatever costly material possession here - to be happy, you're doing something wrong.
For those unfamiliar with the alot:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better...
Also remember, you can still apply late for YC W11, up until before the first day of the Winter semester. So you have barely over a week.

You might be at a huge disadvantage to be accepted so late, but just pointing out that late application is still open AFAIK.
Surely the obvious thing to do would be to compare the brains of religious meditators to atheist meditators?

Isn't the main result they appear to have acquired so far the fact that meditation increases blood flow to the part of the brain responsible for concentrating on things?

Also I'm deeply skeptical due to quotes like this:

"One could try to conclude one way or the other that maybe it’s the biology or maybe God's really in the room, but the scan itself doesn't really show that," Newberg says. "For neurotheology to really work as a field it needs to be very respectful and open to both perspectives."

which leads me to suspect that this is just a way of bilking religious institutions out of money to fund fMRI scans and pay researchers' salaries. Nice work if you can get it!

Meanwhile, I should head back to the lab to continue my experiments. Maybe it's gravity which causes the rocks to fall when I release them. Maybe it's the hand of God pushing down on them. We need to be open to both perspectives!
After selling? Nope.

Can you?
When you handling millions of Comet clients per node - every byte counts. And even that processes are lightweight in Erlang, they still take about 300 bytes of memory + State.

FSM is abstract concept. When it's wrapped into Actor it's something else and not pure FSM. gen_fsm is more similar to Rational Rose "Capsule" design pattern, except that Capsule may have several message queues, while gen_fsm has only one.
You can also mask/unmask events in Capsule.

When many years ago I first learned Erlang I thought that every process will have built-in FSM as 1st class citizen (this is what I expected from programming language designed by Telecom company).

Also what I would like from FSM module, is to be able just to specify state transition table (STT) including on entry/exit. Then the callback functions only handle state transition logic. Currently gen_fsm is very verbose for huge FSMs and I sure it's easy to introduce bugs when coding STTs.

I think the reason most people don't use gen_fsm is because it's very basic and verbose, not because there is no need in built-in FSM behaviour in OTP.
As opposed to making your life worse, which would be the lie without the coincidence? What would you rather have?
I agree totally that there is a big market for your friendly, do-it-all web developer for small businesses. And you're right in that they probably don't have the budget for hiring specialists in their respective fields. The vast majority of my freelance clients are in this market, so its one I know well.

The part where I have a difference of a opinion is here:

> I've found that there are quite a few companies that can pay me worthwhile contractor fees yet cannot budget to have a UI guy, a backend guy, and a product manager as employees.

Specifically, the definition of 'worthwhile contractor fee'.

The average ho-hum web developer with a few years of experience, the LAMP stack, JS/HTML/CSS who can tell the difference between an abstract factory and an anonymous function in London can easily pick up a £250-£350 ($380-$540) per day contract. I would fall (just about) into this category. This however is not the type of engagement I believe the OP was talking about, and not what I was referring to when I said 'worthwhile contractor fee'.

The sort of fees I was referring (and I believe the OP is referring to also) to are going to be about one order of magnitude higher than the amounts mentioned above. Hypothetically, imagine what sort of fees you'd be paying John Resig or David Crockford to consult on your organizations frontend code, or DHH to consult on Rails, or Steve Souders to consult on frontend performance, or Chris Shiflett to harden your PHP apps security.

While the examples I've given their sound like special cases of internet celebrities, there are really real people making a happy living doing this sort of work at very high (i.e. 'worthwhile') rates. I personally know of technical contractors who are paid more than £1k/day (specifically in database performance, and website conversion), and thats just within my immediate circle.

On the other side of the fence, at one one of my previous companies (which wasn't that big, 30-40 staff) we had a team of developers with QA, a separation between front/back/sysadmins, but no one with dedicated database performance experience/skills. We had budget for (and would have gladly paid) something like £10k for a database performance specialist with good references to come in for a week or two, show us what we could do to make our db perform better at scale and establish some best practices for doing things right going forward.
If you're blind, how can you point the camera at text in the first place? (honest question, no snark)
You don't have to be fully blind to be blind. Let's just say "limited vision."
Not to sound harsh, but I don't think the blind would find a lot of use for this app...
I agree that it's impressive, but the flash video felt like cheating.

For instance, no spanish speaker would EVER say "LO TRADUCE EL TEXTO" (@ 0:20), or "ROPAS OPCIONAL" (@ 0:50). They just picked some words in spanish that made sense when translated, but my guess is that average translation would be much more awful
Apple could outbid.
FYI, it keeps crashing Safari on my iPad when I try to visit the home page.
I've been using pinboard for about 9 months and I promote it every chance I get. Love this service.
The working class went for Clinton though? By a large margin?