jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Absorbing tales, most likely for those of us with young children in the aforementioned age bracket. First time I'd read about Jean Piaget too. Was reading through @tokenadult's[1] site earlier and didn't see much mention of Piaget, so another good reference to add to the list.

This is the probably the most insightful part of the AMS narrative:

>OK, if it is so hard to teach kids the notion of a number, what am I trying to do? What is the point of my lessons? I said it many times and I am going to say it again: the meaning of the lessons is the lessons themselves. Because they are fun. Because it’s fun to ask questions and look for the answers. It’s a way of life.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tokenadult
Nope, still not relevant.

I'm a vegetarian, quite a fan of Beyond Meat's "chicken" strips, and very much looking forward to trying a Beast Burger. I've had some shit veggie burgers, too, but if Beyond Meat can do with "beef" anything like what they've done with "chicken", this won't be among them.
Reading this makes me think of a similar experience I've had which really emphasised the point "Ideas are worth nothing without execution" for me. These days, people say it all the time, but to experience it is another thing.

I'm starting to think it's very powerful (as far as necessary?) to go through an experience like this.

One thing I'm pretty certain of is that this experience will change Leo's thinking forever.

Related: Derek Sivers - "Ideas are just a multiplier or execution" - http://sivers.org/multiply
If the price is right, I would start with advertising on some of the major custom map aggregator websites. If things go well I would try to build out a deeper relationship with the aggregators to get more prominent placement.

Good insight on the permanent ads, I had not thought about that.
It's definitely nice to get a resource like this, but anyone who spends a reasonable amount of time writing applications for Rails should pick up all this. There really isn't that much Magic, it's convention.

Think of it like Struts, Spring or the Zend framework with all the configuration done for you with excellent documentation.
Yes, he has a very good point. No matter how stable, redundant and distributed the cloud backend is technically, the danger is in the human factors.

Especially if you depend on one company (either Google, Amazon, ...). If that company decides you violated their terms of service in any way, they might simply remove your account and all your files. There is nothing you can do against that.

This would make it even worse than 'traditional' vendor lock-in with proprietary data formats.

Luckily, most cloud service providers allow downloading your files to make remote backups. But this might not always be the case and is easy to overlook/forget.
I should have mentioned. I'm in the UK. The East Midlands to be precise.
I cannot understand why Microsoft keeps on trying to play catch-up with Google and Apple. They have a tough fight ahead if that is to remain their approach (even with all of their resources).

There are a few brights spots for them - Kinect looks amazing - but their obsession with doing everything that Apple and Google are doing may hurt them in the long run.

(I am not concerned whether MS succeeds or not - I haven't used an MS product in years - but I am astounded that a company filled with so many clever and creative folk is loath to innovate on its own terms.)
I thought it was very well done. If they keep up the good work I might even buy a subscription. I usually don’t like these rolling stories, but this was done differently, and the art work is great.
This is pretty poorly argued and doesn’t even touch on some commonly shared arguments about taxes.

For example, I’m sympathetic to the perspective that federal taxes are really about preventing inflation. I’m not sure it changes anything fundamental, but it suggests that we can be less concerned about deficit spending as long as inflation is low. (But this assumes the government can predict what will cause excessive inflation far enough in advance to avoid it.)

Also, in the presence of inflation, income taxes and wealth taxes are similar since you need to earn a return just to stay even with inflation. In a way, we already have wealth taxes, but they’re mild since inflation is low.

There’s a lot more that could be said. It’s a complicated area.
UTF-8 is problematic because of lookalike codepoints. (And the current practice of decoding punycode has similar issues: how exactly international domain names should work seems to me like a really hard problem)
The sooner all of these cloud gaming services fail and companies stop trying them, the better.

I am not looking forward to the encroaching "Own nothing only rent" future.
Another important point about censorship-resistance is that git works even by email, so worst-case people can still set up mailing lists and exchange patches.
Next time you are out at a fine dining place, which tend to be very selective about hiring wait staff, see how they do it. That's really what people want.

I'm sure there is a large minority who just want to be left in peace and quiet, but you aren't the average customer.

A good waitress will know when to time her visits so she isn't always there but you don't notice her absence.
I earned my bread and butter for well over 15 years with just that: plug-in free video. It's always been a hack and audio is harder than video (though you can hack your way around that as well). So yes, those attempts have been made and it was pretty successful. But, ironically, mass adoption of flash killed it and now that flash is being killed there is nothing left to really replace it (except maybe to revive jpeg-push for live streams but that's also not really an option...).
This Nov. 2013 post from wowza (one of the better streaming platforms available today) is a good read: http://www.wowza.com/blog/a-note-on-html5
You would only want to execute an expression and throw away its value for its side effects.

Useful for IO as there's normally nothing I want to pass the value of a println expression to, evaluating already prints it to stdout. Also useful for mutation, but doing this in Clojure feels wrong since the immutable data structures are among the language's greatest strengths.
So much is wrong here. There is a difference between what people do and what they are technically allowed to do. Enforcement is also quite difficult if you are working under the radar. Non immigration business visas don't allow you to do more than attend trainng and meetings, this includes wavers. Now, you might code, that is technically illegal, but they probably won't catch you. But for gods sake, if the immigration officer asks you what you will do, or what you did, just say "attend meetings and training," or you'll be deported so fast you won't know what happened (especially in the US and Switzerland).

It might not matter so much going from Ireland to Redmond, but going to Redmond it's a huge Pain in the ass, so much so that we have visa training for employees that do it (I work for Microsoft china) to make sure that US laws are followed (thankfully, I'm a US citizen, but unfortunately that also means I'm subject to double tax whenever I work in the states).
Will there be a live feed ?
Cryptocurrency promotion implies to some extent that central control of money is a bad thing. So it is somewhat political.

I think most HN folks are against it for political reasons to a certain extent. Even if they say they aren't, they are getting their information from and socializing in a bubble with a political bias.

There are some news topics on HN that i will never read the comments of because of how motivated and biased the reasoning is behind them. Bitcoin comments I will still read though, since it's fun to see everyone's tone and reasoning evolve as Bitcoin slowly gets more traction and rises in price over time.
Could you paste the URL here? I tried finding the .flv file in the activity window, but I couldn't locate it.
I know this is a topic John Gruber has mentioned many times, but I think the persistent lack of an Android competitor to the iPod touch is still little-mentioned and revealing.

However, I just saw that Samsung is looking to fill this role, which will be very interesting in its effect on the Android Market. It's basically a Galaxy S, de-phoned.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2043171

I agree this is a pretty dire but little-noticed situation for Android. Everyone in middle school who is attached to the iPod touch is going to want or have an iPhone in five years.
This seemed like a great idea. I bet the biggest obstacle were privacy concerns.
Short answer: There's two types of virtualization.

With full virtualization, you can run unmodified operating systems (in theory, at least). VMWare is an example of a fully virtualized system. Recently Intel and AMD added features to their CPUs which make this much easier.

With para virtualization, the guest operating system is aware of the hypervisor and cooperates with it -- for example, rather than modifying page tables directly, it sends a message to the hypervisor saying "please map this page for me".

(There's also a hybrid 75%-virtualized model, where the system is fully virtualized except that some devices are exposed via hypervisor calls -- this is seen most commonly as Xen "HVM with PV drivers".)
My 2010 MINI (BMW-made) has the same deal, and you could use the stats it gives you (kilometres until empty, average kilometres/litre, and actual tank size in litres) to calculate what's left in your tank, but why not just add it to the displays that already exist?

I also notice European cars (Audi, BMW, MINI, Saab, even VW etc.) tend to be more accurate and linear than American/Japanese vehicles. But that's just me.
Muzzle velocities are usually listed for rifle length barrels, sometimes absurdly long rifle length barrels to boost the numbers. 22lr out of a handgun length barrel will fall quite short.
The plugin is Windows only.

http://www.interoperabilitybridges.com/html5-extension-for-w...
Yeah, I just assume city driving in my mileage calculations. That way, I have a little extra safety factor when doing highway driving.
I'm going to run it in a VM for a while first
I'll accept "brick" when recovery requires flashing via JTAG. But not when you just have to press a few buttons.
Genius quote: "I'd rather pay extra for NO ADS"

... Uh, lady, you -can-. This is a discount for those who wouldn't rather pay extra. Jeez.
It is GPLv3? Thanks man, this is the first time I thought about paying for an app. Let me see how to set up payment…

Though I don't like AirPush, it would be cool if you'd find a better solution.
When I clicked on this headline, I expected to be disappointed by some ugly Google shenanigans.

When I read the article, my initial reaction was, "Oh yuck. That's just vile. I'd definitely give his app a single star, uninstall it, and complain to my friends. Not sure how I feel about Google yanking it, though."

But the more I thought about notification advertising, the more it reminded me of the dark days of Windows XP before the SP2 security fixes. Every other computer, it seemed, was infected with adware, and users loathed it. The cried, they yelled, and they even bought new computers in a desperate attempt to make the ads go away.

So upon reflection, if Google is going to pull anything at all from their Market (besides obvious scams, and so on), they should definitely start with applications that make users feel powerless and angry about their devices.
Yeah, he's good at that. In other video I remember him having hollowed LEDs and putting capacitors inside to create a RC circuit and the 9V battery connector had a microcontroller hacked into it.
FWIW, I have done a ton of OOP experience, and I have trouble understanding most descriptions of design patterns. One you see them implemented, you generally think, oh, well, duh, I've done that before.

I think the main problem is that most programmers are terrible at explaining things, and should just stick to code examples, because they're usually a lot easier for other programmers to understand.
>US as been unable to organize any democratic transition after a war since WWII

South Korea isn't a place?
I submitted a very interesting Grantland article a few days ago that goes into exactly that (it failed getting HN attention, unfortunately). Just one look at those lists of upcoming releases and you can see what is happening to Hollwood right now.

http://grantland.com/features/2014-hollywood-blockbusters-fr...
Do you know how often that site is updated? Is it once a month or continuous throughout the month?
> His "sketchbook" sounds an awful lot like a REPL to me.

(self-promotion here) or perhaps a polyglot code notebook: http://beakernotebook.com/
I actually found LYAH to be really good. I picked up on the basics of Haskell very quickly with it.

If you're comparing your progress to some of the more advanced programs out there, you'll certainly get demoralized. But if you're having trouble with just the stuff in LYAH, then maybe Haskell isn't your thing? 6 months is a good long time to spend on learning something, so I'm pretty sure your gut instinct knows what's best for you.
The Kobayashi Maru of business school...
That site took about 30 seconds to load on an i7 computer with an 18 Mpbs bandwidth... Just to display a fraction of the content that is usually on HN.

It's been a persistent question on HN why HN isn't implemented as an SPA. Thanks for answering it!
As well as the authority of the person spreading it.
The fact that we've decided the President is above libel, slander, and felony charges is a new thing. Thank god people stopped this nonsense when he started advocating terrorism. Equality under the law, implies MORE scrutiny for the powerful. Unfortunately, up until this point we have normalized the opposite.
it still goes on :

https://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/crime/british-transpo...

I met Alan when trying to get my own case even filed at the high court. His account, when he told me that he could express himself to me only because he was aware that I have personal comparable experience, reduced this articulate and eminently humane man to tears. I once had a barrister unable to attend the employment tribunal in Birmingham out of fear of arbitrary arrest by the British Transport Police.
> Or Parlour can just distribute as a web app.

Okay.

Then hosting providers refuse to host.

Payment processors refuse to process your payments for web services.

Your domains are revoked.

Your SSL certs are revoked.

Where does this end? If they have the power to, and they've justified it this far, why wouldn't they keep going?
This thread right here is proof HN is no better than Reddit or any other social media forum people try to claim it is. The amount of rage and hatred being expressed here is just sad.
The criminal justice system has very fierce teeth to address B.

Inciting violence and conspiracy are both crimes.

This is an attempt to intervene on a different level and I’m unsure why exactly we feel the FBI, DOJ, Secret Service, etc. aren’t up to this task.
True. All the more important we can't let attacks on our important national symbols cloud our judgement and allow vague claims and anger to steer our decisions.
His supporters were literally talking about that exact scenario in the replies
This is precisely what I expected was going to happen this year. The great purge.
An environment of high yields should be the reward for people who made hay while the sun shined.

If we're gonna have socialism, let's have socialism for the poor and capitalism for the rich and not the other way around.
"... it will collect and keep data on what type of device you are using, and your IP address ..."

Oh dear ...
I hope this market inefficiency doesn't get ironed out. Yard sales and flea markets are where I got all the lego I had when I was a kid. My parents couldn't afford to buy that much lego new, nor at the prices charged online.
You bring up a really good point.

Her cam was hosted on her own website on her own server, so no 3rd party was involved.

No one really thought about archiving such things back then.

Heck, even she probably doesn’t have an archive because it would have been cost prohibitive.
I routinely follow one podcast (Software Engineering Daily) and one You Tube channel (3blue1brown). Neither fit your characterisation. Perhaps you should consider being a little more selective in your consumption of YouTube :)
IMHO The core problem is unsourced quotes.

Just like HTTP vs HTTPS.

Everyone can still say whatever they want. But any unsigned (unclaimed) statement is just gossip.
The worst thing that happened was that Amazon killed one of their employees. Covering that up and not punishing them for it was bad, but let's keep some sense of perspective here.

Lots of folks on HN are in management. I'll assume that none of them have killed any employees recently... Was that because the proper government agencies have regularly informed them of their duty not to kill employees? Or was it rather that many of us are human beings and don't want to regularly kill people just to save few dollars on e.g. sufficient training programs?
I talk very fast, especially when caffeinated. From discussing this with people in my life I have come to believe that I speak via a different mental process than some other people. Which is interesting.

Namely: my verbal brain races ahead of the rest of my brain, and seems to think better than my internal monologue. It seems smarter and better able to make connections than when I think on my own, as if my brain is wired in a verbal-first way.

From speaking to others I think there is some discrete variation in this property. Some people's internal monologues, or maybe it's their 'writing' brain, is more heavily wired into their intelligence than their verbal brain. Some people speak slowly and deliberately and dislike fast-talkers because they run a more complicated mental process to formulate and process language than I do.
On the download page, it says that, "KnightOS has no math or graphing support past a simple 4-operation calculator." Is that still the case?
I never listen to music when lifting and like to concentrate solely on the movement and I find that it's a very therapeutic experience, similar to meditating.
> That list is a bit misleading because the vast majority of those calculators are no longer manufactured.

It does have the two most recent HP calculators listed, though. That's makes me pretty happy.
Why is there a star against the Windows 8.1?
While I like your line of thought and agree that pairing meta information from messages and financial transaction might weaken anonymity, the trajectory of cryptocurrency development (like zk-SNARKS) will make this incredibly difficult.
Such as? Maybe we'll be surprised to find a couple.
TempleOS uses (Holy)C as a system shell (and for everything else). It certainly has its limitations at the command line, but on the flip side it makes writing "shell" scripts a whole lot easier!
First people want full security, but when they encounter inconveniences that come with true full security, they start wanting convenience. What works best is a very very very good promise of security without e2ee, as shown by Telegram. It's users just know that Telegram is the most protected messages, and they are happy with it's advanced features.
I wish we could treat services as black boxes like this, but who can run services these days without keeping on top of dependency, security, and platform updates? The inevitable deprecation of some of these means surgery will soon be required to keep a service running and secure.
I've always hesitated to recommend Signal to people due to Moxie's attitude towards the more traditional security and privacy community where things like federation and open source are respected concepts. Tack this on the list and Signal just seems like a crazy thing to recommend now.

If they can get the onboarding process on Element to be just a little bit easier, maybe a phone number based default, I'll be dumping Signal in a heartbeat.
Health expenses have risen faster than GDP across the entire developed world.
What if the people under you or those contacted about task delegation now want to take your job?
Even if you aren't eating, the bacteria in your digestive system are producing waste.
emacs can be a surprisingly comfortable text mode epub reader too, via nov.el¹ which has been discussed here². If you use a GUI emacs build you get inline images and other goodies, but starting emacs with -nw can be a reasonable solution for quickly checking a book in a term.

Note: You don't have to be a full-time emacs user to use nov.el.

¹ https://depp.brause.cc/nov.el/

² https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21426315
These are awesome
To speak to point 2, of course this is possible but the time it takes to do a GC is not determinable.

As for point 3, just because it's in use, doesn't mean it's correct. With the introduction of unique_ptr, most uses of new and delete can and should be factored out.
Naked New/delete have been taboo since auto_ptr hit the scene.
Vacation would be difficult at this point. I have made promises to my wife and myself that I would make progress on certain things. I am supposed to be working right now. I don't feel I have the freedom to take a vacation. It wouldn't impact the bottom line, but I'd take a hit in other ways. I'd have to know it would break the block I'm having.

I do have other projects and aspects of the business that I can work on, but I think I would be working on them if I could work. Weird, I know. It's not something I'm choosing to do... smack talk myself on NH vs. working. It's just gotten that bad that I don't know what else to do.
Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C, Python, shell, networking, build systems

Résumé/CV: https://alxu.ca/resume.pdf

Email: see resume
I think the point is that an individual doesn't need a lot of paid resources to take a website live with their own hardware.
You don't need to build the entire document tree in memory. You just have to use a sequential parser like SAX or StAX.
According to http://manning.com/fogus/ in January 2011.
Human history would disagree with you. We've had art as long as people have been able to create it.

There's nothing wrong with playing MMOs all day if that's what you want to do. In fact, you'd be providing social currency for the developer who created it, motivating them to create more art.

Also, don't forget that most people will still want to attract a mate, which is more of a positive motivation that trying not to starve to death.
Could someone also ELI5 and give some low-hanging use-cases for this... especially in the IoT space??
You don't want to make any absolute statements. Sites like flickr are siren-like ideas that turned out very well. It's always a tough judgement call for when to get distracted.

The important thing is to make sure you're pursing this other idea because it's actually something worthwhile not just as an escape from your startup not doing so great... Basically, think about things rationally and not emotionally.
A loss of 0.1% of all the money NOT stored in crypto would be huge news.
>"Good for users"? it's not the users' business to know details of contracts between developers & Apple.

Who are you to say what a user's business is? If someone is engaging in unethical conduct, it is their customers' right to know about it. How are consumers supposed to make informed decisions if they do not even know what they are funding?
Was thinking the same thing. INO's website[0] explains it. They will look at the tracks of charged particles produced when the neutrinos interact with atomic nuclei.

[0] http://www.ino.tifr.res.in/ino//about.php