jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Where does complicated come into it? Didn't Beethoven write his Fifth just to show that complicated was utterly beside the point?
You have to fund the one with the right vision for the web service - which should be flexible enough to compete with the couch-surfer guys, groupon, and whatever else on a whim.

For instance - if you're selling meals for $20+, then also sell wine storage (maybe like vinfolio, but not so overtly pretentious).

There are some pretty clear growth strategies, I think.

(but fix the name)
While the point is valid, certain institutions do require some reverence and respect. Chess is certainly such a game. I'm not saying one has to be a Fischer to invent a new chess format; but unless the person has seriously understood/appreciated the complexities of chess, I'll have trouble taking them seriously.

Irreverence is good if it comes from deep understanding and knowledge or genius - otherwise it just comes off as arrogance.
Fred Kantor wrote a book called "Information Mechanics" in 1976, which treats the same topic.
You can access your seller account programatically using the existing MWS APIs

https://developer.amazonservices.com/
> I personally find that a tasteless slogan

I'd be interested to hearing why you feel that way. Perhaps there's an angle I hadn't considered.

It's supposed to be tongue in cheek. My last name is pronounced "Hack". Being hacked is usually a bad thing. But being "Haacked" is something you would like. At least, that's my goal! :)
SEEKING WORK | Remote (based in NYC) | Full Stack Engineer

I'm a software engineer with a few years of experience (comprised of starting at SpaceX working on the combustion simulation team before moving to NYC to work at Knewton, a crypto startup, and now a food-tech startup) looking for some interesting projects to take on in a part-time basis (roughly 20 hours/wk).

I've used this model of working in my spare time (mornings, evenings, weekends) several times now to help launch products or MVPs for companies ranging from the healthcare industry to adult entertainment. More than happy to show examples over email!

My main areas of focus have been predominantly frontend since moving to NYC, working with React (and React Native!), Typescript, the Apollo stack for GraphQL, and related tools. I've also written a ton of Java and Python.

If you have a project that is silo-able, an MVP, or just something that doesn't warrant hiring another full-time engineer for, I'd love to chat with you (or grab coffee if you're in the NYC area).

You can reach me at anthony at bitsolar dot com
Disclaimer: I am the author.

For Windows 10+ I made Stack WM: https://losttech.software/stack.html

I works differently from i3: you predefine screen zones (possibly overlapping), and then just move your windows between them with keyboard shortcuts or middle mouse button.

IMHO, covers the problems you mentioned. You can have:

- multiple windows in one zone with normal Z ordering

- an improvised taskbar for any zone or a group of zones

- zones that stack windows vertically or horizontally or tile them in a fixed grid

- zones that dynamically adjust size depending on contents

- windows of certain app opening directly into a certain zone

- floating windows

- widgets (the easiest one is simply showing text from a URL with XQuery or JSON parser)

- customize the hell out of it with WPF

It is now one of a few things holding me back on Windows: until I have it or something else very similar running on Linux, I have no replacement to manage my 3 screens the way I like it.
It isn't. We don't code on an iPhone or tiny screen. Heavy lifting is done on a full sized screen. Make applications that actually work on them first and foremost.
I do this daily because I’m too lazy to fire up the debugger.
Laughing at the irony and change of tone.

Our love and appreciation for adult fans of LEGO. They have always been very important to us and have contributed so much to helping us build the brand.

Their original tact was --

http://www.ibiblio.org/team/history/mirrors/lego/
I don’t disagree with any of the substance of what you said (as someone who has also had tangential experience in sewer rehab work), but it’s worth pointing out that ASCE has a vested interest in constantly throwing out the “nearly failing” grades.

I have never taken those reports seriously (even as a card carrying member) and I suggest nobody else do it either.
That has always been my understanding. If you want bold, underline or strikethrough then you need to be able to send a carriage return on its own.
Some important ways it is different from a tire:

* large skilled labor cost

* use of nonstandard tools

* replacement is an invasive operation that could have other side effects

Hopefully whatever replacements they use after the recall will be better designed.
> Because the shareholders don't know jack except what the other people in the 1% want.

I think it's more likely because shareholders typically don't care much for the long term.
Your government can ban bitcoin, but every government would to ban it otherwise you are going to just piss off your populace. They'd also never be able to spin the internet back up without bitcoin spinning right back up with it. Also, Tesla is an s&p 500 company. If they made Tesla lose 1.5B for some philosophical argument about control they would crash the market.
> I don't think anyone has ever taken his comment to mean, "all people on both sides were fine".

Exactly that has been repeatedly claimed, even by the current President.

> But as usual, his response to a hate crime was to paint it as: there were violent people on both sides and good people on both sides. Which implicitly means, there is blame to go around and I am not going to condemn any one side more than the other.

That’s not what he said at all. He was referring to the debate on unilaterally tearing down statues without any process or forum.

And after what happened in 2020 with nut jobs tearing down statues of Lincoln I’d say he was right.
> if the payee wants to pay me in USD in the USA, am I free to refuse their payment as non-valid?

Yes.

Legal tender for debts only means that you have to accept the notes if you have issued credit to the payer. For example, if they ate at your restaurant and came to settle the bill, they would owe you the amounts printed on the menu for the items that they ordered, but if they came into your cheese shop and wanted to buy some Swiss cheese, you could choose to only carry out the transaction if they paid in Swiss Francs.
How can you test for deficiency?
Really the only time you want to actually spend crypto is for regulated items. Porn + sex related items, and drugs. Maybe firearms and illegal information (ie. stolen credit cards, account credentials, malware).

This move by MC seems at odds with their recent spat with Pornhub, but I would not be the first to accuse financial organisations of hypocrisy.
The 2010s were especially crazy, but I’m pretty sure this criticism of Fed policy extends back to at least the 1990s.
That's actually messed up. "I'm offended that you're angry that I attend Klan rallies. You're harassing me!"

Here are some equivalent ways this can go just to emphasize how important it is to keep work and not-work separate:

"Oh, you let your daughter/wife/girlfriend have an abortion? I simply can't trust your judgment, you are creating an unsafe space at work."

"Oh, you have an unwed live-in partner? You are a danger to society and cannot be allowed to work here."

"Oh, you uploaded pics of yourself at a gay club. Sorry, that kind of depravity has no place at a Christian company."

"I see you Liked BLM, and not the outdoorsy wilderness BLM. You must be a criminal rioter, we can't let you work here."

"Your 100% legal and ecologically necessary for herd management deer hunting activities make me feel unsafe because I don't like guns or bows. Anyone who bow hunts or owns a gun cannot be trusted. You need to be reported to HR and fired."

----

some opinions are a toxic mess that bring real harm to the people around the ones holding them.

Problem is you'll never get universal agreement on what constitutes an irredemably toxic opinion. You really have to prove this with actions. If someone is behaving badly at work, then they should be reprimanded or removed as appropriate. If they have been convicted of a crime relevant to their work, then they should be watched very carefully if not removed. But harassing or firing or unpersoning someone for thoughtcrime/precrime is antithetical to the principles of a free society.
Oh it exists. For instance the NHK television channel announces itself as "Terebi Japan".

Usually, in print, it looks like ジャパン rather than "Japan", though.
There's only value there for as long as that particular blockchain is still considered authoritative and interesting.
I got my FP3+ on Friday, so here's to hoping for another 5-8 years of not buying another phone and repairing what I have :) (Switched after 8 years of using Nexus 5s and I did have to repair it, but someone gave me a new-ish one during that time.)
We use it and sell Oracle DB consulting services. Support from Oracle is pretty good. Postgresql also cannot compete with Oracle in HA setups.

Don’t get me wrong, we love Postgresql, and MariaDB, but Oracle is still a great database, with all the features and stability you could possibly want, just at a hefty price.
I'm curious if we'll see a PCIe Raspberry 4 this March.

If not I'll use Intel Atoms with SATA as backup to my Raspberry 2/4 cluster.
The SDR you actually own is the best one - the cheap Chinese ones are rubbish, don't get me wrong, but you can still do a hell of a lot with a little RTL-SDR

Analog Devices have some good offerings well up the price scale but I forgot if they start at DC
We have very different ideas as to what complexity is required versus necessary, and we also likely have very different ideas as to what the competitive landscape for a product like yours is.

I do empathise with what you're saying, but there is nothing radical in your approach. It's a staid and common position in technical circles, and in my experience it lends itself to being blind sided.

Hopefully you will prove me wrong but I think I'll be proven right.
apple still tracking you. i like the fire tv because you can side load apps that aren't in the store. great for us hackers.
I think you are an outlier.
Sure, I think there's a couple ways you could go:

Maybe you play off Japanese cartoons, with characters like this: http://drbl.in/bTYf

Or maybe you could have loud and over the top illustrations of the candy like this, but 10 times louder http://drbl.in/kgdq

Since your product is candy, I would go for the playful/quirky/over-the-top aspects of Japanese culture. Lots of fun color and illustrations. As opposed to the traditional, serious, craft focused parts of the culture.
Nostaglia.
Have anyone ever tried this? If it's usable (putting key combinations on a keypad), I want to ditch my iPhone and switch to Android.
http://www.procon.org/ does this, but for more popular topics.
Still looking for developer...
What kind of nightclubs do you go to? I've never seen that before. The most has been to check for ID.
Agreed - in fact I did run Cat6 to all of those locations with the assumption of needing a direct connection. The IotaWatt doesn't have an ethernet interface, so wireless is the only way to connect. I have APs in most of the rooms (Using Ubiquity APs), so coverage is very good. I was concerned about the devices being in a sealed metal box, but wifi is surprisingly robust!

It is possible in the future I might switch to something else, but the units have been working really well without any glitches.
I'd call any difference less than 1% to be equivalent. Even if it was statistically significant, it's not worth paying attention to.

My interpretation of many of these tests is that there isn't a difference.
Yeah, this. We helped my boss' brother out with his wordpress ecommerce site.

His machine could easily handle the traffic thrown at it, but the page load time was slow. 2 seconds at best, with all machines involved being almost 100% idle. With various common tweaks such as caching, we got it down to about 800ms. We eventually replaced it with our own solution and got it to 50ms.

Scale never entered the picture because from our testing, we had the machinery in place to handle enough traffic to be wildly profitable. The user experience at 2 second page load times was vastly different from the user experience at 50ms though.
Are lower income people in SF riding expensive bikes, or just the well-paid ones? If bike-riding is a rich person's thing in SF, then the average rider will have spare cash to throw at it, stores can focus on selling more expensive bikes, higher prices are normalised...etc.
Most cars have a much lower MPGe than the Model S, so it's hard to directly compare the change in effort needed for steep uphills. Both Model S and "most cars" have to obey the same physics in order to lift the car to the top of the hill.

[Edit: you can think about it this way: A 89 MPGe Tesla Model S going up a steep hill at only 44 MPGe is still twice as efficient as a 20 MPG SUV driving on the flat.]
I mean dedicated servers. Usually the provider installs the OS for you and then you take over.
I am pretty confident I have at least one example of this occurring, but it's all (probably) hearsay. :P

Which, in hindsight, is pretty terrifying because engaging in an offensive hacking campaign against, i.e. a foreign government, can allegedly qualify you as an unlawful belligerent (read: terrorist) in the eyes of the Geneva Convention.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EObxvIfdKgo
Duplicate.

[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1408731]
So, while I was at Intuit there was this manager dude who was very focused on climbing the ladder and was pretty sharp at office politics but didn't have any other skills.

He wanted to make his mark, and was facing pushback from his engineers for his wacky plans, and so he thought up a scheme whereby each of his subordinates would define their "personal" brand, write it down on a piece of paper, along with a graphic "embodying the brand" and stick it on the sides of their cubicles. [1]

He exerted relentless pressure on the people reporting to him ( He tried to get me to go along but I was thankfully a peer [2] and not really subject to his fancies) till they all had these ridiculous "brand statements" stuck to the sides of their cubicles. The best engineer in the group (he left the company soon after this) had a big picture of Two Face with "Either you die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" written underneath. The manager didn't understand what that meant,(but was suitably impressed by the picture) and he showed off his "initiative" when some VP chaps came around [3] and in due time was promoted to "Director" for his "team building" skills.

The engineers all fall around laughing if you mention "personal brand" to them, but hey they are still doing the same job wrestling with ancient horror codebases [4] and the manager fellow is now earning twice what he was for half the work so who is cleverer? :)

Nothing to do with the content of the posting really. Just something that came to mind when I read "Personal Brand".

[1] All kinds of management fads swept Intuit periodically. This kind of stuff was very normal there. A lot of nice people but very very "corporate".

[2] I was supposed to do technical "architecture" work , but had a "manager" in my title and was sufficiently high in the hierarchy (and boy does Intuit believe in hierarchy!) that I was this guy's peer. The cost of being so "high" was death by meeting. When I found myself in a "meeting about a(forthcoming) meeting" I knew it was time to quit.

[3] One VP was a sharp fellow and he had a bemused expression on his face after seeing the Two Face "brand" but he didn't say anything.

[4] Example 1: The code for QuickBooksOnline is the most terrible code I have seen in my life. I had no idea you could write Java like that. I still have nightmares about it and it wasn't even something I was working on.

Example 2: There was this "engineer" who built a flash application to view a database table (not a database, a table). The app wasn't "advanced" enough to order the entries by primary key (or by anything else) so the team (of which this fellow was the "lead engineer") would bring up the flash app and scroll desperately to find the right row for debugging etc. No one ever used a "Select * from ..".

The creator of this abomination was given a spot award by his manager for "building useful tools to support the company technical strategy" (which at that point of time boiled down to something like "flash frontends and cloud backends").
Yes, wonderful news.
Hmmm. I would have thought automobiles was very high IP. No reference, but don't VW or Audi hold more patents than any other company in the world or something? Or take consumer goods. Unilver, Sony etc submit 100s of 1000s of patents every year.

Anyway, that aside, even if this chart is correct, a correlation does not imply any kind of causation. There many be any number of reasons why Food has more money spent on it (perhaps because we need food to survive and music consumption is purely discretionary?)
...as long as he continues to reach his numbers. The real position he wanted to be in was to be able to ignore short term numbers for long term positioning. I think it's safe to say he can't really do that anymore.
take a look at how many patents Mercedes will have in their latest models.
This is a great example of how much better the JS engine is in Chrome or Safari than Firefox. FF just seemed to chug for me when the particles really started moving.
Given their reliance on titles and pullouts as design elements it makes sense that they would pay more attention to them.
I disagree with this. For non-cryptographic purposes, the Mersenne Twister is very pseudorandom, has a huge period, and is competitively fast. There are also related shift-register techniques that have these properties.

The state of the art in PRNG's is still advancing, but it takes a fairly esoteric example to find a blind spot of the MT (if initialized properly, as wrappers should do). Way outside the "generate a random 512x512 bitmap" variety.
Good point, 56 bit crypto is so broken anyway it hardly needs a backdoor. But looking at the dates on the RFCs, 3DES had only been standardized for a couple of years. It's plausible that the intended users didn't know, or they could be convinced, that they were required to use 56-bit DES.
That's not at all what this is.
I'd love to see Microsoft fix this, and create a well documented modding API.
I see the down votes but I'm genuinely curious. I'm assuming the Winklevi stand to profit from this and hold a large number of BitCoins that would probably be hard to get liquidity from.
I run Cryptbin.com, one of the sites on the banned list. As a result of the ban we have seen our traffic surge, with roughly a 1000% increase in traffic from India today alone.

Interesting to note is that we also own the domain cryptb.in (a TLD from India) and that has not been banned. However, it is merely a redirect so it does not provide an alternative entrance to the site. We use it only for short URL's on public pastes.
What exactly are the consequences of banning github on a fallacious, minuscule and largely anti-technological terrorist organization?
Biology is enormous, as the author pointed out. Our understanding in biology at present might be less than 1% than the whole knowledge. For most biological research, it doesn't require any advanced knowledge in math beyond basic statistics.

For example, many labs have been studying an important gene and how other genes are functionally related to it for more than 10 years. The research involved are simply tedious, but indispensable, biological experiments. It is a waste of time to study math for this work, because it doesn't apply, except some basic statistics on data analysis.

Disclaimer: I have advanced degrees in both biology and computer science, and has multiple years of biomedical research experience. I have met exceptionally smart people working in both biology, CS, math, and physics. Yes, these smart biologists don't understand advanced topics in math and physics. I believe, however, if they had studied math or physics, they would have been excellent mathematicians or physicists.
will most likely make (1) their day worse

That's a feature. Like telemarketers, TSA agents assigned to grope duty have no justification for staying in their jobs. It should be unpleasant for them.

On the other hand point 2 is well taken, and for that reason I agree that antagonizing them is a bad idea.
I do see that you have something that sounds like this coming under your coming soon section so you may already be working on this.
Going to be fun for the neutrals. I neither use Tumblr or 4chan. Let them cancel out each other. :-)

4chan can just block registration of new users on 15th to avoid this.
"Sexual abuse" is a very wide spectrum. Unwanted touching is where is begins. That is not to cheapen those who have suffered at the other end of the spectrum.
So then this big company hires a programmer to write a tool to randomize entries over a week or a month or whatever, and our shadow scholar has 1 additional step when he finishes up.

Basically, this idea is DRM in another guise, and terrible for all the same reasons. If you don't trust the student that much, then simply abandon take-home work in general.
Uh, what? The whole point of 4chan is that you're anonymous, no registration needed.
Leo "uncopyrighted" pretty much everything a few years back, including all of his blog content as well. In fact, he doesn't even require attribution when copied. I've talked to him about it and he said not only has it not hurt him, he feels like it's been a huge benefit to his growth
That background is awfully distracting.
The full quote should read

"Hi, I don't think anyone from google is even looking at this since we have no resolution, upgrading of priority or even an acknowledgement response."
Partitioned off open workspaces please. NOT the wide open "everyone is equal" cafeteria setup where every single noise/movement distracts each person.
Surely they are gambling that their customers don't download all of their data every year. Like Dropbox do with their free plan (I don't know about the other plans).
due to the significant danger posed to the lives of so many I hope they are caught and severely punished. this is not the type of person that you can rehabilitate.
I once read an article about a college that put in new sidewalks and landscaping, only to find the students and staff leaving dirt paths through their expensive lawns. They wisely ripped out all the sidewalks and put in lawn everywhere. They later went back and paved the pathways that were created by people going where they needed to go by the shortest route possible.

It seems to me no one has tried something similar with offices. Maybe someone should.
This was sorta the intent of both the compare and contrast! The big difference with the retro computer graphics revival is that computing in the 90s had a long way to go before being for & by everyone. I don’t think the modern/clean design sensibilities are tied to that though, Myspace was really the inflection point and definitely deserved the brutalist label.
96% of human vs monkey DNA similarly is not a lot, because most of that DNA is shared throughout all of the animal kingdom. Since human DNA is close to a billion codons long, the remaining 4% is still tens of millions of codons.

COVID-19 is ~30,000 base pairs long (10,000) codons. The 4% difference is 400 codons. That's not a lot. There are many singular proteins longer than that.

Is that proof? No, the same way gravity is just a theory.
I like the idea and applaud the effort. But surely it's just abstracting and implementing Javascript and thus obfuscating the knowledge of how that works.

I see this happen too often.

But then, some people know how to fix a car. Others don't even know how to pop the hood. And this sort of thing is likely why.