jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I know it's a toy example, but it's a _really bad idea_ to use a float as a backing type for currency.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3730019/why-not-use-doub...
Financial transaction taxes have been introduced in any number of countries, the majority of which have ended up repealing them: the tax raised on transactions is outweighed by the loss of capital gains caused by a reduced number of transactions occurring. And in today's global financial system you could end up like Sweden, where introducing an FTT saw 80% of trading move to London within a year...
They could just flag you as someone who poisoned the well and ignore you I suppose. Remember: bad actors go after low hanging fruit and tend to ignore privacy-aware folk and those doing anti-surveillance.
Sad about the scams, but I admire the original maker's sticktoitiveness. The scammers are successful because, and these are my own words, that's an awesome handlebar bag. They wouldn't be successful honestly selling whatever basic-ass bags they have to ship.

So, I'm kinda glad for the scam, because it brought the product to me through this story. I'm gonna buy one for me, one for my mom, and one for my brother. And when I can buy an extra mount, I'll do that so I can swap my bag between bikes. Not because of charity, but because it's a damned good product and suddenly I've got birthday presents sorted for 2021.
From the linked wikipedia article:

Dodge is often misread or mistaught as setting a legal rule of shareholder wealth maximization. This was not and is not the law. Shareholder wealth maximization is a standard of conduct for officers and directors, not a legal mandate. The business judgment rule [which was also upheld in this decision] protects many decisions that deviate from this standard. This is one reading of Dodge. If this is all the case is about, however, it isn’t that interesting.
The average high school teacher in the US makes about $44k a year.

A 2.8% raise is nothing to scoff at.

Also, I think you're vastly underestimating, based on all of the support staff necessary to make a sporting facility, man it, broadcast it, and comment on it.

Not to mention how much the team owners take out of it.
Unless it's changed in the last couple of weeks, it's still the case that you have to remain logged in to Amazon's app store. They don't use the native account manager either, which is irritating, and the store app sometimes loses your login credentials.
The only thing in my security log over at GitHub that I'm not familiar with is a handful of "repo.change_merge_setting...Blocked a merge setting on the ${my_repo} repository" entries. Googling that provides little information. Can anyone explain what that means? Should I be worried?
Very nice product. I usually do typing practices in typeracer but the fragments on your sites are a lot longer, I like that a lot.

I'm sure you won't get this request very often (until you go international...), but I'm using these practices mostly for practicing my dvorak skills ;-). Would it be possible to have a setting for a keyboard layouts?

As I write this I realize that different layouts would mean a different lesson structure as well...

--

Okay, here some more feedback after trying some practises in my native tongue (dutch).

- Response seems quite slow. If I type above 50wpm the text can't keep up with me (which is _very_ annoying and makes it quite hard to use).

- If you miss a letter (or space), everything else is considered 'wrong'. It might be nice if you would recognize (after two or three 'wrong' letters) that it actually misses a letter or space, and add a visual confirmation of that.

- If you give a custom url and press <enter> that doesn't work, you'll have to click the 'go' button.

- Using a random wiki article usually just sucks, most of the random articles are articles with a lot of 'sidebar' information that you'll have to type. First hit today was this one, try it ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buochs
Well, I disagree.

The fact other commercial sites syndicate Wikipedia's content is beside the point.

I believe Wikipedia _is_ more neutral than other user moderated communities; it's not perfect, but it serves a very good purpose.

I think it's worth paying for, which is why I donated.
A good question, but I'm not sure I want to give out details on the specifics right now - sorry.

I may be discussing the site at PyCon, at which point I'll happily let you know what works and what fails.
I don't know how FB can be a threat to the web if it can only exist because of the web. In a sense, friend data is just another kind of data. The same thing can be said, for example, of Gmail or hotmail. They host the email and contact information for millions of people.
Not to mention visualwebsiteoptimizer.com has a pagerank of 4.
You have a lot of tech companies digging up gold, and a whole lot more selling shovels to the rest of the crowd.

Most of the software tech world is bullshit. Most best practices are bullshit. And, if I were feeling a bit conspiratorial, I'd say the large tech companies do this on purpose. They promote fads that overburden any smaller company with more modest budgets, thus keeping competitors at an arm's length. Resume-driven-development plays a role in this as well.

A lot of companies following the FAANG cargo cult are digging their own grave and don't even know it. They don't realize they don't have the manpower for microservices. Or the calendar time to make it work and still get product out the door before their competitor that doesn't even unit test eats their entire lunch.
FTFY : Germans, and Europeans generally, have put the security of people of color in Africa, India, Americas and their families in jeopardy over half a thousand year to democratise systems across their population to live in free and open societies that we are now able to migrate to.
Can you distinguish yourself from the INTJ description? This was my main problem with the personality types: I agreed wholeheartedly with the (rather long!) descriptions of maybe five of the sixteen.
This jumped out at me:

> There is no infrared camera for driver monitoring, but it does use a capacitive sensor in the steering wheel instead of measuring torque on the steering column as a proxy for knowing if the driver has their hand on the steering wheel.

What happens if you're wearing gloves?
Author here.

The fact that I _could have had_ a cavalier attitude towards C memory safety, but didn't, shows (I believe) just how much the Cryptography authors fell short because _they were writing crypto_. If anything, they should have surpassed the amount of due diligence that I did on bc, but they didn't.
The old-school Ataturkists who are the opposite flank of Turkish politics from Erdoğan’s party, were the very people who started this denial of Kurdish identity and territorial autonomy or independence. It isn’t just Erdoğan who has a problem with those Kurdish groups, it is Turkish society overall.
That's good to hear. I don't have any other specific requests - for me it seems impossible to know what will work on my problems, so i just try things at random to see what works!

I don't know the architecture of your project, but is there any way it could include NLopt, and so make all of its algorithms available? Some of them could be useful, and i doubt it's a good use of your time to reimplement them all from scratch.
Microsoft are taking money from hundreds of different jurisdictions and delivering it to people in 30. It's not clear if they are simply a facilitator like paypal, or a business charging customers and paying suppliers (like youtube). It seems to me to be acting as the latter.

In my jurisdiction you get upto about $100k without having to register for VAT, but I wouldn't have a clue what tax implications I'd have if I took money and sold a service to someone from Peru.

40 years ago international trade was very specialised, especially trade in services, and companies had experts to help them with the legalities. The internet allows anyone to trade with anyone else, and tax law just doesn't keep up.

It's quite possible for a company or sole-trader with a revenue of $50k a year to be providing services to customers in 150 countries. That was unthinkable even 20 years ago. How do they ensure that they meet all applicable local laws (including buy not limited to tax)? What about if their customers are anonymous?

If I'm providing coding services to "Joe Blogs" who pays me via bitcoin or western union or even cash in the mail, how do I know he's not in Iran or Cuba and I'm breaking American law.

If I'm a developer in India and I do work with a customer in the USA and a customer in Iran (and customers in 50 other states), am I breaking US laws? Or Iranian laws? Or Indian laws? Not just tax laws, but economic boycotts, export laws, etc.

How do I keep on top of that even if I'm pulling in $50k/year in sponsorship, what about if it's just micropayments for my blog and I'm getting $500/year into my bitcoin wallet?
Apple has a specific definition of "tracking," which involves sending information collected to third parties. Apple doesn't do that. For that matter, it generally doesn't even collect information unless it's needed to perform a task (ie: location to show the weather). In those cases, it minimizes the data used, and doesn't associate it with you.
I came to terms with the story a few years back via https://www.polygon.com/2017/8/25/16202006/half-life-2-episo...
The US did invade Iraq, not that long ago. Hundreds of thousands died.
Technically, there are two governments that claim to be China: the People's Republic of China, and the Republic of China. Both claim to rule Taiwan and mainland China. "China", then, is underspecified, because no one means to claim that the ROC is running concentration camps.
That doesn't mean that there is nothing universal, just that religions and cultures don't always agree on what it is.

Even then, there is generally agreement that murder is wrong, and that murder means killing innocent people. The disagreement is generally over what constitutes "innocent" and "people". Similarly, pretty much everyone agrees that stealing is wrong, the differences are just in the details of what constitutes property and associated rights.
Well, I could be reasonably sure that it was, at least before I learned today that there were other init systems that also displayed their output like that. So, the statement:

> the green [ OK ], is what many people already identify systemd with

is true for people like me that were not familiar with those other systems.

For example, most probably use Ubuntu (and probably only Ubuntu), and as far as I know it didn't display those [ OK ] until after it adopted systemd. So, at least there's a very large portion of users that never saw those [ OK ] until systemd came along.

If I remember right, it was the same case with Archlinux, which is where I was first exposed to systemd.

Imagine, the biggest news in your distro is the migration to systemd and the first and most obvious change you notice is that the boot process has all these neat [ OK ]s instead of random text. I think it's to be expected that people would identify systemd with that.
If you're actually using OSX's word list, each "digit" could be one of ~235886 words, which is more than 17 bits of entropy or the equivalent of 2-3 normal keyboard characters (and a lot of luggage lock tumblers).

In practice few people are going to remember how to spell words like "aceanthrenequinone" correctly so the practical dictionary size is a lot smaller, but still in the tens of thousands of possible words. The xkcd comic says 44 bits for a 4-word combination of common words.
Not proper as it only allows a single key.
I'm working on 3D for clothes design, and we're already exploring VR; seems like this could be really interesting too, yes.
If you don’t have a personal website or blog, make one as a project. It will benefit you for learning web dev, for hosting content, and for giving you a portfolio!

Pick a web stack you want to learn, make your website and host it somewhere. A harder, but nice extension would be a blog admin page where you can add content to your site, from your site, so you don’t have to deploy your code every time you want to update your blog.

Don’t want to host yourself? Make a website on repl.it in the language of your choice, they will host it for free, and you can instantly see changes in “production” at a custom domain.
It's not that far off. It is the busiest day of the year for them and the company president or CEO, (not sure which) chips in to make the food.

However, whilst it does happen, I've seen KFCs without snaking lines.
It's not a zero-sum game, and it's not about supply and demand. It's about growth, and hitting a limit on the total wealth generated.

I just explained this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8805475
we're a startup and we've sent multiple people to offsite training. in general it only costs a couple thousand bucks per class per employee including room and board.
Cool! And the things you don't get to do professionally can become hobbies :)

Military (army, navy, Air Force, marines, coast guard) has tons of logistics service jobs, and will pay for university. My stepbrother started off as a navy radar tech, lived all over, did college, air school and now flies f/a-18's.
"Fuck" is used here almost as frequently as it is in the book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

I made it about two pages into that book before I stopped giving a fuck about reading it.

I made it to the first headline before I stop giving a fuck about reading this website.

If that was the goal, nailed it.

Swearing for effect can work sometimes, but YMMV. It lost me in this case.
I imagine playing collaborative tower defense on this surface would be pretty cool
I get the push against overly stylized, heavy library downloads, etc. However, I'm leaning towards the Perfect MoFo version versus the MoFo version. A little CSS can do wonders. There's a lot of times my browser is full screen width or some size greater than 50% of width. To read the text on the MoFo version, I need to ever so slightly turn my head from line to line. It's right up there with coming late to the movie theater to have to sit in the very first row to watch Star Wars. Reading the scrolling text is a physical excersise.
Or just break them up? Both parties in the US have spoken about breaking the "Big Tech" monopolies for a while now. Maybe some grass roots activism could finally get it some traction?

We have a three strikes law in CA. I haven't done any research to find out how effective its been in reducing crime - but something similar for big companies like Facebook might be a way of dealing with this nonsense?
Some states have significantly cut back on exemptions that aren't for valid medical reasons and home schooling isn't really a viable option for many people.

In addition, although I don't know if the case would stand up today, the Supreme Court has held that states can require vaccinations generally. (A 1905 case involving Massachusetts and smallpox vaccination.)
Yes, that is a beautiful example of freedom...

It presupposes that some bureaucrat in Berlin should be entrusted with the educational decisions has the kids best interest at heart. The bureaucrat cares more about a child than the child's parents.
Some people see `px` and assume it's physical pixels and because they know some devices have different pixel densities, they go complaining about how coding in terms of pixels instead of `em` doesn't account for density, unaware that `px` refers logical pixels[0]

[0] https://blogs.perficient.com/2014/12/24/css-pixel-ratio-or-h...
I've heard of this, but I am curious if:

A) Is there any substantial evidence that supports it

B) If A, then how many individuals are affected?

If you have any material on this, I would gladly read it.

Personally, my mental health is horrible. Being in isolation away from friends/family (among all the other measures we have taken during this pandemic) have slowly deteriorated my mental & physical health.
It's an app contest but you can't submit a real app? Only games or visuals..
Well, nothing prevents nintendo from using wii controllers and games on the new console, and possibly scaling them up to make them look better. Just lookup Wii HD on youtube to see the games running on 1080p on an emulator.

Also sounds like now you will be able to buy DS and Gameboy games from the marketplace as well.
If you look closely, apple resizes the view instantly to the horizontal dimensions and then gives a rotation animation, so they can instantly rotate if they wanted to.
Yeah, I really like how simple it is but I think being able to write the css is important. Still, if the generated HTML is standard, it could be something really simple.. i.e. automatically include the style.css.
Indeed, markdown, textile, and many other languages would make a nice addition. I'll be adding support for more and more languages as I see the project growing.

I'll be posting dev updates at codr.posterous.com
Joi has posted to his blog about the announcement:

http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2011/04/25/joining-the-mit.html

Discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2483392
what did you have in mind?
Amazon Prime offers free streaming videos. There selection anywhere as good as Netflix's yet but it seems to be improving.
Digital delivery: Amazon Video-On-Demand, Hulu, iTunes, etc.

Physical rental: Redbox, Blockbuster, etc.

Netflix does their job very, VERY well, making it hard for any new players to enter the market.
this assumes both users use calendar apps that work the same way.

so if google fixes gcal on mobile, but the other user puts it in (unfixed) outlook, they will still miss each other.

date/time is hard.
That means those legal rights exist until the authority decides otherwise. So for now according to the laws the government has passed informal votes are a legal right. It is a quirk of the software it isn't implemented. Imagine a sidewalk paved with a material you can't run on, it's perfectly reasonable to write a complaint to your local council about the quality of the road because everyone deserves to have a space to run, according to existing laws that have not prohibited running.
The difficult part of being a good PM in a team is that Agile is hard to do right with real humans. Even if it can be reduced to the Agile Manifesto, putting it in practice is difficult and takes work, time, and skill. The ability to consistently create good practices are what differentiates the good from bad PMs.

So while I agree with you that it does reduce to the Agile Manifesto, I'd also say that from a PM's perspective, that's not the point.
gorgeous!!!
Other countries besides the US could build one, if they had a compelling use case. I was mostly just wondering what the physical limits are on this kind of thing.
If you are using corporate hardware it should not really be secret that your traffic is being man in the middled, this should be assumed. I think it makes sense for a corporation to be able to whitelist their certificate to make intermediate network devices appear as trusted, because they are. I do agree that having a little asterisk or something for the lock ice to indicate that you are using a certificate that falls outside of the default trust store could be beneficial.
What exactly do you mean by "semantic meaning"? Meaning to who? For what purpose?

Classes on elements exist for the purpose of styling via CSS, not for users to see or screen readers to read or googlebots to classify. So if you want your css classes to "mean something" (which is what "being semantic" is), you want them to mean something to the STYLE of your page! Hence, using class="two-thirds columns" is perfectly semantic towards the purpose of visually styling the page.

Did you have some other interpretation of "semantic" that you think should apply instead? Perhaps you mean "the structure of the content"? That's not what classes are for -- that's what the elements themselves are for. Or perhaps you mean for visually-impaired folks to be able to easily navigate the content? That's not what classes are for either -- that's what ARIA roles are for. SEO perhaps? It's possible that google uses class names for this, but that's just black magic voodoo that us mere mortals can have no knowledge about (and even if we did, it could change tomorrow).

Here's the thing about using tables for layout... the table element actually has a defined meaning in HTML... it is for tabular data. The div element however does not imply any meaning (other than "arbitrary division of the page"). So using a div here with the classes that imply meaning to the CSS is quite "semantic" in this case.
There is no God.

My parents come from different religious backgrounds, my father was raised as a Lutheran while my mother as a Kardecist. Neither cared a lot about their religions, so while they tried to give me the general notions of their religions I was free to make my own mind.

So, having no pressure to follow my parents beliefs, and founding no logic reason or need for the existence of a God, I found myself an Atheist.

I can't believe on it because I can't find any logical reason to do so.

Also, knowing how much evil was done in the name of religion I came to have a strong opinion against the notion of faith. I really think religious faith, that is, believing without proof, is a disease that must be eradicated. No good that came from it justifies all the bad things that came along.
> So sure, we can have too much stuff (I had 44 pair of shoes of which I only ever used 5 or 6) but it's hard to say where the balance is.

I'm pretty sure the balance is 5 or 6, for the shoes anyway.
"InfoSec Taylor Swift" (@SwiftOnSecurity) is a parody account, and I wouldn't trust it on whether EMET prevents this vulnerability or not. Not saying that it doesn't, just that we'd need more serious sources on that.
I used to do extensive data science work with various retailers, including Target, Walmart, and Amazon.

Compared to Walmart, Target is absolutely abysmal on many fronts. The amount of wasted fuel caused by their horrifically inept logistics makes Walmart look like the Sierra Club. And they were the model for substituting low-impact inclusion messaging in place of actually treating workers decently.

I live near Boulder, Colorado, and it was infuriating seeing friends of mine protesting and proudly stopping the construction of a Walmart, while happily shopping at Target and Amazon. People are absolute lemmings when it comes to "feel-good" activism. Hearing my rather hippyish and moralistic friend talk about "Walmart destroys small businesses" while noticing the pile of Amazon packages at her door is absolutely infuriating.
Cool! Please make the display hdmi compatible and you will own an entire underserved market.