jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Spotify is a great service but they are operating in a market where there is a lot of pressure from all sides, much more so than in other markets.

I hope they survive because we certainly need something like spotify, but after absorbing the 'Imeem' founders' advice from the start-up school talks I came away with the viewpoint that spotify's future is anything but assured.

As for TC having an 'anti-euro-startup whatever', they report the news, they don't actually make it. Either spotify has a loss or they haven't, don't shoot the messenger. And I'm not exactly a TC fan.
If people are forking your project instead of giving you patches, it probably means 1 of 3 things:

1) You aren't going the direction they think you should go. If this is the case, you don't want the patch anyhow.

2) You have made it too hard to submit patches. They actually found it easier to manage the project themselves rather than go through your patch submission process. Ouch.

3) They think you're doing a bad job as project manager. They would never submit the patch to you anyhow, so nothing is lost by them forking.

And don't forget that if you want the patch, their fork is going to be under the same license, so you can just go grab it from their repo.
"""That said, it's a beta product."""

It always is with Google. When exactly do you expect the "rc"?
Yes, you could. My only point is that PostgREST limits you in what you can do in terms of handling load.
Why purchase votes retail when you can just buy a Congressperson wholesale?
awesome, I'd mention GPL3 in your README licensing section - so many projects lack any kind of license file that even when I thought I'd looked for one I missed it and walked away thinking you just had the vaguer statement.
A scientific publication by a single author in a virtually unknown journal ("The Internet Journal of Urology") from 2003? I would be very suspicious of this.
Why should we care about happiness? Poor people in dirt poor Indian towns where they all shit on the street are statistically happy. This is something to aspire to?

This whole genre of "happiness" pop-psychology seems essentially effete. Why don't we ask people how bad-ass they feel? Can money buy you bad-assery?
There was a a good deal of inconsistency later. In WW II, a number of Americans stuck in Germany at end of 1941 were repatriated. Some I assume were men of military age. Joseph Alsop, an officer of the AVG caught in Hong Kong, managed to persuade the Japanese that he was a civilian, and was repatriated, as were a number of Americans who had been in Japan. Yet citizens of Allied countries caught in Shanghai and the Philippines spent the war in camps.
That's just it, the arrow of time. It makes all the difference in the world.

A slave is made to work with no promise of recompense, and is denied their autonomy. It is a state defined by dehumanization and coercion. Slaves have a very small decision tree, ("do as they are told" OR ("be beaten" AND ("Do as they are told" OR "Be killed for insubordination") OR "Try and escape and hope you're not killed for it")

When they worked, someone took the RISK, that they could somehow make a profit selling copies of the work to the public. They paid the employees, either in cash, or as an agreed upon share of any profits. It is no different than a VC taking a risk, that I will like Vine enough to buy whatever their in-app purchase is. The fact that a "costless copy" exists does not introduce an element of coercion to the risk the producer is taking, all it does is increase the risk.

Pretending that copying is the same as theft was already ridiculous, doing so with slavery borders on the offensive.
I've done minor reverse-engineering in the past but this is really taking it to a level of dedication that I find awe-inspiring.

The whole GongKai ecosystem is fascinating. In pure Chinese pragmatism, it's messy, relies on the power of guanxi (the force that lubricates relationships), ignores outside-imposed rules, and is terribly effective.
You mean the ability to escape in case of planet wide catastrophe or just running away from the potential ecological mess we started ?
I was just meaning that a single line of code with "end of day" in it would almost certainly not meet my needs.

It is worthwhile exploring the date-time-calendar libraries and adding tests and third party addons that meet my needs - yes. But I will almost certainly need to do work - out of the box rarely works for something so complicated as dates. And that extends to a hell of a lot of other stuff to

Mostly I guess I am grumpy that "do what I mean" does not work very well.
A balanced budget doesn't mean you've paid off your debts.
there is no god given right to cheap labor.

the problem here is that investors want to have it both ways; a free market in terms of laws, restrictions, HR policies, etc, but when that same free market drives up their costs, all of a sudden "whoa, why do we have to pay this?"

If the market can't support high priced labor, then you should go out of business. Simple. That's the way business works.
This is the thing that I ponder most about. Bunnie does an excellent job of describing how massive and rapid innovation can happen when data is available. I run into the roadblocks all the time when I try to approach western chip manufacturers for data about their chips. If you want to hack hardware these days you are better off knowing Chinese than you are knowing English because the most up to date and available information on the parts you want to build with, is in Chinese. It is frustrating for English speaking engineers.
Glad to see that others got "signed out." I was reluctant to retry.
"I MITMed Twitter for Android's login to see why it was failing.

The Twitter servers think it's 2015. Amazing."

https://twitter.com/_Ninji/status/549365454322802688/photo/1
On the surface, this seems like a tale of incompetence but the board seems to have taken it in stride, is considering joining a larger organization and wondered why they had not made the move sooner. In context, this is much less of a story than it appears.

http://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/IrcLogs/2013/08-22/
Could you share the full URL you're hitting please? (and also, if you don't mind, which country you're in)
We don't use PHP in the vast majority of our pages so this seems unusual and i'd like to debug more.
As I joined FedEx, I was told that
they had already worked out sensors,
of some kind (I never saw details),
on the landing gear that would give
the data needed for knowing and
controlling
weight and balance.
For balance, right, e.g., don't want all the
weight near the tail and, instead, want
the weight more evenly distributed
in the cargo area along the length of
the plane, that is, want the
load in balance.

So, yes, FedEx did think of having
sensors, of some kind, in the
landing gear.

But I never heard more about
such sensors, and, for the times I
rode the jump seat in the planes,
I never saw pilots working
with weight and balance from
data from the landing gear.

Maybe later, after I went to
grad school, FedEx did do something
with such sensors.

So, right, the sensors are a good idea
and were considered and, maybe, eventually
implemented.
It appears to be storing routes in a tree structure allocated via struct literals in router setup. I'm imagining that if performance is relying on them always being on the stack, that would be an implementation detail of the Go runtime and may change.

Looks like a decent implementation, but aesthetically I dislike monolithic "frameworks" (eg: "echo.New()"). The "Go way" is to write small composable libraries, not opaque frameworks. Gorilla would have been a good model to draw inspiration from.
Finnish tax administration has been getting into memeing lately. https://www.instagram.com/verohallinto/
The real fix here is to have more residential customers either knowing the minute by minute pricing, or paying extra for the privilege of an "unlimited plan" or something.

That could be achieved for example by instead of setting your space heater to "low heat", "Mid heat" or "high heat", you could just hit the "$1/hour of heat", "$2/hour of heat", or "$3/hour of heat" settings. The heater itself can look at the minute by minute pricing to decide how much heat to output, and the user can decide to turn it up if they want to pay.

Electronics to connect to wifi and check a server for pricing cost under a dollar now (ESP8266).
in these conditions would it make a difference?
I know what you mean, but I think there definitely is a difference riding cheap versus expensive bikes. As with most sports requiring tech, the more you spend, the less you tend to fight the tech itself (friction, weight, etc). Granted it's diminishing returns.
How possible is it to use the PS2 version for extracting assets? If the answer is "do this" or "we don't know", I am (in principle) willing to spend some time looking into it, but if the answer is "it won't work", that is useful information as well.
Of course, but as anyone will notice if they go from a bicycle shaped object that weighs 30 pounds and has fat tires to a road bike (even an aluminum one), the difference is quite significant.
In France for example, when it's time to declare your income you receive an email (or a letter if you prefer). You log in with your fiscal number and password, and get an online form where you can declare any type of income. For most people, the numbers are pre-filled (communicated by the employer). You can modify them, check your bank account IBAN for paying/refunds, and validate.

In Spain it's the same, except unfortunately they don't notify you when it's time (although the whole country has a month to do it so you can't really miss it). Also their login system is a bit more complicated than a password, they have a special 2FA system you need to setup in person.

There are no calculations to do, you just enter your incomes and deductions by type and it calculates your taxes for you.

In both cases, you can also use a mobile app for all of that. And you can choose to do it on paper, by physical mail.
How do you manage to freeze natural gas pipelines? It isn't even liquid at the near-surface air low-temperature record (-89.2 C/-128.6 F).
UK here - the forms are here: https://www.gov.uk/self-assessment-forms-and-helpsheets

Unless you have a very special circumstance (e.g. you're a Lloyds of London name) you can file online through the HMRC website which does all of the calculations for you and is mostly just a case of entering a few figures from your P60 and P11D for the vast majority of people.
> if you exercise your right to offend people in my establishment, I have the right to toss you onto the pavement

not anymore (if you are implying physical removal). you can't even apprehend shoplifters anymore without getting sued.
>and/or their businesspeople and advertisers think these policies will bring in more money

Yes this is the reason. They will continue to stifle speech so its more palatable for corporations to run ads on their platform. Censoring art and dissent is working well for the people you agree with right now. 60 years ago the current culture would have been unfathomable. In 60 years it may be unfathomable to you again, but now you've taken the stand that it's right and just that they stifle dissent. Hope that never bites you.
This aligns with a trend I've noticed of startup founders having very similar mindsets to novelists. And some brave souls being both.
So your argument is either that Linux didn't have many eyes on it, or that it taking 10 years and an intense study by Google to find it is shallow. In either case, that's effectively saying that the maxim is so loose as to be completely meaningless (i.e. "broken").

Even throwing out the fact that equivalent closed source software has a stupendous amount of money spent on code reviews, the open source model makes those reviews possible. It doesn't necessarily make them likely. That is a very important difference, theoretical eyes make no bugs shallow.

> I hope you and the grandparent get your horses into rehab once you finish your ride

Please refrain from making condescending, smug comments like this here. They do not in any way contribute to the debate.
Your belief that large social media platforms should be more permissive has nothing to do with the First Amendment, which is a limitation on a grant of power to a non-human entity (i.e. the Federal government). The idea that the "spirit" of the 1A constrains the actions of human individuals is somewhat perverse.

Sometimes platforms ban people I think they shouldn't. We agree on that much. I hope user pressure pushes them into more fair and transparent processes. But I strongly believe they should have the right to publish or not publish whatever they want. And on ideological grounds, I strongly oppose any weakening of the First Amendment.
What I don’t understand is how they think sheltering harassers can ever work out in the long run. By enabling them, they are reinforcing the behavior and guaranteeing repeats, and increasing the chances of a major scandal or huge settlements.
Yes. It's the same for a lot of fields.
Count of Monte Cristo is perhaps one of the best revenge stories ever written. Though I'd say Titus Andronicus is up there pretty high as well.
Maybe that adjective is not quite right, "rapaciously" perhaps?
> It should not be comfortable to drive around in a city.

By this logic, aggressive drivers are also a good thing because they stress you out while driving.
I think I see where you're going wrong here. We need to put some numbers to it.

Suppose you can make $20 if you spend $15 adding a feature. Obviously you should do it, right? You'll make $5. So you do.

Now the customer comes back and says the new feature doesn't work in some edge case and they won't pay the $20 unless you spend another $15 fixing it. At this point the original $15 is a sunk cost that you can't get back and you're presented with the original scenario again: Spend $15 to make $20. So now you've spent a total of $30 to make $20. This can repeat arbitrarily many times, putting you even further into the hole each time, until you recognize that hidden future costs mean that you're actually spending far more than $15 to make that $20.
MtGox was pretty buggy and many of those bugs lost money, which could easily make them insolvent. Also, interfacing with Bitcoin at scale (e.g. managing thousands of addresses) required a lot of custom programming.
Don't dropbox and google drive simply mirror files in the cloud? The other things eliminate files but I'm not sure what those two contribute to the file genocide.
This is just wild speculation now...

...but my best guess is their trading engine was so unstable that they ended up using one server to run a stripped-down clearance house algorithm for executing the trades as quickly as feasible, and a separate system that was the "source of truth" for how many physical assets in bitcoin/yen/USD were actually in possession by the company.

I'm guessing that there was absolutely nothing "atomic" about the system Marc Karpeles had built, their storage system was just an amalgam of disconnected, duct-taped databases living in different places, that were "kinda, sorta" in sync with each other, with lots of unpredictable, undefined behavior.
Interesting. It's been around long enough you'd think they would have worked out those details. I just linked it because I felt it gave the clearest explanation of the concept.
Absolutely correct. I'm also working on real-time compensation with the Oculus Headtracker ;) but that won't be ready until a few months from now ...
Like quanticle said, social networking. You can't say, "fuck this, I'll just integrate with myspace instead" without getting laughed out of the room. Like it or not, Facebook's the only game in town.
This is great. I really like the visualization of where there are gaps in the space for new technologies. (Happy to see I fall in a nice white space!) This sort of mapping makes a lot of sense for investors--hedge funds and asset managers use similar algorithms and maps in the investing world all the time. It only makes sense that the same tools available to the public market could be used in the private markets as well.

That said, I'm interested in the database of failed and successful companies which the group put together. I'd like to see how they account for things like founder personalities, the personal network/connections of the founders and early investors, and some of the other "soft" traits that can make a big impact on a new company. While it wouldn't be hard to fit these into an algorithm, I'm not sure if it would be easy to find reliable inputs for this. There are so many variables that can affect the ultimate success and failure of a startup. This to me would be a very difficult project to undertake. I'm sure the results of this are proprietary...
gah, sorry, running on empty at the moment. I should have twigged to lenovo as I have a new laptop of theirs... but it's got a damn realtek wifi card that doesn't have stable linux drivers.

that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it :)
I think what you're talking about is graphics rather than design. To me, design is the umbrella term encompassing UX, UI and graphics. so I'll rephrase the question: Do graphics matter?

While it may not the biggest part of design, graphics still do matter. "The way things look" plays a big role in how your eyes move through the space of your product, where your attention goes, and ultimately, where someone decides they've had enough and are ready to leave. Basic Examples: is the call-to-action button colored in a way that I can spot it instantly? Is the text readable enough that I'm not fatigued after a few posts?
One point which I haven't seen come up in any discussion of this: Michigan now prohibits texting while driving. So at least in theory, checking your cell phone could determine whether or not you were violating this. I wouldn't be surprised if that is a major part of the justification for this.

Of course, even that wouldn't justify anything but getting your last few minutes of chat log off the phone...
Be careful what you wish for.... we have death panels over here that kill babies all the time.... oh no hang on, we don't, we have greater life expectancy at lower cost.
They are collecting private information about a person and make them somehow accessible.

I'll give you an example: now your technologically savvy and pathological jealous partner can open that file on your phone while you are sleeping and check where have you been in the past months, day by day.

Iphone users should be aware of that possibility.

EDIT: Actually, now that I looked at the software presented here, it doesn't even require access to the phone, just to the computer. Your partner can do this while you are at work.
What if you wanted to make your profile open? Facebook circa 2006 didn't let me do that—at least not in any way discoverable to me.
This seems nonsensical -- why are the sum of the parts more classified than the individual?

If I put together a long list of facts about the XF-42, it's classified, but if I separate each item onto a different page and tell someone else how to recompile the information (eg page numbers), it's fine?

I can't imagine a scenario where this model makes sense -- ignoring absurdities like classifying basic facts (sky is blue) and words (help) due to cascading classification.

It seems to me the rule should be that of poisoning -- any information in a document with classification X poisons the rest of the document to the same classification; or rather, a document classification is the maximum of its children
> for the millions of Americans living out in the burbs

They live in burbs because American cities are so badly designed.
every aaa game still uses rad tools. compression is still a thing for various reasons: fitting more textures in the gpu/ram/etc. for instace, with decode happening on gpu
JSX is nice, but requires transpilation as JSX can’t be used by browsers directly. And as soon as you need a transpilation step you’ve opened yourself up to npm-hell with Babel, Uglify, Rollup/WebPack, etc - at which point people ask themselves why they’re even using JavsScript instead of TypeScript or going all-in on WASM.
I'd argue it depends on what you're used to. Coming from React you could argue Reagent is not readable. Coming from Javascript you could argue that Objective-C is not readable. But it's more that you need a moment to get used to the new syntax.
Miulenberg became CEO in July 2015. The 737 MAX went into production in 2014 and had its first flight in January 2016.
As if the victims havent been through enough their attorney also embezzled money to fund his/her lifestyle on real housewives of Beverly Hills.

https://www.ft.com/content/1afbf70b-752a-4a91-8e2a-afc74a8e3...
Maybe it's not what you would prefer but the owners of those companies probably saw themselves as winners. Unless Zuckerberg forced them to sell at gunpoint?
I can't go into more detail because these platforms do not have any public documentation, but this is not true, you cannot use NVDEC. And it doesn't cover audio or synchronization.
Not everyone on this planet shares the same priority.

Even if you wanted to, you cannot force everyone to share same priority.

We have the will and motive to do multiple things simultaneously.
To me it feels like we owe Google a lot for what they are doing to find security vulnerabilities. Did companies do stuff like this before Google's Project Zero?
This is a great exploration of how to use SVG on the web. It is a very under-utilized technology.

One thing that would add to this post is to point out that you can define an SVG once in a document and then reference it everywhere else. That way you aren't inlining the actual SVG markup over and over and over.

1. Place your SVG inline anywhere in the document. I usually put all of them in a `<div>` I do `display: none` on.

2. Make sure you assigned each SVG an ID: `<svg id="foobar"><!-- SVG markup --></svg>`

3. Reference that SVG anywhere in your document using `<svg><use xlink:href='#foobar'></svg>`

I use it extensively in a Github project (shameless plug) I've been working on lately. https://github.com/pseudosavant/player.html/blob/master/src/...

Edit: The author does link to her great post digging into the details of using `<use>`, but it didn't seem prominent enough that people would check it out. https://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/07/16/styling-svg-use-cont...
Cycling is not only good for the environment, but for cities in general.

During the last confinement, when car traffic completely stopped, I realised that cars are the single biggest reason why living in the city can be unpleasant. People may not realise it consciously, but when they move out of the city, what they are looking for is a place with not as much cars driving around.

Cars destroy cities by making a vicious circle of making it unpleasant to live there, therefore enticing people to move to the suburbs and commute by car, which make the problem worse.

Setting up biking infrastructure fixes this, because it reduces the room for cars used by commuters, while creating room for bicycles used by people living in the city.

With less cars, you can make the city center where people work liveable. You can have offices mixed with housing and have people live close to their work place, further diminishing the need for cars.

If you think that your city can't possibly be a good place to cycle because weather / hills / etc, you are probably mistaken. Electric bikes and the appropriate clothes make biking pleasant in most places. IF there are not too many cars and infrastructure for the bicycle of course, which is probably the thing you don't have
No, I compared taxing and citizenship with slavery and this is very reasonable because it is very similar. The billionaires are just a distraction from the real problem.