jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You'd think building a competitor would be easy; build a bike with bluetooth i/o and an app for phone, tablet, laptop, smart TV etc. And open the API for developers, so they can hook their games up to it as much as they please.

I'm guessing Peleton is winning at the minute because of it being an integrated unit and having the marketing.
> Why not the same for those working in the political sphere?

What does this actually mean? Are you trying to ask politicians not to engage in politics? News organisations? Billionaires? Foreign intelligence services? Asking for legal restrictions on who's allowed to speak about what?
Are you suggesting to use a separate app for every different use case?
> Imagine you build it with a team of 5 software devs for each of linux, mac, windows, android, ios, web. You build it in Europe paying a generous salary of $80k.

Optimistic and dangerous. You will need at least a visionary person like Moxy willing to dedicate his/her life to the project. You need a master mind to get all the security architecture right. BTW You will need an operation team and multiple servers to make sure that everything runs stable. Just look the costs for running COVID-19 apps. Development and operation. Million of Euros. You can expect similar costs to run a service able to compete with WhatsApp.
You realize that the Mac App Store has been around for 10 years and people have been saying that Apple is going to lock down MacOS for just as long?
Are they 4K? My 13 inch MBP sounds sometimes sounds like a jet engine when connected to a single 4K display, dropping frames like crazy, even when I’m doing nothing on the system.
That's true but not an excuse! It's still extremely important when assessing an anomaly. If you can say "okay this is a known-good config that gets me the numbers from the paper", it's an enormous help in uncovering what leads to issues.

If you can't even get those numbers, then you can suspect any number of things. Maybe you're not using the right data, maybe there was a typo, maybe someone fraudulently manually tweaked the numbers, maybe you forgot to do a step in the processing chain etc etc. There's no way to know what's going on if you can't even be sure how the original numbers were created.
My genuine question is what sort of code-size and/or performance impact the translation imposes.

The simple example in the README.md seems straightforward enough, but I wonder if there are any pathological explosions in practice.
To each his own.

I would much rather play Half Life 2: Episode 3 or Starcraft 2 to Pacman or Joust (my first computer was a 1986 vintage PC XT clone, so it's not that I'm not aware of the old games).
I figured (should have added the smiley) - the naming he chose really is a (lesser) pain, too.

Although, how radical the idea was pretty dependent on the lost knowledge of Eratosthenes and the black plague cutting off the Mongol lands.
Yes, take another look at the punctuation used in the comment containing the quote.
8 percent? Good luck getting the world to just 'divert' 8% of their GDP to build this stuff. That much vaunted US military spending? The one that outspends the entire rest of the world? That's 4% of your GDP.
That's just the grimy underbelly of mindshare.
Or perhaps "one-time-pad.txt" :)
Many would (and did) -- consider the Russians.
Excellent reddit.com/r/politics post
Rails has been bundled with the developer tools for MacOSX since 10.5 - I admit that it was a bit annoying if you were compiling Ruby yourself in days prior.
Exactly. All proposed web standards require at least two implementations to become actual web standards. That was never going to happen with Web SQL.
http://getaether.net is "reddit without servers" a "community moderated, distributed, and anonymous" tool great for the great repression.
That's what we needed - the friggin pownzerd generation running around with these things.
Mind that it is very hard to move to the US and start a company there if you are not a US citizen.
Anyone know how this experiment is going?
> "I think many people have little understanding of the difference between Wi-Fi and 3G data — at least insofar as why a feature would work over one but not the other."

Easy: the difference is that 3G data is not an internet connection.

Sure, you can browse the web, but most 3G data package don't give you a public IP, so your phone can't be a server, and they tend to block many TCP and UDP ports. Your phone is effectively in a private network which has a very limited access to the rest of the Internet.

That, plus the fact that carriers make you sign a contract that forbid you to use their bandwidth in certain ways.
Actually, I hadn't read this comment! XD
We are working on something similar to this. Keep your eye on http://sanityapp.com.
Perhaps, but I do appreciate them updating the graph to August 2009.
I quite like the way this server is designed in a fashion that I can just run it myself - not requiring that I give my email address to any unknown third-party. I just took a look at the go code and its very easy to understand, very easy to build, and quite easy to deploy. Kudo's to the authors for making it open source - it means that I'm now running this locally as a service for my personal needs in finding new HN articles without much fuss! Great stuff!
Are many of the units listed in this file?

https://github.com/fogus/minderbinder/blob/master/notes/defi...

(I found out how much information had been collected in GNU Units by way of https://futureboy.us/frinkdata/units.txt )
US Government systems typically use client certificates as a component of access control in the form of the Common Access Card[1]. Not that that's a business, or even a success from the point of view of the users, but it's one of the largest deployments of client side certs out there.

[1]: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Access_Card
I like how you managed to slip in 'the cultural value of', and then simply list alleged instances of sexual abuse within the Amish community neither of which implies that the practice is condoned or 'culturally valued'; because it's permissible, as long as we don't value it as a culture. The Amish aren't to be contrasted to 'Western civilisation'; they live in the West, they come from another part of the West, they practice Protestantism, an especially Western variety of a schism with a religion domiciled in the West. "But they're not civilised! They draw a line in the sand and reject technology beyond that line. They probably don't approve of genome editing. They've probably even banned it. All those happy children, never to be born."
So create a filter that deletes and/or autoresponds to all inquiries to the project's support e-mail address.
Very well said, and I agree to a certain extent. We'll have to see what actual users have to say about this.

My guess is that the portability of the front camera on the phone means that you can not only show yourself, but also point to things around you at ease. This isn't something that can be done easily with a computer (or even a laptop for that matter).
I have an issue with "Facebook could also choose to insist that throwaway email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) cannot be used for these sorts of complaints - that a domain name associated with the brand which claims to being breached is used instead".

Why is it only about corporations? Other people's copyright cannot be violated - say a successful blog that someone hosts on Blogger/Wordpress? Those wouldn't have own-branded email names.

Also, it is confusing "copyright" and "trademark" issues (with the mentioning "brands" like that) - the latter is not subject to DMCA, now is it?
I'm guessing that failed startups don't release their code because their investors see it as an asset to be liquidated to recover some of the investment. Can anybody with failed startup experience comment on this possibility?
have you tried removing all your extensions ?
Actually every entry includes total compensation, not just salary. Schmidt's was not included in the headline number because that was his compensation _after_ he resigned the CEO position to be Chairman only. The article was comparing CEO compensation in 2010 only, but sometimes adding additional detail to give a broader picture.
Correction: laws of physics as we currently understand them

For example, we still don't understand inertia and gravity.

Nothing is impossible.
SpaceX in a few more years should be able to do human transportation to orbit. Virgin Galactic is for space tourism and doen't fulfill any of the roles the shuttles were used for. When the shuttle retires, there really isn't anything else (in the US) that comes close to replacing it.
> I'm 17 years old and a developer on the app store. The App Store feels opaque and like a black box where I submit builds with little to no feedback or control.

I've been pushing apps on the appstore form day one, there's a lot of room for improvements, but saying that you get no feedback is plain false. When an app is rejected the reasoning behind the refusal is always explained, and you have a chance to talk through the issue (sometimes I had the reviewer calling me on the phone). In the end it's just a matter of following the guidelines.

> Every part of developing for Apple leads me to this conclusion: I do not matter. My app does not matter.

We all like to think we're special, millions of developers do, that's true for the appstore, and the same goes for the open web.
It's not that the developers are awful, it's just that the language makes it very easy to make really bad design decisions that come back to bite you if your project becomes large.
My inability to search through my youtube watch history.
I think the irony here is more pleasing.
The security guard still provides value because he deters would-be robbers who have no way of being certain that he is using the wind heuristic
It's just an ALT + 955 away!
For some reason, I think that Manning will be free much sooner, or the US will be in deep trouble. Not so much because of him, but I think that there are only two possibilities, either the US cut the security industrial complex serverly, or the deep state will take over. In the latter case, the US will loose its 'soft power,' and would face an empire breaking apart. On the other hand, if a administration would return to a reasonable security policies, then one of the first things they would do is to pardon Bradley Manning.
Oh got it, yep I misread it thanks
eBay is the beneficiary of an intense network effect that Altavista and Google search never could be.

Until the newer management, the Bain & Company mafia that e.g. don't understand or want the traditional eBay sellers, screw things up enough, it's likely to keep its position despite how horrible it is on so many levels.

Check out Gunbroker.com for a pretty big auction site that indeed does things "10 times better"; it started up shortly after eBay wimped out and banned gun and gun accessory etc. sales, so it benefits from the same sort of network effects. Having used both, there's absolutely no comparison.
My dog was afraid of taking a bath. I fixed this by rewarding her for coming into the bathroom. Once she was comfortable, I got her into the tub and rewarded her. After 15 minutes of "exposure therapy" she loves jumping into the tub and it's easier for both of us when she's stinky. I'm pretty sure people work similarly but it's hard to reward them with dog food.
I've grown up and lived in British Columbia, and I think I can understand the attitude given the cultural attitude compared to the US.

When I look at Australia, a commonwealth nation that's similar in some ways, but with a much more developed domestic media industry I very much feel like a vassal state of US culture.
The science that came out of the Space Shuttle program was enormous[0].

Also, many of the people that work at SpaceX used to work on the Space Shuttle program. That's where they learned all their skills, and it's why they can launch with only $2M each.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies
Perhaps it makes initially using the project seem more fun and approachable from a first glance? I am a hardened bitter old fart, but I like them. :)
"So you can see multiple people's legs that's going to stop things?"

Look, minor concerns like "efficacy" are no matter when the goal is shaming the homeless.
Well I sure hope, for his sake, that wasn’t all of it...

Wouldn’t you have to be pretty stupid to have that much crypto at a single point of failure?

Just like why you don’t keep all your cash in a mattress. Keep some private keys in a safe in the cellar at grandma’s ranch, or encode them in a picture of yourself hanging on her wall.
Yes, but you do that with therapist in setting where potential meltdown has no consequences to you or other people. The therapist is also supposed to decide your progress based on how it is going.
Are computers meaningfully different to brains in that “deterministic” respect? Both are apparently based on deterministic interactions at the nanometre scale and exhibit simple behaviour that can be explained from first principles (eg. simple arithmetic, or a stroke). Both also exhibit complex emergent behaviour that can’t be explained from first principles (eg. the output of complex ML systems, or most human behaviour), which we sometimes call “non-deterministic.”

I’m happy to concede that software is artificially intelligent just as I’m prepared to concede that most animals are naturally intelligent. It’s just a question of drawing an arbitrary line when things are intelligent enough to warrant the description. The AI effect is the process of that line getting moved closer and closer to “capable of doing everything an average human can do.”
I stopped replying because it's just classic entitled NIMBY-ism happening here. You're not going to get through to them.
I don't know if your comment is directed at me, but I don't feel I was rude to him at all. I do see a lot of hate for Cutts from SEOs, but they hate Google anyway. Cutts is just a face to Google that they can focus on.
Ahh, WebAPI. The thing that MVC should have been, but still falls short. Promoted as an 'API' despite the fact it does the same thing as MVC, only slightly better.

Guess what, your website is an API, it just happens to return text/html instead of some other format you specify. If you use MVC and WebAPI, you're doing it wrong.

Also...

http://weblogs.asp.net/shijuvarghese/archive/2013/07/30/writ...

vs

http://www.marcusoft.net/2013/01/NancyTesting3.html

Sums up WebAPI for me.
If you click long enough on any Google service, you will end up with a Google + account. It's just statistics.
No point rolling your own user management and session handling, let alone user groups and permissions.

I'd go frame work over CMS personally.
The story is great, but the tile (and supposedly the moral of the story) is wrong. We should not do good deeds for some expected (or hoped-for) compensation or reward - on this world, or the other world. We should just do it.
In light of recent events in Japan, engineering risk assessments regarding the hazards posed by industrial uses of plutonium are not exactly gospel. The fact that 3 of 4 failures of the Titan IV rocket occurred following Cassini's launch, the prelaunch engineering risk assessment for Cassini is likely to have underestimated it's risk in a similar manner.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Titan_launches]
Meh, just downvoted accidentally on the iPhone.
Learning a bit of self control, be it for WoW, irc/chat, general surfing, playing music, hanging out, partying, or ANY endeavor is a good habit to acquire.
Points 8 and 9 are a result of not communicating and acting assertively. Stop partaking in, allowing, and accepting aggressive, passive, and passive-aggressive behavior and communication. This is what the higher ups in a company need to foster. I highly suggest reading "Life Would Be Easy If It Weren't for Other People" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803968655/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
I bought mine last fall for $900, and I guess I'm not up on the latest MacBook pricing. Sincerest apologies.
They were pretty much between a rock and a hard place. If they failed to attack, their national sovereignty and unity were at stake. They also thought (mistakenly) that they would be able to keep the Russians from interfering by blocking the tunnel between North Ossetia (part of Russia) and South Ossetia (nominally part of Georgia). Based on the (incomplete/incorrect) information they had, this was a reasonable assumption to make.

What they didn't know was that the Russians had already moved several brigades through the tunnel and controlled both sides of it before the fighting in South Ossetia started. But, hey, maybe it really was pure coincidence that those two things happened in that order, in rapid succession.
Android version of my iPhone app.
Regarding 8 - Don't Ask Don't Tell was never "on the books" as a law - it was a policy implemented by Clinton and continued by Bush and Obama as a de facto way to allow homosexuals to serve in the military. The relevant law (which forbids homosexuals from serving in the military) is http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/10/654.html

Can you point me to any information regarding Obama's stance on the issue? I hadn't been following it until recently so I'd be curious to see what he's said on the matter.
MailChimp Integration Fund (clickable): http://www.mailchimp.com/about/integration-fund
Yes, clearing the cookies on your domain will log users out of your site only. You can accomplish that with some simple JavaScript. Just check the cookies using your browser inspection tool to see which one is set by Facebook.
Except any small-time Internet publication also has a stake in the outcome, as does any big-time Internet publication. We can't just rule them all out like that.
Things won't change until everything collapses. The system has accumulated far too much cruft, and needs rebooting.

I may be a bit overly cynical. http://i.imgur.com/zP5fa.jpg
Another option is to consider donation during beta phase. Ask users to pay whatever they want (don't mention minimum and maximum). This will provide you some idea about price customers willing to pay and what type of customers value your product.

I recently implemented this strategy for my web service. Only about 1% of registered users and 30% of active users donated but the average donor contribution was three times of what I was estimating the price of the service.

It also helped me prioritize which user requests should bubble up quickly. My plan is now to introduce donor exclusive features. Then I want to track changes in number of donors and contribution.
This was fun. The only thing missing was a chat for some smack talk because I just OWNED a couple people.

l2p noobs ;)
JRuby has access to the vast majority of the Ruby ecosystem and all of the Java ecosystem.

If anything, it has a stronger overall ecosystem than MRI.
I don't think IRC quite offers the feature set that Slack users would be expecting, does it?
This is why platform/ecosystem giants like Microsoft, Facebook, and Google cannot be, and should not try to be WhatsApp. By the time they get there, the battleground will have shifted out from under them.
I'm sorry, but whether or not you're inconvenienced is of absolutely no consequence and should have no bearing whatsoever on the right of the people to protest.

If a bit of a delay on the roads is all you've got to complain about, you've got it pretty damn good.
One "comfort noise" that Just Ain't Right is the fake engine noise they pipe over the speakers of cars that have a lot of sound proofing, etc.

It gives you feedback (which increases safety) but it raises trust issues.
This isn't quite true. I know of several R packages that I've had to build from source on Linux and I'd be worried about installing on windows (Combinations and Cranvas come to mind).

Generally the packages that aim for higher performance are more difficult to install, which makes sense.

Combinations: http://www.omegahat.org/Combinations/

Cranvas: https://github.com/ggobi/cranvas

edit: and if, god forbid, cran kicks off one of the packages you're using or an upstream package for a package you're using, then you've got to track it down and install it on your own. (tikzDevice is the one I'm thinking of.)
Finally Smashing Mag is beginning to write great articles.
How is Amazon allowed to say "A union cannot deliver greater job security or better wages and benefits"? It's presented as a factual statement, but, at best, it's the company's opinion, and at worst it's a blatant lie.
I wouldn't be able to replicate your experience. My friends on twitter are either sidelining toxicity (by simply ignoring the usual in/outgroup messaging) or by just posting their (non-political, non-controversial, technical) stuff.

I don't know toxic people on twitter behaving the same on other social networks.
"Sell shovels or be the bank that the miner sells their gold to" is a bit wordy, but yes, you're correct.
Whataboutism is not suitable for civil discourse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primum_non_nocere would seem to be the ethical principle at play here .
You can sell goods and services locally and accept Bitcoin as payment. Craigslist even added a “cryptocurrency ok” flag you can set on your posts.

LocalBitcoins enables face to face transfers.

Bisq is a DEX that enables remote exchanges using any form of payment, including most centralized payment services, and even cash through snail mail.
And both > one of them.
Yeah was just a comment about how widespread sadism is.
Probably starts with an X and ends with a finiti.
and you just perfectly highlighted the toxicity of twitter in that sentence. Just because someone is popular doesn't mean everyone should like/listen to them if they do not find the person's content aligns with them.
Protests happen all the time, all over the world. Twitter, Youtube, definitely played a huge role in bringing the opinions/thoughts of the Iranians to the rest of the world. Its unfair to say Twitter did nothing to the revolution itself. It was not meant to do anything. Just tell you what people all over the world thought about it. And it did a bloody good job.. probably starting an info revolution of its own.
Interesting... I got a lot out of that warning. I actually took a break from what I was doing to really think about it.
That does limit the applicability of the Atom-based cluster to things like web applications. It would do nicely for running a memcached cluster, as well, as long as the interconnect latency is low enough.
I'm definitely familiar with Square. I actually 'pitched' them to alot of people at a recent flea market that I attended.

We're paying 1.9% right now on card present w/ a $100 monthly fee and doing $45k revenue per month at our salon. So it's working for us at the moment.

I'm definitely interested in Square and as they mature, we'll go through the whole 'credit check' etc process.
If you decide to offload some CPU heavy parts I would personally use a messaging protocol like zeroMQ to keep a loose coupling.
A-mazing

Also, notice the difference in number of results between C and C++ below:

http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=if%5Cs*...

vs

http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=if%5Cs*...
This is again the problem with centralized vs distributed services. Not just Amazon's infrasturcture.

http://myownstream.com/blog#2010-05-21 :)
Not unless you want someone who only shows up 1/3rd of the time and shows up under the influence when they do.

Source: http://twitter.com/#!/jonbeilin/status/48467573053997056
I programmed embedded controllers and interfaces for home automation. It is fun and challenging to integrate lights, security, iPHones, pool heaters, pet doors, disco balls together. It sucks because the it is so closely tied to the construction industry and people treat it the sames as day laborers. I have some examples on my blog if you are interested.

http://mcotton.posterous.com/