jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The headlines apply to isolation but the text is very specific to astronauts.

Headlines: Follow a schedule; But pace yourself; Go outside; You need a hobby; Keep a journal; Take time to connect; Listen to experts; We are all connected; Oh, and wash your hands -- Often. (OK, this last one was just an important sentence.)

We're not boarding submarines and hiding from the world for three months at a time. This is more like living in a retirement home before you're ready and nobody wants to visit...
A Long Way Gone [0] is an amazing (and harrowing) first-person account of a child soldier in Sierra Leone. It's not too long of a book, and I highly recommend it.

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/Long-Way-Gone-Memoirs-Soldier/dp/03...
Leave families out of it, period.

You don't target people's children out of spite, it's unethical and frankly, wrong. Why should family members of the ICC be held at the airport to be interrogated like suspected criminals? What possible explanation is there?

How is this a partisan investigation?
> Rentals charge 2 months rent and a deposit. The only reason I can afford housing is because of airbnb

There are some interesting models around the world for alleviating this specific burden that don't involve corporations being everyone's landlord.

My favorite is one I learned about relatively recently: rental deposit guarantees[1] in Switzerland. The renter pays a small premium to e.g. Swiss Post, which will issue a certificate guaranteeing the amount of the deposit. The landlord accepts that certificate in lieu of cash.

1. https://www.post.ch/en/locations/rental-deposit-guarantee
Hey do you have a link to some more information on your one-shot learning algorithm? Sounds interesting, thanks.
Wordpress with a theme is more like a service if you're not a webdev.

Drupal is too (with Joomla) what I'd call a full blown CMS. But would you say the interaction is worthy a title à Modern CMS?
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"I've noticed this about the Market - there are a lot of blatant clones of better-executed iOS apps."

Is this not also true of the Apple app store?
Drupal and Wordpress can be configured/customized in ways that are easy for users to use (or an absolute nightmare) depending on the template, functionality and design choices made by the site owner.

For blogging and news, Wordpress seems to have the most flexibility in terms of design. There really are some beautiful templates out there (see http://wordpress.org/showcase/ for some examples).

But Drupal goes beyond blogging. There must be thousands of available modules, offering all kinds of functionality, ranging from advertising support to "relevant content" boxes. (search http://drupal.org/project/modules to see some examples).
To me, the biggest killer app for the iPhone is iTunes integration. I know many people with Android phones who don't use it for music (myself included) because it is fairly difficult to put music on it. And, given the fact that something like 75% of the media player market is iPod, that means that a lot of people have iTunes installed, and getting an iPhone set up is pretty painless. I know there are several music sync apps for Android, but from my experience, none of them are any good, and the fact that you have to actively look for a way to sync your music turns a lot of people off from the idea.
I'm not sure that the computation is completely to the point -- he starts out asking "what is the _smallest_ storage unit that could fit this many bytes", and then goes on to consider how much energy it would take to do so. But if we are primarily worried about energy usage, we can write it cheaper (at the cost, I guess, of using more mass for the storage medium).

The usual limit that is mentioned for storage is Laundauer's principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle), which states that we need to use at least ln(2)kT Joules of energy to write one bit, where k is Boltzmann's constant and T is the temperature of the storage system.

Assuming the best case T=Cosmic Background Temperature=2.7K (although this is optimistic since we will also be heated up by the sun and by the Milky way), this give 8.8e15 J to write 2^128 bits, or 3.6e19 J to write 2^128 512-byte blocks.

That's much less than what Bonswick calculates, and less than the energy to boil the ocean!
Wordpress with a theme is more like a service. Squarespace is a valid system, although their 'templates' might just make them a 'richer' service.

Joomla is what I'd call a full blown CMS. But would you say the interaction is worthy a title à Modern CMS?
I bought an Android phone to use Locale, of which Tasker is highly inspired by.
Interesting parallel (vi/emacs). Accordingly, given that people have been arguing about vi vrs. emacs for >30 yrs, I doubt this one is going to be put to rest anytime soon.
Don't use the Zoom app. Load meetings in an incognito/private/whatever browser window, and cancel the automatic download it prompts you with, then click Join In Browser.

Nothing about this company's attitude towards privacy has changed in years.
Not really. We will take away drivers licenses for driving under the influence or extreme speeding, but a lot of accidents are due to long tail bad drivers (elderly people who just don’t have good reactions, careless people, people who just haven’t learnt to drive well, cell phone users, etc.) who rarely have their licenses taken away.

Of course, I think the solution to this is improving public transport and more aggressively taking away people’s driving licenses, rather than giving autopilot a pass.
Race is a protected class, and hiring based on race is specifically protected.
That reminds me of the ED-209 prototype in Robocop: "You have 20 seconds to comply!"
That's not an argument for overpaying to winterize all the electricity, though - it's an argument to subsidise winterized electricity for those vulnerable populations, and the most efficient way to do that may well be to directly subsidise behind-the-meter or community-level batteries (it may instead be most efficient to subsidise or socialise winterizing of the grid as a whole, though).
Get up, stretch, make a cup of coffee, go outside for some fresh air. Getting away from the screen and strip lighting for a while does wonders for me.
Same story, same text, submitted earlier:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004318

No comments.
Prototype was never "rails' own" js library. It existed before rails AFAIK.
Your DNS information should already be cached in all major ISPs DNS caches (unless you mean the first page load ever).
So this means that his reason must be personal and important only to himself. That leaves me wondering, what personal reason can one have to do such a thing?
Personally I would recommend (if this is a serious question and you're not just trying to challenge my assertion about minimal training) putting yourself through Coursera's Crypto 101, and learning to use a library like NaCl, or borrow a well-reviewed open protocol like TextSecure, which is in TextSecure, Signal and (lately) WhatsApp.

I'm not saying that with minimal training you can write an OpenSSL equivalent, or even create a novel cryptosystem on top of OpenSSL, people writing software products generally shouldn't be creating novel cryptosystems in the first place (and I speak as someone that implements crypto-systems for a living, usually very well defined crypto-systems from banking standards).
I always wondered why the pilots don't wear some kind of fitbit-like bracelets or something similar that would measure (even imperfectly) their vital signs and record them as a third set of data apart from voice and flight data. There are many (although admittedly unlikely, but still) scenarios that could have happened in this case (the co-pilot might have fainted, someone else could have entered the cockpit unnoticed etc), and all we have is the sound recording telling us that he "breathed normally".
Suicide is very rarely impulsive. Especially murder-suicide.
This page can be very handy to understand how a piece of code is evaluated. http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~bm380/cgi-bin/stepeval.cgi
Prepaid cellular data calculates as much more expensive (at least in my country and similar countries).
So it's a modern stick-phone. I'm actually flabbergasted that MS/Nokia made a non-windows-phone device.

To me, the big question is whether I can tether a tablet to it. A lightweight, convenient dumbphone with a tethered tablet in my backpack might be a nice form-factor.
> I can't believe that flexbox is the best thing they could come up with.

Flexbox is pretty damn good:

http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/

Also, in case you didn't know, there is also Grid Layout:

http://gridbyexample.com/

Flexbox is 1D, Grid Layout is 2D.
I have two apps in the iOS app store. One launched in 2009 (Filer) and the other in 2010 (FLAC Player). I've been really lucky that both have done so well, especially 5 years on. I maintain them for major iOS releases and hardware changes, but the little time I have I try to work on new stuff and supporting them. My wife helps with support emails now, which has been a huge help.

Neither app has any server-side components, so they don't cost me anything but squarespace fees for my website and my iOS dev program membership.

Edit: Oh yeah, they're both paid apps and I don't fiddle with the pricing
My new theory is that kickstarter actually works best as a demand gauging/preorder tool for a completely finished product that is in the process of working out a mass manufacturing deal. These guys already knew exactly where/who to go to and took care of all the business side of things for manufacturing very very quickly. I'm pretty sure they could and would have manufactured some of those watches with or without kickstarter. The only real problem kickstarter solved for them was knowing how many to manufacture. The fact that other successful kickstarter projects such as Glif, Lockpick tools, and C-loop succeeded under similar conditions seems to somewhat back this theory up.
Hacker Newsers usually downvote brief congratulatory comments. Seeing "you win" take home over 20 points is indicative of just how exciting this is.
Both are very useful. The HTML export is in a standard format importable by browsers and other bookmarking services.
The C in ICE is Customs, which has been charged with stopping counterfeit goods produced abroad from entering the USA, such as knockoff Rolex watches and Prada Handbags. Counterfeit goods have been charged with "reducing the desire" to own original goods, much like pirated music has been charged with reducing the desire to actually buy the CD.

If anything, ICE is probably the only department that administratively is capable of combatting piracy, since they have been doing it for so long under their own banner. They now get to do it under the Homeland Security banner.
Great new interface. Poor name for this new site, though, with a bit of work, I'm sure people will start to remember that:

o Stack Overflow = Source Code Examples
o Programmers = Essay questions about Software Development.

I'm still bummed that "Networking" was considered to overlap with "Server Fault", and was therefore rejected as a group. I find it ironic that Webmasters, Wordpress, Unix, Ubuntu (all of which, actually _involve_ servers) are considered as not overlapping too much with Server Fault, but networking, a topic that is a discipline that, for many, will never involve working on a server, is considered to be a Dupe.
> just to keep it off the Android platform

Oh god, I hadn't thought of that. I just naturally assumed this would be coming to Android soon.
Does it matter if those threads are waiting on various IO objects? Some are likely waiting for file system notifications (e.g., you modified something in your dropbox folder on your mac); others network notifications (modifications on other linked machines). Idle threads maybe consume at worse 1MB of address space (for their stack).
It's the age-old inclusionist vs deletionist battle. I think what they're trying to do is keep both sides happy by creating a vast network of sites with various purposes and then encouraging the deletionists to push questions to other sites rather than deleting them. Personally, I find it highly annoying but if it keeps interesting questions from getting closed then fine.
Perhaps. I've never seen something from him before.
>Free Software will never be palatable to the mainstream, because the mainstream rejects socialist ideas.

Then don't frame it as a socialist idea. There's absolutely nothing about Free Software that has a hard requirement on socialist ideology.

Frame it as pragmatism: Governments/schools/etc should run free software because it's more cost-effective and thus a more fiscally-responsible use of taxpayer monies.

Frame it as democratic: Why should a bunch of unelected CEOs have the right to dictate what you, a citizen of $this_great_nation, do with your devices?

Frame it as nationalism: How can American kids grow up to be world-leading innovators if they can't hack their devices? We're losing to Russia and China in the hacking gap!

Frame it as free speech or something: Why does the government get to decide what I do with my devices? My ipad my choice.
You weren't using metaphor, you gave a _specific and untrue_ example, the revelation of which completely undermined your argument!
Going through @darkpatterns and @internetofshit on Twitter makes my blood boil. I hope at some point we'll start seeing generic "Don't be an asshole" legislation to cover most of these cases at once instead of just "Click to unsubscribe".
That may work, or it may result in a referral to collections.
Most Google Cloud Products are in Beta for years, with many enterprise customers using them in Beta...
It is, but I cheat! The dancer has a small android device with a custom gyroscope app, mounted in the middle of her back. I can get her general orientation accurately this way (more accurately, and faster, than state of the art pose estimation).

I am in the process of bringing together a community around art making like this. Let me know if this is something that interests you.
So, i won't be able to print my shippings label to my mom from another city anymore :(

It's still an easy solution for using a tablet and printing from it.
You know the answer to this. People like status, image, and power.
Product plan; UI design mock up; technical implementation plan; task breakdown; implementation; code review; QA; build and release.

The larger a product is, and the more people involved, the more steps and phases are needed to keep everything running smoothly. A dev shop with fewer people can be more efficient because there's less communication overhead, individuals wear more hats. But it doesn't scale.

It's also an artifact of Agile, SCRUM especially. If you keep a fungible pool of devs who can be redirected on a weekly basis, they don't necessarily have knowledge or expertise in the area of code they're working on, so there needs to be extra investigation time, sync on technical details, and more QA to cover omissions and unwanted interactions from lack of total knowledge. Component ownership is less susceptible to this but you lose some agility as dev fungibility is reduced.
I wonder if they gave any of the hardware vendors who proudly advertised, "Google Cloud-Print Ready" on the side of the box more advanced notice than this.
Personal? I guess, I'm Central American, and just because of how I look I get followed at the mall and every 2 minutes I get asked "is everything okay sir?" Obviously they think I'm there to steal something.

In Denver I went to a restaurant I overheard "why do I have to serve that spic". So okay no racism in America right? You idiot.
I meant more on the secondary/high school level. From what I read, it seems almost everyone good at maths/physics that grew up in the US had a miserable experience in school. The whole "nerd/geek" thing and being near the bottom of the school hierarchy.

In my experience in Russia, "nerds" were rather those that were extremely diligent but did not really have passions or interests; being good at science was actually seen as kinda cool. Sports achievements were not really emphasized at all.

But it is all anecdotal, and I would like to see some actual studies on this.
ChromeOS has native print capabilities: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/7225252?hl=en

I use it all the time.
Well, I'd wish they'd measure it by the quality of their writing and the discussion it generates instead of hits. But it's up to them how to measure success.

I'm only concerned with how that perception of success affects HN. Presently, it's too easy for bloggers to choose to discuss A Most Excellent Technology in the hopes of making the front page. The actual writing may not make any points beyond, "vim changed my life!" but, still, it's put on the front page by the bikeshedding committee, thus perpetuating the feedback loop. You may argue that certain tools have a favored status within certain groups, and that is fine -- I'd prefer if people were picky about their tools. But the standard must be raised on bikeshedding articles beyond mere sentiments of "I like this technology." There needs to be an intellectual gain made from the blog post, not simply an opinion being expressed.

Otherwise, HN risks becoming like every other social news site, where people upvote the articles they want to see to the point of creating more noise than signal. We are still have quite a ways to go before we're there, but the recurrence of topics is a bit troubling.
Thanks! I used phosphor2 and got the Linux kernel source to feed it.. Really nerdy, but a cool screen saver..
Programmers are, as a whole, fairly bad at making programs to print the lyrics of 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall. You can peruse 1400 versions in nearly as many languages at http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/

A few minutes spent there raises questions about how people communicate.

Even the C example, written in pthreads with 10 cooperating threads so it is likely by a programmer that pays attention to details, gets the "2 bottles" case wrong, it will pluralize the after takedown count.

Most examples think of the pluralization issues, very few notice that the "one bottle" case has "take it down" instead of "take one down". Even the Haskell crowd that has versions with guards, versions with monads, and a version as a list comprehension missed this.

(Mine is correct. does gloatey dance But it has, sadly, outlived its language. )
I am glad my post inspired this discussion :-)

I bought a tablet only recently and am frustrated that I haven't found a convenient way to write programs with it. I hope some day I will.
Blocks come from smalltalk too: http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/musings/SmalltalkOverview.htm...
This is also a reason why founders/CEO's of companies should use their own products. In many cases it doesn't seem like they do. If you wouldn't buy or use your own product, then something is wrong with it.
I'm not sure if it was intentional or not (to grab attention) but the blue text with drop shadow on that red background hurts my eyes.
Setting aside that this article is completely empty of actual content let alone any argument it makes the same sad mistake that many people do when discussing poverty.

The income gap between rich and poor is getting bigger and bigger which must mean that poor poor are getting poorer.

Or more and more people are using mobile devices which must mean that less and less are using the web.

So basically I am going to use my laptop/desktop for work and then when I want to check my facebook status I am going to whip out my iPad and check it there, because it's mobile.

Jezz... why didn't I think of that.
Wonderful, thanks! I also forgot to ask if the editor supports proportional fonts. Since it is Monaco I assume it does?
I’m a fairly intermediate Haskell programmer at best.

My point about working in a serious industrial setting was that I’ve seen the real deal, up close, and over time.
Is it possible that the Google Panda Update may have contributed to it as well? If people want good content, I can't imagine a bad design would deter 50% of users... even Craigslist is horribly designed
Pursuing Facebook is more lucrative than anything else they could be doing right now. They have a great chance at netting hundreds of millions of dollars. What startup investment has an expected value anywhere near that? (answer: None.)
http://tinyurl.com/JurjenHaitsma
Awesome. With JQuery becoming the default in Rails 3.1, I'm definitely going to have to be reading this.
Excellent suggestion, will do!
I believe you can lend, to friends or family or whomever, if the publisher allows, and for whatever time frame the publisher permits (I've only seen two weeks as the limit, but the wording is such that it may vary). The inconvenience is that if you lend a book to someone else, you lose the ability to read it until you get it back.
Why do people think being in the "cloud" for hosting changes any of these rules? EC2 is a rentable compute utility, it doesn't provide for automatic failure or redundancy. Also people keep talking about an EC2 outage but it is really 1 region and from the status updates, maybe only a single Availability Zone that is affected.

That said, maybe I'm just less upset because my site is in a US-East Zone that doesn't appear to be affected.
Get a sleep study. Using a CPAP is life changing. It's not nearly as uncomfortable as people make it out to be. It's slightly annoying when you're trying to fall asleep, but when you go to sleep you stay asleep and when you wake up you'll feel better than you've felt in years. I just got my CPAP Tuesday this week. Diagnosed last week with OSA. Been using it for 2 days. I don't remember ever feeling this good. I feel like a teenager.
Yes I had the same problem but at the end I found a useful button called "Page source". That one makes the page readable again. It's just a normal textfile then .-)
ha ha. love it
If you sketch out pseudocode on a napkin or use an algorithm you learned about in Python, you are technically using something that wasn't originally written in Objective-C and are back to hoping the App Store reviewers exercise the rules with sanity. Compilation is just transforming data from a less useful form into a more useful one. That's why it's absurd.
Schneier has a post on the topic: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/04/security_fog.h...
Here's the thing, I don't care about what the vast majority of people think is interesting, insightful, funny, or informative, because I've already obtained those insights. I want to hear what people whom I respect think is cool, and that is actually the principal value of Twitter for me. Tweets from my favorite friends, and people whose mind I respect, go straight to my phone. I want to be alerted with that information ASAP.
Don't forget gradients and rounded corners..
For the most part right? I thought the argument myth #6, what you know matters more than who you know, was made pretty well. And we haven't really seen much of such advice. Usually a lot of us here, myself included, dislike the notion of networking bluntly for such purpose alone, but it certainly can be helpful in the long run.
Yeah with the added constraint that it was a pension that the Dad retired with.
Another thing is that the number of pixels increases as the square of the ppi, so a 326 ppi screen has 51% more pixels than a 265 ppi screen. That's a bigger difference than a person might think from just comparing ppi.
I feel dumb, but I don't totally understand what is being wanted. Basically a google search with "site:example.com query" but you have full control of the results?
Walk or just save up the $40k a year to compensate
How dare, this 3rd world trash.
I've never needed to reach out to either for support, but I've heard only negative things about Google's customer service. To the point where I would expect to at least be able to reach someone at Microsoft but have zero hope of ever resolving a problem with my Google account…