jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>There's conflicting evidence on this issue. Once I set my battery profile by draining it completely then recharging it with the power off, my battery life has been just fine.

This has been my experience with three prior HTC devices: Originally the battery life is horrendous, but after several cycles it gets better and better.

It's still far from great. I mean if I forget to plug it in at night after a day of intermittent use, it will be dead before the end of the next day. I'd rather it ran forever without being plugged in, but I've learned to deal (though it's a major PITA when camping or the like. You really have to baby it).

It's also too bad that people keep always holding their experience with bad battery life as a universal experience. When my phone is in my basement, for instance, battery life is TERRIBLE unless I turn it to airplane mode. Clearly it's straining to talk to the cell towers, causing a significant increase in consumption. The experience is completely different when it's upstairs.

So if you live in a condo with big thick concrete walls in a bad reception part of town, expect your battery life to be worse. You'll note that many people with very poor battery life find "Cell Standby" to be the biggest consumer.
> Eat more apples, bananas, oranges and watermelons for calories, don't worry about the sugar, this is not sucrose.

Care to explain that? It sounds like a common misinterpretation of the "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" video that was floating around a while back. Most fruits have plenty of sucrose anyway.
I've been using binder clips for cable organizers after I saw this:

http://lifehacking.nl/kantoor-tips/nooit-meer-je-usb-kabel-a...
Suppose the first day you used emacs you faced that task. You would look in the menus: Help / Search Documentation / Look Up Subject in User Manual

You might try "definition", but the hits for that aren't programming-related (emacs has a much wider scope of functionality than Visual Studio), so you'd probably go up to the top level of the manual. One of the topics there is "Features for maintaining large programs". That would tell you exactly what you want.

In your example you talk about "shortcuts of every other program on my computer". So you're assuming a programmer comfortable with windows. If I take the same liberty and assume a programmer comfortable with Unix, s/he will look in the Tools menu, see "Search Files (Grep)" and have immediate success finding the definition without any use of the emacs help system.
The problem with clientside crypto (besides the security) is what do you do with it in the backend? Without matching code to decrypt on the backend it's pretty useless - unless you're using node, rhino or something. Porting javascript to another language is a pain because of the way javascript handles the long integers generated by these kinds of algorithms.
This is also true of nicotine. Smokers say that a cigarette 'calms the nerves', but if you measure their anxiety levels you find that it only relieves the withdrawal symptoms and returns them to the normal range.
My guess is that incorporation would have included a fee of several hundred to a thousand dollars - money they totally didn't have. Note they incorporated with the Apple II, after they'd had some revenue come in.
I think the general points have already been repeated to death elsewhere: "flash sucks", "working with proprietary buggy APIs sucks", "filling a post with swearwords makes me sooo alpha male", etc, etc.

Guys, we got the point the first 5 million times. Can we move along?
Turns out his solution is almost the same as mine except I skip the termination stage and instead read one character more in the loop which catches the \0 from the original end of the string automatically. As I'm not really a C programmer, was I doing something bad/unrecommended? It seemed to work.. :-)
Well I can think of another readily-available client-side option to avoid seeing ads.

It's unlikely that the meta tag itself has any real relevance - some aspect of the CMS might be coopted for this purpose and I imagine its original intent was for injecting meta tags.
Plenty of funds would be happy with exits in the $100M range. The billion dollar exits or IPOs are the exception, not the rule and a $50M exit is a damn sight better than a failure. Of course it all depends on when they joined that particular party, the later in the game the higher the exit would have to be to make those investors happy.
>> The right way to solve the internet problem is "unbundling"; that is, the people who own the last mile lease it out to companies that sell you internet, video and other services.

That's terrible. The ISP should give me "internet access" which includes everything out there. They should not get to pick and chose what I can get.

>> If Comcast customers were getting a bad netflix experience they could switch to an ISP that gives a good one.

This is called competition. It's what you get with net neutrality. Since every ISP has to give you everything equally, the only way they can compete is by building better infrastructure and compete on ping time and bandwidth. This is how it should be. Allowing them to prioritize certain services for a fee (regardless of who pays) means allowing them to stagnate - in fact paying them to stagnate - which is bad for everyone.
How would this solve the problem though? Having competition at the last mile doesn't solve the problem of congestion in miles 2-100 where there is still one company.
The interesting part of this is the "don't pay if you don't get hired" part of the policy. Sure, a couple of the big in-person boot camps have that, but I've never seen it online-only.
I may be incorrect, but my impression was that concurrent systems formalization (at least, in ways that are actually relevant on real hardware) was still an area of very active research. Is saying they exist meaningful even in a strictly theoretical sense?
Agree about "no ads" being important. But comparing Netflix to DVR OTA is a very different proposition than comparing it with the abomination of ad-straight-jacketed streaming apps.

Streaming apps don't let you skip and play the same damn apps all the time. On DVR it's just a fast-forward and it's not so difficult (caveat I use a TiVo for this and I know they have a warchest of patents so I have no idea whether it is worse on competing DVRs).

With respect to kids programming, honestly the Netflix kids section is basically a huge toy product ad. It's full of the product crap. Bratz this, Ponies that, Shortcake that, Legos this, Star Wars that, Barbie this, Tikerbell that, Disney fad-coms etc and Netflix doesn't let you blacklist any of that shit. Even rating it low, they'll still shove all the related shit in front of your kids. The best we can find are European imports and PBS shows. But you can get PBS shows without ads already.

Basically, for us Netflix streaming is becoming useful only for it's kids programming but we've started building a local streaming media library because we are so unsatisfied with the entire experience vs what it could and should be.

There is very little interesting to watch on Netflix. With Netflix DVD you at least used to (lately it's only true on paper, not in execution) have access to quality programming in addition to the crap. There was a time when Netflix content was broader than local rental options. Now the local rental options have disappeared and Netflix only cares about serving the 90% of the idiots of the world.
It's refreshing to see more writing popping up from people that 'get' it. It's a shame that most of it is after people spent a decade campaigning for the wrong thing.
The Iron Yard (Orlando, FL) is also a coding school that guarantees a job to its graduates. They don't offer the same "don't pay if you don't get hired" policy, to my knowledge.

I can't vouch for the efficacy of either, but learning programming from 0 in N weeks and guaranteed employment seems... unlikely.
I moved almost all my friends and family to Telegram. I think the secret, once I managed to get them to install it, was to create common groups instead than many one-to-one chats.

Then they got hooked up, mostly thanks to the huge amount of high quality stickers.
I also got the notification, but it's strange because WhatsApp in Europe is from WhatsApp Ireland Limited, and WhatsApp outside is from WhatsApp LLC.
They are different companies with different legal requirements.
I've seen some news stating that these new changes apply only to WhatsApp LLC, but the notification seem to say otherwise.

Someone else with more info could explain better?
worldwide? but what about the sun
Perhaps it's a typo, but youtul(dot)be is probably not a link anyone wants to click on.
Genuinely curious to hear if anyone has knowledge of what security protocols are like/how sandboxed each of those machines are/what is likely to be done to verify that keyloggers weren't installed -- and how quickly something like that can be done, as most of those lawmakers rely on those machines for completing their daily work.
Absolutely, given how polarized things are, I have little trouble believing poll workers and others with the ability to put their thumbs on the scales would do just that.
Except then you get emotionally driven hatred of people and situations. After all, that is exactly what this sort of criticism is designed to inspire. That, in turn, tends to lead to solutions that don't actually fix the problem but just make people feel satisfied regarding their hatred.
Since forever I am doing most of my readings in electronic formats.

Most of the new 300 ppi devices use the same screens, or small variations on it, so the differences are not huge in terms of screen quality.

I recently moved from a Kindle paperwhite (6") to a pocketbook inkpad 3 (8" screen) and the extra space is really a great for reading but I am not sure it's big enough for PDFs. Battery life is great, but the software seems to be more mature on Kindles, but still it's totally usable.

I could recommend to go bigger, but that comes on the expense of mobility and the price jumps sharply as you go bigger.
Surveillance limited to NSL-targeted people as an exception is still better than global surveillance for everyone as part of their business model.
There are many human rights hills to die on. This is not that hill.
IMHO we don't understand enough about ecology to say what will happen if global temperatures change as rapidly as they're forecast to change. It never happened before on such a short timescale, afaik.

For example many humans rely on fishing for a large part of their protein, but marine ecosystems are already collapsing from overfishing. What will happen if climate change also negatively affect them? Insects are also rapidly declining everywhere, how sure are we about their importance for our food supply?
Yeah, this is the most frustrating part of all this. Halting climate change isn't even that hard and would clearly benefit billions of people. It just affects the pocketbooks of a couple of rich people, so we can't do it, and instead spin our tires with dumb nit-picking articles like this one.
$500/mo/person for ACA (Obamacare) HMO Silver Plan in Illionois. It comes out to $12,000 per year for a family of two adults, no kids. This is fully out of pocket without subsidies.

HMO means you have to go to specific providers, and get referrals for any specialists. Silver plan means the deductible is about $2000 per person before insurance starts paying, then various levels of co-insurance until you hit a spending cap of about $7000 per person. Only family doctor and referral specialist visits are fixed price, at $30 and $60 fixed copay, respectively.

EDIT: comparatively speaking, a PPO silver plan (you get to choose your own doctor) would go up to about $800/person/month. And a gold plan with lower deductibles and lower coinsurance would be $1000/person/month and more. Basically, if you end up going to a doctor for anything serious, you end up paying $thousands out of pocket anyway, whether due to monthly premiums on gold, or deductible on lower plans.
I've been writing CoffeScript daily for about 4 weeks now. On the first day, it seemed pretty minor. About three days in I was a believer. Now, when I write the occasional few lines of Javascript in my browser's console, it just feels so arduous to type. Whenever I pop open a Javascript library to read it, I feel like there is an assault on my eyes. I'm never going back.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2490745
That would be missing the point of course. Read my previous post - there is difference between food and beer that I illustrated.
Yeah buddy I get home tired from work and the commute, crack open a cold one, and surf late 2000s forum posts on installing gentoo on a PS3.

There are many healthy activities to take up rather than play with deprecated/obscure tech. Not to be judgemental of course, I draw my line at home repairs.
Build to be acquired has been not uncommon in the semiconductor and network gear spaces in particular over the last two decades.

Intel, Cisco, nVidia, AMD, Qualcomm and a dozen other companies are always happy to scoop up new IP for their castles. Just Intel and Cisco together have $37 billion in annual operating income burning a hole in their pockets.

Teams that can flip new semi or network IP, are like medtech inventors that routinely do exactly the same thing in that space. It's very difficult, requires particularly specialized industry insider knowledge and the industries are filled with very large, rich corporations happy to overpay to ensure their positions.
It sounds kind of silly, but this was a real problem for us when my preschooler went through a phase where he only ate peanut butter sandwiches. His preschool wouldn't let us pack them in his lunch despite none of the other kids in his class actually having peanut allergies. We threw away a lot of uneaten cheese sticks and apple slices that month.
Trying to prove the Riemann hypothesis is doing the same thing like everyone else. Competition might actually force you to come up with a different approach.
https://www.research.ibm.com/5-in-5/ai-and-bias/
There's actually quite a lot of value in finding and fixing exploits. It's just that many companies prefer the illusion that $1k is a reasonable bounty for SQLi.
> Once again, types are way overrated.

Care to expand on this? I'm curious, what is your opinion and preferred platform/languages?
Not really, it is a subset of fmt.
According to current copyright law it is not theft. It is "infringement", a separate legal term. It is also generally not a criminal offense but a civil offense, unlike theft.
Before you can have workable regulation you need to define what you're regulating, what you're not, what is allowed and what isn't.

Good luck with that.
I think it's trying to draw a difference between how good your body actually is at the activity of running itself, versus how well it responds to a particular technology. Sort of like if they legalized one particular performance enhancing drug. The records would be set by people who happened to respond well to that drug (let's say).
“A similar mistake could happen again”

“Similar” is doing a lot of work there - what constitutes similar basically dictates if error correction has any future proofing benefits or none at all.
Fair enough. I guess in your place I would just be very interested in knowing how I performed compared to other people working in the field, but I can't blame you for not wanting to mess with a good thing either.
Let me get this straight -- a commercial ad-driven marketplace supplies a very substantial amount of content consumed by children and markets it as educational (and/or allows such marketing), parents are not educational experts, and you think it's problematic that the government might see a need to step in, starting with some basic fact-finding?

Nobody is shutting the service down, dude. Maybe we find that nothing is really wrong. Maybe we challenge the company to more appropriately rate content that's marketed as educational, or do better ad filtering, so that parents can make informed decisions. Right now there are pretty clearly no requirements and lots of obviously false pedagogical claims, and parents can't afford to pre-vet all the content their kids might watch (and the marketing tells them they shouldn't have to).

I don't see what your problem is. This is a major new phenomenon facing parents, it's super weird that you think some fact-finding is nanny pearl clutching.
He did not say "before internet".
I've texted a lot since school. Try to shrink it 33%.
> if we care about taking cars off the road, we need to make cities walkable

I couldn't agree more! IMO increasing walkability will be key to both increasing density and decreasing carbon impact.

The point I was driving at when saying we don't care where we take cars off the streets is that taking 100 cars out of, say, Rome, has about the same impact as taking 10 cars out of 10 other cities. There are places which are more interested in moving away from cars today than others and, while we eventually want to get all of them, we can start where resistance is lowest.
And to be clear: intent definitely can be in the raw text. If the whole text of a statute is trying to outlaw a certain kind of activity but one sentence undermines it all under a literal reading (e.g., by excluding all possible people it might apply to), that sentence will be re-interpretted to what it needs to mean for the law to be applied.
I feel uneasy about the sense that the music industries appear on the side of right here. And this is a situation where we should hesitate to call things wrong simply because they are illegal.

We must remember that copyright is only justified on practical grounds, and with the internet these practicalities have changed greatly. If we only want to lecture 'kids on the internet' of how copyright was, we are failing to give the matter the thought it now needs. Copying, in itself, is good -- it is one of the two sides of the trade-off, and that the internet enables and encourages people to copy is a substantial good that we don't want to impede.

I think we should want attribution, but permission I feel less certain about. It is probably corporations that muddy the waters: people do plenty of open-source and share freely, and so retaining a little control seems socially reasonable. But corporations are all too often obnoxious sociopaths about copyright.

So I am not sure what I would tell 'kids on the internet'. I lean toward the share-everything-freely side, but it doesn't really matter anyway because the whole system is going to be doing a lot of evolving and adapting by itself in coming years.
That would be difficult, since it isn't true. The Church had banned Copernicus's book and the general concept of heliocentrism in 1616, which was a full 16 years before they went after Galileo for promoting heliocentrism.
It's surprisingly hard to find an example of the textbook monopoly where prices actually rise. Diamonds, maybe?
Bank of America's budget vs Internet's creativity... I wonder how this will turn out?
I was given this test when I was 13 by my grade 8 teacher. I wrote something along the lines of:

(7)^(7^(7^(9^(9 ... ))))))

after realizing about second into the challenge that the extra time taken to draw a 9 vs a 7 was worth it.

To my surprise, when we got back from lunch I was told that there was a tie for first place. I thought "how could this possibly be?"

It turned out that the way the teacher phrased the question was "write the biggest number" which to me, and all but one person in the class, meant the furthest number from 0 on a number line while still remaining positive. The other person just drew an ENORMOUS "10" on her piece of paper. The teacher went on to explain out of box thinking about solutions (like mine) and out of box approaches to the question (like hers).
There are better methods than just doing a dns check. Actually signing the messages works too, as does whitelisting of ips by the domain owner.
History has always proven my statements to be right.

Changing human behavior in such a fundamental way is highly unlikely to happen from some technical limits put up on a website.

I don't need to be a part of those sites to know this.
Many people are eating for survival, not epicurean delights. I hear your complaints about lack of taste, but I don't think they invalidate the method of growing hydroponically.
The Kincora Boys home scandal and the Marc Dutroux scandal warn us about government complicity in the sexual abuse of children. Censorship helps governments conceal their evil doing.

If you favour censorship you will find yourself supporting censorship, even though you are not permitted to check the censored material for yourself. One day the adult raping the child, in the picture that no-one is allowed to see, will be the Minister of Justice and it will be the censorship laws that grant him impunity.
I think he actually has less opportunities than smaller investors. He complains about that a lot.
He is managing a lot of money so he can only buy large cap companies. He frequently claims it's much easier to get a higher returns when you can buy all kinds of companies (big, med and small cap).

> How he got his initial money is not a particularly nice story of success...

Could you expand on this? I'm genuinely curious
Well, clearly the answer is put a price on the lives of the sweet young things who are so eager to throw themselves into the jaws of Moloch. I mean that would be the Capitalist solution; and it would make banking into an heroic activity once again; and if telecast would surely outrank many other reality shows...

Think of a nine-week show called The Bankers Ordeal that would use go-pros to record every moment of the grueling work schedule that would not stop until one of the contestants fell. A riveting tribute to the allure of capitalism, how heart rending to see the contestants lined up at the start; one of them sure to die in the service of the only god our society worships unreservedly. Truly it would be a revival of the ancient tradition of the sacrificial lamb.
Such a shame that people are willing to literally work themselves to death at a task that delivers no true value to society.
Not really related, but it's also extremely scary how much of this industry relies on convoluted, fragile excel spreadsheets.
For new fields like machine learning, there are free, open access journals that work perfectly well in filtering the highest quality research.

It is helpful to have top tier journals like Nature, but the value is generated by the editors and article submittors. If we shut down the top journals tomorrow new open access ones would quickly take their place, and the behaviour of their owners is parasitic.
The stored offset was just my best guess for what Tokyo's offset will be at that date, according to my current TZ database.

If the database changes, I have to go back and edit my timestamps (!), but I dont know which ones to edit because I didn't keep track of (1) which ones are +09:00 because of Tokyo, as opposed to Seoul, and (2) which ones were created with the old database.
FWIW, it works on QubesOS, which is Xen based. Though it works only in my Fedora and Debian VMs, but not on my Archlinux-based one.

I think that's because I have WINE installed in the Archlinux VMs, since that's what gets started when I run ./redbean.com. But even after I remove WINE, it still doesn't work, I probably have to restart (i.e. remove WINE from the TemplateVM, not the AppVM) for it to work.

In any case, incredible work, I am in awe!
You mean something like StrictYAML?

https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/features-removed/
Which is why Lisbon is so appealing to digital nomads. Your salary will likely by much higher than that.