jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> But they're not "meaningless", because the average person in Europe and Australia has no interest in owning a gun

You've just described yet another reason why gun control measures are meaningless. The desire to kill oneself and/or others (with or without a gun) doesn't exist in a vacuum; guns don't magically make people suicidal or homicidal. That desire happens due to a combination of socioeconomic pressures and inadequate mental healthcare - two angles that gun control proponents chronically ignore, instead pushing for band-aids like gun control because those band-aids are "easier" and don't involve confronting the painful realities of socioeconomic inequality.

Hence, my point: as home manufacturing of firearms proliferates, that band-aid loses whatever tenuous effectiveness it has. People concerned about "gun violence" are then forced to consider why people are killing themselves and each other (hint: because the average person is broke and depressed).
I think many are defining privacy as “no one has even the possibility of accessing your data”. To me, surveillance is actively instrumenting and recording data from a user . Apple seems live in a middle zone where the do not engage in surveillance, but sometimes make technical choices where they could in theory access or intercept data from you, though they have they have promised not to.
Which half is always this problem. It's compounded by the fact that Europeans have scourged their land of anything worthwhile - relegating nature to tiny preserves and replacing most wilderness with farms and cities. Often these same people insist that other nations avoid developing and "preserve" their land. How about we raze Europe's cities and give half her land back to Nature first.
Another article on the same topic: [Will American Ideas Tear France Apart? Some of Its Leaders Think So](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threa...)
Good point. That’s changes the substance of the post.
I literally do not understand this obsession. I thought that antirasism basically mean opposite of obsessing about race in any way. I mean, yeah I notice if someone is white, black, or whatever but what does that have to do with anything else than the wavelength of the light hitting my eyes after reflecting from their skin.

If everybody just totally ignored color of the skin in any way, like totally, rasism would be non existent. Is that so hard?
"> flameshot gui" is awesome, one of the most useful tools I use and a terrific replacement for shutter||xclip. I recommend "> peek" to capture gifs.
I agree with this comment. I don't understand what specifically makes this a "system approach".
I get that tech wars are fun to watch, can we please stop promoting this drivel? You can write about major tech companies without the obvious and insulting spin/outright lies.
Sometimes I find language features "exciting" although they're not brand-new.
Civil liberties should be defended not because they foster a democratic society, but in spite of it. Mass fear will always be exploitable, that's why we need a set of political principles stronger than pure mob rule.
Seems like he's talking more about patience to stick with your business through "the dip" even if it's not an overnight success rather than patience to first launch. Launch away and iterate, but be patient if it's not an overnight success when you first launch it. It's a good message. Along these lines, I always like to remember that most overnight success stories were 3+ years in the making before the "overnight" success.
The is certainly space for a "Uber/Airbnb for home services", but I am not sure Amazon will be it. What startups are in this space, and do they have any traction?
Their Twitter feed is an excellent lesson on how to handle a breach: https://twitter.com/puushme
Except it's not true that they were "specifically not allowed to attend." In fact, they were specifically not given the special privileges offered to other journalists.
It doesn't need to be on a massive scale or not pro-bono. It's enough to some people in the govt to volunteer and go on a disinformation field trip.
Look at how we've structured the semantics of JavaScript, Python, etc. (E.g.: http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pclpk-..., http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pmmwpl..., http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/gsk-es...). This is how you should go about creating a core of R, followed by an elaboration from the full language into the core. Steal an existing parser to get ASTs, then most of your time goes into desguaring.
That is correct. There are planned solutions for rewriting all your data, though they won't play nicely with one of ZFS's other most important features - Snapshots. The current plan is basically to have a nice userspace utility that will rewrite all your data in-place, but that will cause you to rereplicate everything over your snapshots.
I would think that any god that is proven to exist by simply defining it to be identical to something that exists is pretty worthless to begin with. You could always just short-circuit and just say "I am right by definition."

Which really gets us closer to the heart of what proof is: it is that which will compel a rational mind into agreement. It is not enough to follow formal rules. It must be measurably dangerous -- potentially a catastrophic failure -- for a rational mind to disagree with a proof. Someone should be able to build a dutch book on your expectations and obliterate you for failing to agree with that proof.

So until someone actually measures their god to be good, there are no consequences for a proof in either direction, and a rational mind should not be convinced.
For a second, I was disappointed that chessgames.com didn't have any of the TCEC games to step through. But the article links to the TCEC site, and it has its own interface with much more information about what the engines are "thinking": http://tcec.chessdom.com/archive.php
Ridiculous, badly written and of course contorted. I deeply apologize for people in my country who take pride in stealing credit for other people's work.
Outside of a jargon context, the meaning of an English word is what the majority of word users agree it means, because that's what other people understand when the word is used.

"Literally" has been debased by overuse for emphasis, and now it no longer means what it used to mean.

See e.g. https://nowtoronto.com/news/in-defence-of-the-figurative-and... and http://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2013/aug/14/lan... for more discussion.
Is this a joke? http://vastpic.net/photos/chemtrails.jpg

Love the filename.
I still remember that HN post announcing his project, before getting accepted to YC.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
I ran a bike-flipping business in college... not quite brick & mortar, but definitely not high-tech.

My roommate and I went to all the sorority houses around campus and made a deal with the house moms for old bikes. In exchange for cleaning up the bike-parking area of their house, we would get all of the left-over bikes for free from girls who had just graduated.

We then cleaned them up, ran some ads in Craigslist, and sold them to people near the beach. Best part was the bikes were predominantly beach-cruisers, and were in high demand at the beginning of summer when students had graduated.

Process took 10 days, we made about $2000 between the two of us, and it paid for a plane ticket to Europe with some extra cash to spend!
Yes, we're from the UK :)
Tsk tsk, HN. As written, the quoted sentence suggests the inmates are demanding poor conditions, the opposite of what was intended.
You should definitely get an attorney if you can at all afford it.

But either way, I appreciate you taking up this fight. These types of patent suits are particularly obnoxious when brought to bear on early-stage entrepreneurs, where they are clearly not protecting innovation, but rather stifling it. Each person willing to fight brings us a step closer to a patent-free world.

Please post a way for us to donate money to fund your fight. And also potentially contact a non-profit to help (does the EFF take up patent disputes?)
Me too. Gmail is for people I trust, yahoo is for when I want the email but don't want the sender to have my "real" address (e.g. hotel/travel confirmations), and hotmail is for when I don't even want the email.
I wouldn't donate to Wikipedia because I don't think they spend the marginal donation dollar very well. Here's a picture of the Wikimedia headquarters:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_Wikimedia_Foundation_O...

I'm not convinced that having a lot of foundation employees helps make the encyclopedia better. I'd like to see Wikipedia operate on a shoestring budget and stop collecting donations once they had enough invested to run their servers off of dividends and interest indefinitely.
How Cool! I've just noticed the QED advert at the bottom, and I'm going to be speaking there! Any of you who were at the HN London meeting at Skills Matter, at QED I'll be doing a full and proper version of the talk I gave there.
This woman has missed her calling. She could be one of the greatest poker players the world has ever known.
From article:

It is unethical in all cultures to keep someone waiting while you flout the time commitments.

One thing that I noticed: he never told them where he got his feed data from. I would have taken that as stonewalling from him.
Chrome 5.0.375.70 on Ubuntu Lucid still leaks memory terribly, forcing me to kill processes (tabs). Anyone here with insight on this?
I think like a lot of myths, there is a kernel of truth in the 10x programmer myth.

The fact is, some problems are hard. Some problems are beyond the grasp of some developers. Even given unlimited time an individual may not ever accomplish the goal. I can certainly think of problem sets where that is true of myself.

In those specific circumstances, that person can be considered a "10x programmer" when compared with another.
There are several tools for stacking patch series, here is a list: https://github.com/epage/git-stack/blob/main/docs/comparison...
I think the trouble is that due to changing how reactivity works in Vue3, really it’s a completely new framework that just looks quite like Vue2. I don't think they could have made the changes in a phased way, it’s a kind of all or nothing situation.

This time last year I helped with adding Vue3 support to the TipTap editor and went headfirst into Vue3s internals. It’s a completely different machine.

Vue3s changes to its reactivity system is like Python 3s change to make strings Unicode.
There is absolutely no need for name-calling.
Unfortunately couldn't see a way to make the title meaningfully shorter so abbreviation of California to Cali.
Obviously someone thought it was valuable

Who are we to judge what price you put on things and what you are willing to pay?

no one is being forced to do anything here
Yeah, especially after that google graveyard website, and all the services axed with no good replacements...

You'd have to be a fool to trust any google service for anything.
> In other languages, the tens and units of numbers are inverted. For example, in Dutch, 94 is written vierënnegentig (or “four and ninety”), and other research suggests this may make it harder to do certain mathematical processes.

>For example, Dutch kindergarten children performed worse than English children on a task that required them to roughly add together two-digit numbers. This was despite the fact they were slightly older and had better working memory, because Dutch kindergarten starts later than in the UK. But on nearly every other metric, including counting ability, roughly adding and comparing quantities of dots, and simple addition of single-digit numbers, the two groups performed at the same level.

This is rather surprising. I would have guessed that adding numbers verbalized in little endian order would be easier because it makes carryover much more natural.
> and the Chinese government hasn't seized Alibaba, Tencent or Huawei.

Funny, your examples include a company famous for the CCP removing their CEO (Ali) and the company being an arm of military intelligence (Huawei).

I don't feel the need to continue.
This keeps bothering me:

>7.1 URL structure

>Humans SHOULD be able to easily read and construct URLs.

>This facilitates discovery and eases adoption on platforms >without a well-supported client library.

The URL is ephemeral on REST. That is because you create the documents on the fly. They can be linked or not to things that you store on the datastore. Allows you to easily change around as needed because the URL is not the API. The hyperlinks are the API. The URL is like a memory pointer. You shouldn't care about it.
already happening
Four hundred EUR total, were did you find such tickets? I use Kayak, only direct flights and no Ryanair (all too much hassle with kids)

A car like this should be able to do 80K Km before needing any serious maintenance / repairs so a 2500Km round trip doesn't worry me too much. It is indeed also about convenience.
What's the other Portland, is it Portland, Maine? Sincere question
I'm guessing he had no plan to "legitimately" cash it out ever, given the way it was procured?

Still, he could have tumbled it, traded for Monero, etc. when he got out.
San Francisco - PlanGrid (YC12). Near 16th Street Mission BART. VISA, INTERN, FULL-TIME.

We sell an actual useful product for money (think version control for blueprints but our ambitions are much larger). We intend to own the construction software business, which is vastly under-served. The market is huge; construction is a multi-trillion dollar industry globally that still operates like they did in 1950. Our customers are so happy that up until the past three months we've had no marketing or sales whatsoever - we were profitable in year one just from word of mouth.

Our primary hiring philosophy is as follows: Wicked smart, NO DICKS.

We are looking for engineering and non-engineering positions. You can see the jobs and/or apply here: http://grnh.se/r1nhcp

* Senior iOS. We are shipping Swift code this month (see my Swift blog at http://russbishop.net ).

* Android. Small but growing team.

* Backend/API. Python and mongo, but we're investigating alternatives (Postgres? FoundationDB?) because we are steam-rolling to the trillion-with-a-capital-T mark on records.

* Windows. We are just starting this team so you have complete freedom. Will probably be C# with a shared library supporting a Desktop app and RT app.

* Data Science. You would think blueprints were created by professionals with standards. You'd be wrong. Put your machine learning skills to work on real world problems where a 1% improvement saves man-years of effort.

* Web. We do some real magic on the web; check out our blueprint annotating. This team is about to do some major re-factoring/re-writing with a focus on speed and maintainability.

Also hiring an IT Manager, Customer Support Heros, Marketing specialists, a Marketing Director, Field Sales, Biz Ops, and more.

Feel free to get in touch via my blog. I'm happy to answer any questions about what it's like to work at PlanGrid.
It should be as easy as installing WordPress, yes. That should be the ultimate goal of the whole discipline of encryption and security: orders of magnitude easy-to-use. SSLmate's[1] `sslmate buy www.example.com` does everything (private key, CSR generation, cert signing) but installation. It automatically maintains the certs too. It's currently a commandline tool.

[1]: https://sslmate.com
Yeah, but Facebook is valued that much because it actually makes a lot of money right?

Has Snapchat made a dollar?
Have you tried to estimate their profit or gross margin?

I think it's wrong to analyze this as stolen goods. It's an opportunity cost. Unless they are fully utilized, the cost is power, cooling, and depreciation on the hardware. Not the market price of what that CPU time would have been sold for. Based on http://www.geekwire.com/2014/heres-startup-dumped-amazon-web... the internal cost might be 50% or even less than market price.

You have a habit of positing that because you wouldn't do something means that others wouldn't as well. You can sue a bank for acting in bad faith, which "does not necessarily involve furtive or evil motives, but has a commercial sense of disregard of and refusal to learn the facts when available; and that the circumstances and conditions may be so cogent and obvious that to remain passive amounts to bad faith" - http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ky-court-of-appeals/1496975.html#... .

Bear in mind that it's very difficult to extrapolate from a regulated bank to an unregulated company. there are also a lot of banking laws put into place define exactly what bad faith means. For example, it used to be that you were liable for stolen credit card misuse until the time it was reported. The law changed to limit your liability, which placed more emphasis on the bank to do fraud detection.

The parallel here is obvious; if as a matter of principle they decided to assume 100% liability, then this gives them inventive to improve fraud detection, which can be done through things like usage analysis. While assuming no liability gives them less inventive to go after fraud. If Amazon wants happy customers, then great service helps - no principle needed.

(In addition, the US government requires additional reporting and oversight of your bank account. For example, the bank can be in trouble if they decline to notice a pattern of structuring your transactions to be under the $10,000 reporting limit to the government.)
It is probably not the greatest in terms of writing style, but : I read it in January 2013, and it is by far the most memorable book I've read the whole year. I still think back to it, whereas I couldn't tell you what I read in August.
nothing personal, but turns out you happen to be totally wrong. :) we can just look through examples until you realize this.

It is like saying if I sell you a luxury mansion in the Hamptons that comes with nice hedges, for $1, I've really sold you an $800 interest payment, since you'll want to keep paying a gardener to trim the hedges, since if you don't it will hurt the price of your property long-term. you want to retain the value.

Do you see how considering the $1 as coming with an $800 interest payment (until you replace the hedges with gates at even greater cost) is a totally wrong way to consder what has just happened?

The fact that someone (you) will want to pay something doesn't make it anything close to debt. It's an unhedged (heh) call option.
That's not at all what that sentence means... did you at least explain that to him?
No idea? I saw an article on the Consumerist on how the government forced AT&T to provide it at that rate to senior citizens or something.

I pay around $130.
He's still in the honeymoon period. Everyone is optimistic at this stage. My guess is that within a year or two he will leave, disgusted by the subtle erosion of the Zappos vision.
That your idea is unique doesn't really matter. Most likely anyway, it wasn't, and someone else has tried something in that area before. The implementation is what matters.

You say you are basically ready to release it. So do so. Just focus on making your product as good as possible.

If you have less features than the other company, that's fine. It seems you are launching with a smaller feature set than them, which is probably a good thing, as until you get users you won't know whether any of them are useful or not.
Quite agree, this paper (or at least the summary) is nonsense.

And this:

Take as an example the question: if the ability to
remember is such a good thing, why hasn't evolution
given us photographic memories? The answer according to
Boyer and Walsh's model is because we'd starve when the
local supermarket went out of business.

Has to be the stupidest thing I can ever remember reading in a purportedly scientific article. If I have photographic memory why would I visit the supermarket more than once, after it closes? Just because I remember that there was food there doesn't mean I'm required to go there.
Wow, that's extremely cool. I remember checking Twilio out before, but I didn't quite get what the use case might be for it. This example has managed to flick on a light switch in my head, and I see that with a platform like this you could build some amazing applications. I will be playing with it more in the future.
Seems like Acrobat jumped the shark a few versions back.

It's a monster.

Sounds like you need to use some font management software, though, which will allow you to load up sets as you need them, rather than having them always available.
Awesome, Tony Hsieh is a true business leader.
I did. There were a couple missing slide images, but I don't think that was Flash-related. Here's a slide near the end, for example:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/360937/Mobile%20Photo%20Jun%207%2C%2...
Yeah. Don't feel bad. I have a graduate degree in pure math, and my comprehension level is only about 30%.

Math is an extremely fractured field at a high level. And so much of it requires getting your head around new and difficult concepts, you can't translate between subfields well.

Someone who speaks fluent Java stands a decent chance of decoding reasonably compex C++ or Ruby or whatever. I mean, some languages are way, way out there, but once you've been around the block a couple times, it's all just code.

Not so in math. A professional geometer talking to someone who does PDEs or complex analysis or topology . . . they have nothing in common. And it would take any of them years of study to close the gap.
No need to build anything, just use an existing device that can change its wifi MAC address.
That seems like it would work, but it turns into a "open using crowbar found inside" problem: how do I know to use the same salt on a second density.io device unless I have already matched the MAC address.
City of Houston does MAC address tracking on the freeways and surface streets to power their traffic tracking measures. It's probably used in hundreds of other places you haven't thought about. If you're concerned about your privacy just turn wifi off.

http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/layers/
I hadn't realized how trackable cell phones were until I was experimenting on a wifi project and saw both MAC addresses and Preferred Network List of devices within the area that had not joined my network. Cell phone wifi is a privacy nightmare. Even the most technical people don't realize this, so projects that popularize it are going to kick up huge amounts of mud. Think of how easy it is to identify "whale" clients, if not by direct tracking, then by revenue correlation (these N people were present for $N,NNN,NNN in revenue events). They're valuable to track because when they show up you want your sales people to be at their best, but a service that starts tracking those people is going to make real enemies quickly.
Um, video lectures, lecture notes, problem sets, solutions, and references to textbooks is more than just "a dumping ground". When I look at what's available on OCW for the classes I took when I was at MIT, everything that I got any learning value from is there.
Looking techempower's benchmark code, specifically the "dbs" and "update" functions (which are weighted highly), I think there's some optimization that could be done, like using .values() and .update() in more places.

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

Django ends up getting benchmarked against "uvicorn" which just uses raw sql, so yeah, of course raw sql is faster. Django has a raw sql option too, but they're not using it for the benchmark.

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...