jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I also think the way Apple handles animations gives people a sense of the OS being more organic and friendly and less technical and difficult. In the past, they did that with skeuomorphism, but people are more OK with their phone being a technical device. Still, they're continuing to communicate the underlying concept is that everything has a LOCATION. So menus move in from off-screen, they don't just fade in from thin air. Unused UI-elements move off-screen as well, so they're not gone, they just moved outside your view. The Dock is another great example of this, as well as the animations for opening apps or three-finger swiping between full-screen apps. I believe this makes users less confused and more confident in their ability to use the system. It is also important that Apple is very specific about which speeds and accelerations elements move at, adding to the organic feel and making the OS feel more polished.

Apple's big strength is to make people feel safe and welcome in their ecosystem, and they target people who are willing to pay more for that experience.
If you're going to choose a single particularly successful collectible, you should compare that to a single stock. MNST[1] grew by 2,987x since 1996, which easily beats the 733x that the card appreciated.

S&P500 would be more analogous to averaging out the growth across a large cross-section of collectibles.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MNST/monster-bever...
I actually have some scripts which take textual snapshots of all my open non-idle terminal windows every 10 seconds.

This has saved my butt a number of times.
I tried NixOS once and the overall impression was: it's magic. I mean, you know, when you are installing tools on relatively "clean" distro, like Arch, there usually something fails, and you have to try this and that, tweak something, and it is good old "linux way".

And NixOS is something so elegant and beautiful, so mathematically "right", that I subconsciously expect that it wouldn't actually work, and yet it does. I tell it what I want to get (relatively marginal configuration, btw) and it configures installation just right. I break something and it rolls back without a problem.

So the main question I've had ever since: why this stuff isn't popular enough yet.
I always ask my interviewer "How does the company treat you?"

"You've seen my resume'; what new things would I learn working here?"

"Do you validate parking?" (Just kidding)
As I said many hours before your comment; these solutions are clunky and limited compared to what's available to me on linux...
That is actually an argument for my thesis. When AWS converges to 0 profitability, so do all they other cloud services.

What keeps on making money is the Amazon marketplace and their physical distribution infrastructure.

And if they make more money, the advertising parts of the competitors will make less.
Anyone have any ideas on the performance impact of this vs a typical NodeJS installation? I imagine there's a lot more overhead from starting up the process each time. A pretty cool idea but seems like this loses the benefits of NodeJS, speed and scalability.
Have you ever wondered how the media work and why some topics make it into the news and other don't?

Special Seminar: How to deal with the media: maximising opportunity and minimising threat / Pryce-Jones, Jessica (speaker) (Managing Director of the consultancy iOpener Ltd) ; Pillai, Nisha (speaker) (news anchor for BBC World)

This session will cover how to work effectively with the media including print, radio and TV. You'll get an insight into how journalists and news rooms operate and what they would like from you [...]

http://cds.cern.ch/record/1127343

Propaganda.
Wow, this has an utterly horrible interface. The way it bobs up and down as a I scroll is quite appalling. I'd rather have frames than this.
Of course no truly creative solutions are allowed in the puzzle. It really only serves to illustrate how impossible it is if you stay within the bounds of the current political climate. Not to mention it's a rather limited view of the problem not really taking into account the various feedback loops each option has when it feeds back into the economy and thus back into taxes collected.

Even with all of that said though I like seeing these kinds of exercises brought to the public to raise their awareness of the issues. I really don't envy our gov't leadership trying to solve this problem. The sheer number of variables make it almost impossible to truly predict the result of any action.
For the average developer, using the App Store as a distribution channel is like playing Russian Roulette with your resources. If you don't have considerable marketing money to ensure your app makes it to the top of the iTunes category, your app will simply be buried beneath the horrible user interface of the App Store. It's a little better as far as Android is concerned but not much.

An app store is great for consumers, it sucks for developers. Especially the iOS AppStore where people spend huge amounts of time and money for an app that has a good chance of being rejected for any number of arbitrary reasons. And vendors like Apple go to great lengths to make extra sure your app code is not portable to other platforms, so it's not like you can share significant amounts of code between, say, Android, Windows, and iOS apps.

Enter HTML (5) mobile apps, which work basically the same across all platforms. Sure, you have to make adjustments for different capabilities, but that will even out over the next few years. Basically HTML 5 finally fulfills the promise of Java after all these years. Of course, there are a lot of apps that simply cannot be built with HTML yet, especially games...
Like an SSH session?
It's a shame the author didn't discuss where he worked, and how this industry is connected to other aspects of for-profit online education.

I 'edited' college admissions essays for a couple of years, back when I was a hungry grad student. The company I worked for, CyberEdit, was acquired by Peterson's, a subsidiary of the Thompson Corporation. When Thompson started divesting its education-based businesses, Peterson's (and CyberEdit) were acquired by Nelnet, which holds and services a large portion of federally subsidized student loans.

CyberEdit helps you get into a school you couldn't otherwise attend and Nelnet helps you pay for a school you couldn't otherwise afford - with all parties financially underwritten by your tax dollars. Great business.
Atwood recommends only browsing 'anonymously' when on public, unencrypted networks, but that's a lot harder than it sounds. A facebook 'like' widget (even if you don't click it) on the news site you're using anonymously can be enough to get your Facebook info sent over the network.
I remember reading this several times over my computing career/life and it never stops being funny. I can laugh because I love C and Unix :-)
Very interesting. If I'm reading this correctly, though, if all 4 Availability Zones that they're replicated across were to have gone down, though, they would've been in the same boat.
That was a large motivation behind this. I think a slightly larger problem then their lack of functionality is their arcane-at-best documentation. I'm trying to make the whole standard more approachable in general.
Hi there,

I am also exited to start a startup company. Its my last semester, and i think i should start the company as soon as possible.

But, hey wait a minute, but now i m also feeling that the freedom we(me and my friends) have in college, is going away.

some time it seems better to be in college for life time lol :)

Rajendra Pondel
...SkyNet?
At least in Java and other languages, when casting as int truncates, and doesn't round the number, so: ((int) (0.9999999)) == 0
But then there's Math.floor and Math.ceil for what you're describing which can be used as well.
wow PagerDuty's graphs spiked an unknown amount when a major platform fell over!
Choosing to be on AWS or any other cloud provider means you accept some risk of things going down. Build to fail and when that fails, it all comes down to whether or not you can do it better and how much cost you're willing to bear to get to your goal of HA. For me, I know AWS can do a better job at hosting than I can and can accept multiple AZs going down.
Being bored is certainly a big reason for procrastination, when you know exactly what needs to be done and it's just a matter of putting keystrokes to the keyboard I tend not to be terribly motivated (a trick for these cases is to trick yourself by having an interesting podcast or video on in the background)

Another big reason however I've found is being in a state of "overwhelm", when you have a too large array of problems and tasks it can easily led to procrastination since the problem seems insurmountable. The only recipe for this I've found is to concentrate on a small aspect of the problem/solution and start there, then start on the next and so on
Nice work, and an ingenious take on the more traditional one handed clocks/watches:

http://24hourtime.info/2008/11/22/the-sound-of-one-hand-tick...

and

http://24hourtime.info/2010/04/28/the-sound-of-a-one-handed-...
"They" is an ex-Microsoftie who spent (I think) 9 years at the company, including a long stint in IE. Food for thought.
Scholastic UKs website is predominantly a Rails frontend app (with the exception of many PHP minisites and one OpenACS site) all talking to an OpenACS / PG / iSeries backend. It truly is a monument to over 10+ years worth of web development. Though the main reason towards the Rails switch was the lack of TCL developers, though, strangely enough, good local Rails developers are equally as rare.
Can anyone else hear it ticking? (: Very cool.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/turing/
Seems like we're on our way out of the credit crunch recession. The big question now is if there will be an even bigger "state crunch" as certain countries and states have accumulated so much debt there's no other way out than to print more money. 2011 will be an interesting year. In fact, this will be an interesting decade!
rofl THEN you will have to wait for ipad 3 because will have a better camera and it will be slimmer XDDDD

dont be a fool dude
Note that:

At the time of this writing, RHEL 6.7 is still pre-beta
and this bug was found in an *UNRELEASED* update to squid.

Bad enough, but not like it's out in production.
mail.com recently had their outbound servers listed on Spamhaus for the best part of a week.

I noticed as a mail.com user was trying to email me and the message was being rejected, saw the spamhaus listing in my logs. Asked the sender, and they said that their messages to gmail were going into spam too.

I emailed postmaster@, support@, sysadmin@ etc. to try and inform them, as well as trying two contact forms; never heard anything back and it took several more days for the listing to disappear.
"you need to disappear and break contact with everybody you ever met"

Wow, that is some advice! I bet she is thankful for that! [IRONY]
But if these individual components share any code between them, you'd still have to write the same lines over and over again for each component.

So, how do you reason about that?
... that exploits parallelism and caching (and a hot VM) to accelerate build of huge projects, and supports build clusters.
I can further clarify that process by saying "Science is the evolution of answering questions."
Another school of thought on this is if you're trying to look bigger than you are, which alot of startups do, "we" might be more appropriate.
Something like this would be nice:

curl -F @/path/to/image.jpg http://min.us/upload
For some files dragging to upload might be a win. For photos, you need a user-friendly way for people to upload lots at once.
Well, one problem is: "In 2000, a law was passed mandating that women have the right to cut back hours at their jobs without repercussions from employers."

If the article's correct, that seems like it discriminates against men. If cutting back working hours is an important right, then why can't men do the same without repercussions?
I imported the list from http://yclist.com into my own mysql database because I want to be able to improve this list by adding new columns, re-purposing the data, etc.

I also wanted this list, along with all other yc-related information, on http://ycuniverse.com , which I am still building out.

Feel free to tell me how I can improve on the list and the site.
Hell of a place to choose to run 'experiments'.

Try that shit in an emerging market, first.
If you go down the route of http://www.simulation-argument.com/faq.html then the computer is very important, since without one, case 2 dominates case 3 (the interesting one described in the story).
Yes, I suspect its the implementation of the canvas object thats the bottleneck here.

An implementation of sub-objects (eg. sprites) on the canvas along with a dirty area only rendering algorithm would go a long way to bridging the gap.
First I was taking 5mg. I did not notice any signs of resistance building up, but I felt it was a bit strong for me. Now I'm taking 3mg which is barely enough. With such a small dose moving my day to fit social norms takes up to one week.
I have not noticed any slowness on the Droid however ... ?
The people who could use IDA Pro and write buffer overflows weren't the people who cared about other people's passwords.
They ARE there, but they're not out in the open by any means.

Edit: maybe more poignantly, those people you reference are 'Information Assurance' or 'IA' professionals (mostly with titles that reflect this, such as IAM or IAO.

IA is part of the CND section of CNO - the 'fun' stuff is in CNE/CNA.

For more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network_operations
It's not just a buzzword. Many of the new features of HTML5 assumes scriptability, so it's perfectly reasonable to refer to HTML5 without mentioning JS.
That's very kind! Unfortunately I'm away over those dates. But if in London again let me know.

Good luck with the auction!
> Yes, "interment camp" is a euphemism for "concentration camp", but to be fair at about the same time "concentration camp" become a euphemism for "death camp".

And "concentration camp" is itself a euphemism for "prison camp". So its probably better if we strip out the euphemisms and refer to:

1. "Prison camps", and

2. "Death camps" (or, even more accurately, "Extermination camps")

(Recognizing that the second is a subset of the first, not a disjoint category.)

And avoid "concentration camps" and "internment camps" entirely.
Bitcoin is a scare digital asset; scarcity is why it has the value that it does.

You can’t just spin up another Bitcoin blockchain and expect to have the ecosystem move that chain without sacrificing their hash power on another chain when they’re deeply invested in the original $1 trillion (and growing) chain.

That’s like suggesting Apple move to a copy of the NASDAQ exchange.
Having recently put together a mostly ETF portfolio for someone I realized that unintentionally you could end building a large exposure to one stock, in my case... No surprise... it was TSLA. I found a tool on morning star which allowed me to do this analysis but would be good to have this in your app.
90% of Twitter:

"Someone I don't like did something I don't like and I'm so angry and you need to know about my anger because that will make a big difference to absolutely no one."

I've kept my profile/account up, but I've stopped participating and nuked all but a handful of tweets that I thought may be a reference for folks, and didn't want to turn them into dead ends. It's too hard (or requires too much effort) to avoid the toxic stuff that makes Twitter a hellscape. I'd like to go back to the days when people didn't think everyone else was interested in them airing their bullshit to the world.
> Why do you want it to sit idle

I don't. It's still a limited resource and Dropbox is not the only thing people run.
Waste can be very subjective.

Exchanging text makes the format easier to debug and accessible to humans, which can be a purpose in itself.
Are you in a position to share that session online or perhaps a blog post on your experience and approach ?

I've looked at it (openvas), got something working, but was never happy with it and ended up returning to a simpler/proven nmap base that I could manage better and add complexity if/when needed.
Loved that story about the video decoder. Simply brilliant :) All the best!
Just keep up the moral and psychological pressure, that's all it takes. Look at the constant leftward drift in academia. Not all of that is rich donors mysteriously interested in political agendas that involve increasing their own tax rate; most of it isn't.

The sort of people who would politically oppose them are conservatives, who by their very nature tend to be ... conservative. That is, careful about challenging the status quo and uninterested in activism. So frequently they just stay quiet and don't talk much about their views: that's why the walkouts and Googler activists on Twitter always seem to have the same agenda. It looks like Googlers all agree but they don't, not at all.

But this has an insidious impact in two forms:

1. People whose own convictions aren't that strong can be easily swayed by constant arguments of the form, "if you disagree with me you're evil and bad" because everyone wants to be good and they're not being supplied with intellectual ammo with which to fight back.

2. People who are trying to calculate the cost of resistance look around and don't see any allies, just a big angry mob, so feel they have to fold even if they disagree.

The correct way to handle this sort of situation is for senior managers to have strong and relatively small-c conservative convictions, such that progressive placard-waving activism is swiftly dealt with via firings with everyone being made clear on why those people got fired (political arguments do not belong in the workplace).

Google doesn't have that and we can see the result.
I'm a Managing Director in Accenture - currently running DevOps for UK & Ireland. I get a pretty unique view of projects/plans from people/companies.

I've documented roughly where I see things going over the next 5-10 years based on a number of things I'm seeing at the moment. Feel free to ask questions
I didn't quite like the article. At the begining it shows a good picture of the Milky Way and it says:

> The image has not been retouched or post-processed in any way.

Then the whole article describes how they've automated a full astroprocessing pipeline inside the phone, that makes heavy postprocessing...
Be proud of it! It's an asset. I know I can't get through that stuff.
If you want a policy proposal to be burned to the ground; organize grassroots support for it. The following PR disaster angry mob will set it on fire for you without you getting your hands dirty.
That's really the point of success in business - it gives you the ultimate privilege of hugely decreasing the odds that you'll be held responsible for damage you cause to others.

Occasionally the wheels come off (maybe literally) and someone with significant power ends up in jail. But realistically - how often?

Which is why software security and quality aren't a thing. There's no pressure to do the job properly and plenty of incentive not to.
The real problem with h1b is that it appears to be primarily used to offshore jobs to other countries. The largest users of h1b visas are firms that bring people to the US for a period of time to get trained, then have them return to their country of origin, offshoring the work (see for example http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2007-02-08/work-visas-ma...)

So, tossing H1B would be a great start at immigration reform. Instead, we should prefer immigrants with educational backgrounds in skills we need, and who have the best chance at assimilation.
I can tell you most of the TOR relays they've got aren't anything more than google cloud instances. So... not really hacking at all.
Note from someone who does a lot of woodwork: yup, that’s right.
The real power here is a Google destroyer.

These AI's can't yet produce things of value to humans but I doubt Google's AI could know that.

Pump out billions of pages of text and pictures and it should swamp Google.
Other than the logo on the plane, of course. :P
This is great. Now make authoring tool like flash/director and we are in 21 century for real.:)
What is GIS? I only know Geographical Information System.
Depends if you care about having graphics or audio in your Linux VM. Currently I think Linux VMs are just console only. Also, there is a lot of accelerated hardware which the CPU has which would be nice to get access to inside a VM.
Especially the goetta [0]...

[0] https://www.seriouseats.com/2013/10/goetta-the-cincinnati-ge...
I see no way to have no image background. The "White" editor's choice image doesn't make it look like it used to. Very annoying.
6.170 switched from clu to java not the compiler course 6.035.
The article contradicts itself with it's own information:

Men enjoy winning and competition to a much greater degree than women do. So long as this economy is capitalist, that alone will ensure that the best men are always at the top.

The problem is that men are also more likely to be at the bottom, and this is more evident during economic downturns.

It's a given that women, occupying the middle in greater numbers will come out ahead overall, but that's hardly the death of men. What it is though is more of a return to "normal", where a few alpha males dominate the females - who basically do everything else - and the remaining males occupy outcast roles.
Interestingly, orthotics are being heavily advertised these days, supposedly to help you avoid foot problems. But I suspect they may actually reduce further the range of motion possible for your feet and cause even more tightness. Less movement is not the answer to problems caused by a lack of movement.
I'm down with that. Thee's a (very small) number of people who abuse HN, either flooding the page with submissions or only ever submitting links from their own blog and stuff like that. It's rather annoying, though i don't know if there is a good automated solution.
I think that's the point of Dropbox. Setting up FTP isn't as easy. Dropbox is so friendly people use it in lieu of more complete, cheaper solutions.
The Boston to NYC trains are fantastic! I wouldn't fly between those two if I had the choice. Arrive in the city. Power plug on the train, tons of room. Real food. Cheap to do last minute. Not sure why anyone would want to fly between Boston any NYC these days.

As for Boston to Toronto I have done it many times the past two years before giving driving a try so I know how much time it actually takes. Door to door it was within a half hour of total traveling time, ton cheaper, real food, and the security at the boarder was not stupid. Driving I can go there whenever I want without needing to plans weeks in advance, adding another last minute person isn't a $2000 plane ticket, and I can change my return home plans on a whim. And as a bonus when I rent a cars I have been able to try out different models which I personally very much enjoy.
Better, how is this something in the past we shouldn't be discussing anymore?

Our last president basically redefined the concept of 'unjust war'. We obviously haven't changed much from Vietnam War era politics.

My only real comment is that the 1945 cutoff is arbitrary and unfair. American policy at the end of WWII was to bomb as many Japanese civilians as it could. But I'm sure those numbers get skewed when you add in the wholesale killing of civilians the world in saw in WWII by other powers.
Did anyone else get a default picture of the gulf oil spill?