jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It seemingly applies everywhere except the US. Even though I now know the workaround, I still refuse to read their articles out of spite at their incompetence. It's all I can do to stop myself spitting at the screen.
Not only that, but his comparison of bus tickets to high-speed rail tickets is absurd. In the UK it can cost me anything from £20-70 return London to Edinburgh by bus for example. By regular-speed train without a railcard, it's gonna be about £120, so at least twice as expensive. And you can guarantee if we ever get around to high-speed, it wont be as 'cheap' as £120.

$5.40 => $9 is a pretty good deal then I'd say for bus to high-speed rail. OF COURSE it's gonna be more expensive, and I'm amazed that the price differential isn't even higher.
This is the same sort of concept that you might see in theological or philosophical writing - realigning the dynamics of "self" vs. "the world" to motivate more focused behavior and lifestyle.

But it's much more pleasant to read the works of the masters in those fields than it is to have some guy talk at you for 20 minutes.
Ok, gross.
3) Undermining the cartels of some of the most vulnerable sectors of society. 4) Shifting ressources from railway to road transit from the 1920s onwards as well as severe cuts to public transit in the 1960s and 1980s. That last point might seem like a long shot but I think it is accurate considering that the externalities of private transit are being paid by society as a whole.
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2011/07/why-not-a-d...
Excel is the most widely used domain-specific language -- maybe even widely used "programming language" (if I'm painting with a broad brush, though it is turing complete) used to date. Getting people off, when a company's livelihood is literally at stake, is no small ask. Solve this problem and you'd be a bajillionare (official title).

I scan the comments and see a few anecdotal comments about how life is just fine with LO. But as many other comments point out: it's not the one-offs that make this hard, it's the fact that excel is the de-facto information exchange between people, businesses, and boards. To be a broken record: it's too ingrained.
If the Eton cadet force is like the one at my private school, that age is also when they start training you in the use of an actual rifle ...

(heavily locked down on a range, but you're definitely primed to support the military in this context!)
Lynx is the definition of niche...
well, it is possible that someone may have different feelings about the USA, despite living here, no?
Even worse, grade inflation is going in the other direction. Not only do most schools have broad requirements for A and B level grades, but some give a 5 for an A if an honors course and a 6 for an AP or college level class.
I didn't read it as blaming Ahmad, rather a reminder that you should have a lawyer present when dealing with law enforcement if possible, because it always comes with the risk of very grave consequences regardless of your innocence.

I'm neither in the US nor Arabic, but your second sentence sounds very problematic. How does this manifest? A person would say that they would like to speak to a lawyer, and then get ignored? Harassed until they relent?
The person in the article did not know they were going to be questioned by the FBI - they were told they had a "permit issue" at City Hall and were ambushed by the FBI there.
Archive link: https://archive.is/zpNrA
Roundabouts aren't well suited for high speed freeway interchanges.
"Java beats Scala, and many other languages, in readability and maintainability."

The readability and maintainability of software isn't only dependent on the complexity of the language, but also on the complexity of the implementation of a concrete problem.

Yes, the language Java is easy to read and maintain, but their frameworks aren't.
I thought "Droid" was one of the US carriers brands. I'd guess they're selling, and probably renaming, phones from various manufacturers to make them seem more coherent.
So the direct consequence currently is that millions of barrels are venting directly into the gulf. I'm not too clued up on crude oil, but as far as I'm aware, oil is less dense than water, thus rises. Gulf currents will dissipate this as seen from aerial photos, so without containment, oil will end up in a lot more places than just the gulf.

How is the oil flow being contained, and how effective is this - remembering there may be billions of barrels to be contained...

What percentage of the oil will be sub-surface - a lot harder to contain. And how can this be contained?

What are the flow-on effects of a possible sea-floor collapse and how much of an impact will this have on the structure of the gulf?

And then the overriding question of all - is it worth it?

If there is a relatively easy way to extract crude from the water, it may in fact be more economically feasible to extract the oil by destroying the well than to repair the well itself. Of course, none of this is taking into account the environmental impact...
Which is a testament to the iPad's popularity. Isn't having your brand name qualified as 'link bait' the ultimate marketer's wet dream?
I would say a music video that has been already posted on Hacker News a day after it was released is not "viral-to-be".
Btw, you can easily analyze your Facebook friend network:

http://blog.sociomantic.com/2010/05/using-netvizz-gephi-to-a...

Gephi is used to visualize graphs:

http://gephi.org/
Get Cyanogenmod 5.0.7. It is Eclair for Dream (ADP1 included) and Magic.
Perhaps you missed the part where I indicated that they were better than the previous government. They're just still a disappointment.

It's not like I'm some bitter right winger either, my views align more closely with theirs in theory. But in practice they're about the worst thing that could have happened after the crisis, sans the incumbents.

They've failed to enact any meaningful change to financial regulation or government oversight since they took power. They've failed to implement the government transparency that was widely demanded of them (e.g. doing secretive dealings with the IMF). The issue of changing the constitution is now dead in some committee.

As an example of something that's (still) being done right check out the election of the Best Party in Reykjavík. Their agenda (here in Icelandic: http://www.bestiflokkurinn.is/ur-starfi-flokksins/samstarfsy...) includes things that are actually relevant to improving short- and long term life for the population. They've set up an instance of a "shadow government" at http://betrireykjavik.is (running http://github.com/rbjarnason/open-direct-democracy), a fair amount of their policies
are being drawn from there. So they're actually listening to their constituency.
If you're looking for a simple GUI you might want to try the Miro Video Converter.

http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/
Put a Raspberry Pi into a heavy shielding box, use air horn for a thruster.
Thanks for posting the raw numbers. London is citing this 14,000 number as if its egregious, but my initial reaction was: "Out of how many total?" Based on the numbers you're posting Uber was literally 99.9% compliant. That's definitely not "unfit."

This is politics plain and simple. And not the first time Uber has had to play the game. This same thing played out in 2017. The courts will side with Uber.
The moral of the story is that any time your page requests resources or javascript from a third-party source, you are handing over some information about your users to that third-party.

Did you get your user's consent to do that? Probably not.
Developers are taking their margin on materials, but houses are easy to bid to an exact price. Many developers are building houses before there is a buyer. As soon as the hole is in the ground it goes to the real estate market, at any time you can buy it, and they will make changes per request - they assume you will choose paint color (any color is the same price), if you want to add a fireplace that will cost you. Often these houses are finished without before they are bought and go on the market at market price.

Of course the point is no builder would take the above risk unless he could estimate his costs with enough accuracy to ensure that he makes a profit on the deal.

Edit: Note that builders build enough houses to have processes and procedures to estimate them. If you build anything to a standard such that it is like everything else that is vastly cheaper than if you build something unique. There is a lot of ways to make a house custom within the standard, but if you want a round tower that will cost because builders don't know how to make round (but settle for octagon and suddenly you are back to standard)
Working inwards from the edges of your product is a quick strategy that could provide immediate business value (compared to working from the bottom up watching metrics like coverage) and that means end-to-end testing.

Testing the product with end-to-end tests will stop you from shipping a completely broken product to your customer, where the most damage can occur. Add the test script at the end of the build and alert to a dashboard. “Alert” can mean email, and “dashboard” can mean “PC showing inbox for testalerts@mycompany”. You can get that running immediately. Alerts won’t tell you what broke of course, though you can use version control and bisecting to isolate breakages to commits, which is almost as good.

When you find bugs, then each bug is an opportunity to put some scaffolding around smaller subsystems as smaller tests to show the actual bug, as well as the fact that the bug has been fixed. Avoid committing the test without committing the fix. It’s a bad habit. You can show how the test used to fail in your commit message.

You’ll get an idea as to what are the most problematic pieces of your app. If one part is much less reliable than the others, then you can select that subsystem for verification with bottom up unit tests. Don’t spend too much time on each one though — it’s highly likely that in exercising your APIs through unit testing, you’re going to see ways in which they need to be refactored to make more sense and, importantly, become more reliable.
Yes. And in the US, the units are still not uniform, so it means standing at each product for a few minutes with a calculator converting between units. It has wasted way more time than passing a law that requires the same units for each product.
You are cherry picking verses completely pulled out of their context for the sake of bashing the theological believes of Islam, I was talking about the poetic quality.

Here is a video to illustrate the poetic quality of the Quran:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPnS4_kmr0w
For a second I believed this was an april's fools joke due to:

http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Home-Services-Hire-Grazer/dp/B0...
Postgres is definitely not boring as there is a lot of interesting stuff happening with this database. I think the author here should really be making the distinction between sexy & unsexy.
The Eclipse platform is great for making large, complex GUI apps, and IBM aren't the only ones using it by any means. Startup time is slow (for starting development as well as launching the app) but you can develop an app with a very responsive interface (which is apparently impossible in Swing.) Eclipse RCP is definitely a good batteries-included application platform for heavyweight GUI apps. I wouldn't use it for something small and light, though.
NYC: Demdex is hiring for several positions. (http://www.demdex.com/Demdex_careers.html)
So the conclusion is: most people doesn't care to know what/where content they are editing? I don't buy that. I'll buy that it's a OK solution, but not a good one.
You do realize that American media is quite biased too?

See here http://searchyc.com/yummyfajitas+media for assorted posts by me which include swipes at the media for bias (usually while making unrelated points).

Look, I'm only trying to point out that "same reporters" != "same bias level/direction". I'll leave it to others to debate the relative merits of Al Jazeera vs MSNBC. It's irrelevant to me, I don't watch any of them.
Delivery Status colors it's bars according to tracking provider's official colors (brown for UPS, purple for FedEx etc.) and uses provider's logos.

Parcels colors it's bars seemingly randomly to differentiate between them and uses some off the shelf icons for different package statuses.

Where the fuck do you see the resemblance? Only in the fact that it puts different packages into different bars and colors them differently? Should it display a Cover Flow for packages or something to differentiate itself?

Anyway, I like Delivery Status more myself, but accusing Parcels of plagiarism is idiotic.
Being inside the content does not make it a "modern system".

Actually, it's a rather dumb idea too, except for very simple systems. Besides editing the content (title, body, etc) there are numerous others things to configure and edit that don't normally appear in the content area --so they would be out of place there.

But the bigger problem is that you have to navigate the content as an end user would in order to edit it. A specialized screen with filters, columns, search et al would be much faster to work with.
Living off iWantMyName (http://iwantmyname.com) – completely bootstrapped, enough to support 3 co-founders (including me) and we'll most likely start hiring next year. Fun times... :)
That's why I qualified with more than one. The Nexus One is an unsubsidized model that the carriers effectively fought and T-Mobile tries to make up for having terrible coverage by doing the technical side correctly. Specifically, I'm saying Verizon or Sprint with Android will drop the additional monthly fee (like Verizon used to push on their navigator service) before AT&T does for iPhone.
> beautiful

> javascript

Choose one.
Green tea contains caffeine... so I'm confused too.
Of course. I grew up in the suburbs and I liked it there. I appreciate your vote of confidence.
I'm confused as green tea can have a similar caffeine content to coffee, especially at 3-5 cups.
Would eating fruit along with a cup of coffee be a good way to replicate? Or would the there not be enough of a spike in sugar to get the same result?
The gp's post was about risk, not innovation. The path Google is going down now (adding more features and bloat into their results) is risky because a lot of the population likes how simple and easy to use Google is. The more features they add, the more confusing it gets and if someone comes along with a much simpler interface and a new idea that gives better results they're in trouble.

Bing innovating on features is good for Bing because it differentiates them. Google copying those features is risky because it diverges from the simplicity they're famous for and makes them look like they're playing catch-up.
Will American still show up at http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ ? If so, it’s easy enough to go to American’s site when they’re substantially cheaper than another airline.
If you go and read this slide deck about Netflix's coporate culture (starting at about slide 23):

http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664

You might discover why there might be a "culture of fear" among the average performing employees, and why they might throw off a good bit of negativity in their hiring/firing cycle.
Why do you need an app for the udid? Wasn't it all over the news this week that that info was being passed around like candy?
Can someone tell me the advantages of all of these extra extensions for Flask? I thought the point of Flask was to make the framework part extremely light-weight.

When I need a REST-ful API for a Flask app, I just build the routes needed and code it up myself. Why both adding a whole extra framework for something? Flask by itself is already capable of supporting REST-style requests, so what does this do again? How much of the example listed was ordinary Flask-webapp code and how much was this extension? Add an HTML view to a JSON object and form for making REST requests?

Between this and the User extension from last night, I must be missing something. Or maybe I'm just old.
Not only is Android profitable, but dominance and prominence on a consumer device makes it that much easier for Google to push its other products.

Think about Maps on Android vs. iPhone - one is a lot more full featured and up to date with Google's tech than the other. Android being the de facto standard smartphone platform would be immensely useful to Google's other products.

e.g. Google Voice simply does not integrate well into the Apple user experience, but does so flawlessly on Android.

Google is vertically integrating the entire stack between them and the user - this is a great thing for Google, and not every link in the chain needs to make money doing it.
Every new feature Facebook introduced has already been done by someone else. When it started, it was a simple clean website, and that ease of use attracted the initial users. Then Facebook was opened for apps, and there was a flood of zombie/vampire apps, and widgets to customize your page with. Like most geeks, I got sick of those years earlier, having visited enough PHPnuke-based portals and linkspam-based games.

But for many people Facebook was an introduction to the things you could do online. It was a structured, gradual, hand-holding introduction, which is what I think made it work.
Medium doesn't paywall content...yet. They have been raising walls for months now, with all the elements in place - "you have read X articles, register for more"; all they need is to flip the metaphorical paymentRequired bit.
That happened to me! For some reason IG decided that I was super interested in barbers of arab countries (what I assumed were arab countries) and it was constantly showing me barbershop videos and fancy men's hair cuts. I had to block all those accounts just to stop the spam (and thankfully they weren't that many).
Through certain yogic practices and breathing techniques. But honestly nothing compares to a psychedelic trip imo.
Shouldn't there be millions of used Ti-83s by now? Seems like there shouldn't be a real need to buy new when the market should be saturated with used. I know I have 2 Ti-83s in a box somewhere collecting dust.

This could be solved with a simple sellback program.

1. Purchase from school for $100

2. Sell back for $95

3. Repeat forever until calculator breaks
If I may offer my opinion as an outsider from the EU:
something like this may actually open up the traditional Left vs Right spectrum to something that is more closely resembles the existing diversity of opinions and values.
For instance, here in Germany, these days coalitions between 2-3 parties is the rule rather than the exception. An interesting side effect of this has been that issues which at any given time were not the focus of the major parties can still be addressed by the smaller (often junior) party of the ruling coalition, e.g. the Green party who pushed the topic of environmental protection as a junior coalition member already in the late 90s/early 2000s.
And did they test all behavioral traits or how do you get to an unqualified "the effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of genes"?
Read Craig Gentry's PhD thesis, which was the first working fully homomorphic encryption scheme. It's no longer state of the art, but it contains a lot of accessible background on the core problem (which was then open) and why it's important.

The person you're responding to is correct. It's an explicit design goal that a fully homomorphic encryption system would not expose any distinguishable oracle about the underlying data. Otherwise there would be no point to it whatsoever, because you'd just be performing the same computations on the data dramatically less efficiently and without any benefit.

This follows the general imperative of cryptography, which is that the outputs of cryptographically secure primitives (hash functions, pseudorandom generators, pseudorandom permutations, etc) should be computationally indistinguishable from random up to 2^n queries, for some large n (such as 128).
There are a few stretches of highway near Austin that have 80 posted and people absolutely fly on that road. I was in a shitty rental trying to do 80 and people were passing me like I was driving slow. It was wild
I can't speak directly to whatsapp but I got more than a few family members and friends to install Signal by saying "I use Signal for my messaging, you can still reach me by txt but I can't promise I'll respond in a reasonable timeframe as I may not see the message.”

Granted there was a white lie in there since I use Signal as my default app for sms too. Nonetheless it did the trick.
There's a reason the first line in every iOS changelog is all the new supported emojis.
I was going to say Nintendo is across/down the road from Microsoft, but checking again, Microsoft surrounds them:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nintendo+of+USA/@47.651052...
If the GDPR is any indication, WhatsApp could just choose to stop offering its services in the EU.
Good question. I think you mean “they”. I wonder what terms those would be?
Former C1 employee: I would give Capital One another shot. Their tech and apps are best in class and and built in-house. They also contribute to the open source community (or did).
Why use the Rpi at all (Nothing against them, I have a few)?
If the Pi is just writing graphics to a screen, why not handle that directly with the STM32? Running an RTOS, it should be able to manage a low priority GUI task along with the real-time ventilator tasks.
It's optional, but yes. We don't charge a delivery fee. Consumers have the option to tip through the app or give our servers a cash tip.
The only time I ever interact with someone who has a gun is if I get pulled over while driving. Sure the risk is low, but the threat exists on every interaction, and is a big incentive for me to find ways to avoid driving.
You're refering to a lot of fonts (eg: "Avenir"), but not including any fonts yourself (eg: using something like google fonts). The fallback (sans), can look pretty ugly.

I'd manually include fonts, rather than expect users to have they ones you want pre-installed (you'll probably never reproduce this since you most likely have them installed).
Plus, if you're going with some trendy new framework that emerged in the last month, chances are that when you do need maintenance, no-one'll be around who wants to work on it.
While all those points are true, they are mainly because of advancing science, rather than economic growth. Those are partly interconnected, but there are also important differences.

The Internet as you know it is also a direct product of its academic background. That's why we have had network neutrality so inherent in its culture. That's why there are only peers, not producers and consumers. If it had been designed as a product, the network itself would never have been designed to be dumb with smart endpoints. (And there are countless examples of this.)

If Tim Berners-Lee designed the web to be a product, there would be a marketplace of competing web-like products, which in turn would have given us other features, but it would never have become societal infrastructure in the way it did.

Sometimes we need academia and science, sometimes we need products.

The question here is how to optimize between the two.
As someone who has never done web development and knows nothing about it, how do I learn what to do? Every time I try to determine what people are using and what is the path of least resistance to make a website, I am overwhelmed by choices. How do I determine what is good? If I build a website, I don't want to spend my time learning an interface that has been superseded by something better that all pros now use. What backend do people use? Rails? Django? PHP? Perl? Some Javascript? What javascript libraries do people use? etc.