jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Before starting development, and especially during development, keep an eye on a very broad set of Google Alerts that blanket your market. Read each alert carefully and identify websites that talk about your market or your competitors.

This will give you a list of places you can start a conversation with. So while you're preparing for launch, keep notes of each candidate website. Notes to keep: name of the author of the article, URL of the article, when it was written, etc.

Now when you can share something, email them saying you read their article about X and thought they might be interested in this new thing you just built. Tell them very briefly (2-3 sentences) what your new thing does/is and how it's different, and give them your contact details (including phone or Skype - some like to chat).

This strategy becomes more important after launch as you don't have to wait before getting in touch. You can email them immediately as they can see your live product.
An Apple device required for login! If anything, the existance of this site tells a lot about Mac users. Too bad I'm not a single myself.
Emailed him the next morning, didn't hear back. I gave it till today and phoned, got through to my friend who said the boss wasn't in today, but that they'd just had a load of money come through so my payment will be put through very soon.

I'm not sure what "very soon" means, but I explained the legal 30 day thing to my friend, told him to get the boss to respond to my email asap otherwise I'll have to recover the money through other means. Have emailed to confirm the conversation took place, will try phoning one more time this week and if there's nothing by Monday I'll have to use www.moneyclaim.gov.uk.

Annoyingly, the Bank of England base rate (used to charge interest on late payments) is only at 0.5%, so that's hardly an incentive to pay on time. I can legally apply a charge of £70 though, but I'd much rather they just paid me and I never had to deal with them again.
In 2001 it would have been a world record, but by 2005 those kinds of superconducting magnets had become pretty regular pieces of equipment, at least for the kind of nanophysics lab I was in.

You should realize it creates that field only inside a small space with a diameter of a few cm. The entire thing is suspended in liquid helium, including the samples on which we did measurements. I believe we estimated that, at a meter from the magnet, the field had dropped to something like 3T. I'm not sure how much power it drew, but I seem to recall it was plugged into a regular socket.
The main link is for Day 1, Day 2 is here: http://rustyklophaus.com/articles/20100608-BerlinBuzzwordsRe...
Do your math based on your use case:

This is the top-left question mark icon.

M16,1.466C7.973,1.466,1.466,7.973,1.466,16c0,8.027,6.507,14.534,14.534,14.534c8.027,0,14.534-6.507,14.534-14.534C30.534,7.973,24.027,1.466,16,1.466z M17.328,24.371h-2.707v-2.596h2.707V24.371zM17.328,19.003v0.858h-2.707v-1.057c0-3.19,3.63-3.696,3.63-5.963c0-1.034-0.924-1.826-2.134-1.826c-1.254,0-2.354,0.924-2.354,0.924l-1.541-1.915c0,0,1.519-1.584,4.137-1.584c2.487,0,4.796,1.54,4.796,4.136C21.156,16.208,17.328,16.627,17.328,19.003z

It's around 430 bytes. Cropped from a screenshot, Photoshop says 705 bytes for gif, 643 bytes for 8 bit png (without transparency or scalability or anything).

Raphael.js from the page is >50KB. There's also an onload function to initialize the path, around 1KB (includes loops etc. specific to this page).
Kudos to linkedin if that's what they are doing.

Proactive security response.
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3. billions of parents have gotten through this before you, you will too.
This. Muscle plus personality is 100x more attractive than hair. 2 things you can control (generally)
I wonder how it will affect the divorce rate as well.
What happened once the account was reinstated and everything was up again? The customer service obviously sucked; did they acknowledge that and try to make it right?
> I like Firebase, but the moment the utility runs out we're heading back to AWS.

Just from a technical perspective I'd advise to avoid the firebase databases like the plague.
> unrealized capital gain

Unrealized is the operative word here. It means not achieved or created.

An unrealized capital gain can become an unrealized loss. That’s because it’s not a real gain.

Leveraging unrealized gains through loans is universally recognized as a risky investment strategy.

This policy would force people to take on this risk.

Which is exactly the point I’m making.

Homeowners shouldn’t be forced to take on risky financial instruments that are tied to the performance of local businesses.
Sonic and DSLExtreme were the ones I used for ages with very few issues.

Have Google Fiber now: gigabit all the time, no caps, 100% availability so far, $70/mo.

Also, Verio (NTT) had 512kb SDSL for $60/mo. in Davis CA with 8 ms to Stanford in 1999. Dotcom times, sigh.
The newer/larger stores seem like they might have also helped with inventory/space management, at least in my experience the smaller stores would be more likely to have things on extreme clearance.
One consequence of the DMCA is that illegal things are no linger defined in court.
Tangential: I've always had an interest for medicine. A decade or so into software dev and I'm not convinced I want to stay. I've heard a lot of doctors say they wouldn't do it all over again. I'm wondering if med school makes any sense. Maybe my idea of medicine is too influenced by Hollywood, but it does look very interesting. Would you study medicine again given the chance to start over?
I'm pretty sure that's just journalistic technique. You won't get answers out of someone by being combative. What's unusual is that she just posted a transcript of the conversation and didn't really turn it into a narrative piece.

It may seem like she's being a good sport and isn't bothered by this at all, but I don't think you can draw that conclusion.
This is fun and super useful. Some low quality tweets could easily be discarded, though.
For desktop computers it makes sense. I find that hybrid hibernation gets the best of the two world. I can have the PC in sleep and have it turn on faster, or if the PC looses power you don't loose anything.

A thing that I do often is that I forget my desktop PC in sleep mode but still powered, and since I know that hibernation works I can simply cut power to the whole power strip to save energy without having to wake up the PC just to shut it down correctly and then remove power safely.

By the way, you can also have a swap file, but it's not as simple to configure (and still the file size is kind of fixed and that removes the point).
They don't know what being a furry is, so they can't throw it back at me taps head (that I hope at last).

On a more serious note, within the circle of my friends this falls into "prank link" category - rickrolling etc.
This is counter-intuitive but I guess there are cases where throwing away the part and replacing with a new one is MORE environmentally friendly that reusing the part—when it involves not-so-nice solvents. I hadn't considered this before.
I'm not an absolutist, and don't want to come off as one. I'm just not in lattice QCD :)

What degree of data sharing is considered normal there? Across experimental physics it varies a lot: astronomers are often required by the funding agencies to make the data public, whereas particle physics experiments have traditionally shared very little (although pressure from funding agencies has started to change this too).

Given the ways you described this collaboration, my questions are:

- As an experimental physicist, when will I be able to believe them? Do we wait around for someone else to cook up a batch of similar secret sauce to confirm the result? Will they release their gauge configurations after some embargo period? Or should we believe them just because they are top-notch? I've seen top-notch groups like this fall before, so it seems quite reasonable if experiments aren't citing them now.

- Should funding agencies be attaching more importance to openness in science? From what you describe (and sorry if I'm misinterpreting you) there is very little incentive to share things that would make their results far more useful. Of course nothing is simple, but I've seen collaborations reverse their stance on open data overnight in response to a bit of pressure from the people writing the pay checks.
they sad they didn't think of those ideas first....or they did for this year lol. stupid corporate frisking for comedians. its so pathetic
That's not experience, that's clout.

Also I think it's pretty clear this discussion does not pertain to corporate or celebrity tenants.
> Overreacting much?

Matching the poster's tone.

> Yeah, so? Who cares about the point of the original website?

This website (and the rest of the extensive "betterwebsite" collection) is written as a direct response to the original website. That's why the title is what it is, that's why it talks about the original.

Death of the author is a thing, but people don't typically cite death of the author when they are directly responding to someone's point. We usually expect responses to have something to do with what they're responding to.

If the URL of this website was "howtomakeafastprettywebsite.com", we wouldn't be having this conversation right now, because "put a max-width on your columns" is not exactly a controversial or bold design statement.
What about Node.js clients??

To record meetings without sacrificing end to end encryption
... but HN has a collapse thread feature?
I’m glad to hear people discussing this! I love how most of the hippies that love “natural psychedelics” have a loophole for LSD. Just because a drug has a precursor found in nature doesn’t make the drug itself natural.

As somebody that experimented heavily with psychedelics when I was much younger, my opinion is that the 2C-B/E/I group have definite possible therapeutic value, and the main thing causing stagnation is the ridiculous hippy mindset that it’s ~synthetic~ and therefore bad. It’s ridiculous.

Over the past few years it’s been interesting watching polite society “discovering” psychedelics. I really can’t wait for these people to find the therapeutic value of smoked/IV DMT, especially considering that it’s WAY safer than ayahuasca.

I would love to see a study on the possible therapeutic value of dextromethorphan, but as far as I’ve seen it’s not really on the radar. I know it seems weird, but from subjective experience I found it to be very helpful a few times as a teenager. I used to jokingly call it “therapy in a bottle.” It’s a real shame that most DXM-containing products nowadays in the US come mixed with other compounds that make it dangerous to take at a recreational/therapeutic dose.
Why is parsimony good?

- Simpler principles make better mantras.

- Occam's razor--all else equal, you should assume the world is simple.

I can't think of anything else.

Both of those considerations seem weak compared to other factors.
It's coming :)
She actually says at the bottom that she spelled it 'lolz' because she prefers it that way.

Trolling is an art.
Start-ups have so much uncertainty in what the final business will look like that it's difficult to tell at the outset whether the start-up will result in a lifestyle business (a.k.a. a "small business"), or something that is best suited a larger enterprise.

It's somewhat of a lifestyle decision for the founders, but sometimes the realities of the business make the decision.
And the better the offer, the more a landing page can "get away" asking for. Offering a month of free software? Test and see if you can extract a company name and role from the visitor, or even a phone number. Offering just a short article or low-value offer? Stick to email and name. People are so used to filling our forms with their information online that if an offer is compelling, you can really push the limits and ask for an extra piece or two of important info.
Isn't reading from sqlite all the time a bit bad for the performance?
And these days we are grateful to have companies like Dropbox or Backupify for that.
I found this article to be a rambling mess. While I agree that the ESPN stuff is cool, the author seems to ramble around the premise too much. Usually Engadget is pretty solid in the writing department, not sure what happened. Way too long too for a point that could have been made in a paragraph or two.
Don't forget

font-family: sans-serif;

Instead of "sans serif".
No, it's not. The van Emde Boas layout splits the data set into sqrt(n) chunks of sqrt(n) items. Then it recursively splits each of those chunks similarly.

This version simply divides the data set into page sized chunks. That has worse memory access complexity than the van Emde Boas layout, but is likely simpler to deal with in practice. It's not trivial to maintain the van Emde Boas layout under insertion and deletion for example.

(The post you link is a good one btw.)
This is a very good and important (often skimmed over) point. It doesn't even need to be genociders. What about career criminals? One of the benefits of immigration is integration of the foreign culture into the local one but I don't want every possible culture to integrate, just the ones that aren't negative.
Thats not the same thing, and it is not clear whether it is open either. Arc falls under artistic license and it is not clear at all if its free http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NonFreeSoftwar...

Even if the source was free, the brand need not be and in that case HNI would be plain illegal.

Its been mentioned here that Firefox is open source but they own the brand. If hypothetically speaking, you start distributing Firefox with its proxy settings customized for Indian ISPs and call it Firefox-India, the chances are high that you will hear from lawyers.
About the Dromaeo test: IE could call CAPICOM to deal with AES, Base64, RSA in browser, which is super fast.

And personally I think all browsers could just expose an API for these kinds of encryption and computing-heavy stuff, like secure random seeds, etc. Implementing those in Javascript is just a temporary solution.
Not to worry. The TSA scanners don't store images so there's no way anyone will every see them.

I saw it on the news. And they even showed one of the images that are impossible for anyone else to see.
Are you suggesting $3.5b are not worth mentioning?
> It's often the foolhardy and the ignorant that [...] sometimes end up succeeding.

Please name some examples. How often is sometimes? What is their probability of success compared to that of domain experts?
Have you watched it recently? I tried, I couldn't get past the first 30 minutes with my ex-girlfriend, it was just so embarrassingly bad.
Climate-science has become an oxymoron.
I mean, this is a weird example, but i feel like it's like Scott Auckerman says in Comedy Bang Bang, when he introduces the show. He'll do the welcome, and explain the show, and inevitably some guess will retort that this is silly, since everyone knows what the show is about, but he constantly responds with: "every episode is somebody's first episode."

These ideas that should be obvious to anyone who's studied advanced statistics, or formal logic, or read some books about extreme events, all likely already know, but the fact is, not everyone... better yet most people have not every studied these things.

These ideas are inherently interesting, and every year, there are new people coming of age that are introduced to these interesting ideas via an article like this, and then it'll get upvotes. The world is like a fire hose of young people. Add in a popular author who will likely get attention anyway, and here we are at the top of the feed.
You are supposed to hate your code.

If you don't hate it, you aren't trying hard enough.

I would not equate hating the code with the code being something to be ashamed of.

I hate every goddamn piece of code I write.
You may want to reconsider when you read. When reading non-fiction, I find reading for just enough time to get a clear idea of a concept that is being described to me allows for better integration and aha! moments during the day. So, I find it beneficial to read them when my life is busy.

The fiction books seem to be needed, for me, to not exhaust myself on non-fiction. The best time for me to read these is when I am less busy and have down time.
Well there had to be some fallout from the leaks, tech companies seem to be making more money than ever.
Just because some people younger than Manning have a better grasp of where they stand on the war and its morality doesn't mean that Manning actually had, or should have had, that same understanding at the time he signed up and joined the military.

People come from different situations. I care a lot more about politics and our general situation as a country now than I did at 18-21... honestly I just didn't give a shit until about 25. Then I became interested and decided I needed to be well informed. Are there people older than me who are still uninformed? Yes. Are there people younger than 25 who give a shit about these things. Yes.

Nothing requires that Manning have developed these interests before he joined the military.

Also, while it is "your view" that these things should be thought about before joining the military, I can guarantee you that every person I knew going into the military when I was in high school did not think about these things at all. It was mostly two reasons, economic, or their family expected them to enlist as that's just what people in their family did.

While the army and the world might be better off if people thoroughly examined these issues before enlisting, that's just not the current state of things.
If you're interested in this subject further I suggest you pick up 'Networks and States' by Martin Mueller, 2010, MIT Press. I can't recommend this book enough for anyone interested in understanding how the internet is transforming our idea of the nation state.
It's a bit of an acquired taste in the UI department, but I got used to it in about a couple of days. As for results, it may be that I'm searching for common/obvious things, but most of what I'm looking for are in at least the first 1-4 result or so.
First ask yourself what kinds of problems can want to solve [pain points].

Then look at the technical details like industries/languages/frameworks/os that these people work in.
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
- Juan Ramón Jiménez
Inflating away debt has been government policy since the second world war: http://monevator.com/a-history-of-uk-inflation/
I'm guessing it will be a decent sized company, but with one account to publish the apps.

Imagine trying to support that many apps?
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain
Full stack or die. Over specialization is the curse of our profession. http://www.onebigfluke.com/2012/11/over-specialization-is-cu...
Don't worry be happy.
SET(i 0)
while(i LESS count)
LIST(GET extras 0 file)
LIST(REMOVE_AT extras 0)
LIST(APPEND extras "${root}/${F}/${file}")
MATH(EXPR i "${i}+1")
endwhile()

"Functional" with a FU. It's also buggy as hell.
The schools pay aid recipients $10/hr to sit in the library and study and help checkout books.
Why is this even news?? This happens at pretty much every top tier private/public university. Colleges price discriminate between people of different incomes. The true cost per student is not 50k at a private school, it's probably more like 30k, and people pay between 0 and 50k depending on their income.
What I found interesting was when the one on the left was half below the fold, it appeared much cleaner than the one on the right. Only when viewed in their entirety did I find the one on the right to be cleaner.
Report it, and let him know too. He must be doing less than $1m/mo if it's gone on for a while, 3rd party audits are mandatory otherwise. It's a small time risk to the PCI folks anyway, they're not going to screw up his lively hood, they're just going to tell him to use a merchant processor or tokenize would be my guess.
The people capable of the automation have financial incentives to move to industries with broader appeal. There are a lot of people doing great scientific computing work in academia (e.g. Sean Eddy, Titus Brown), but they are notable exceptions.
We're a small group of ex-phds in computer science and math.

We're working on solving hard mapping problems around vectors and massive datasets. We're backed by tier one VCs.
We welcome engineers with background in search, large scale data processing, computational geometry and graphics. Or just smart people who get stuff done.

Right now we're particularly looking for both front-end engineers who can organize complicated SPAs and backend engineers with experience scaling APIs.

Email erez@mapsense.co.
What is CPA?
This reminded me of the incredible feeling of epiphany from reading The Giver in elementary school.

http://www.amazon.com/Giver-Lois-Lowry/dp/0385732554/
You're probably right. I honestly have no idea how a water / oil / gas combination would interact with a hot explosion at that depth, and I dunno how well methane hydrates oxidize.
I'm pretty sure this is what they started building in American Fork, Utah. - http://www.udot.utah.gov/pioneer (video)
There is another clipboard that X users like using and don't like having obliterated whenever a program requires text selection. The ctrl-C/V clipboard and the highlight/middle-click clipboards are different.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
There are actually two different buffers in X and they are each used a bit differently. See here for an explanation:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
double clicking to select the URL reveals funny business, since its not possible (At least in chrome)
It's a text field in a form. The browser doesn't need to have any ideas about what to do with it except submit it to the server.
How are you going to compete when there are so many free storage services? A company I work for is contemplating how to provide this kind of in-application backup, but with so many free options - Google Docs storage, SkyDrive, DropBox etc., I wouldn't be likely to opt for something that required payment. What's going to be your differentiator?
Mailinabox is a fully configured service. You need a fresh ubuntu install, you run the install script and it configures everything for you and notifies you when it needs to be updated or something is not as it should be.
Dictatorship doesn't affect you that much until it does. That's what folks in Hong Kong and the Uighurs are finding out as we speak.
This is actually really entertaining. I thought I had read somewhere that there are thousands of untranslated ancient Sumerian/Babylonian/Akkadian tablets. Does anyone know if this is true?
Having read about the beginnings of a lot of open source projects it is common for an initial period of “closed” small team development.

Episode 32 of the Django Chat podcast touches on this topic at 34 minutes in. DHH talks about the benefits of a small group of people working fast to shape a feature before releasing it to the community.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/django-chat/id14515364...