jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Idle money is literally the definition of savings:

- https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/savings.asp
- https://www.wellsfargo.com/goals-investing/saving-vs-investi...
- https://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/saving

I agree that fiat is intentionally lossy. I also have no problem with the idea of my idle money being, in fact, borrowed out at no risk to myself (and at recent interest rates there wouldn’t be much difference between sticking it my cushions except for the insurance provided by holding in a bank). From the saver’s perspective, it’s idle.

If you are holding more than 100% of your total net worth in assets, the cash in your bank account isn’t yours, nor is anything else above that 100%. As a borrower inflation is a great way to take advantage of that position. I have mortgage debt for exactly the same reason. Mortgage debt, however, is typically net worth positive (except for 2008-2014), so I doubt most people with mortgages are leveraged higher than their net worth. In most cases market value of a house is greater than mortgage debt a few years after the loan is made.
I think yes and no. It seems like inflation is being played up a lot in the media, so its immediate impacts are exaggerated. But if your expenses are mostly coffee shops, restaurants, and electric car in the Bay area, you're likely in a bubble. That said, if you're not in the process of making a big capital purchase, and already have a high savings rate, you wouldn't expect to notice until you have to make a major purchase.
It takes a couple days for me to "consume" US$5 of books. It takes me a couple seconds to spend the same amount of money during lunch.
agda, coq, epigram, ATS (dependently typed languages)are mentioned regularly by haskellers.
They mention "the programme last year", but could not find who are the alumni? & congrats on the intiative!
Dustin Curtis may have a lot to answer for.

http://dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter.html
Respectfully, I don't think you've given the issue enough consideration. You're saying that if they didn't search the pilots, someone would fake as a pilot to get through security? Then what would he do? Stand awkwardly with the rest of the crew thinking up a story to explain why there are two pilots (or three, or whatever) on this particular flight? I would hope that a fake pilot would be fairly easily and quickly detected by the other pilots (who do know each other personally, after all).
Thanks for the laugh. This discussion makes me want to grab a box of Prozac and eat the pills like cereal...
I hear ya, but it's part of his job - he is the figurehead for the company. If you've watched any of the major stevenotes especially the iPhone, you will notice he graciously thanks all of the teams and team leaders that worked on the product. The press also likes to give him the spotlight whether he wants it or not.
The trouble isn't so much waking up as it is falling asleep. If I try to go to bed at the same time every night, after a few of days I'll find myself staring at the ceiling for hours before I'm able to nod off. That leaves me with like four hours of sleep before the alarm goes off. That's simply not enough for me to be able to function at a reasonable level. So I end up turning off the alarm and collapsing back into bed for another hour or two. This pattern repeats and I end up in free-running sleep mode.
Wasn't this already happening with the Blackberry? If you needed a Blackberry for business, then you picked the carrier who let you use one.
Writing is a practical necessity. Like every other skill it does improve with practice. So advising people who are not good at it to not do it is wrong.
I think if you want to read like that, you might as well skip the book and pull a summary from Wikipedia. Although, it does discuss two things I've often wondered about: can one read without subvocal narration, and could one read more effectively using something like that Spreeder app.

It's always been concentration/focus that's slowed my reading though. My mind wanders very easily.
Great, I just lost like 20 minutes.
Since education can't be resold, there isn't going to be the sort of bursting bubble you see in markets for other goods.

Let's say what the article predicts comes to pass and the demand for degrees goes down. If degrees could be resold, then college graduates would start selling theirs. You might get a proverbial "bursting bubble" as more and more graduates started panicking and selling their degrees before they lost all their value.

But since graduates can't resell their degrees, we're more likely to see a gradual decline in their price.
I worked for the company, and you're right - they do know what they're doing. That's why stores are expected to filter daily.
I like the GNU lightning project, but I wouldn't say it's so stable it doesn't need updating. Disassembly doesn't work properly on Ubuntu, which strikes me as a pretty serious problem, but which unfortunately they seem to be in no hurry to fix. [0]

I think they'd do well to adopt a proper bug-tracker. Mailing lists are a good way to lose track of known issues.

[0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lightning/2020-06/msg0000...
Not needed. The GPLv2 has an implicit grant to use patents, so, anything Novell did with that IP that touches any GPL'ed code it distributed puts that code and its derivations in a more or less safe position.

It's not as watertight as GPLv3 or Apache, but it may be enough.
So why is there always a login page when a link points to Facebook? Just a casual observation, I don't know much about the inner workings of FB. I just have yet to see a link to FB that does not require a login.
Devices like these can be very harmful to Android's image in the public, especially if their only feature/selling point is "powered by Android".

My brother bought a Samsung Galaxy cellphone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy). The half-baked combination of hardware and software, with no updates available, made him soon regret the purchase.
He was angry at Samsung and Google/Android for "producing such crap". Somehow he managed to return it and got an iPhone instead.

This experience made him to not buy an Android phone again. More of such bad examples/devices could become a really big problem for Android.
It took me couple of minutes to figure out how to copy the link to the URL. You can copy the url automatically to clipboard right after user uploads the files (and display the notice to communicate it) or provide a visual clue to make it easier to find URL copy feature.
no, your original assertion is absolutely correct. This will create price inflation, and this is exactly what happens every year in Alaska. Alaskans receive a dividend check every year for about $1500 to $3500 dollars, and every year around the time people begin to receive checks prices go up. I try to explain this to people up there and they don't seem to understand.
Hey, I know what you mean, I'm also from a third world country. Though I've been living in Canada for years now so I might have forgotten what things are like.

Something that might help: Myers-Briggs personality indicator. SJ types tend to work on a corporate mind-set. Try to find NT or NF types; they might start with a corporate mindset (assuming that's the prevailing mindset around them) but they can easily change and adapt more lean strategies.

Actually, let me know how things go for you. I kinda wish I could do the same in my country.

Regarding Anime: I've heard that the father of Anime was greatly inspired by Disney. It would've been real easy to slip into a "let's try to clone Disney" mindset when you're in that position. It sure helped that the Japanese had manga before, so they had something of their own to build on, instead of just following another culture's model.

That's why I think it's best to just start with a small group of programmers, to build a solid base that could later grow into something bigger.
Timed perfectly with my Birthday, Apple you never cease to amaze me!
> The UMC is also the most hard-working class, who is carefully taking responsibilities for their families etc.

I very much doubt the veracity of this broad generalisation.

Indeed I'd be most surprised if there was any correlation between hard work and socioeconomic status, given that there are such a wide range of employment roles (including self-employed) in which one can work very hard, yet with such diverse financial rewards.
I just relocated one of my managers from Campinas to Huntsville and I think he paid about $4000 for official translations. I couldn't believe it. The company paid, but even so -- that's insane. And apparently there are different levels of translation, ranging up to about $75/pp.
Because it's absolutely the norm for higher-income professional parents to pay for their kids' tuition.

I just assume that I will pay for my kids' undergrad. It's the norm where I live.
It is much easier to bisect linear history than history with merges.
I think Houston is a bit of evidence of what can happen when you leave the zoning to its residents... I would not take Houston to be the prototypical Unamerican city, yet, there is it with no zoning laws but it begets a suburb called a city.

My vision would be something akin to mixed use zoning as in Seoul or Tokyo, but I guess the abuse american cities experienced from defacto mixed zoning in the 19th century hasn't dissipated, but one can hope it will but adopt reasonable mixed zoning.
I think MS are being smart. Go after the developers, design the IDEs, the repo software, the languages, and then get them developing for Azure.
Thank you! We think Hasty is a pretty neat tool, I am just not sure they have annotation for video datasets? Our platform is really optimized for video and sequential image. A GI rotoscope is right up our alley. If you have any more of those projects come up, give us a shout!

Really interesting idea with regards to the spectogram, especially with the image-like representation. Will take a look at some of those use cases.
Perhaps. At the very least, it's gotta be uncomfortable for him.
But I think that these comments from the Twitter thread are very valid:

> I belive you spun up the VM based on an image from the Azure Marketplace, specifically one from Ubuntu. That is not a microsoft image, you accepted an offer from Ubuntu and now they contact you to follow up.
That's my understanding of the situation. Hopefully someone can clarify

> Where exactly it is visible any ToS?! As soon as I clicked on "add new VM", the first option suggested was Ubuntu 18.04. I didn't dig into the Azure Marketplace. I just picked the first option available since I quickly need a linux-based test VM.

I mean, I'm not as familiar with the AWS marketplace, but I use the GCP marketplace, and when I choose an offering from that marketplace it's very clear I'm just buying a prepackaged solution from another vendor, and I'd expect that other vendor gets my info. IMO this is very different from choosing the OS for your VM from a dropdown.
Nah, I think renaming is a better way to go, as others have suggested. "kindaRandom()" / "businessRandom()"
A T&C is a terrible place to put this in. This should work like an account linking flow (e.g. sign on with Apple to a site), where Apple lists everything they share explicitly when you click login.
Is selling their search bar to Google (very significant part of services revenue) "selling stuff"? Seems like it's more like the "you're the product" line Apple likes to market.
The Environment Agency are currently running a programme aiming for full coverage (of England) completing this year. Once that is ready I'll have to regenerate all my map tiles and hopefully have all the remaining gaps filled in then.

Natural Resources Wales is aiming for similar by Winter 2022 apparently.
Space Invaders! Amazing!
Huh, the last thing I would have expected to see on HN. My apologies for the generally muddled writing, this was one of my oldest posts.
Paying a premium so we can play butts-in-seats and management can feel like they're tending properly to the cube farm...
The image is wrong. According to a post in the reddit thread, as well as Samsung's own website, Samsung unveiled that phone in February 2007, one month after Apple showed the iPhone.

Looking at Samsung's photos, I do not see how it's possible for anyone to say that Apple was copying them. Samsung probably can make a case on the home screen format(4 icons, bottom row, etc.), but the overall design is quite different. The F700 has a physical keyboard.

http://www.samsung.com/us/news/newsRead.do?news_seq=3516
also, they can't keep an eye on you to see that you're not slacking off on company time (the horror of it all!)
It seems that this logic applied well before online. I imagine newspapers would not place ads next to stories of this type on print either.
I disagree about having to look cluttered. Here's how my Visual Studio usually looks like http://i.imgur.com/imqiWGT.png
It's mandatory I think. It's currently unusable on my netbook and less technically adept people tend to get scared from messages of non resonsive scripts, fearing the page is trying to download and install malicious code
Realistically you'd be out a grand because it'd cost you $500 of lawyer to get it plead down to a $500 non-criminal offense.

VA only cares about the money. Individual cops will stop people they see doing stuff that warrants a "that's seriously unsafe, I can't just let that slide" response but the courts just see it as a revenue stream and will gladly let people plead down as long as the total shakedown is about the same. They don't care if a large chunk winds up in the lawyer's pockets because it's a giant revolving door.
It might look much worse than Sublime Text on your Macbook when you're sitting in a coffee shop sipping your vanilla frappucino. However, apart from VS it's _the_ IDE to get things done when working with large and complex codebase. (I'm talking about multi-million LOCs, where a method rename takes 1 second in IntelliJ, and you can be pretty sure that it has properly checked out the files, put the changes into the proper VCS changeset, updated the comments accordingly, etc.)
What do you mean by kNN?
StartSSL oddload additional work for your lawyer or accountant so they can skip some EV steps. In turn, you get to pay for their billable hours:

http://www.startssl.com/extended-validation-application-requ...
Here's a screenshot, the server seems to be overloaded.

http://i.imgur.com/1e5XzWc.png
It is better to think of it like a username than a password. None of my devices support biometrics, but if they did, I would want to have both fingerprint AND password, if that's possible. Does anyone know if any of Apple, Samsung, et al allow that?
We may have to just concede that there's no good way to learn a language without immersing oneself in it. There's no reason it should be otherwise - we're not talking about memorizing facts. Language learning is retraining inner parts of our brains to automatically translate thoughts to vocalizations. There are biological limits to what can be accomplished.
> No one has a right not to be offended. And free speech isn't really free if it can't offend.

Yes this is the principle of offense.

> It sounds like the argument for trigger warnings is that some people think they might be harmed by speech.

Yes this is the principle of harm.

> That doesn't sound like a very good reason to try to limit free speech.

All of our freedoms are granted up until the point where our actions would cause harm to others. At this point our freedoms are infringing on the freedoms of others, and their expressions become restricted. In this regard, speech is and has been no different from any other right - although it sounds like you have an argument for why speech should be allowed even when it causes harm to others?

(Wikipedia on the harm principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harm_principle)
CGPGrey himself says the video is neither pessimistic nor optimistic: it's neutral. The video talks about something that has started happening and is almost certain to keep happening at ever faster paces.

It takes some effort to start thinking out of the box, seeing things from a much farther point of view and realize none of this is bad. The human race keeps advancing, progressing, and very often the leaps we make from decade to decade radically change the way our society functions. Cars changed society just as smartphones changed society. These changes force us to adapt and while sometimes it costs people their job, there just isn't that much room for these concerns, as cold as that may sound.

For example, digital distribution cost thousands of people their jobs in retail. Yet are we arguing digital distribution is a bad thing? Only those whose current income depends on the status quo not changing ever really make that point.

I haven't looked at the stats, but I'm certain that cars cost thousands of people in the horse industry their jobs as well.

This is very parallel to the "Would you sacrifice yourself to save 10 people?" moral question. In other words: "Would you sacrifice your own comfort to improve the lives of others?".

And I'm not judging. I've never been in the situation where I had to make the choice... but if I were, I would have very little actual input on the outcome. Nor should I.
What is even worse is that the extracted methane is burnt for heating houses that would need less to no heating at all with the proper thermal insulation. Insulation is passive and is put there once for all.
It will be tricky to explain to further generations that we ruined our land while extracting fossil energy to waste it right away.
Same thing applies to Fukushima.
I was wondering the same thing. Seems like a massive undertaking by hand.
On my campus the best tutoring businesses isn't chegg, but the former TA for the class that shows up in your library for $20 an hour.
I am extremely excited about it. I think of it as a form of IOC for front-end development. Almost constantly we run into a problem where a third party React library gets us 80% of what we want, but that last 20% is where we spend most of our time and where the most bugs are introduced. By taking full control of the front-end we can minimize the API wrangling and CSS hacks we need to get the component to play nice with our UI/UX spec.
Everything about automobiles and their required infrastructure was a huge mistake and should be undone.
As far as ethically questionable drugs go, particularly around genetic abnormalities, this one seems like it is about as uncontroversial as it can get.

It doesn’t confer benefits to someone who doesn’t have the specific genetic issue. It works around the missing protein rather than trying to alter the broken gene. And there are significant co-morbidities that come along with dwarfism that make it more obviously a medical issue rather than just being about physical stature.

It doesn’t change the underlying gene, so the issue can still be passed on to offspring. So nothing is being eradicated or erased. If it works as described it should be a highly effective treatment with minimal side effects which avoid a host of medical issues for the children that get it, besides giving them a good shot at > 1st percentile height.

I can imagine much more ethically dubious treatments that will certainly be coming down the line as we continue to identify, target, and find ways to enhance these genetic pathways.
Taxes aren't theft. Taxes is when we as a society pool together resources to invest into the projects we as a society agreed to implement by means of the democratic process. If you don't like it you can organize and pick different projects or fewer of them or create a system that doesn't have taxes. Taxi drivers have nothing to do with it.
There's a lot of ways to get encryption wrong. A few subtle changes could undo a very deliberate countermeasure for a somewhat obscure vulnerability. I don't think that's good advice.
My view on this, if I knew my kids were going to be little:
1) I would absolutely get my children on that.
2) I don't want others to take it - I don't want to give my kid to have a chance to mate with someone else after the treatment. Chances of producing affected offspring are too high.

I'm a bit too tired right now to see a solution which isn't straight up eugenics, but it's an interesting problem to ponder about. Public record? Forced sterilization? Abortion? Of whom, carriers and affected or affected only?
Can this run graphical version of emacs or just terminal? Any support for Kui? (https://medium.com/the-graphical-terminal/visualizing-ci-cd-...)

Would like to be able use latex-preview in something like this.
The issues of "repeating decimal" and exact representation as a floating point number are orthogonal. Because the mantissa in a floating point number (which is fixed width) is in base 2, only fractions with denominators that are powers of two can be exactly represented. This means that simple base-10 decimals like 0.1 cannot be exactly represented by a float. For this reason it's at least a bit misleading to talk about how some numbers cannot be represented with finite memory, and then go straight into a demonstration of how they can in fact be represented in finite memory (as a fraction).

As for the comment about a general audience, if (some of) your target audience is HN readers, I think it's reasonable to expect many readers to be familiar with computer science.

If this were my article, I would replace the paragraph in question with a discussion of the error introduced in floating point calculation — consider perhaps that many programming languages will tell you 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004 [0].

[0]: https://0.30000000000000004.com/
The state of California puts all its workers' compensation on the web: http://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/state-pay/#req...
They mean they have nothing to hide from the government. That can be reconciled with locking their doors because they might trust the government more than their neighbors.
I love how these new languages compile into a static binary and thereby avoid the deployment nightmares of Ruby/Python.

More of that please!
Rules was in quotes for a reason. Yes, there are a bunch of "rules" that are generally followed. Except when they aren't. Hot and cold colors, mixing font families and types up, etc.

A good designer will know when to break the "rules". Like a good coder will know when to hack something together, rather than obsessing on architecture and keeping code "clean". Its all perfectly logical. Except when they said "Fuck it, it will work better this way."

Massimo Vignelli had his grid, but David Carson threw it all out the window. Coder X might spend a few days writing his code in what he thinks is a clean, maintainable manner, while Coder Y might hack it together and worry about maintenance later. In both cases, both approaches can be right.
Now this is cool. Thanks for sharing, I will be playing this for a bit over the weekend :)
Webmachine uses Mochiweb behind the scenes, hence the reloader comes for free in this setup.

Distel is specific to Emacs. In this series I don't want to discuss which editor to use (esp given I prefer using VIM ;)) as that can come across as constraining. I'd rather leave IDE/Editor discussions elsewhere.
Oh, right! Sorry I didn't remember the title and checked wrong.