jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There are wealthy entrepreneurs, there are children of wealthy entrepreneurs, there are wealthy landlords.

A lot of my customers, who are white-collar, have made good money in the stock market over the past decade and also in the real estate market.

But to be honest a lot of it is a matter of confidence. My Chinese customers definitely don't make as much as their American counterparts on average, but there is a sense that life is getting better and better, they're making more and more money, they have savings in the bank, so it's OK to splurge from time to time. I would say 40-50% of my Chinese social circle owns an iPad, even though they probably only pull in 20-30k USD a year.
As someone who occasionally ride's my partner's peloton, I am BEGGING them to just let me watch Netflix or something on the screen. I have to jimmyrig an iPad over the huge screen because they won't let me just use the screen how I want.
The FAQ really doesn't answer the question, there's a lot of hand-wavy nonsense in it.
If I recall correctly e-ink took almost a decade to work out the very complicated processing required to produce displays with good enough quality control.

It was a really hard problem that required totally different tooling from a normal display manufacturer so I'd absolutely expect that to be a huge source of delays in getting set up.

You can't just convert an existing display factory to make e-ink displays, so the startup costs are huge and the odds are good that you'll take at least a few years to work out the quirks. Probably more like 4-6... if you get lucky and can figure out what tools to use quickly.
This reminds me of a chilling short story I read a while back, but I cannot remember its name. It was about a machine learning algorithm trained on social network archives to take as input a body of dialogue between people and communities and to output statements which would strongly divide them. As a joke, the developers ran the algorithm on their internal corporate email and read the output sentences, laughing that anybody at their company could possibly come down on the other side of any of the resulting statements before realizing that they were talking about different sides. No longer being able to stand each other, the company dissolves. It was a good story if anyone recalls its name.
Honestly, it's weird that Ubuntu has the reputation that it does. I still conceive of it as a "user-friendly" distro in the back of my mind, but my experience is that it constantly finds new and interesting ways to break. Compare that to Arch, which was a PITA to setup once, but since I have, I've had one minor thing break on an AUR package and that's it. But Arch has the reputation as the one that breaks on updates.

My experience is definitely contrary to my conception of, and the reputation of these distros.
"Only 27% of the population received both doses". This is a misinterpretation. It's like saying 0.5% die of covid. The vaccinations (and fatality rates) are extremely stratified by age. Over 50% of the 70+ group received at least one vaccination by the third week of January and close to 85% have received both doses as of today.
There is a solution, and it was just demoed in Washington earlier this month

https://brilliantlightpower.com/suncell-demonstrations-in-wa...
> Turns out different people have different needs, and the e-ink note-taking market caters to that.

I have the first generation, and I do enjoy it. However, I think a distinction is _how_ one takes notes. For brainstorming, and just writing free-form, it's great. However, I find it really annoying for taking notes about a doc, for two reasons:

- If you need more notes than fit in the margins and whitespace of a PDF, are you going to flip between the doc and a separate file of notes? What if you want to compare two documents, and take notes about the distinct ways two authors discuss the same material? The idea that you can't have more than one thing open feels immediately limiting.

- If you're several pages into a doc and want to flip back to some prior point (and you don't recall the specific page number), it's actually pretty awkward.

I feel like these devices are on the cusp of being much more satisfying. But at present, either I print out all but one thing which I can deal with on the remarkable, or I end up looking at a combination of a laptop and the remarkable, and in either case, I can't help feeling that an obvious use case was not well considered.
You just described my daily experience with OSX until I decided to toss it and switch to Linux.

Never going back.
I'm too young to have played his games, but looking at the wiki page for Balance of Power, it looks very similar to Plague Inc.. You have a world map and you react to events. Plague Inc. is so super popular even my kid nephew plays it on his iPad and can talk at length on it for hours.

Personally, I played a lot of XCOM which is a similar world map UI with random alien invading events you react to.

So anyway, writing the books might have been a waste, but people seem to copy the game format quite a bit. Very influential. Probably should have written more games instead of the two books.
I read this as someone trying out how far they can push a legal joke. Now if she actually believed that the letter of the law would trump practical concerns in such an extreme case as this, that would be stupid.
Very nice pic from your Canon A610. Fully agree about P&S cameras today. I wouldn't run down the quality of today's top of the line phones, they're very good.
They could always go with GPG/PGP.
Just watched the pilot. The story really caught me for a number of reasons, one being its plausibility. I would not be surprised to see Hollywood steal or buy this.
Automata don't draw conclusions, because they don't think. Of course he could have changed his* mind, but if you do after having joined the army, obtained a top secret clearance, and spent time n theater, then obviously it means your earlier decision was misplaced. Having just made a major wrong decision, you're not in a good position to start interpreting the Constitution on your own and dumping information out left and right.

As I keep pointing out (and nobody has refuted), nothing in the State Department cables revealed any unconstiutional or even awful activity. So our diplomats also spy on on other diplomats they meet - shocker! This is what diplomats do, and intelligence-gathering is a normal function of embassies. The trouble with Manning's argument from principle that it doesn't really explain the bulk of the leaks (I have acknowledged repeatedly that leaking materials which appear to show actual war crimes is justifiable).

* I'm using the male pronoun because that's the identity he was using at the time. As of today she is now living as a woman and has changed her name to Chelsea Manning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_manning#Gender_reassign...
If you read enough news and Twitter, you will find some really heartbreaking descriptions of the folks on ventilators. For most, this is a Hail Mary attempt with only 50% survival rate. Many will have significant lung damage if they survive. We need more ventilators to be sure. But we desperately need to find ways to halt the progression of runaway lung inflammation that leads to needing a ventilator.

Edit: this development looks very promising for 'sub-intensive' cases -- adapting decathlon masks to provide positive air pressure (to help reinflate lungs) without intubation or leaking contaminated exhaust: https://www.isinnova.it/easy-covid19-eng/. Some emerging theories of pathology suggest that lung function can be increased by reinflating collapsed alveoli with constant pressure:
https://emcrit.org/pulmcrit/cpap-covid/
A website builder that is 10x easier to use than the competition.

Why? There are too many small businesses without a website. The upfront cost is too high to see if a website benefits their business. Wix and Squarespace and such are way too complex to use for an average small business owner(or say their kid). Most customers of these websites hire a 3rd party to develop their website. That costs more and takes longer.

Solution: if you can build a website without any training using an intuitive interface 10x quicker than what you thought it would take, most likely you build a website for your business yourself.

I have the MVP ready, and some customers. Currently I'm trying to scale to meet the demand. There is still a long journey ahead.
I really don't understand this whole perspective. Europeans seem to come from a perspective of government protecting and providing for its people, which can be seen at least partially by people putting up with royal families throughout Europe. The US comes from the perspective that government can be a huge force for evil, so we should limit its ability to violate our rights. Other cultures come from different perspectives.

I live in the US largely because I was born here and partly because I don't like the perspective in Europe or E. Asia. I guess I feel the same way about Europe as Europe feels about the US, though if I were in control, I'd probably make some changes that Europeans would agree with (open borders, for one).

Instead of bickering about who is backwards, how about we just work together on things of mutual interest, like increasing free trade and freedom of movement? Name-calling isn't doing anyone any favors. Ideally, you should be able to live where you feel the most comfortable, and you should never be stuck because your government made poor choices.
China had terrible air quality until they shut everything down, yet their CFR is half of Italy's, and that's probably due to the fact that it started there and the learning curve was steep.
I keep wondering if the Iron Lung is going to make a comeback.
This has been around for a long time. Is there something new about the website that I'm missing?
I'm on 5.0.1 with Nexus 4 and have no problems. Looks like it's not a common thing.
I had the same happen to me (albeit no account suspension but just the application). The application[0] was in the store for 11 months, I then updated for Material Design/Lolipop and puff, app suspended.

I'm using the TMDb.org API for displaying actor and movie images which--in my understanding--is allowed if I attribute TMDb as the source. I did that in the settings/copyright section. There are also a bunch of other apps that use the same API yet they are still in the Play Store. I didn't make a single dime off of it and spent roughly 250h on it with all the fine tuning and third party integrations.

I responded and asked what exactly the issue is and got another generic response. At this point I was too afraid to write any more emails since I don't want to endanger my account.

[0]: http://faactors.schilter.me/
Maybe they're on holiday? Is that not possible?
Very interesting service. I dislike adding a bottom (and I'm not going to) but I appreciate that I could have benefit from this tool more than once.
You're nitpicking about details that are not relevant to the article at all.

His point was that languages that treat functions as first-class citizens enable a class of abstractions that are tedious/impossible in languages which don't support them.

Whether the naive implementation of map can be easily parallelized across multiple machines/threads/processes is not relevant. In fact, he even says that you need a 'super genius' to write the scaling map and reduce operations.
Nonsense. A cheap currency promotes exports and reduces imports, and will strongly stimulate job grows, which is exactly what the U.S. needs now.

Job growth is also the reason why China is keeping its currency cheap: mass unemployment means instability.
Meeting the love of your life by banging heads as you both reach for the last copy of your favourite magazine is serendipity. Arranging a date via an online dating site is not.
Very funny and enlightening analysis. I've seen the fringes of algorithmic pricing a few times in other categories -- especially out-of-print DVDs or VHS tapes.

Example: don't ask me why I enjoy the movie My Dinner With Andre, but for whatever reason, I do. A few years back, I wanted to buy a copy of the DVD and checked Amazon. It turned out that the DVD was long out of print, and new copies were going for $400 apiece. I figured this price was high, but nevertheless, it was nothing that couldn't be explained by actual rarity and supply/demand metrics. Rare DVDs have been known to climb into the hundreds of dollars, especially if new and unopened. But I came back a few days later, and the price was $1932.78 (or something unusual to that effect). The next day, $3500 and change. Which struck me as odd, to say the least. Was some nefarious Goldman trader attempting to fix the market for Wallace Shawn's back catalog?

Needless to say, I didn't love the movie quite that much. So I passed. These days, Criterion has released a new DVD version of the film, and accordingly, everything's dropped back down to about $30 per copy -- including the price of the original, OOP version. I feel sorry for anyone who actually might have taken the plunge at $400, which is not out of the realm of possibility. That's a lot of money for a film about two guys having dinner.
> It's a shame all the useful names are trademarked and we have to resort to synthetic alphabetic tags for the rest of eternity

There is always the number line :P
However....

Users BELIEVE Excel supports CSV file. That's the reality on the ground. Fighting against that is a losing battle.
a) I don't see what is particularly clever about their token algorithm.

b) Talking about fundamental flaws in their token implementation seems relevant in a discussion about their token implementation.

c) Public discussions about flaws are often the best way to educate others and make the company aware of them.
Resources is something we invent and use not something we deplete.

Rainforests are marine biomass and ozone and ice caps are things we invent and not deplete?
It's as if you're looking for reasons to shit on OP. Come on.

For most websites; there's no reason for JS. For something like this? That's just being a prick about JS for being a prick about JS's sake.
I discovered it in après-ski bars of Kitzbühel, where it was given away liberally with shots of vodka (almost for free). It was hard to refuse it, as alcohol/socialising costs accounted for a significant budget of a skiing holiday.
It also provides a necessary check on unions, they have to provide a better service than base level employment. Many unions are taking dues while providing little to no benefits for large portions of their members.
Uber has more than 15 employees. As such they need to be compliant, their contractors do not... It's weird situation, but applies to any areas where we are dealing with small subcontractors.
Yep, that is the right answer.

Some volatile compounds may get through though.
Dynamic programming and reinforcement learning are just diagonalizations of the Young tableau. This is related to the spectral theorem.
I've tried 4 different SSRIs and none of them did anything. Ecstacy has no effect on me. Nor do magic mushrooms. Took me until I was 40 ish to find something that worked. Turns out my issue is too little gabba or at least over excitable neural tissue. Pregabalin fixes me. If I can't get that then CBD helps.
I seem to feel they ripped of "Classics.app" more than anybody. That app uses a bookshelf, to display ebooks for reading, just like iBooks.

Though there's a part of me thinking the designers for Classics.app asked Shipley for permission, but maybe that's incorrect. It's just a feeling.
Not without vision. You'd have to place all the tools and ingredients within reach at precisely known positions, probably all held in a special rig (like this: http://youtu.be/5sVOSlUn7e0 ). If something went wrong the robot wouldn't know and would continue executing the recipe with possibly disastrous results. Robots won't be replacing chefs until visual feedback is solved.
No penises yet!
Agreed, will add more stuff to it if it has some legs.
Wasn't Photoswap the next big thing in 2008? http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/09/photoswap-bring/
I am an active user of EBS on a highly trafficked Web properly, and came from a long and tedious background in enterprise software.

I really think that one paragraph in his blog post summed everything up quite nicely. It could not ring more true:

My opinion is that the only reason the big enterprise storage vendors have gotten away with network block storage for the last decade is that they can afford to over-engineer the hell out of them and have the luxury of running enterprise workloads, which is a code phrase for “consolidated idle workloads.” When the going gets tough in enterprise storage systems, you do capacity planning and make sure your hot apps are on dedicated spindles, controllers, and network ports.
A little API on App Engine is the backend (Python). Yeah, did the graphics stuff myself.
Thailand is interesting. It's in South East Asia, and yet friends I've talked to don't consider it a part of East Asia nor South Asia.
You can't be serious. Rust would just replace C++ in the current formula, you can't use Rust as if it was Python. ML people don't need to waste time proving memory properties at compile time, cmon!

Indeed, there were alternatives. Two already come to my mind, one is Scala (which syntax-wise is strikingly similar to Python) and Julia. Both having features like type-safety, macros, JIT, FFIs, etc.
Depression and medication side effects I'm still working through. There's an intense fog that forms in my head when I try to think through a problem that didn't use to be there. Even problems I've solved before I have much greater difficulty with than I remember having.
I agree with this. I also think it that keeping logic out of views is a good idea, but I think that like many one-liners, there is more to it than just that.

I think that there is a certain amount of logic that is necessary in our views. Otherwise, JavaScript would not exist. Manipulating the DOM via the vanilla API or via jQuery is only hiding that logic in another file. The logic is still there, and calling it "separate" is not useful, in my opinion.

I like the way React bundles this view-specific logic and the markup together. Now I don't have to look at some HTML and wonder if some JavaScript somewhere is messing with it.

CSS is another matter entirely. CSS doesn't change behavior and is another concern entirely, so I do still prefer it to live in its own files rather than being inline. React doesn't change anything about this, and that is fine by me.
Recently on my nextdoor, there was a report of an attempted break in with a crowbar at 7 in the morning while residents were home. The target? A couple of packages of Amazon. People are becoming very alarmed at the brazenness of perps.

Yes, robberies, theft and strongarming are way up due to less policing and particularly in SF the refusal of the DA to prosecute and when he does, he often suggests "restorative justice". The same crimes do not happen with the same per-capita number in Daly City.
But that is wrong... they do not sell the data. It is a bald faced lie.
Yes, but Chrome is still google. If the left hand suggests using this Google product means privacy and trust, but the right hand still exploits you, I do think there's an issue.

They can twist the words to be technically accurate, but not everyone is going to understand this.
It's getting pretty hard to manage for me, the poor maintainer :-). We've always put all our income into paying for development (and hardware, and sprints), so right now on Saturdays I'm being my own secretary/HR person/admin person. It used to be that my Saturdays were for bug triaging...
> If so, then why isn't this already a feature in common Linux distros?

It is. It's called auditd, is quite possibly already installed (albeit probably not configured to do much), and can easily ship its logs off to another host (natively or via syslogd).
I think we dropped the ball by awarding copyright protections unconditionally.

We should try to imitate patent protection and award copyright protections only if and for as long as software author publishes full description of the file formats and network protocols his software uses.

That was idea with patent protections. You get protection on the condition that you disclose details of your design to enable interoperability by future inventors, manufacturers and users.
Blender has always had a decent source of funding compared to other open source projects, the ability to have full time devs has made a huge difference. Their open source media releases were also a huge success because they pushed the program and feature set to what people actually need when doing real work. Really an awesome project overall.
It's really tough but you could take online classes and read textbooks. Also side projects. But it being difficult to teach yourself is the whole point, I rarely see bootcampers working in certain disciplines because of the amount of CS education (networks, OS, algorithms) they need to self teach themselves. I'm in the camp that CS degrees are valuable for that reason.
Carjackers make it hard to keep the road system usable at all, even between large fleets of cars. If you think it is so easy, why don't you set up your own fleet management system and show them how it is done, you miserly driver.
Always appreciated. Thanks.
"Most of the world treated the US Constituion this way as they wrote their own constitutions, and I think that worked pretty well."

HA! yeah, democracy is working out real great for everyone.
This made a lot of sense when the PS3 first came out, but since then we've gotten low-power architectures and extremely powerful and cheap GPU's.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_72770.html

Those, for example, are dirt cheap and have similar benefits to the Cell. And you don't have to work around a platform that was designed for playing games.
What was CloudOn?
Everything the GP said above is correct, though. Since so many people's first exposure to programming is through one of these languages, many people are simply unaware that it's possible to do better. Many people find it hard to switch from their first language. I agree with you that Haskell, Rust, and (to a much lesser extent) Lisp have the problem that it's hard to get started with easy graphical libraries aimed at beginners, though I don't agree that that's the case for Python. This is why historically there were languages like Logo explicitly designed as "Lisp for beginners," but today most such attempts seem to simplify programming to the point that it can hardly be described as programming at all (thinking of tools like Scratch).
Never rapidly cool it off, e.g. by sticking it while still hot under the running cold water. This kills the coating just like that.
Thanks, no i'm not giving up on my current degree, as I'm going to graduate by the end of this year I'll be a doctor anyhow, it's after getting the degree I'm thinking of following an alternative field with the use of my medical degree.

I was reading this article on the Atlantic, that talks about following MBA together with the MD degree http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/09/the-ris...

Although I love computers and technology it doesn't mean I want to work in a software company, what I need is an alternative field so I can have a good family life and I don't have to work in a depressing environment and committing suicide few years later.

Thanks for the suggestions they are really helpful
Since it's not explicitly stated until near the end of the very long page, the LVDC was the Saturn V rocket's Launch Vehicle Digital Computer. More details at [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Launch_Vehicle_Digital_C...