jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Would you expect the newspapers not to print what Obama says, if it downplays WikiLeaks importance? Or that a google search will not find you some stories that understate them?

Or that when someone with Assange's prominence is charged with rape in Sweden (totally bogus IMHO, but still - Sweden is generally considered an advanced, sane nation) the media won't find it interesting?

The world contains people who hold different opinions from Glen Greenwald, and they get to publish them too.
Bettween.com is good for this sort of thing, and looks like it does a better job of threading which tweets others are in reply to than NearMetter is doing.

http://bettween.com/ioerror/zedshaw
I do webdev.

Ruby192 Rails3

CoffeeScript Backbone.js jQuery qUnit Underscore.js

I'd like to do MMO games in js, i'll use Node.js server side maybe with ZeroMQ, and client side it's still a eyes-wide-open https://gist.github.com/749734 , all via CoffeeScript.
I had a Lumia 920 that I dropped down three flights of stairs and it still worked with only minor scratches on the plastic and one scratch on the screen. I'm not sure you can do that with any of the Lumia flagships that followed that one though. They caved to the "thinner is better" market, even though the 920 was thinner and lighter than an iPhone with an Otterbox or Lifeproof that a lot of people have.
Multiple cursor support demo from IRC
http://cl.ly/image/3M3G3s251o15
That sounds fun - I'd like to hear more about that.
Google proclaims a new sci-fi project every other week, but hasn't delivered any amazing products to users since Maps. Apple doesn't proclaim anything but consistently changes people's lives by making new and useful product categories.
> The only value they offer is violating people's privacy.
I don't think reading a value being freely broadcast by a person in your building is an invasion of privacy, how is this any different from having security cameras with audio or anything else. Saying you have privacy to something you are broadcasting in public, even more specifically in this case a privately owned building is a little daft. Do you think it's an invasion of privacy if someone writes down your name and address if you were yelling it in the middle of a Starbucks?
Best way I found is to set a "hot corner" that will lock the computer once the cursor is moved there

Easier than typing a key combination
Trump was America's Orban, if I understand what you were saying. Forcing Facebook, Twitter, et al, to carry his speech, as putative head of the U.S. government, is the tyranny and censorship that you should be railing against, because it violates FB's and Twitter's constitutional rights not to transmit violent speech that they disagree with.

Private property, private rights, and government, have all existed before the "fear" (whatever it is you mean by that) was dealt with.
The three are: Prime, Marketplace (3rd party), AWS.

> After two decades of risk taking and teamwork, and with generous helpings of good fortune all along the way, we are now happily wed to what I believe are three such life partners: Marketplace, Prime, and AWS. Each of these offerings was a bold bet at first, and sensible people worried (often!) that they could not work. But at this point, it’s become pretty clear how special they are and how lucky we are to have them.

> With good execution and a bit of continuing good luck, Marketplace, Prime, and AWS can be serving customers and earning financial returns for many years to come.

From the Amazon 2014 letter to shareholders: https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_financials/annual/A...

It's kinda interesting that Devices (Alexa/Kindle) and 1st party retail are not called out as flywheels. Advertising and Alexa are other candidates for the next flywheel I believe. I think the reason they're not there yet is that they're not self-sustaining, i.e. like Logistics, they're growing but their growth is driven by the other flywheels.
But perhabs visitors like lobbyists, donors etc. could be often alone long enough with a computer to something bad.
And don't forget all the viruses that tweet porn links.
Twitter would go down all the time for years (remember the Fail Whale?)

With Coinbase, don't forget that a/ they're dealing with huge spikes of people trying to do actions (not just reading) that happens once every 2-3 years and b/ they're built on a network and aren't able to control everything.

I'm not saying they should be going down, but I don't think I'd write it off as negligence.
I think it's easy to say Trump's comments condoned violence when you censor the comments themselves and everyone will just believe you because it's in line with their biases, like nearly every comment in this thread approving his bans.

As far as I'm concerned free speach is dead. You can only say what the corporate overlords allow.
MtGox and BitStamp were the two biggest exchanges back then.
Lol "grass". They've applied some heavy transformations to it in-game, so it's not at all obvious what it is. For the sake of whoever did this, I hope Apple has a sense of humour lol
It's fine to take another normalisation metric - no metric is perfect. The point was that there is a normalisation needed. Far too often I see a comment which states, "Oh! It is just 1$ so cheap!". I chose PPP because it is meant for making parities. So, 9cents may or may not be cheap. We don't know until we use a normalisation factor.
I'm UK with dual nationality so life continues as normal.
One of the tenets though, "6. Be Honest and Acknowledge When You Don’t Fit the Role" only is fair to the person if the team/company also follows that advice.

If a team or company does not value, or cannot tell, or does not act if someone is incompetent and unfit for a role, then this advice penalizes those who are honest, and rewards those who are good at faking competence.

You need to have a structure of integrity within which to operate, in order for honest behavior to be rewarded.
Yes, the bar exam requires you to learn much law you'll never use. They are a general test that covers all areas of the law.

Boards are for specific specialties. You don't take a board to be a doctor, you take a board to be a podiatrist, etc.

Personally, I think both exams are about protectionism more than anything else.

Source: have taken a bar exam, have a wife that's a doctor.
Nothing is laundered here though. You have a bunch of cash or crypto that has no provenance.
Great, Qt 6.x isn't ready, so KDE and others can't use it. They have to run a fork if they want to fix some bug in Qt. I really wonder what's going to happen.
You don't really need an external arbiter to enforce a "meaning" on living well with other people. Social connections are essential to happiness[1], at least for most people. The number and kind of connections vary, but the "abuse people and grow rich" model doesn't make most people happy.

That may be counterintuitive, but it's a mis-extrapolation from the fact that being poor really sucks. There are diminishing returns. More things are required, which for many people is some kind of connection.

Those connections are not sufficient, even if necessary. One may still want to give up, and there's no easy answer to the nihilist question. All I can offer is to note that you haven't given up already and therefore have some intution that there is some emotional state you might look for -- even though I assert that "meaning" isn't actually it.

[1] I'm actually using "happiness" as a shortcut for some generally positive emotional state, the kind where you don't feel morose and ask plaintively about "the meaningless of life". That state may not actually be "happy". "Satisfied" or "content" may be more accurate, but still incomplete, and "happy" conveys the notion better.
Glad to see someone pointing out the context.

Certainly this doctor and his family did a great thing by forgoing the debt owed by his patients. BUT, my wife worked and volunteered at a few private clinics around NY metro areas and I would wager that this doctor's clinic already makes a lot of money (2-3x that 650K) every year if not more.

As an example, one of the primary care physician's clinic that my wife (who is now in medical residency) used to work in NY Chinatown (a lot of patients there are on Medicaid/Medicare, etc.) still raked in at least $600K/year. The doctor sees ~40-50 patients a day. The doctor would write one or two bogus diagnoses to inflate the billing codes to make up for the 'loss in revenue' due to treating patients on Medicaid or simply making each patient encounter worth it.

Another example from a different clinic, where my wife used to volunteer, put on phone consultation fee in the bill when the patient called in to check about his appointment and asked a side question about one of his medication. It literally took that psychiatrist less than a minute to answer that call, but the patient is going to be footing ~$50-$100 from his/her co-pay.

In summary, some of these private clinics (not to mention the hospitals and we have read about their b.s. billing practices many times) are billing patients bogus stuff on almost every patient encounter. Some of them justify this by saying it's not the patient who pays the bill (but in fact, some patients with high deductibles/co-pay have to) or that they need to make up for their expected earning of running a private clinic (which is better than what a general physician would earn--$250K/year on average--at a hospital).
Really? You're going to out-compete? What happened to the free market? What happened to the advantages of capitalism? You're worried about them becoming economically dominant because they work harder? Why does the US deserve to remain dominant then?
A subsequent corollary: if you drink more than enough, you also get skinny.
If an ultraportable came with ubuntu by default I'd dump macos in a heartbeat.
Luckily Blizzard is saving startups by making Battle.net 2.0 unusable. The "social" features (facebook integration) are just a way of allowing your boss to see how much time you spend playing, the absence of LAN is a countermeasure to the "we have to check something in the storage room" excuse, the absence of chat rooms makes it so much more difficult to pretend you are typing away at that important document, the list goes on.

The Chinese version of the game will have all of these features, Starcraft 2 is just a conspiracy to get the US back ahead.
A few months or a year ago a Google designer quit when he was forced to split test one too many shades of blue. He described what a creativity sink the uniform fidelity to that sort of approach is. Of course, in a large organization there are always counter examples and counterpoints, but that particular Google designer was responding to frustrations inspired by recognition of this post's observations. Engineering has not yet reached the point where split testing is always (or usually, in my opinion), better and more efficient than the creativity of a trained expert.
The Haskell snippet doesn't remove the character in place though, does it? I imagine solutions would be more varied then.
Yup. And one more consideration to add to that, the math of losing money is brutal.

For example, say you start trading with $100, have a bad day and take a 50% loss, and are down to $50. What % gain do you need to get back $100?

Not 50%, as many new investors answer without thinking. To get from $50 back to $100 requires a 100% gain.

If you only a 25% loss down to $75, you need a 33% gain to get from $75 back to $100.

If you took a 75% loss to $25, you need a 300% gain to get back to $100.

Given the loss, the odds of getting the gains required to break even are not good.

Avoiding losses is a huge part of making money trading, which is why I particularly like both What I Learned and Taleb's stuff.
I don't think I've ever even looked at an app's website before I've bought one, and I don't really want to. If someone does a good job with their documentation in the app store listing itself, especially with the screen shots, then that's usually all I need.
Here's the thing: finding evidence in support of any conclusion is pretty easy. What is more difficult and time-consuming is to become deeply familiar with the total body of work on a topic, and to then come to a data-driven conclusion. Unfortunately, this article is an example of the former.
My understanding is that the free optical network they'll be giving out is intended to showcase the effect of high-quality internet service on a community.

Google seems to be committed to the idea that what's good for the internet is good for Google.
The other two/three missing links: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/21/ios-4-is-now-live-soon-at-itu...
If it's indeed so hard to find a good Uber driver, you'd expect them to be driven out of the market by customers themselves.

And if they compensate for that by eg. lower price, then how is it different from any other market. You want premium quality, you pay extra - you're fine with compromising on it, you go for the cheaper option.
If you are ever in Greece and want a delicious rich soup I reccomend Avgolemono[1].

1. https://www.tasteatlas.com/avgolemono
I think willingly abusing user privacy for profit and lying to your government makes using the word “repugnant” pretty quantifiable.
>Sounds like Uber provides valuable service to the poor who are more likely to work night shift

On what planet are "the poor" commuting back and forth to work via Uber?
I feel like many of the text-mode browsers have failed to keep up with changing web standards. We were all mad when IE was holding back the Internet, and I'm not sure we should give lynx and w3m a pass because they're geek tools. (Accessibility is an important concern, but web browsers running under a GUI system support screen readers.)

https://www.brow.sh/ is a console-based browser that claims to support modern standards. Perhaps that is what we should be using.

(I am now prepared for 6 comments replying to me saying that anything that can be implemented with HTML from 1999 should be, and a list of search results can be. I guess. If all that stuff works for everyone, why did we invent new stuff? Just because? Or perhaps it wasn't really as amazing as well all remember.)
I am in the API example image and I do not like it. [1]

1: https://imgz.org/iJKuc6HA.png
Dating apps are extremely broken, and yet they're almost all owned by a single company: Match Group. I have a suspicion that these apps are left intentionally broken to keep users fruitlessly searching and boost engagement metrics. I can't find a complete list of the companies they've acquired, but last time I checked, Match owns over 20 different apps and dating sites, including Tinder, OkCupid, and Hinge. We really need some antitrust action in this space.
Here's one in New Jersey [1], carrying the D&R Canal parallel to the Delaware, across a tributary creek. It's part of a park, you can bike or hike across here, and I was really quite astounded the first time I came across it.

This whole area is pretty much paradise to bicyclists, from the D&R Canal's 70 miles of towpath, to the 15 miles of the Colombia Trail. There's a huge amount of riding to be done, completely off roadways and safe from cars.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mapleton_Aqueduc...
I think it’s because that they know it’s not free. It’s a subscription service paid for in information supplied by users. For some, this is an acceptable trade. Others would like to pay for services in dollars instead, but that’s not an option in many cases.
> Also Who cares about the IRS, this is Italy. Get over yourself.

You were talking about the IRS in the comment I responded to.

> Get over yourself

This is against HN guidelines. Please be civil.

2) > They accept your statement as a fair representation.
> Yup.. At the time, see above, FY2018 you were supposed to register as a self employed, now you need to register as employed, cool.. But Wait you need to pay last years tax as an employed too. Nonsense.
Whoever you filed with owes you in this case, but I don't know why they would pay based on a retro change.

No. You sign your own return even if you have a tax preparer.

Misfilings are your responsibility.

If it’s just a good faith error, usually there won’t be a fine, but if you owe more taxes you will have to pay them.

Re-fillings to correct errors are a normal procedure.

3) > They can always go back and change things if you made a misrepresentation.
There was no misrepresentation at the time. That's the point.

The article says there was.

> Typically in the US both individuals and businesses are expected to keep records for 7 years, in case the IRS wants to check things.
It's called audits and its out of the scope or concern for this discussion.

What an odd thing to say. An audit is the process of checking and correcting errors in tax filings when problems are suspected.
All of that is about Tesla, which is a publicly traded company whose CEO is Musk. Making outlandish claims about your new product and therefore how outlandishly profitable your company is going to be in 2-8 quarters is the status quo for CEOs.

Musk claims about SpaceX tend to be significantly less outlandish. (less, not none, he still throws some doozies out there) He doesn't need to sell a dream to shareholders. The customers of the product aren't dreamy eyed brand loyalists, the customers are mostly corporations and governments whose decision making processes are going to be driven mostly by accountants and lawyers.

My attitude about Musk's Tesla claims mostly fall in the category of "I'll believe it when I see it," but with SpaceX it's cautious optimism.
I've never used Twitter in my life. Sounds like all the bullshit from high school that I ditched.
The download is only available for Mac today, but we are working on the Linux and Windows builds.
Maybe it's needed for ad-hoc networks between peers without a router. But maybe a one-time key would work?
I've been wanting, for a long time, to be able to have custom UIs to websites (just like how video games do it). If this is a step in that direction for github, I will be very, very happy.
Of course it's crossplatform. It works on OSX Mavericks and Snow Leapard!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMIHNiR3CP8 ;)
Why ask to see source for a project above and beyond the work-sample test you've already administered?

I think work samples are a wonderful way to screen candidates (really, the best way) but to presume that all qualified candidates will have an additional sample of code (to the scale of a "significant project," even) available upfront for you without requiring an additional commitment seems disingenuous.

You end up applying an implicit filter for "developers who feel confident and comfortable contributing to OSS and/or possess copious free time for a personal project," which probably isn't really what you were trying to select for and tends to unfairly filter out certain types of candidate.
> it would surely be applied and the market would collapse. The market didn't collapse, so there is no such method.

You keep saying that, but it's full of assumptions that simply aren't true. Just because a successful method exists does not mean everyone can or will apply it nor does it mean the market will collapse.

> How is that so hard to figure out?

How it it so hard for you to see the absurdity of what you're saying?

> When a scientist encounters a description like this, he always assumes a priori that it's chance. That agrees with the null hypothesis and Occam's razor.

There's a reason scientists are in general not rich people. And I have much respect for scientists, but you're just being absurd.

Investigate a bit before just claiming it's nonsense because you're not giving it the thought you should, you're just presuming you're right and making absurd claims based on absurd assumptions that don't hold water.

http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-on-efficient-m...
This was his answer when asked specifically about this during his recent AMA on reddit:

My investment group chose to do this. It is not connected to climate. The agriculture sector is important. With more productive seeds we can avoid deforestation and help Africa deal with the climate difficulty they already face. It is unclear how cheap biofuels can be but if they are cheap it can solve the aviation and truck emissions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/m8n4vt/im_bill_gates_...
Nah, Gitlab is the definitve solution.

I really don't feel the need for anything besides gitlab + gitlab-ci.
I would assume that most people have some sensitivity because they've been exposed to coronaviruses before. However this is not enough to quickly raise an immune response when the new variant shows up.
How about promoting Kotlin to spite Oracle? That's what I'd do in their shoes, if I were feeling salty, with a longer-term goal of making Java the COBOL of the 21st century.
Is this something I could get into with 2TB disks? Say 12-15 2TB disks. I have a bunch that are too old to trust and are sitting on a shelf. Any idea how disk failures affect things?
There are other alternatives between allowing the economy to collapse and bailing out Wall Street.

One proposed by a Harvard Professor during the GFC was to create an Economic Development Bank of the US, seed it with the TARP money instead ($700B), and give it the mandate of financing productive growth activities (as opposed to asset speculation or consumption). The money multiplier effect implies that $700B could multiply into $7T worth of liquidity injection into productive growth activities.

Another similar model is the Japanese post-WWII industrial development model, where a central bank or Ministry of Finance finances local regional banks as they support rebuilding and industrialization of their local economy. Google the economist Richard Werner for more on this model.

All this can be done while letting big Wall St. banks fail and taking them into receivership similar to the S&L crisis. There is precedent for all of this, it’s nothing new. And certainly more options than Wall St. self-servingly presents.
And how do you think we come up with hypotheses?
Creating relationships was not a problem but for example, adding new fields to an already created many-2-many was an issue. Changing migration scripts was also a hassle.
Before the pandemic it was hard enough to get people to stick around for a few hours after work to grab a beer. I can't imagine having people drop what they are doing for over an hour just to have a half hour lunch in a central spot. Adult coworkers do not drop everything in front of them for a short good time like college friends would have.
Perhaps it's related to self-identification? People don't self-identify as cancerous, the cancer (or disease?) is an external actor invading the body. Whereas a disability is a feature or aspect of one's body.

(I don't have first hand experience with either, so I'm just musing too..)
Well he's not Michelangelo obviously, but low res pixel art is still art. Compare it to some of the clones or infinimer and it's clear that care went into the aesthetic.
That's my secret: I'm always unreasonably angry.

[turns around, hulks out, punches space worm]
How relevant are these comments 6 years later?
Does Wayland have an input method story? Last I heard, GNOME was telling users that ibus was the only supported input method for their software; ibus doesn't have the same feature set or flexibility as my current setup, which involves switching between fcitx and XIM dynamically. Plus, what about being able to accessibly enter text into things other than ibus-bound GNOME applications?

I've heard talk of a Wayland port of fcitx, but I could never get it to do anything at all, and it sounds like GNOME might not support it even if it does work?

I'd love to hear how this all is supposed to work from someone who knows what's going on.
"Unreasonably angry? Be reasonably angry!"
I know, I know, I just couldn't resist.
Kudos though, I concur with one's reaction to this I do.