jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In some regards, yes, but it's more than the structure of the UI. The menu-based interface should be perfectly suited to any task you want to accomplish, as it is in many other apps, but use LibreOffice for any amount of time and you begin to find the UI completely lacks any sort of consistency and tasks you'd expect to find under a certain hierarchy are not there, instead in a completely separate menu or toolbar that has nothing to do with it.

This is a problem with MSFT products as well, but to a lesser extent.

In addition, decades-old bugs have not been fixed. It's a showstopper.
My goals would be for getting deep knowledge in an area of study, more than I'm able to do on my own. After becoming an expert in that area, I would like to apply that to business. Examples: MIT robotics->start robotics company / work with roboticists at an existing company or Columbia Computer Science and Logistics and Supply Chain Optimization->start a company optimizing delivery/pickup routes for delivery drivers and providing 'deep' dashboards to monitor and reroute as needed. Also, I would invite everyone to look at this comment from Clare Corthell from Mattermark for something closely related, and important:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8445607

The thing that spurred me to write this was the realization that there are probably hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people in this country that could be making incredible contributions to science, technology, business, and society in general, but don't have the ability to realize that potential. It's one of those funny things where understanding you have a problem, even at a detailed level, does not imbue you with the tools to fix it. I think that's what makes me the angriest. Society should be falling over trying to help people push things ahead, contribute to the advancement of society (I read that some countries pay people to go to college), but instead it tells you 'have rich parents, go into incredible debt, be a lucky unicorn, or tough luck.' How many other people are sitting around doing some dreary job that does little (like the ad clicks example), who, if given the resources, would provide society (and themselves) with so much more? It's a colossal waste.

Hammerbacher's quote resonated with me when I first read it, but now it really hits home: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," Hammerbacher once said. "That sucks."

I really appreciate your comment. That's the sort of response I was hoping for. Other people who have experienced this, and what they did/are doing. Thank you.
> Except for consuming the API directly in a browser, there's little reason that XML should cause you pain.

I disagree. Unless the data I'm working with are awkward/difficult to represent in JSON (ie, they're highly structured documents, for which XML is ideal), XML is always more painful to work with. More painful to produce and to consume.

This is working primarily with Python and Javascript.
... or that the reduction notice alone takes up an extra page.
I've experienced one major, extended depression in my life, about a decade ago. My daily outpouring of despair into a printed journal came to feel like a life line. By itself it wasn't enough to get me out, but it was enough to keep my head above water while I was going through it.
And we love that about you :)
Rather, I'm doubting that our understanding of calories and how they're burned off/turned into fat is wrong. I'm proof, as is anyone else who does 30 mins sweaty exercise a day. Otherwise, given the amount of Big Macs inbetween meals, the maths doesn't add up.
You can get a lot of Zinc from plant based sources:

http://food.vegtalk.org/minerals/spices-fats-fruits-vegetabl...
Launch too.

Just try launching/landing a space vehicle without informing air controllers in any country with a functioning government. I'm pretty sure black helicopters would be near you in minutes, and stern-faced guys in battle gear would start yelling questions.
It is slanted because of how the question was asked.

81% Of Americans Support Naked Airport Scans... If You Leave Out The Naked Part In Asking The Question(http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101116/17225811903/81-of-...)
I've added this to my personal collection of awesome quotes.
>And given that's my motivation, I'm pretty careful about how I engage people. I don't shame people, I don't push them. I honestly don't give a shit what they decide. I just like having the options all out there.

A very important point. I'm a vegetarian myself, and the subject comes up from time to time. I always end up advocating deliberate, thought-through decisions over any particular choice of diet.
I believe this is roughly how shorts are handled on the Lima stock exchange, through the mechanism of "Operaciones del Reporte" -- a peer-to-peer lending system on the exchange. These loans are fully collateralized, keeping the risk extremely low.
Padrino extends Sinatra with a wealth of extra features: namespaced route aliases, nested routes, controllers, i18n / internationalization, mailer system, django-esque admin interface and unified logging.

Most of these features can be added to Sinatra already, either manually or by selecting from a wide assortment of independent plugins. Padrino, on the other hand, provides a standard suite of functionality that, hopefully, will continue to be improved as a whole over time. It feels a lot like Ramaze (http://ramaze.net/) but with the similar functionality wrapped around Sinatra instead.
Does anyone else have a similar experience? How do you deal with it?

Move. No joke. There no substitute for a place where there are actual opportunities. I'm going to Edinburgh.
We have a sync program (lbry.com/faq/youtube) that automatically mirrors content for creators if they authenticate their youtube channel - that's where most of the content comes from, apart from those uploaded directly by users. YouTubers are now also adopting it more and doing exclusives with us.

Thanks for the awesome feedback, gave me a huge smile!

If you share your channel or wallet address, will send a tip over!
Because upper class Pakistanis have a “colonized” mindset and tend to believe that true quality culture must be imported. Additionally, egalitarianism is not a value as it is in the USA, so working class art is generally looked down on.
wolfgang's interpretation is what I intended.
1. The rise of mass media, and a mass media culture that promotes scare news.
2. The rise of social media which allows people to tailor their content to what they want to hear, including conspiracy theories
3. A general trend over the last 20 years of Americans becoming more isolated in their own communities from one another, leading to distrust of others
4. Various individuals and groups have an interest in keeping the US government divided and gridlocked to avoid legislation damaging their interests.
5. Trump. Trump has promoted this, directly and indirectly, throughout 2020.
Maybe, although regulation isn't necessarily bad for Facebook, as it builds a bigger moat for them and makes it harder for smaller organisations to compete. They can afford it.
> Though, many genre readers seem completely oblivious to prose quality and read purely for story.

I find that I would read different books differently - some books I would read for the writing style or prose, and others purely for the story. I will literally skip 'prose-y?' sections to not waste time and get back to the story.

Though I gotta say, I found both the writing style and story great in Hyperion. One of the few books I actually went back and re-read sections of, while going through the first time.
the video from Georgia still hasn't been explained satisfactorily.
Mainstream media started killed credibility in the 80s and what we see is the result of a media that thinks it speaks for all but represents only half at best.
> They weren’t rushing the Capitol back then, but this removal notice isn’t limited to that.

Antifa and BLM protestors were attacking Federal property in DC. They were tearing down Federal statues and publicly threatening to stage attacks on monuments.

Facebook is openly taking political sides. They're doing it now because Trump is essentially out of office, so Zuckerberg can safely expire his pact with Trump for FB to attempt to remain neutral.
>message of deescalation

Pull the other one. That's not what it was.
"It's inconsistent for the Americans to accuse the Chinese of manipulating exchange rates and then to artificially depress the dollar exchange rate by printing money."

Not really. China has a large and growing trade surplus, due in part to currency manipulation. The U.S. has a huge trade deficit. That is evidence that the dollar is over-valued. Printing dollars will help bring global trade into balance, while China's actions preserve imbalances.
In 2006 I visited the Yangon Zoo. Four elephants were chained behind a short barrier (designed more to keep humans out than elephants in). They begged zoo visitors for handouts, swaying side to side as much as the chains allowed. A fifth elephant, the matriarch, was swaying too but it had no chains.

Maybe the elephant had been there so long that it had grown chains in its mind. Or maybe it realized there is little freedom in Burma, inside or outside of its enclosure.

I hope this turns out to be a positive change. If there are any HNers living in Burma, I look forward to the day when the barriers are torn down and we're free to hack together :)
Why does any one company have to "win" the internet? Why do people need to have a "best" web company? Pitting companies as enemies? I cannot understand the line of thinking- does this person want there to be some sorta web monopoly big brother type figure that strikes down all who oppose? This is tabloid writing...
You make what you measure, and usually, you can only measure a few things often enough to really make a difference. So, you need to be damn certain you pick the right metrics ahead of time, otherwise you will end up with nothing near what you want.

So, what are our metrics. As a few examples:

1. The graduation rate of the student body.
2. Standardized test scores.
3. Rates of subsequent employment after graduation.
4. Salary of subsequent employment.
5. The relative prestige of the employing companies.

What we are measuring here is the rate by which people default, and with the expressed goal that we maximize these. What we actually want to end up maximizing is a meta-level or two up from these metrics, but what we've come up with so far is measuring a set of consequences that might kind of indicate that we are maximizing what we actually want. Of course, we forget that these implications only go one way. What we may end up maximizing might have the same symptoms as our goal.

The other question really becomes how you develop a metric to gauge "curiosity". It's really quite subjective, but it is something we would have to do if we'd want to maximize it to any appreciable degree.

Here's my thoughts about this. In the large, it just isn't possible. Psychological motivation is not a multiple-choice test. In order to know someone is curious, you have to expose them to situations that will bring that sort of curiosity out. What you'd need to do is observe and interact with someone, and gauge their reaction to stimuli that would bring about curiosity.

But even then, once you start measuring it, how do you maximize it within a collective? Is it even possible to change the frame of mind of a collective of people? There are 25 of them with a frame of mind they come into the school system with from their parents, and there is one of you telling them that their collective sense of reality isn't the only perspective available. False consciousness is hard enough to overcome one-on-one.

I really think it has to be a grassroots process, if it is going to work at all. You need to convince your friends who don't already believe it that it is worth having faith in continuous learning as a net benefit to one's life. Then they can pass this frame of mind down to their children, who will hopefully become numerous enough eventually that the positive feedback loop starts.

How to do that is left as an exercise to the reader; I've made a difference in the perspectives of a few people, but I have no idea which argument or combination of arguments I made worked. I don't think I could know, to be honest.
yeah, it's an iteration of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1880364 with another pic algo and the FF performance fixed (which lead to a completely rewrite of the image editing logic...) (+ cooler images) - maybe you like it.
if only malware writers would write better code!
oh wait... :P
I have been frustrated by this problem for years; the most common occurences being dropdown menus rendered below flash ads on vendors' websites. Even just 2 days ago I saw it on netapp.com (though most of their pages set wmode correctly). I was puzzled that no one seemed to care. I never saw this pb mentioned anywhere on the Net. All of my friends seemed to have never witnessed the pb until I opened a vendor's website to demonstrate it.

I am glad that FINALLY I see an explanation and that people FINALLY start caring.
Interesting. So perhaps we're talking about the 'two things' that are specific to software development. Maybe it's worth considering the rest of the different 'two things' that apply more generally as well?
Her eyes look bloodshot. I wonder what she's been up to.
Rare was never owned by Nintendo - they were only ever a second party developer. Nintendo did provide them with significant financial resources and autonomy, however.
Agreeing that the connotation of “indefinitely” is “permanently”;

They are in a real sense permanently banning “President Trump”
> if you give everyone a free $10 everything becomes $10 devalued.

Inflation happens, but the poor benefit much more, as their gains from UBI(as a percentage of their existing income) are more than the loss through inflation.

For rich people, the loss can be more, but this is how inequality is reduced.
In which case you'll probably inevitably end up building something with a suboptimal stack -- and limiting novelty also means you won't learn anything _new_, which sounds more terrible to me.
Considering Walker is described as a heavy patent holder, I'm not sure his enthusiasm for the wonders of patents are entirely objective. Is he concerned here with informing his audience or the value of his holdings?

> it will be aimed at smaller and mid-sized businesses that need a low-cost way to mitigate their infringement risk. It will also offer universities and other smaller patent owners a way to finally earn some revenue from their inventions

Maybe I'm cynical, but "mitigate their infringement risk" sounds like a euphemism for "pay Walker a bunch of money or get taken to court".
This is such a biased document as to be pointless. The authors are so opposed to generics that I don't understand why they bother. Just a few beauties:

> The generic dilemma is this: do you want slow programmers, slow compilers and bloated binaries, or slow execution times?

I don't think these are the only outcomes, but lets go with it. A slightly slower compiler then. Solved.

> The generic structures are less useful than a concrete one.

If they weren't more useful then nobody would be arguing for them.

> Generic structures can be less optimized than a concrete solution

Ridiculous.

>Code won’t look idiomatic.

Idiomatic is a function of the language syntax and features. If generics are a feature then their use will, by definition, be idiomatic.

And on and on. At this point people using Go accept the lack of generics (and, oddly, sometimes wear the omission as a badge of honor). I don't think anyone happily using Go is expecting generics anytime soon, if at all. And I don't think the authors need a paper to show their dislike for them. Who are they trying to convince anyway?

EDIT: A few folks have told me I come across too heavy handed in my reply. I apologize to and don't mean to discourage the author(s)! It's a tough document to write. Especially if this was just a starting "brain dump." The document title had just set my expectation towards a neutral tone.
> Do we really know what the average programmer actually produces?

Industry average is 2,000 lines of code per programmer per year.

I've regularly produced 10x to 40x that amount. Others I've talked to have done the same.

The difference between "low volume" and "high volume" programmers is usually pretty stark. My experience is that it's not so much experience as problem solving skills.

If you have a good understanding of the problem, you can come up with the correct solution, and move on to another problem. If you don't understand the problem, you'll work for weeks and get nowhere.

There's also a methodical approach. As an anecdote, I once had to use a script from another developer in the same company. It just didn't work. Paths hard-coded to his home directory (for a script supposedly used in the test suite), etc. I spent 3 days fixing it, and told him it had problems because it had no error checking.

His response? "I don't have time to write error checks."

My response was "WTF? I don't have time to not write error checks."

The 10x programmer has a fundamentally different approach to programming than the bad programmer.
I do quite a lot of what could be considered artistic photography, had exhibitions, been published etc - and I find film is just more beautiful than digital. A poetic point possibly, but when I'm making a piece of visual art that's kind of what I'm after. Digital is certainly a lot more convenient and a lot quicker, but when I want to really capture a special image I'll always do it on film.

I started out on digital but now work more and more with film. There's just "something" about a film image compared to the same shot done digitally which I can't explain. Though a friend who is an optics&laser specialist and does a lot of astronomy photography going back many years suggested that your eyes can perceive the crystal/"organic" structure of a film print and prefers it to a clean ordered digital one. No idea if that's true - but I liked the idea ;-)
By policing and issuing a dmca notice dropbox seems to be risking their status from "carrier/hoster"?

IANAL but the dmca provides hosting sites protection against users who infringe. By actively checking for infringement of users having dropship could they be openning themselves to legal complications if they lose "hoster" status?
And of course if you don't happen to know all these details (who the hell does?) then you write "unknown".

If you do have the misfortune to be a legit US citizen without a birth certificate then you gotta throw the passport office a bone. You don't need to know the names of the persons present, but if you did then it'd help them verify your identity. Nor do you have to have been baptised, but if you were then they can look that up too.

In conclusion, this is just the random internet-media beatup of the day. Someone should write an article about the life cycle of these.
I took a bunch of tings from notepad: namely the simple interface and continual saving.

Glad you like it :)
Four seconds on duckduckgo: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_onlin...
> Filtering technical knowledge into a relevant format for a listener to comprehend in real time is a skill that can be learnt.

Sadly, not a skill most "scientific journalists" appear to have learned. There's a difference between "make understandable" and "dumb down to complete context-free drivel"[1].

And that's before the aforementioned "journalist" takes a single press release from a university PR department at face value rather than doing, well, journalism.

[1]: or maybe this is just https://xkcd.com/2501 on my behalf
The Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the US might have a word here
I should say that banning guns because guns are a good way to detect general crime seems like a flawed move to me. What I support is banning guns as a good way to detect gun crime.
Holy moly, I literally saw this appear last night. It was looking for good fonts to use in a project of mine, clicked one, clicked back, and there it was.
Love all three!!
Startups don't fail due to a lack of funding or visibility; that's pretty much the default.
Hmmm. I'm going to assume that the existing etacts service will, in fact, be shut down, and that the team will work on implementing the same (or similar, or perhaps completely unrelated) functionality within Salesforce's products.

If the shutdown message made reference to the fact that they're being acquired by Salesforce, then perhaps users (who may not necessarily read their emails all that carefully) would assume that the existing service would be continuing under the Salesforce banner. Then the etacts folks would have had to spend the next N weeks correcting that particular misconception by answering a bunch of emails from users going "Waaah I don't want to be in Salesforce" or "But I already have a Salesforce account, how do I integrate the two" and "wtf is Salesforce I tried to log in and it didn't work".

On reflection this makes sense.
"You do realize that the Wayland came from devs working for Red Hat right?"

I did mention that Ubuntu didn't write that code, so yes, I'm aware of that. Kristian Høgsberg, the original author, was working for Red Hat at the time he started the project. I don't know how much dev time Red Hat currently contributes in the current state of Wayland, if any.

In any case, the only ones actively pushing for Wayland use are the Ubuntu devs. Fedora has half-heartedly implied that it will use it at some point in the future. Maybe.
"Like it or not, many people who self-describe as feminists are actually seeking a privileged position for women."

This is a media distortion.

"Many people who self-describe as seeking "social justice" are actually far left wing extremists pushing fairly radical proposals."

I could see how that might seem to be the case in a country that's been driven as far to the right as the US has. Where Jimmy Carter, Clinton, and Obama are also branded "far-left radicals" and "socialist Nazis".

Wanting people to be treated fairly is now seen as an "extremist", "radical" position.

"By the way, why the double post?"

Because the first post was just a reply to the first person who got distracted by the gender pronoun point to the exclusion of the more important point I addressed in my post. Then a whole bunch of other people effectively started saying the same thing. So I decided to post a general reply instead. I would have deleted the original reply, but it already had a reply, so I kept it.
Citing from Jason's article that you obviously didn't take the time to read:

"With regard to patents, VP8 copies too much from H.264 for comfort, no matter whose word is behind the claim of being patent-free. This doesn’t mean that it’s sure to be covered by patents, but until Google can give us evidence as to why it isn’t, I would be cautious."
Maybe they bought it for the team, not the product. If the product is then getting killed, people that use the site wouldn't care why: they just care it's going away.