jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There are relatively few advertisers, so the cost per transaction is low. What is the cost of the administrative overhead of selling TV shows directly? For example, there's customer service, marketing and infrastructure.
I will not go work at Facebook for 5.5 million.
i didn't program before using this course. took me 4 months to go from nothing to getting an app published in the app store after going through about 75% of the courses (not all the lectures are applicable - they cover a wide range of topics). This is by far the best resource if you're looking to get into iphone development, even without a programming background. plus - it's completely free!
I might have missed something in the video, but if I were an innocent student, the benefit for me in falsely claiming I cheated far outweighs the risk in defending my innocence.

The choices as I see them are these, whether you're innocent or not: 1) say that you cheated, and you get to retake the test as though you never took it the first time -- you don't even fail the test! -- but you never get to ask this professor of a lecture with 600 students for a favor. 2) don't admit that you cheated, get caught in some dragnet based on pretty flawed statistical reasoning (or better yet, a witch-hunt), and "not graduate." 3) Best case scenario: You say nothing, don't get accused of anything, and you get the undying loyalty of the professor, though that loyalty fails at the first try, because it doesn't extend to you getting out of a test you by definition shouldn't have to take in the first place.

I'm a bit stunned that only 200 students "confessed."
Really hate when web sites assume you live in the US. Don't make me click around menus and finally ask for US Zip code (And don't assume Zip codes have 5-digits only).
Well, lets agree to disagree :) Have a fun life in the human factory farm.
Wasn't there a military program for dropping metal rods from space? Does this sound at all familiar to anyone?
Pushing all my red buttons like using the term "Lifestyle Business", mentioning Google Voice's non approval and the quality vs quantity discussion makes me very skeptical about this article.
This is a side project of mine, and not a homework, my main stay is python/web2py framework. I am thinking along the lines of a web widget.
Ideas are worthless. It's execution that counts. Examples of "ideas" that were won by the best execution include:

Google (search)

Facebook (social network)

Microsoft Word (word processing)

Photoshop (image manipulation)

iPod (mp3 players)

iPhone (smartphones)

Each of these "ideas" had competitors in the market before them, and each managed to blow the competition away by better execution. This is the reasoning behind VCs not signing NDAs, and entrepreneurs accepting this.
Yes, and I would like to see HTML5 version of that Asteroids demo that would work in IE. I mean a nice demo, but not working in half of the browsers out there.
the portrayal of monarchy by the pro-collectivist modern era is a caricature. monarchy is an actual method of organization, not a broken form of democracy. for a contemporary example see private corporations, the military, and certain religious institutions.
Ah! Its not only me who is annoyed by these codeweblog.com results.

Is there a way to remove domains form google results as a preference?
I know I can always add "-site:codeweblog.com"
But can I save this preference for future search queries?
This is the sort of thing I'd expect a good old-school human travel agent to do pretty well.

I bet too they'd do it better (within a given locus) than the computer, knowing things like that there was a carnival at such-a-place and that the vistas at t-time of year are magnificent, etc..
Sounds good, except that relearning everything in Science, from first principles, might take a little while. Some grounding in experimental methods is good, learning how to learn from other people's experiments is much better, and faster.
I managed to freak out my wife by one-shotting four or five of the 48 puzzles in a row. She's a web designer :)
Now that's what I call, "pivoting"!
At that scale, MAYBE.

In the last two years my workplace has gotten pretty good at handling SAN outages (due to terrible Oracle equipment).

Put simply, this set of scenarios can't happen at my work-place. We don't have that level of automation, there's only a pair of SAN systems in the mirrors, there's no "hunting for capacity".

I'd suggest most businesses are closer to this than AWS.

There's a lot of sugar coating going around saying "You couldn't build a better space-shuttle", and that's probably true. But if I only need an extremely reliable bicycle that's a false argument. The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work doesn't apply just to programming.
I used to do the same thing. I was always disappointed. And then I got mad because I just wasted several hours of my life.
> So I downloaded some source and can't figure out how to install it

I don't think he's being fair here. Go to the website for a software package that has a version that runs under Linux. You want to install it. What does the website tell you?

Chances are, it says, "Download this tarball ...". Failing that, it generally gives you a list of command-line stuff to type. A big chunk of these are available via the standard GUI under Ubuntu. Why don't the websites mention this? I have no idea.

As a semi-recent (4 years ago) returnee to Linux, it took me some time to learn this: that, when installing software, I almost certainly want to ignore what the package website tells me and just use the Ubuntu GUI.

I can't imagine why anyone expects new Linux users to understand that.
trbecker Thanks for the advice and luck. We are working hard to improve this idea as fast as we can
I question Martin's line of thinking. If customers don't want the resulting product, jumping straight to native apps risks slow, misuse of effort times N.

PhoneGap, SproutCore and the like are great if there's a need to get something going right now. Then, in all likelihood, such would be replaced with native apps later.

For example, it seems an obvious approach to have hybrid apps begin with a native skeleton app continually evolve with cross-platform web flows backfilled with more native as the product gets traction and has an opportunity has time to specialize.

Evernote did this on a RIM app. It's not shameful either, it's brilliant expedience.

Update: forgot to mention up-and-coming portable js platform Game Closure.
I took a pottery class last winter and I observed the positive feedback loop in action. As someone who is not used to constantly bullshitting, it really threw off my chi to listen to an overly peppy woman tell me how amazing my work was even though we both knew it was garbage.
> they'll end up with smartphones that no one in North America will want to buy.

It's not like everyone in NA wants to buy a WP7 phone now. If they change the UI enough, maybe someone will want it.
I really like the idea of Julia, and my biggest hope is that it can still replace the use of R in statistics and scientific computing, but I have to agree it is a bit unwieldy in larger projects or as a general programming language and that nim is really promising in this regard.
> you want to have everything, you get C++.

C++ is an excellent example on the perils of developing a tool that's good at everything, because the cognitive load to do anything with it is simply not manageable.

Picking the right tool for the job is always the solution.
It is absolutely insane that we are so limited in this capacity, months after we knew we would need it.
Not too surprising. Java was _designed_ by ex Unix engineers at a time that the word "engineer" meant something.
Now we have the cloud/web stack and _Javascript_.

The bar was low enough for Julia to sound good at the start, but it gives the impression of being "designed" "on-the-fly".
Wait, I've seen this show... isn't this the opening credits of The Prisoner?
Sure, I’m happy to discuss taboo tradeoffs with people who are willing. Even a 3 month lockdown is clearly not worth the lives it would save. If you could rescue some Kansas man you don’t know from cancer, by cutting off friends and family and career for 3 months, you wouldn’t do it. And there’s orders of magnitude less than 1 life per person at stake here.

Most people aren’t willing to explicitly discuss how many lives it’s worth to be allowed to hug your mother, so for general consumption it must be framed in absolutes. There’s a number of weeks past which the cost is unacceptable and I’m joining the mob at City Hall, and that number is not in the double digits.
The virus doesn't care that you're wealthy.

And the treatment we currently have isn't so much treatment as helping one breathe under diminished lung capacity and hoping for the best, money again seems of little help.

What does seem to help is 1. being healthy to begin with and 2. staying isolated as much as possible. Granted, that's more pleasant in a bigger place.
Not without CT scans of COVID-19 patients and doctors' reports, I couldn't. We do have those, however.

We can't know what percentage end up with lung scarring. With CT scans, we need to wait to see how lungs recover with time. With doctor's reports, it's anecdotal; we have no statistics.

It might be 1%, or it might be 20%. I'm betting on the 5-6% range. That's an educated guess, based on hospitalization and ICU rates and how the disease progresses.
I hate to break it to you man but you don't need to be Mother Teresa to critique other peoples contributions.
A galaxy is really a pretty dangerous place for organic life.

One supermassive black hole merger in the same or nearby galaxy, a biggish black hole merger within 10,000 light years, a magnetar hiccup within 500 ly, or a workaday supernova 5 ly off might be enough to sterilize a whole solar system. There is no guessing how many times life has been wiped clean that way.

The sooner our descendants can get the hell out of the galaxy, the better.
And apparently those Lupus patients are now having trouble getting their prescriptions filled.
Nope. The higher the dose you get at any given time, the likelier it is that enough virions will establish footholds in enough cells to overwhelm the local protective response and survive to replicate.

To be clear, that's not an antibody-mediated immune response, which takes longer. Before then, cells penetrated by virus particles often undergo apoptosis, self-destructing to defend the larger organism by preventing the virus from hijacking the cell's machinery to reproduce itself. Sometimes the virus wins, though. So the more particles you're exposed to, the higher the odds that one or more will establish itself and start making you sick.

For more, see e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2517702/ - but if you don't want that level of detail, you can just think of it as "flattening the curve" on an individual scale, and not really go far wrong.

edit: More accurate use of "immune" now that I'm not commenting from a phone with a small screen. Apoptosis isn't initiated by the immune system, but rather within the affected cell itself, and doesn't only occur in response to viral invasion; many types of cellular injury or damage can cause it, including most of the ways that a cell can become precancerous. (Which happens a lot more often than you might think! But most such cells self-destruct before they can give rise to a tumor.)
Those side effects are RARE in people who take hydroxychloroquine for DECADES. We're only talking about taking it for 5-10 days here.

Advil has probably killed more people than hydroxychloroquine.
Similar approaches were / are used to protect against RPGs in Iraq. Literally just welding metal slats to the front to cause them to go off before hitting armor.
Viki has a lot of foreign (Asian) media.
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Do you have a recommended alternative?
Because 99% of the time building images for Arm processors is a pain in the ass. It's not just about making sure you have all the requirements lined up, but the processors themselves are pretty slow when compared with a relatively modern Intel CPU, so builds take way longer. Compiling Tensorflow, for example, can take days on a Raspberry Pi.

Source: my company has to build software for Arm on a regular basis.
I’d say it’s pretty much their MO these days
DMCA is in no way pro web-host. You can send out mass takedown requests and some hosts will choose to remove the content without even contacting the host of said infringing content.
At Citrix say allow outbound ssh, but not, say, telnet.
StartupLi.st is sponsoring a startup weekend event in SF next month
If that's true then regular solar cells only get a shot a half the energy too. So it doesn't seem so weird to me.

More weird to me, after spending some time in the business, is all these solutions which only require "some engineering" are perpetually around the corner. People, stop taking "some engineering" or granted! :)
I've seen enough of these threads on Hacker News to know the answer is clearly "it's different because I don't like him."

Zed wounded a lot of egos back in the day, so calls for positivity that may otherwise work on HN are going to fail. By framing him as a "controversial figure" they attempt to create a route to hate on him that doesn't count as shit talking.

I don't know of anyone else in tech who's had that experience, ha.
Awesome. I had something like that in 1978. Crazy that they used the same RS232 connector way back in 1964.
I also stumbled over this "feature":

I edited one note and pressed "library" instead of the floppy, since there appeared some text, that said, it was autosaved .... But when I got to the library, the note was in the same condition as before the edit.

So, according this test, "auto save" does not work (correctly) IMHO.
Following on from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8942395, is Firefox affected when click-to-play ("Ask to Activate" in Firefox terminology) is enabled?
Anyone who things we don't share common ancestors with apes should really visit a playground. I'm terrified at what my godchild and other children her age consider fun climbing heights, speeds... and drops.
All you need is an elevated board and something to tie your feet down. Add two tires and you now have a bench pull.
I personally thought the follow up to this article. Available at:

http://qualityisspeed.blogspot.com/2014/09/beyond-solid-depe...

Was way better than this one.
Is that true? Tesla, for example, claims that their cars contain no rare earth elements. Lithium batteries are fairly benign in terms of the materials they use, and AC induction motors are not much more than clever arrangements of copper.
Yeah, the less antagonistic serious interviews go okay. That's why I was so specific about guests that he can't find respect for.

I also don't think he is really stumbling through the celebrity interviews, he's playing himself as above them. When his (lack of) relationship with the guest makes it so that won't work, the interview goes along just fine.
Why does controlling the clients make it worth more? One of the articles key points was that it shut down good 3rd party clients and replaced them with a bad 1st party client. Controlling the clients is only a good move if you use that control to make better clients.
You cannot share a personal license. A commercial license would allowed the license to be shared across multiple users.

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/license-matrix.jsp
The downvotes are probably because of the "I wish I was fat so I could fast and walk". Both fasting and physical exercise are activities that are not fun when you have to do them. No one wakes up in the morning and says "yay I'm glad I'm fat so I can not eat things and work out!" They stop eating and start working out for the sole purpose of not being fat anymore.

As it was worded, it's a huge slap in the face to anyone who is overweight. It sounds like the parent is glorifying being overweight. Being underweight must suck too, but it can't make you feel any better when a fat person says "I wish I was as skinny as you so I could eat everything and just focus on bulking up" when you're trying to force yourself to do those things, likely to the point of physical illness.
Change wages, there's always a period of adjustment. Some jobs do disappear. Others get more work to do. Then prices adjust, and things settle down.
It sounds like you don't want to work at a company in the latter group, then!
Added a new product demo video for everyone now. Been getting lots of people asking for this :)
I have a hand sculpted human skull I use for this purpose. It makes me feel all cool and evil. But seriously, the act of formulating a thorough explanation of a problem often leads to its solution. Try it, if inanimate objects are not your thing, get a patient significant other or friend (or maybe another programmer if you are lucky) who will let you half explain a problem until you have that epiphany and run off to fix it.
First of all, thank you for proving an example page, a privacy policy and a terms of service page. You'd be amazed how many "Rate my startup" posts I complete ignore because they lack these simple basics. If you are going to request personal information, you need to have a policy for it.

There's a lot I wish was different in the design (the chat could certainly be a lot better), but I love how easy it was to set up. I do wish you asked for the password twice though, I always get nervous that I'll make a typo and never be able to get back in.
Thanks. We will look to replace the word network then and go with something more appropriate. We had never considered that people would take it to be a VPN type idea and the fact that people are means that we will definitely change the word.
To be clear, I think for many of us, this is not about "being naked in public". It's not that "those silly Americans with their unreasonable body taboos" What this is, is just another straw, although a fairly large one, that's being piled on the back of an increasingly cranky camel since 9-11. This straw could have been any other increase in the erosion of rights of US citizens.

I'm confused why you seem to be so hostile to a member of congress from another country speaking up about an issue. We have no elections for two years so I'm uncertain why his motives are suspect to you.
> and it's only a quirk of the Swedish legal system

Source? The NYT article says nothing about the legal criteria here.
Can easily implement the password change. How would you like to see chat implemented? More along the Facebook lines?

Thanks for creating a network, is it something you could see yourself using?
Good idea or bad idea? Funny or not funny?

Wearing a kilt could be a true social/political hack. If enough people did it, it would send a message. I think TSA employees would complain that they don't get paid enough to hand search a bunch of dudes in kilts.

That said, do I think anyone would actually do it? Not sure.

Also on a legal front, can I use my modified Department of Homeland Security logo under the guise of parody?
they got 100 Million in VC funding and are the epicenter of modern software development. That's kinda powerful.
There was pretty broad ad hoc standardization in dos/windowsland on the ini-file format, which was broadly formalized as toml years later.
> You must remember, a LOT of C code was written back in a time when the Internet was a more trusting environment. Lots of developers didn't even comprehend that there'd be malicious actors.

Hackers were a well established thing in the 80s, with its origin "phreaking" being even older than that, so no it wasn't a naïve time when everybody though all just had the best interest possible in mind. Note also that not all crashes and breakages are intended and result of a malicious actor, or do you now argue that human entry errors just did not happen back then?

Further, most code today does not come from that era but rather originated from 90s to 2000s, with not even much of that being still around in that form.

> The point stands, if you're an experienced developer in one particular language then of course you will write in that language.

1. That's the first time you make that point, the original reply of yours has no argument whatsoever, so nothing "still stands".

2. If you're really an experienced developer in one particular language then you are aware of its shortcomings and will also look closely for languages addressing them without adding other disadvantages. Everything else would be just short-sighted, which isn't really a good virtue to have as experienced developer.

3. How comes that new code written by highly experienced developers, e.g., working on OS kernels, with a massive testing effort still let slip through buffer overflows, use after free, integer underflows, etc. etc.?
This rant makes no sense to me. How is it anti-social to literally talk to people?
I don't think Delphi has been "ruined", but I think its heyday has definitely passed, because it wasn't flexible enough when the prices of tooling plummeted over the last 20 or so years. It's nice that there's a reasonable free option for the platform, but that would have been a big deal some 15 years back. Nowadays even Microsoft's .NET is open source and so are their new libraries. Proprietary IDEs are still alive and well, but the popular ones have open-source platforms underneath.

I'm not saying Delphi should go full FLOSS. The company seems to be doing well enough and not everyone needs to chase maximum adoption. I just wanted to express the reasons I see for not even considering Delphi for any greenfield projects.
The topsoil in tundra is really thin, is rock basically and is ultra-poor and acidic. Very different ecosystems.

To remove the layer of soil is easy but to make it appear again magically... not. You need thousands of years in some cases.
Whatever happened to Tox project?
Robots.txt has a directive for crawl delay, and like all directives it can be applied to specific user agents.

In addition to that, the webmaster console can be used to set the crawl speed, and that data would obviously not be readable to third parties.
Well, you certainly won't choose names with nary a Karen the world.
Wow, doesn't do anything. All I see is a playing field with the orange rectangle in the center. Wish there was more to it.
Well, the docs do start with a walkthrough of a simple application: http://www.luminusweb.net/docs

You can really judge for yourself how it compares to the alternatives you're familiar with.

In terms of memory/CPU there are plenty benchmarks out there such as the benchmarks game site http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/

A small Luminus app will take around 100megs https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/mQbcz82I7iI so that's pretty lightweight by most standards.

In general though while people seem to be obsessed with benchmarks of all kinds, performance is simply not going to be an issue for the vast majority of sites out there. The real question is how productive your stack is and how easy it is to work with.
As a counterpoint I’d encourage you to look back to 9/11. We lost a lot of liberty in the immediate aftermath and arguably didn’t get much safer.

It’s important to not lose sight of our fundamental rights in times of panic. The choices we make now could live on for decades or more.

And governments don’t like giving back powers after they’ve got them.
That actually justifies giving researchers more freedom. New knowledge will more likely come from unexpected angles.