jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That these qualifiers are always bad is a pretty aggressive conclusion. A linguistic signal that you are about to disagree with someone is often useful as it takes the edge off a statement that would otherwise seem overly combative. However, this is probably highly cultural thing. I am British and I work in London. My German friend found it hard here at first because he would be too direct and people would perceive it as rude. He used to find it difficult to get people to do things for him and had to adjust the way he used the language. Having said that, it's true British people can take too long to get to the point :-)
Check out OpenX
http://www.openx.org/

In addition to setting up your own private label network, you can buy and sell inventory on their exchange. This lets you appear bigger than you are. For example, if you are able to sign up a publisher in your niche, you can immediately start trafficking relevant ads to show him you're capable. You'll make more money attracting Advertisers in your niche to buy those impressions, but that's a chicken/egg problem that being part of an exchange helps with.
should have gone forward and admitted that they'd previously seen this material

Isn't that to some extent what the professor reports as happening? Both the anonymous test-bank drop, and the other 'emails' from students reporting that some peers had question access, are students blowing the whistle once they understand the whole situation.

Further, perhaps some of those talking about 'others' are being coy about their own involvement until they know how their study behavior, which they had previously believed was legitimate, will be judged retrospectively.
There is plenty of stuff that is somehow cheapest on Amazon, or Amazon exclusive. Whats up with that?

for example Seiki TVs
I welcome any improvements to my naive exploration in this article!

I've received two emails from readers:

- One suggested converting RGB to a color space that better matches human visual perception, like CIELAB.

- Another suggested compressing the color space by using K-means clustering (by guessing K as the number of threads)
This reminds me of one of the early internet's most (in)famous bloggers, Maddox. It matches the tone exactly.

Maddox said some very inflammatory things, so I won't link him.
Get an Audible subscription.

I go through a book a month and it's been amazing. Some of the narrators are fantastic and really make the book better.
TL;DR: Wrote a scrapper that picked up shifts for me!

Comment below and tell me about some of your projects that solved some unique problems in your day-to-day life.
I wonder how many pieces of computing technology used today were put together in a single evening by a team of motivated developers. Rubygems, for example, was written in a couple of hours at the back of a hotel bar, then demoed (complete with network install and versioning) at Rubyconf the following morning.

As I age, I'm starting to believe that the best technology is often built this way, rather than stewing for years in an ISO subcommittee. Limited development time can lead to features that provide the greatest value for the time spent.
The case isn’t saying that you must be vaccinated.

The question in this case is — does the government have to let your kids attend school without being vaccinated? The explicit action is “attending school”. You can choose to not have your kids vaccinated. That’s your right. But then you have to live with the consequences of that action. In this case, that consequence is not being able to attend preschool in the Czech Republic.
Fair point.

I might say some things about Zeev, but I certainly wouldn't say he's a liar. He's a talented developer.
The Japanese word for "like" is the same as the Russian word for "bitches"
My Macbooks have cooked themselves in my backpack plenty of times over the years.
They stopped taking standing orders in the UK which means, like you, I now have to login and pay every month.
63 comments and nobody else is shocked yet at "Airlines should be able to automatically fire divorce, custody, or child support lawsuit defendants"? (edit: sorry, one other person did mention it already)

Setting aside how shit a situation that would put every pilot in, how about when considering problems try targeting the cause not the sympton: if you think divorce/etc. is bad enough to make a pilot a suicidal murderer, argue to fix the divorce system, not stop him being a pilot.

Not that the author cited even a single example of divorce/children/etc. being the cause for an air crash...
Perl6, Clojure, Racket, Rebol, Red, Factor & Forth are some other languages that allow hyphenated names.

And I agree with you that hyphens are more readable. They're also good for adding extra semantic meaning - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3978992
Great for storing backups of services already on the cloud - OVH's primary customers.
I generally choose Grails (although the move to 3 is going to be a bit bumpy without all the plugins from the 2 field).

The primary deficiency I've found is startup time - when I move to other systems, I remember - oh yeah, projects can start up immediately, or in < 3 seconds, not 50. I know 3 is better in this regard, and I'm looking to migrate one project to it next month.

Grails never got the mindshare because it was jumping in to a full ecosystem. Rails, by comparison, was essentially the only game in town if you wanted to do Ruby - there weren't any other major competing frameworks.

The other big strike against Grails is... "it's different!". Most shops that are large enough to see big benefit from Grails and similar frameworks also tend to be rather stodgy and slow to change (perhaps with good reasons, but slow anyway). The sort of people who champion 'new' tech largely migrated away to completely other ecosystems (rails, node, etc). Grails/Groovy are 'different' in a scary way for "slow to change" shops, and "not different enough" for the folks who are always looking for "new/shiny" stuff to dig in to and promote. It was/is too "middle of the road", I think, to benefit from the advocacy often required for adoption. And in a crowded JVM-tech field, that hurts.

That said, it's still a great stack, and I still recommend it for many situations.
I really thought that when you wrote "faked" that reflected on Zeev's character. That he was trying to pull a fast one. Only after encountering the disclaimer did I realize what you meant. Many people won't read the disclaimer, and therefore when dealing with someone's reputation you should pick a word which might avoid misunderstanding.
Totally, anybody aware of anybody working on this?
I am just makin a new version of my site using gatsby
My roommate and I despise LinkedIn, and all the soul draining "thought leadership" that comes along with it. We also found that it's absurdly easy, and absurdly funny, to poke fun at the mish-mash of content marketing, thought leadership, and broetry that makes up 90% of our LinkedIn feeds.

So we've been working on a "satirical social network," part fake LinkedIn, part The Onion, part something else, and right now we're calling it...ShlinkedIn.

It's been a ton of fun to work on, and we'd love any / all suggestions as we build it out!

Link: https://www.shlinkedin.com/about
Like by learning Spanish in addition to English, you can flee to Mexico if the UK isn't taking immigrants?
There was writing like this considerably earlier, e.g, Leo Brodie’s Starting FORTH https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/

And Helmut Zwittlinger’s Comic Pascal https://balancedaction.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/img_0091....
No one knows what's happening right now, so it's natural and inevitable that are different views. As long as people express their views thoughtfully and respectfully, that's within the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not anymore. US used to be first to invent but switched to first to file a some years ago.
Wow, ok, finally.
I think the numbers are real. Shanghai is already taking Japan off high alert list and you can be sure they are very cautious. Since they monitor and even quarantine travellers they should have the data.
As an onlooker I feel like once America awakens to a crisis it is impressive to watch. I mean this kind of should have happened weeks ago, and the executive branch is a bit of a panicked joke. But I mean... You've got this colossal capacity to deploy field hospitals and hospital ships and such and ramp up capacity.

Terrible hurricane? Show up with a massive floating power plant and water treatment facility plus air logistics.

And I think one of the strongest virtues of the United States is being proven by Trump: the incredible power of leadership at all levels of government. In the absence of a leader at the top you've got senators and congresspersons and governors and mayors and CEOs all getting shit done. This is all an incredible (but regrettable) exercise of numerous fail safes inherent in the American system.
Oxford doesn't any longer, according to the Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Police
> many American universities have police forces

I attended a small private university (in the news recently, for the wrong reasons), and their "police" (aka public safety) force was almost completely on a power trip. I once was asked if they could search my car (with zero due cause), to which I refused. The "officer" verbally escalated the situation until it was obvious he was going to "search" my car or cause me significant problems. I acquiesced. I was later questioned by administrative authority why I refused and my refusal was used as leverage.

Let's leave policing to police.
The world needs more of a "warrant officer track" in general, IMO.
My public state school had their own police force. The actual University-paid officers weren't actually allowed to arrest anyone though. The 'real' cops were the city cops on the University beat.
That's somewhat accurate, but not really anything recent. Amtrak only owns the track in some parts of the Northeast Corridor between DC and Boston. In the rest of the country, they are using track owned by freight companies, and the passenger trains often get prioritized below the freight trains. Especially when freight traffic increases.
> It was written by pcwalton, one of the main driving forces behind Rust. (Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated for a couple months, so it won't build with latest rust).

Possibly the most telling sentence I have ever read about Rust. I am (well more honestly, was) excited by the language but until there is some sort of stability guarantee, it is a fun toy, a distraction.

The Rust community appears desperate to have continuous improvement at the core language level, and despite some hand-waving, it feels like they simply won't be pinned down. I will watch it with interested post the May 15th 1.0 deadline -- but since they shipped entirely new Path and IO in Feb -- added new language constructs and removed others (Alpha2)... I am worried...
That's the reason my mother decided to make and sell them. She thought others will be getting kindles as gifts from loved ones and would want to keep them protected without having to spend a lot. In fact she wanted to make the price lower but after seeing the time she put into them I told her that she should price them such that she's properly compensated for her efforts.

I don't have a kindle but I wanted a little pouch for my palm pre and offered to pay her so that I could be her first customer but she wouldn't take my money smiles. I'm sure she could make a business making little bags for the various gadgets we have. I was thinking I'd make a page where individuals could make custom size requests for little bags for their gadgets.

Thank you for the comment.
"I tell Netflix about the movies I like because the recommendation system works better for me that way and improves the quality of the system in general."

Well, if you use Netflix you don't really have a choice, do you?

Say you didn't care one whit about their recommendations (as I don't), but want to use their movie renting service. You still have to give them your name, address and credit card number. And they'll promptly stick you in their database and track every movie you rent. You might not be telling them what you thought of the movies you watch, but there's still a lot of information given them just by the choice of movies you rented. And the way the system is designed, there's nothing you can do about it short of not using Netflix in the first place.

Amazon is pretty much the same way. In fact, virtually all of the commercial internet infrastructure based on credit card transactions suffers the same fault. From your ISP being able to track every internet connection you make to vendors tracking what you buy from them.

And even when you're not directly tracked by a service (because you haven't given them your name, address, phone number, or credit card number), they could still potentially track you through your IP address (not to mention stuff like OS fingerprinting, browser fingerprinting, history and cache exploits, cookies, etc..).

Of course, there are ways of at least attempting to get around these tracking mechanisms. But relatively few people know of them, few care, and even fewer people bother to use them.
Although presumably the idea is not to fail.
> They can't even maintain the software they wrote 5-10 years ago, they just don't make any effort to retain that knowledge.

IBM is the company that keeps a nearly-five-decade-old architecture and ISA around for its business customers, correct? (zSeries (or whatever its name is this week) is derived from s390, is derived from s370, is derived from s360, was created in the early 1960s.) z/OS and z/VM are modern versions of MVS and CP-40, which date to 1974 and 1967, respectively.

It seems odd that the company that does that would have problems with decade-old software in any of its business units.
Well, for a start there's the problem that LLVM itself is architecture-dependent, last I checked. It's not as arhictecture-dependent as assembly but the last time I looked you couldn't generate the same LLVM on x86 and x86-64, say. Has that changed?

It looks like PNaCl aims to "solve" this problem by using 32-bit-targeted LLVM... including 32-bit pointer alignment. It's not immediately obvious how portable this would be to some hardware, and more importantly I'm not aware of any plans to support anything other than x86 and ARM initially (well, and x86-64 using its ability to run 32-bit code as far as I can tell). Am I just missing something on this front?

If I'm not missing anything, then this project's main impact if it caught on would be to restrict the set of hardware on which you can access web content, which is NOT a good thing.
> That's a pretty stupid reason, though.

Yes. So, do you really want him writing PHP?
Well directed kinetic energy can be devastating and has been used for such effect since ages, for example the old canons with passive cannon balls. Rail guns are their new sought after variants.

The famous bunker-busting smart-bombs circa first gulf-war were fin stabilized old tank barrels packed with explosives. It is their weight, owing to the high density metals used in the barrels and their small cross section (and hence extremely high terminal velocity) that gave them their extreme penetrative punch. Enough to pierce through tens of layers of strengthened concrete, each several feet thick and explode with devastating effects underneath. It was very important that they did not topple in flight though. So stabilization was critical.

Even the modern anti-tank weapons are essentially glorified darts, but much, much heavier. They kill tanks by sheer kinetic energy alone. They have been found to be harder to defend against, compared to other variants like HEAT that penetrate tank armor by the use of a high speed, dense jet of liquid metal, or HESH which are sort of like cow-pies made of high explosives that set off spalling bending moments inside the tank 'hull'.
I'm pretty sure that these strategies work, but I would just feel "wrong" doing some of them. I can't help thinking of them as trickery and deceit.

Perhaps I'd be a crappy negotiator, but I'd much rather take a more honest approach.

Maybe I'm being naive, but I would argue that two negotiators behaving honestly can come up with a better outcome than two negotiators trying to trick each other. Of course, the world is so full of these deceitful negotiators that any practical advice must emphasize those techniques. I think it sucks though..
Not working...leaving for my first vacation in 11 years. (The vacation is being shoehorned around a business trip my wife has to take. Otherwise, it would have been at least 12 years between our vacations...)
What app is that? It sounds very useful.

Definitely a refreshing feeling compared to the use of a million cloud services.
> At least it makes sense why I received a bunch of spam calls over the weekend.

Really?

Every phone number is already known to anyone who wants to get it.
In my mind HN skews older, but I have no idea why I think that.

For what it's worth, I definitely remember Zope.
I think GP's point was that if black men/the rich are expected to do bad things, that will make it more likely. There are plenty of reasons that could be true, for either group. For example, if you have already decided I'm a bad person, I lose nothing by living up to that.
Company of 20 here. Same.
Actually, the mayor did the squishing. Maybe Obama leaned on Bloomy, but that's all.
It does scale, believe me. In order to scale you have to be able to load balance to accommodate a higher load.

Using exceptions for flow management doesn't prevent you from adding more boxes. If you're thinking it can cause performances problems, I have an app in prod; here are some numbers:
* With a single box, we can do about 500 req/s for a dynamic page, accessing the database
* It appears that the bottleneck is the template engine. If we cache the result (thus serving a "pseudo static" page) the exceptions-based control flow is still there but we serve up to 1000 req/s. (That's more than Apache can do to serve static content on the same machine).

So yes, Play does scale!
I think the focus on privacy might be the new face of Apple that will redefine it for the post Jobs era
Profitable until they lose a lawsuit due to a car accident their death caused. They TOS "may" make their driver of their ineligible to sue but the car/driver, pedestrian or cyclist they hit sure can and will sue. They in no way should be selling a product at this time.
Also possible to Command + . to prevent the popup from the loading.
Good question, I'd have to say the pay off per effort simply was not there for them. It didn't help that they had the option of simply dictating the work back to us lower status grad students.

So one might say the issues were more largely organizational. But these weren't lazy people, they were always looking at new tools and techniques. And they were struggling to get any payoff with the tools we had. Sadly the focus of the project was not visual programming, so we were not focusing on the users issues.
The computationally wasteful bit is the proof-of-work, which is an inherent part of bitcoin. The Lightning Network is just about scaling transactions.

Your government rant is a non-sequitor - bitcoin doesn't become any more efficient just because The Man doesn't like it.
Unless (s)he used a lot of electricity over the weekend. Then HN gets to judge.
Having great returns when the alternative is to let the government wipe out your savings, is actually a benefit to humanity.
It shipped in 2009.
> you do not get anything near the level of customer service experience you get in the US.

I don't know. I have experienced both. Being a waiter is a proud occupation. People takes a sort of long education to become it and they really seem proud of making the dining experience a good one for their customers. And I guess this is true everywhere - not just when you work under the expectation that you get more tips the better you serve.
And all paywall sites. Combine this with the ability to hide all paid ads in search too (the flat-out ads that look more and more like results as the years go by), and there’s something I’d pay for. Maybe they could bundle it in with my YouTubeRed subscription? Hmmm...
>Thorstein Veblen, in The Theory of the Leisure Class, has an insight that I think you've missed: Suits make lower-class labor work impossible for the wearer, and are therefore intrinsically a signal of higher class.

I think your image of lower-class labor is outdated. There are now 'literate' jobs that pay way less while being tougher than a lot of 'physical' jobs.
Like working on a call center on a daily pay.

There's a whole class of people in Japan who are homeless but work in a suit.
3% of the people who completed the survey don't speak English. Just a friendly reminder to take this and any survey with a grain of salt.
Totally agree, the usability of having a link that says "Add Question" to the right of the "Find" box, with no other button still makes me think I might accidentally be asking a question whenever I search. The only way to get search results is to actually select something out of the autocomplete list.

I rejected using Quora twice before I finally saw an explanation of how to search there.

I rarely want to ask questions, I often want to search. They've flipped the priority of those two things in the UI.
Language does not have a One Definition Rule!

This is only true for day-to-day words. However, legal words and technical terms need strict, stable definitions that are equally understood at least by all experts in that field. Otherwise, serious communication would become next to impossible, let alone serious discussions.

> For example, my dictionary states:

Dictionaries don't provide exact definitions. However, your quoted description seems to be the best you can get out of three lines. If you care to read 4-6 lines, you'll get the quite accurate FSF definition. If you care to read even 10+ lines, you'll get the detailed OSI definition.

> Indeed, this definition is more in line with what many people think when they hear "open source".

That's an important issue. Neither the term Free Software nor the term Open Source are completely self-explanatory. So people will inevitably have misconceptions about those if they've neither read a proper definition, nor had someone explaining it well enough to them.

The concrete issue with the term "Free Software" is that people might think: Oh, this software is free (no cost), so it must be Free Software. Eric S. Raymond and others tried to solve that problem by inventing a new synonym, "Open Source".

However, the term "Open Source" has issues as well, because people might think: Oh, the source code lies open in front of me, so it must be Open Source.

Note that this is a general problem. Hardly any technical term is totally self-evident to ordinary people. Just because a technical term is not self-explanatory doesn't mean you can simply ignore its exact definition.
Completely disagree. Quora have done a whole bunch of very smart and innovative things that lead their Q&A site to be a very different beast from Yahoo! Answers / Mahalo / Stack Overflow etc.

* They are the first Q&A site I've seen that is completely personalised - you only see questions that are either followed by your social graph or apply to the topics you have selected.

* Questions are owned by the community, not the person who asked the question. It's actually pretty hard to figure out who asked a question in the first place, and other people can improve the wording, apply topics etc.

* They don't use a dumb points or badges based incentive system. Instead, their incentives are much more subtle - it's all about seeing how your peers respond to your interactions. The "thanks" button is a lovely example of this.

In 2002, would you have said "There's nothing innovative about Google in terms of technology or concept. It's a search engine. No more, no less." ?

But I don't think they're a "blogging" innovation. That's just a catchy headline.