jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
To your point, it's definitely not just a WordPress issue for sure.

The WP ecosystem just enabled that kind of development and architecture over time, even if it was not advisable. C'est la vie, and all that.
> Basically you are saying that, because of a quirk in human psychology, the only way to get people to donate, over the long term, a portion of their income, derived from them doing jobs they are much more productive at than building houses, to building houses, is to engage them by having them build a house themselves first.

Having people engage in a process isn't just for personal fulfillment of "morally incompetent" people: it also serves as due diligence.

Trust is a big factor of deciding where you want to donate your money. Having walked through the process as a volunteer, you have a much clearer picture of how your donations are spent, and yes you are more likely to donate.

Trust has to be earned one way or another.

Piggybacking on this home building example with an extreme example: how would you feel if you donated for years to some non profit which builds houses, but later learned that child labor is used to build those as well as cheap, structurally unsound materials, with the non profit CEO pocketing millions?
I wasn't saying he will do it. I was saying he could.

It seems the the US law was originally the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act [1] and there have been various laws extending it. Apparently they allow the President to waive sanctions on a case-by-case bases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_Libya_Sanctions_Act
Donor engagement is a primary driver of donor loyalty and retention. This is pretty fundamental stuff in the nonprofit world. If you can build a deep personal and emotional connection, such as "helping build a house with their own hands", that is a big boost to average lifetime donor value. (Nonprofit donor development can run on decades-long timeframes - engage a high schooler and you're more likely to be able to solicit funds from them in their 50s.)

On a smaller level, this is why many charities will get an initial $5 donation and then spend more than $5 on further solicitation of the same donor. The best indicator that you're going to give money to a charity (or political campaign) is that you've already done so. Lots of people feel this doesn't apply to them personally, but data-driven fundraising bears the point out.
You should get off your high horse and do some light reading about things like "Three strikes and you're out" and "The new Jim crow". The US is absolutely not any better. 2+ million people in jail for profit.
“Out of the 17M page requests made between 8–9pm (111M if you include assets: stylesheets, images, etc), we served 21 5xx errors.” [1]

[1]: https://twitter.com/therealnooshu/status/1346419468151488512
Ted Chiang has a (very) short story exploring this idea, with metahumans replacing data centers here: https://www.nature.com/articles/35014679
Wow did not know this.
https://github.com/sponsors/marcan is a better option.

(much lower fees present there)
Do you have like 0 experience in hardware or just trolling people? If TI refuses to support the hardware, there isn't much you can do. Besides the enormous technical challenge of reverse engineering all of the software, there's likely legal issues as well.

If a hardware vendor pulls support for your product, it's almost always better to end of life the device.

A better argument is that vendors of consumer hardware should require that their partners sign up for long term support agreements where warranted. Let's not pretend that, just because a software company is big, they can force one of the largest chip vendors in the world to bow to their demands.
That's what source maps are for. I only enable them for development, though.
You're right. It was changed to https in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1138323 and will only end up in Firefox 39
It differs from country to country.

In Germany you can only ask about drug use if the people will work with heavy machinery. No questions about race, gender, kids, or age are allowed and can be used to file a lawsuit if asked.

The federal police and intelligence agencies will also background check your friends and family. That being said, amongst German IT professionals people working for the government have the image of being a bit slow and only there for the job security. The best graduates certainly don't go there, and because patriotism/nationalism is very low the agencies cannot even advertise with "Do it for your country, if not for the money".
i960 was actually a very nice architecture. It had features like proper memory protection, hardware GC support and others that we would absolutely love to have in this day and age.

It was a successor to the Intel iAPX 432 architecture. It also had shades of Burroughs B5000 in it (only RISC). I would love to see a successor to this. Heck I'd like to just have a development board to play with.
The economy's only booming for those of us in tech. That's why there's all these wildcat labor actions, you see, which have finally resulted in wages growing across-the-board for the first time in decades.
Minecraft is a pretty intensive application, don't be fooled just because the graphics seem to be less clean. There are lighter versions of Minecraft for different platforms, but those are often incredibly limited and only support the specific platform.
I don't really get why it's better than Hipchat, but all my clients have switched to it. At least one switched because Hipchat had a long period of downtime right at the peak of Slack hype. I wonder how many customers that drove away?
>> If there was no gender segregation, all the teams would still be all-male

Possibly, but I doubt it. I do think there would still be a gender imbalance, but I don't think that we would see 0 women capable of performing at that level.

>> and there would be no women's only teams.

Why would allowing women into the top leagues of sports mean we couldn't still have all-women leagues?

I think sports segregation is BS and have yet to hear an argument that actually justifies it.
> Did you consider that they are being careful by rewriting it in Rust?

So they are only starting to be careful after several years? I addressed that point in the post.

> Maybe Rust wasn't quite there at that point.

It wasn't. But that's the point. Rust wasn't there, it's not there now. It needs to be as portable as C to be "there".
Please read the article. It's explained clearly under Protege Partners, LLC's Argument.

> Mr. Buffett is correct in his assertion that, on average, active management in a narrowly defined universe like the S&P; 500 is destined to underperform market indexes. That is a well-established fact in the context of traditional long-only investment management. But applying the same argument to hedge funds is a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison.

> Having the flexibility to invest both long and short, hedge funds do not set out to beat the market. Rather, they seek to generate positive returns over time regardless of the market environment. They think very differently than do traditional “relative-return” investors, whose primary goal is to beat the market, even when that only means losing less than the market when it falls. For hedge funds, success can mean outperforming the market in lean times, while underperforming in the best of times. Through a cycle, nevertheless, top hedge fund managers have surpassed market returns net of all fees, while assuming less risk as well. We believe such results will continue.
Firefox on Android works with uBlock, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, NoScript, HTTPS Everywhere, etc. On iOS, you're stuck with Safari on at least some level anyway, so may as well stick with Safari.
They work better primarily because they had previously invested in the tooling to rad-harden them and it’s really expensive to do that again one time for each mission; cheaper to rely on already-rad-hardened designs.
Why focus on presidential elections when we're talking about policing? It matters who we elect at the local level.

I think your knee-jerk focus on who the president is (and denying the possibility of change) demonstrates what I was saying: the rhetoric has convinced people that it doesn't matter and it's all some national team sport. That's just not true.
> If depositors didn't have mandated insurance, they would pay more attention to the credit-worthiness of the bank they work with, and we might have avoided the 2008 debacle.

Or, more likely, the 2008 debacle (a consequence, in large parts, of removing regulations that addressed contributing causes of the 1929 debacle) would have looked more like the 1929 debacle (since you then would have also removed a regulation designed to mitigate the effect of events like the 1929 debacle).

The absence of regulation of credit-worthiness of banks doesn't give the average depositor either the time, inclination, or skill to evaluate the credit-worthiness of banks, especially when, as was actually the case in the 2008 debacle, information relevant to that is actively being concealed under many layers of obfuscation.
Realizing that personal anecdote is in no way data, but I've backed 49 Kickstarter projects and have never one watched a video.

Edit: Apparently I've backed 59 projects, 10 didn't reach their funding goal.
The support of a single device reflects the quality of the project overall?
Sorry Microsoft, but that era has passed and pie was eaten by Nokia. (Well deserved by Nokia)

Building an affordable phone with Internet access capability is not biggest demand currently.

10 years ago, Nokia discovered what was missing in communication market. A cheap, good looking and everlasting phone. They sold it to literally everywhere in the world. It was like buy one and use forever.

I am not really sure what is the biggest gap in communication market but it is definitely not this. Here are the things i can list which i think the most important ones to focus on.

- Battery life

- Unique and beautiful designs (Phones are getting too similar to each other)

- Durability

- Making phones use cases wider to interact real life scenarios.

Lets see if we are gonna see something original in 2015 otherwise people will as usual wait for iPhone 7, Galaxy S6, and Nexus 10.
Eh? The clinical classification for the majority of blind people(clinical blindness not legal blindness) is NLP which stands for NO LIGHT PERCEPTION. I also find this whole syndrome a bit funny, i sometimes flip my day also you know why? because i can send the GF to bed and watch my shit in peace then realize it's 4am and sleep till 11-12 (after programming the mail client to send couple of emails in the morning as in pretending to be working from home).
Besides being lazy and a bit of a bad boyfriend i don't really see this as a clinical syndrome.
>> "If you walk into a sit down restaurant in the US with a plan not to tip, you are being pretty obnoxious."

The owner is being obnoxious. It's not up to me to pay his/her staff. I've worked and know people who've worked in restaurants in the UK. They get paid above minimum wage and still get tips (which aren't required, but people usually round up the bill). It's not hard.
I was being facetious. I didn't really stop reading until I read this:

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Sounds like a filthy, under-handed way of saying "we won't copy your code verbatim, but we reserve the right to copy your algorithm and not even give you credit for it".
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I showed this app to my 60 year old semi-technophobic parents and they immediately understood it. They are ready to buy an iPod touch to use with this app for their next cruise. My mom guessed the cost of a language at $50 and was shocked to hear the actual price.

Screw zuckerberg, The developers of this app should be on the cover of time magazine.
I'm always happy to hear about software getting faster and smaller rather than more bloated and buggy (I had to install Adobe Reader 9.x on my girlfriend's dell Vitsa laptop and I swear it took longer to install than a clean windows installation). Kudos to the Dropbox team!
If you've been following the blog lately you'd know we have been updating quite frequently with important information. I think that everyone is going to be very happy in the very near future.
Wouldn't a patent I didn't know about later bite me in the ass down the road? You can be cautious and a hacker :)
Another cool real life example:

http://twitpic.com/3gnduy
Actually, that's supposedly a common misconception[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn5M48MVWyg
It absolutely is controlled[0], just perhaps not controlled in a way you would personally like.

(Also, I recommend you quit it with the "USistan" stuff. It comes off as childish and detracts from the point you're making.)

[0] Maybe "strongly influenced" is a better framing when talking about the Fed.
> only people that really need it would get it

I think this is where we disagree. If wealth was equally distributed I would agree but wealth follows a power law distribution. People with a 1000x less money than me but with 100x more risk should get the vaccine before me.

Do you know of the mythical man month problem? It seems to apply here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
Every time I hear "something something run unmodified linux programs something something" I get an ambiguous feeling. Part of me fears a EEE and part of me hopes that people will simply just target linux.
Pro: Its a new editor and shows a lot of promise.

Con: Its a new editor and needs a lot of work.
and there was no evidence given to support the original statement. How is quality of life for the middle class better now even though the disparity between them and the rich is far larger than before. I think I gave concrete examples of how it's worse, which is more than the OP.
Anyone use this? Pros/cons vs Textmate/vim/emacs?
I haven't been to the villas, and I don't know anybody who lives there. However, what I hear is that the people there already have grid power, which they don't pay for, and they are very often targets of theft. I have to imagine that hauling in an expensive solar panel in order to conserve energy paid for by the electric company would be a very difficult sell there. I don't think many of the shacks there have air conditioning, and the air conditioners are the culprit there.

If the objective is to keep your TV and radio on during the blackouts, I think a car battery is probably a better choice than a solar panel.
'Just consider, if a person actually a video tape of their entire life, using said tape to answer questions about "what happen on day X" would take a few hours of mental processing.'

You're making a huge pile of unsupported assertions, but this is the most egregious. You have the outline of an interesting theory, but little more. For one thing I see no evidence that there is any conscious effort made to maintain these memories, in many cases the people express every desire not to have this happen, yet it happens anyhow. At the point where your "making themselves experts" happens at a purely automatic level and against their conscious will you've stretched the words beyond any reasonable meaning, and I'm not sure your theory can even in principle be converted into something that corresponds to the real world.
Solar panels are photodiodes. Their junction voltage is determined by the properties of the material, not by the light intensity, although of course at sufficiently low light intensity they will cease to be reverse-biased. More sunlight will just produce more current, not more voltage.
I like CacheIO.. I may use that. Thanks :)

That could be one application of this. My goal is to make a system that can work on top of any filesystem, without direct support for it in the filesystem. This way you could use it to speed on network drives of any kind, or even make spinning disks closer in performance to SSDs.
What good is a reliable datastore that is slow as molasses?
A better use of funds would be grants or investments in non-government space exploration / cargo / communications / research. That could be nonprofits or companies like Elon Musk's SpaceX. The latter is actually producing something we need.

SETI will detect radio signals from an intelligent source, sure. "We have detected extraterrestrial intelligence, and it is us." It's better for US interests if the source is speaking English, not Russian (only program capable now of delivering astronauts to ISS) or Chinese. So don't mourn the loss of SETI funding. Celebrate when you find out that it's going to something more productive.
Yes, I can see how "None of which is to say that we shouldn't be fighting against climate change - we should, if nothing else than because, for the reasons listed above, we can't predict the ways that climate change is going to impact us. Unpredictability is generally bad for economic development, which is pretty much the equivalent of saying that it is bad for human sustainability."
could be interpreted as "I'm not worried, they'll just mutate"...
Part of me hopes the secret reason for this is they've actually discovered some so they don't feel they need to keep looking right now.

Paul Allen is still worth billions, can't he help a little more?
I laughed (before I started to think that crying might be more appropriate) when I heard about the false belief that 1 plus the product of the first n primes is always a prime number. Ouch!
If you really think that some accents are "awful" (whatever that means), I suppose you're entitled to your opinion, but it's rude to express that opinion. People don't have much control over their accents.
SMS is it's own beast, but call minutes are already very cheap. I remember when 100 minutes was insanely expensive and now my only phone is a cell phone with enough minutes that I never think about it when I'm talking to someone.

Carriers could compete on talk minute price, but they know that few people care. Those that do have already moved to something like Boost Mobile or one of the other low cost providers (most are owned by the big boys, so you could say they are already competing with lower prices just with a different brand).

SMS messaging while a ripoff from a production cost standpoint is not all that bad from the consumer view. For $10-$15/month someone can do unlimited SMS. From a cost to communicate with anyone and everyone as often as someone likes standpoint that is a very cheap price. Also, people don't really care enough to move providers in order to save $5 when they would rather have either coverage, service or a certain phone.

Are the carrier prices really artificially high? I will say they have some wiggle room, but they are walking a fine line of price they need to charge in order to build out the network across the entire US with the lastest tech and still somehow turn a little profit at the end of the day.

Net Profit Margin for the 1Q of this year:
VZ - 8.49%
T - 8.36%
S - (10.7%)

Not exactly price gouging numbers above.
I think he's making arguments that the Internet is making us more knowledgeable (which is obvious) rather than smarter. Nick Carr's argument was more that persistent multitasking is damaging our ability to think.

It's possible that technology will make us both dumber and more knowledgeable.
hey Clint, i'm also in Colorado, do software and I think I can do enough of the biz/strategy stuff to get by, as well. also, design/UI is my weak area. I know some great designers but they are mostly busy and/or already involved pretty tightly in some startups. I've tried to minimize this as a bottleneck by trying to work on projects that can be effective with simple designs that I can do myself, at least enough to get launched and start iterating and testing market, etc. Great UI & graphic design seems like something you can add later in a makeover, only when and if you nail the other elements needed and it looks like it has legs.

also, the BDNT Meetup is a great way to hook into the startup scene.
There are several errors like this in the movie. IMDB’s “goofs” page is long. I assume they were mostly accidental, but I’d rather see them as part of the atmosphere of irrationality within rationality.
I have no problem with charging for usage, but what I want is a flat rate per GB. Simply charge me $6/GB (rounded up is fine) and I would consider that fair for wireless network access.

Of course the companies will never do this because I would only end up paying $6/month instead of the $25. I know ATT did their math and realized that most users are just above their lowest plan, but way below their highest plan. The goal is to push people into the higher plan and hope they use nowhere near that amount.
we could do a meetup sometime of HN readers in the Boulder/Denver area
A thought: if someone offered me a trillion dollars to kill a person, I would get trillion-dollar loan, invent brain-uploading and emulation technology with it, copy the person into the machine, and then kill them.

To put that more simply: past a certain point, the idea of marginal value in a cost/benefit analysis breaks down, because the benefit "changes the game." (That is, creates a discontinuity in the valuation curve.) A million dollars "changes the game" of your life. $100 doesn't.
It's not the quantity has much to do with quality and usability, it's that quantity has a lot to do (clearly) with marketshare. The Motley Fool does a pretty good job explaining why the sheer number of manufacturers and models is going to continue to drive growth in Android marketshare: http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2010/05/27/deciphe...

I look at it like this. For years usability and quality difference between DOS (and later Windows) machines and Macs was like night and day. Particularly if you look at the early days of Windows, it was unbelievably primitive compared to Macs of the same era. And yet, because of the number of manufacturers and models of DOS/Windows PC's and the number of sales channels those PC's where sold through, the sales volume for PC's has always dwarfed the sales volume for Macs.

If you look at the Motley Fool's analysis, it's clear that Android will have the same advantages of diversity of models, distribution, etc. over iPhone that PC's have traditionally had over Macs. However, IMHO the situation is even worse for Apple this time, as the quality and usability of the end user experience between iPhone and Android much closer than it was between Mac's and DOS/Windows PC's.
Yeoman sets up boilerplates for many different kinds of applications, with many different kinds of requirements, and gives you all the tools you need to get started.

This can be as convenient as typing in "yo bootstrap" to set up a generic bootstrap site, to "yo phonegap-backbone" to set up a workflow for a backbone and phonegap application. It not only sets up the directory structures for you, it also manages requirements inside of your project from external parties, test environments, and gives you a nice little live-preview setup with grunt automatically.

For me, it takes a lot of that project setup time out of the way, so I can get started coding rather quickly.
It applies to everything. Don't use uncertainty about the future as an excuse to remain frozen today.
More node resources the better at the moment. A simple CRUD application guide would be very helpful. The java Play! Framework site has a really nice basic blog tutorial which is perfect for understanding the entire process.

I plan on starting my first node app in 6 weeks so please hurry up ;)
Is it possible to implement the same protocol for a particular type in multiple ways?