jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I asked a similar question in a similar thread recently. The answer that made the most sense was that the Fed feared future inflation. If you've done QE then you can just sell the stocks again when you want to limit inflation. But if you've done helicopter money then you're stuck.
>>What exactly is irrational about a kid with 300k in debt and no job hoping that a collapse could lead to a real future for himself and/or his kids?

For the start.....everything. No matter how much you're in debt and without a job you're still immesurably better than after actual collapse of the society. Unless your plan really is to establish yourself as some kind of warlord with guns and have others serve you. Which is about as realistic as Mad Max is. There's literally nothing rational about it, not even as a fantasy unless you're 12 and don't understand how the world works and what would actually happen if the societes collapsed in some kind of post apocalyptic scenario.
> As with every in-browser encryption deployment - what's the threat model here ?

I believe the biggest win is that existing content will not be accessible to a hacker even if they fully compromise the website, unless users re-open them. So, sure, plenty of content may get compromised if the site gets hacked, but some large percentage of old content will not be.

> Also, why can't I draw an actual non-flawed circle ?

Adding sloppiness when white boarding is a common pattern to indicate roughness. It subtly cues the viewer not to treat it as a completed product, and allows them more freedom to make changes. If you wanted clean lines, there are many web drawing tools for that too.
If you see any and all exchanges of money for goods & services to be exploitation, then you need to get your head checked.
Where are yields soaring?

Here it looks like they are going down:

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...

It wouldn't surprise me if the 80 year bond bubble popped this year, but I don't see that happening yet.
You will be forced to read Reddit for 24 hours straight
> The theory of everything is a false idol. Why should the universe, which grows more gloriously complex the more we see, be reducible to one set of equations and formulae?

This is a pretty staggering mistake. The only way for the universe not to be reducible to one set of formulae would be to involve a meddling supernatural and ineffable force. (If it's not ineffable, it's just more formulae.) The goal of a unified theory is to have a single formula.
Shipit can run local and SSH commands easily on a group of servers, there is also a set of tasks ready for deployment.
This argument is and has always been specious, yet it's always the fallback.

If the income is so low and irrelevant, why are the links there in the first place. Why even put a question mark on it when it's just entirely unnecessary? I fairly prolifically blog, and I haven't put a single affiliate link in a post since it was a novelty in the mid-90s, because to do so takes advantage of readers and undermines credibility.

And to your root claim, I'd say it's absolutely ridiculous. I've come across blogs reviewing and recommending books that they clearly had never read, at most skimming a short ways in. Most technical books are absolutely horrendous (I understand you cite yourself as an author, almost surely motivating your down arrow), so this completely short circuits the equation.
The PocketBook 912 (and I think a few other models) had a 9.7" (diagonal) display size, with the usual 16 shades of grey, and a reasonable, if not over-powered, CPU.

I have one, and use it for good purpose with a variety of text books. The ability (or constraint?) to not be distracted by colourful networky things is grossly underestimated, but even more so is the ability to stare at the thing for several hours, in a variety of lighting conditions, and not feel any type of eye-strain.

Horribly expensive at the time it came out, and probably rare as rocking horse poo now. Looking at the other responses to your question there is slim pickings for contemporary devices with these specs, sadly.
Someone should use their clout within the sci-fi and geek worlds to run a kickstarter for a video game based on realistic sword fighting, then completely drop the ball!
I don't see a problem with including an affiliate link if you are talking about a relevant book.

I usually link once and do a text link rather than the Amazon graphic ad box. If it is something that interests me, I don't have a problem with it.
These are the worst.

It's worth highlighting this as an example of authoritative-sounding comments that will put you on the wrong path, if you're not careful.

Techie websites and visitors are a very different market than your average customer, and within those technical circles, people like this comment writer will not be representative of the majority of your website's readers.

Whilst I think that the comment author is exaggerating for effect, it's always worth asking the question in your head:

- Does this person represent how one person or the majority of my visitors will think?
IMO affiliate links are the least offensive form of ad revenue. If they are from a product review, then they do bring the neutrality of the reviewer into question, but that's true of any review (the writer could have been paid to do the review anyway). On the other hand, if I discover something through a webpage, then that can only be a good thing.

Affiliate links are the only kind of ads that I click on, there's no real downside if I am buying the item for the same price, affiliate or not, and the writer gets some cash too. Surely that's win-win?

DF (and other people)'s shout-outs are worse IMO. They are always so shiny and positive, there's rarely any sign of neutality. At least they can be skipped fairly easily.
This looks fantastic, best of luck with it!

Sorry you're dealing with so many licensing questions here but a quick clarification:

> If their company is acquired, the license will be transferred to the company acquiring them. However, to use spaCy in another product, they will have to buy a second license.

Is the second license only required because they sold the company on (and the license along with it), or is a license per product generally required? In other words, if I buy a single license, can I make and sell two different products?
Fantastic, thanks for going through this :)
Eehhh... I knew about star schemas already, although I've never used one. I do think my cursory knowledge would have caused me to research them when starting a project like that though. Obviously it's all got to be a balance, but I think that the OP is probably a little bit too conservative.

Especially if you are working for other people, we are paid to innovate, and we are paid to learn stuff until it is boring. We've got to stick up for ourselves and learn on the job when we can. One new thing a project sounds great to me.
Moral of the story: Do one thing and do it better than everyone.
I'm sick of seeing Adobe and iPad in the same sentence. It's become pointless headline mongering on their part.

Adobe: Make a version of mobile Flash, and OS X Flash, that doesn't suck balls. If you can't make Flash run elegantly on OS X and iOS then stop calling it a "key part of the web", since you lack the ability to make this so. If you CAN make Flash run on these platforms without eating batteries like a boxload of vibrators then do so.

Flash has mostly become an ad delivery platform anyways.
Thermite is sadly not an option.
Absolutely... have to say Michael Pollan is onto something with "nutritionism". Food isn't a linear combination of nutrients.
I'm not sure what your point is regarding something being wrong with their management.

Are you suggesting they should migrate away from Silverlight? That they should choose a different data format? That they are probably lying about implementation time, and just don't want to do it?
What about it bothers you, exactly?
This article was written in 2001, and python now includes first-class constructs for many of these.

Map:

>>> [ord(char) for char in "Hello"]
[72, 101, 108, 108, 111]

Filter:

>>> [x for x in xrange(10) if x % 2]
[1, 3, 5, 7, 9]

For laziness, use parenthesis to turn the above list comprehensions into a generator comprehension. Though I don't demonstrate it, you can work over infinite sequences of objects this way with constant memory usage (without allocating all of them upfront).

>>> gen = (x for x in range(10) if x % 2)
>>> gen
<generator object <genexpr> at 0xb729f6bc>
>>> for element in gen:
... print element
...
1
3
5
7
9

Alice, the rabbit hole begins here --> http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html
Bitstamp has a new websocket channel https://www.bitstamp.net/websocket/ where you can get full order book updates.
Baseballs are heavily regulated in game due to the long legacy of doctoring the ball to achieve otherwise impossible movement on pitched balls. Each ball in play goes through the home plate umpire before making it to the pitcher/catcher.

Of course in baseball you'll still occasionally see the pitcher with a hidden "foreign substance" used to doctor the ball once they get ahold of it. Back 20ish years ago it was not too rare for a pitcher to be discovered with a nail file or scratching the ball on their belt buckle. Generally this is seen as "part of the game", and well, there are admitted spitballers/nail-filers in the hall of fame and nobody really cares. Nowadays, if a pitcher gets caught with a "foreign substance" (usually pine tar), they are usually suspended for a few games, the media goes into a frenzy, and retired baseball players say they all did it too.
Most C++ hard core game developers don't even use the STL that comes with the language ... Why do you think they will even consider linking the huge Boost library with their game ? Also, the use of templates is usually a big no - no for most game dev studios.
"Patriots backs simply don't fumble": Yes, because if they have a fumbling problem, they stop playing until they fix it (Ridley) or they cease being Patriots if they can't fix it (Maroney). Belichick is well-known for having a "doghouse" for running backs who fumble.

"Your explanation isn't supported by the data":
I wasn't trying to give an explanation supported by the data. I was trying to give an explanation for the data that makes sense and is supported by observing the Patriots play.

It's like saying Magnus Carlsen must cheat at chess, because the chance of him making so few errors is effectively zero assuming he makes errors at the rate that other grandmasters do.
Ideally, you would want some survey data, although I think it might be hard to get people to say that they stopped riding their bike because wearing a helmet is inconvenient, even if it's true.
Which is itself related to "if you don't like open-source software X, you can just fork it", which has the same problems.

I find it interesting in that it's a useful argument, but only at a communal level - if the entire community hates the direction of a project (e.g. OpenOffice), they can fork it and take it in a different direction.

You're still boned as a discerning individual if you dislike the program, though.
The transition was pretty gruesome, so your analogy is not all that reassuring. Nobody thinks we will all die, just that a lot of us will be very poor.
I agree, it's sort of like starting a calculus course with a review of basic arithmetic.
Good idea, but what would you be prepared to pay for it? I think this is something a hotel chain should do as a value add, otherwise the cost would be too high. To do it independently I would still partner with hotels and offer a complete package with a nice "laptop ready" workstation, wifi and perhaps tech support included in the price.
The way they word it makes it sound like that isn't the case, though. It's possible that by "access to a network of places to stay all over the world" they mean access to a network of places they own and operate, but I'd take it as hinting otherwise. The "places to crash" and "instant friends" especially makes me suspect that these apartments will be owned by other people, possibly even inhabited by them? But it's rather unclear. If they did own them all, I'd be impressed that they were able to quickly build up an international network of property holdings, and the support staff to clean/maintain them!

If they don't own them, then the novelty seems like it'll be in the payment/pricing structure, which they seem to hint will involve ZipCar-like membership fees and daily pricing. Otherwise it sounds quite similar to AirBnB or any of the other "vacation condo rental" or "short-term apartment rental" sites.
> Let’s be blunt... because white people.

No need to make such generalizations.

The overwhelming majority of economic damages done in 2020 were by BLM/ANTIFA/ACAB crowd. Many of us supported them initially but when they started attacking minorities in particular Asian Americans and their businesses thats when I stopped.

You are destroying your own country by being tricked into hating it by interest groups that isn't aligned with yours.
No, because “it’s just like, my opinion, man.”

In all seriousness, my issues with it are my own, and if you don’t get the same tone from reading the first few paragraphs: that’s totally ok.

So I don’t think I’d be able to make a strong case to someone skeptical. Chances are, it wasn’t the author’s intent and the author isn’t as shallow and pedantic as this article makes them seem to me.
My biggest fear of fallout from something like this is that Intel could flex their financial muscle with TSMC and squash AMD just as they're pulling ahead. It wouldn't take much for Intel to buy out all of TSMC's available wafer starts...
Or, conversely, we may observe the same problem that MOOCs have — it’s _very_ hard to motivate the average person to sit at a computer and learn some topic which is boring to them. Engagement is low.

Computers are great for reinforcing the rote part of learning. They are currently terrible for getting students motivated or over mental blocks. Those issues can be addressed by well designed programs, but US teachers were largely unprepared for this abrupt change in format.
Seems like a good solution.

Did you check with your company that the storing of work related notes was allowed in your private repo?
Of course - the Google Style Guide being a prime example.

Indeed, though it's been going on since long before Google was around!

Have you looked at the source for (say) your Standard Library implementation? If you are not intimately familiar with it (which kind of negates the advantages of using a library in the first place) you won't stand a chance of debugging it, no matter how deep your knowledge of the C++ Standard.

Some years ago, I did exactly that. Found a bug in it, too.

Part of my concern with the ever-increasing complexity of C++ since C++11 is that what I did back then would be increasingly difficult today, because there are so many intricacies aimed at library writers squeezing out every last drop of performance. Of course, for a systems programming language like C++, that emphasis is understandable. But as I said, extra complexity in language design always comes at a cost. And if we'd had to wait for someone upstream to fix the bug in the library I mentioned above, that cost would have had quite a lot of digits in it and a dollar sign at the front.
"I do not want your husbands on this shopping trip as they'll be such a buzkill". "Let's not invite our girlfriends to this snowboarding drunk fest as they'll be such a buzkill".

These phrases could be social cliches, but neither is immoral in principle. It's ok to be in the company of people who are definitely and exactly into your fetish.

Of course if it's a company sponsored snow trip then it's different matter altogether.
Ballmer owns about 4% of the outstanding shares. While that is an enormous holding, by no measure does that protect him if the board decides to punt him (the board doesn't speak on behalf of shareholders in descending unit order. They speak to the majority of shares).
Please don't do this here. We ban such accounts. Maybe you don't feel you owe California politicians better, but you owe this community much better if you're posting to it.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Sorry, should have seen discussions already about this topic including http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2490067
Want one you can deploy privately?
I tested it in a few web-mail clients. The data: uri images get blocked in gmail, yahoo, hotmail, and aol web-clients. I think that they just indiscriminately block "img" tags.

The css images, on the other hand, continue to display even when I put the emails into the spam folder.

Edit: All of the web-clients knew how to display the data:uri image.
I actually live in Hawaii where we have delicious, organic, locally-grown fruit all year round, and I often get to pick fruits myself. I understand some people don't have it as good =/

And at least fruits get rotten! I think there is something wrong with all these preservative-enhanced foods that you can forget about for like a decade only to find that they are still edible ;)

BTW, I am not honestly recommending that people eat all fruits or anything like that, just that they consist of at least 10% of a person's diet. A fruitless diet like the one recommended here is generally a bad idea, even if it saves you some money.
Here are the important claims made in the logs:

* They have "decrypted all PSN functions."

* Sony spies on basically everything PS-related (hardware plugged in, games played, etc.) and uploads it. There are "independent checks" and history wipers, etc. don't work. This may only happen when the device is networked. They can detect backups, piracy, etc.

* It sends CC data, etc. via SSL, but leaves unencrypted logs on the HD that contain that data in the URLs visited. It may not have used SSL at all at launch.

* You can modify a few things when you download something from the PSN store to tell it that you should be getting the game for free.

* Sony monitors all messages sent over PSN, may be searching that for keywords.

* Has a big list of censor words that lives on your HD. Checks this list on receipt of a message, not sending. Easy to bypass now.

* Various worries about people creating spam apps with this data.

* Comments indicating that Sony is running old Apache servers with known vulnerabilities internally.

Watching this, I'm glad I don't have a PS3.
There is a balance between shipping a good product with good technology. If you are constantly pushed by deadlines and make things just work, it breaks stuff in the future. Any engineer that is continuously working under pressure of tight deadlines cant ship anything creative, solid, simple and open to change.

Good engineers also have to be good analysts. What often makes a programmer better is his/her opinion to say yes and no to products people/designers. But yet again there is a balance. haberman mentioned Google but I personally don't like the over-engineered Google culture. It's too left-wing, if tight deadlines are too right.
I have no idea whether the term used at the time for sling ammunition was bullet, but even so, I can't imagine that being a selling point given the penetration power of human powered sling projectiles would have with regard to plate armor. Also, the sources I've seen were very clear to link it to the rise of guns on the battlefield.
Here's what I don't get about tabs and the phrase "programmer's text editor" -- what programmer only has 8 files open at once?

Looking at ibuffer, I have 92 buffers open in Emacs right now. What would that look like with tabs?
"Had taken it in 1948 from who?"

Jordan took the West Bank when the British Mandate was terminated. The international community had designated it to become part of the Jewish National Home. This is also why practically noone acknowledged Jordan's rule of the West Bank. Before 1946, Jordan itself was part of the British Mandate. It was separated to create a country where Arabs from the region could live, whereas Palestine would become the Jewish National Home. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Palestine#Te...

"Also, remind everyone, when was Israel created?"

About 1000 BCE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Israel_%28united_mon...

"isn't the article about Gaza at least partially also?"

Sure, and Gaza was part of the British Mandate as well. In 1922 it was designated to become part of the Jewish National Home. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gaza#British_Mandate...
That is really the only reason for native apps these days -- access to camera, accelerometers, various coprocessors, etc

Or the CPU running at its full potential rather than interpreting Javascript, or storage that doesn't have 100+ millisecond network latency, or UI frameworks that were designed for applications rather than text documents...

The web is great for lots of things. The insistence that it should be the One True Way for applications strikes me as a case of man-with-a-hammer syndrome.
I enjoy this reply.
That thought was your next mistake!
Generating and caching can be intertwined. For example, HN seems to generate an inline script at the top of every page. The script doesn't change nearly as often as the posts do, so that script is sent redundantly at the top of every page. If that script were located at separate URL, set to expire never, every visitor would load it once and never again. If you need to change the script, you can change the linked URL. Doing that can avoid an expensive calculation for the server, but also a network request for the client which could be very, very expensive.

To me, it sounds like the caching you're talking about is on the server side. I think you mean something similar to memoization, so you can avoid doing some expensive query or calculation. That is worth doing, but it's still possible to organize the output of those caches in an inefficient manner, and incur unnecessary network overhead. The "semantically correct" part of the markup being advocated here isn't that interesting, if you ask me. What is interesting is the claim is that you can generate less markup per page, and get the same display.

The balance between the repeat visitor cache behavior and the initial number of HTTP requests and latency for a first-time visitor can get hard to judge. Without lots of time to measure the various alternatives and mitigation tactics, it's best to try and generates as little markup as possible. That's where so-called "semantic markup" comes in. Usually it's just less markup, and does better.

Another thing to take into account is the layout behavior triggered in various browsers by the markup you're generating. HN is pretty simple and should render instantly, but it doesn't in anything I've tested (Firefox, Chrome, Safari). Each of them redraw the scrollbar one or more times. That could be due to the tables.
They actually say it's copyright infringement to copy a program into RAM to run it.

Thanks to incredibly idiotic rulings like MAI v Peak, it pretty much is.