jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For some definitions, yes, they are operating at a higher level of abstraction. However, abstraction isn't by itself a good thing.
I'm not saying it will succeed (that remains to be seen) but:

1. Not if you don't have the money for a computer in the first place. My grandparents would really like to get online, and the difference between a $400 laptop and a $200 netbook is significant.

2. Not if all you need is the basic functionality this device offers.

3. This is just all sort of wrong if you don't live in a metropolitan area.

4. That's your opinion, and a valid one, but I love the cloud. I'm moving everything I can to it. Of course, I don't personally concern myself too much with security, but I still think it's a great tool for a lot of casual computer users.
My objection to that is almost all content (like a browser document) is going to vertically scroll almost always anyway, so what's another 50-ish points lost.

Compared to placing the Dock on the left or right, where that eats up window tiling space. I'll take vertical scrolling over horizontal any day.
Right - that's because the stock has been kept artificially low which is necessary for the strategy to work.

What I'm talking about is that if they continued to flood the market with those dvds it would be in the $5 bin and make people a whole lot less likely to buy the box set.
365.io was created specifically for Project 365, which is a year-long photography project in which you upload a picture a day for 365 days so that after a year you have some sort of photo documentary of your life over that year.

The main difference between this and a Flickr stream is the focus. Flickr is meant for photography in general, and while you could use it for Project 365, it's less organized and focused. For example, your P 365 entries would be mixed in with your regular flickr uploads.
This is unrelated, but how did Google manage to produce such awful URLs? Is this just a base-26 encoded GUID? If so, they could've saved a few characters: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0xED11C880FA5611DDA6040...

Not that this is something you'd want to do in the first place, because it's hideous.
I personally wish I had this when I had to find a notebook for my mom and grandmother who had never used a computer before.

While it may not interest a broad demographic, it definitely serves a purpose.
w3schools used to be a very bad resource but it has improved over the years. See https://www.w3fools.com/.
Yes. Lack of light is perfectly safe for humans although we tend to get a little depressed with pro longed periods of darkness.
>I know you need to go through customs. But why do I need to pick up my bag, leave the airport, and go back into the airport?

Because a customs check is not complete if they can't also check your bag on demand?
Will you say that when an alien being with an IQ of 3,234,876 appears?
This is why I don't like self-study for mathematics. A lot of the stuff is very simple once you understand what it's for, but finding out what it's for from the formal definition is an uphill battle.

And then, after you see the thing for what it is (months later), you start coming up with questions that lead to more formalism.

Studying from an encyclopaedia is hard, and even a good book will only get you as far as well-known results. Answers are much easier to learn from, so you want someone to provide you with the correct questions and avoid the difficult ones.
Yeah, I submitted that one the other day as well as I find the whole topic interesting, but it didn't any traction.
"Use hidden Erlang innards to pick up girls"

You're right. There have been many articles on dating and sex, all with some kind of tenuous hacking link. And all from the male perspective.
I hope so too. I want to know the minimum standard for a "Hello World" in 2010.
Matt gave a very entertaining Ignite talk that goes into some of his reasoning and marketing decisions behind his work: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/ignite_video
Swappa has just been launched as a better way to buy and sell gently used, fully functional Android devices. Thank you for feedback...
Stephen King, whose success is similarly depressing to some, mentions this specifically in 'On Writing.' His great gift, as he put it, is to entertain those of similar intellect to himself. Fortunately for him, he's on the top half of the fat part of the bell curve, so there are many such similar intellects to entertain. I am glad to be one.

While I find 'The Oatmeal' to be somewhat boring and trite, I don't begrudge those who like it their enjoyment, nor do I begrudge the author his income.
http://www.civisanalytics.com/pages/civis-uninsured
Yeah this seems like a humblebrag.

"Oh hey it's okay to be alone, like me and my wife..."

"Oh hey, it's okay to be poor, I only have a paid-off house and car..."
Seconding Miyamoto's question. Is there a use case for mixing 3D graphics and HTML, as opposed to showing 3D graphics in a box on the page? I don't count "making fancy website intros" as a very important use case, because everyone hated such intros the last time around.
Innocent mistake? Probably going to be fine. Not filing because you're clueless? Different story.
> The problem is how to explain this to the non scientific people. Most people can't understand the difference between the scientific evidence behind quantum entanglement and Bigfoot. Everything that is in a newspaper is true.

Yes, sad but true. That's a problem with education -- the kind of education that tells people what to think but doesn't teach how to think. And in a society like this one, the skepticism necessary for science comes into conflict with its diametric opposite, religious faith.

> It's a good sign that the story the source is someone from a well known university.

No, that's false -- if that were true it would replace understanding with an empty respect for authority, but authority has no standing in science. "Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion." — Richard Feynman

In science, evidence means everything, reputation means nothing. The greatest amount of scientific eminence is trumped by the smallest amount of scientific evidence.

It's important to understand the role of the null hypothesis in scientific thinking. The null hypothesis is a precept that assumes a claim is false until evidence forces us to a different conclusion. This contradicts the more common unscientific outlook, in which things are true unless proven false.

> And even if you have a scientific background, you can't retest every result, so you must evaluate and weight the sources.

But without a direct understanding of a claim and its background, educated people don't just abandon skepticism, they remain skeptical of everything they can't personally investigate. The motto of the Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific society, is "Nullius in Verba" -- don't take anyone's word for it.
You either need large payloads or large numbers, but Thousands of drones flying around would likely lead to accidents. Accidents woudl likely lead to new fires, considering most of these things are happening in areas that are tinderboxes with significant aggrivating factors (high winds, exposure, etc).

The strategy for containing these fires is typically fuel deprivation, rather than "flame extinguishment" which is so difficult if not impossible for the above reasons. The guys that jump out of planes to fight backcountry fires, for example, are armed with axes and saws. Absent something like a star-wars (AT-AT) its not clear a direct frontal confrontation is pyhsically feasible, even from the air, for many fires.
One can have too high of expectations of social interactions. I find this leads to angst.

It's ok if this or that person is "only" a drinking after work friend, or this/that person is "only" a weekend friend, etc. While difficult, it is important to expand your social circle if you do not feel fulfilled. And, that can be difficult, but necessary.
Great article with sound reasoning. I love reading op-ed style pieces that legitimately educate me on something just outside of my radar.

Two points to add:

1. I disagree that Netflix can't win by trying to out-HBO HBO, because as I understand Netflix' strategy is closer to Amazon Prime. Amazon loses money on Prime shipping (although with volume, not as much as you think) but in exchange they become the default place that customers come to buy just about anything they need, which means that loss in shipping was actually a massive reduction in marketing. They tilt the customer acquisition cost lower and the LTV higher. If Netflix succeeds in creating content that most consumers can only get in one place, it will dramatically increase the size of the iceberg under the surface.

2. One of the most interesting and successful tech/media hybrids I'm aware of is hitRECord, which is spearheaded by the brilliant Regular Joe aka Joseph Gordon-Levitt. This is a stunning example of crowd-sourcing and community collaboration working. http://www.hitrecord.org/ - check out "Morgan M. Morgansen's Date With Destiny" on the Greatest Hits page: http://www.hitrecord.org/greatest

It's silly to speculate whether YC will or will not fund the evolution of entertainment. It's also not an interesting debate.
I want things that only work under x that aren't spacebar heating.
> I don't know what it's like on the AMD or Intel side

I recently switched to AMD - that, with a compositor (compton/picom), resulted in a super smooth tear-free experience in X for me.

My experiences with Intel integrated graphics has always poor performance, and bad screen tearing, sometimes screentearing even with compton running.
Rarity is not the only possible basis for value. Public good is another.
That's super interesting. I didn't know about that. Any links to it?
The fetish we have with trying to private sector everything is a financial disaster.

We can pay people to build it directly, it's ok. There doesn't need to be an unaccountable greased palm making $100 million in the background through some "public-private partnership".

If the contractor makes a profit we pay more. If instead the government makes a profit, we pay less (see public banking for an example). Kinda funny how that works.
Mine are 1) Xmodmap support/migration 2) breaking imagemagick's import (screenshotting) making my shortcut for OCR'ing text on the screen break.

It seems Wayland isn't going to be the default in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, but if it wasn't for the risk of Wayland I would be on the non-LTS releases. At least Guix exists now so staying on LTS (released every 2 years) isn't that bothersome in terms of easily avoiding out-of-date software.
Try searching for “1549 USD in EUR”, and you'll find links to sites that auto-generates individual pages for every amount.

One might argue that the SEO garbage here is less bad, since there really isn't any alternative site they're stealing hits from, but it's still a sign that shows just how horrible the web has become.
https://github.com/planetjekyll/awesome-jekyll-editors
For those wondering about that: the pawn allows one to move through a position that otherwise would be a stalemate.

The general trick is to block the pawn with one knight, force the king into a corner with king and other knight, and then bring in the second knight for the checkmate so fast that the pawn cannot promote to a queen and then make another move (promotion to a queen is OK if the checkmate immediately follows)
I try to boycott as many sites that use Taboola as possible... this can leave very few sites left to visit without hating myself... Them and Outbrain have to be the absolute worst that I see on "reputable" sites. You begin to truly understand a site's revenue integrity when you see these in their "Sponsored Content" sections.
This is incredible, definitely the most random way to discover new music. Would be nice if there was a hex search function.
You get them by contributing meaningfully to discussions. I've been on this site for a while and gotten lots of upvotes, but ultimately it does not matter: what matters is learning, sharing what you know, and meeting people.

Welcome to HN!
If there are less customers of the power company, then the electricity per person is more expensive and solar is then even more competitive. This prediction for the collapse of conventional electricity suppliers is being referred to as the solar-death-spiral and it came from wall street, not the green lobby.
> "U.S. law and the Constitution protect American citizens and legal residents from warrantless surveillance. That means we have a very strong legal case to challenge mass surveillance conducted domestically or that sweeps in Americans’ communications."

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The EFF is living in fantasy land. The NSA has never considered itself bound to law because it's not a creature of statutory law but came into existence by decree.

> "no existing statutes control, limit, or define the signals intelligence activities of the NSA.”

> Roy Banner, counsel for the NSA, 1976 [0]

[0] https://www.fas.org/irp/agency/army/mipb/2012_04-owen.pdf
repost from another sub-thread [1]...

Someone briefly had a pointer to http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=code.goog..., which includes:

> Malicious software is hosted on 23 domain(s), including sms-bomber.googlecode.com/, gdata-issues.googlecode.com/, infojob.googlecode.com/.

I would actually compare it to github.com and github.io http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=github.co...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8934594
Although I agree about the bad UI part, I still think they're in the process of pivoting and finding early traction, so it's unfair to conclude that they would be a failure (or wish them a "painless death"). Instead let's wait for a couple of months to see what they evolve into, who knows it could turn to something interesting that we'll use everyday
The university my wife attends (in the USA) has some kind of weird site license where students get it for free from the IT department if they are willing to drop off their laptop with the university. (This isn't a bad deal, since probably the average freshman also buys their laptop from the university anyway). They can pay $10 to get the DVD themselves. (This is a very large state supported school.)

My school (even larger and state supported) charges like $92 for the same thing.

I've not figured out why two almost identical schools about 20 miles apart have such a different pricing scheme for their students.

I do know that in our relationship, my wife buys all the software. :)
IBM has many quality articles, like this.
Thanks for sharing.
I got an email from Google with a thank you note and link to this video. I can't determine if the 'thanks to you...' is referring to me as a (one time) advertiser or as a regular Google user.

Edit (more clarity):

Here is the actual email from Google:

Dear ,

Thanks to you, this holiday season Google is able to donate $20 million to charitable organizations around the world. They in turn will help improve the lives of over 50 million people. Click here to see how.

Thank you for being a part of what Google is today. All this is possible because of you.

Have a wonderful holiday.

Google

Note that my name was not included in the email. I'm guessing they're missing a record on me.
Probably they will pass the law and then insist ISPs figure out how to do it, or otherwise lose license to operate.

Anyway, scary thought. Blocking everything by default based on what some conservatives think of as immoral or harmful.
It can and will be fixed soon. :) Expect an announcement 'soon.'
I can only say I plan on making this a reality in 2011.
There's reading, and then there's remembering and using most of it a couple of months later and years later. Otherwise it just becomes another form of newspaper/HN reading and just mostly gives a vague reference memory in the back of your head.
It doesn't surprise me that it works & gets interest, but I do wonder how they got over the cold start problem.

I guess I'm just overly suspicious.
In another post, I made the comment that anyone that opts out of going through these machines should use this fact to plant fear in the minds of TSA agents.

Every one of them should at least be a little concerned about this and it would be great to see them oppose these machines for their own safety, if nothing else.
Point of order, in that this doesn't seem to be from the xray pushback - this seems to be from 2002.

Page title is "Federal V.I.P Penn - 11/13/02"
It's over-hyped as usual, but this looks like it could evolve into a handy way of generating snippets of working code that you can then modify. Think of it as an alternative to doing a Google search for a useful example to start from, or a better kind of Rails scaffolding.
Do they put kernel patches in PPAs?
Do it! Wordpress is ez to use.
Me too. I wonder what people who learned Lisp, Prolog, or APL when they were five would be capable of now!
Yeah, Python is bytecode compiled and run in a virtual machine. Hell, you can even JIT it into machine code (psyco, Jython with a JIT-enabled JVM, IronPython with a JIT-enabled CLR). Python never had a traditional interpreter.
I built a fairly large app with Python years ago. I was neither ecstatic with then nor did I hate it. I didn't love or hate the whitespace thing then. I managed everything so it just worked.

A couple of years ago, however, I tried to help a friend trace an error in code on an active server. It came down to rewriting the code so that it looked exactly the same as before but somehow had the right whitespace instead of the wrong whitespace.

That experience left me with the strong belief that Python's whitespace approach is totally wrong and broken. Things that break in ways that are difficult to understand I can accept. Things that break in ways that are impossible to understand as such are unacceptable.

Yes, the whitespace thing can always be fixed - except on the random server where it desperately needs fixing. Systems where symbols that are meaningful don't appear are broken - it's not that a given problem with said symbol will appear often. It's how extreme the problem is when it does appear.
Chivalry is the result of poor estimation of the liquid value of an act of kindness, specifically its ability to be exchanged for adoration from a female.

IMO, engineers have a tendency to calculate the value more precisely. :)
Why is that so insane? Does it surprise you that more than 99.7% of cars out there are not hybrids? There is no pressing financial reason to switch yet. As a node on the Internet you can either request an IPv4 address for, say, $0.25/month and make that go as long as possible, or you could drop whatever other work you are doing and replace/upgrade, test and deploy your entire hardware architecture just so that at some point when IPv4 support starts getting dropped (not happening in one year), you can be ready.

Once again, everybody relax. IPv6 will happen. As soon as it is cheaper to upgrade your entire infrastructure than getting another batch of IPv4 addresses, everyone will jump on board. In the mean time, just breathe.

And lastly, two 16 byte addresses cannot possibly fit into a 20 byte header, so there is no way that IPv6 would have been compatible with IPv4.
Excellent PR for the waffle shop.
What about living in a country that took the "wrong" approach?
They answered:

"We are in the process of sending out emails to all ~1.5m users affected. Unfortunately, sending out that many emails is not a simple process."

I think MailChimp/Campaign Monitor/SendGrind should be able to handle a 1.5M volume quite nicely.
because the SCOTUS believes money = free speech.
Moreover, this is the anatomy of a landing page. The graphic is there for information, not as a template.
I didn't down vote, but here's a shot in the dark:

The post concerns Deal Score, something that was added to SeatGeek which aggregates sale prices of seats over time into a general price range and ranks the current sale price against that combined with it's location. The result is a system that may rank higher priced tickets closer to the action as a better deal than a cheaper price from the last row.

You addressed nothing about the topic, but expressed your distaste for SeatGeek (which I believe you meant when you wrote Deal Score, since that is just a number). SeatGeek has been around for a little while, and it's fine if you don't like them, but you are certainly not evaluating their idea with your comment.
Citation: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1702377/figure/f...

In old days every farmer in our village had a beehive - the honey and pollination services were both much appreciated. My father has always taught me that killing a bee is a horrible crime.
> Thiel and company repeatedly claim that there is no meaningful difference between the Chinese military and individual Chinese nationals who work for American companies, because China is essentially a fusion state where the government dictates the flow of capital.

I didn't get this but I read it a day or two ago so it's not fresh. Can you point where you saw this conclusion? My reading was that the claim is that Chinese companies are not differentiable from the CCP and this feels pretty fair? A great example of this can be seen in this report: https://www.csis.org/analysis/chinese-communist-party-target...

What's more is it's not clear per se that Thiel and co. are explicitly against some role of the Government in influencing the private sector's business relations in foreign lands. In fact, no one really seems to be opposed to that given that we have all sorts of laws around bribes, child labor, etc that expand beyond US borders. The problem in their view is that US companies are explicitly aiding Chinese companies which are in turn in aid of the CCP. The argument is that the US should hold accountable US companies which aid through what is essentially a direct way the CCP. Their problem is not inherently that the CCP directs Chinese enterprises nor more generally that a Nation directs its enterprises in some way.
It seems like your answer suffers from the very bias being described, because you don't have to "add" a balance bike to your inventory. You can just "subtract" the pedals off the one you've got.
This is awesome! It would also be really nice if the scraper would organize the ideas based on keywords in a given tweet.
Hacks like this sound promising. Especially at T+30 days.
But I wonder how well it will work across longer spans of time. Say at T+24 months?

My experience is that these habits work until "the pillars" of my life (people, place, and routine) shift. I had low screen-time before COVID: but not after. Buying a new house had similar affect. A new friend or social media app (looking at you Clubhouse) interrupts my flow and I fall back into the scroll-hole once again.

Every few months I need to re-learn how to fight against the PC in my pocket. I always find a way. But never get the sense that I've "leveled-up".
I would rather not talk to them so I'll keep my secrets to myself :X

Seriously though, obvious and good point. Thank you for calling me out.
It's not just about vaccines rationing, it's vaccine passports, it's housing, it's taxes, it's wealth, it's opportunities, it's job losses, it's pensions, it's triple locks for wealthy pensioners in enormous houses on final salary pensions, but unemployment your young people in house shares
I sincerely hope that the discussion of the first experiment in the article is wrong, because that absolutely does not support the hypothesis (apart from the fact that it looks to be designed to falsify the hypothesis' opposite). And everything seems to be centered around Lego blocks, which, as we all know, is the perfect representation for all of our problems. Well, Nature never had a great record in psych publications, anyway.