jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I liked the idea, but I refuse to use a phone without a landscape physical keyboard.

Virtual keyboards are awful. All of them. They take too much screen real state away from me, yet they're small enough to make me struggle when trying to write something complex like my secure password...

Swype and similar options are not an option either, because I write in different languages, and no matter how good the text prediction technology gets, the software is unable to predict in which language I'm trying to write, especially with short words. (I understand this is an unrealistic expectation, but still, expecting a person like me to consider this alternative is an unrealistic expectation).

And I prefer not to say something about Voice Input...

I swear I tried different options, but I simply can't... Is a physical keyboard too much to ask? :(
Also see:

http://smarden.org/runit/benefits.html

and

http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/54137
That one person would get pretty boring after a while. And what is your emotional insurance policy should she perish?

I would only do it if I could bring 5 male friends and 5 female friends. This, too, would bore me probably before we landed, but at least there would be a variety of human presence.
I'm not sure it's a formal philosophy, but I think the attributes you're describing are lean and open.
I understand that the page has to be public, but why include the email address there? The person who received the link knows what email address it applies to. Every opt out/unsubscribe page I've used didn't display my email.
I was just looking at the site and wanted to say, I love your high level pitch, esp that it is prominent on the site: "catalog, curate, and share." That's awesome -- the "curate" really conveys the sense of value.
explains all those "ninja" sysadmin/ops job postings.
The main reason Apple would never have this 'unknown sources' option is that it opens up the device to alternative app stores and opens revenue streams they don't control. Too bad, because that would be awesome ;)
(Disclaimer: I work for Twilio) You can do this for less money than you think too. For instance, with Twilio toll-free numbers are $2/month+$.05/minute and you can easily program them to have quiet hours or just do simple forwarding with one of our pre-built Twimlets: http://labs.twilio.com/twimlets/
I've thought about this some more, and I've come to the conclusion that by the time you need $2000/month more, it's almost too late.

The problem is that by aiming for such a small amount you're going to be looking at marginal solutions to marginal problems.

You're better off, in my opinion, aiming for 10 or 20,000 a month and hitting 2,000 than trying to max out at 2,000, and probably hitting 200.
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> So many times, I've started writing some long post in a text field and accidentally lost it due to pressing some wrong keyboard shortcut (oops, you pressed backspace outside a text field! oops, we bound this key to 'reload the page', oops you closed the form by pressing ESC!).

For me it's often ctrl+w to delete one word, which terminals have gotten me used to. I don't want the shortcut removed because I use it all the time to close tabs outside a text box, but it also still working while focused in one is annoying.
I like this list. I'd add collection of behavioral data of a significant proportion of the population.

("Behavioral data" and "significant proportion" would require good definitions; I am not a policy maker, so I am leaving it to those sharper than me.)
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but people constructed a cleavage between the Fed and the US Govt because they thought we shouldn't trust democracy with money creation.

Not exactly.

The government created a cleavage between the Fed (and, therefore, monetary policy) and Congress/Treasury (and, therefore, fiscal policy), because they perceived that faith in the currency would be enhanced and government borrowing would be cheaper if currency users (including potential dollar-denominated debt holders) knew that the entity responsibly for borrowing and repaying the debt had a strong (even if only political, and not strictly binding) barrier to monetization of the debt.
Author ignores the security provided by 10 years of mining.

One can clone the bitcoin repo but it would be far easier to attack the network than it would be to attack the bitcoin network.

Does this mean bitcoin is worth $50k? Not to me. But there is a definitely a high value to a chain with bitcoin level of security.
That’s pretty theoretical at this point, though; it’s been quite a while since we had high inflation.
Interesting.

I was going once every three weeks to reduce Covid risk, household of two, normal American-sized fridge with freezer, cooking six nights a week. We would run out of vegetables during the third week, but it had the advantage that we ate all the veggies!
Well you certainly don't stay ahead of your adversaries by resting on your laurels.
Interesting, though I don't know if any of that really disproves my point. Musk's own money was a self-investment; he didn't need to pitch anyone for that. Jurvetson was involved with Tesla prior, and Thiel was obviously connected through PayPal.

Until the Dragon demo flights in 2012-2013, I think SpaceX would have been hard pressed to raise significant capital from anyone other than Elon's friends. I think the fact that so many private space companies have one or more wealthy benefactors bears this out (Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Armadillo to a lesser extent).
Toxic monoculture, self imposed group think, sky high living expenses for average quality lifestyle.

A sad death but not unexpeced.
You can hardly expect people to wait around until you have enough people for a single vial. Wasting less than a single vial per day doesn't outweigh the downsides of making it harder to get vaccinated.
If you do that, then 3 etc is not a valid value for the enum. Only valid values for that type are the variants.
> lobbying + firehosing campaign cash = federal power on demand

Right... but only one side of that operation is the problem!

It's like saying 'a glass of milk + cyanide capsule = death' and blaming the glass of milk!

Lobbying is a neccesary and healthy part of a functioning democracy. Do you want decisions about you and your life taken with no input from you apart from voting once every few years?
> 1. The post I was replying to was about how Windows was great.

Ah sorry, I got lost in the the thread hierarchy.

> 2. Do you actually run linux/bsd as your only desktop operating system, with no binary blob drivers? Because otherwise, you still don't own your computer.

Yes, I do. I guess other than CPU microcode and other such stuffs that I can't reasonably get around.
>It doesn't encourage critical thinking...

Critical Thinking requires some dose of cynicism. Which in itself is against the main stream thought of American Optimism.
I'm not ok with that. I'm pretty sure I said campaign finance was a problem. Lobbying != campaign finance.
> Well, you'd probably find someone wanting to trade Bitcoin for goods

If your net worth is tied up in goods, assets, and other non-cash investments, you don't need Bitcoin to avoid currency inflation.
[author] This is very accurate. As the manager of the team I had to spend a huge amount of time trying to hire internally for it. No one came to FB to work on ads, they wanted to work on stuff that their friends used. I had to develop a smooth song-and-dance to get the right type of people interested. In the end, this served me very well in my career, being well practiced at getting engineers excited to join your team is a valuable skill.
they can pass a law banning bitcoin; they can also ban the tides from coming in.
Yeah, sure settlement in Bitcoin happens within a few minutes. Getting that converted into usable money is a whole other story, no?

I can basically think of two scenario types when you are in need of international, spontaneous money transfer:

a) "I just got carjacked in Sierra Leone and need some money for an hotel and a flight home"

b) "I have some weird novel business and I would like to pay my contractors in East Timor biweekly"

I cannot image using Bitcoin for either, first one because of the convert-to-money-thing, second one because of the volatility. There is also some kind of - how do you call this - meta-trust that I just don't have in Bitcoin: Go off-grid for two weeks and there is a non trivial chance that some weird shit happened within crypto that is now an obstacle (crash or rally, outlawing, split, ...). That does not happen with US dollars.

I got the feeling that this is yet another incredibly obscure use case that doesn't even really work Bitcoin fanatics (not directed at the quite reasonable parent comment) use to justify their gambling and Lambo-dreams. Just like "it could be the new gold" or "what if the US gov collapses".

But I am certainly no expert in international money transfer by any means, so feel free to change my mind!
Did they rename `context` as `nearestOwnerProps`? Why?
Big data does not refer only to the size of the dataset. It's variance and velocity, in addition to volume.
I'm rather fond of Django's: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/
This version has 2 gigE ports and only costs $20 more.

http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-guruplugdetails.asp...
Prosecutors have absolute immunity for their actions in office, and they also decide whether or not to charge the police on the rare chance that a case makes it past the police's own "internal investigation." In the grand scheme of things, the DA is dependent on the police and it's not common for a prosecutor to survive a loss of confidence by them.
So this guy proving his innocence by exposing corruption does not prove their corruption? There must be some fun technicalities there.
It would take out the element of scarcity.
you can do what candre717 said, but instead of converting to PDF's just save the page as HTML.
The programming tools he will use really depend on the language you're aiming at, most have distributable installers, and if you give him/her this combined with the tutorials I think he/she will be a happy camper.

C++ http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/

C# http://www.csharp-station.com/default.aspx
> your name will be cursed by the poor souls who forever have to maintain your mess.

That's fine as long as it generated jobs.
I'd love to see a good pair-programming environment. Floobits has been having a good crack at this but has the disadvantage of having to co-ordinate both the git commits and the workspace edits on multiple remote machines. GitHub won't have this problem so I expect that pair programming remotely is about to get a ton easier.
I wonder, does Code Contracts use Z3?
I was waiting to see how far the bone headed wokeness will destroy families. This is not the first and wont be the last.
Thanks for clarifying.

It would help if they'd clarified that on the first step of registration, e.g. 'Hey, we need your number so you can message other clubhouse members and also invite your friends.' or something like that.
how? i have seen zero implementations of this.
Webassembly for instance is a 32 bit target. So are most arm hobby boards (even if hw is 64 bit, they ship with 32 bit OSes)
That average beer price is to be taken with a large grain of salt.
It is the un-weighted average of some random prices they found.

Weighted by volume sold it would probably be a lot closer between countries.

In a super market, brand beer is usually 0.79€/0.5L, store brand is at less in germany. That 4€ figure is what you pay for a beer in a moderately expensive restaurant.
It’s strange to me you feel compelled to professionally justify your job through the lens of social justice. I feel no such obligation when people ask me what I do.

As for my personal time, money, and issues that are important to me that’s a very different story.

It feels a little bit to me that we’ve so eroded our personal lives compared to professional lives that people are starting to have a hard time distinguishing the two.
Why would you say it doesn't discourage labor?

If instead of paying somebody $20/hour you need to pay them $30 because of taxes, that makes hiring them more costly and you're incentivized to look for other options.
A big factor is that not every teacher is capable of teaching gifted students.
The gifted public school I went to recruited college professors to teach our middle school classes. I met a lot of HS teachers that couldn't keep up with the math the gifted students where doing as early as 7th grade.

It's silly to expect for the average teacher to be able to teach every kind of student. Some teachers are better at challenging gifted students. Some teachers are better at teaching large groups of "average" students. Some teachers are better at teaching basic concepts to students that the educational system has failed.
Public schools have been a driver of class inequality for decades. With neighborhoods segregated by wealth and schools funded by property taxes, public schools have long only amplified class disparities.
it needs to be trivial to rehost. I've been through a blog content migration before, it was difficult enough that I didn't bother to migrate a portion of my data.
"a reliable yet tiny library (at 7KB gzipped) that would
normalize everything so any code written would literally
work everywhere"

I felt the same way about needing to normalise client and server side, but the goal seems forever ambitious, considering not even IE8 can handle an extra trailing comma. This is not the only universal solution you will be using.
I am very sad that, Medium as a platform is so completely misunderstood here. It's not trying to be a place where writers are the center of attention. It's one of the few attempts, I think is somewhat successful, in democratizing the content, not the writer. I thought Quora was on it back in the day, but it drifted off now, completely.

I am also not sure why anyone who is serious about his personal-branding as to pay $29 would want to stick to a common-theme, especially when there are so many free super-customizable alternatives. People who are serious enough to pay might as well consider paying someone else to design the personal-theme and have it setup with Markdown somewhere for free.

What's even more disheartening is to see someone who is such a skilled person to ram up the themes from Medium and setup a product with such ease, is the person who misunderstood the Medium and add more product-clutter into the market, indifferent to the work of the designers of Medium with a great and noble vision.

Edit: I said 'misunderstood' because of following

> Medium is great for readers but it is bad for writers.

I am sorry, but it's great for writers, you don't need to be among the elite to share an idea with world. And that's something very powerful.
I'm not going to take the bait and allow you to define that default behavior for Soldiers as that of a civilian killer.

The Soldiers know what they sign up for, and if you've never been scared for your life in a combat zone, I'd argue that you lack the perspective to that claim.

If a Soldier doesn't feel comfortable with their mission, they have many ways of dealing with it that do not involve being gagged by their superiors.
[His] father, who has a Ph.D. in bioorganic chemistry and owns his own lab in China, helped develop it.

I love the irony. Peter Thiel was trying to make a point with his "College Dropout Challenge", but this product was really developed by someone with a graduate-level education.
Starting weeks on Sundays has the ill effect of centering every calendar page on the work week, with the work-free days relegated - nay, shoved out - to the margins. The cynic in me says this is by design. Perhaps a capitalist plot to denigrate time away from work? It would be psychologically satisfying to have every calendar week begin on a Monday so that every work week ends with a prominent, uninterrupted two-day block of work-free time.
Exactly. Everyone knows it's an octothorp.
Stackoverflow has always run on a couple of IIS instances. If you’re not bigger than them don’t worry.

You can pretend to be Netflix or Google, and build your tech-stack like they do. Or you can stop wasting your resources setting up a tech stack that you’re never going to get a return of investment on.
When I was a grad student, the entire campus was able to log in to their email by telneting to a well known host. Upon log in, you were dumped in to Pine.

Innocent times.
What I find noteworthy about this story is how contentious and weaponized have gender and race become. Out of the four negative claims, one accused Scott of racism and two accused him of of some variant of misogyny. The fourth associated him with some other form of non-pure thinking.

I am afraid things will get worse before they get better. I expect the trumpism/fascism wave will provoke unhealthy reaction and further chain-reaction. My personal lacmus paper is the use of "white male" label as an argument, which is not totally uncommon even here on HN.
> Everything sucks and we should change it.

Careful there, now you just made the "both sides are bad" argument showing you support the bad guys!
I think your question is too general. For example, there may be institutions that have e.g. a great civil engineering lab while being mediocre at electrical engineering. And the same can be true of subfields of each engineering discipline (for example, I'm in CS, and it's common to see institutions that have a powerful group in one specific area of CS - say computer vision, robotics, NLP, theoretical CS - and aren't anything special in others).

I think you should look at what specific research you want to do and then check what labs are publishing interesting papers on that specific thing.
Backtracking is not only a subject of logical programming. This definition [1] is quite general, so a loop with a single predicate can be called backtracking too.

Though I agree that the word "backtracking" is mostly used in a logical programming, and Prolog is a famous example of its implementation and usage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtracking
There was some considerable progress recently using AI to predict possible mutations. I wish I could find the link. That seems like a better way to go.
> good code is self-documenting

I still believe this to be more or less true.

The important part there is that you have to write good code though.
The editor itself looks very good - I really like grid-based approach

edit: whoah, the pricing is also incredibly cheap! 18$ a year, most similar services charge tens of dollars a month with similar features
This is a really interesting idea. A few thoughts:

I personally think the click+drag interface in Google Calendar or iCal is more efficient for setting the length of events. The select box with all the time intervals from 15 min to 24 hr in 15 min increments seems hard to use. I personally would even prefer typing "15 min" or "1 hr" to trying to scroll through all that.

It would also be great if this pulled automatically from Google Calendar (or any iCalendar) to fill events. I would probably use this to schedule my day if I didn't have to manually put in my recurring events, meetings scheduled with Tungle, etc. that are already in gcal.

Nice work -- thanks for sharing!
How about the Slashdot system? +1/5 Insightful/Funny/etc?
2% is too rich IMO unless your idea/startup is awful.
I would love it if this had Google calendar integration As well. Particularly if it pulled in my appointments for the day and let me schedule around them.
This is a Rails app, correct? I think using a nice template would make this a magnitude more attractive. My suggestion is to be more clear with the value. Put "Share your gift list" in big, bold font at top, or something like that. I shouldn't have to read a paragraph, or click through some steps to figure out what the website is. I should want to do that after salivating from your main point.
What I don't like about this sort of advice is that it's almost completely non-actionable. "Don’t just sit and stare at it: think hard; until you’re exhausted; then come back the next day and try again" is the piece of advice to the stuck student. The distinction between "think hard" and "look at the problem and wait for a flash of inspiration" isn't something that a beginning math student will be able to see. A better set of advice for a stuck math student might be:

- Take a concrete case of the abstract (e.g. instead of trying to prove cauchy-schwarz for inner product spaces, prove it for R^n, and generalize).

- Strengthen your assumptions, then weaken them (prove something for finite dimensional vector spaces, then weaken your conditions to include all vector spaces).

- Try to find a counter-example of what you're trying to prove, and figure out why it's so difficult.

To me, posts like this (themed toward real analysis but parts of it generally informative): http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/245a-problem-solvin... are much more useful than posts that say "well, try hard".
Awesome! I'll definitely look into it this weekend
A few things:

1. What technology is behind this? Ruby?

2. Mobile is VERY important. So important, in fact, that if I were you, I'd make a mobile version of the website right now to work across Android/iPhone/webOS/Windows/etc and start working on an actual native app asap.

3. Syncing. I'd love to be able to Sync this with iCal and Google Calendar. Of course, this is a huge thing; syncing is a lot more difficult than most people realize.

4. Mixing To-Dos in there with the Calendar would be killer. Especially if you let me bring over my To-Do list from popular To-Do list websites and then make your own version.

5. I love the fact that it's so simple and nice. Please keep it that way.
FWIW, it works well with a fairly typical "allow all out, deny all in" firewall configuration. That is what I have set up on my server, and it works fine.

If you go the deny all out, yeah, you'll probably have to set up more specific outgoing exceptions for Mosh.
The interop with Android works great. Spotify, HN App, reddit is fun, YouTube, Google Chrome and Google Play Store(!) work without problems except for some crashes from time to time.

The only problematic app is WhatsApp because the notifications only go into the native Sailfish notification area when an Android app is in the foreground.

Many apps and copy&pasting between native/Android apps were fixed in the last Sailfish version released 3 weeks ago.
Seeing a city like that was so refreshing, it must be nice to live somewhere your attention isn't constantly pulled here and there, and where a sense of want is re-enforced every time you lift your head.
- a lot of people do full-screen presentations (where they can't see others)

- a lot of trivial interuptions are "can you see this?" , "can you hear me" etc
Best wishes to you both. Solidarity forever.
> But ultimately you could learn just as much about yourself and the world by doing pottery, woodworking, kayaking, knitting or whatever else you like to do with your spare time.

I agree with the rest of your post, but this sentence is a hard disagree. Books let you live a version of the lives of other more intelligent people from almost any point in history. How can pottery and kayaking do that?
The value prop for me was the easy report builder. I'm in the process of looking at similar alternatives: https://www.holistics.io/ is the first one that seems 1 to 1.

I'd also like more options for working with reports outside of chartio. The only option at the moment is to email a link to a CSV. No API for exporting data existed.
The tweet talks about swapping iron for nickel, not iron for lithium.
The normal working environment (Mathematica) is a repl environment.