jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I sense an assumption that both sizes are equally likely to be required and available. That's quite untrue. 5.25 floppies immediately vanished from the market when 3.5 became available. That was a long time ago. So you have the entire lifetime of 3.5 disks elapsing after the demise of 5.25. We're now roughly 20 years after the demise of the 3.5 disk so both demand for and availability of the older 5.25 is very low.
Simple was an online bank. They had no physical branches and charged very low fees. Personally, I think they're one of the best banks around, and I'm very disappointed to hear that they're shutting down.
> if you're going to try to call someone out or discredit them, try not to in the same stroke do the same thing.

I don't follow your logic.

Here's the context. x86_64Ubuntu wrote:

> Coming out and saying that you think the election stolen gets you labeled a conservative nutter. So wise commenters won't say that, instead they will do what you've noted. Imply that folks are saying the election was perfect, and then say that they think there might have been some "imperfections" going on.
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> That way the listener doesn't automatically correctly categorized their point of view as nuttery, but is drawn into listening longer out of decorum. And the speaker doesn't suffer a loss of reasonableness for "wanting the truth".

In response, I wrote:

> Yes, this is part of a known playbook for people who want to seem credible while stoking fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

In doing so, I pointed out a pattern that involves a rhetorical technique.

With this context, perhaps you can explain what you mean by "try not to in the same stroke do the same thing?"
> just install more

It's so hard to take that seriously (e.g., exactly how many sets of cables per home is reasonable? and how often can people be expected to change them?), but even if I somehow do:

How is that different from, say, electric power, as far as constitutionality goes? We have the Federal (Water) Powers Act, FERC, etc. that regulate power distribution (among other things). I would've thought these are all easy to constitutionally justify the regulation of based on other clauses (like the Commerce Clause).
I've seen others have success complaining on the Coinbase subreddit [1]. It's run by Coinbase staff and they seem to respond better there than the ticketing system.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/
Interesting. But how am I to distinguish this comment from any number of other random dietary opinions which may be complete bullshit?
My kids eat nothing resembling the food that I eat (they eat much healthier than I ever did), but the difference is a wash financially.
Plus it has what plants need.
I doubt the Chinese government is behind the attack - except for maybe not caring enough to do anything about it.

Basically the government doesn't really care what other people do outside the Chinese Internet, and just block anything they don't want local people to read.

Far more likely is a 'red hacker', e.g. Someone hacking for patriotic reasons and has taken issue with those projects hosted on GitHub.

It may well be that the person has government connections or works in some way for the government but I'd be surprised if it was a government sponsored/sanctioned attack - especially because there are far more likely candidates who will be far easier to take offline than GitHub.

The Chinese government's strategy has generally been about keeping things out, not taking things down.
Long time customer of CB. I had a great experience thus far, but haven't been active on them in the last 18 months. Tried to get a family member signed up, their account funded, and some trading accomplished. Phew! The customer support has gone down hill in the form of 4 to 5 days to respond, and when the response finally arrived it was wholly inadequate to solve the issue, which would require a us to reply, triggering another 5 day wait. They were also not very friendly/human in their communications.

Tried Gemini, and it was night and day. Same day or next day responses. Friendly communication. Concise answers. Quickly established account, got it funded within 24 hours, and executed a trade. Family member is pleased.
Didn't know that Mark Andreessen/a16z own that huge chunk of coinbase.
>I live in Stockholm, and people here mostly don't even dream of driving to each other or stores.

So it sounds like they don't dream of it in the same way that many people in the US don't dream of being chauffeured everywhere in an Uber. It's so expensive that it's not even within the realm of possibility.

Having "good" public transit as an option is very nice. I once lived in a city like that. But it's not hard to see why a lot of people (and not just in the US) choose suburbs and sitting in traffic as the option that sucks less than the others.
Hey HN, I'm the creator of Couchmate. It's been a labor of love since 2013 and has gone through several iterations over the years which closely mirror my career through software development (from knowing almost nothing to being able to get where I'm at today [1]).

The current iteration of Couchmate is a React-Native/Typescript app on iOS and Android supported by an Akka/Scala backend.

The problem I'm trying to solve is real time communication with quasi-anonymous people about Live TV in the moment. In 2013, I wanted to interact with other people watching NBA games but there was no good medium to do that seamlessly. Thus Couchmate was born.

I just launched v1.3.0 which contains a lot of cool stuff around notifications (you can now follow your favorite sports teams, series and programs) and Hashrooms (which are similar to Slack or Discord channels).

As most of you know or can assume, building a social community is very much a chicken/egg problem and I've made attempts over the past year to do some user acquisition but it's slow going. It's very much a learning experience for me on how to attract people to the platform.

Thanks for checking it out and please feel free to drop me any feedback personally. Email is in my bio.

[1] https://blog.couchmate.com/optimizing-for-one-part-1/

edit: Couchmate is only available in the US and Canada at the moment. I'm hoping to expand into more markets in 2022.
Many have forgotten why we used cryptocurrencies in the first place. The original promise of cryptocurrency was to become independent from banks.

In the end CoinBase (like every exchange) is a great product, but just a bank. It's centralized, hackable, has economies of scale, etc.
I think it is nicer if you just link to the arxiv page instead of directly to the pdf. Then I can read the abstract before downloading it.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02401
They do, but usually those actions are done against "belligerent" entities.

And though it's certainly not a great defense, the router bricking was unintentional.

The US generally does not engage in destructive actions with the intent of restricting the rights of their own citizens... just other country's citizens. China does both. Both are very bad, but I think the US still has a slight moral highground here.
I find this objection ("he doesn't offer a solution") almost always invalid. There's value in pointing out problems even if you don't know a solution. "A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved".

If you can't convince people a problem exists (and there doesn't seem to be a consensus just browsing comments here), then it doesn't seem very fruitful to start talking about solutions.
In Ocaml's case its less about casting being a source of bugs and more about casting not playing well with Hindley-Milner type inference, which is Ocaml's "killer feature". (and Ocaml doesn't have type classes to solve this problem like Haskell does)
In economic theory this is fine, but much of economic theory is like string theory: consistent and rational, but utterly unmeasurable--and thus useless for anything outside of philosophy.

Your definition of "productive" requires subdefinitions for both "value" and "unit of labor". In a Taylorist environment natural definitions for these terms might be apparent and obvious, but for the average modern day office worker these terms are nearly impossible to define, much less compare across workers performing heterogeneous tasks in a complex environment where the final product or service is not simply the sum of its parts.

When confronted with exceedingly complex or impossible measurement problems, human intution has been and remains one of the best options we have. It may not be objectively accurate, especially at an individual level, but at least falling back to human intution when confronted with the unmeasurable allows correlations and changes over time to be observed.

The real question is how honest the source data is for this survey, not how precise or rigorous it is.
If he's interested in games, buy him a book about game programming in a language that you know and would recommend for beginners. I got started programming because I wanted to build games and made the mistake of starting with web development.

Chances are that moment he makes a shape move on his computer, he'll be hooked. At least that's what happened to me.

If there's a CodeDay (https://codeday.org/) near you, bring him to it. It's a nonprofit 24 hour hackathon for high schoolers. He'll meet a bunch of other people his age who are also into programming and will build and present a project by the end of the weekend. In the past we've had participants build everything from a breakout clone to a bootable OS in pure x86 assembly, so there'll be a wide range of skill levels and he'll see his peers building incredible things. Disclaimer: I'm one of the organizers of CodeDay LA.

There's also a Facebook group filled with other high schoolers who are into programming (https://www.facebook.com/groups/PennAppsHS/). If he has a Facebook, send me a link to his profile to my email (in my profile), and I'll add him to the group.

I'm also high school-aged and, if appropriate, would be more than happy to talk with him. Feel free to reach out to me through my email (again, in my profile).

Also see http://www.paulgraham.com/pfaq.html.
> You write that it is usually not a good engagement for you financially.

Not 'not a good engagement financially', rather the opposite. Just more risky. Typically I'll do these for daily rates depending on the perceived risk but I'm pretty flexible.
>I agree with the author's main point that the golang toolchain has a bad case of NIH syndrome,

the blog seems to be from a Sun old-timer who pretty typically suffers from ... err ... enjoys this superiority style complex of "we have already invented everything, why stupid word chooses to go its stupid way instead of that great way we think it should go". This complex (and, as a major result of it, refusal to accept reality) is one of the major things while Sun went down. (hi! to Sun guys. Have you seen the abomination what FB did to our nice offices in MPK!? :)
I don't make it a habit of reading through open source code unless I'm trying to fix a bug (or, more often, get it to compile).
Even if they saved literally every penny of profit made in the last 5 years, including buybacks, the most profitable airline would've had 4 (now closer to 3) months of cash reserves in a situation like this one. Is it really reasonable to expect a corporation to plan for every black swan like this and just totally ignore shareholders? Why would anyone be a shareholder if it means not getting anything when times are good and lose value when times get harder?

But I'm against airlines getting bailed out. It's a huge moral hazard imo to just remove the risks of investing in... a risky sector. Bankruptcy courts should deal with this and lenders should take the hit too. Still, blaming this on share buybacks doesn't make a lot of sense... A corporation hoarding money is bad.
This is both really cool and immediately useful.

I've been playing around making a HTML/CSS blackboard for TV displays etc. I used a black background, a semi-transparent PNG mask for the dust/old writing effect and used some handwriting fonts. I applied a slight blur to the text, but the effect isn't quite right.

I'm going to try using SVG text and applying similar filters to produce a chalk effect. I hadn't thought of that approach, so thanks for the great post!
LOL. Funny idea, excellent execution. Thanks for a laugh, I needed that.
Isn't that called skimming, as in "I skimmed the text"?

I was also thinking about how useful chdaniel's layers would be when it's more practical to just skim.
The most important thing right now is to keep as many people as possible from getting the disease at once. Anything else is secondary.

Also, letting the disease run rampant will not result in everybody above 70 somehow dying immediately, it will result in millions of people of all ages dying. The disease is NOT exclusive to old people, and a collapsing medical system will kill far more people than just the elderly.

Compared to this, the risk to the economy, especially going by current measures (not Wuhan-style locked-in-your-home quarantine) is minimal.
> If [South Korea] had [missed a large number of cases], those asymptomatic or mild cases should be constantly restarting the chain of transmission.

If enough people have already recovered from mild or asymptomatic cases (it would have to be a pretty hefty percentage, granted) then that, combined with not-total-lockdown conditions, could bring down the R0 value enough to cause the same result. Do you think it’s much more likely that the virus has been totally contained?

> The Diamond Princess also has had a fatality rate so far of 1.1%. In that case we know with absolute certainty that there is no massive hidden iceberg of infected but undiagnosed people.

This might be the strongest evidence against the “mild and everywhere” theory. However, there are still something like five out of six passengers who tested negative but could have recovered before they were tested. Even if they’re not a great representative sample, testing them all for antibodies might be a good move.
Typical American definition maybe, but the word liberal is synonymous for big business in the rest of the world. Neoliberals are not left-wing, and the Democratic party is not left wing.
I don't go anywhere without my Moleskine.
A computer program is a little world you build where you decide the rules and can see what happens. More than that, the rules are followed perfectly and you can observe your world thousands of times and it will always do exactly the same thing.

I think programming is the most amazing thing I've ever experienced (well, maybe second-most amazing ;-)
26K if he doesn't take any vacation time (looks like he can't take sick time...) minus almost 2K for his share of FICA withholding, adjusted for whatever he can claim as expenses on his Schedule C. Which is not likely to be much.
Blatant misinformation. At the beginning of this article, they suggest Google is going to impose a single UI, as though Sense and Motoblur would no longer be allowed. By the end, they acknowledge that they're only hoping to make the default UI so good that it discourages other manufacturers from rolling their own, which we already knew. Terribly, if not manipulatively written.
I don't think you need a finely polished UI to start with, but some wireframes or even hand sketches of what each page/screen/dialog will look like can be a very effective communication tool. Written use cases are great but a picture can truly be worth 1000 words.
I too like finding the logic behind how everything works and how to implement a certain feature. And I can think up innovative (and effective/efficient) solutions to problems, But I find it very boring to translate that into lines of code.

For example, I can think up a way in which users will never have to register or login to individual websites, by storing all their information on their browsers, and I can find a millions flaws in that concept and solutions for all of them. And I have fun doing that. But I could never sit and write the thousands (or millions) of lines of code to make that work.
For me, the fun is writing good frameworks so that new features are easy to write. If you've done a good job of A, B and C, then coding up D, E and F is relatively easy. It's a great feeling when your attention, care and forethought pay off.

Conversely, when you're dealing with a teetering, creaky code base and writing feature D means rewriting A, B and C, that is not so much fun.

(I find PHP to be extremely un-fun as well. Try Python or Ruby - languages written by people with more of a clue.)
> What financial incentive does a gaming company have to keep the item they sold you effective? They made money selling the item, and will not receive further money from it.

I think you probably have a good point in your head, but the way you've worded this makes no sense as written as no company does this today.

The simple answer to what you've written is they wouldn't do this for the same reason that any virtual item gets support today. Halo Infinite doesn't get any further money when they sells a unique costume for a week in their game store, but if a future update breaks support for it and they go "welp, not going to fix it, already got your money, not going to get any more for that item, just buy the new item in the store this week plzkthx" their users would be pissed and they most likely wouldn't buy future items.
Also: Japan authorities looking into closure of Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/26/bitcoin-mtgox-japa...
So many memories on this list.

Trumpet Winsock on Windows 3.11, dialing into a small mom and pop ISP in my town in Tennessee (I think they were pretty much all mom and pops back then). Then fire up Netscape and surf as well as you could at 2400 baud. Which actually worked pretty well because everything was slow and you just kind of expected it.

Or learning cool HTML tricks by looking at the source, then practicing it myself on the 1mb of storage space my ISP gave us. These days, most of the time, simply viewing the source doesn't tell you a whole lot about what's going on without spending some time digging into JS and CSS for a page. I remember being thrilled when we got an upgraded Netscape version that actually allowed you to save images.

It wasn't just the web, either. I miss spending hours and hours playing MUDs. Some of the best times I had in my teen years were on MUDs; 20 years later I still keep in contact with some of the people I met.

The Internet's pretty awesome now, don't get me wrong. I get to write code and make money doing it, in an economy that didn't exist, really, back then. But there's a part of me that really misses that early wild west Internet that existed just prior to the first dot-com boom. Back when we were just first figuring this stuff out...
Handy Mac tip for this page: shift-scroll wheel for horizontal scrolling ;)
dude, in some companies these days, you better off not mentioning MS WORD as an integral part of your toolbox.

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Prettier formatting: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265

There's no Changes section but these sentences can be considered a summary:

- "This document specifies the syntax and semantics of these headers as they are actually used on the Internet. In particular, this document does not create new syntax or semantics beyond those in use today."

- "In particular, in moving RFC 2965 to Historic and obsoleting it, this document deprecates the use of the Cookie2 and Set-Cookie2 header fields."
Yeah, I know there are different takes on this. Going to failure or near-failure (I stop when I can't maintain proper form) has been working for me so far, but I think the point still holds that what matters is how much you've taxed your muscles, whether that's to failure or 90% of failure or 80% or 50%, not the precise number of reps you've done.
Right, but those rates don't apply to internet streaming. This proposed new service isn't exactly internet-based, but it isn't an FCC-licensed commercial radio station either, and it's digital and packet switched; you can bet your left ovary that sooner or later it would face music industry mafiosi arguing in court that it should have to pay the internet streaming radio rates, not the ones KVIL pays.
The best type of twitter account is the one that brings eyeballs to the platform. Yours is the second best. You're fine.
Another testimonial from me. I basically refuse to do any debugging on systems that rr doesn't run on unless there's a very good reason. I use rr extensively whenever there's a bug in Julia and I would singlehandedly credit it with a measurable increase in system stability due to it catching bugs we'd never have gotten otherwise. roc is one of the few people with both the vision and persistence to really improve the debugging experience.
From the link, it seems like GCC 8 does not cache a read from a variable, and has more memory access to read it, while GCC 9 reads that variable from a register every time. (Maybe from a corrupted register?)
That has more to do with managerial ideas of programmer fungibility than Lisp's readability.
My very earliest programming experience was making games and math utilities on a TI-82 in the early 1990s. That little machine helped me cultivate skills that still pay my bills to this day.
I found a bug in the .NET compiler back when I worked at Microsoft, and at first no one wanted to believe me :)

It manifested when you had a single static member of a specific generic type in a class. The program crashed complaining about invalid CLR instructions. If you added a second static member of the same type to the class, or changed the type of the generic parameter, it didn't reproduce.

Turns out it was related to how the compiler used AVX intrinsics on CPUs that supported those instructions.

Pretty fun but took some convincing for people to believe it was a compiler bug.
In the case of Stallman's free software, the most important of freedoms are four specific forms:
The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1).
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3).

The "freedom to get things done quickly" is a shallow freedom that leads users into a life of helpless servitude and social division. The reason this happens is because there are many people who write proprietary software which will help users do powerful things but the software will also have various restrictions that result in helpless servitude and social division. Stallman teaches that users who choose to accept these proprietary software with the restrictions cannot live in freedom as users are forbidden to control the proprietary software, the control over the software belongs to the owner of the proprietary software.