jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree I think they hit the top and will be wavering around but have a solid "clientele" but tech investors do not want to hear that from a growth stock.
There are several devices or information can be used to deduce your location.

a) IP address
b) WIFI MAC address
c) Mobile telco tower ID
d) GPS coordinates
Soros has been betting against the Euro since March, shorting it for US dollars.
Again, the central bankers are fighting a losing battle.
Sooner or later there will be a similar attack on sterling and eventually the greenback.
The transferance of private debt to sovereign states has created a level of currency volatility which is the closest thing to paradise for aggressive currancy trading.
As far as I know you're right. Depending on what you're doing, Automator or the command line screencapture tool combined with a shell script or QuickSilver might be worth looking at to speed up your workflow.
There is a video where Clay Shirky discusses a similar issue -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyoNHIl-QLQ (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNCblGv0zjU (Part 2 of 2)

Link to the transcript of the video above and HN discussion

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=174410
I saw similar demo from Microsoft Surface and MIT Sixth Sense
I see now. It's all a scam to get me to buy Safari, right?
...but then you need to ":set nopaste", afterwards.

For me, it's just <F8>, then pasting, then pressing <F8> again. This works because of the following line in my .vimrc which I highly recommend:

set pastetoggle=<F8>
Symlinking gvim to mvim seems to make everything work perfectly.
You seem to imply that the "sshfs" command is the analogon to the "bcvi --install" command, which isn't true.

Rather, the "sshfs" command is the replacement for the "ssh" command, and "bcvi --install" is a complete extra step.
Yep, exactly. I'm glad we're on the same page.

Or, perhaps overreaching bureaucracies should be eliminated and allow these united states to handle their own populace as they see fit, while abiding by the Constitution.
Flattr could create a bookmarklet to flattr any webpage. Then if enough people have done so for a given domain they can contact the owner saying "Hey, you have 5$ to collect at flattr, why not sign-up?". This is basically what paypal does, allowing you to send money to anyone with an e-mail address even if they're not yet registered.
IMO that's a feature, not a bug. I really would not fit into that culture, so I'd love for them to reject me based on my refusal to work overtime, except in emergencies... Which had better be pretty seldom.
J&J hasn't been approved yet in the UK. The alternatives would be Moderna + Pfizer. Also, I doubt you'll get a choice of alternative, just whatever one is available in your local area at the time.
Do you let her know that you don't feel the same way?
Nice to know this stuff is out there. I really do wonder how long I'll be able to handle the exhausting pace of US tech before I want to settle down and have kids in a society with a better social safety net and maybe a more sustainable approach to living.
People see all of the simplicity through rose tinted spectacles.

Copy and pasting bits of HTML around was a chore and was prone to error.

No decent source control (the source control at the time was garbage and tbh was a relatively new concept in web dev) meant that you had no idea what you had done previously or why. I remember have lots of zip files with dates and README.txt in there.

No package managers meant that I had to keep track manually of scripts and CSS in folders.

Nah I don't think I will be going back to that madness thanks.
Can anybody remember the story, I think it was a few years ago, when a journalist warned in an article that messaging apps like Whatsapp are vulnerable because they rely on a server for key exchange, and all the security researchers requested that the story should be retracted because it would lead people to use SMS which is even less secure? I may be misremembering some details.
I heard a reporter on NPR actually say the word "latinx" the other day, threw me for quite the loop.
Britain doesn't have a constitution.

Yes, it does. It is unwritten and fuzzy, but Britain definitely has a constitution or at least "constitutional principles" as mentioned in the quote you provided:

" . . . In this way the courts of the United Kingdom, though acknowledging the sovereignty of Parliament, apply principles of constitutionality little different from those which exist in countries where the power of the legislature is expressly limited by a constitutional document."

While it may technically be possible under certain circumstances, I find it very hard to image how a piece of legislation could be crafted that would successfully override the arguments made here.
A lot of 'shock' is taking something considered some form of 'sacred' (like sex, religion, etc) and making a mockery of that 'sacred' thing or way of thinking.

As jerf said, people are kind of used to shock-jockeys nowadays by being aware of that repetitive pattern, but there is still that potential laying all over the place. If nothing is deemed 'sacred', are we better off?
In fact, says my quick text search, the string "Tudor" does not show up once after the headline.
I'd love to eventually see a low-end Chromebook built around one of these displays. You're already volunteering for a limited experience in exchange for convenience there, and I can see the battery life outweighing the negatives with the display. (And you probably have a phone or tablet with a higher resolution screen in your pocket/bag/whatever anyway.)

Obviously it's cost prohibitive right now, but as throwawaymsft said earlier it's very likely the price would plummet at scale. Clearly it would need to if the display is to find a market, and I expect they know that.
This is what I was expecting. And, I think this is very much just a perception, as you say. I think it's rather unlikely that VIM and Emacs are actually the most used editors, or even among the most used.

I think it's interesting that you put quotes around both words surrounding community but not around the word community itself. I think what you perceive as the ruby community is actually a very small subsection of the actual ruby community and that is only a very small subsection of the entire community of people that use plain text editors.

The learning curve for VIM and Emacs is so high as to almost be prohibitive for what is probably the vast majority of users. What I've seen from only a few minutes of googling is that, in the surveys I've found (https://blog.codeanywhere.com/most-popular-ides-code-editors... & http://www.sitepoint.com/best-php-ide-2014-survey-results/, for example), VIM and Emacs are really no where near the most used editors. And I think that should probably be expected.

I just think that people in this community too often think of themselves as the norm, when our very presence on a site like Hacker News places us very much outside of the norm. Outside even the norm for people in the tech community.
I also first used MongoDB but I switched to cassandra and I find it much better.

MongoDB was bad for this case because it devours memory and it lacks a primary key (so saving a tick that's already creates a second tick).

cassandra is better (it has a PK, although it's a bit weird because of its distributed-first attitude) but in the long run I think postgres would be even better (because it's space efficient).

Apart from that I use some Java libraries and clojure/incanter and program the rest around it myself.
x/84 introducing the new generation of BBS-systems. <3
Bederoso, I really liked your balanced comment, versus MCRed's derogatory one.
I have worked at AWS for 6+ years and left a little over a year ago, and I pretty much agree with all the corrections you made.

I think Amazon is not an easy company to work at, mostly because engineers are squeezed like lemons but they don't benefit much from it. However, this can also happen at "cool" startups, or other large companies such as Apple.

Also, a couple of things are lies (but every company has its own set of lies); AWS was never based on Amazon's extra capacity, but that's something that came out and stayed there for years. And also, the "large volume, low margins" is not true in the case of AWS.

Other than that, I think that I will forever be grateful for the opportunity to have worked there; I've learned a ton and thanks to that I got a job I couldn't dream of ten years ago.
Usually the lenders are hedge funds, who hold large amounts of stocks of all sorts. They are playing a different game to shorters, and happy to get a fee for lending stock. So they make money in holding stock, which is what they were going to do anyway.
Hmm. Shouldn't it also be relevant be whether your bounce rate increased at all?

I would expect that on a high traffic site, if you put a link to buy something, someone, somewhere is going to buy it.

The analysis I would want to do is whether the visitors lost through an obtrusive link is worth the sales you get from said link? In your case, I can't see it affecting bounce rates etc much at all, but that model of thinking ends up with a page 90% full of google adsense boxes and a tiny blog post in the middle...
I'll file this story under "nuke, pillage, plunder."

While I'm not for war of any kind, and least we seem to have a semi-legitimate reason to be over there now. However, if there was trillions of dollars of valuable minerals, one could venture to guess we knew about those a while ago.
The concept could be illustrated this way (ethical considerations aside):

Let's say that there is a high demand for electric generators after a hurricane. You "borrow" as many generators from out of state friends as you can, and proceed to sell them at a premium (let's say $1500 each). After some time passes you find them on sale at Home Depot for $500. You buy enough of them to return to everyone you originally borrowed from, making a tidy profit in the process.

To answer the question more directly, short sellers borrow stocks from other stockholders. And, yes, the people lending the stocks are hoping for the stocks' success.
I think the subtext there is that he was saying that Android is the direction developers should lean towards. The mobile applications market is very squarely coming down to Apple versus Android. There are other big players in the mobile devices space, but not really in the mobile applications space, or at least not to the degree that Apple and Android are. Apple is where the money is today, but there are lots of folks that feel that those winds are changing - that Apple is starting to really start to make developers discontent enough to abandon their platform, while Android is finally starting to catch up to the point that it can compete as a first-class citizen.
If the lender of the stocks is long on the them, what incentive do they have to get involved in this workflow?
I'm not a professional in that area, just based on what I've read, so in case of doubt, check better sources:

If you use human donors, you need trained doctors spending time and equipment to select the donors, handle the donors, take care of them during the donation which takes hours (the needle is stuck in their vein during that time), trained professionals using expensive equipment to process the donation, and then trained doctors to perform the infusion on the patient, an hour or two, but you still want keep the patient in the hospital overnight in case of complications, which do happen often enough that it was practice to do so: as in, once in thousand. At the end all that work, it is relatively sure that the described work could result in protection of exactly one patient more than before you started. The percentage of known complications and the potential for failure in every step is what makes it non scalable.

With non human donors you can avoid some work, but the second part remains: it's not "just a shot" like when you do a vaccination which is scalable.

And while vaccination is scalable, if you're going to vaccinate billions, you also want to be very sure you aren't harming them, that's why speeding up vaccine production is not scalable. Even producing the vaccines is not easy at all to scale.

It's not that nobody has attempted hard to achieve this up to now.
It could be priced to be short term profitable, but then the sellers would get accused of price gouging.
But they could easily be reissued by the board - especially one faced with a stock price of 0
I know all go libraries, love to prefix go to the name but, this really is a poor choice of naming.
Yeah, that is a very good point. The emergency reactions to societal failure (not entirely due to capitalism, but in some cases due to capitalism) are by nature very authoritarian, which leads to the erosion of normal governance. My home country is already putting in place emergency measures that are likely to last until after the emergency is over and are conveniently very useful for maintaining a grip on power.

We've been looking at deploying the military too, which at the very least is going to increase tensions and potentially lead to unrest.

I mourn the potential damage to democracy almost as much as I mourn the lives lost because democracy being severely damaged by this incident will hurt future generations.
They are mostly a problem at sunrise and sunset when they catch the sun and reflect it. Astronomy isn't much good then anyway.
It just seems like Clicky is more focused on giving "easier" to grok numbers than GA, and makes it a little harder to get some of the more custom numbers.
Your graph doesn't show anything about actual wages, or wages with the excluded non-wage compensation you're speaking of.

GDP growth is not related to income growth of normal people. For the last 20 years, something like 85% of the growth has gone to the very very rich. It was only really in the postwar period did the middle class ever really grow large (in that period of time we had the only factories in the world), and income growth has been pretty stagnant since the 80's.

According to the US Census Bureau, the median is "considerably lower than the average, and provides a more accurate representation."

"While the median household income has increased 30% since 1990, it has increased only slightly when considering inflation. In 1990, the median household income was $30,056 or $44,603 in 2003 dollars. "

Sources: http://www.demographia.com/db-stateinc2000.htm

I bring you to the censuses conclusions about our largely stagnant american wages (which peaked in 1999): http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/p60-226.pdf

Most of that GDP is going to very very rich people.
Wow, Linus is getting older : he didn't flame the poor guy down.

I feel a bit concern that Linus don't write code anymore but still decide on how code is written, etc... Happily, he has some experience.

Linus has good reasons, nobody is going to rewrite linux in C++ anyway, this has been debated to death.

Why I am still loosing my time commenting on this ?
I think ActiveRecord has exactly the sort of problems that Linus describes, when you get to large codebases and large teams. For example, what does 'save!' do? Well, it doesn't just update the row in the database; it also runs any validations on the object, and any before/after validation/save hooks. So, in general, you need that context to know whether a patch that updates something is correct or reasonable. And if you've got any triggers in your DB, there's a whole other area where something unobvious might be happening.

There's also lots of subtle ways for the DB and a particular object or set of objects in memory to get out of sync and cause hard-to-understand bugs.

ActiveRecord is definitely one of those tools that "make easy things easy". But, at the same time, it's not hard to get overly clever and make a mess with it as well.
Intel and MS have gradually relaxed restrictions on netbooks, so we should start seeing some 15" ones soon.
Another good site that does something similar is skyscanner.com

For example, here are all of the flights from SFO: http://www.skyscanner.com/flights-from/sfo/cheapest-flights-...
"Computer programs can gamble better than gamblers"

Sorry to say, but I'm completely unsurprised by this - statistical analysis is the most sensible approach to the problem. Gamblers tend to be less sensible and calling a gambler a stock market trading pro doesn't stop him being a gambler...

I'd also be wary of labeling pros in a system which will naturally produce "lucky" and "unlucky" individuals regardless of skill... at least some proportion of successful traders are just lucky. I can't measure it, but it seems very heavily implied...
That doesn't follow (because "most of the stuff on top of HN" is a much stronger claim than what you said here) but I'm happy to answer anyway. The answer is that it frequently doesn't work. What we don't know is how many other cases there are where people are getting away with it. We can't know that; by definition, we're never going to know it.

Even there, though, one can make educated guesses, based for example on how many cases come up where people got away with it at the time, but then evidence comes to our attention later and we can figure it out in retrospect. Such cases are extremely useful because then we can extend our software to catch them in the future.

I'd never claim that such manipulations never work; obviously we can't know that. It's possible that superclever manipulators are rolling HN in their hands like a piece of silly putty. All I'm saying is that if "most of the stuff on top of HN comes from [that]", then I don't know the first thing about my job.
I also have hand problems. I use speech recognition to type everything, including code, and a game controller to move around the mouse. The controller I'm currently using, a PS4 controller, has a trackpad in the middle, so I was able to mash that against my face and give her technique a shot.

It works better than you'd think. The PS4 trackpad isn't exactly brilliant, but I can move around the mouse and click on what I want to with some accuracy. Of course, the trackpad on the controller is very small and not very accurate, so it's not really practical for artwork or anything. But, with a better, larger trackpad, I can imagine this technique actually working. I might give it a shot at some point.

I am a bit worried about the inevitable neck and nose pain, though. I wish she had gone into a little more detail about how she avoids that. Maybe she just has a neck of steel?

For the curious, these are some other resources I've found about people working around RSI. Most of these are about using Dragon NaturallySpeaking to code by voice, since that's what I'm most interested in, but I think it's still interesting.

There really needs to be a list somewhere for open-source workarounds to disabilities. To the best of my knowledge, there really isn't one.

Natlink + Dragon NaturallySpeaking:

(NatLink, which lets you make custom speech commands for Dragon in Python, is currently being developed at http://qh.antenna.nl/unimacro/index.html, but that site's pretty incomprehensible. The original author's site is at http://www.synapseadaptive.com/joel/welcomeapage.htm. It's pretty out of date, but explains the fundamentals of the system better, I think.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI (don't bother looking around, the source code of this was never released)

https://github.com/simianhacker/code-by-voice

https://github.com/tgrosinger/aenea-grammars

Libraries for using Dragon NaturallySpeaking on Linux with VMs:

https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/aenea

https://github.com/russell/damselfly

It seems a post about this kind of thing pops up about every other month or so. I'm thinking of showing off my system here when I polish it up a bit. It's not nearly as complicated as some of these other ones, but I'm beginning to get pretty close to normal typing speed coding by voice.
To clarify my comment:

I wanted to point out that it is Apple sharing how to modify your extensions to work with Safari, as opposed to Apple sharing how they modified Safari to work with WebExtensions.
Are you suggesting that the design was made with the intention to take votes from Gore? Because that would be necessary to call it a "stolen" election. I acknowledge the possibility that the outcome was in error.
Time for not taking them seriously is long past
I saw this playing on a Pakistani's colleagues desk walking past, intrigued he sent me the link.

Play with CC, the atmosphere and lyrics I find of this live piece is magical. I still come back to it occasionally.

https://youtul.be/gjaH2iuoYWE
If the codebase is sufficiently complex, irrespective how mature and tech-debt-free, certain dependency upgrades are simply non-trivial (this includes the testing effort as well as the actual upgrade effort). Like they say "there are no small changes in a big system".

So resolving certain CVEs' is simply a delicate balance to be had between the actual damage potential and the amount of effort.
I think you missed the real theme, which is death and resurrection, a recurring pattern throughout the book.

While Severian is groomed to be a torturer, for most of the book his job (and Severian repeatedly emphasizes that it's just a job) is that of executioner, and he later holds the position of lictor for around a month. While Severian often recounts the procedures practiced in the guild tower, it's not really torture that he is concerned about.

The themes of death and resurrection, however, are central to the plot, together with the water motif as a symbol of cleansing, from the moment Severian nearly drowns in the river (and is rescued by an undine) to the destruction of Urth.
My take:

1) On web sites like this I've noticed a rule "Assume good faith". But in real life there are lots of people who say things in bad faith. In the case of PR people and trial lawyers and partisan politicians it seems to be in the job description to say things in bad faith. I have no solutions on how to fix this- I don't believe in God but I can imagine a deity punishing people who choose to exercise their free speech to profit on bad faith lies- but I have no theory of government to stop this behavior on earth.

2) We have a society based around money. People in this site like to whine about what Zuckerberg or whomever is doing but the guiding principle of society seems to be "he who has the money makes the rules". So if Zukerberg wants to weaponize Facebook against society the full power of the financial system will help him do it as long as he has the money/ property to control Facebook. I think in theory we could transition to a society where CEO and board members have their shares and/ or control of companies confiscated if they act in ways which harms society. (Perhaps putting things to a vote, i.e. a universal ballet: should Zuckerberg have his shares of Facebook seized and auctioned off under the theory he is harming society y/n)). Since this has never been tried as far as I know I don't know if my solution could even work.
I wonder if folks should even look for it, because it will become an employment metric.

sorry you spent too much time on "learning", we need more "corbet-curve-units" from you.
I'm guessing the poster thought this was a failed take-off.

I wasn't "in-the-know" about this being a return / landing until I got to this comment section.
> The science office’s efforts to arrange for Schmidt Futures to pay the salaries of Lander’s staff sparked “significant” ethical concerns, given Schmidt’s financial interests in areas overlapping with OSTP’s responsibilities, according to the science office’s then-general counsel, Rachel Wallace

When a private individual gives funds to a government official to get what they want, that is called bribery.

Where's the FBI when you need them?
It's not a justification. It's how it works. People download the language, they use it to compile a binary, it's produced quickly.

I'm not sure how you can argue about that.