jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You can see that today if you visit any big cities that have a functional public transit system. London, Berlin, Barcelona, Singapore, etc. Sure there are still certain things that are easier if you have a car, but most of the time you don't need one.
I don't know about the key guard check. They will help me simplify a lot of code. Can someone point that out in the Elixir docs?
I suspect that by "electric pressure cooker" they mean "instant pot" or related device. You can sautee and deglaze in them, or so I read. (I haven't tried and doubt it's as effective as what I do in a skillet, but I can believe it would do a tolerable job.)
Do people really deserve an entire lifetime of exclusion even after doing their time? Even the Catholic Church in medieval times was more forgiving in many cases
What's so unfortunate to me is that I thought we were moving away from that. Just 4 years ago, my state passed a law prohibiting employers from hiring or firing based on arrests which didn't lead to a conviction. It's confusing and terribly disheartening to discover that many of the same people who pushed for that bill have no interest in the underlying principles of due process.
No way, first we are talking about a high school, not something with university resources.

Then those were the days of Novell NetWare, and yes one of the labs did had a couple of them, not all, connect via Novell.

As for the Xenix tower, as mentioned, it did not belong to the high school, rather the teacher would bring it along with him from his main job, kind of renting it for the lab classes.

So nothing that could ever work in a permanent setting.
> I do not understand the opposition to bringing salt marshland species - The change will happen anyway

As I understand, the transformation from one type of static biosphere to a different type of static biosphere requires many years of static conditions. It is the nature of a rapidly changing climate to reduce or eliminate static conditions.

If we get to a point where coastal civilization is overclaimed by the seas, then much man-made detritus will enter the oceans. Much of that will find it's way into the new salted land, impacting the transformation process.
So in principle we do have this mobility because you can run your own servers. Perhaps it is not all that unlikely that they will do a bridge to matrix.
Do you have open positions? Sounds like something I'd do too.
Can your employee fire you for your religious beliefs?

Twitch will most certainly fire you if you believe certain things about marriage, for instance. Things I don't happen believe, I have to add.
Interesting, can you mention them?
It's funny you call it tripe since it calls for cow stomach in the recipe.
Have you tried offering more money? ;)
So true. When I was a junior, code quality was the first thing I was taught, in the first week.

While the code worked reasonably well, there was no indentation, spacing, comments and variable names longer than one letter (perhaps because my first language was GW-BASIC).
Given the lack of barriers to entry to reviewing on the internet, The more positive reviews a service has the more likely they've had to actively incentivise people to review it, which tends towards an unwritten law of the internet that the quality of a product is almost inversely proportional to the quantity of unsubstantiated glowing testimonials they're able to point to. Don't believe me: Google "home business opportunities" and compare the Ponzi schemes to the franchises...

In Ferris' case, he could probably have achieved his astroturf effect simply by sending hundreds of advance copies to bloggers in the "lifestyle guru" market who'd be salivating over the content even if they weren't affiliate-linking their shill blog entries to it, which isn't that different to what any other publisher does save for the scale and the profile (though I certainly wouldn't rule out the alternate hypothesis of him paying someone in the Philippines to do it for him).

It's relatively easy to algorithmically penalise astroturfing in the overall rankings, remove duplicate IP entries altogether and normalise scores for reviewers that only give out top marks and order reviews by some form of reviewer quality score rather than (primarily) date. They've probably also got enough data to offer a "People that buy and rate things similarly to you thought" selection of reviews to their regular customers and wishlist users. The real problem is that however much Amazon feel inclined to penalise obvious astroturfing and , it's manifestly not in their interests to do so given that the book is a guaranteed bestseller. Even if people really hate the book it probably isn't going to put them off Amazon as a vendor.

Hunch might help because it's simply too big and vague to easily game; but it's non-specific by design about why you might be interested in a service. Peer recommendations via Facebook are a possibility - though I'm not sure I really want to give out or get unsolicited product recommendations from my friends. The best solution is probably that venerable dinosaur; traditional media and reviewers that actually have some sort of reputation to stake. I'd place rather more trust in reviews linked to by Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic than I would in Amazon or the IMDB.
Terms of service:

"Please use our browser. We might donate some money to charity, if we feel like it."
You should not compare absolute population of two countries. Rather you should compare population with Internet/computer access which I'm guessing should be similar.

PS: On a similar note I'm surprised China is missing from the list.
Imagine the following conversation:

Carrier: "You're making money by having access to our customers. You should pay us."

Facebook/Youtube/whoever: "You're making money by selling access to our service. You should pay us."

[awkward slap-fighting ensues]

Seriously, is either of these more true than the other? And if so, is it the other party's fault?

I can't see how it's productive to argue about it, tangle it up in financial bargaining, and complicate everything for the users. Carriers and services should focus on doing what they do best and charging a fair price for it, not trying to cast a symbiotic relationship as a parasitic one.
Cut and paste will be in the next release :-)
What crime did he commit? He made a verbal offer to buy goods at a certain price, and then backed out. Did his word constitute a verbal contract? Those are notoriously difficult (read: impossible) to prove in court.

Whether or not what he did was moral, I know of no enforceable law he violated. She, on the other hand, entered a binding contract on eBay and then violated it. She could be prosecuted; he, as far as I can tell, could not.
Looks great -- a couple of points.

I agree the front page is too busy. I think the screenshot is somewhat confusing -- am I looking at the customer facing website or the backend.

The videos being hosted on blogspot falls foul of our over zealous filtering at the office.

Can you configure the 'any feedback' tab to be at the side - it took me a minute to notice it at the bottom.

When clicking on 'urgent' I think there should be more visual feedback than just turning the border red, maybe reflect it in the send button.

The wording 'send away' sounds wrong to me -- too much like 'dismiss'. Just 'send' would be better.
Edit: now it's working for me. Nice idea.

I tried it for my own site, parkgrades.com, and it just sort of hung up. Same for apple.com.

As a non-designer, I like the concept...
We found that Facebook Groups felt more like a group wall than a product for sharing and collaboration. You can't send attachments via email, and you can't reply with anything besides plain text.

Posterous Groups makes email the core of the product. You can do everything via email including creating a group and replying with rich media attachments. There aren't any restrictions on what you can post.

Facebook Groups doesn't work well as a mobile experience. It's important for me to be able to post and consume content from my iphone. This works well in email and using the Posterous iPhone app.

While Facebook does have a large user base, there will always be people who aren't on the service or don't sign in to it regularly. We're firm believers that email is the best way to reach people.

We've made it seamless to get non Posterous users to understand how a group works and how they should participate. Give it a shot and please send feedback our way.

Thanks!
Because they have negative productivity multiplied by 10?
Well-organised code with sensible, correct naming of things will save you years of development time during your career.
I think it's pretty much a tragedy. But it's not necessarily a bad decision from an economic perspective.
Be careful approaching random people in public. Some people might not appreciate it. And if you push too hard you just might find yourself in a scuffle with the police.
Not blocked for me. Able to access through workplace network and home network both.
I think Telegram is the superior IM currently being developed but if you want to switch due to privacy reasons than you can just stay on whatsapp, it will not really improve anything.
The atrium model isn’t problematic at all. Law firms use software built by third parties all the time. (West Law, document review platforms, etc.) You don’t need to permit non lawyer ownership of law firms to have that.
That's just rude. I think so long as the funding is out of the company's control there's no ethical violations but again there's a lot of rules and I could be wrong.
It's true. I've seen them.

Meanwhile there was that video going around of BART police arresting a guy for eating a sandwich on the platform.
Yep! And as someone who has worked with these data sets and worked on the scraping tools on services like LinkedIn, a lot of the data is outdated, incorrect, or mixing together different entities with the same name into one person or splitting the same person into separate entities incorrectly.
"Ludwig says the techniques used to build the living root bridges could be deployed in cities to green and shade urban areas -- a much-needed strategy to cope with rising temperatures."

Or they could just, plant trees.

I'm not really sure the root bridge concept here helps much more than just planting trees would if we're talking about creating shade.
> 2 - If you're aggregating so many error types that it's unwieldy, you're probably doing to much in one place. That has all sorts of down stream issues with testability and what not. Hacking your error types to make it easier is probably not the best option.

I'd disagree. In a static-site-generator, I need to deal with

- file format errors

- syntax highlighting errors

- io errors

- Template language errors

- Adhoc errors I construct throughout the application

- Regex errors

- RSS errors

- jsonfeed errors

- sitemap errors

- git errors

Without even getting into any errors from the webserver that is being run. Yes, I could carefully construct an error enum for each subsection of the application and bubble those up ... but why? I'm not programmatically acting on these but sending them up to the user.
Ah that makes sense. I'm interested to see how it performs there too
Not only did I not insult his comedy, I actually even called it funny.

Cohen from his ADL speech genuinely believes that platforms should be publishers and should be on the line for what is posted to them - and therefore the publisher should censor all words which disagree with its opinions. He doesn't use the word censor, he instead uses the words "restrict", "limit" and "delay". He uses examples like hate speech and racism, and while that sounds fine on the surface, he makes it very clear he believes publishers can rightfully restrict speech in many ways well beyond what the law requires.

In arguing for censorship, he is restricting the freedom of expression and that is against human rights. While it sounds great when it's focused on "big platforms" of "American Billionaires", forcing online platforms to be publishers is de facto censorship and it doesn't only affect Facebook, but your small community forums and message boards too.

Yes, I do accuse Cohen of playing the strongman. He's a wealthy comedian (his net worth is about $130M) who made his money by filming himself manipulating other people, and he believes average people shouldn't be able to post freely on the internet without someone (the platform, the Government) approving their speech. That's an abhorrent view and it's in stark contrast to the belief that humans should have agency.
10 years is surely long enough to establish a new, local trend. (The graph starts January 2009, not 2010.) And starting from 2009 has more legitimacy than selecting any random 2-year period. What makes 2017 significant? Did Trump's election bring less crime?

2009 was the bottom of the recession and has become the baseline for examining many socio-economic trends across the country. 2011 was also the beginning of serious criminal justice reform in California; it was the year the state began to empty its prisons.

What remains down is violent crime, notwithstanding several high-profile assaults this past year, many of which are incident to property crimes.

Arguing that if you go back far enough things are still improving is like arguing wealth inequality isn't a legitimate issue because even the poor have televisions and refrigerators.
I like the metaphor and think it's on point.

It's as if you found a way to make cash appear from nowhere. It would be hard to find a reason to work for money.

Same deal with Scheme. It lets you do anything, easily, but it makes it hard to find a reason to want to do anything.

To be fair I wouldn't blame it on Scheme, more on my own brain, but still, beginners should look at Scheme right away so they can get to the "I can do anything, now what do I want to do, if anything, with this tool" part faster.
Hi, I'm the author of this, and I'd be happy to answer your questions.
We in Actor.im tried to build tor-enabled messaging (on better and faster protocol), but for working tor engine need to download 1-3mb files every 4 hour period. So, this became useless in mobile environment.
Tor need to do step forward to mobile before we can really use it.
Check out the following:

http://www.windowsazurepass.com/azureu

http://research.google.com/university/relations/appengine/ed...
Good catch. We added the year to the title.
As with any preference, the illusion of choice is usually necessary. If you feel you have to be doing it, it's not going to be all that much fun, at least starting out.

To enjoy it, you also need to tie the effort put in to significantly rewarding output. You have emphasized the design, interface, and user. It doesn't take much to see the code as important to these things in a direct and easily manipulable way. For instance, the implementation of AJAX-y stuff on a previously static page has huge implications to the user. A few lines of jQuery can bump the feel of the page by a decade.
Right. I see no point negotiating with people who cannot be trusted to uphold their end of the bargain.

Incidentally, I would never suggest that anyone negotiate with the goal of getting a "fair" salary. I think that is our inner serf talking. Find your inner hedge fund trader and send him instead. Sure, $60k might be a marked improvement in your standard of living, but if you think "Oh yeah, that is fair", you're probably not going to say "That offer is interesting. Can you do better?" and get $5k extra (plus compounding on your annual raises, plus a higher peg on every future position in your career) for two sentences of work.
Yeah HTML/CSS/Javascript and PHP are some of the worst possible examples of "coding". I was forced to use PHP on a recent project and I felt like tearing my eyes out it was that bad and immature compared to other methods. It was like telling a formula one driver they have to drive through peak hour in a rundown 1970s ford and then asking if they like driving.
This is almost exactly the same process I use as well for RateMyStudentRental and LeadNuke, with a few exceptions.

-Instead of Jammit, I do this with a plugin + manually written Capistrano deploy script.

-Instead of serving CSS and JS (only 2 files since they're combined and cached) from CloudFront pre-zipped, I serve them from my own server, so I can detect the Accepts-encoding header in the incoming request and serve the appropriate file (so as not to leave out the rare request that does not accept gzip encoding).

-Instead of creating a new s3 bucket every deploy and having to recopy the entire contents of the assets folder, I simply sync the existing folders, and let Rails take care of the file caches by updating the appended modified-date in the filenames themselves.

Anyway, I wrote a how-to post on this just last week if anyone is interested http://www.alfajango.com/blog/caching-zipping-and-cdn-for-a-...
You said it. I've been disillusioned with all-things-smartphones for years now. I've always had Android, no iOS, though the wife does.

I want a phone just like this. The only thing I want that smartphones brought us is turn by turn navigation. The rest can take a hike. Put Nokia's Snake game on there, the old ways that Nokias worked (such as the ability to turn the phone off, and have it wake itself as an alarm), keep the 10 digit "interface" for ideal texting and 100% lag-free dialing, the 10+ day battery life of no 3G/4G, maybe Opera Mini per this Nokia.. and we have a deal.

To me that is technology perfected. I don't want much more than a phone in my pocket. If technology that works and is pleasing makes me a Luddite, then so be it. But it's time to bring some sensibility and more usability to products. Nokia was that.

If anyone from Nokia/MS reads this, yes, please, the above and make a higher quality build version. A $100 or $150 phone that I described, preferably with old school Nokia quality or iPhone metal frame would be amazing.
You don't really have to worry about firing the worst 10% ... how about keeping the good teachers?

http://www.ncsu.edu/mentorjunction/text_files/teacher_retent...

"In 1999, for example, our schools hired 232,000 teachers who had not been teaching the year before (i.e., new teachers hired who were not simply moving from one school to another). But the schools lost more than 287,000 teachers who left for other occupations that year—55,000 more than they hired"

If we have/discover the ability to tell the good teachers from the bad, then we should just start hiring only the good teachers. Eventually the good will out number the bad and maybe even teach the bad teachers a thing or two)

Maybe instead of firing the bottom 10%, we should "improve" them. It's either that or replace them. Of course, you could very well be replacing them with someone just as bad or worse.
Hmm, usually ask HN has been much more helpful. Was my question too vague? Not internety enough?
pedestrians have right of way always, outside motorways, and may walk on the street as they please.

With the caveat that it is illegal to so in a reckless manner that that causes danger to others. Also you can be held financially responsible for any injuries or damage this recklessness causes.
This looks like useful software. His claim that it's now integrated into systemd is not supported by the patch he links to, though. Based on the systemd upstream patch, it looks like it just locks if a certain manufacturer of forensics tools are connected. The github repo you've linked locks the screen on any USB HID attachment, which seems much safer.
Mithril "HTML" syntax is not for my taste:

return m("html", [

m("body", [

m("input"),

m("button", "Add"),

m("table", [

m("tr", [

m("td", [

m("input[type=checkbox]")

]),

m("td", "task description"),

])

])

])

]);
TuxxTodoApp has its JS 'compiled' into the bundle.js, that apparently somehow reached 20k lines.

Interestingly, the user-written code (around 175 lines) appears to make for less lines than the Angular one. It seems that doesn't happen much, so to me that plus this using React makes it seem notable.

Then again, Tuxx using FB's React + Flux without otherwise having affiliation with FB may raise questions about how well FB (React/Flux) will play with them in the future...
Thank you David, I'm not a Economist reader so this clears up the confusion on my behalf.
Everyone has their own unique heartbeat signature. What we need is a way to hear that heartbeat, and if its not the right signature: erase/destroy/etc.
Using it to buy things in a shop is not the same as using it as 'legal tender'.

Bitcoin is not legal tender anywhere in the world.
To me, the issue isn't that modern JavaScript frameworks are sub-optimal, but rather that proficiency in the high number of competing frameworks is a sizeable time sink that shouldn't need to exist. These frameworks are essentially band-aids over the true issues in the core web development tools, and until that core matures to the point where the frameworks are unnecessary then you'll still see people reluctant in investing much time in absorbing knowledge that is likely to rapidly become obsolete.
Speaking of which, can anyone recommend a good VPN provider?
We will be the biological bootloader for the AI :)
They didn't say that - they said they were killing of the specific package they were using.
When I first came across Python, I was really annoyed at the syntax, specifically at its use of indentation. Nobody tells me how to indent my code!

But then I realized that Python only "forced" me to do things I would have done otherwise. I got used to its syntax rather quickly.

The one thing I like about using braces for delimiting blocks is that Emacs and Vi allow you to jump from the beginning of a block to the end (and vice versa) in one keystroke. But otherwise, I have to agree with Bjarne Stroustrup (sorry if I mis-spelled his name): Programmers can learn to love absolutely any syntax.
Tried it. It's wonderful. I think it will replace psql quickly, at least in my workflow.
Big payment processors like Stripe are storing your full credit card number forever whether you choose to "Remember me" or not.

The checkbox is whether you want to be able to pay again without retyping it.
No, it actually doesn't even say that; in no way does it preclude the existence of a third group. Not only are you unfunny, you fail logic.
They don't say that Amazon is killing the whole payment service. Amazon just discontinued the payment product used by Kickstarter, so far I can tell.
What makes you think it's zero impact on performance, necessarily? Any sort of parsing is normally CPU-bound if anything, and anytime you're lexing+parsing, you're iterating over characters in a string almost by definition.
That rings bells, but I think there were some others too - sigh my memory :/
Interesting interpretation and I would tend to agree.

If society is not the result of a deterministic algorithm, it is at least the result of a stochastic one. Given a sufficiently large time horizon, is there really a difference between bounded probability and determinism?
she was tainted enough to not be the right person to win this type of case. hopefully it does not dissuade those who experienced discrimination of the sort she claimed from coming forward in firms that need corrective action.

however the ny times article does a disservice to this case and other potential victims of what she accuded KPCB of. This is likely because the result is not acceptable based on the current tone in the media where discrimination is rampant and unchecked. It is the explanation the latch onto reflexively because they cannot accept and failure of character or action by the minority actor.

To put it in simpler terms, this is similar how Michael Brown could never be the martyr for police brutality and how it overshadowed a far stronger case in Eric Garner. The media only expects one outcome and overplays their hand and their stories are slanted.