jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It is not really Facebook particularly, it is a general problem.

There is a deep structural opposition between the internet and the corporate/commercial model of the last 200 years since the industrial revolution. With the internet, the essence is connection: in all shapes and directions. With the corporation, the essence is centralisation: broadcast product one way, concentrate money the other way.

The 'conical' structure of the corporation can exist in the network structure of the internet, but the more cone-like it is, the less network-like it is.
I disagree, I think that most companies acquired by Google have had a very successful life post acquisition. Sure there are a few notable exceptions (Dodgeball), but generally Google doesn't acquire a company unless they plan to keep it alive for something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google
I'd almost be interested in getting one to be an internet radio gadget. But that's about it.
Yeah, this is disingenuous. No-one is requiring him to have liability insurance for beachgoers, and it'd be a pretty laughable attempt to sue him for any incident at the beach.
Since a couple of years, google redirects you when you click on a hit URL via google.com/something (you only notice this on a slow connection like an EDGE/2G network).

It might very well be that the malware scanner picked up a link to such a "redirector" which leads to malware and then took the TLD google.com for malicious.

Another reason why one should never ever host user-generated files (or links/redirects) on the primary domain. Github did this with github.io for the same reason.
Lots of people have anxiety about their head shape. I know I do. I'm not looking forward to the time when I have to buzz cut my hair. There is definitely a lot of flatness on the back of my head.
Because inflation is caused by more than money supply:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply#Link_with_inflati...

It is also related to (at least) the velocity of money:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money

Which has been declining in the US for a decade or two, and which has dropped off a cliff since the pandemic started:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V

Further: "inflation" can mean many things. A rate of 20% would be very annoying, but a rate of (say) 5% would be manageable.

Runaway inflation is more generally caused by a political system that has collapsed ((civil) wars) or mismanaged (Zimbabwe).
I had the Acornsoft Forth as well, (for the Acorn Atom).

Ah, the memories!
How do you deal with the high costs of running an RDS instance? I think almost $30 p/m is a bit high for a small single family NC instance, when the EC2 instance running the actual service is going to a fraction of that.
Is there a definition of what it means to be white (or any other color for that matter)?

EDIT: to the down voters - this is a serious question. First we need to know what DiAngelo means with being white.

The statement 'be less white' implies that all white learners of her course exhibit some negative traits.

What are those negative aspects?

How else can you change if you don't know what you're doing wrong in her eyes?
Why FastMail instead of ProtonMail?
What makes you feel certain of this? I may be wrong, but a majority of human history seems to point to (roughly) "spanking is ok, anything more is not". Children do not understand logic the same as adults.
In the UK this type of work would get caught by IR35, which I understand would be similar to AB5. As an employee you can also pick your own tools or figure out how to do the work by yourself - these are not determining factors at least here where I live. What tips it over the IR35 is having to log your hours and work to the specification given by the "client". This is no different than normal employment except you and the "client" don't pay the right tax and you don't get any employment rights. Probably nobody has seriously took a bite into it, but after Uber precedent this may change.
Bitcoin is useless to everyone that's oblivious of the current issue of Central Banks debasing the currency with unlimited money printing and the creation of bubbles in the financial market.

First of all, Bitcoin is not a currency and it doesn't need to be a currency, it wasn't designed to be one, it was engineered to be an scarce digital asset that could be electronically transfered between two parties without the need of a middleman. These transfers can't be censored by nobody. Probably you don't see value in any of that because your country economy is right on track to recovery from the pandemic, you have inflation rate of 0%, or you went to a the bank with your parents when you was a child and they opened an account for _you_ .

Well, that's not how it works in many other parts of the world, where you don't have access to banks, where you have staggering inflation rates that destroy your savings, where you don't have access to the financial markets where you can benefit from the inflation of stock prices caused by the money that the goverment gives Wall Street for almost free.

Bitcoin is optional, you don't have to be part of this network. Probably the second scenario is what most countries in the world are living right now and that's why Bitcoin will thrive there.
There are tons of people working on giving robots the ability of collecting experience through embodiment in robots.

It may be a compelling argument for why the various timelines thrown around for the singularity will be off, but it's a speed bump, not a road block.
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- Main technologies: Linux, Python, Bash, Go, PHP, Java, Semantic MediaWiki, ProcessWire, Drupal, HTML/CSS, Fireworks.

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A first approximation would suggest doubling programming salaries would only change their strategies from "fund 100 and hope for 1 to be good" to "fund 50 and hope for 1 to be good". More selective, sure, but not game-changingly so.
The vim codebase is very large - it may very well be more efficient to write an 80% version of VIM (which might be 100% of what the author needs) than to figure out what's going on in the VIM codebase.
It's very hard to get real data, so I can't really fault you for the lack of a good cite. However, it's not like the companies claiming a shortage are exactly forthcoming with the data themselves. Here's a pretty eye-opening story about a journalist and professor trying to get good data to study the issue

http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/09/20/profs-immigr...

I find it remarkable that people make claims of shortages without sharing information about the skill set they need and the compensation they're offering. Well, I don't find it remarkable, in the sense that I don't find PR-speak especially surprising anymore. I guess I should say I find it galling.
This looks really great. I watched the video and the rationale and tradeoffs they discussed sounded exactly like conversations we had back when building our system. The FUSE filesystem and agent panics are features that I wish I'd thought of.
I think this makes an interesting point abut how effective crypto will have to be "easy and seamless".
Recent Eurpoean economic policy was based on a paper that relied on an Excel formula error http://theconversation.com/economists-an-excel-error-and-the...

It only lasted a few years, but I find the idea of exiting long lasting research founded on bad code a to be very real possibility.
Statistical* genetics
Whoops
Can it choose to transmit quietly to avoid swamping nearby devices, or does it run the antenna at maximum transmit power?
About you:
You love working on problems that matter to future generations of humanity at scale, including education.
You consider yourself world-class at digital content creation and/or community building.
You love learning new things and can do it quickly.
You consider no task to small or too large for you to do.

About me:
I'm Karthik, based in NYC and work full time at Amazon (for now). I have a 3 yr old daughter and have thought deeply about education for the past 18 months.
I've been working on HAX (http://learnhax.co), a digital cohort-based learning experience which makes learning life skills (e.g. personal finance, relationship building, etc) accessible and fun. I'm launching a private 4-week beta to ~25 ppl in mid-January.
The north-star of HAX is a modern Boy/Girl Scouts accessible to everyone around the world.
I love sports, watching re-runs, investing, and trying to stop myself from spending too much time on Twitter.

If the above sounds like you and I sound cool, would love to hear from you at karthik.senthil at gmail . Excited to hear from you.

If you want to read more of my thoughts on education, check out https://medium.com/@karsenthil/re-imagining-education-the-fu...
I wonder, is there such a thing as a plane that carries both cargo (in a significant way) and passengers?

Not sure if it would make any economic sense, but maybe it could if the layout could be changed rapidly, with a passenger cabin "slotted in" when needed.
In Islam, there exists a notion of a Salam sale (بيع السلم), or (advance sale). These are sales contracts in which the price is paid for goods to be delivered at a later time.

> The Prophet (ﷺ) came to Medina and the people used to pay in advance the price of dates to be delivered within two or three years. He said (to them), "Whoever pays in advance the price of a thing to be delivered later should pay it for a specified measure at specified weight for a specified period."

Does that sale describe future contracts (without any other stipulations or clauses, e.g. no shorting, no leverage, etc.)?

Note that Islam places restrictions on certain sales. Currencies are to be traded hand by hand, on the spot. For example, it's impermissible to purchase gold using a credit card because the settlement does not take place immediately. So things are a bit more nuanced there, as gold and currencies cannot be bought using Salam sales for example.
I just suck it up and take the DFS hit, which seems to be about +30 seconds of additional router reboot time. The interference-free 80 Mhz channels are absolutely worth it!

If my router could remember the DFS state between reboots it would be even better, though.
Canada does something similar. To avoid buyers “biting off more than they can chew” with an ultra-low variable rate mortgage (where the rate might double or triple in 5 years), buyers have to qualify for a LIBOR+5% (I don’t remember the exact formula) mortgage as well.
Giving government agents the ability to conduct warrantless dragnet surveillance on the population's private financial transactions is extremely dangerous, even if it is a tool government officials can use to combant malevolent criminal behavior.

This type of mass-surveillance concentrates power in the hands of the few, and gravely endangers both private property rights and political freedoms.

No one should have this power in a free society. Not you, not me, not the most trustworthy individual in society. And with all due respect to the countless men and women who honorably carry out their duty in law enforcement agencies, we don't even have law enforcement agencies with unblemished reputations, to be giving awesome illiberal powers to.

In the Silk Road case, two agents, from two different agencies, conspired to steal BTC, and they only got caught because of the mistakes they made due to the novelty of the financial technology. It's any one's guess how much corruption goes undetected.

Giving mass-surveillance powers to a select subsection of society is just asking for massive corruption and abuse.

Mass-surveillance makes government in general too powerful even ignoring employee-level corruption by those who administer the surveillance programs.

The government should not have so much information on the populace that it could enforce any conceivable law. There should be widespread use of privacy-enhancing technologies, like end-to-end encrypted communication, cash and cryptocurrency, so that some laws are hard to enforce, and the government's ability to micromanage people's lives is inherently limited. Absent that, dystopia is only one bad election away. Non-political checks on government powers, like widespread use of cash and its electronic corollaries, are an important institution of a free society, as a failsafe in case of a failure of the political system.
I believe it is for the DC interview, but there are also AC interties that may be for hourly fluctuations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie
I would never use a project without complaints. Just means no one is using it.
Aboriginal People Sculpture From the William Ricketts Sanctuary
http://www.dyscario.com/arts-and-culture/aboriginal-people-sculpture-from-the-william-ricketts-sanctuary.html
It is hard to imagine how an artist can visualize these sculptures & chip away a lump of rock until these incredible works of art are left in such detail for all to enjoy !!!
Think outside the box. Then live inside the box.
http://www.dwell.com/daily/video/12163796.html
Why can't we all live inside the container. I really doubt we all need 5000 square foot homes unless the 4000 are woods and gardens....
Linux: scaling softirq among many CPU cores 
http://natsys-lab.blogspot.ru/2012/09/linux-scaling-softirq-among-many-cpu.html
How to scale efficiently on multi-gigabit traffic on multi-core machine.
Mouse Hover to select windows In Windows 7,8
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/switch-windows-by-hovering-the-mouse-over-a-window-in-windows-vista/
no plug in technique for Mouse Hover to select windows In Windows 7,8
"do" monad syntax in JavaScript
http://jsbin.com/AQaYAHUV/1/edit
Just an experiment. Gist https://gist.github.com/elclanrs/8034102
Tech4000 - Technology News with Attitude
http://tech4000.blogspot.com
Ok, so check my shit out, I think you will either love it or hate it.. Either way I don't care I just like to ramble about dumb shit on the internet!
[Free webinar] Using Numba to program the GPU from Python
http://pl.python.org/darmowe,webinarium,,obliczenia,na,gpu,z,pythonem,i,numba.html
In this webinar, will be introduce:

- CUDA Python programming
- Python integration with CUDA libraries: cuRAND, cuFFT, cuBLAS, cuSparse
- JIT linking that allows the use of existing CUDA C/C++ code with CUDA Python.
26 BlackBerry Apps to Learn About Any Medicine, Symptom or Disease
http://bsntomsn.org/2011/26-blackberry-apps-to-learn-about-any-medicine-symptom-or-disease/
Thanks to technology, it is possible to have all the information about medicine, symptoms, and
diseases you need at your fingertips. Indeed, smart phones are quickly become miniature medical
reference libraries.
How to Intercept and Process data from Cookies
http://pineappleorange.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/how-to-intercept-and-process-data-from-cookies/
Analyzing cookies from a security standpoint and how to exploit them.
Appurify joins Google
http://appurify.com/
The World’s Most Advanced Mobile Device Cloud is joining Google.
Ask HN: Business model of sites like GroupMe?
What is the business model of sites like GroupMe? How are they planning to make money? And how scalable is it?

They are provisioning a new number for every Group. Twilio charges half a dollar for a phone number if you buy more than 1000 numbers. Plus they are spending money on text messages and conference calls. All of this is free for users.

How long will their 10 million dollars last? Or are they waiting for someone with deep pockets to buy them?
Apple Leapfrogged by Upstart Startup
http://www.bestcashcow.com/technology/all/mass_market_tech/ibucket-great-way-to-store-iphone-ipod-and-other-devices
Apple 0WN3D!
Action streams: a blue sky proposal (updated)
http://www.gravity7.com/blog/media/2010/02/action-streams-blue-sky-proposal.html
Given Google+ and twitter's new UX design for threaded tweeting, I thought it might be worth reposting this proposal for action streams: shared activity updates enhanced by social action buttons.
Web 2.0 Bubble Video
http://newskicks.com/content/web-2.0-bubble-video.html
nice video with a parody on web2.0 u will like it :)
Journey to the open data jungle with OpenRefine, CartoDB, Leaflet and Javascript
http://opensas.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/journey-to-the-open-data-jungle-with-openrefine-cartodb-leaflet-and-javascript/
Playing around with data is not an easy task. There’s no secret formula for successfully finding your way through a bunch of pdf, csv, excel, APIs or whatever else you might have to deal with. There’s not even a single tool that could help you through the whole process, on the contrary, you’ll have to spend some time learning and trying out different techniques.

In this series of articles we will take a look at a couple of really mind-blowing tools. We will use google contacts process them with OpenRefine, then we will geolocate each contact using google map web service API. After that we will import it into CartoDB to expose it as a web service API, and finally, with some Javascript magic we will use leaflet to browse our contacts on a map.
Password Reset Facade
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Password-Reset-Facade.aspx
Just try to imagine the functionality. Wondering how it's been live for over a year.
How to Make the First Move 2.0
http://www.sfweekly.com/microsites/howtomakethefirstmove
Kinsey scale for various communication platforms.
Bookmarks for locations
http://lb.linkstore.ru
Location bookmark
Show HN: SpokenBits – Listen to your web content anywhere
If you like reading content on the web, and sometimes is hard to catch up to your queue of articles and blog posts, you might find useful to have SpokenBits to read them for you while you are commuting, working out or simply cooking or cleaning the house.

You will be able to conveniently add as many articles as you need and group them into collections (example: news, health, politics, etc). SpokenBits will extract the uncluttered relevant content, and will read it for you in its original language with minimal text ads or irrelevant information.

Among other things, SpokenBits will keep track of unread/read articles, and listening progress. A convenient table of content is automatically created for each article for easy navigation.

Personally, I've been using it to keep up to date during my commute by listening to the articles and blog posts that interest me.

This is just the beginning, the SpokenBits team is working hard to bring the Audio Book experience to a broad range of Web Content, stay tuned.

http://www.spokenbits.com
Loft or Converted, My Own Office
Loft or Converted, Cubicles
Corporate Campus, My Own Office
Amazon Provisioned IOPS – EBS
http://copperegg.com/amazon-provisioned-iops-ebs/
Amazon has a few storage options (we’re talking block storage here, not object stores like S3): Instance store, EBS (Elastic Block Storage), and now Provisioned IOPS EBS. This blog post explores each one and then drills down more deeply into PIOPS.
You cannot test for all browsers alone
http://ommunist.com/2013/you-cannot-test-for-all-browsers-on-earth/
You can't rule them all.
Ten15: A Capability-based Operating System.
http://www.mca-ltd.com/martin/Ten15/introduction.html
"Flex was a capability architecture and operating system with a graphical user interface, unlike any other computer system I've ever heard of! The capability architecture meant that programs did not run in a flat memory space, as we take for granted these days. Instead a program consisted of a number of memory objects, which in Flex could range in size from one integer, to the whole of physical memory. The memory objects are referred to by "pointers", and it is these pointers that are called capabilities. However capabilities were much more than just pointers. It is impossible to create (or forge) a capability without asking the system for a new object, and it is impossible to access memory that was not pointed to by one of the capabilities currently 'owned' by the program... ...In Flex, capabilities were visible in the user interface, and could be mixed freely with normal text stored in a "text object", or "Edfile". In fact, a "text object" was simply a capability to an array of lines; each line was an array of "glyphs"; and each "glyph" was either an array of characters..."
Show HN: IsThereAFuckingRockiesGame.com - an open source webapp
http://isthereafuckingrockiesgame.com/
Just a fun thing I thought I'd share with the community. It's a webapp based on Yeoman's webapp template, HTML5 Boilerplate, Handlebars, Bootstrap. and all the best practices I could muster. I's easily customizable for your team too!
Y-combinator in Scheme
https://gist.github.com/1664530
From Little Schemer
Twitter: a sketch for filtering signal from noise
http://www.gravity7.com/blog/media/2011/08/twitter-a-sketch-for-filtering-signal-from-noise.html
An outline of the different types of tweets, connectsions, and tweeting activities a set of algorithms might account for, if filtering signal from noise in the twitter stream.
Zenoss and PagerDuty: Event Enrichment from the bridge of the Enterprise
http://www.eventenrichment.org/zenoss-pagerduty-bridge-ops-enterprise
Zenoss and PagerDuty are an awesome platform for Event Enrichment and IT Operations. Find out why!
Vuemix lets you browse nine videos at once as you surf web shows. 
http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/22/vuemix-lets-you-browse-nine-videos-at-once-as-you-channel-surf-exclusive/
View multiple videos in browser and ipad.

Sample

http://app.vuemix.com/watch/e047ce74673073a3dee82855fb968eff
What Are Some Awesome Platorm as a Service Options For Developers?
http://gotchacode.blogspot.in/2012/10/what-are-some-awesome-platform-as.html
Some cool PaaS options available for free.
SPOKEnPHOTO Launches New iPad App to Let People Narrate Their Photo Albums
http://betakit.com/2012/12/12/spokenphoto-launches-new-ipad-app-to-let-people-narrate-their-photo-albums
This week Spoke Technologies launched its new SPOKEnPHOTO Album app for iPad, which lets users create shareable photo albums with their voice recorded on top of each picture. BetaKit first covered Spoke when it launched the SPOKEnPHOTO iPhone app in June 2012, the first in a planned suite of voice-powered mobile apps. SPOKEnPHOTO’s new iPad app lets users organize their photos into albums within the app, and use their built-in microphone to narrate each photo or record a message to loved ones.

In an interview with BetaKit, founder and CMO Lynne McEachern said that she and her co-fouunder created the app to stay in touch with long-distance friends and family. “We felt that photo sharing wasn’t quite meeting our needs. It was really hard to stay connected to our long-distance family and Skype is also hard to schedule across time zones, so we came up initially with the concept of the SPOKEnPHOTO Album iPad app for special events so that they can feel like they’re still part of them,” said McEachern.
What about now?
http://www.sauliuz.com/what-about-now/
Few thoughts on timing, getting bored and starting to do what you love
In Defense of Wireframes
http://useallfive.com/in-defense-of-wireframes/
Why wireframes won’t hurt your project, and why you should be using them
Free Community Software That Suits Your Ideas
http://www.boonex.com/
Any body have experience using Dolphin?