jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Because my statement isn't necessarily about Khan Academy, but anyone hosting cloud-based video content.

Data wants to be free, as they say, and digital economies are a world of abundance where copying is free or nearly so. When a provider doesn't align with that they are imposing physical-world scarcity economics in a place where it doesn't belong.

It feels like people are trying to erase fundamental concepts like files or downloading, and instead offering a bullshit rental model where anything you can do on the net is at the pleasure of the content owner. It is disempowering to users as it changes them from masters of their domain to digital peons in CC's feudalistic kingdoms.

That is what I mean by 'greedy'. If you publish something online, it is out there for good. You cannot try to delete it and you cannot try to control it. You do not have a right to try to profit on the content itself because, again, data is free and no matter how much one might want to control data, ultimately they can't. DRM, ads, subscription gates -- these are all additional layers of crap that we have built to cage that data and prevent it from being freed.

It is a shame that we as a people cannot handle this world of abundance, and that the tools we use to navigate it grant us less and less control with every new DRM scheme or subscription service.

There are plenty of ways to monetize without locking down bits.
Science is always wrong to begin with and it gets close to a correct answer with iteration. It’s actually not at all a solved problem how to communicate “science” to the public. Your comment is a perfect example of one of these annoying fallacies I see around covid messaging. Don’t you think they “changed their tune” because they got better data that showed that masks are helpful? You seem mad that they couldn’t conjure clinical data in early 2020 that showed that masks cut the transmission by X%
This is basically my thoughts too.

I think the only real catching point is that the courts don't care about rights nor are police willing to really investigate claims against another officer. I have some very recent/on-going experience with this. There was a trooper who knowingly held a false charge against us, leading to restrictions in our freedoms and small costs. I contacted a civil rights attorney who told me the courts don't care unless we sustained significant costs/damages. Recovering costs would be great, but we would mostly like to see protections put into place so this doesn't happen to others (and maybe get this bad trooper removed). I filed one successful complaint against him. Then he took further actions and I filed another complaint. That complaint was closed without any investigation or justification - they didn't even tell me they were closing it.
They could release a paid upgrade that allows you to customize the splash screen to show your company logo

That's clearly advertisement and paying extra to have your logo on a product is an established business practice.
That's true, though I did write a replacement for RW. It's not an exact copy but it does the job.
Even in high performing schools, it is easy to find variance in child outcomes dependent on teacher. In nearly all schools, the “good” and the “bad” teachers are well known. Teachers unions having negotiated tenure after just a few years of employment prevent the firing of “bad” teachers.

In poor performing schools, there are multiple reasons for poor observed outcomes.

None of these need to happen.

Keep small group learning and have adults support learning. But there is no reason for a teacher to explain something when Khan academy has already done it and often done it far better.
the only question, is how long employers will continue to pay a premium based on your postcode.
I started last year living in New York City. Many of my friends have moved down to Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, and Tampa over the past few years, and in spring of last year I got a job offer and moved south as well.

Insofar as living expenses - coming from New York I do not own a car so a place near good public transportation was important. I also wanted to live in a nice neighborhood that had other young professionals. This narrowed things down to two neighborhoods - one had a lot of theaters, bars, restaurants, art galleries etc. but had no decent supermarket within walking distance - the other did (and also had my bank and other convenient places). I went with the latter neighborhood.

The ballpark for a one bedroom in this neighborhood was $1400-1600, with square feet being one determining factor. Knowing that I would be stuck inside due to Covid I opted for more square feet and was looking for apartments around $1600. A very desirable two bedroom townhouse came on the market for $1700 which was $100 more than I wanted to spend, but it was so perfect I went $1200 over a year. I'm a software engineer, I can afford it.

I have a parking space in the building garage that I rarely use as I am from New York City and have yet to buy a car (I rent when needed). I have two bedrooms (one converted to a gym, as public gyms were closed for a while) and two bathrooms. I have a door on a tree lined street where twentysomethings walk by walking their dogs and such, another door goes to the apartment building. I have two parks nearby, one which is pretty nice where I jog when it is not winter. I am two blocks from my bank, a good supermarket, and several bars and restaurants. I have a washer and dryer in the unit. The place was built a decade ago and is all modern appliances. I am less than a ten minute walk from the train station. My office is actually moving next to my train station, but if it re-opens before the move my commute is less than half an hour. $1700 a month.

1000+ square feet, in-unit washer/dryer, first floor door opening to the outside, attached garage, walking distance to train, supermarket, bars, parks - it would be difficult to even find this in the New York metro area. Everything in New York City is at least double the price for something like this.

It's a nice place to hole up in and WFH during the pandemic, and not expensive. The reality is if I moved back to the NYC metro area at some point, I would be paying more for a smaller apartment with less amenities in a less desirable neighborhood that was farther from everything.

Especially talking to young (or entering middle age) married professionals who moved down - with the breadwinner earning $100-150k a year - they can afford to buy a nice sized house in a nice neighborhood, two cars, go on vacations etc. They can just live a nice comfortable life on $100k while the well-educated wife is raising two kids until they're grown more and she'll go back to work. The math would just be impossible to work out in New York, even on the salary of a programmer or PM or QA etc. who is getting paid well compared to the average Joe.
I don't understand why you said "the most lucrative professions for those with technical acumen do not further scientific knowledge, or technical capability" and then disproved it with so many examples at the end, do you see those as exceptions or not good enough?
Github's convention that web pages for a project are in a different branch of the same project is kind of strange.

Also, those things they call "conrefs" are just "macros".
Be prepared to be surprised. Yes, historically Smalltalk has evolved rather slowly. However, with the Pharo project, Smalltalk is enjoying a resurgence because the project is working vigorously to evolve Smalltalk to the next level. Check back in another year or so and see some major improvements. That's why I say, this is not your father's Smalltalk.
Or female.

Remember, the Boy Scouts of America, by design, discriminates against over 50% of the population. Why is it surprising that they'd discriminate against a few more percent?

(Also, polytheists are not allowed. You must believe in exactly one god, though which god it is is up to you)
But wasn't Microsoft's real success due to its business practices versus its technology? For example, it made key partnerships which they were able to leverage very effectively to gain market share.
Push Notifications have a very small payload on iOS; besides, the app doesn't get "woken up" and allowed to run to process the payload until it's switched to.
Can i use extensions in webkit nightly or just safari 5?

Cool extensions btw, love the gmail checker.
At 1,000 karma, pg mails you an autographed copy of On Lisp.
Something like this - http://www.interactivebrokers.com
You mean sort of like suffering from paranoid delusions, but on purpose? Are you saying that since the article isn't mean in and of itself, we should see what kind of imaginary voice we can assign to it so that it does begin to sound mean, and then we can rest in peace knowing that the universe is a lonely and hostile place bent on humiliating us? Knock yourself out dude :)
Just to be pedantic, the golden ratio is irrational.
Upvoted because I like the look of the software. However, I feel strongly about being able to try out collaboration software with > 1 person before paying for it. Not looking for a free ride, but I don't think it makes any sense to "test" out a team mgmt/communication software by myself. That's why I use Acunote.
That's right, people get upset about changes which are happening now, but they care much less about changes which happened several hundred years in the past. I don't see this as irrational.

If it were irrational then we could say "since New Yorkers don't complain about the fact that their city is no longer New Amsterdam, they shouldn't complain if we now rename it to, say New Bonerville, should they?"

And for what it's worth, I think the move from thou to you was a bad move, it creates too much ambiguity. It has also led to at least two nonstandard plurals "youse" and "y'all" which have arisen among speakers in various parts of the world to resolve the ambiguity.

(Of course I don't care enough to start speaking like a jerk [or worse still an SCA member] in order to try and bring "thou" back.)
I heard a kind of pity, which isn't the same as sympathy. There was definitely a tone that men deserved it.
Also the closest I believe we've come to having two democracies openingly fighting each other (USA v. Finland)
Lots of people in this thread seem to think that there is either no incentive for Coinbase to conduct their business legitimately, or that the law is the only incentive. That ignores the much more obvious and presumably stronger incentive: they should be able to make a lot more money as a legitimate business than if they just ran away with one lump sum.
Yes. This was the only German land operation on the North American continent during WWII
From the article: "my ass has round corners too" ... priceless.

If you do web design work in an Enterprise, you pretty quickly run into people who don't understand that there are fundamental differences between web apps and desktop apps.

What Web 2.0 does is it lets us get around some of those limitations. When Web 2.0 is done right, the Ajax is going to mean that they can work on an 'online app' without loading pages all the time (or rather, without appearing to load pages all the time).

Combine that with some of the database in a browser capabilities, and, in theory, you could get around even more of the limitations. E.g. user closes the browser window before hitting submit means the data is lost = annoyed users = poor usability. But if you use the offline storage to save the fields then it isn't lost after all. Hooray!

But yes, Facebook is retarded. Build a better one I dare you. ... Please.
I have chill running down my spine from thinking that someone read Numerical Recipes from cover to cover without putting it down. No offense - but it's an incredibly dense book. In particular the code samples take a lot of effort to really chew through, at least for me.
I read Gallmeister's POSIX.4 with great zeal.
This had more to do with me just having gotten hooked to programming than the book. Still, the book VB 6 Step by Step totally rocked and contributed to me pulling all nighters programming random stuff in middle school.
Unless I've missed something, the ID can be found in the 'link' link URL for that comment.
The data quality will improve drastically, too. This is really not a comprehensive genotyping at all.
"Coders at Work" is very well written and flows like a good novel. You must be a real hardcore hacker to enjoy it, though :)

[Edit: I've actually posted a short review of it after I finished reading it - http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/01/09/book-review-coders-a...]
> but once you vote on a comment that id is gone

The score is in a span that has the same id:

<span id="score_1944875">3 points</span>

> if a comment changes it is marked as unread again

But identical comments in different conversations are marked as read... ;-)
Nokia is a Big Company, and while there are people there who really get open source, as an organization I've never got that impression about them.
That sort of confrontation is where some of the stress comes from. Also when that happens I just say I don't have enough cash (which is generally true).
A fair amount of discussion on the trustworthiness of NIST's beacon in particular, or how someone in control of a single beacon could influence the results in some way, but what about the author's suggestion for using multiple beacons run and controlled by competing interests?

Would there be any value in having companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Yahoo each running their own such beacon?

Edit: A bit of a tangent: if one were to create their own beacon service as a toy project, what would be the expected guarantees? Would a typical webserver's built-in randomness suffice for creating the seed values? What about interruptions in service/availability? Are timestamp gaps acceptable, or should they be backfilled after a server downtime?
Thank you for the correction. (I clearly hadn't had my morning coffee yet!)
KABtronics makes something similar as a kit you can solder together yourself.

http://www.transistorclock.com/index.html

http://www.transistorclock.com/linked/onwall_l.jpg
I think people cling to these theories in the hope they could explain every facet of human behavior. There's no Grand Unifying Theory of Relationships, period.

Certain people may act a certain way, but if you're choosing a mate, you don't want just anybody. Life isn't a popularity contest; you're not trying to capture the imagination of a random person. People mature at different rates, and have different value systems. These forces check our base impulses, and shape us into someone who is more than just the product of our own petty desires.

Worse, reductionism often carries with it an implicit acquiescence to terrible behavior.
The final code from the OP: https://github.com/maryrosecook/gamelivecode

Having a little (but long forgotten) experience in game/graphics coding, it was really a delight to see the OP distill the concepts of the game loop, browser interaction, and graphics rendering...not only into something playable, but while talking in front of a crowd, and taking the time to show even via console.log the impact of each step. It was also just a great demo of why programming in the browser is so neat...Even without libraries, it doesn't take much code to have graphical elements in front of you, responding to user input.
crosspost:

This is a very good, and to me a very surpising move by Visa. Instead of ignoring innovation (like brick&mortar bookstores and cable companies did), they embrace it. Something I definitely didn't expect from a corporate mogul like Visa.
I'm still waiting for some good OS/Systems course from Coursera, Udacity or EdX.
There is no technical reason why this couldn't work, but my guess is that abstraction libraries will be necessary because Apple and Google won't be able to a agree on a common API. I kinda agree because having to standardise HTML, CSS and JS is hard enough and the browser makers don't wanna open up another battle front. Also, being able to tailor the API tightly to the underlying browser will attract developers and therefore enable more competition.

Good times for add-on developers!
You need quicktime.... FAIL!
Tweets link to quakeprediction.com. The awards page does not give me confidence. Neither does the research page.
Nope, different interfaces to the underlying webkit functionality. And they're packed up differently.

I suppose the core functionality of more advanced extensions could be shared, with only different interface glue, but with simple ones, it won't be worth the bother to try to share.
What matters is whether you place yourself in a culture that seems fair (or whatever attribute you enjoy). I surround myself with people who I admire and want to learn from. Sure, if your friends are always down on their luck and miserable, then you may get caught up in their dilemmas too. If your friends are happy, ambitious, successful, then some of that drive might rub off on you too. Peer pressure isn't always a bad thing!
I'm not sure many or even a handful of people really research. I feel the many go to youtube to be told by their favorite talking head how to feel or rationalize a subject. That is not "research".

I did not make a decision about masking or not because I conducted primary research, nor did I read dense medical papers from peer reviewed journals using terminology I don't understand. I followed the advice of sources I trust.

That is not research in any sense of the word. If my source has chosen to deceive me for whatever reason then my echo chamber is never going to allow me an escape. In fact, I'll most likely dismiss any counter evidence as propaganda even knowing full well that is what my echo chamber is feeding me.

People used to trust subject matter experts and now they trust personalities in stead. It is a natural evolution of newscaster to entertainer and reliable source to propagandist.

I think the largest disservices were done by unethical scientists such as tobacco "researchers" and military sponsored clandestine medical experimenters.

Now we would sooner trust a reality TV personality than a phd subject matter expert. We reap what we sow.
I'd really love to see more memory in these devices. I have no need for a Mac, but everyone I know who uses one complains that RAM limitations come up fairly quickly with all of these devices. I even know a guy with a 64 gig iMac Pro who complains that he runs out of memory on a daily basis. I'm not sure if this is workflow-dependent or just a limitation of XNU's memory model (perhaps both), but giving people more memory options would be an easy fix and a big draw for programmers, sysadmins and creative professionals who are still using Intel Macs.
When you saw an animal you knew that it was a good book. I don't know if I had su much trust in any other publisher.
So what will happen to the coins? They'll probably be looking for any excuse to avoid giving billions back to Bitfinex. This will be fascinating.
It's actually not unreasonable to expect something that exists between the main documentation and the automated API documentation. Sounds like a great idea for someone to build and contribute back to the community!
IMO, there's no difference. There are few concepts in programming that are really unknowable or ungraspable. Anyone that can program can misunderstand and misuse programming concepts.

The only wisdom is asking "should I"? And that, to me, is being smart and cleaver. Cleaver people don't write hard to understand/maintain code. Cleaver people write code that anyone can come to and understand. They write elegant code.
The "Natenberg Bible": https://www.amazon.com/Option-Volatility-Pricing-Strategies-...
I'm not sure if this is still the case. But some years ago when paying with a mag stripe card in two South American countries seemed to type the CVV code on the POS terminal. This was different from other countries where they type the last four digits of the card number.
> It seems highly improbable that cash-based Wall Street compensation packages could be offered by Silicon Valley startups.

Maybe this would force VC companies to be more selective in who they fund, vs "fund 100 and hope for 1 to be the next google".
That is called an "exonym". Many languages have them.

In Slovakia, the St. Lawrence River forming part of the border between Canada and the USA is called "Rieka svätého Vavrinca":

http://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rieka_sv%C3%A4t%C3%A9ho_Vavrinc...
> 2. We could make "if" an expression. We could make everything an expression for that matter, though there's some pros and cons there.

I'm not sure if this is the place for such a far-reaching discussion, but I've never understood this point. What are the cons to making everything an expression?
If the passwords were salted, he would have cracked one in 49 minutes instead of 14.
I think you'd be pretty much incorrect that there are programmers sitting around unemployed who are capable of scraping together and making a successful software project, especially considering that when people who are unquestionably at the top of the industry do it they too fail more often than not.

I think what you should do is make a site where employers can post a guaranteed test for hire situation. For instance, an employer would post a job, you would apply to it by signing up for the job. You'd have to do a test project for free, but the catch would be that as long as you could meet certain requirements you'd be guaranteed a job.

I'm not sure if this would work, but it would certainly put the theory that there are a ton of capable programmers sitting around to a test. It's pretty risk free for the employer as long as they are careful with designing the test (and they could even design the test to get something useful out of it to offset their risk).

Just my .02
>These core values were explored by Veblen in his unconventional book The Theory of the Leisure Class.

Funny he should mention this; Veblen wrote another book after this, The Theory of Business Enterprise. In it Veblen gives a strong critique of the advertising industry (at least the part of it that is zero sum).

A large part of Google is advertising. A lot of that advertising is not zero sum--I believe it provides a lot of value--but over time they have moved more and more heavily into the zero-sum space (e.g. the purchase of DoubleClick, the general character of youtube ads). By that I mean things like brand-building ads that just associate an emotion or status/prestige with a product or company.
I can't find it now, but there was a story on HN recently lamenting the fact that this AWS competition is funded by VC's and the author claimed that really promising bootstrapped companies didn't get a fair shot given that there was little opportunity for the sponsoring VC's to invest in them -- even though they may be awesome startups.
Secure? Stable? Could you elaborate? Are all messages encrypted? Are other applications so terrible now-a-days that "doesn't crash!" is a feature? Other than that, it sounds like IRC, with a read notification for those who just need to know if their message hasn't been read yet, or they're being ignored.

I was reading the page looking for grandparent's question, and I still don't see why bbm would be such a huge feature that bb owners just can't live without. Sure, I can see how it may beat sms where international communication may be concerned, and texting someone in a different country doesn't work, and I can see how the group chat is useful, but every single other IM client can offer the same thing... I just don't get it.
>When I started out in web development, my billing rate was $325/hour,

???

When was that? What technology? That's easily the highest rate I've ever heard of.