jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I like this, but I can't think of the use case where I would actually use it. I'll think about it as I'm living my everyday internet life and see if I can find one, because I love the easy "create and share" concept generally.

What's the use case you imagined when you built it? What need did you have?
For a minute there I was worried the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) were making a come back.
The ISS looks like a wing of TIE fighters...
Summary: a smartphone means you're always connected. This leaves some teenagers vulnerable to always-on bullying, especially girls.

It's hard to argue that this isn't a problem given the bullying directed at some adult women on the internet. It's also hard to know what to do about it; unilaterally not allowing your child to have a smartphone when it's the means of communication among their friends guarantees social exclusion.
heroku ? are they using rails here ?

really interested to see what stack would somebody use to build a financial exchange and websockets
A poignant example is all of the non-standard -webkit CSS extensions Apple uses for the Gallery demo (http://www.apple.com/html5/showcase/gallery/):

#gallery-demo .grid2d figure:nth-child(5) { -webkit-transform: translateX(-241px) translateY(-3px) scale(.45) translateZ(1000px);}

If you accept -webkit CSS extensions as a standard, then Internet Explorer has supported the CSS opacity attribute for years:

filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=80);

These extensions are not part of the CSS3 or HTML5 spec.
The opt-out page has been there for weeks; it's nothing new.
Where are the games?
It serves a useful purpose as a teaching tool for new initiates into the startup community. If they develop a phobia of MBAs, then they will know not to hire them into a brand new company without being very skeptical of that particular one's skills. If one checks out and is actually just a really good person for the job, sure, but on average, the stereotype is there for a reason.
As pointed out by gizmomagico before me, requesting domains you don't (intend to) use is ethically troublesome.
I try to keep it real.
An MBA isn't just a study in one thing, it's a multi-disciplinary degree. You take classes in accounting, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, international business, operations management, organizational behavior, marketing, strategy, etc.

You can learn a lot on the job, but how many jobs let you do accounting and marketing? If you're working for a domestic company do you get any experience in international business? If you work in HR are you doing anything involving economics.

It's easy to say you can learn anything on the job, but that's hardly the case when your job has specific responsibilities. A student who truly STUDIES and EARNS their MBA has the ability to apply a broad set of knowledge to any job. What's the basis for questioning someone's ability as an effective manager because of their degree type? Not all MBAs are managers, that's something different entirely.

Then in your "real world evidence" you're questioning the efficacy of MBA graduates based on how foreign companies train from within? Huh?

By itself, any degree means nothing - it's up to the employee to apply the knowledge they gained while earning that degree to bring value to their company.

Questioning if there's value in an MBA in any company is questioning the value of knowledge. If there's no value in knowledge, then why bother having any sort of degree - just hire kids of a working age and teach them to put the widget together. They'll learn the rest on the job right? Hardly.
I do not see meditation on your list of things you have tried.

I've found that meditation helps one to tolerate pain and discomfort better than anything else. Being specific, the following items on your list may be dramatically improved through meditation:

* fatigue
* non-refreshing sleep
* memory loss, inability to concentrate or focus
* muscle pain
* confusion
* loss of dexterity
* nasal congestion, always having to clear my throat
* heat intolerance- I absolutely cannot stand the heat- fatigue is magnified by it

Most of your problems relate to either unpleasant sensations, lack of focus, or exhaustion. I would submit that all of these problems might be addressed through Vipassana meditation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassan%C4%81 Vipassana is a technique through which you learn to observe, and not react to, sensation - pleasant and unpleasant. To put it simply: by cultivating equanimity, it can make pain not 'hurt.' This happens during a single hour-long meditation session, as your body aches, and with regular practice it continues through the day, and throughout your life.

It is not magic, and it needn't be religious. I am not a religious person, and it works for me. It is exercise for your brain. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Buddhism You can train your brain to not react to negative sensations. I honestly believe this technique can help you deal with your symptoms and lead a happy, productive life.

I learned from this group: http://www.dhamma.org/ but there are many groups, and the technique itself is simple - but I suggest you find someone to teach you. Get a book, too. The man behind that site, Goenka, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._N._Goenka had terrible migraines, and searched for a technique to address his chronic pain until he found Vipassana. There is a high barrier of entry to Goenka's courses however, as they are 10 days (of silence) long. There are also restrictions on health conditions to enter a course, because they are very trying for healthy people, so you would have to exclude much of the information you have shared with us to enter. If I were you, I might do just that.

You can get started right now: http://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/books-articles/medita... Specifically, check out http://media.audiodharma.org/mp3files/2007-10-03_GilFronsdal...

You may not be able to cure your health problems. You can learn to deal with them and lead a happy life.
I'm really interested in reducing meetings by writing more, can you give some insights on how you do it ?
Thanks !
There is a distinct difference between making something illegal and making writing about something illegal.

There are all sorts of films and books that show crime being committed, sometimes even with the criminals being the good guys. These obviously shouldn't be banned - but the crimes depicted probably should be.

"we can't all agree on what is bad, therefore nothing is bad"

I don't think the parent was arguing for that, indeed I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who truly believes that. He talks exclusively about ideas and fiction.

On a final note its not very classy to 'bait' people to downvote you. It's the reason that I didn't upvote you.
It looks like it matches the maximum donation Microsoft was making for the "browser for the better" campaign. The only difference is IE donated per download, not for usage.
How did FlightPrep come up with such an exact number for visitors to RunwayFinder (22,256)?
I haven't read the patent in question for this case.

However, what is USUALLY the case with patents is that they are far narrower than what is claimed by the company or in the press. "Company patents pencils!" says the news article. When you read the patent you find that they've patented a very, very, very narrow use of pencils and that few, if any of the world's pencil uses are encompassed by the patent.
tl;dr; - visitors are more spread out on the globe, Google is the undefeated referrer, SO visitors love Firefox, Windows, and screen resolutions are getting bigger and wider.

Nothing too interesting, really.
iOS will jump up sharply from 0.4% in 2011 if the folks at Stack Overflow make the site usable with that system. From mobile Safari the site is crippled. You can type in an answer, but the formatting tools and preview panes don't work at all.
If anyone is ever struggling to translate that most idiomatic of british phrases, "taking the piss," this is pretty much a perfect example of one of its meanings.

EDIT: to expand on this, I don't see this as an attempt at humour through "cuteness," it comes across as sledgehammer-irony mocking the corporate world's shift towards conversational marketing since the 90s. Customers know that corporations aren't really that personally interested in them as a person, they can't be because of their scale. This is obvious. So I see this email as a nudge-wink from CDbaby to the customer, it allows them the benefits of conversational marketing without the downsides, because irony allows them to both "say it" and "not say it" at the same time.

Savvy.
The RTFM conundrum is very simple to solve:

1. Install texpander (https://github.com/leehblue/texpander)

2. $ vim ~/.texpander/RTFM

3. Paste this text: "Please search the documentation before asking and opening issues." Press ESCAPE, followed by ":wq<return>"

4. Add a handy keybinding to "texpander.sh"

5. Problem solved! Now you can RTFM all day long without bothering anyone!
Also, having written a classic like Neuromancer early on is a surefire way to screw your career over, if only purely in terms of living up to and topping expectations. Just look at J.K. Rowling and her new book. She (rightfully) tried to get a pen name so that people wouldn't associate the new stuff with the old, but clearly they didn't let her have that. No shit it wasn't another Harry Potter, rarely can people churn out classic after classic. If you write anything that isn't even more mindblowing, it's considered a flop, and I think that's pretty harsh.

I quite enjoyed his essay book "Distrust that particular flavor", and I just read The Peripheral and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Nothing genre-expanding, but solid, and has good ideas.
OK, I need to give the Bigend Trilogy a try. The Bridge books were the end of the road for me. If they're just a temporary low spot, I'll keep going.
RMS isn't calling for Uber to be outlawed. He's calling for a boycott. I'm glad the problems you listed are much smaller than they used to be, but none of them were solved with grassroots boycotts. Many of them went away due to changes in economic conditions and an expanding moral sphere.

And I was being realistic, not fatalistic. There are countless examples of people engaging in immoral behavior for better quality of life. Here are a few:

- Eating meat. It's bad for the environment, not-that-great for one's health, and visits immense suffering upon animals. But bacon tastes good, so people rationalize their behavior.

- Driving a gas car. It pollutes the environment, aids immoral regimes such as Saudi Arabia, and contributes to climate change. But again, they're so convenient. Except for Tesla, electric cars are slow, small, and short range. The reason Tesla is an exception is because Elon Musk recognizes that, in order to be successful, electric cars must be better than gas cars.

- Pirating content. Piracy deprives artists of income and violates the principles of contract law. If you don't like the cost or terms, then don't consume the content.

- Not conserving resources (electricity, water, etc).

Some individuals do some of these things, but never civilization as a whole. At the macro scale, this sort of activism is a rounding error.
I want a little blinking 7-segment under my television that only displays "12:00".
It has already had good effects though. Noticing that lots of the VNC servers were named QEMU, someone has prodded the QEMU developers [1] to change the default when you use the -vnc option so that it does not listen on all interfaces by default.

[1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-12/msg0...
Uber is super easy to use and it helps prevent DUI's. nuff said
But if you pay by cash, there's no easy way to match that recording to you.

Also, I'm pretty sure RMS doesn't give a fig about "relevance". He's just applying his principles to the world as he sees it, and he's been doing this literally for decades:

https://stallman.org/~rms/archives/index.html
>Uber requires you to identify yourself, both to order a cab and to pay.

Yeah. If you deal with money, there is no other way to build a business. Right or wrong, you just can't anonymize financial transactions.

>Uber's clever policy of not being directly responsible for anything that goes wrong extends to harassment by drivers, and its practice of identifying passengers enables drivers to find out who the passenger is.

That's a good point. I don't think it would hold up in court if something were to happen (e.g. driver robs or kills a passenger).

>Uber plans to do away with human cab drivers.

If Uber doesn't do it, somebody else will. Can't stop progress.

The privacy issues that he raises in other points are pretty good as well.

On a separate matter, though I was never a FSF zealot it pains me to see how irrelevant the FSF and Stallman became this decade.
I meant SFTP - I never use FTP
Location: WA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, PHP, JavaScript. React, Node, Django, Symfony.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eUOydbkInRP5C0o-xsIMTf8jpVY...

Email: m.gale2020@outlook.com
Do you know if this person hangs out in IRC? I asked this precise question 10 days ago in #emacs, and I was curious to see my precise question answered, almost the way I phrased it.
> What's impressive isn't the LOC per dollar (or person), even at that level of reliability, but the functionality (and reliability of functionality) per LOC. It's what that 420 kLoC does. They've managed to get a lot of functionality relative to code size... because they know the cost of excess code.

I don't know that I agree that the code is particularly feature dense or anything. It might be, or it might not. Just because it flys the shuttle doesn't mean it's a miracle of efficiency. Hell, it might be really inefficient for all we know. They might do clipboard inheritance all over the place because that's easier than trying to accidentally not break a "general purpose" function when making a particular change.

Also, they're not writing 420kLOC every year, they've slowly accumulated that much code. The turnover I would suspect is 10% a year or less. Might only be 3% a year.

What I was trying to say is with that level of funding versus the amount of features that they have to deliver (little/no interfaces, no database, no scaling, no sharding, no data sanitization, etc) it's much, much easier to get things right. This is basically firmware and the hardware is known so it's much, much easier to get it right.

The web is so often broken because there are dozens of different standards by different institutions that are adhered to in varying degrees by many thousands of different projects running on a multitude of hardware. Getting stuff so right for the space shuttle is impressive for sure, but look at the kind of comparison you're making.
Thanks a lot! I will take your feedback into consideration when I launch the next version of the site, will talk to Nathan about Refresh Austin.

I'll also be sending you an email soon. Thanks.
I don't hate all sports, just the one that doesn't make much sense, like baseball.
Perhaps this is why it was so easy for Android phones to move to large screen sizes - the back button is always at the bottom of the screen; whereas, the iOS equivalent is usually in the farthest corner.
FWIW, many thinktanks and research consultancies pay you to sit around and read a lot, and occasionally even take long walks in the woods to think. There are often pretty steep barriers to entry - they usually recruit out of the Ivy League or top liberal arts colleges, and it usually helps to know someone there if you want to get in - but those jobs do exist.
> MtGox existed because it is nearly impossible to open an exchange in the US.

That's kind of orthogonal to the issue of whether bitcoin can be regulated (it can, but that has little do with why exchanges in the US are legally difficult.) An exchange that trades bitcoin for boring fiat currency has to manage and distribute funds from fiat currency accounts, and its US regulation of that activity that produces a significant compliance cost to running an exchange in the US.
How are you defining "ease" of testing in this case?

Testing is more than opening your app in a VM sandbox.

Maybe the underlying drivers for Oculus are a pain in Linux. Maybe the 3D acceleration required in Linux is not great, or unavailable in the VM they have available, if any. More likely the case, Linux users aren't their target for this small experiment in the first place, and they are busy so spending time to install/test their program in Linux would distract from their other work.
If you buy a house, you miss out on all the other things you could do with that money, eg earn a return on the bond market. (That's what economists call opportunity costs, and they are realy.)

So, rich people have enough resources to live in London, but not to live in London cheaply either.

You can not ignore inflation and yield of alternative investments for these kinds of arguments.
While the probability of any individual defeating the market is 0.5 in any given year, the probability of someone from the pool of N investors getting beating the market 39/47 years is N * 0.5 ^ 47. (It's been a while since I've done probability, so correct me if I'm wrong.)
That makes more sense. So which of the following is true:
1) I shouldn't be using OpenSSL to generate keys without somehow injecting bytes directly /dev/urandom
2) The article is wrong, using OpenSSL's CSPRNG is fine.
3) I still don't get it.
The extension you want is hstore. It allows you to create variables and columns of type hstore which is a (String -> String) hashmap. If you actually needed something more like (String -> Integer) or (String -> Decimal), then you'll just need to cast any values on their way out of the hstore.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/hstore.html
So was Youtube, pretty interesting to put it in perspective.
Seven upvotes?!

Methinks we need an HN survey to see what the 4chan readership rate is...
you should add "... e-book for free per account ..."
Heh, they changed it a few years ago. The new one: http://www.list.org/images/logo2010.png
Thanks. New vocabulary. Didn't know what gnu is/was. So are they actually in the same family as bull/cow?
Well... At least this update includes some information (he's in Japan). Would be nice if he could mention anything about anything people actually care about (are they insolvent? Have they lost 700,000BTC? If not, how many? etc)
Care to cite examples?
Am I the only one who finds it hard to believe this has indeed been leaked and is not just a marketing strategy from Github? The repos are not even private.
Another huge issue with the `.io` domain is about [ethics](http://www.thedarksideof.io/).
Yeah that’s § 73 (2) IfSG:

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ifsg/__73.html

I guess they will escalate over time and fine only those people breaking the rules multiple times.
making masks.

Calling All People Who Sew And Make: You Can Help Make Masks For 2020 Healthcare Worker PPE Shortage

"In settings where facemasks are not available, HCP might use homemade masks (e.g., bandana, scarf) for care of patients with COVID-19 as a last resort."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2020/03/20/calling-all-...
The one president Trump annouced is https://www.projectbaseline.com/study/covid-19/ (https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/16/alphabets-verily-launches-...)
There was some confusion because Verily is an Alphabet company and for most people Alphabet==Google.
What is broken with the current system? (I have an idea what is broken, but it would be good to see it explained.)
What? So my self-hosted P2P WebRTC is in violation of a patent? And the companies I set these services up for too? Are all the others (zoom, go-to, uberconf, jitsi, etc) just not doing P2P?
Calling a contribution astroturfing is a fairly serious accusation, and signing up a new account to do it shows that I doubt you believe that.
Loved it, but as a student 25$ is kinda steep. Also, 6 months is weird.
Great feedback, I'm definitely bookmarking this page, and probably archiving it then.
hey , congrats for getting into YC , our Indian market greatly need a awesome and friendly payment gateway provider

few things i would like to ask

• how many people are currently employed in razorpay , what about customer service?

• integration with magento , woocommerce etc is available right away ?

• do you provide wallet services ? , and what about legal issues regarding storing card info ? i see you are pci cleared , can you clear a bit ?

• Are all credit /debit cards are supported ?

• You say i dont need a different bank account , i have an LLP , and have a ecommerce store that deals with fashion , so i wont need to have a account in LLP's name ? what about PAN card ?

the biggest hurdle is regarding the red tape and legal issues in India , if you can take care of those this is a huge demand for a service like this ( you have to scale hup your market and give an awesome experience before stripe decides to come in India )

good look , would love to be in contact :)
I have actually audited systems by "big companies" written in other, e.g. C#, languages.

(p.s. Try "it's")
Do you have any resources I can use to get a deeper understanding about your strategy? I consider myself a moderate level investor, but when I look for real information about what you are talking about I feel like I'm finding late night informercials versus actual valid information. I also think the number of snake oil salesman is why HN frowns upon beating the market talk.

I currently do research based stock trading and momentum based e-mini futures to give you an idea of my level of knowledge and risk tolerance. I've done okay with both, but I would like to continue to improve.
Full article link here (as kindly pointed out by an earlier subcomment):

https://medium.com/matter/mars-one-insider-quits-dangerously...
Interesting tie back to common HN discussions on the Wikipedia page for ayahyasca[1]:

Someone successfully patented the plant at the core of ayahyasca (B. Caapi) in 1986. That's right, UPTO granted a trademark on a plant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca#Legal_issues
FWIW, I think Madeon was popular well before the mashup videos.
The ISP retains records. It's not uncommon to get letters from your ISP telling you to stop torrenting that blockbuster movie you torrented last week because some law office reported your IP address at the time. So clearly someone can ascertain your identity through legal discovery if you just use your ISP.
The Rust example made me feel anxious. I never got macro systems. What's so hard to read about a basic multi dimensional array? It's like the most basic of data structures. Am I the only one that can easily picture this in my head ?
Yes, good catch. A driver's side mirror is required, passenger's side is optional (but recommended). But, there is some lobbying going on right now to allow cameras in place of mirrors (GM specifically is trying to get the new Corvette C8 rear view camera approved, which I'm guessing won't happen for launch in early 2020).
> I am wondering it this is because of Swift.

It is not.
I think you mean that the owners should have.

Owners have physical access to their devices, but so do others. It's far from obvious to me that as owner, I benefit from elevated privileges, when anyone with temporary physical access also get the same elevated privileges.
OBJ file anyone ?
This was right on point. The TouchBar and the problematic keyboard on those recent Macbook Pro laptops were clearly features that no Apple users ever wanted or asked for. Apple has lost some global market share as a result even though their net profit still went up. I'm afraid they are trading long term brand reputation for short term profit gains. They need to re-align product innovations with customer's best interests in mind.