jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"an angle" refers to any angle other than the angle directly from the sun.

when you look outside the window, any sunlight that enters your eyes from the angle of the sun is the sun because the sun is so far away. this is why we have well defined shadows.

any light that comes at an angle is all the light that did not come directly from the sun. light coming at an angle is directly aimed at your pupils if you're looking at the source.

what you said, the only way it's true, is if you're always looking directly at the sun.
What do you want from a bookmark service on top of bookmarking+sync?
I can confirm that I ran into this too. Went back to the homepage and tried again, worked.
So, it's about Dash + Home Services + Goat Grazer.

That beats Pacmaps for sure!
Boom!!!
If card processing fees bother her so much, then why doesn't she take checks/cheques?

I'd hazard a guess that after a few weeks of doing that, the overhead of card processing looks pretty good.
That's pretty impressive. Printer music goes way back, by the way. Here's a (low-quality) recording of a 1960s-era IBM 1401 mainframe playing the Blue Danube Waltz on a 1403 line printer: http://www.apropos-logic.com/1403music/1403_blue_danube.mp3
And here's the 1401 playing tunes on a radio via RF interference from the core memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPk8MVEmiTI
Unfortunately the 1401 at the Computer History Museum isn't currently authorized for line printer music because the stress might destroy the print chain and they don't have a replacement.
> Where does this come from

It's defining the term "code coverage" to be the ratio of lines covered by tests to the total lines.

> why did they suspect this would be indicative of anything?

If anything, it's a useful feedback mechanism. e.g. "Gee, we wrote sixteen unit tests for this module but we're still only at 34% coverage. Ohh, I see it now -- framistan.cpp doesn't get used by these tests at all. We should write a test that enables framistan mode!"
I agree -- IMO being dogmatic about 100% or any other number can be a big waste of time.

But a coverage ratio and/or browsing annotated source is a good feedback mechanism for how many tests you've written.
I fully agree videos shouldn't be the main way of giving lectures in MOOCs. Or more accurately: I don't find videos particularly useful to me.

My experience is based on 3 programming courses from Coursera: Functional Programming Principles in Scala, Reactive Programming, and Programming Languages. In all three cases, the videos did little to improve my understanding of the material, and I preferred the slides. Unfortunately, because the videos existed, the slides were (in general) less complete; I'd rather the videos did not exist and the written material was more complete instead.

Videos frustrate me because the lecturer goes too slowly or chooses to focus on the parts I find less interesting. And because it's pre-recorded, I cannot ask him/her questions. Yes, I can skip or fast-forward the video (in one course, I was so used to playing every lecture at max speed, I was surprised to find the lecturer's voice at normal speed sounded completely different :P ), but I find it so frustrating I'd rather be reading detailed text instead.

The embedded interactive quizzes are fun and motivating, but I wonder if the videos are needed at all.
Not for long periods of time, but I imagine they're sensitive enough to estimate where you are for a few minutes if your GPS signal is temporarily unavailable...
It won't play at all. I'm using click to flash safari extension, and generally when there is any issue with the HTML5 player I'll right click and enable flash, but right click is disabled.

While the UI is fine for mobile/touch, it's not really optimized for desktop use.

It's an interesting idea though, do you have any plans for expansion on this?
I really love how its movement is so fluid, especially in the video you just linked to.

Is there any reason you couldn't power it via battery, instead of tethering it?
Convenience seems to be a slippery concept. From my perspective, the convenience of mpv+youtube-dl cannot be beat. Neither the official web player nor the official mobile applications have the features I expect or desire.

For instance, I use text-to-speech to read aloud the subtitles of foreign language content. With mpv that's straight forward, but I wouldn't even know where to start with getting that to work using any of the official frontends of youtube.
Even bigger than that is the treatment of dollar-denominated "value" of crypto as a capital gain. Tax adherence trumps volatility by far.
Still must be defined what is exactly human conciousness, and if have any meaning with that definition the idea of a shared conciousness.

But shared conciousness is not needed, just rising the abstraction level and watching how a society (or mankind) behaves as a whole would be a good hint on what could happen. And the problem is that what drives mankind right now is the money meme, not the preservation of the human race, or going to the stars, or preserve the ecosystem we depend on for a foreseeable future. That may be our great filter.
Most of the time I'm searching for very very specific and niche technical topics, and while Google's result quality used to be the best, and it has significantly degraded since then, its competitors are unfortunately still far behind...

In the end there isn't much new content worth searching

True, and the old content that's actually worth reading seems to be getting more difficult to find.
Google isn't going to stop tracking my every move and building/selling a secret advertising profile on me just because I pay them a monthly fee.
Acceleration does not equal velocity squared...
It's not a change in the sense of the status quo being bad. Everyone on our team wanted os x dev, and the choices of remote dev vs linux dev were subpar for them.

I'm optimistic about Nvidia eGPUs, but will be awhile to smooth out.
What if you let users sign up and use the site for 1 month free? They would be more invested in the site after a month and be more likely to part with some money. I would guess that you would make more money with one month free + 5 dollars for the rest of the year vs 5 dollars up front.

I really like the dropbox model of subscriptions. I would never had paid money when I signed up for dropbox, but now I'm right at my free limit. They have me in a win/win for them - I either pay to increase my storage or refer friends. For 365.io I think users would really get the concept after they see their "free" 30 pictures.

Great job on the design.
Moral of the story: Don't make too much ad revenue with AdSense or you will be accused of click fraud, and have no recourse.
Mine was very gradual to the point where I´m not sure how to answer it. I remember from an early age playing with software like Trillian Pro and Frontpage (express maybe too?) and seeing what everything did and watching the HTML change. I didn´t have Internet access very often (I was restricted on when I could dial in on my old Windows 95 and later 98 boxes), so I never hosted anything. But when I was online I started finding JavaScript snippets and starting playing with them and started figuring out what they did to the point where I was starting to do programming that way by the time I was nine or ten.

The first time I specifically felt like I was programming was when friend when I was nine showed me an old QBasic book he had found. He showed me some little programs he had written and that night I spent all night on our old Windows 3.1 computer seeing what I could do with it. I just made little text adventure games and math equation solvers.

Then once I we got DSL around when I was 11 I started to hang on USENET and IRC (older technologies of the time, but they were cool to me) where some folks introduced me to Python.
I got my first wire when I was 12 years old for the backup application/ms-dos. It was an endless amount of money. :)
I launched it as a hail-mary after hacking it over a weekend back in April of this year. To day, there's been about 700 users, nearly 7,000 e-mail pitches sent, and about 10 Premium Subscribers.

I've done little to no marketing for it, most of my customers have come from the press I got for the Highrise integration and the rest came from blog entries here and there.

I did get a ton of customer feedback (some through Survey.io, others from direct customer development) which has lead me to release this updated version.

I'm going to be focusing more on marketing Tout over the next few months.
2. Absolutely zero machine agnostic.

I really should be bothered whether I am running a linux/windows/lego machine.

Does this mean most of the cloud servers offer Control panels to make it easy for newbies to manage or do you have to install your own software?
You might want to try COWON mp3 players -- they have the directory structure for tracks and a very good sound quality. I never looked back and everyone how tried COWON do not look at iPods either anymore.
Most existing companies don't run P2P voice chat networks, either. Using EC2 or some other elastic cloud for emergency supernodes makes a lot of sense, since they can outsource the risk of those machines sitting idle to Amazon.
Condé Nast acquires HN.
I'm wondering if there's a way to crowdsource this with cellphones. I realize it's a little out there, but there are thousands and thousands of microphones already blanketing every urban area ...

edit: Google informs me of http://www.noisetube.net/
Buying great domain names is just a great/smart/effective strategy.

But cybersquatting isn't something where a person is operating in the gray area of the terms of service, it is something which is clearly illegal.

Now that is something you might expect some low end affiliate to do, or maybe an innocent technique by a person ignorant to what they are doing (if they are doing it on just 1 name)...but to raise venture capital and then deploy it on illegal marketing strategies is a bit extreme.

It would have been nearly as helpful/beneficial to do something like footballquestions.com (instead of nfl-questions.com), and it wouldn't have been illegal.

The curious question is why take VC money if you want to take the low road? Do the investors realize the latent risk embedded in this activity?

Jason claimed that the Youtube founders should have handed their sales money to the original content creators. I wonder if he thinks the same way about money made from JASON cybersquatting on someone else's brand?

And I would love to here Jason explain how/why he feels the 2 are in any way different from each other.
I would love to learn more about details.

You can contact me at Reddit u/RhazinVorkuraz
Thanks for your answer. The buzzwords I know, but I don't have the know-how yet :). I exactly know what you mean with the project-interest match.

Not even sure if I'm pursuing anything in the general area. I'm more trying to figure out the latter part 'Which problem would it solve? Would you eventually pay for it? How often would you use it?' because I believe it could be the backbone of a project I'm working on.

Would you be up for a chat? I don't mean to hire or exploit you, but I think there might be some overlap between what you like doing and what I'm planning to do - not sure if I can call it consulting, but perhaps I could offer something in return. I believe you can see my contact details in my profile page if you're up for it.
25 years (if that's what it takes) of therapy to fully understand why he did it, how we can make life better for everyone so the next person doesn't feel this is their only option, and perhaps after a couple of decades of empathy he will realize why what he did was wrong and we can all move forward in peace and greater knowledge. Instead of primal vengeance that makes us feel better while learning nothing.

If we're going to spend the effort and money to incarcerate someone for that long, I don't see how turning it into intensive therapy instead is any more work -- and it's certainly more beneficial to society.
To consider "something" as just _in the mind_ v/s being physically rooted is similar too considering software bugs trivial b/c software can easily be changed compared to hardware that is broken.

To extend the analogy - asking a depressive patient to just sort it out mentally is like trying to debug a debugger using that same debugger!?
Yeah, this site is a good showcase of how one shouldn't override 'native' functionality unless absolutely necessary.
> It's very suspicious when a Bitcoin exchange claims problems on the deposit side and stops processing withdrawals.

I believe the problem is the following: if you deposit to a certain, old deposit address, that Bistamp has lost the private key to, the Bitstamp deposit system might credit your account with the bitcoins anyway, even though they are not there, because the private key is lost.

If you then withdraw bitcoins subsequently, you are literally withdrawing someone else's bitcoins, because the bitcoins you deposited never arrived, although the Bitstamp software architecture believes they are there, because the deposit address reflects a deposit -- Bitstamp just doesn't have the private key, so the balance of that address is irrelevant.

That's one meaningful explanation, at least.
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Old version: https://web.archive.org/web/20140816220513/http://c.learncod...
Tell me about it. Close but no cigar, who else even has the gumption to try? NASA has been pushing rockets into space for fifty plus years and I have never seen them trying it; granted I may have missed it but I have pretty much watched most televised stuff since the moon landings.
With React Native, instead of writing HTML/CSS and running it on a crappy browser embedded in an app, you write code that looks like HTML/CSS (it's actually JSX)[1][2] and it is translated to native code.

[1] https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/displaying-data.html

[2] https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/jsx-in-depth.html
For what purpose exactly would you want to put custom firmware on it? Why isn't the stock firmware good enough? I've a WRT54G router -- do I have any good reason to use any custom firmware?

I'm guessing it's just for hobbyists -- "just for the fun of it" kind of thing?
Here is why the puzzles can be very effective, especially for a company in no hurry to hire:

1) The people who submit them are most likely interested in your company, took the time to solve the problem, and have a mind that works well. That already saves a lot of time screening people you wouldn't want for those top positions.

2) It attracts other smart people because you wouldn't refer puzzles to stupid people -- notice how we posted it on Hacker News. On a similar note, if you google for Node.js like I did, you'll find a sponsored result from Meebo offering you to apply to their "secret jobs!" -- because not just anyone searches for Node.js, but rather people who are interested in the new technology, which they are probably using or looking into.

3) Psychology -- people feel like they want something they worked towards. They committed time to facebook, so they will take it more seriously, and when someone from facebook talks to them, and asks them about their background AFTER solving the puzzle, they will feel a sense of accomplishment and engage back.

4) Notice how many of these puzzles have specified the exact outputs. They can screen the initial applicants with an automated test suite to see how well they did. Cheapest first round candidate evaluation ever :)

5) The puzzles are hopefully related to the kinds of architectural and social challenges they actually have to solve at facebook, so this prepares the candidate for that kind of thinking. If the candidate doesn't like thinking in this way, perhaps it's better to find out as early as possible, and before even SPEAKING to the candidate is pretty early!

If anything I would definitely set this kind of thing up for the top (architectural, etc.) development positions at facebook. They were recently named the best place to work at in 2010, so they can afford to do this.
It supports every SI unit and many derived units. It doesn't yet support fractional units, e.g. km^3/2 though. AFAIK there aren't any fractional units that have physical meaning but they might appear in intermediate steps sometimes.
Why?

If you like a stock, buy it, and enjoy.

If you're gambling, tough.

If you're a short seller who lost the best part of a billion dollars today, thoughts and prayers?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-retail-trading-gamestop-l...
Sorry I'm a couple of days late for this reply. The goal (or should be the goal) of a class action lawsuit is financial reparations to victims of wrong-doing. An example being faulty vehicle components as a result of manufacturer negligence leading to death or injuries. In this example, the lawyers are making millions off the lawsuits and most likely the victims are getting a very small payout at best. The company gets a slap on the wrist. From what I understand, opting out and suing individually comes with additional obstacles (and potentially less payout) for the legal team and client. When I refer to "the poor" I'm talking about the bottom 90% of income earners that typically make up the pool of "victims" exercising the class action suit.
Your privacy policy is either borrowed from a previous iteration of the company (supply chain logistics?) or from a sample somewhere. You should fix that.

I work for a not-quite-YC* company adjacent to yours; I see some plausible symbiosis. I have an email address in my profile here -- reach out?

* The photo at www.paulgraham.com/yctable.html shows two founders of my company talking to YC Summer 2005.
You can use a redis to distribute messages via PUB/SUB. The sockets subscribe to the events that are relevant to them. It can handle thousands of messages a second in a local environment and probably more in a dedicated hosting environment.
You're still supporting a platform where avoiding toxic content is active mental work.
> People who made a $50k leveraged bet

They did not "make a leveraged bet". They bought a home to live in and watch their child grow in it.

Not everyone looks at real estate as a investment vehicle to maximize profits. It's just a home. It's not healthy for society to view homes merely as if they were shares of stock to be traded for maximum value. If you want to make leveraged bets, better to play the options market.
An alternate version:

"Unfortunately, like many other aspects of my employment, my compensation is covered under NDA with my previous employer. I take my promise not to disclose very seriously."

If you did sign an NDA, in all likelihood you cannot disclose your salary without violating the terms.

Or, you could just be direct, like I was the last time I did interviews:

"How much do you earn at your current position?"

"The salary of an academic at a public institution, and I expect to be paid more if I work for your company."
If I hire someone to steal something, we are both at fault and could reasonably be held responsible. If Apple made agreements with the manufacturer in which the dies/plans/whatever are the property of Apple and can only be used to make parts for Apple (which would make sense), then the manufacturer is clearly stealing from Apple by providing the same parts to another party.

I think it makes a lot of sense for Apple to sue his supplier. It may also make sense for Apple to sue him, legally, but the cost/reward of legal action against a poor minor is probably not worth it to Apple.
For me, in Singapore, yes.
http://norvig.com/21-days.html

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/10-Year_Rule_to_Become_an...

So get started! You've got 10 years to go... ;-)
A bit off topic, yes, but does any one else cringe when they read the phrase "computer hacker" in a major news publication?

Just, ugh.
I don't think this means the tables are turning. Ron Paul has been an outspoken advocate of privacy for a long time, and the rest of the world ignored him for just as long.

If Joe Biden or John McCain came out in favor of privacy, that would be evidence the tables are turning.
Because Smalltalk is superior, and Rubyists are ignorant of its superiority, and that ignorance results in inferior reinvention of already-existing wheels.
That's a great idea, but how do you define 'product' though? Plenty of people here work on things that are really just tech demos, which don't necessarily have an audience beyond, "Look at this cool thing I was able to do." E.g. that color-picker/slider thing that changed the colors are you moved the mouse (and the scroll wheel changed the contrast). I wouldn't necessarily call it a 'product,' but I would qualify the time spent making it as productive.
Don't waste your time visiting the blog by an angry lonely person who wasted his time writing this random rant.
Are you saying that everything that is illegal is wrong? I'm not sure I'm reading that right, but if that's what you are saying, I have to disagree. In many cases what's right and what's legal are, at the very least, orthogonal. in some cases, they are opposite.
Its been argued by some that a DDOS is equivalent to standing in a shop doorway and may be an appropriate form of protest. Protest being something that is perfectly legal.
Right but we aren't going to get people from our industry on reddit. At least not easily.
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581487 <- 22 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1556740

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1635499 <- 32 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2437437 <- 8 comments
Why should I read what you're linking if you can't even be bothered to tell me why?

That, and your attitude of "this blog post disproves conventional wisdom" is a serious red flag.
I still don't get it :-(
In the tests the court used to decide fair use:

the defendants' use was transformative because Righthaven is a litigation-driven business, the republication was to educate the defendants' audience, and it had no substitutive effects

Ouch! It would be hard to fail that test unless you went out suing people for violating copyright trolls' copyrights.

It's also worth noting that the defendant published all 33 paragraphs of an article and that was alright because it was not easily distilled or edited.
It's a shame single platter 1TB drives were not in that test.

I bet they are the most reliable because of single platter.
The name doesn't quite sound right, which triggered the same response in me.
FYI Google Chrome warns that imagebin.com "might contain malware".
Showing up to the Capitol with zipties, presumably to take elected officials hostage, qualifies as terrorism. Eyewitnesses reported specific threats made against the Vice President, and some carried nooses with them into the building.
That's how we build using Jenkins - it's a nice feature, but it doesn't retrigger when the target branch changes. So, while it's useful so far as that it's better than simply building the branch, it doesn't ensure that "what you tested is what you get."
You're eliminating a big category of things most people recognize as genius here. There's a long history of recognized genius in the development of chess and go over time for instance. You may not consider this as meaningful as breakthroughs in physics and biology for instance (and I may agree), but I think it leaves out a pretty big part of our history to discount this altogether.
I find it sad and disturbing that so many people worship being a workaholic.
So what’re the recommendations for alternatives? It seems like quite a lot of VPNs play their cards close to the vest - and at the end of the day, all I want is a modicum of privacy and to safely torrent a movie for my PLEX server instead of having to dig up my Blu-ray reader and rip it myself once in a while.
Because we have technology to make it tolerable.
ENS is more focused on wallet naming than DNS. Have you checked out Handshake? It’s aiming to create a more secure root of trust for DNS that’s resistant to seizure and censorship. We (namebase.io) are building on it ourselves.

https://handshake.org