jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/the-case-for-hi...

"Even in the long run, it's really really hard to cut nominal wages..."

Don't get it wrong. Inflation is a tool to cut wages. It is fundamentally anti-labor.
The idea might work given the right circumstances but I think your numbers are a bit off - there's no way a call center employee can 2 or even 1 video a minute. You have to take into account mistakes they make (multiple takes) and editing, unless you plan on doing that yourself (or just have raw video). Also, you probably should charge more than 25 cents - that is such an awkwardly low number that it my deter people from using it ("do I really want a $.25 charge on my credit card?"), not to mention you wouldn't make any money with all the fees.

All that said, teenagers love digital interactivity, especially when it relates to chats and webcams. There's also room for something like this in the advertising space - I'd be willing to pay $2-3 to have someone record a 30-60 second YouTube video promoting my product.
I agree. This reminds me of the book Why we Buy, about the buying habits of retail shoppers. When shoppers walk into a store, there needs to be a threshold where they can acquaint themselves with the surroundings. Anything that is too close to the entrance gets ignored by most shoppers as they walk in. Sites with sign-ups on the front page feel that way to me. I haven't had a chance to see what the product or service even is yet, and they're already pushing me to register. I like a little front matter before making a decision.
One word: Swype. I find less typos than standard auto-correct and faster anyways.
I definitely agree that for some sites, the signup process is too entailed. For me though, the barrier is usually identifying myself rather than having to create a login. If the site has something compelling enough for me to identify myself to it, then it's not that big of a leap to create a username and password.
The question is, is there any factual proof that the claim is a fabrication, or is it all a big conspiracy theory? If Assange commits a crime, is it always made up because he ticked off the government? Merely claiming it's a trumped up charge for the sole reason that he's the Wikileaks guy is not a strong argument. (it's not a valid argument at all, I'd say).
People using CoffeeScript aren't doing it to use a One True Language for everything.

[People using node.js however.. ;-)]
Something similar could be useful for foreign language learning. Say you're learning Swahili and want to know how a phrase / word is pronounced, you would enter the text on a website and have it spoken to you by a native person.

This could be a service offered with a fixed subscription and implemented through Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
live-blogging now on an SEC forum discussing the accredited investor definition, ie, who is allowed to be an angel in startup offerings http://goo.gl/fb/Y5nnE
Or is it just that people just screw up, no matter the system?

I don't know of any human activity which is immune from human screw ups, do you?
Long Now's Rosetta Stone is the perfect project. Monel, their chosen alloy, doesn't seem to have any issue being stable for 1000 years. Their human-visible text is obviously too bulky to store a reasonable database of 500GB or 1TB, but no reason it couldn't support a more compact encoding.

(Alternately, you could use optical storage and hope redundancy and ECC will be enough. For example, if you want to store 500GB, you could take 20 Bluray 50GB drives, split it all into 25GB chunks, and then generate 25GB of ECC data, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive files. Do this every year, and you'll be able to correct files back and forth between archive-sets as well as within individual disks. Even if the Bluray discs degrade, there ought to be enough of a trace left for things like electron microscopes to pick up.)
One thing though, is that browsers cache the data with HTML.

Cappuccino uses UTF strings for data, but I wouldn't say "has to resort," it's actually a great experience for both the developer and the user.
I think many people would really like to blame BP's corporate culture, since it puts the blame on the shoulders of somebody with deep pockets instead of some random schmo with two kids and a mortgage. In fact, I'm certain that this is where the blame is going to wind up, regardless of the merits.
Uh. If you go that way, I'd dare say the elephant in the room is that I'll grow old and die (probably of cancer) in about 50 years. Honestly, it bothers me a lot more then sleep and it's easier to solve too.
No, but it does have its uses. I've found it particularly helpful when communicating complicated technical decisions to non-technical management. They "feel" like it's a true technical document (even if it only superficially conveys what's actually happening) and it empowers them to make better decisions.

Amongst actual technical staff? I don't think I've ever even seen a UML diagram on display in my entire career outside of perhaps the occasional E-R Schema model.

Honestly, that gap is one that really does need to be addressed since technical staff pretty much work on whatever they want to work on, master design documents be damned. Perhaps some of it is that extant architecture methodologies are all top-down, where information concerning design and intent flow down, but there's no formal feedback loop, a bottom-up component, in-place for implementers to say "well, that doesn't make sense, we're going to do it this way, change the design docs to reflect". I think it's this lack of a formal approach from both directions that really cause a lot of large systems engineering and integration projects to end up with poor results.

Many "technical" UML users I've come in contact with tend to be a decade or more removed from the actual technology they are designing around...familiar only with feature and capability lists of the technology ecosystem they are working in. In management meetings they'll continue to pull out year old UML diagrams built in a vacuum to make a point, when all they have to do is talk to the most junior developer to see that the de facto picture is wildly different than in the docs.

In the end, all that really matters is that the system does what it's supposed to do, it doesn't matter as much how it actually does it. UML makes non-implementers think they are having some say in how things are to be built when it's very rarely the case.

Another interesting thing I've noticed is that as time has progressed, in order to become more useful, the UML spec has started to vacuum up other traditional diagramming techniques beyond just use cases event models. This is definitely an effort to make UML "work" for technical folks and not just decision makers. Unifying/Rationalizing higher level models with lower-level technical models is actually pretty hard and demonstrates a large number of problems with both sets of models pretty quickly, faster than cranking out half-baked code.

I will say though that I've started to see better models for communicating architecture to management recently. Archimate springs to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArchiMate

It leaves out lots of details that are irrelevant/dangerous for decision makers to see, while focusing them on the entire enterprise stack. I believe it's not part of the newer TOGAF frameworks.
Looks like the project web site also has a custom ticketing system and repo browser. Why not.
If something is required to survive, it is by definition not a free market. Texas either needs to go all the way and let people freeze to death without getting bailed out or they need to re-regulate. This middle ground where the market is free until there's a market failure is simply moral hazard.
Give them the access to your Android-x86 VM first :)
Is that all you need to SIM jack a phone? The phone number?
Huh .. Postman is MPL-2.0 is seems, but it is also a commercial operation (and even non-commercial organizations often hold and protect trademarks like Mozilla). It's not a joke or broken project, so it wouldn't be protected under parody. I too am curious if Postman will go after this project to defend their trademark.
What problems is it causing? How does not affecting other "70%" change things?
I got my Master's Degree in CS in 1988. For one project, I did a Neural Network on an IBM-PC, in Turbo Pascal, which is barely a 16-bit computer, back in this year. We were training it for various logic functions, and very simple "simulated retina" problems with patterns on 16x16 grids.
Characterizing the state limiting the actions a corporation may take, by regulation, as the state “trusting” the corporation is absurd.

Acting like we are talking about nebulously “bad” speech when the primary subject is 1) denial of the factual event of the Holocaust and 2) incitement towards a future Holocaust is deeply insensitive to the present and growing fear of that exact thing.

Pretending that any white supremacist or anti-semitic propaganda which comes from a politician must simply be “algorithmically similar to hate speech”, and could not conceivably be hate speech per se, is the pinnacle of politically motivated reasoning.

And somehow we put all of that together to arrive at the dramatic conclusion that... the status quo is fine with me, and nothing should change. It’s a nice speech, mind you.

I can’t possibly replace HN with another platform— where else am I going to find such passionately incoherent arguments from the radical middlebrow?
> “If you pay them, Facebook will run any ‘political’ ad you want, even if it’s a lie.”

Well, I guess that almost every ad-based model has it, as a core principle. Contemplate sentence "the best washing powder".

I would bet that most of the marketing is precisely about white lies. Every ad is a piece of propaganda, but business rather than a political option.
Yes it is, you just need a Chrome browser!
https://youtu.be/BTDztHFa0_Q?t=879
Author here. You didn't really ask a question, but I thought I'd mention a few things that may be related.

1. Mu isn't intended to be portable. There are no other backends, not even other processor families. Though you still have to put up with other processors within the same family, if it's a new instruction that older processors don't have. So far it just focuses on lowest-common-denominator 32-bit instructions.

2. The whole goal with Mu is to eliminate impedance mismatch with the architecture. It's relatively straightforward to add another instruction at the Mu level called 'rotate', and have it code-generate the appropriate x86 instruction. That seems less convoluted than assuming a fixed language and compiler and expressing a rotation out of 4 binary operators.

3. Finally, there's also the option of writing some functions in the 'machine code' level called SubX. Functions generated by Mu and SubX will freely inter-operate, though SubX functions lack safety guarantees.
I wrote my suggestion to you not based on the "rules", so much as good taste. The author of that piece never wrote of anything that would have been affected by why she landed in jail. What value does it add?
How would that be different than the `when_any` function the author described?
Satan knows when you are naughty and nice; he's making a list and checking it twice.
I had about a dozen of these appear during upgrade as well - so it's not just you.
That $99 goes to the contractor, not the employee. There's a ton of overhead and profiting that comes out of that $99. I won't even hazard a guess at how much of that $99 actually makes it to the guy or gal's pocket.

That said, it's not a bad living wage. I suspect below industry standard though, is what these folks are saying.
I think you are biased. I've seen countless PhD-less, unixbeard-less people use vim. And emacs...
Wow, missed this post. Will have to look into that. Very curious how that works. Thanks!
The scenario you've described would require multiple changes to the same function, but the file diffs making their around the blogosphere show only cosmetic changes to that file and none of those affect the "goto fail" function.
Well, I personally think the current editorialized title here ("When rational thinking is correlated with intelligence the correlation is modest") is off, but the title of the article itself ("Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking that IQ Tests Miss") is more accurate.

The article essentially points more to the disparity between IQ test results and rational thinking ability, which is more a critique of IQ testing. However, the title here points to a disparity between intelligence and rational thinking capacity, which is certainly counterintuitive. So, those who didn't note the difference in titles and/or went in with the idea that the title here was the author's premise may have taken issue with the article.

The title editorializing was likely purposeful in that many people dismiss IQ tests out-of-hand, so the notion that IQ tests aren't predictive of rational-decision making capacity would have been far less remarkable or click-worthy.
This is about control - but control for what purpose? The short-term financial gain of elites? Maybe. To satisfy elite paranoia?. Maybe.

Maybe this is control for stability.

The government creates models of the future and with more and more data about climate change pointing to disaster in the next few decades, those models must be focusing more and more at that point. So instead of government "holding its people back from a bright future", they are pragmatically laying the foundations for the control structures that will be necessary in the unavoidably dark future.

How can stability be maintained when society is radically altered by climate change?

Answer: Control
> Could someone with better knowledge of astronomy/aerospace explain (with less hyperbole) which part is the "impossible" part here?

Hyperbole is the operative term. When first proposed it would have been impossible with then-current hardware, but since such missions take time to germinate, sometimes people use the term "impossible" to add a sense of drama and daring, but with the expectation that the goal will become possible in time.

Also, according to Arthur C. Clarke, "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
If there isn't:

a) look at building your own. What's inconceivable to one person may not be to another.

b) Build support for at least two closed-source alternatives, and make sure you always have at least two current alternatives.
I would say it is a bad pun.
Hosting has long been a respectable way to travel but its marketing wasn't scaled.

AirBnB is a very nice looking Craigslist for hosting. It may have created new behaviors among some millennials, but the chambre d'hôte crowd has been doing this since the 1800s.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambre_d'hôtes

I strongly preferred this approach versus hostels. I looked rooms up in dog-eared books at the tiny local "tourist office" (often sharing duty as post office or tobacco store). There was always something dirt cheap, though it was never quite clear what you'd find when you got to the room.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8816055
Materials are an incredibly significant element of design. Some of the most significant innovations of the AR-15 were in terms of materials. The Hi-Power also uses a single-action hammer rather than a striker, so I'm not sure how the striker-fired Glock is "essentially identical" to it.
Neither originated with Apple, though I agree Apple did a lot to push them and make them what they are
Jazz musician/educator Dave Frank did a Chick Corea "Masterclass" video in honor of Chick, which you can view here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF8V7iTWuzY

A lot of it is technical, won't be comprehensible to non-musicians, but lots of interesting stuff.
It's a trap. You only need to find the happy medium if you accept the constraints that generate the trade-off in the first place.

And in at least three of the four antagonisms you list, it comes down to the DX of the tooling. Static typing isn't so much of a pain if your type errors are helpful and descriptive. The missing brace in the XHTML doc is easily found when using proper and easy to use XML linters. And I don't see why writing native apps shouldn't be as simple as writing web apps. At least there are attempts that seem to get some mileage out of the idea (e.g. Revery, Flutter).

The trick is to make the toolset more approachable.
Unfortunately such a study still wouldn't produce valid results. The problem is that study subjects don't report accurate data. They lie because they're ashamed of their choices, or they forget, or they just don't know how to accurately count what they eat.

Consider a hypothetical study subject who goes to watch the game at his local bar, drinks 7 beers, eats a plate of hot wings, and then stops at Taco Bell for nachos on the way home. When he wakes up the next morning what do you suppose he'll enter on the form?
Same as MSFT's with C#?
Year 1202
Month 20
Day 21

?????
I love ragging on crypto as much as the next guy but this is getting ridiculous.
The issue here is the software wasn't aware of the fires. It was just thinking "oh were packed? Better increase the price!

The average manager has no control over that. They can manually override each charge if they wanted to, but then they get chewed out for doing something humane that their psycho owner may not have.

This is the best solution to the problem. Punish the people at the top. You bet that will trickle down real quick.
No problem man. I will look to add syntax highlighting by default in specter.

Anyway I updated the pages to have the feeds into them by default so it does not cause any confusion.
We've been using a $20/mo MediaTemple grid server for site hosting the past 8 months, haven't noticed any downtime before this.
Why not link to the site directly? https://www.4clojure.com/
Recur is essentially just a loop - it doesn't use the stack at all.
I think it depends on the product you are lunching. However, in general following things may help to gain early users

1) Using social media (Facebook and twitter) for marketing

2) Make Facebook app/ Facebook fanpage it may help in viral growth

3) Search engine optimization

4) Service\content you are providing should be magnetic so that early visitors will be converted into early users
"When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth."

- Steve Jobs

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs_pr.html

The depressing reality in this case is that someone figured out that what sells newspapers to a mainstream audience isn't stories about cool new technology, but stories about conflict. It's why newspapers separate the technology section out from the main news section.

Conflict is what made "The Social Network" such a great movie. The story isn't about social networking, it's about manipulation, ruthless ambition and betrayal. Themes that are as old as humanity itself.

As an aside, I doubt pg will get into a pissing contest with some journalist, as that wouldn't help himself, his reputation or YC. There is nothing to be gained by going to "war".

EDIT: Grammar
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DabbleDB
Organic chemistry and biochemistry are very different from physics, but chemistry is a very large field and these are just a small part of it.

You should have been exposed to physical chemistry or computational chemistry or maybe even quantum chemistry or analytical chemistry, if your are mathematically inclined.

...but unfortunately they are considered very advanced topics in most learning institutions, even if one could start with them from the very beginning, instead of "classical chemistry". And more unfortunately, after the tedium of "classical chemistry", what you are presented with next are very boring aspects of "organic chemistry" or "biochemistry".
Thank you for sharing! That is even more strict than what my tool calculates, as in 75% set aside for the future. The exact numbers likely also depend on where you reside, and how much of a social security net exists to catch you when things don't go as planned.
The goal of popper was to create asymmetry, where Marxists are allowed to call speech of opponents violence with no reasoned argument and with that justify real violence by Marxists. Stopping volk-Marxism, nazism, is not where this ends.

As always it ends it gulags filled with academics, Trotskyites, any competing faith (Christianity, Islam etc), anyone that has a rich person somewhere in the family tree, whomever annoyed the commissar etc
No. Check the concept of Deep packet inspection.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_packet_inspection
I'm curious if users of this ISP have alternatives?

If one wanted to view porn, and did not want to deal with getting it "enabled", would it be possible to switch to another ISP?
Assessing Belichick's attitudes toward fumbles is subjective, not objective. The number of player fumbles is objective. Anyone know an NFL coach who likes fumbles? Brady has fumbled multiple times and still starts.
I'm contemplating leaving my current job soon too. The author's list is actually really relevant to how I'm feeling right now.

I want to work with a smaller team, preferably at a startup. Anyone need a high-level frontend engineer? Please, contact me.
I hadn't thought of consolidating the loans, but that seems like something worth considering! Thank you for the advice!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_engineering

Using "computer engineering" to mean what most people consider "software engineering" will probably lead to a lot of confusion.
Shame on me, I didn't know what KVM cable is until this post. Now I know how to switch between my PC and Mac seamlessly. Thanks!
Is there a good example of a country with legalized drugs? Afghanistan is one I know of. It does not reflect well on legalizing drugs.
http://www.programmableweb.com/apis
Sure, a spreadsheet might make it easy to see that I have 12 loans. But does it make it any easier to pay and monitor 12 individual loans? Nah.
I don't want to make anything. But there are lots of people like me with disorganized and confusing student loans...
I don't want to lose any flexibility in repayment, thank you for pointing that out. I'll keep my eyes peeled for fees and such.
> not least during the infamous "hey, we built this massive web framework in part around the incorrect assumption that GET requests don't need to be idempotent and then encouraged everyone to use it" time.

Tell me more. I remember when Rails was first released but missed that entire saga.
>> "I like diesels, but they are absolutely non sensical in the US."

Here's a counterpoint: In my hometown, by far the best-selling passenger vehicles are the Dodge Ram diesels. And having driven a couple of them, they do feel pretty sensical (and very satisfying).

Source: My friend owns a bunch of dealerships
Interesting! May I ask how come you've chosen to study Farsi? I would've emailed you but I didn't see any emails on your profile.
one million lines of Dart code? All this work for displaying ads on the web. Something is not right with this world...