jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have had clients that went crazy about any hint of negativity (or what they considered 'inconsistent with their brand') online. In some cases I brought them reports of bloggers that mention their products with a suggestion they send some free samples and encourage the attention. The reaction was emergency meetings where I was asked what we could do about all this.

This doctor is not one of those cases. Seems to be a very web savy practice. He has contributed articles, pictures and diagrams to lots of sites. It's the kind of thing and internet marketing / SEO company would be recommending. One of the reviews mentions being convinced to choose him due to his web presence. I would not be surprised if a lot of his business comes this way. Of surgeons in his area, he's probably one of the prominent online.
http://www.google.com.au/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&...

Now google him, and it's bad news. I would be surprised if his phone isn't ringing a lot less.
Excel 2011, at least, has been a revelation compared to 2008.

That's interesting. Can you be specific about what the best new things are?
pretty cool. I would change high meaning bad and low meaning good, unless its a rank out of the total. Its a bit counter-intuitive. Why do you just place an emphasis on dissatisfaction instead of giving the option to look at both?
I'm a man using Pinterest to study design, fashion, art, astronomy, and other visually oriented subjects. I follow boards for UX/UI design elements and animations which would be relevant to the HN audience but, honestly, I'm not super eager to have more "men" on the site. In this case, imho, the problem isn't Pinterest the problem is men and I'm fine with that problem; it keeps a lot of subtle porn and memes away from the site. Pinterest should be focusing on the men they do have and growing that audience instead.
Your experience is completely atypical.

Most PhD students -- at least the ones I know in the states and overseas -- spend most of their time in school trapped in a lab or office. A few make time to "network" with people outside the department, but most have to be forced to socialize with a broader audience than can be found at the weekly beer hour.

The far more common pattern for a PhD student is to spend years busting his/her ass in near-isolation to accomplish research goals and graduate, only to find that it's hard to get a job without real-world contacts. So you're absolutely correct in the sense that PhD students should be networking, but it just doesn't seem to happen very much in practice.
I think about the idea of such site for three years.
Actually, this idea just sits in my head. One day last year I've decided to implement it. The site was launched recently and it is in closed beta for now. Main problem - explain the idea of the site to the people.
Great success. I bought a pack for myself and it's worth every penny.
Part of being a good engineer is understanding tradeoffs and figuring out when contextually-dependent knowledge doesn't apply.

IMHO, it doesn't matter - for Hacker News. That's independent of whether it matters for whatever website you're being paid to write at any given job.
It's just marketing bollocks but their attempt to justify it is at the bottom of their press release https://www.ovoenergy.com/ovo-newsroom/press-releases/2019/n...
"Once you own a home outright, and health insurance is taken care of, the other expenses are completely manageable. I don't need to earn a lot to lead a rich life."

That is the checklist of a rich person, own home outright, health insurance taken care of, and manageable other expenses.

If you were the same age, but had no home ownership, no health insurance, and dependants how would that change your perspective?
Well its unfair to change the license and remove all the name of the orignal creator, yeah u can use the code to make money and all. But creadit should be given to the person who created it.
I wouldn't short BC anymore than I'd short GME, there's a lot of get-rich-quick metooism and as the saying goes, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
All the anti-GPL techies have themselves to thank for.
Cardano has already demonstrated that it's working. The network is currently 86% decentralized and on Mar 31st will be 100% decentralized.
Tcl is meant to be embedded for scripting and it can be made non-Turing complete by stripping away all but the bare minimum of commands. There is a built in mechanism for sandboxing untrusted input. If can easily be a safe, bullet proof configuration language.
This tweet has a short overview of the video https://twitter.com/joelnet/status/1311773094856454144
If you are worried about 'offending people', moving away from AWS sounds like a good idea. AWS's 'Acceptable Use Policy' [0] states: You may not use [...] the Services
[...] to [...] display [...] content that is [...] offensive.

However, moving to D.O. is a bad idea, because they have virtually the same policies. They can pull the plug if they want to, because it's their service.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/aup/
I didn't see anything on energy consumption or transaction throughput/fees. How can one discuss merits of bitcoin and not talk about any of this?
Come on, that's ridiculous - wired LAN is more secure and faster than Wifi - anywhere I go, I prefer wired to Wifi.
The best time to shop around for the best deal is after you've been hit by a car and are having trouble breathing.
Another thing I don't like is legislators making laws without thinking about enforcement, which is why I don't like anti-discrimination laws.
Continuing to burn large quantities of fossil fuels is also ecologically disastrous; given that the deserts are not processing large amounts of CO2 (compared to, say, forests, or phytoplankton), damaging them seems like the lesser of two evils. Orbital generation would be terrific, but seems more difficult to realize.
Unlike the other commenters, I wouldn't suggest any book yet.
Instead, start playing with the language. Take your browser, bring on the javascript console (on Firefox it's ctrl-shift-K, on Chrome it's ctrl-shit-j), and start entering some instructions. Add some numbers, concatenate some strings, do a for loop, create and call a function...

Then learn how to run a script from the browser (create a html file and inside write <script src="my_code.js"></script>, and put my_code.js in the same repertory as the html page, and finally open the it with the browser).

Then, play around, learn how javascript can interactively change a page, etc.
I'm a YC founder (current batch; Shift Labs) and also a tenured full professor at an R1 university. I've got a pretty good view from both sides of this fence. I've spent over 20 years as a faculty member at research universities, produced PhD students, raised millions in grant money, written dozens of articles, yadda yadda yadda.

Universities are really great for many things. They are even really great at commercializing some kinds of technologies. But they are not great for all things, even all things related to bio or tech transfer. Sometimes crazy bets are the only way breakthroughs happen, and generally academia cultivates incremental more than transformational.

I started my company because I wanted to make affordable medical devices. The incentive systems for both med device companies and university commercialization offices are almost completely misaligned with building a business model that works for affordable medical devices.

So I went the entrepreneurial route.

Being in academic research is not the same thing as building a company. They're not the same skill sets, or even the same language. Lots of academics become technical advisers to startups built around their research. That's not the same thing as building a company. YC is about building a company.

I wrote about being a med device company in YC here: http://bit.ly/1LlmZjk, but I think really what I was writing about was being a researcher learning to build a startup.
Where in Europe are you located? I cannot recall a transfer that took longer than 24 hours.

SEPA works surprisingly well, even for an initiative started by the European Union ;)
With so many skulls, someone working at the DEA should ponder, "are we the baddies?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
The interesting question, however, is not that. It’s whether that complete disruption is a worthwhile tradeoff. We make those tradeoffs all the time and just saying there is disruption is really not enough …
Yea I mean look at Airbnb. It is, (in software jargon) a "crud" app. Virtually any software project you could care to choose in academia today is more advanced than airbnb's tech.
This line of reasoning often leads to the suggestion that you shouldn't bother drinking coffee. I think it's exactly the opposite.. Most things that give me as much pleasure as coffee does are actively damaging me. If coffee is a break-even prospect, then it may just be the world's greatest vice.
Hasn't the treo been irrelevant for years?
That would be like calling HP a calculator company.
Slides available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/32311867/Design-for-Developers
I'm all for "companies aren't your friends" as an attitude, but pretending Apple and Facebook are the same on privacy and what they do with your data is simply unsupported by the facts.
Author here.

Thank you for this. I will update the post with this information.
I know “both sides” narratives offer an easy way to tune out of an issue you don’t wish to engage with, but that’s a huge unsupported claim. Apple and Facebook have entirely different business models and Facebook has had a history of dishonesty about what they collect or how they use it, not to mention even shadier practices (remember when they suckered the news industry with that “pivot to video” based on fake data?).

It’s important to remember that large companies don’t have your best interests at heart but simply reaching for false equivalencies by reflex makes you prone to being fooled, not sophisticated. Facebook PR spends a lot of money trying to encourage this kind of apathy.
i get that point but still it is a little tough to buy. When I lived in the Bay Area (until 2019), the only psychiatry office that accepts medical insurance upfront is the PCPA. As a software engineer living in Oakland wanting to use my company health insurance I saw Scott on the list at Walnut Creek. I remember immediately thinking "bay area psych, Scott Alexander, oh my god what if i got an appointment with this dude?"

I never made the appointment because it would have been really difficult to separate the writing from the person. However, that is on him! Plenty of mental health professionals blog and see patients.
Just looks like private sellers to me.

Here's the £850 one - does have a TB SSD but still...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/apple-macbook-pro-retina-15-4-Inc...

And the £620 with 256GB
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-Macbook-Pro-15-inch-mid-201...

That is some serious value being retained right there.
Thanks for your response!

> parameters of lockdown

I'm in France: latest rules are basically a police-enforced curfew 6PM-6AM and a full-lockdown (police enforced) during the weekend.

I try to go out -during the day- when I can get some time off work. Eat a sandwich outside and get some air during launch break, but after this long, walking alone for an hour isn't helping much.

My friends basically scattered in different towns/countries where there are less restrictions. I try to keep in touch with the few that remain but it is not easy.
nice repo, i saw some comments expressing excitement and thought of the first time i saw pymoo, tpot, and finally automl. there are a lot of stuff laying around github but we just need to search better, like using topics (tags) and the gazer repo which kinda page-ranks the github repos.
what are the 'good reasons' exactly, though? Is it whether we like them or not? And should the NY Times be in the business of adjudicating that?
Not stealing user’s private PDF file during crash is very low bar for privacy.

I agree that Apple cares about this stuff, but your story doesn’t really show it.
HBD is human biodiversity, which is considered by some on the left to be a euphemism for "black people aren't as clever as white people" and aligned with eugenics. In fact, it's the study of human genetic variation [0], which has many implications for fields such as healthcare.

As you can imagine, it's an extremely sensitive subject which is widely mischaracterized by people on both the left and the right for their own political ends.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_variation
To go ahead and be that Haskell purist... in normal Haskell code there are no functions which execute side effects in the process of computing their results. Even a function like

putStrLn :: String -> IO ()

merely produces an IO value. It is only when such a value is sequenced into something presented to the RTS as `main` that the effects are realized.

This seems like pedantry, but it allows you to construct and compose IO values in many ways (besides just sequentially evaluating them). This ends up giving you "macro like" powers.
I ran IE (I think it was 3.0) on an HP-UX workstation back around the millennium.
While the issues you point out may be correct, the existence of popular cross-platform and cross-distro graphics software like Blender and Krita suggests that they're solvable.
Yeah, such weaponized use of social media should only be available to state actors, they can handle it responsibly. /s
> I'm not sure about those clunky Vive controllers

Vive owner here.

Depends on the game. In a game like PokerStars VR, yeah I often feel like I'm holding a controller. But that's not a game that aims to immerse you, as it's more of a social game. The real draw to that game is interaction with other players. VRChat is also in the same boat.

In any sort of shooter, not at all. Definitely still immersive and I don't feel like I'm holding a controller. This also applies to games where I'm holding things a lot, like Gorn. I feel like I'm holding inflatable toy weapons, which is fine because the weapons in the game flop around a bit like they're inflated.
I've always assumed this comes from older Amazon shoppers who interpret the emails asking if they can answer questions about some item they ordered as personally asking them to answer the questions.
Thanks! We're using GCP.
> The Republicans are blatantly criminal [...] This really doesn't seem like it should be a controversial statement to me.

That party has ~100 million voters/sympathizers in this country.

Surely you can see that it would be controversial among them?

If you hang out in online forums, for either side, it can be eerie how they both describe the other side like you just described Republicans.
The link you posted is talking about the security implications of hibernate when also using lockdown (a kernel security feature). It has nothing to do with getting hibernate to work in general.
Regardless of whether this is a real result, I always had trouble "trusting" the "Standard Model" when I was at university. There are too many knobs to twiddle, and levers to pull in order to get the results. The mathematics is non-trivial. Just reading the article gives you an idea of how difficult it is to make predictions from the model.

Compare it to this comment about General Relativity:

"Widely acknowledged as a theory of extraordinary beauty, general relativity has often been described as the most beautiful of all existing physical theories." (via wikipedia - Landau & Lifshitz 1975, p. 228).

(ignoring the cosmological constant, of course).

Compared to most, or all, other physical theories, the Standard Model feels like there's something much simpler set of equations underneath waiting to be discovered.
Good point.

However for virtually every child there's no choice whether to go to school. I don't know if Czech laws say explicitly that school education is guaranteed to the citizens, but de facto skipping school is not an option.
Mobi is very similar to EPub. It’s almost a 0.9 version of EPub. The main differences are in the container.
I don't think tracking is the concern here, it's advertisement that a lot of these smart TVs have been adding to their menu systems. Apple TV or smart TV, those services you hook into like Netflix are tracking your behavior anyway; that's a given. Your behavior is also tracked on Hackernews or any website you visit. Advertisement on the other hand, is a new thing with smart TVs that people try and avoid through the dumb TV.
Technical failures in complex applications are not always able to be "clearly communicated". I don't use EC2 in any major capacity so I may be wrong here, but my understanding of the failure is that Amazon acknowledged the system had failed and that they were working to get the systems back up. I don't know what else you expect in the midst of an outage -- the fact is that if the technical failures were foreseen and planned, there wouldn't be an outage, so you have to give the technicians time to figure out what happened and figure out a way to fix it.

The details you want don't come until the crisis is over and the users are back online. Occasionally you may be able to get a meaningful ETA, but it really depends on the nature of the failure(s) that caused the outage. I'm glad Amazon didn't cave to the pressure and just throw a random guess out.
http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html says 12% of all people in the US would die before the age of 60 at current age-group death rates. Currently about 2.4 million people die in the US per year http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/deaths.htm, so probably about 50 million have died over the last three decades. All developed countries together are about triple the population of the US, so 150 million total deaths. Let's say half of these were white-collar workers, or 75 million.

If early death is independent of white-collar status, then you'd expect about 10 million dead office workers who died before 60 in the past few decades, even if sitting and sugar have no effects on death risk.
It's kind of obvious dropbox wasn't storing raw file blocks encrypted, or there wouldn't be much point in doing dedupe -- any reasonable crypto algorithm should be giving you output close enough to random that two users storing the same data with different keys would not dedupe with each other.

So unless they were only deduping two copies of the same file blocks if they were stored with the same key, at least the data blocks are being stored plain.

As for who can access the fact that a given block is yours -- well, they still make substantially better promises than most ISPs or hosting companies do.

So yeah. Have reasonable expectations about how private data there is, and decide what to store there accordingly -- and if, before this change, you were expecting them to fight a warrant for you (or even say no if threatened with one) rethink your plan.
Actually, Amazon acquired Lovefilm in Jan. [1], and Zediva is being sued by the MPAA[2].

[1]http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/01/20/amazon-acquires-lovefilm...
[2]http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/04/mpaa-sues-zediva/
I actually use Amazon on Demand because Netflix does not support Linux.
Interesting that they are (soon to be were) in Tampa, FL - not exactly a hotbed of tech startups. Definitely cheaper to be there, but is it easier or harder to draw talent?
I would definitely be interested in something like this. Currently an engineering student who's messed around with FPGAs, microprocessors, assembly, circuits and the like. I find that getting good, clear and concise info for these more hardware-related pursuits is very difficult. Oftentimes I'm trying to get through an incredibly dense manual or just googling through forums of people with similar problems.

Not sure how much I could contribute but I could always share my experiences thus far. I would be an interested consumer for whatever you're doing with respect to hardware startup info though.
Going to finally confess to actually being from New Jersey? We need you to show proof.
None of them, except Google (presumably), has patents on those technologies in the first place, so they would get no royalties.

This is a clever defense of companies that use WebM against someone else (like mpeg la) trying to form a patent pool for it and attack them. They would score big if they convinced some of the h264 patent holders to join them.
If that's known, then I can just remove /s/ and /abc and I'll gain access to your file, no?

In any case, vanity url's is a feature I plan on adding.
You realize the servers are likely still compromised, and could be saving any new email addresses entered.
Surely humanity is arguably plankton-dependent?
Don't know if this was mentioned in the answers (haven't read them all):

Don't assume that once you make your query run perfectly it will stay that way for ever. Once row count grows, your query might start to perform very poorly. Happened to me just recently, when a query was running in the 0.0001s range, but over night crawled to a halt and took 1 minute(!) to execute. Always pay attention to your querys and monitor if anyone of them is starting to slow down.
As amazing as they are I let out a snort at the end when I saw "All photos subject to copyright.", I imagined prehistoric copyright law.
Very cool to see SpruceID here. I wasn't aware that you were in the W21 Y Combinator batch — very neat! If you could send me an email at sebastian@cerebrum.com I'd love to talk, I'm quite interested in what you're working on. Thanks!
> Twitter lawyers brought Alzabarah in the following afternoon, accused him of improperly accessing user accounts

I guess I have to side with the FBI on this one. There was no reason for Twitter to contact the employee, they could have seen what the employee was doing by accessing all these Saudi profiles and then giving the benefit of the doubt to the FBI.
A while back I put together the base of an emulator for a fictional balanced ternary computer. I chose a completely different binary encoding method where each ternary value had its negative and positive trits stored separately. This undoubtedly made it slower to emulate arithmetic since my sum implementation has a while loop to deal with carries while the implementation in the article uses a variation of packed BCD math. Good to note if I ever go back to this.

I used a sort of balanced heptavintimal representation which differs significantly too. Where positive 3-trit values were represented as expect (0-D) and negative values were represented by the lowercase equivalent of the positive for letters and the symbol above the positive number key on a standard US keyboard. So for instance the number "--00-+-++" would be "c@%".

I chose a 9-trit "tryte". Each group of three trits was a called a "tone". Why "tone"? Because in the elaborate back story of the computer's creation one of its primary functions was playing simple music compositions. 3 trits yields 27 values or silence (0) and one octave each above and below including sharps and flats. A grouping of 3 such "tones" is a "tritone" or "tryte" (the spelling with 'y' helps disambiguate from 'trit' when reading).

The backstory for this thing was actually significantly more elaborate and complete than the emulator ever was. I did work out how to do parity-block style error recovery with ternary though.
It won't matter how many EVs automakers release if they can't build a reliable charging network. Most EVgo and Chargepoint chargers don't work (entirely, or at their putative rates).

Electrify America's charging stations almost always work...unfortunately, as the last man on the field they have the least convenient locations.

Tesla's car build quality may be crap, but they'll be able to coast on the superiority of the Supercharger network for at least 3-4 years.