jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Solving that problem seems similar to building an AI capable of interpreting what a human being would think. Far simpler is to use ratings people already have (book reviews, links to sources they like, forum discussions, up/down votes, etc.) and highlight those."

Being right 100% of the time would require some AI that's way more advanced than anything existing today, but the thing is that you really only need to be right 25% of the time to create something that's an order of magnitude better than what exists today. For example, let's say you have this article: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/21673/

Being able to identify a set of people, 25% of whom would find that article worth reading, shouldn't be very difficult. In addition to all of the rating systems you mention, you can also do some basic things like tracking their reading history, asking them some questions before and/or after presenting them with article recommendations, etc.

In fact, the two things I would most go out of my way to avoid would be A) trying to figure out what people will like based on what other people with similar taste like and B) pulling specific facts out of articles and trying to analyze them or compare them with other articles. These two approaches seem like incredibly hard problems to solve, and they don't seem at all necessary to create something that's an order of magnitude better than what we have today.

The trick is getting humans to do as much of the work as possible. For example, one could create a delicious-like tagging system whereby people would tag articles with other articles they should read if they liked/disliked or agreed with or disagreed with the original article. Once you have a shared vocabulary to talk about the problem, getting a good solution isn't that hard even if not all the tools are 100% formalized.
I'm tempted to agree with Lamo. It doesn't sound like Manning was thinking carefully about what information he released or why. He was just a lost soul who found a way to feel important and wield power against a system he felt trapped in. If he really had an agenda to expose U.S. wrongdoing or give Americans a better understanding of the nature of war and the consequences of projecting American power overseas, then I would be all behind him. If he was thinking that carefully, though, he wouldn't have needlessly incriminated himself to a near-stranger.
It should have started with 0. Sorry. And I avoided `foldl1` because I wanted to stay close to C++'s `accumulate`.
Whoops. Yes it should.
I don't know the answer to this question, but here's a link that I've found to be helpful in answering questions like this: http://www.payne.org/index.php/Startup_Equity_For_Employees
Doesn't every single generation say this? We've got writings showing Socrates making the same complaint. If every generation keeps saying this, then doesn't that call its accuracy into question?

I'd be a lot more comfortable if these sorts of claims were based on more objective data.
You were helping google, but you were also helping everyone who used their maps from that day into the future. Your comment gives off the air of someone upset they helped the wrong party in a zero-sum game. IMO, this is clearly a positive sum one, and you shouldn’t despair at improving little corners of the world just because actors you don’t like will also benefit.
I missed it too. Here's the HN discussion from 3 days ago. Pretty crazy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26061935
It looks like Coinbase doesn't support Tether: https://www.coinbase.com/price/tether
Do you think that centralization of Bitcoin is worse than centralization of USD?
This actually goes to the root of why this project exists.

There is a pretty deep tension in the way that Rust deals with stability. That is, the project itself takes stability very seriously, and as such, has to minimize, to some degree, what things we accept as official, because we need to be able to maintain them. So what tends to happen is, stuff happens in the ecosystem, and then, if it makes sense, moves slowly into the project itself. Furthermore, because being blessed by the project commands some weight, if we refer to something, it'll get used. But if we want the ecosystem to explore the design space and develop solutions, endorsing something in the midst of that process could cut it short.

This also means that the documentation, generally, doesn't refer to any external projects. We need stuff to be solid and foundational, but some random package can change at whatever pace they'd like. We also don't want to interfere with the community development process by picking winners.

But you, as a Rust developer, programming something, need to know how to get stuff done. And that very often will mean interacting with the ecosystem. That's a good thing! But that comes in tension with the docs provided by the project. Because you won't learn about serde from reading the book.

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There is a second issue here, which is the kind of documentation provided by the project. We have good beginner documentation. We have good expert documentation. But how do you get from point A to point B? It's a bit less clear. Additionally, our beginner documentation tends to be focused on doing, and our expert documentation tends to be focused on more abstract theory or implementation details.

Where we are weakest is "okay I read the book... now what?"

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One method of resolving these tensions is the Cookbook. The idea was to provide a resource based around helping intermediate Rust developers solve specific tasks. The usual guidelines around referring to packages is relaxed a bit. It wouldn't be pointing to the absolute latest fancy stuff, but it would be allowed to refer to packages that have mostly settled out. If you're doing serialization, you may not use serde, but you probably are, and nobody is going to be surprised if you do. So on some level, we want to provide a resource to folks that are saying "Hey I need to deserialize this JSON, what should I do?" and be able to say "Use serde."

This may mean that the cookbook would need changing if the ecosystem shifts significantly. There's an art to doing this enough to be useful, but not enough to cause constant churn.

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Unfortunately, a lot of folks put a lot of effort into the cookbook, but then moved on to other things. It's needed some revitalization for a while, and never quite made it over the hump from "in-progress work" to "thing we're willing to publish and promote." It got close! It's still really good in many places! It's also out of date in places.

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Anyway, that's a really long way of saying "because real world programs don't tend to use Result<T, Box<dyn Error>> except at the exploratory phase."
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

In light of everything else going on regarding actual political activity, the first amendment issues involving pornography seem like a distraction and a farce.
they would only get clobbered if the fed is ahead of the curve. If the CPI is 4% a year and interest rate is 2%/year, then TIPS are very good cuz you are getting a 2% real return even with high inflation.
If it’s in your best interest to buy and never sell, why would anyone want to use it for exchange?

Bitcoin’s deflationary nature discourages spending and selling, by definition. The high transaction costs discourage it even further.
FWIW I encountered it yesterday while signing in to Google Maps.
There's a case to be made that Haskell (or Idris) is not imperative, but 'imperative', at it's core, describes an interface, and Haskell supports that interface, basically (and a limited version of the associated semantics -- all good interfaces reduce their detail and surface area, though, no good having an arbitrarily precise interface).
A friend of mine started http://hootcourse.com/ which attempts to integrate the communication tools students are using with their courses.

The instructors and students using it thus far seem to enjoy it. Though it's not a replacement for products like Blackboard since it's not really a repository for content, it does replace their poor communication tools well.
You're right that the word is slightly misleading, because it could be seen both ways, but it is also clearly decentralisation.

In the previous model, all your data, email, media, etc is on your computer, your hard drive, a single point that you are in control of. In the new model, your photos are on Facebook, your emails are on Gmail, your tweets are on Twitter, your bookmarks are on Delicious, your data is on Dropbox, your music is on Spotify, your movies are on Netflix, etc... It's not centralised to one location, it's split up from one location (your computer) into potentially hundreds of locations owned by a variety of paymasters with different agendas. So, it is decentralised.

From the point of view of the collective, it's centralisation (data goes from many entities into a single entity) but from the point of view of the individual, it's decentralisation (data goes from a single entity to many entities).
This turns out to be a fake joke photo, but the fact that it's fake is pretty well hidden in most reports. http://www.businessrevieweurope.eu/tags/harrods-christmas-li... plants it way at the bottom. Seems like the opposite of what a "news" story should do, I would think.
I have been hooked on Typus for 1.5 years now. It goes on every project.
Here's the original photo, pre-manipulation:

http://nimg.sulekha.com/others/thumbnailfull/aptopix-britain...

The lights this year are white; green was last year's colour.
Autoscaling Heroku workers is definitely a problem that people would like solved, but I see a few issues with trying to offer the solution as a SaaS. One, you're targeting developers. There are several github repos that do this kind of thing for free, and developers would know how to find and implement those. Two, those github repo's are going to do a better job of scaling because they can turn dynos/workers on and off instantly (e.g. as soon as a delayed job is done); much more cost effective than waiting up to 5 minutes to turn dynos/workers on/off. Three, you're targeting people that are trying to save money and _don't_ want to spend money.

As an aside, perhaps I (a cheap developer) am not in your target demographic, and you're really targeting folks with lots of Heroku apps and lots of money to spend. In which case you should be charging bundles more than $20/month.
They're a ton of work, more so if you're not used to reading technical papers. It's also easy to get behind on the project, which is a very independent activity. Graduate students themselves usually only register for 2 courses a semester. That being said, if you make it through you'll be familiar with what is essentially state of the art. I'm finishing up the networking grad class this semester and I'm very pleased with it. Although I'm not exactly the best person to listen to when it comes to balancing work because I constantly overextend myself.
Hah, yep. I've been waiting for this feature from Heroku for over a year. Finally decided to just implement it ourselves. We then realized it might be nice to make it easy for other people.

We'd welcome Heroku implementing it! We actually think there's many other things we can add on top of Heroku that would be valuable so we're not too worried :-)
"However, she is not a techie so her innovations are in teaching styles, delivery, activities, content and management and not technology. I think sometimes as techies we can be quite arrogant in assuming that innovation must always involve technology."

Definitely agree with this. I know UK schools have a budget for technology (or at least they used to), though a lot of it apparently ended up spent on fancy new gadgets that were more cool than useful.
to compare to the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GouYMH1K4nE
They have plenty of patience if you have enough money.
Riot is compared to React mostly and React worked as an inspiration for it. We totally see the value in it. We have used it and still use it on production. Not sure if you have seen the React vs Riot 2.0 comparison:

https://muut.com/riotjs/compare.html
So now I'm a misogynist? Thanks for proving my whole point.
Invisible Girlfriend Monthly Subscription: $24.99/month

100 texts
10 voicemails
1 postcard

...

I think 100 texts is a bit low for $24.99/month. The postcard option is very nice, so are the voice mails however.

But how do the voice mails work? Will it be the same voice every time?
I don`t have specific favorite writers, but I have favorite sites:
https://ivypanda.com/
https://thecorrespondent.com/
Over two years ago I bought an Alpine head unit for my car that doesn't even take CDs. It has an iPod jack, a USB jack, and an 1/8" audio jack. The day before I installed that was the last day I even considered buying or burning audio CDs.
Shouldn't that be considered a badge of credibility?

Yes people can make fakes, welcome to thousands of years ago
Yeah, or we could all just plink away on Amigas or something.
Awesome... but what is the difference between the URI of the page (notepad.cc/test) and the "share this" link URI (notepad.cc/share/ASDF123)? Why aren't they the same? Different security? Different expiration lengths?
I have to confess my bias upfront and say that I'm not a fan of John Gruber. He eloquently spins bullshit, constructing superficially supported arguments that don't bear any scrutiny at all. He is so far down the Apple rabbit hole that he seldom convinces anyone other than the already convinced (which, for historic reasons, includes much of HN).

In this case he's talking about video calling. Ignoring the fact that nobody is actually going to use video calling (it has come so many times on many devices. The Evo was far from the first device to implement it), let's humor his point.

So let's compare-

Apple iPhone 4 - video calling between iPhone 4 devices, only over wifi, using Apple's completely new, completely non-standard protocol. Apparently it "works great", at least for people using demo units at an Apple conference under controlled circumstances.

Evo 4G - Android device with a front-facing camera. Apps support it to talk on any network you want. Fring, for instance, allowing you to call Skype video users on pretty much anything including PCs. This is over wifi, or a 3G/4G connection that can support it.

Gruber has close to no experience with the iPhone 4G, and his entire experience with the Evo 4G is one reviewer's take. Nonetheless, that has made him an expert.

Is iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 calling considered done? Seriously? To me that barely qualifies as beta. It barely qualifies as alpha. There are a legacy of long existing, open video calling protocols, and many existing implementations. Only the truly faithful could call Apple's take done.

EDIT To draw from a comment I left elsewhere, here's an exercise for Daring Fireball supporters: Imagine, if you will, that Motorola just introduced their latest Android device, front-facing camera and all, called the iDroid. The iDroid comes with an easy to use, ultra-simple video conferencing solution, but it only works on wifi, and it only works between iDroid devices.

How, I ask, would John Gruber respond to that? Imagine that it's been tightly polished and all.

Would he post a praise-filled entry lauding their innovation, heralding this great new functionality? Maybe I'm just being a jerk, but I think he would viciously attack it.
> I'm having a hard time believing that you read it carefully

Excuse me, but I find this uncalled for. Not everyone has a formal physics education. People who last studied physics in high school 10 years ago will make mistakes even if they read things carefully.
Reading that it looks like the EVA would be a big problem due to getting into the suits.

Would someone who is smarter than me comment on the feasibility (In extremis) of just jumping across the 6 meter gap unsuited 1 by 1 with the suited rescuers helping? I have read that a human can survive about 30 seconds of vacuum without permanent damage. What if they huffed pure oxygen for a while before making the attempt so their blood was super-oxygenated before breathing out and making the leap?

Would the depressurization / repressurization take too long? Would it take too long for the space-suited rescuers to man-handle them into the airlock? (Would they even be able to align airlocks for a straight jump?)

It makes me wonder what would have happened if NASA has a set of minimal protection "short-duration" suits with almost nothing more than pressurization and a small oxygen supply for quick excursions (Like, for example, transferring quickly between two craft as if your live depended on it :p )
The grandparent didn't claim that there was an evolutionary advantage to religion, but he did claim that the human species started doing something that has no evolutionary advantage (we invented prayer).

As you correctly point out the traits we have are either an advantage or an artifact of an advantage. Inventing prayer is neither of those.
It also gives rationale. The rationale is ... unconvincing.
Wanted to take some time off to write a book on fullstack development, so I have to build a book writing and publishing platform first. Obviously.

Working on https://papiary.com - I’m starting off with a reader, putting a few public domain books on it, free to read without login. Hoping to get some buzz by asking people to tweet me about which books they want on next. Will add a paid Pro Reader plan that lets you choose better fonts (very high quality expensive ones) adjust the typesetting and theme, sync across devices, PDF downloads etc.

For the authors, I’ll write the first few booklets on it and then open it out to others, but so far I’m thinking direct payments and subscriptions into your Gumroad / Stripe / Paddle account, no commission. Manage all your readers as a list of email addresses, so easy export to Mailchimp or import off external sales. Will also handle demand curve pricing if you want. Can write in simple Markdown or the gold standard AsciiDoc. Will charge money making authors based on headcount, maybe $5 per 100 paying readers.
Fighter pilot here, working on making target imagery for training bombing on ranges faster. https://dieselplanning.com
Completely irrelevant to the world, but I'm finally breaking free of my ISP. I've been going to all sorts of accounts and pointing them to an e-mail address that isn't locked to an ISP. Then I will move my little personal web page, and transfer my home phone number to a prepaid cell phone.

This was triggered by realizing that with the whole family working from home (2x work, 1x college, 1x high school), our old slow ISP was going to be overwhelmed, so we signed up for new service.
Good to know, thanks for sharing.

Based on what it said the direct translation was I had thought it was weird, but I figured the Wikipedia page would know more than I.
Labor participation would be 99% in all countries. What’s your point?

The 20% to 60% is meant to demonstrate female inequality in India, because most of them are working at home for zero pay and low social status. Whereas in more developed countries, women get paid to work in industries.
Other than "can I use <new API>" style questions, the vast majority of 2009 HTML/JS answers are still entirely valid.

Again, though, you're missing the point. On StackOverflow, a stale answer can be fixed, by virtually anyone. On traditional vBulletin-style forums, the post saying "this isn't true anymore, there's a better way" might be buried hundreds of posts in.
It says if you get into a patent disagreement with their company you can no longer use react, whether they sue you, or you sue them. I'm not planning on suing facebook, but if they sue me, suddenly I have 2 problems, the lawsuit, and not being able to use react anymore.

It should only regard to react. If the clause is to protect their right to develop react, it should only pertain to such.
There is a depressing theme on this thread that businesses == spammers. I am sure that a long history of poor email use by many companies helped create this impression, but this way too broad of a generalization.

Our startup has a "free report" where we analyze a single page and dependent resources for ~420 front-end performance issues. We believe that this has value. For that free report, we ask for a valid email address, so we can send you 1 email, from an actual person, to ask what you thought of the findings and to offer to answer any questions. That's it. You get something, we get something.

Now, I understand that 1st time users can't/don't know if our free report value, so they don't want to give us something you consider valuable in return. But using a temporary email to get peek at value from me is a dick move.

1000 people rush to tell me: "But if you service has value then people will come back and [blah blah blah]".

Well, you have a gut feel and I have 4 years of data. And we have had 0 temp email providers ever want to talk with us. Clearly we provide value, because we have a number of large customers in the retail and media spaces. What I've learned is the type of person who uses a temp email provider doesn't see the value that our customers do. They don't fit our customer model, so we don't spend time or energy on them, and importantly money/resources on them. Instead we filter the major temp email providers and display a message explaining our email policy, and ask them to use a real email address. People can get around it, but it raises the bar and explains our position, which is really the only thing I can do.

Jerk companies have created an environment that is tarnishes everyone, and that is depressing as hell.
Yeah that makes sense. I feel like I am most productive if I touch email twice a day.

Also attacking the hardest thing that I have to do between 9am - 11am seems to work well. I have more energy to get it done. Maybe that has to do with waking up at 7, who knows.
I was hoping it would be a tiny mechanical version instead of a digital. Still a neat project, and very nicely implemented though.
OneDrive has been a mess:

"Prior to Windows 8.1, we had two sync experiences. One used on Windows 7/8/Mac to connect to the consumer service, and a second sync engine to connect to the commercial service (OneDrive for Business). In Windows 8.1 we introduced a third sync engine..."

This is Chris Jones, super smart guy, long-time vet of Microsoft, and ... indicative of the kind of incredibly stupid shit only Microsoft can pull off. Bonus points for the phrase "sync experiences" which indicates smart-dude-weak-thinking at a legendary level. Sinofskyesque.

In the blog post he sort of admits the fuckup. Sort of. But who cares. It's March and things already kicking ass on Mac, finally. After Windows 10 ships it'll be fine. Five years late, but fine. Not like Dropbox got their nonsense figured out with the long and generous head start. And not like Apple's done any better, either.
Observations like this are part of what turned me off of "conceptual art"; it's too easy to poke holes in any proposed interpretation, and a defender can just as easily weasel out of it once it's pointed out.
Keep in mind that some cities/states have much more generous social safety nets than others. Utah, is perhaps a bad example due to the confound of Mormon culture, but it has a good safety net and tons of entrepreneurs.
It looks stupid now, but in retrospect twitter and instagram looked stupid as well. It's the kind of startup that either fails horribly or explodes in usage inexplicably.
There are alternatives, depending on the the processor/controller capabilities.

http://www.mikroe.com/mikropascal/

http://www.mikroe.com/mikrobasic/

http://turbo51.com/

For more beefy systems,

http://www.astrobe.com/default.htm

http://www.is2t.com/products/

http://www.atego.com/products/atego-perc-pico/