jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, I didn't have any idea what that "notifo" term meant ... and in fact I still don't.

So you're suggesting that the blank notifo field in my profile, with no explanation of how to use it or what it does, might actually send me an email if I enter the proper URL and make the appropriate changes on the notifo website?

For starters the "notifo" label on the blank field might be better as a link to the notifo website. At least then we would have a clue about where to begin to possibly learn enough to enable simple notifications for the threads we start or want to follow.

I hate to say it but this is about the worst implementation of a notification system I have ever seen in my life. Why not just put a 'notices' link at the top or bottom of every thread page when a visitor is logged in? Then when I click it, take me to a page that allows me to manage my notification subscriptions in a simple, straightforward and OBVIOUS manner?
I think when you're starting, learning about HTTP is way, way more important than a particular language or framework to do server side work with.
I agree. I would not have disclosed this particular XSS flaw until after it was fixed.
I honestly never thought that much about the use of semicolons vs not.

I'm not a hardcore JS programmer, I know enough to get paid for it, and I'm the best JS programmer of my current employer. But I'm far from a jedi master.

Isn't this just a matter of personal preference? A semi-colon is interchangable with \n as long as you use it following the same rules. Which I do because I treat it as a visual marker for the end of a statement.

The counter argument is why use it if the system already recognizes the \n in place there, for which I say to make it easier for other JS programmers to recognize and parse since the \n is used in other places where it isn't the end of a line.

I guess I don't really see this as a compelling argument being made here, or I've misunderstood what is being argued.
Any idea why Angry Birds would be collecting your Location and giving it to Google and Flurry Analytics, according to this infographic?

Does WSJ mean location as in your approximate locale (useful to understand where your users are coming from), or actual GPS coordinates?

Their lack of specificity is a bit confusing.
This is really tragic.
You could use the other thread.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2024401
What about the good old "The internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it" rule?

Why can't we just continue routing around censorship like we have for the past 20 years?
I've been writing Haskell code for years, and this is one of the most singularly useful articles I've read on it. I've certainly found the proliferation of "monad tutorials" and "learn this so you can print something" guides obnoxious, but it never occurred to me that IO really could be taught completely separately from monads.

Here's the outline of what the middle of a tutorial could look like, following this advice:

Here's how to print a string (putStr, putStrLn). Here's how to print something other than a string (show, print). Here's how to print two somethings in a row (>>). Here's how to read something and print that (>>=). Here's how to print something in a function other than main (:: IO ()). Here's how to read something in a function other than main (:: IO a, >>= again, return). Oh by the way, it turns out that pattern (return, >>=) is so common that Haskell gives it a special syntax (do notation). For instance, it works with the previously introduced Maybe. And with List. Remember typeclasses? You can write functions that work with IO, Maybe, and List (Monad m => ...).

Even when actually talking about monads, the explanation should come first, and the term should come later. "It turns out these operations are a common enough pattern that Haskell gives them special syntax..." comes across much more sanely than "now we're going to introduce something [complicated] called a monad".
goodbye truck driving jobs.
The bias of this article is annoyingly blatant. The writer ignores the most common forms of the sport, which look more like a sporting event than war, replete with brightly colored uniforms and colorful playing fields. Reminds me of the "journalism" that abounded regarding video games in the 90's and how they would make everyone want to be a killer, etc, etc.

For reference, this is what the large majority of paintball fields look like:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Speedball...
Google agrees, "Merry Christmas" reigns supreme:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=merry+christmas,+happy+holida...
Im slightly more autistic than the average :P I think its more that Im just an introvert though...
this guy did a similarly in-depth bit on the same topic showing precise distribution of drug name letters compared to their distribution in common written english. pretty interesting stuff. http://www.bookofodds.com/Blogs/Numbers/2010/06-June/Why-Pre...
OK, point taken! I like what you say about an anti-CMS. I feel like the old Google Pages (and maybe new Google Sites?) were aimed this way, along with the what other posters mention (Let's Eat, Squarespace). The step of getting one's own domain name is a whole other thing, of course.

But I do really love the idea that there's a dialectic between the virtual world of websites/internet and restaurant work -- which is so deeply grounded in the physical. And that there's some meaning here, that these things do not reconcile well, and the lameness of the web presence of restaurants is a living manifestation of this disjunction.
In a word: No.

TFA states that it's unlikely. The headline is linkbait and poor practice on the part of ReadWriteWeb.
At least in the case of Harlem Children's Zone, it's a lot more than a school. So the conclusion that throwing money at schools won't work is correct. We should instead throw "school" money at things like HCZ. I think you're actually in agreement with jerf, but are using different definitions of "school".
Statistically, probably not much of a difference if you subscribe to the theory that there would be. I was just correcting the implication that there were none.
Google isn't AdWords, Google is search (and now, the web). Search > Coupons. Google > Groupon
The percent variance is different depending on what you want to know the variance of. It's higher for reading than for math, because kids in high-SES families spend much more time reading at home than they spend doing math at home. And even for literacy it depends on what you're measuring, e.g. it's different for vocabulary knowledge than for reading comprehension.

The reason I linked to the 1969 paper is that it was the first of its kind, so the easiest way to find the more recent research is to look for papers that cite it. A quick glance at their research shows that upwards of 80% of the variance in their reading metrics was due to differences in how students spent the four summer vacations. This isn't taking into account either the initial gap (100% from home differences) or the fact that home differences effect progress made during the year. Basically the amount of variance due to home differences is definitely over 90%, but there isn't enough information from this study to put an exact number on it.

Basically the only two things that have changed since 1969 are that A) poor people are much poorer and B) schools for poor people are worse. I don't know offhand how these two factors balance each other out, but I'd guess that overall the numbers are pretty similar.
Its more about freedom of using rather than creating.
You want to create something that can be used by anyone without restrictions from patents, etc. -- so necessarily that imposes limits on what you can create (in this case no mp4).

I think you can look at GPL in a similar way: it is more about protecting the user than the developer: it imposes restrictions on the developer that are necesasry to ensure the freedom of the user(s).
The Visual Revolution of the Vanishing of Ethan Carter... is just another product from Agisoft.
>websites that rely on ad revenue would lose money and have to shut down.

I'm okay with a world like that.
If that wall is able to hold a high Danube (I assumed it's the Danube) this is one heck of a technology.
This isn't about "hacking" the website, it's about protecting the users of your library (including yourself). I'll open an Issue with more details.
Worked a charm on my iPad between regular and incognito mode. Fascinating, and a bit unfortunate.
>something does need to be done.

Can you elaborate on why that is?

"Something must be done" is the refrain of private defense contractors seeking new revenue streams following the tapering off of our most recent foreign excursions. "Cyber war" is total B. S. It's just taking the same industrial espionage issues that have existed forever and adding "on a computer" to it in order to increase the hype level.

There are a ton of things the government could actually do to help with information security. Some of them are even in the bill -- I don't think anyone has a problem with government providing threat information to the private sector. Or how about more funding for security research. Incentives to implement protocols like DNSSEC.

But there is no excuse for exempting corporations from all privacy laws using extremely vague language. The problem with this bill is very much the implementation rather than the intent, but "good intentions" are no justification for bad legislation.
Yes, this is just based on actions/decisions. It is even trickier since population seems to have accepted it very well. Life in Stockholm and other cities seems rather normal when compared to other countries. Bars, pubs, and elementary schools are still opened.

Yesterday prime minister gave a national speech. He didn’t say anything new, except “more lives of loved ones might be lost, and we should prepare and take responsibility to avoid that”. Nothing really new.
Kubuntu is also excellent, a little rough around the edges in some places but a huge focus on user control while keeping sane defaults. KDE connect in particular is superb, and their suite of applications aren't always the best in that area but they are consistently very good.
My wife told me I was the most annoying person she'd ever known..I almost choked on my vuvuzela.
"It's the world's newest profession"
The unfortunate monotonous sound that is heard via the broadcast is nothing like what it sounds like in the stadium. I was at the Italy - Paraguay game and it was a very different, awesome, experience.
sticktoitiveness
sure: http://code.google.com/p/iui/

http://jqtouch.com/

for the front end, and any server side language (php/ruby...etc)
All of those magazines should pay her for cleaning up their sloppy work.
We use RabbitMQ. We use it with Celery (Python). I haven't had an issue with it, yet.
"Because the writer in question had a copyright on her website where the article can be found, the content of the website is under copyright law."

Ouch. Surely there must be a better source than some junk written by a clueless "digital journalist" with the sole purpose of flooding search engines?
He points out that one of the keys is not to indulge too much in something, e.g., eating fried food, because you get used to it. Couldn't agree more. You need a baseline. When the slumps hit, then you pull out your med-pack.
I enjoyed the "travel log" aspect of it. It was fun to be able to look back a couple months and remember every restaurant I ate at, and every place I went.

The mayorships and badges were fun at first, too.

Ultimately, though, I decided it wasn't providing enough value for the effort I was putting into it, and stopped cold turkey.
Well, it was better than Dr Ruth's guide to Inheritance and Polymorphism.
Since I was in my late twenties (about a decade ago), I've had exactly the opposite reaction.

I've always been involved in 'projects' and working on ideas aside from my main gig, and when I take on proper contracts now, it seems most people think of it as a bad thing. As though I've given up or I'm not doing what I am supposed to be doing or something like that.

Am I the only one who gets this kind of reaction? Completely the opposite of the author.
yes, you can resize them, change icon colours, augment/animate them on the fly, build them from live data..
Perhaps I'm missing a nuance, but I think what you're saying is that you prefer to use the overall emacs workflow for all your tasks -- emacs as OS, UI, and human interface guidelines all in one. I find no fault in that! And who knows, if I took the time to master emacs, maybe I'd prefer it as well.
Why not have your cake and eat it, too? Pick a product that you can do on a part-time basis. Do it. Consult on the side. Alternately, reverse the order.

My product pays the bills, but a bit of consulting on the side right now makes it much less of a dicey proposition and pays for trips to see the family and for freelancers and whatnot to work on my next product, and unlike my customers, consulting clients still have work to be done in the summer.

Some of the skills you crosstrain in, like selling, are intensely valuable, and for a variety of consulting engagements you can use your own business as an object demonstration of what you can do for the customer. Plus, your BATNA is much better than the typical freelancers: oh no, if you don't want to pay my ludicrous hourly wages, I'll be forced to spend the time working on expanding my profitable businesses. How ever will I cope.
You do have a point, but really: when was the last time you went and looked at your meter to make sure you weren't using too much? Or looked at how much energy something used when deciding whether to buy it?

The problem is that power use is limited by physics. If your gas stove valve was stuck open and was venting your gas line you'd know, because the house would turn into an oven. Bandwidth use is not limited by any laws except the capacity of the device, so the difference in usage can vary over a much larger range than power use can.
I've enabled the Backtype Connect WordPress plugin until I get more comments on my blog - the plugin pulls conversations from social media sites and Twitter mentions and posts them as comments. This makes it seem like posts have a ton of comments when in reality, they only have a handful. It's a slightly deceptive but I think the psychological effect the reader has is worth it (but I could be wrong).
I usually don't get all up in arms about multipage article crap, but this article is barely long enough for one print page, and then they split it at probably the worst possible point.
I'm sorry, but I had to laugh when the "Hacker Monthly" blog post told me on which devices I would be able to read the eBook. You should know your audience a little better than that I think. Just being snarky :)

The easiest way to read the eBook: save the PDF to the eBook folder on your DropBox and it's already on all your devices.
I'm just surprised that Buzz seems to have taken the place of FriendFeed.
More people have voted for Trump the second time round compared to the first time, this can't be blamed solely on QAnon or any other such thing (as some of the commenters are doing above). This is a more divisive issue that cuts through the US society, if anything I haven't read too much about "the other side" (we all know on which side we're in here, at least in terms of privilege/money) on this forum (props though for the user that mentioned Christopher Lasch, I only started reading him recently and I think he was doing an excellent job of writing about this exact issue, even if his books are now 30-40 years old).
I am shocked and horrified that it is taking so long to clear those who have breached the Capitol. There is more police efficiency and aggression in a run of the mill BLM protest.

Edit: for example: https://twitter.com/RedR1dngHood/status/1346908557560537091
That's more or else exactly what I was thinking. Thanks!
"Key Opinion Leader". I think it's the new word for "Influencer".
If anyone has ever wondered what white privilege is, this is it.
Yeah, If it gets babied and my wife never touched it. The reality is the tip is likely to get chipped, she'll forget it's the nice one and toss it in the dishwasher, etc., and it'll wear out.
I think the end of the American republic probably counts as a novel new thing.
If you have a problem with the NSA partnering with your government, you should petition your government to stop partnering with the NSA. If the EU has sold you out, get your country to leave the EU. If your country politicians have sold you out, start a revolution and change your country politics.

It is not reasonable to expect the people of the USA to care about european countries before they bother to care about themselves.
Well, if you are going to upload your own image, then only a salted hash of the username you use on that site will be available AvatarPicker.

However, if you use Twitter, Facebook or Gravatar, then yeah AvatarPicker will have your Twitter/Facebook username or hashed gravatar email. Without this, it would be impossible retrieve your avatar from those services.

I guess the best I can do is codify in the privacy policy, that we will not track any kind of correlation between your service usernames and the websites that they are used on
This is excellent information, thanks for sharing it, and correcting my assumptions above.
AFAIK LZ4 and LZMA variants are on opposite ends of the compression spectrum so it probably doesn't make much sense to compare them.
I was surprised I didn't see mention of the reason I buy so many books electronically: Impatience. Getting the book now versus waiting a couple days is a big benefit for me.
Actually, I didn't ignore that in my original comment. I mentioned that the GNU Emacs work should make use of a file format which is independent of the plugin work. There is no reason why GNU would refuse to mainline such an enhancement if it had merits outside of the GCC dependency.

RMS wishes to restrict possible proprietary use of the GCC front-end. That's his prerogative. However, he can't prevent the existence of such a tool. He can only prevent it from being mainlined.

EDIT: Also, it may be easier to make a case for mainlining if the functionality is demonstrable. As I've learned throughout my career, it's often better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission. RMS excels in the idealistic and theoretical. If he has to consider the practical -- such as whether to mainline already existing functionality -- then he may find ways of suggesting changes to the plugin than ways of saying "no."
Maybe not exactly the same?

The Docker technology was a by-product of the dotCloud product, which spun-off to create the company Docker, Inc to focus on Docker. Docker Inc sold dotCloud to the Berlin-based company cloudControl.

This appears to be a facelift coming from the new leadership.

Also, www.dotcloud.com references next.dotcloud.com with this language:

"Take the new and improved dotCloud PaaS on Google Compute Engine for a test-drive."

Their old FAQ said that containers were pushed to AWS East, so it looks looks like this is one thing that has changed. Actually, yes, here are some details on the move from AWS to Google Compute Engine:

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/12/dotcloud-pro...
Yep, that was me :-) - although already post-acquisition. Alan Mycroft had invited me over, I really enjoyed the visit :)
I've forwarded this to a company that does lots of mobile (and invests too). Best of luck!
I don't think anyone believes that the "Zero Dark Thirty" research briefings from the CIA were not planned and authorized at the highest levels.

Its well known that famous US novelists and Hollywood writers get access to CIA, NSA, DoD officials as part of their research. "Worked for" a spy agency, and researched with a spy agency are two different things. If the CIA/NSA/DoD wanted to sense reaction to a new weapon system or covert campaign, put it in a movie first. There were references in movies of stealth aircraft when the B-2 and F-117 were still classified. Even more fictitious shows like 24 probably received technical assistance from the CIA.
Source here: https://github.com/locua/oscooking.

Removed the dodgy test recipes for all you pedants...
I’m going to burn hard for this.

California has been one party rule the last few years.

Look at what happened to Venezuela for the endgame.
thanks! it took a lot of integrating+checking+debugging, making sure the loading doesn't break halfway. Look and feel are my top priority
Lots of us are humble... and a lot of us are jackasses. It is like any other industry.
There's a huge cost to "solving problems with TCP": the existing protocol is intricately coupled between implementations (see: every attempt to improve TCP congestion control since Vegas) and so widely deployed as to be impossible to forklift out. Meanwhile: new protocols deployed alongside TCP aren't firewall-friendly.

If there's a multiplexing problem to be solved on the Internet, it more-or-less must be solved above TCP, no matter what the "layering" guidelines are.

Meanwhile: I'm still not clear on why these "layers" exist, or need to be dignified. The whole idea of a "layer" of complicated functionality is in tension with the End To End Argument: if there's a debate about how something should be implemented, that thing should be implemented as close to the endpoints and as close to the application as possible.
"Raccoons are also important vectors for the spread of infection diseases. They’re known to carry rabies, and a 2011 report in the Journal of Parasitology even found evidence for the potentially dangerous and brain-altering parasite Toxoplasmosa gondii in raccoon droppings."

It would be fairly surprising if raccoons didn't carry toxoplasma: pretty much every US cat does, about 60 million Americans, and 5-7% of Japanese cattle and swine. It's rare that it causes problems for anyone except newly infected pregnant women.
I agree about the negotiation provided the interesting volume.
My curiosity is.. thinking of apps store and music store. They do indeed process 1 time transactions of a low value. If is true that the visa fee is 0.5$ I can't see any revenue stream from a 0.99$ app.

There must be a completely different deal that opens up once you have that volume
I was 293lbs last December, 196 this morning.(6'3" male)

Overall this was a good read; for me it really was accepting that my lifestyle was unhealthy and making permanent changes.

That said I really dislike weightloss articles that speak in absolutes.

Cardio helping weightloss isn't a 'myth'; if you can't impose enough self control on yourself to not eat more after cardio, then sure, it might not be beneficial. I know for certain that I wouldn't have lost weight as fast without doing cardio regularly. In fact a healthy choice oftentimes begets another and I would find myself eating less on cardio days.

Same with protein after workouts. Sure it can be an excuse to eat more if you let it be, but if you're counting calories properly it is also a good time to intake protein.
>The filesystem is the wrong abstraction for this kind of problem

From my experience having moved from PC to Mac, I find iPhoto trying to hide my files and abstract things away a pain in the arse. On the old computer I had them in folders labelled 2012, 2013 etc. I now want to move some previous years to another disk to save memory and it's hard to figure that now. Previously I would just have dragged a folder. I guess my point is that fancy database structures may be hard for the human brain to conceptualise.
I think its because that's what the media and non-art people focus on both in and out of China. Its easier to understand than zodiac heads which has lots of historical backstory and questions what is traditional.

But of course he is milking it. (after all the exhibit is called "Evidence")

aesthetically I'm much more impressed by this guy:
http://www.caiguoqiang.com/projects/inopportune-stage-two-20...

but you could accuse him of being decorative and of using stereotypical Chinese imagery. I still like it.