jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> A lot of this, I think, is the result of geography rather than the Finns (or rather, their leaders) being different / special.
Romania never participated in the colonial era as well but it's not they wouldn't have liked to.

Doesn’t this apply to everywhere though. I’m sure every country would have loved to colonize places but didn’t for various reasons.

I don’t think there are “evil” countries that colonized because they are evil. All countries that could, did.

Fortunately, recently people became more moral and have worked to limit this. Although cynically, I think it’s because the less evil way is no more lucrative.
Are you sure you’re not receiving those tracker cookies the second time around?
Yup, the number one rule for debugging ML is to add types until the error line becomes clear.
Oh wow. I am rather astounded. When the Liberals announced they are going forward with ending blind bids. Become more like Australia, and I feel like this is a good thing.

I figured the realtors would resist right up until they were legally forced. Here they are diving into this? They reached out to Australia and grabbed their system?

Now I'm worried.
So you're saying you've forgotten the most important aspect of learning to fly. After throwing yourself at the ground, you have to miss.
Je le veux
Start an e-commerce company from the scratch, grow it, make it automated, then use revenue to bootstrap your space company.
Hey - around ~3 years ago or so I was dabbling with writing a libVLC module to handle custom encryption and jumped on the IRC channel to get help. Was a great experience all around!

Curious about VLC.js - is there a recommended way to get updates on that project?

I'm particularly interested in if/how you plan to integrate encryption via the browser's built-in EME stuff.

(also, fwiw, I think libVLC is not famous enough, considering how popular VLC is!)
It is accurate in one sense and highly misleading in another. Check out the Google Books link. A Chinese bureaucrat reading that description would have imagined entirely different "past sovereigns" (Chinese ones) and "heterodox doctrines" (differing from mainstream Chinese philosophy). By equivocating between established concepts and Christian ones, the Jesuits displayed Christianity as much less of a foreign ideology than it actually was.
How is this downvoted? Is capitalising on someone else's innocent mistake at all costs really the high road to take here?
Taking lowest cost bid isn't always optimal. In Germany it is required to take the lowest cost bid which leads to all kinds of failed projects as the winning bid can't hold its bid. As well, life-time of things built this way have become awfully short.
Sounds like Germany...
I have not seen any of the issues with Safari or Chrome that you are reporting. The opposite, in fact: Safari this is so much faster than Chrome under Yosemite that it has become my primary browser.

I'm a developer, by the way, and have both browsers open most of every working day.

If anything, I have seen an increase in quality with Yosemite.
This is why I like HN so much---the entire culture is aimed at getting rich by startup, which is a mercilessly meritocratic process. It's extremely focused on what can you do?

An hour spent hacking to make something useful or cool is never a wasted hour. But wouldn't it suck to realize that you spent years in grad school without even learning anything?

In any case, this sort of news---the rise of cheating---is both good news and bad news for founders. The good is that your competitors are probably hiring these people. Especially so for folks like AirBnB who are competing with hotel chains, etc.

The bad, of course, is that when hiring, you might run into people like this. But if your hiring process>your competitor's process, then this is very much a net gain for you.
And, as of 7.3, Lua.
There likely isn't and risk to the buyer. These houses were most likely foreclosed or abandoned.

Detroit is auctioning off houses and lots that have not been paid up to the highest bidder by the dozens. These were likely purchased super cheap for flipping, and now being resold.

Detroit has a real problem with the city services right now, and as a result of the lack of services, and large land sales houses are SUPER cheap.
Having drops in software quality doesn't surprise me at all. Anybody that used Mac OS back in the System 7 days likely remembers seeing the bomb message and getting intimate with macbugs (G^FINDER) to try to save your work.

I think the only way you'll see a dramatic rise in quality would be if software becomes their core business (instead of hardware)... which isn't happening.
Silverlight also uses the browser cache. I'm surprised that Flash doesn't make use of it (if I had to guess I'd say it does, or rather at least it can).
This is the first thing I looked for as well. I don't want to take the time to setup an account and build out a store only to hate how it works in the end.

Yes, why not just sell anything to demonstrate how the store works?
Who is behind this service and why should I trust them with my customers' credit card data?
I don't understand why companies can't leave hard drives alone. My little brother recently sent in a Dell Studio for a keyboard repair. He went against my advice and went through Best Buy for the RMA instead of doing it himself. He signed a bunch of documents denying liability and giving Dell/BB the right to do whatever they wanted with the machine, pretty much.

When he got the laptop back, he was told that the "hard drive was going bad", so they proactively replaced it with a new one with a default image. This made me really mad, but they don't care or understand. Even if it was going bad, that was still HIS hard drive. The computer was still under warranty so they should have shipped the old disk back with the new.

I don't trust anyone else to clean out disks on my behalf. There are far too many instances of negligence on the matter. If the drive really was going bad, they should have sent it back and let me destroy and dispose of it personally.

How do I know that they don't have a FBI hookup that scans all of the "bad" drives before refurbishing or disposing, or how do I know that they don't have a contract with the MPAA/RIAA to allow their anti-piracy goons to do that? How do I know it doesn't pass through a group of teenagers who parse it for nudes, as happens at most computer repair shops?

Yeah, it sucks pretty bad. My family is completely indifferent to it and it's probably too late to call and try to get something done about it. : (
1. Generally you would not want them to micro-manage your operations.

2. If you are hard working and having good progress, it should not matter too much.
Asymmetrical fire can destroy a steel structure by warping it. According to one analysis by a MIT materials science professor I've read of the fall of the WTC towers, what ultimately killed them was the difference in heat between the side that was facing the wind and the back side. The difference in expansion stressed the already weakened by heat floor supports to the point where cascading failures occurred.

And as I noted, many people are asking the latter question, alhtough once the riser pipe detached and formed a shape like this (inverted V)_ on the sea floor that became much less clean of an option, one the Feds weren't in position to reconsider after putting it out due to their failure to procure fire booms ahead of time.
I think so. Not "good treatment", but it's much less politically expensive to rail at damn furreners.
Is there really a market for refurbished hard drives? They are so cheap new.
Presumably they go in refurbished macs, which apple sells on their website.
The bug is between Acrobat Reader and Flash, not Flash and any browser. It's not a problem for you to worry about.
Why did he go into military service?

I don't mean to pry, but was he forced/drafted, or just a personal choice? Seems unfortunate to me.
If renewal is automatic, there's also little reason not to make the expiry date really short.
Email is different from other communication tools such as Skype where email is fully asynchronous. I think no other tools now are able to replace email regarding this property.
Up here.
What you're talking about is "which is safer in a collision", which is an entirely different question from "which car is safer per mile to drive?"
> Another problem is you can't both implement the `Error` trait and support `From` from anything that implements the `Error` trait because it will conflict with Rust's blanket implementation of `From` converting yourself into yourself.

I believe this issue would only come up if you're trying:

impl<T: std::error::Error> From<T> for MyError

which seems like a really clumsy way to handle it. In most real cases, wouldn't you write the From impls for the specific types of errors you're expecting?
Hrmmm, doesn’t seem like a thing in Canada yet.
But most of the stuff in a dollar store is cheap goods manufactured in China. Was it the word "crap"? Maybe "cheap Chinese goods" would be more palatable?
>does her work [have] any lasting value?

'Oryx and Crake' and 'Handmaids Tale' are some of the most vivid and impactful speculative fiction that I have ever read. Margaret Atwood will forever go down in history for both the prose and scope of her literature.
Maybe. I come from the Oracle world and the majority of these don't apply to Oracle.
It looks like a typo. Hebrew date style is yyyymmdd[1].

[1] https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSS28S_8.1.0/...
You can thank Google and Facebook for that. Tech changed permanently with the 2.0 batch.
And kubernetes, docker, golang.com/x/*, etc.

And it's not like they couldn't add better types to errors without breaking backwards compat. Returning a type that implements error instead of fmt.Errorf doesn't break existing semantics.
I've no doubt this methodology can be effective but it's supremely irritating. Any company that uses methods like this immediately put me off.
"Hundreds satisfied customers"

"AVALIABLE ONLY 30 MIN"

"Capture abandoners' before they leave"

Barely a minute on the page and I've already spotted these mistakes. Doesn't really inspire confidence.
Indeed. Our troops now also wear really serious body armor, a lot of Kevlar designed to stop fragments and 9 mm bullets, plus at least 2 rifle plates, front and back. Also to a degree I'm not familiar with two small side plates. I've read that the big rifle plates have been saving a lot of lives from normal accidents. And modern helmets are very good, although there's only so much impact one can take without necessarily harming the wearer's head, so we're talking more about grazing rifle hits. But saves also add up---but echoing your point about casualties, they turn some number of deaths into traumatic brain injuries.

The sort of grim side effect of all this is that trauma medicine makes great strides during wars, I seem to remember we've been learning a lot about treating traumatic brain injuries due to the current unpleasantness.
Yeah... That's the dirty little secret of poll tax. It was fair and the people who protested were the ones who don't pay their fair share for local services.
Interesting. I came here to say pretty much the opposite.

Can you elaborate?
A recent book looking in depth at what this actually means for us: " The Glass Cage: Automation and Us"
Further to the XKCD is when there is an answer to that post, saying JFGI.
You can now detect proxy and proxy type easily in Logstash.
is an index with just one underlying company actually possible?

I don't think so - we're not talking commodities here, but equity. Every index fund I've seen or traded had multiple underlying assets, even if some of them were derivatives...

BTW, stock market must be pretty bad random number generator...
Wifi has always been accessible from the very first menu of Settings.app.
I would agree with you if there was a connection between the quality of the teaching and whether or not the teacher is a professor or a TA, but I don't think there is. Professors are hired for their ability to do research, not teach. Many see it as a chore. And TAs are - in my experience - only allowed to be the instructor of record when they've been around for a while.

Personally, one of my best math teachers in undergrad was a grad student. He was leagues better at teaching than all but two of the math professors I had. I also had two TAs who ran recitation sections (homework help and extra discussion) who were excellent. The TA who ran the recitations sections for one of my physics classes was a far better teacher than the professor for the course, and I would have preferred he teach the class.

I taught a class when I was a grad student. It was a summer course on intro to programming for non-majors. My department historically asks some grad students to teach the summer classes. Several of my students told me they were thankful that they got a good teacher.
Word-only resumes indicate that the HR department is in control of the hiring process. This means that the company is passing up on excellent people for stupid reasons ("We're looking for people with "Unix" experience but this candidate only lists "Linux" and "BSD") and hiring incompetent people who happened to have won the Bingo game.

So the HR department is in the driver's seat on hiring is a good proxy for determining how good their engineering is.

Personally I think a better indicator than if a company is they Word-only or not is the quality of their job postings. HR is not competent to write job descriptions for engineers, and the idiotic descriptions that get passed around the internet are almost always an indicator that hiring is "HR's responsibility."
Here we go. I wonder if Sony has given GeoHot a call and asked him to work for them yet. I'm curious how much this hurts Sony's bottom line in the long run. Cross my fingers my 360 is still running strong.
unless its APPL....
I wouldn't expect them to set up a web server ( or more likely servers) completely capable of handling a significant chunk of the traffic to a major website, just to serve the blog of their currently unnotable company.

They have until July, where they start to run Delicious themselves to set up the infrastructure to handle that.
Apple shouldn't be scared. Nolia has been behind the curve for the last decade.
To convert LaTeX to word, use something like http://hyperlatex.sourceforge.net/ to convert it to HTML, and then rename it .doc.

Word should be perfectly happy reading that. And a lot of places that say they only accept Word won't notice the difference. (I don't know about Amazon.)
He's using Django, so most likely Django Migrations which is built into that framework. If you're using Flask, you're probably using Alembic with SQLAlchemy. Those are the two main ways to handle schema migrations in Python.
> the anti-LISP

Agree. It has message passing with a nice thread model, and the engineering seemed sound when I experimented with Go a few years back, but it lacks everything I need in order to actually program.
Its not easy, it really takes a mindset change. For me, the big thing that really woke me up and got me to be very conscious of my productivity, was having a baby. Now granted, this is not the normal course of action for becoming more productive, but for me, it really woke me up because all of the sudden I have no free time and efficiently making use of the time I do have is a high priority.

I do have two more realistic recommendations for better time management.

1) Pick a system that works for you and use it 100% for everything, not just work, or for home or any other subdivision, use it as your primary system for everything you need to get done. For me, I'm migrating that into the GTD system, and so far its worked very well for me. The important thing is that you stay on it, because if you stop using it at all, it won't work.

2) Don't half ass anything. What I mean by this, is consciously make a decision to fully engage yourself in whatever you do. Either be productive, or don't be productive, but _never_ anything in between. You made this post on a monday morning after spending a weekend watching tv and youtube and it bothers you because you feel like you wasted a weekend. The problem is you _did_ waste a weekend. Because you were sitting there watching tv and youtube while consciously worrying that you sitting there watching tv and youtube instead of being productive. Do one or the other, never both, if you're worrying about something, put it on your todo list and let it be until you're actually sitting down to do it. Its perfectly fine to spend an entire weekend doing absolutely nothing productive, but you need to make the conscious choice to do that and immediately drop any worries about doing other things.

I watched world cup over the weekend as well, I even played zelda on my DS while watching world cup, and it was great, I had a lot of fun, because I said hey, I want to relax and have some fun for a while, so I played video games and watched soccer with no worries about accomplishing anything or not being productive. I had made the choice to not be productive which allowed me to have worry free fun and relaxation. After the game I decided it was time to get stuff done, so I went to my list of projects that all have next actions waiting for me, so without having to figure out what needs to get done next, I had a task waiting for me and was immediately able to jump in.

So overall, it really is a mindset change, with the most important aspect being able to focus solely on your current action without worry.
Because (1) lots of people didn't know that trick and (2) it's annoying to have to carry another card, login, etc, just to get some internet!
Man, you need to get rid of that TV! There are plenty of ways to procrastinate in the world, but that one must have the lowest "value added to life"-vs-"time utterly wasted" ratio of them all.
A big barrier to something like your product is the notion of something replacing Excel spreadsheets. People love their Excel spreadsheets. They are used because there are a lot of perceived benefits. Such barriers could be avoided by solving the same problems as an adjunct to spreadsheets. (This makes sure that there's a backup of all your company's spreadsheets. You can roll back to any prior version. It also enables easier sharing of data...)

ObjectStudio Smalltalk could do interesting things with Excel spreadsheets through OLE. You could open a spreadsheet and pull data out of individual cells, etc... I'd see if there are other technologies in more popular languages with better licensing terms.
Maybe a large part, but not "everybody else".
Verizon (and ATT, and CenturyLink) are Tier 1 transit networks for peering operations. If Level3s peering traffic ratio are off balanced by netflix's traffic, I see no reason why Verizon shouldn't do the exact thing Level3 did to Cogent back in the day. Also, keep in mind Netflix is using Level3's CDN service, so you have a scenario on the flipside where Level3 has become a transit network and ContentProvider also.

The issue is really that the idea of transit providers in general are becoming obsolete. So much fiber was laid, with DWDM and further subdivision abilities, it costs comparatively nothing to get a nationwide network these days. That was Cogent's entire business model, buy cheap fiber, sell transit for almost nothing to content providers, practically (in some cases, actually) give away transit to ISPs/businesses to keep their traffic ratios as balanced as possible.

Now, we're in a situation where it's not technically or financially hard to have a presence in every regional peering point. The major content providers don't need transit providers (or in the case of Level3's CDN, are already provider) except out of convenience and their access to settlement free peering. The major ISPs have no need for transit providers(or are already providers), as all the content providers wants to peer with them, and most of them have nationwide networks to do so. (see comcast: http://business.comcast.com/images/default-source/about-us/t... )

Unregulated peering has lead to the cost of transit plummeting to almost nothing. ( http://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-H... ) We've just hit an interesting point where 2 contentproviders (Netflix and Youtube) are half of all internet traffic, and the eyeball networks are all basically tier 1 transit providers. There's basically unlimited choice for transit providers for ContentProviders, but each eyeball only has 1-3 ISPs to choose from.

My thoughts are rather than attempting to regulate transit/peering, regulate that last mile network and let people choose their own transit provider. Back in the DSL days, I used a local ISP that provided cheaper/better service than our telco. If I could pay a flat $x/mo for 1gb connection to a transit provider of my choice, I'm sure Google or Level3 would offer cheap uncongested access.
Looks like the promo code is invalid. If anyone gets it to work, feel free to let me know.
After reading the article I'm unclear about how the ads are served:

"He says his company also has been placing ads on various websites to test the ad-placement technology and build up a base of advertisers, which now number about 100,000."

Does this mean that they're manipulating the HTML of the site to inject ads, or that they're purchasing spots via an ad network and somehow manipulating those, specific, requests?
> 1. Don't "give a speech". Instead, talk to a bunch of people that are interested in what you have to say. The distinction really matters, at least to me.

That definitely rings true with me. Having a conversation puts my mind into another mode entirely.
What does it mean that the book is not scientific? It's just a tool. Is a spade scientific?

You only need scientific method to organize observations. There are no observations here. There's nothing scientific about 'discipline', but it's still useful.
>I would find it amusing as a street art project to pixelate some of those houses for real,

That would be fantastic, I'm thinking, having large pixels on a fuzzy material, varying colours matched to the surrounding buildings but at different depths to avoid anyone getting a focussed image of the whole building? Any ideas on materials? At first I thought frosted perspex, but I'm more drawn to fabric that can be fuzzy round the edges too.
A lot of them are already conveniently gathered in the book of Proverbs (see my comment above)
Seems like the computing ability you're getting out of these clients is dwarfed by the amount of transferring you're going to have to do in most cases. Unless you need to do like a second of CPU time per 50kb of data you're sending to people, this doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.
Wow, its so optimistic, I hate to say anything to the hurt of the optimistic message. However, it feels to me like what is happening in the software startup world is that, thanks to the falling cost of launching a product, the pie is not only being distributed to the smaller guys, but it is also shrinking... because the small guy is willing to put out a competing product in some cases just for the fun of it.

Edit: One more thing... I think the end-game here is perfect competition, and I don't think that will be good for anyone.
That's exactly what I've been looking for. My dad always brews his own tea, and he makes like 4-5 cups and then when the tea gets cold he microwaves it in a glass (yeah, not a cup, he's Iranian). Anyway, this is much simpler, I'm lazy and I don't want to brew tea, the cleaning and everything involved takes too much time, so I just use teabags. This seems so much better than teabags since I can use higher quality tea.