jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We are big fans of Liberapay. They are a great solution working towards making open source sustainable. Our model is very different though.

Instead of a recurring donation based system, we are creating a marketplace that connects open source software consuming companies to open source consulting and development companies who are proposing fundable roadmaps for new features and maintenance of critical open source software. The KickStarter idea comes from the fact that any person or company can fund the project so that in the future, they can use the software.

The deep social reputation database generated by the OpenTeams’ social reputation network will provide the foundation for proposers to demonstrate their ability to deliver on a fundable project's goals and grant the prospective funders the ability to validate the composition of the team proposed.

We really appreciate your feedback, thank you!
I got the same exact email and was freaking out thinking that my sister had probably tried to use my info to open acct or someone else cause I don't have a acct at Synchrony Bank or with Amazon Credit builder so I'm relieved to see that it's just another stupid email phishing scam. Glad I didn't call sister and Accuse her before I saw your posts, lol. Thanks for the post
It has a built in backup tool using duplicity that by default backs up to the local storage but you can plug in your s3/b2 details and it will back up to those. The backups are encrypted so amazon won't be reading your emails either.
Not having kids is BY FAR a simpler life. I wish these articles were bucketed into life's various phases and situations. Though most suggestions still apply, there's something about the time commitment and in-your-personal-space-ness that makes simplification more difficult.
Shouldn't be that hard to find a cashier at the Bellagio willing to turn a blind eye for 10 grand.
hardly a pattern of behavior or the basis for such a characterization. also although it is no longer under ebay's management i suspect that skype has the possibility to become an incredibly awesome company.
Anyone who shows up and throws down anything larger than a $100 chip at a craps table is going to draw serious attention to themselves from the pit boss and the folks upstairs.

People just don't show up at a pedestrian craps table and throw down $25,000 chips, much less $1000 chips.

There were probably a very small amount of > $1,000 chips at a craps table anyway, and their only real use would be to pay out to a big winner.
I think given the nature of the software and startup world it's not unlikely for people to meet each other. I'm pretty sure most people on HN will be connected to each within one-two degrees of separation.

I know I'm connected with tptacek by one degree and linkedin tells me I'm connected to patrick within two degrees through two different people.

Someone should write a six degrees of HN app :-)
This is a great question and I appreciate your candor. Having been through a similar stage w/ my tech career (I was trying a switch to the art business), I think there several things that meet your requirements. You said you're ok with teaching and helping people remotely. There is s*ton of money in that. I did it with Shopify and other platforms. You can hate the platform (I surely did) and still help people (who wind up happy) and you can charge a lot.

If you can find a niche where you know the platform (ie: your average skills are amazing to the biz owner who has none), you can charge $100/hr and work the 2-3 hour day you want and probably be fine, depending on your spending. The premise we used for Shopify was that, by teaching you, we got you "off the teat," so the teaching was high value and we charged accordingly. Did everything through Zoom-type meetings.
Electric Motors and Drives[0] is very good. Not very mathematical, and gives a lot of intuition. If you understand basic electronics and can do arithmetic you can follow most of the book. Some parts are harder than others but if you keep going it will eventually make sense.

Edit: I took a look at some of the other books people recommended and they seem more advanced, this book is easier than them and probably better for someone without an EE background. I am not sure how to best learn electronics (I learned from The Art of Electronics, but that is probably not the easiest way to learn, and probably overkill for just learning how motors work.)

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Electric-Motors-Drives-Fundamentals-A...
The irony is that the coin would be excusable if it was used as a utility token to power a decentralized network of incentivized nodes (like Status or Session).

But Signal is still centralized. So there’s no reason for the sh*tcoin other than to make some people rich.
Except if you are hired as a contractor
I think Google is being a little too layman here. A webpage doesn't crash, it's the browser, in this case - Chrome.
The cookbook style guide for beginners is especially helpful.

http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/papers/guide/guide.pdf

Scaling of data is step which many usually miss.
I've never used Colloquy, so I can't judge its quality. According to its product page, it supports multitasking.

On my iPhone 4 and iPad, I can switch back and forth between my frequently used apps (NetNewsWire, Instapaper, GoodReader, Evernote, Omnifocus, Elements) and they rarely have to relaunch. When I return to an app, everything is how I left it.
Seems pagan Diogenes rather enjoyed that lifestyle.
From my previous experience in the news industry, it would be almost offensive to receive an email like this if one were an editor of a news publication.

Integrity as a journalist necessitates that one cannot accept payment from a person mentioned in a news article, and cannot agree to the attempt to compromise on journalistic independence. The cost to one's reputation as a journalist far outweighs the payment offered by the cold emailer from a reputation firm.

For any commenters without experience in the news industry, this request is disrespectful to the recipient as it assumes that the owner of the news site can be bought for or influenced with pay.
Reader is especially killer in mobile. A huge percentage of sites are incredible horrible on mobile-- and it isn't even the ads as much as all of the sharing, pull quotes and modals. Why the heck do people have modals for mobile? The insanity of it.
> Barry McCarthy, who served as CFO at Spotify as well as at Netflix, will take over as CEO, the company said Tuesday.

A bean counter at the helm?

Ok, they are done.
> Please show documentation where Apple refused to license under W3C patent policy.

Sure. From the TE-PAG report, Apple expressly excluded its Touch Events patent claims from the W3C patent policy:

Patent Advisory Groups are formed when patent claims are asserted
against or expressly excluded from royalty-free implementations of W3C
Recommendations. That happened here when Apple excluded certain of its
patents and patent applications for the Touch Events Specification.

Source: http://www.w3.org/2012/te-pag/pagreport.html

> W3C then abandoned the recommendation process at that time without pursuing patent licensing discussions of any kind with Apple.

Not true. After five months of work, the PAG officially recommended in July 2012 that the Working Group continue developing the Touch Events spec, which it did for over a year before publishing Touch Events as a W3C Recommendation in October 2013: http://w3.org/TR/touch-events/

The PAG repeatedly invited Apple to meetings and requested other information from them; Apple never replied to any of our communications. This is recorded in the document above, as well as the PAG meeting minutes.

Disclosure: I am co-editor of the W3C Touch Events spec, and a member of the Touch Events Patent Advisory Group.
A startup doesn't necessarily want everyone to know its pricing. They might be happy to let potential customers know, but not competitors, family and friends, customers' clients and suppliers, the press, etc. Making people contact the company lets the startup screen inquiries. And competitors aren't likely to have the gall to ask.
I’m interested in topic. Can you please expand a little or point to a book/idea that does? The “reason and truth” part specifically. Why truth would be invalid if there exist only complex finite automata? Can’t complex enough entities reason about this system while being a part of it, coincidentally being able to do that without contradiction?
For the foreseeable future, all UMass Amherst classes will take place remotely, and students in dormitories and off-campus housing are instructed not to leave their residences except for meals, COVID testing twice per week and medical appointments.

Which means they'll be refunding full tuition for anyone who would care to opt-out of the current semester, I presume?
Too bad they don't support Mazda officially... because default the auto-bracking on my CX-5 is way too sensitive for my driving habits... and it comes to a complete stop as soon as it can even if the danger is out of the way.... I'm thinking about disabling it because I almost got rear-ended once.
This strikes me as an especially misguided, misinformed expedition. To start out on your journey by purchasing a notebook that's incompatible is a sure sign you're doing something wrong. Like a man protesting the oil spill in the gulf by abandoning their car only to buy a goat instead of a horse by accident.

Why do people rail against Apple for making the iOS "walled garden" and yet have nothing to say about Sony or Microsoft and their locked down game platforms? At least Apple lets people produce applications and opens up their marketplace to everyday people. Microsoft charges an extraordinary amount of money for their 360 developer kit, XNA being a toy when compared with the real thing. The PS3, likewise, is way beyond the reach of any hobbyist.

Apple charges $99 for the developer kit, cost of Mac notwithstanding, and your application has a very good chance of being accepted. Call the App Store what you will, but it's a very good place to do business.
How do you make money?
What's the business model?
Quite frankly, we can't judge our own competence very well without the wisdom of age and careful observation & contemplation. Even then, we can only judge our competence relative to others.

This is assuming we have a working, widely accepted definition for competence which we tend to gloss over and use only in specific contexts.

I also strongly disagree with "it is a a wise man who knows he knows nothing". A wise man knows what he doesn't know, but he certainly knows some things. He knows where to apply his own judgment and where to apply the thinking of others.
Probably more than they make of Knol :-)
Moody's is not going anywhere. Many regulations and investment charters require an NRSRO opinion. Inclusion of MCO got me to stop reading the article.
In looking for a first programming language for a grade school kid, I'm not particularly sure that needing to learn how to write functional or object-oriented code is particularly high on the list of priorities.
Some of these arguments are very weak, especially for Kia which amounted to "Well, Ford and GM couldn't handle a dozen brands each so obviously Hyundai can't handle two." Couldn't the author give at least sales figures?
Kiddie porn is bad because of mistreatment of kids, duh. By the time it's on the internet, it's way too late to do anything useful about it.
I guess Lifehacker (gawker) is content to give user's personal info away for free.
Another important feature if you or your non-techie friends and family value your time is the protection from malware recovery and other sysadmin tasks.
with NaCl you can just use stuff like Unity3D and runs amazing browsergames without a plugin install. Since it also supports iOS/Android and gaming consoles, there not much speaking for HTML5, apart from that its free.
I'd try the Apple subreddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/apple).
Politely contact @dahowlett and talk to him. www.accmanpro.com. Former Chartered Accountant. He knows stuff and will not BS you. Read his Twitter stream first. Read his blog first. Go back as far as you can in your research. He does not suffer fools or lazy people.
I think the reasons a lot of people use semicolons is that it's just easier. Also if you come from a language that enforces them, it's natural just to use them. That's why I use them anyway.
wow, great design love the way it looks. I'm going to have agree with what value you get paying 11 dollars?
The conversation started about consumables like laundry detergent and paper towels, not food and drinks. So I'm not sure why food and drinks came up, and then why the further jump to "unhealthy" food and drinks.

Personally, I buy the same stuff over and over because it doesn't matter. I don't want to spend time worrying about things that don't matter.
Saying the Pentagon is an office building is like saying the White House is a single family home.
I think this is actually ignorant of any real experience with those systems.

Yes, there's a cost, but tax rates in the US aren't ultra low compared to every other country in the world.

It's not so much how much money you spend, but what you spend it on that is the real difference.
Hmm, its fast for me on a way older machine than the siblings have:

Intel Core2 Duo T9600, 4G Ram, Debian 64bit, Chromium 35, adblock plus as the only extension.

I just checked at chrome://gpu/ and I don't have WebGL or any other hardware acceleration feature for CSS etc. enabled. Perhaps the others experience some hardware acceleration gone wrong?
A lot of negativity posted on this by a lot of people, including myself, just to be negative.

But here's why I (and I bet many others) really dislike this: it tightly couples purchasing everyday things to Amazon.

What would be better?

I would have rather seen a third party come out with these little buttons, with an open API such that they could be connected to things like:

- Todo/grocery list apps that adds the item as a reminder the next time I run to the store

- Tech savy B&M grocery stores that I could place an order for easy pick-up

- Online sites -- including Amazon -- where I could place an easy order

This would have me excited. This would allow others to benefit, and me to have more choices.

But as it is, if this is successful, then it means people are even more bound to Amazon than ever before.
I have a handful of little apps that I do that with. Too bad that won't work anymore, they aren't worth $84/yr each to me to have them running 24/7.
They're innovators.
I'm embarrassed to say that I went 15 years before I really learned to work with "other people's code". That's partly because I came to programming as a math/industrial engineering student, where I was really writing code to solve problems and get answers rather than a sustainable, usable product. Even once I started writing code for users, it was generally pretty experimental and research-y, so I usually got a green field project.

In the past few years, I've worked repeatedly with existing code bases to extend or modify functionality (or just fix problems), and it has been an amazing learning experience. Not all of the code has been good, much of it has been questionable. But the process of understanding someone else's code, figuring out how to change it, balancing the harm of forking vs the benefit of improving, dealing with pull requests and merges… there are a number of skills you will only learn from years in this kind of environment.

One huge challenge here is when you don't work in an organization that understands software. People aren't knowledgeable about software are often impressed with green field programmers "jim wrote the whole thing". Truth is, understanding a different code base and getting to the point where you can improve it and contribute back to it is (at least in my experience) far more challenging than just writing something from scratch. It seems that most people who write software are already well aware of this, but it can be a hard sell outside (in fact, you may even find that people seriously question your progress - a green field app there's something nifty and new to demo even day, with existing code bases, there's a lot of confusion and investigation - and it can be very dispiriting to spend days stubbornly trying to understand and diagnose a feature, finally solve it, and realize that the team is disappointed with your progress).

However, the good software teams appear to be well aware of the challenges, and it's an essential learning experience.
Or in the building I'm currently living in, the IR motion sensors are powered by cylindrical lithium batteries of roughly the same volume that have an observed lifetime in service of perhaps a dozen years before needing replacement.
I'd rather not. It introduces a pretty big conflict of interest (for example, Gruber would probably think twice before writing something negative about a former sponsor when he's on the record endorsing them) and blurs the line between advertising and editorial content. As mentioned in the article:

> the cost today ranges between $8,000 – $10,000 dollars per placement and you get to write your own post, essentially

Maybe this isn't a big deal for DF, but I can imagine this would lead to a total lack of trust for other independent journalists.
- Why do you want to go to Stanford, MIT, Columbia, etc.? There are probably tons of great options that are cheaper and more accessible to you if you want to get educated. Don't make that dream an impossibility by creating artificial barriers. Do you just want to go there because it seems sexy and it'll make you look cooler? Be careful not to value status over substance.

- Life is short, you should do what you want to do. The transition probably won't be as painful as you think it is.

- The grass is always greener on the other side. Right now someone in some dirt poor country is wishing he was you and had the opportunities you had. They may not have the opportunity to change things, but you probably do.
Read the complaint, it's so much worse than that:
http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-release...
I opened the video link in the background while I read the application. For the first two minutes I thought the drive in my macbook pro was going bad.
It's good that you are opening to discuss and go through this. The point is not to hold a grudge against anybody but to learn and become a better person onwards. Perhaps you have or will have kids one day and then you'll be able to have a better time with them and that alone will make it worth it.

>at least I ended up being fiercely independent and learned to cook.

This, fortunately or unfortunately, is one of the outcomes of growing up like that. You learn to do on your own and become very resilient. That usually pays off later in life, so it has some sort of a silver lining.
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This article lacks the evidence to warrant the boldness of its arguments. And after reading through the paragraphs of poorly based assertions, I see this at the bottom of the article. Why am I not surprised?
I can’t find it now. But I can swear I read that Amazon was lucky enough to get a line of credit right before the dot com bust.

But Amazon wasn’t profitable. It used cash flow from the time it received money from customers and paid suppliers to grow.
My plan is just printed backup recovery codes for things that need 2FA, written master passwords, and normal hard disk backups.

The extra hidden part of the plan is that I try to avoid things that aren't tracable to a trusted human help desk. Anything that involves the words "manage your own private key" is a point of failure that needs a lot of care.
Burning an e-fuse can be bypassed with a softmodded switch.
Having used Unreal for years in the past (UE4 only), I agree with you that C# would definitely win over the C++/Blueprint combo.

Over the years, especially since blueprints compile down to C++, I've learnt to let go and embrace a lot more this visual programming approach. And it does have its benefits. With a strict approach, just as you would in programming paradigm, the readability and 'visual scanning' of opening old code in blueprints really stands out. You instantly feel where everything is, much faster than scrolling up and down code, navigating to/from methods.

I've had experimented with Unity but I found at the time that UE4 was the way for me. At the time I was even working with some guys promoting UnrealJS or something, can't remember the name now, which was bringing JS to Unreal, but it sort of faded as it takes a monumental effort to bring another language to such platform. Ultimately, blueprints are fine, and I'm only using C++ for A* path finding or other heavy algo where math functions are the main focus. You can also make a library of C++ heavy math'ish things and expose them to blueprint. Overall It's pretty ok.

One aspect that is not talked about much is the weight of it all. UE4 was huge. Recompiling the engine was a 3-4 hours business. When I switched to Godot for lighter games, the whole thing was rebuilt in 5-10 mins.
>The substitute for religion is philosophy, not science.

Philosophy has not offered me the easy, yet wholly unsatisfying, answers that my baptist upbringing did.
I wouldn't say that it is the best substitute for religion.
Yes, you can just ask your regular doctor to do this for you. Although if you happen to already have a sports medicine doctor, they might be more accustomed to doing these sorts of tests. Harj actually has a post on this here: http://blog.harjtaggar.com/my-experiments-with-preventing-he...

Your inflammation levels can vary a lot throughout the day and week though, so unless you're going to get it measured 10+ times then you're probably not going to get great data. So it might just be easier to look for an open clinical trial that you can enroll in where they will do this for you for free.
From that article:

However, this means no all clear in terms of Trusted Computing. While the publicly available TPM 2.0 specification includes no back-doors, any implementation might do so, either by malicious intent, due to implementation errors or government pressure. This risk can be met only if implementations are scrupulously tested and certified by independent bodies. This is not the case with the integrated TPM of current Windows 8 tablets, to name just one example.
Copy pasting my reply once again.

You are right that the i3 CPU(Core i3-530) we compared with is a little old generation. I tried to compare online Core i3-530 with Core i3-2105. The 2105 is SandyBridge(couldnt find a direct comparison with an Ivy Bridge) and runs at a slightly higher clock 3.1 GHz(while the 530 runs at 2.93 according to CPU world).

According to cpu-world. The 2105 is 21% faster than the 530 for single threaded operations. If you account for the speed in clock this would mean only a boost of 14% improvement over the 530.

So its really not such a bad comparison.

In the meanwhile we will try run this on a newer CPU and let you know the results.