jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Also some of our grads ended up at very famous places in the London Ruby community such as Pivotal Labs, 8th Light, New Bamboo, Pusher etc.

I need to add that the quality of the grads on average in my opinion is pretty low. But if you are able to filter them successfully, then the top 4-5 people in the cohort are usually worth it.
I believe spacecowboy_lon is referring to functions opposed to methods. For those that don't know the difference a method is basically a function that has access to the state of an object (correct me if my definition is wrong or sucks).
/r/spacex tipped me off to this 4-year-old video, which shows off what a Thrust Vector Control test stand does, and how testing of actuators, etc is related to sensing engine / control-surface anomalies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pigsq5rt-mY

Heh, and it turns out it's a SpaceX video.
My bike has a power to weight ratio of 1000ps per ton.
And I checked items randomly, for instance a USB stick. Delivery by tomorrow.
This is just the valve, as the ventilators are much more complex.
It seems this man was treated with lopinavir–ritonavir ... Unfortunately according to this recently published study, it seems inefficient against Covid19.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001282?query=fe...

It also seems some EU countries are now stopping the use of lopinavir due to this study.
Is it just me and my 30" monitor, or is the font for this webpage extremely small?
Antibodies are present as soon as there are symptoms or soon after, so these tests are designed to be taken by sick people.
I'm practicing for system design interviews, I'd be very curious to have some design ideas for a site like https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/. Seems to be a good case study. Can anyone provide some hints or pointers?
Even worse, it's 0.05%.
Huh. So now you're against new meanings?
I get this when I want to tweet this:

This map is not public
You must change the permissions from "Private" to "Public on the web" before posting or embedding this map.

But this should be shared, a lot!
Thanks! I'll add custom result count per page to my TODO list.
I'm always baffled at how the burden of proof can be so low for traffic infractions. Why doesn't "innocent until proven guilty" apply? Just because the stakes are so low doesn't mean we can toss that out.
The skills he has are all about receiving a disproportionate amount of credit for work accomplished by a team. How will the company profit from this?
I think that tax-payers should be the ones to pay for enforcement of regulations that are claimed to benefit them. Governments, local and otherwise, should be barred from using fine money for the 'general welfare'. To do so sets up a conflict of interest and condones extortion.

Instead, fine moneys should be ear-marked towards remediation and reparation of the 'crime' committed. E.g., in this case, all parking fine money could be put into a fund towards building parking ramps. In the case of speeding tickets fine money should go towards rumble-strips, guard rails, additional lanes and other features that make it safe to drive at higher speeds. Etc. Etc.
> if we built a AI mind, we could control its parameters

A "mind" and being able to "control its parameters" could very well be mutually exclusive. So far, the minds we know are quite intractable, and can be affected in very crude ways (i.e. things that make you less violent also make reduce cognitive skills).

> If you were to suddenly conquer the world keeping the capitalistic system in place would make the most sense.

There is no "capitalistic system", but many systems, some rather different from others. Besides, why does it matter that keeping the existing order "makes more sense". Who says that an AI will be especially rational? It is quite possible that being intelligent and completely rational are mutually exclusive. And even if it is rational, I'm not sure we can fully predict the interests of intelligent beings so different from ourselves. Much of what makes sense to us is a result of us being accustomed to living in a society, with all its consequences. The society the AI will live amongst might be very different from ours, and so its assessment of what makes sense. I spent some time writing about people living in poor, high-crime neighborhoods. Their society was very different from the one I grew up in, and as a result their behavior was different even when it was rational. For example, turning to violence was often a very rational, sensible choice on their part.

> Sadly, I imagine these high-profile attacks on AI are causing a chilling effect from a funding and research point of view.

I think this is all a PR stunt. We're many, many decades, if not a century or more, away from what people imagine when they say AI. Unfortunately, software can be very dangerous to society even without being considered AI[1], and unfortunately few people talk about that.

[1]: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/01/bla...
free pics for now
As a long time Python programmer who has struggled to cross the gap from dynamic scripting languages to modern statically typed languages Nim is by far the most frictionless language I have tried. Before I found Nim I longed for a language like C# where the generics "just work" and overall the language just feels like it designed at-once rather than piecemeal overtime. Everything just seem really "nice" in C# and I am able to transfer my Python experience over to it. But being locked up to .NET/Mono I never really used it outside of Unity3D.

I tried Golang, because it was sold to me as something I would love since I am a long time Python developer. I strongly dislike Golang. It doesn't have much in the way of letting me model my programs like I am used to. I am told "that's wrong, do it the Go way". This is too much friction. Once I am done thinking how to solve my problem algorithmically, I do not want to then figure out how to rethink my algorithm just for the sake of the maintainer's of Golang.

I tried Rust. I think Rust is beautiful (mostly). However, Rust has a far too fundamentalist view on memory safety. And that's not to downplay the importance of memory safety. But there's just too much friction. I want to sit down an implement my algorithm. I don't want to stop and spend just as much time thinking about the particulars that Rust demands.

When I found Nim I almost couldn't believe it. The core language was simple, clean and immediately absorbable. I was able to start writing basic Nim programs after just perusing the language docs for a few minutes while the compiler compiled. I read that Nim had powerful meta-programming facilities and this started to turn me off. I had heard that macros were generally a negative force in the world but only knew them from Lisp. Then I learned that Nim's macros are just functions that take and AST tree, perform modifications to that AST and return an AST tree. Wow that's pretty simple. Oh hey the generics "just work" like in C#. Woah, Nim even supports inheritance!

Nim is definitely the next language for me. In thinking about it, I find that I agree with one of Jonathon Blow's sentiments that we have been seeing a number of new up and coming languages but they are all Big Idea languages. Big Idea languages who's ideas have yet to be vetted and proved out over the course of a decade or two. They all incur too much friction.

Nim seems like a competent, low-level systems language with a helpful repertoire of well-implemented modern tunings to features that are all mostly established in the field. It doesn't try to revolutionize systems languages. It tries to bring us a modern refinement by bringing us a highly performant yet relentlessly productive take on what has already been shown to work.

Please don't be offended if you see me around evangelizing its existence.
"Code that is unreadable by other engineers, even if it's functional, is bad code."
This article also seems to just abruptly end. Been seeing that more frequently lately with stuff posted online. Not sure if its just lazy or poor writing but no closing paragraph makes for a poor reading experience.
Under U.S. law it does not need to "stand up"; copyright protections adhere to new content when it is created, regardless of notification. Thus at worst, it is superfluous.

At best, though, it shows that you made an effort to remind your visitors of your copyright. While not strictly required by law, it might help convey a sense of good faith and conscientiousness to the judge or jury.
I use optipng and pngquant together myself... it's been a while since I've looked though... here's the contents of my "!Drag PNG here to Optimize (pngquant and optipng as png8).bat" file ... should be able to do similar in bash/zsh script.

@echo off

set batchdir=%~d0%~p0

:start

"%batchdir%pngquant.exe" --ext .q.png --force --verbose 256 %1
"%batchdir%optipng.exe" -force -o4 -out "%~dpn1.opt.png" "%~dpn1.q.png"

del "%~dpn1.q.png"

shift
if NOT x%1==x goto start

rem pause
A former colleague wrote a tool for just such a thing (Encrypted UDP tunneling)
http://nardcore.org/ctunnel/
Years ago many candidates used a skills matrix graphic to list languages/tools, and would rate themselves 'advanced', 'intermediate', or 'beginner'. This was rather useless, though it helped candidates who wanted to list a technology on their resume without claiming to have advanced knowledge. The star system is the same thing, just perceived as more attractive I'd guess.

Usually I'd recommend candidates list items in order of their knowledge, from best to worst, and to use discretion in what to include. If you aren't comfortable having a 5-10 minute conversation about an item, don't list it.
You're correct. My point was directed more towards people, like the parent I was replying to, who defend government actions simply because something is illegal. It would be equivalent to defending people who returned escaped slaves back in the day because it was the law to do so at the time.
Despite claims of transparency, I find the exact opposite is true. Yes all wallets and transactions are public but because these are not tied to identities and are international (i.e. no consistent set of laws that might force owners to disclose their holdings), we know very little from this information.

So we small holders are basically at the mercy of any big whale who might decide to nudge the price up or down for profit. Then on top of that, there are more elaborate plays like Tether and lots of WallSt money doing their voodoo as well.

Which other asset has the property that it suddenly goes to 200% or 50% and nobody has a clear idea why? The whole thing is the opposite of transparent and if you really wanted to store your wealth you would not put it at the mercy of Bitcoin whales.
This happens on HN every time BTC gets another slot in the broader news cycle. Same comments, same arguments. For years, even before 2018. Just ignore the threads, they're each and every one useless... (I envy your history of comment restraint since ignoring long became the best policy for things on HN in general, too; I still can't quite help but occasionally sample them like now just to re-verify to myself.)
> Cruise ships pollute more than cars

Sulfur oxides (SOx), yes. Carbon dioxide (CO2), no.
I don't believe no one has noticed at Google yet. There has to be something else at this point.
"Tragula was horrified to learn he had destroyed her mind, even as he proved his point that if life was going to live in such a vast Universe, one thing it could not afford to have was a sense of perspective."
We are in the seed stage and somewhat funded startup. Team of 8 engineers
There's still some excellent documentation out there. But basically what happened is the immediate response cycle of the Internet.

You don't know what to do? Well, google it, look up Stack Overflow, open an issue or write the company/developers. You just couldn't do that when the applications were mostly offline and you didn't exactly have a full set of international call agents well versed in the software.

I also believe that more companies had tech writers, which is one of the worst fatalities that the "full stack" mindset inflicted on us. Of course, the open source part doesn't really have the option here.

And once you have this, there's a certain peer pressure. IBM delivers a whole shelf of docs for one product? Welp, need to do that, too.

There's also a definite movement towards video material, although that's not a total excuse. As others in this thread pointed out, dBase had video tutorials too (If I ever make it big enough with a "boxed" product, I'll hire some guy with werewolf hair or a woman named Cheryl to do that with a VHS aesthethic).
Videos and reference documentation doesn't go together.

I've also encountered more "code clearly and you don't need docs" than previously in recent years, maybe Uncle Bob or some other "thought leader" is preaching that again.
Some people want ABC, others want ABD, and yet others need ACEFG. Building and maintaining a different app for each of these needs is not only inefficient for the developer but also inconvenient for the user who now has to juggle several different apps. So people just settle on shipping a bloated app that can do everything from A to Z.
It's not exactly the same. Hertz was actually in bankruptcy, making all equity shares essentially worthless by definition. That's much more problematic than the scenario described here.
Reminds me of Edison's saying:
"Tesla, you don't understand our American humor"
It is now. Just like Google has become a verb.
Just a heads-up for you, and I'm sure you get this all the time, but I'm a new DDG fan.

The first time I tried it some months back, it was eh-OK, but not compelling enough to pull me away from Google. In the meantime though, I've gotten more and more frustrated with Google's results -- due in part to link-spamming sites -- that DDG has become a lot more compelling. It's my default search provider now.

One question though: I commented to a good old friend of mine that search was starting to feel like the old AltaVista days again. I spent a lot of time trying to find a site that I had seen just a couple of weeks previously, and no amount of Google-fu (or Duck-fu) could locate it. I kept getting completely generic results that weren't helpful at all. I finally found it by remembering where I had seen the link, and using a custom search feature on that site in particular.

So ... is there a way for a search engine to rank pages by "freshness"? i.e., some combination of recently-updated and recently-mentioned?

Anyway, thanks for DDG.
i snap photos on my iphone and then email them in. awesome. easier than launching another app.
looking forward to it @nuuji
I think you are missing his point.

As he relates further down in the conversation, there is nothing wrong with doing things for enjoyment. As you say people do this all the time. No one is able to be fully committed to every possible field that interests them.

However, in this life, two things are certain: You'll need to find something to "achieve" rather than just "enjoy" to be properly happy. A quick look a Oprah's book club will show you this.

The second thing is that it is self-defeating to eliminate possible passions or areas to "achieve" in simply because there are elements of them that you may not enjoy or that require greater effort than "comfortable". This is the biggest lie of our society today - that there is something out there that will fit perfectly with you and you will never have a bad day, require practice or fail at.

Every human needs a purpose, but not everything that you do needs to be yours. Rowe isn't addressing the issue you raise, but the idea that you can do everything half-ass and some how come out of life fulfilled and happy. In fact, the "smarter" and more naturally talented you are, the HARDER you need to work at your purpose.

It has little to do with what everyone else thinks, and everything to do with what you think of yourself.
> "Google" and "email" did

"Google" and "email" don't contain prepositions.

I log in. You log in. We all logged in.

I login. You login. We all logined. What? We all loggedined? We all loggedin?

If we just acknowledge that "login" is a noun referring to your credentials, where as "log in" (or "log on") means to supply one's login/credentials, then it's all hunky-dory.
Wrote a similar script a while back to vizualize any binary data. http://www.velvetcache.org/2010/03/15/bin2img-data-visualiza...
That seems to be the safer approach, if possible. Prove that an idea is working and making some money (aka get some traction) and then seek investment.
Well, to be fair, this question seems to be intended at getting negative experiences. There are plenty of stories of companies that took investment and turned out well (aka Techcrunch) so getting the opposite perspective is good as well.
One guess is they might write a law that requires U.S.-based online businesses to collect certain information about the transactions they accept that would make accepting bitcoins illegal.
It's not just how it looks. To pick on my favorite tool, Google AdWords: you select a campaign, then you select the keyword tab, then you click on "add keywords", then it asks you which campaign you want to select... Didn't I just tell you that 3 clicks ago? Why do I have a choice again? That's an example of poor UX design.
As far as mefi's guildlines go and my job responsibilities go, morality doesn't really come into it. I don't consider it my mandate to ensure or enforce moral correctness or any such thing.

That what he did was against the site's rules and a violation of the Metafilter community's shared expectations of behavior on the site is why it was a problem on Metafilter, and why we contacted him to tell him to cut it out.
I have been looking for a good alternative to impactjs too. The one that I have been playing with is called Easel.js - http://easeljs.com/
>>Intermediaries as Choke Points

Interesting to see an article using network theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choke_point
Control-R + a specific file name isn't really a shortcut.
Why is the number of videos by the user displayed as 0? Has it always been like this, or is it because the clip was reinstated?
Fortunately, there is a good historical and photographic record, and it's actually presented to students of US history in school.
Jesus man. You seem awfully certain. Here is a ruling from December that affirms 1st amendment rights to market off label uses:

http://www.reedsmith.com/files/uploads/DrugDeviceLawBlog/Car...

" Caronia argues that he was
convicted for his speech -- for promoting an FDA-approved
drug for off-label use -- in violation of his right of free
speech under the First Amendment. We agree. Accordingly,
-3- we vacate the judgment of conviction and remand the case to the district court. "

It is uncertain whether marketing off label is protected by the 1st amendment. The courts don't all agree.
I don't know whether I laugh or feel pity about these people.

TSA and other agencies have created more fear and panic among Americans than Osama or anyone else.
There is an episode of Crossing Jordan I saw recently that is similar to what you experienced.

What triggered the government to hold the guy in the show was that he actually traveled to India for a week, you were merely trying to fly across the country.

Thanks for sharing your experience, nothing will ever change unless enough of these stories come out.
"the American encampment in a higher ethnic concentration of Japanese" doesn't roll off the tongue quite as easily.

I'm not sure what the distinction is you're trying to make. That calling them 'interment camps' is somehow better than 'concentration camps'? Both words refer to holding a designated group of people, perceived to be a threat against their will without evidence or trial.
I actually tried turing testing chatbots a while ago (chatterbot, jabberwacky, etc.) to see if they've improved. No, they don't pass even remotely, and they all get very offended when you suggest they've failed (Chatterbot quote "Are you insulting me?"). Chatbots have a terrible temper.
The biggest problem with political systems is that countries don't exist in a vacuum.

For instance, it might be possible that Egypt successfully adopted democracy, even when a leader supported only by a sector of the society got elected. The very nature of democracy is forcing you to deal with different viewpoints on the political arena.

But since that goes against the west agenda and the US finances their military, you end up with a dysfunctional democracy, and suddenly it's acceptable to overthrow a democratically elected leader.

Today's world is interconnected so much that the very notion of sovereign countries is arguable.
Except none of those places are Silicon Valley or San Francisco. There are few major hubs of startup activity, the other major one being New York City. The atmosphere and population density of ambitious programmers and like minded designers and business guys play a key role in why those active hubs exist in very few places.

VC money and the active community play huge roles here. There are dozens of meetups you can go to and meet people interested in programming or startups. There are hackathons every other weekend and a lot of tech based conferences are pretty much routine. There are happy hours almost every day of the week at various incubators or shared work spaces or even at clubs hosted by a startup.

The sheer volume of events and startups and tech based companies here blows Boise, Denver, Phoenix, .... all other cities out of the water. That's why SF is so expensive to live in -- all these tech guys get paid $$$ and landlords feel as though they can just keep raising prices to take over that income. It's similar to how NYC got extremely expensive because of all the financial guys making tons of $$$. If there is cash to be had, it'll raise the cost of everything.
"Here, the process worked."

In what way is falsely detaining an innocent person the process working?
Such a strong move. Crowdtilt is doing a lot of things right.

James really needs to do an AMA of some kind - his story is awesome. His original idea was a microloan site for impoverished areas, but the tightened regulations around the 2008 market crash made that idea completely infeasible and he lost ~$20k in software investment. He pivoted to this as a way to re-use his (horribly messy, and - as he would later find out - completely unusable) codebase he'd paid so much for.

I still have the picture of the cup of coffee he bought me when explaining all of this and asking if I would be employee #3...
"ties up the 911 line"

Where did he say he's using the emergency line?

"the cops hate your friend"

you don't know this obviously

"I'd bet that they've never acted on a single one of his tips"

even if that were true, the cyclist is going to feel better so long as the probability of them acting sometime is positive. Think revenge lottery ticket. Humans don't process small probabilities well you might as well use it to feel better after getting cut off in the bike lane.
Maybe this isn't what they're targeting, but I could see it functioning nicely as a workflow engine (google 'jBPM' for an example).
I'd say Christianity has been the most successful large scale war restraining ideology. Not that it is perfect, but name a better large scale ideology.
About.me is one of those ideas that gave me the "Why didn't I think of that" moment. It lead me to finding and buying http://ronnie.me The .me TLD seems to be growing quickly, grab your name if it's available.
His service is very different, it'd be a shame if the service changed just to get in on this.
Good for them. Good toolset, good platform. Really needs an iPhone app.