jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
To my mind, anyone who doesn't get this is probably a lost cause either way as they likely would be painful for a publisher to deal with once the edits started coming back, and I'm just talking the first round where the editor gives suggestions/etc, not even the final copy edits where final grammatical errors are cleaned up.

The trick is learn to find two sets of readers. One who just love reading and can articulate what they like and what is lacking in a story (they really wanted this plot thread to finish but it kind of died, that sort of thing) then a group to help catch grammar and punctuations mistakes. After that if you think it's worth the cost (aka you think it has a shot of doing well) paying the ~1k+ for a professional editing service to have one last go over it is a good idea since they do that sort of thing for a living.

Now if I could just find my two sets of readers once I finish the second draft of my novel...
That might be a great idea. I've never thought my blog would actually be something someone would subscribe to on Kindle, but you never know. Plus, that'd be a great idea for syndicating a blogged book and making a little extra revenue while it's in writing. Definitely something to keep in mine. Thanks!
I use VPS.net. My project isn't in production yet, but I have a few clients on it. Love the flexibly and features.
Exactly.

An article about the economics or business of pizza, or someone obsessed with making great pizza (like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz91GfoZ-Zs ) might be considered interesting enough to merit going on HN.
"Google buys majority stake in MSFT, forces open-sourcing of Windows"

"Tell HN: My startup, RuSrs, built this weekend with JRailsDjango + Nginx + EC2 + NoSQL"

"Julian Assange is a CIA NOC, released cables to flush out double operatives"
More choice is better, you mean "More larger choices are the only thing you have so I guess they are better."
We've been doing this at our house and it works!
Turned it off. Ratio of useful invocations to accidental ones was tiny, and it was never that useful. I'm typically reaching for something on the far side of my 6+, not the top.

When the rumors about enhancements for one handed operation started, my guess was a new standard control palette/keyboard radially extending from either bottom corner. Still think that would have been better.
nice question. grow first, monetize later I fear
It is a distant cousin of the "if you don't like software X, write your own", which is often impossible because we don't have ninety-hour days and the technical wherewithal to accomplish such a task.
Wow great piece of analysis. Quoting: Engineering train crew and contingency at times of peak work will be treated with the same level of nationwide cross-project scrutiny and planning as other resources in short supply, such as signal testers and overhead line engineers.

Also: Contractors will be required to test any new equipment in an off-the-railway environment before it is used on live railway work.
If you were one of them... wait, I know you'd never be one of them because you come off as a smarter ape, investigative, not ignorant, not naive, not timid, capable of caring for yourself. You'd have been gone before I got there.

If you'd like I could just as easily justified by rationalizing why they deserve what they were getting paid... because that's what they were getting paid. Their backgrounds/education wasn't very strong and (at least one of them) had poor judgement and reasoning skills (I mean look what he was accepting for pay!).

ADD: The one I probably wouldn't have ever hired in the first place, but he was there before, knew a fare amount of the current situation, and unfortunately got hired because his mom new one of the managing partners. The managing partners were also somewhat clueless to what they were wrongly paying...
This is a big problem with the culture section of the Times. They really don't think/write for the average consumer. Last week a saw them use the word "Staning" in an article, it's really baffling editorial decisions.
(Staning refers to the song the character Stan, from a 20 year old Eminem song, whose an obsessed fan)
Lets win back the working class by disparaging them? This doesn't seem like the greatest path to success
Not once you are past 32768 hours, apparently.
I believe that GP is saying that not paying taxes is theft from society.
While this is true, this work is typically done by a different person than the one designing the RTL, and it takes 1-2 month at most if there are minimal changes to the overall physical design. We are able to iterate on designs at a rate of ~6 month with a team of ~10 people.
Yeah, these folks were brazen. They would have gotten much much worse in the tactics they were willing to use to pressure fellow employees to their political ends.
Well you 'something you've made' can be something you've 'developed'. Some app you built? Screen shots of some projects or work you did?
This was originally the idea behind dailybooth.
I've tried to limit my internet use and I end up wasting it on something even far worst. Television.

I really dont go out much, because of location, there is not much to do. So me limiting my internet use amounts to working out and waching TV.......which kinda sounds like prison lol

I kinda justify things lately by learning online. For example I take classes online for various things like learning a foreign language, or playing the piano, or learning new technology etc
I don't see what's wrong with saying "no problem" honestly. In statements like this, so much more is conveyed with your tone of voice, facial expression and body language. If you meant it, you could have said "have a nice day!" "sure thing!" or "you got it!" or even "well, see you around!" and it wouldn't matter... ultimately what you're really doing is acknowledging the thank-you, and not leaving the person hanging.
Nice idea, but people could do the same thing with
Flickr for free.
I think this is more about taking a picture every day, as opposed to taking a picture of yourself every day.
If the gender roles were reversed, and the guy was a journalist writing a piece about his invisible girlfriend, then being offended by that joke would be equally ridiculous.
It's especially ironic today.
Little known fact, the PDP11 had a machine instruction that implemented shitbowls in the cpu. It’s interesting that these days you need ruby, a vm, two layers of package managers and oauth just for a shotbowl. Also, someone should rewrite this in rust.
It was due to how lathargic they would be for days. I am not really understanding why you think SIX vaccines into a 20 pound body seems OK?

Do you have kids and did you give them six vaccines all at once?

What the heck does that not make sense to people for?

It makes the kid miserable.

And if you have one of your kids get chicken pox from the vaccine during a family vacation to go to the chicago zoo, which she couldnt do and we had to stay in chicago another week - so yeah, fuck risking it.

Maybe my kids were extra sensitive - but would you deploy six patches at once to all your production servers with no idea what the outcome will be and you have no idea what's in those patches other than their name when you already had a two week outage caused by a previous attempt at doing such?
The New York Times reporting around Trump and the coronavirus was much, much worse (including just outright lying about how the US response compared to other countries). This just reads like the NYT drew attention to non-cooperation by China which some of the WHO investigators don't want to see criticised publicly for geopolitical reasons and have decided to downplay. In particular, the NYT and other publications have claimed that China denied the WHO access to specific, important information about the initial cases which they would normally have, and nothing in these tweets seems to refute that claim. They just say vague stuff about China giving them access to some data.
This is the one. Thanks.
Remember to explicitly teach all the skills that you implicitly learned, such as how to start and carry on a conversation, or how to forgive someone, or how to celebrate failure.
I'm convinced there are more applications written in VBA/excel than any other single language/IDE.
The thread doesn't mention "Pro" (I think they had only been out a month when the thread was created).

A lot of the discussion here seems to be around the Pro and Max's ANC. So I imagine it's a similar, but different concern.

Personally, when I upgraded from AirPods to the Pros my average volume I used dropped drastically. I got this info from Apple Health which tracks and warns of consistent high volumes.
I wore a glucose monitor through the levels health program for a couple of months. I’m not diabetic, just curious. They present the idea of eating your protein and fat before carbs in a meal as a “challenge” to see how it’s different from eating the same meal with the carbs first. It’s not the most scientific result, but multiple times I ate 10 chicken wings then ate an order of French fries after the wings with zero increase in my blood glucose levels.

Taking a shot of apple cider vinegar also helped blunt the glucose spike. Alcohol also blunts a glucose spike. Basically just distract your liver and you won’t get a massive spike in blood glucose levels.
You have never seen far left if you think the NYT is far left.
> And 50 years from now, what will the story be about say Corona virus, or global warming? Why are we so sure that this time everything is on the up and up? For instance Big pharma stands to make billions of dollars on the back of Corona, so it's not like they're just our disinterested saviours.

I dunno, in both cases Big Oil is probably pretty interested in research that suggests coronavirus and global warming aren't real. Big Oil is at least as big as Big Pharma and, as far as I know, bigger than any "green" energy company.

Maybe they're politically toxic to researchers at prestigious universities, but if we're going to reduce this down to "who stands to profit?", Big Oil seems hard to argue against.
The stm32f4 RULES. If you haven't got enough info on it, i'd just like to plug the subreddit I created specifically for the stm32f4:
http://reddit.com/r/stm32f4
It has to do with both. A smaller sensor acts as a magnifier, so if you use say a f2 lens, you get the equivalent of using a f4 depth of field (less narrow, that is).
A good question in itself, would be where do you draw a line. At what radius would you feel comfortable?

I'm posting from foo to a bar forum. Will bar tolerate someone from foo?
Whoever wrote the opening paragraph should have used the word "seeming". While "seeming" and "appearing" are synonyms, the ambiguity might confuse those who are unaccustomed to reading the entire article.
And OSX has inherited it from BSD.
I thought depth of field had more to do with the lense than the sensors.
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Cancer vectors vary far and wide, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease no comment on whether that particular cancer is a fungus which BTW would be a new one to me.
The tweet: https://twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/364839351651274752
And more importantly can easily alter it on the fly (just spawn a new "worker" or kill one)
> But the three week (zero-work) period was a scary phase.

That is freelancing, more-or-less. It's one reason you can get so much more than being an employee - you cover taxes, insurance (including professional indemnity), pension plan, sickness, times "on the bench", etc. Doesn't suit everyone. I always live well within my means and keep as much money in the bank as possible. That will cover me for a few months if I lose my current big contract.

Like everyone else here, I would be interested in what you are doing right on Elance.
Thanks for the article. This brought back memories for me of learning and making electronic music in the college lab back in the 80s -- analog gear on reel tape, and later digital + MIDI.

It requires some real dedication at this to make a living, and I wish the practitioners the best. I live in the sticks, so I don't think I'll be catching many performances (plus the family vs concert attendance). However, I think the download services (e.g. - Amazon, iTunes) do have something to offer if you can get hooked up, and get word of mouth support from friends of friends.
>All of this should have been obvious to anyone that bothered to think about what was going on

This is easy to claim, but we live in a world of tech. You need to step back and get some perspective. We have piles and piles of domain specific knowledge, the layman can barley set up a home router. Dropbox claims to have over 25 million customers. How many of those people do you expect to even have the knowledge to be able to figure this out?

You're putting the burden of realizing dropbox's claims don't hold water on the consumer, who probably doesn't understand a single thing about cryptography. Even if every one could figure it out, they still shouldn't have to.

>I guess I'm mostly amused by people that are surprised by any of this.

I wasn't surprised by any of this, what I am surprised by is people who see others trying to raise consumer awareness and are so quick to dismiss them just because they happen to be among the few who actually do understand the technical limitations of the cryptography implementation used.
If you're still looking for something, I've hacked a wrapper over Bottle to ease the implementation of a REST service, it's small (2 python files including Bottle) and might fit your needs: https://github.com/fclaerho/rest
> Why is the Harry Potter brand the odd man out?

Because it can keep ticking along without producing a single new thing. Coca-Cola, to remain worth anything, must at least keep producing new bottles of soda.

> And there's certainly a lot of work to be done keeping the business going. Someone is running the James Bond empire, the Disney empire, the Tolkien empire. They don't run themselves. Actual work is involved.

Actual work which nobody but the heirs will see the benefits of, assuming what I have assumed.

Now, it's possible I'm completely out to sea on this, and that if nobody keeps making new works in the Harry Potter universe the brand and franchise will die. But the mere fact copyright law makes such self-sustaining non-productive empires possible is irksome.
> I hope any developers here are smart enough to fight for theirs.

I'm confused. I'm a developer, originally from the US, who lives in Europe. Is an Indian guy who works as a developer on my side? How about a German woman? Is a guy in Alabama willing to work for cheap on my side? Is someone like PG, whose actions have created a shitload (that's the metric shitload, not the American version) of companies completely on the wrong side? Don't some of those companies create jobs? Coming back to whose side I should be on, should I be on the side of Europeans wanting to move to the US, since I have a bunch of friends here, and they seem like pretty good people who are bright, and hard workers? Or are they on the other side? Or am I, an American taking European jobs, on the wrong side?
We're just starting off with Puppet and EC2, but in general my current feeling is that I'd rather postpone maintaining images as long as I can. This is because a) I don't trust myself to keep these up-to-date, meaning I'll need configuration once the instance is up b) The cost of making a change is tiny with puppet. If you've got images you have to save them again after making the changes. That extra step currently has no value for me, when setting up a machine takes 2 minutes (which is fast enough for us)
Sometimes the most difficult things becomes easier over time, either because it is solved by someone else, or the situation changes where it is not necessary to solve it any more . For example, "Should I rewrite this in C or just wait buy faster hardware next year?"
Thanks for the tips. Always nice when you have two contradictory statements in the same thread. Because your feedback requires me to do no work, you're definitely my hero.
reminds me of the film Abyss
Cool, thanks. Perhaps I can incorporate GPG somehow.
People choose to look at the relative value of money instead of its absolute value. 20 million for Google is nothing - true. However, 20 million as a US currency is huge and can benefit many, many lives. My question for HN is which way do you want to look at it?

Also, a question no one is asking: How much is Apple donating?
Yeah, I read that bit. Warranty voiding oven hacks kind of scare the crap out of me, I think it's pretty safe to say that with your average oven/oven-owner combination, you're generally not going to get above 500F.

Seriously though, if you burn your house down pulling that kind of stunt I really doubt your insurance company will be amused. Over-clocking PCs is one thing, but ovens?
First, care.

http://www.43folders.com/2010/02/05/first-care&article=7...
Exactly. Natural language will build more of the mechanism for you.

* "I set the brake up by connecting up rod and lever."--Yes, given the whole of the rest of the mechanism. Only in conjunction with that is it a brake-lever, and separated from its support it is not even a lever; it may be anything, or nothing."* -- Wittgenstein
My advice is not to worry about scalability at this point. You can't really predict when and where your startup is going to gain popularity. Focus more on building a solid product, launch it, and you know what directions you are heading toward.

Imagine you waste 2 months of scaling your website that is only getting 100 users. I've experienced this before. Tears after all.
You know, as probably causes go, that really isn't that bad. Certainly, people have been stopped for less, and kept just as long or longer. If they made a mistake, it was that they didn't have an efficient procedure for figuring out whether the chemicals detected by the machine were actually explosives or not. Incompetence is bad, certainly, but not as bad as corruption.
Well, according to this link, the average 2BR condo costs ~$900k. To put it bluntly, aint no way I'm gonna spend close to a million for a 2BR condo! That's even more depressing!

So, this brings me back to the original predicament: when you get to nesting age (which normally runs concurrent, or closely precedes Having Kids Time), you're gonna start looking at your finances and looking at the local real estate market and many will need to make some very tough decisions - decisions that I, personally, don't see including San Francisco.
Defining consciousness as a mental model of attention seems pretty accurate and useful, maybe a bit incomplete, but the most striking thing about this article was the illustrated "extramission theory" of vision. I've never even heard of this concept, and apparently it's huge.

"a study by the psychologist Gerald Winer and colleagues at the University of Ohio in 2002 found that about half of American college students also think that we see because of rays that come out of the eyes."
"it's clear that tablets are huge". I agree but I'd say it's clear that the iPad is huge, and that tablets will be huge. So far there's no competitor to the iPad. I'm not sure why Google are arsing around with the Cr-48 (a netbook/laptop) - they need to get their resources behind a tablet.
Minimal, Web proxy written in Go.

Can be self-hosted on Heroku, Red Hat OpenShift or any VPS / Cloud provider.

more details here http://madhurjain.github.io/gopee
>An often reasonable way to ensure that you can mechanically apply a problem solving technique (which is related to, but absolutely not the same thing as understanding the maths) is to make a program that does it.

What "problem solving technique"? There's no algorithm you can mindlessly remember and use it to create algorithms.
Making a program that solves the problem is the highest possible understanding.

>I don't even know what it would mean to write a program that "does" Riemann's geometry

That's because it's an abstraction, not a problem to be solved. In the same way you can't write a program that 'does' functional programming, you can only program in a functional way.

Well, I guess writing an AI which can solve problems in Haskell would be an exception. I bet you couldn't remember its code and execute it in your head, though.
Of course, but then the instructor would have noticed the extra hardware and it would have ruined the fun ...
I think a lot of people here have missed the point a little. It's very easy to subvert E2E encryption of this sort, because no Whatsapp user has any way of verifying that they're talking to another Whatsapp user beyond the Whatsapp servers saying so.

The actual apps could carefully perform the E2E encryption, but Whatsapp could easily MITM the data if (say) requested to by an outside agency, without the app being any the wiser.

It's impractical to verify - you'd have to have the source to Whatsapp's servers, guarantees their SSL keys haven't been compromised, etc etc etc.
> It's been known for a while now that different people learn in different ways.

Are you talking about "learning styles" such as kinaesthetic or visual or auditory?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles

> Although there is ample evidence that individuals express preferences for how they prefer to receive information, few studies have found any validity in using learning styles in education.[2] Critics say there is no evidence that identifying an individual student's learning style produces better outcomes. There is evidence of empirical and pedagogical problems related to the use of learning tasks to "correspond to differences in a one-to-one fashion."[3] Well-designed studies contradict the widespread "meshing hypothesis", that a student will learn best if taught in a method deemed appropriate for the student's learning style.[2]
In that case why not go big, "Counter-terrorism Mail", or "Homeland Security Mail".
When you see the same behavior repeated consistently over 10 years, it doesn't matter if it's done consciously (what you call "malice") or as an unconscious habit ("indifference"), the effect is what matters and the intent is the same. The Groovy 2.4 release candidate was released a few days ago and announced on the personal blog of the project manager, but not on the Groovy community mailing list, a consistent behavior which started about year ago. Also a year ago, he launched a weekly mailout newsletter he controls about Groovy separate from the Codehaus repository or the backing company Pivotal Inc, soliciting for subscribers. It all looks like a clear attempt to take over from the other developers involved in building the Groovy codebase. I listed plenty of previous examples of such behavior by these project managers going back 10 years that's harmed the ecosystem, probably irrepairably, and I hope Ruby doesn't go down the same path.
I would argue that "building, and leaving open" Wifi connectivity that is not even remotely obfuscated is proof in itself of "failure to consider security aspects".
Yup. It's always been this way. Long before fiber was around. "Not available in your country"... We'll see about that.
Sounds like it will be sampling this year: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/hardware/ampere-gears-la...
That's only fine if you know all code running in all parts (containers) on the same hardware node. Code running on one container can influence data/code from other containers. (When some third-party has a form of code execution)
This is unintended behavior in the same way that a locksmith leaving a copy of a key under your doormat after installing a new lock is unintended behavior. They didn't intend to cause a security issue, but they also didn't care enough to make sure that what they were doing was safe.
I went through several rounds of conversation with somebody's wedding planner over email.