jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Very useful info for me! I'm just planning to build a website to sell my handmade jewelry. I've been selling my designer's clothing through Etsy and Vinted. I guess that my business will benefit from a separate website. I gonna use a wordpress ecommerce theme (from this resource - https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-ecommerce-themes/ )
It just takes a while to make all of the mistakes you need to learn from to be successful. I think I'm getting close...
The author put an odd amount of emphasis on those languages. I'd never heard of them, and the amount of emphasis he gave them seems disproportionate to the actual amount of interest there seems to be in them.

I suspect he's not a 'web guy'.
Sharing homework and asking somebody a question are completely different things.

That said, if you can't figure out the name of the guy who was first to sign the Declaration of Independence by searching for it yourself or reviewing your notes, then yes, you aren't learning anything. I would not want to work with someone who asks questions he could easily figure out for himself.
Vinyl's experienced a recent surge due to a retro trend. It might last, or the hipsters might get bored and move on to something else, like quasi-ironic adoption of 8-tracks or cassettes.
Yeah, I should definitely put these in a cookie - it's amazing how many blind spots you have about your own work!
What kind of application blocks on disk IO but nothing else for extended amounts of time? I'm having a hard time seeing how installing an SSD and maxing out your cores are terribly related otherwise.

SSDs do a lot to reduce loadtimes, and thus make your computer seem much faster, but they do little for making your programs run full-speed-ahead constantly. Most every application out there blocks on network connections, user input, or just plain old throttles itself.

For that matter, I can max out my cores just using a couple dozen instances of mplayer, playing several movies at once off of a usb removable harddrive...
Apple's teaser suggested an unforgettable announcement, this must have been designed to fuel speculation. The disappointed backlash will be quite funny, and deserved.
Could you explain what exactly you hacked together to rotate your monitor like that? I was thinking of purchasing a dual monitor mount that allows this configuration, but would rather hack something together for the time being.
No, and buying a gun for protection isn't murder. But each can be easily used for unscrupulous purposes, which is cause for concern.
Accounting software is typically similar to Quickbooks for tax purposes.

You can check out http://lessaccounting.com - they make accounting suck less.

If you are looking for a financial dashboard or forecasting, here are a couple interesting apps: http://indinero.com &
http://60mo.com
Polya's "How to solve it" is pretty good in that respect. I asked this question on math.stackexchange.com a while ago but haven't received many answers yet

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1040232/can-you-reco...
It wasn't communication error. Fauci admitted he lied for the greater good.

It was really short-sighted. He could have suggested cloth masks.

And Fauci was considered the best COVID thought leader. US is so dead.
My comment has actual content, addresses a real social issue and has a positive intent, unlike yours.

But to your point: You can remind me of Hitler as much as you want. Everyone does it. I'm ok with that. I was born 50 years after he was elected and I'm politically on the left-liberal side, which is exactly opposed to right-authoritarian. I sure don't feel responsible.
A person pretending to be an AI is surely easier to contain than a super-powerful AI that is smarter than all people. A failure to contain the former -- a strictly easier task -- is a perfect example of a failure to contain the latter.
Societal evolution is not that simple

http://www.santafe.edu/research/themes/human-behavior-instit...
Kendrick Lamar:

If I think and act like you do
The world would die
From not seeing something new
And if I don't speak on how I feel
The world would lose out on
What's really real
And if should die before I wake
I pray my music will take my place
The World
The Relevant

Сергей Есенин and Immortal Technique:

Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor
And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all
Sometimes a person you with is not your one and only
And you just fuck with them because you afraid to be lonely
And when you come back its too late
So you overcompensate
Like victims of rape
Full of self hate
Lost in the affection to strangers around you
Instead of the only person that ever gave a fuck about you
I love it, mostly Rumi. It's like motivational poetry, for the nerds from 800 years ago.

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” - Rumi

“Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.”
― Rumi
I think Microsoft just gained back its cool factor.

Now lets hope .Net also becomes 'cool' to use among developers. The current perception is pretty bleak.
The fact that there was a close grouping among physicists at the time works in Einstein's favor. Poincare could have easily realized E=mc^2, he was right there, but he didn't see it.

Looking at the same questions and reading same papers as his peers Einstein simply went further.
In Germany we have mandatory 2-year checkups by a licensed inspector (TÜV/DEKRA) for normal cars and 1-year checkups for trucks, buses and taxis.

This includes not only a visual inspection of all safety-relevant parts of a car but also a check of the emission values.

How is this handled in the US?
You're right, that last bit was a bit of uncalled-for ranting. I would edit it to remove it, but I think doing so would mess with some of the discussion that has gone on since my post.
Actually nothing is surprising about it IMO. But I always get downvotes when I appear to be bashing Apple too hard :)
so, my understanding of crypto comes solely from HN comments, articles and Cryptonomicon. I assume i will be wrong on most points:

1)if someone is somehow monitoring the mobileP2P connection between you and your friend they could conceivably crack the 256 RSA jumble to obtain the 1time pad

2)if someone gains access to your device they could obtain the QR image and (1)

i bet there are other possibilities via hardware and ????

from my lay POV, this does seem like a promising idea.
> Parser generators are a great help in writing parsers, but they all have one major drawback--they are based on grammars. So what's wrong with grammars? Well ... nothing as an expository tool. When you want to diagram a complex rule for deriving tree-like structures within a string of symbols, nothing beats a good old-fashioned grammar. But when you want to write a computer program to convert a string into the logical structure that it represents and then use that logical structure for further processing, then grammars are not ideal.

Not sure what they mean by "logical structure". But I've used Parsec to convert a string into AST. Then did a second pass with Parsec to turn that AST into VM representations of what the program is talking about. Which worked really well for me. :)
> people in places like india gladly pay the $1 fee for a years access on their dumbphone.

I am in India and I have never been charged for Whatsapp. Every year, whatsapp decides to add more free months.

Also, there is significant competition in the messaging space in India, and Indians are not comfortable paying for anything other than their phones.
The following quote reminds me a lot of what pg said in "Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy"

Let me repeat that: great startups grow independently of the stock market.

The fact is, the public markets rarely have much effect on a startup at all.
Agreed. There's something slightly condescending about the book -- about an adult trying to think of awesome `childlike' things, and only coming up with outlandishness.

I've tried encouraging my children to remember and write down their dreams, and my impression (they might disagree!) is that the ones which struck them the most are those which were unlike reality in some small, but important way; not those which were simply bizarre.
This article from NPR a few days ago has a lot more details, and gives context for the estimates: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/11/12/131275949/protest...
Direct link to article: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/16/5477568-are-...
SICP? TAOCP? (probably obvious, but I figured I put them on the table)
$100/month is not a lot of money. If you're a business, and you want to process credit cards, that's what it will cost you.

A good definition of "hobby" is anything where a $100/month expense eats into your profits in a meaningful way.

You're right about micropayments though. Apart from AWS, I don't know of anybody who offers a good way to do them.
Elegant! I like it!
Graphic of locations of Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Outersolarsyst...
"I can only assume the media upload is what keeps people coming back."

People keep coming back because that's where their friends are.
Sounds like a site that'll give you hickups.
I don’t think there is any. I’m kind of ok with it, though, because this kind of off-topic story is rather rare as far as I remember.
You assume it's a bias, but you provide no compelling argument that the results on the first page aren't the best results for the query. And neither does the Tech Crunch writer.
Knowing you've been in Göteborg, Sweden recently is one thing (or at least that's what the test data says), but location history going back the device's lifetime is another.
Observe the example given by Wikipedia:

1. Person A has position X.

2. Person B disregards certain key points of X and [...]

3. Person B attacks position Y, concluding that X is false/incorrect/flawed.

Person A doesn't need to be present or even know that his position is being spun for Person B to establish and attack a strawman. The strawman is presented to force a debate over something that Person A never asserted. That is, the debate comes after and is a result of the strawman. There may have existed a debate previously, but it is not a requirement for one that is provoked by the introduction of a strawman.

You might have heard someone respond to a strawman with, "Do you still beat your wife?," which is an obvious example of the tactic that is thrown in the face of the offender as a way of demonstrating its unfairness and ridiculousness.

And imagine the possible responses to the question and why it might leave someone helplessly searching for a response that doesn't damn him:

1. Deny having ever beaten his wife, thus lending credence to the implication by acknowledging it.

2. Ignore the question, thus lending credence to the implication by not denying it.

So the submission could be seen as an implication that people who don't succumb to these fallacies actually do, leaving them with the choice of ignoring the assertion or leaving a comment to deny ever having been naive about any of those points.

I honestly have never heard that there has to exist an argument or a specific opponent for a strawman to be established. Someone please correct me if I am off.
Rebecca also teaches the jQuery Fundamentals course on CodeLesson: http://codelesson.com/courses/view/web-development-with-jque....

I don't have that much experience with CodeLesson, though, so it would probably be best to hear what others have taken away from using the service.
Yeah, a REST interface a pretty interesting way to interact with the Arduino.

I made something similar a couple of years ago (the details of which used to be at http://code.rancidbacon.com/Flashduino and may return when I get a server back up).

The demo I had actually served up an Adobe Flash file that was stored in the Arduino's flash memory (it was small and generated with Python & Ming) that then interacted with the Arduino via the "REST" interface. I got it reading/writing pins and the EEPROM from both Adobe Flash and Javascript before I got distracted. :)

I've long thought that interacting with Firmata via REST could be a nice approach--I think Massimo from the Arduino team wrote an Ethernetised Firmata at one stage but don't think it used HTTP.
It's great to see sites like dribbble and forrst push to make money so relatively early in the life of the product. I can only imagine how hard it would be to make the leap to charge money for a service that could easy be characterized as fluff.
It is strange how every time someone interviews at Google they feel compelled to write "their" story and share it with the internet.

How many stories like this are out there now? Hundreds?
I think there are differences between an "aspiring startup" i.e. self-employment, small business, cooperative etc. and a startup. To me you are running a startup when you are ready to take funding that will mainly be used for growth. People can of course call their businesses whatever they want, but using a term like "seed stage startup" would be helpful for clarity.
That's a great point, and it really gets at the heart of the difference in design goals between iOS and Android.

'Course, I would argue that all of the listed apps fit all four of those criteria (even if some of their features exist in other apps on iOS), but I'll admit there's some room for disagreement there. ;)
First, I haven't said that it was easy to find the bug. Second, I said I hope it's released after it's already fixed, so your "for free" point is pretty irrelevant.
I just contacted him. Thanks for the idea, I'll keep you posted!
Thanks! I worked out a different way, too.

SPOILER

For just positive numbers, have the first number count up to the second number. Then increment the second number and reset the first to 0. Then adjusting for negatives is no big deal. Pretty simple in concept. Here's non-simple ruby code for calculating the pair for any step directly:

def inefficient(n)
count = 0
while n > count
count += 1
n -= count
end
[n, count]
end

def with_negatives(n)
# wastes some steps trying to get the negative version of 0. whatever.
tmp = inefficient(n/4)
if n%4 == 1
tmp[0] *= -1
elsif n%4 == 2
tmp[1] *= -1
elsif n%4 == 3
tmp[0] *= -1
tmp[1] *= -1
end
tmp
end

50.times {|n| puts "#{n}: " + with_negatives(n).inspect}
In question 1.3, if you send merged packets of the form <pkt1,pkt2,...,pktN,sign(key, (pkt1,pkt2,...pktN))> where "," denotes a suitable delimiter, I don't see any new DoS opportunities. Does anyone see them?

(I think the person who wrote that question wants you to send separate packets pkt1, ..., pktN and then a signature over all these packets; in this case, an attacker could disrupt the protocol by inserting a junk packet, causing the verification to fail.)
The iPhone had a killer app in the full web(minus flash) web browser. No other phone at the time had a web browser anywhere near as good as mobile safari is. That and google maps and mail made a compelling case to buy the phone.
If what you want is to organize by date taken, have a look at this ruby script: http://al3xandr3.github.com/2008/11/25/ruby-foto-organizer.h...
It speaks to github's prominence in the open source community and Atlassians's prominence in professional/enterprise environments.
I'd quite like one me at ryanmcdonough .co.uk
Nah man - Getting angry or even violent in response to infidelity, sure.

But a life-or-death duel is something else. It's a ritualized way of obtaining satisfaction relative to some mortal insult to your honor. That custom existed in Europe in a world that was completely different from today's, amongst a narrow and very specific stratum of society.
But perhaps they could be paid with Monopoly money.
You should have a look at how Line does it. You can use a login and password, but you can also use Line on another device through some QR code scanning. No password required IIRC.
What I don't like in discussions like this is that people are looking for a binary answer to a problem that clearly has no this type of solution (it actually may be sensible to start up alone but it depends on personal situation of the person with the initial idea...).

The issue is made even worse by those who 'have already done it'. We hear this all the time: you have to do A, C and F but never M to achieve Z.

Finally, I've always thought that delicious.com was started by one guy working part-time and only when there was some traction there was another guy taken on board. Am I correct?
Yeah, I would guess people don't like "Hey, I didn't actually read this, but here is something that I imagine must be related." (Even if it does turn out to be relevant and worthwhile.)
What books were those? Sounds useful, I'd like to read that too.
I wonder how they look at people that were starting their own company, freelancing, etc...?

When I'm not in the fulltime employ of one company, I'm generally working on my own projects, freelancing, consulting, etc. My resume never looks to have blank sections even if I get laid off and the income keeps flowing that way too.

But what does it mean to be employed? Receiving a paycheck? RMS doesn't take a paycheck from MIT, so he's both homeless and unemployed by the standard of receiving a paycheck and having an apartment/home. Yet for the right position, he's infinitely qualified.

Then again, I don't think I want to work for any company that has shitty hiring standards and is so elitist as to not even consider edge cases.
I agree, and virtual trading is in the works, which will likely carry more reputation weight than karma.
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This point can't be overstated.
Perhaps for the consultants and lawyers that suck up all the funds while the rail is never built.

California simply does not have the political, legal, and governmental infrastructure succeed at megaprojects.

Most major cities in the state can't even overcome the legal and policy hurdles for housing development or light rail, and High speed rail is a magnitude more difficult.
>No, the effect is the opposite. First of all, they haven't been talking to each other in a constructive way on these platforms anyway, they merely exchange hateful messages.

So nothing lost?

>Second, pushing radicals out of mainstream platforms is a good thing because they will go to many different places, break up into smaller fractions, and therefore not be able to reach as many people at once.

The thing about banning people on facebook, twitter, reddit, etc. You just create a new account. Nobody has gone anywhere. When there is a push for different platform like parler, then the migration occurs and there won't be cells. thedonald.win for example just as popular as thedonald was. There's no splintering. Though I can bet you within the next 2 weeks those sites will be taken down.

>The division and reality-denial we see today is the result of small minorities reaching to large audiences and looking much larger than they are, thereby allowing radical and violent positions to become seemingly more socially acceptable.

To be clear, the political division is not on the republican side. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charts-americas-political-d...

The political divide is on the democrat side. More specifically... it was just the democrats. That's not the case anymore. The republicans just moved to the right increasing the divide.

>It's perfectly fine if people who want to storm the Capitol (or behead Fauci, etc.) get to talk in their own, small little echo chambers. They do that already. Law enforcement is used to infiltrating closed circles and should know how to deal with those who become terrorists.

That's the thing with reality. Those who arent involved in certain subjects can see it objectively. I'm not american nor am I there.

I have never seen the politics so divided in the usa. It WAS the democrats, It's now both. The political divide has never been so bad.

What are the consequences?
If there was nothing else available, I'd surely pick a chance of survival while connected to a Pi-based ventilator than zero chance of survival.
That wouldn't be a competitor, unless one of the 'games' was a constant stream of extremely slick and professional live and on-demand classes with exceptional instructors. IMO that's their differentiator.
> Trump - and his supporters - are the "they"

70 million people. All of them are fascists?

I'm pretty sure people in Germany though they were stopping the fascists by supporting the Nazis. You have no idea who the "they" is until it's too late.

That's why the freedom of speech covers everybody. In America, we are not afraid of ideas. My dad survived a civil war, got his degree and immigrated here legally to be a part of that America. It's the America I grew up in, and that America is slowly falling from the grips of rationality and embracing real true fascism.

You think Trump was fascist? Just wait for the next four years. You are about to see freedoms and civil rights disappear like never before.
How would protestors overturn the results? Do they get a vote just because they are standing on the senate floor?