jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I "self-published" in 2003. I created a business that fulfilled all the criteria to be a bona fide publisher; namely, I bought a block of ISBNs. The rest was mechanical. Having ISBNs meant that book listings propagated to the places you'd expect.

Print runs were in lots of 1,000. It really wasn't very expensive, and the printers I dealt with were terrific and great fun. The tedious part was shipping a hundred or so books every week.

Once sales tailed-off I sold the book as a pdf download. I really didn't expect to make much from these sales; it was a bit of an afterthought.

In the end the long-tail download sales produced significantly more profit than the dead tree sales, and, of course, required close to zero effort.

I also sold the book for publication on a magazine CD, which was a nice lump sum.

I wish I had more time to write, as just writing this has stirred feelings to get back in the game. I would definitely self-publish.

[Note: Before self-publishing, I had been published by a "proper" publisher, the returns from which convinced me that I could do better myself.]
found it. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSecurityCredentials/1.0/AboutA...
"Jocks vs nerds" pretty much just existed in the 80s. That really hasn't been a thing for a long time.
The main thing is people can design their own site in the editor. Most site builders that let you do this are usually too complicated (Webflow), and the others lack customisability (Squarespace).

It doesn't make sense to offer only brutalist themes, but users are given the tools to do so.

Some people have made some cool, weird-looking sites already whilst others have built more clean ones.
I wonder if this is just making it clear that the words we use for describing red and white wines are fixed, and not that the students really couldn’t tell the difference in flavor between red and white wine. Does the visual information change our taste, or merely our vocabulary?
I think "selection" is the short answer. If you can, by any means, arrange to have a class of better-behaved more-interested children, then you can save money. First, you can pay the teachers less, because the job is much more pleasant.

Second, you can avoid hiring special-ed non-teachers, who (IIRC) are quite numerous in some public school systems (like 1/3 the staff?) but aren't usually counted in the teacher/pupil ratio (because their jobs are different).
Great article ... I was another 16 yo who was playing with computers but back then it was assembly language and wire-wrapped circuit boards. Producing magic squares as one of the projects in my first computer class in high school ... it's possible to generate them in O(n) time.
I'm a programmer by trade. I don't need to know anything about economics and barely any maths. How to approach a free market is in my previous comment. People have different situations and different opinions. If I was a parent I would probably advocate for squeezing non parents of every last dollar for free education, child money, babysitting, vacation money for kids and whatnot. But I am not a parent and so I will argue against these unnecessary extras.
The website seems to suggest that Firefox doesn't support VP9, but my research suggests that it supports it since 2013-12-06 (https://www.webmproject.org/vp9/).
The EU, it’s member countries and it general population have no grasp of the size, power and potential influence of the European Union and there’s almost zero interest in exploring it.

As a friend of mine suggested, one of the better routes the EU could take is to look to Switzerland and estabilish a confederation, with a single military, forereign policy and currency, but leave everything to the member states.
This is really one of the stupidest ideas that have arisen in this industry in recent memory. I wonder if other industries consider hard-working, intelligent and talented people to be 10x-ers.

10x chef

10x receptionist

10x writer

10x mechanic

SMH...
I'm also interested in what has changed. The dyno-hour prices of $0.05, $0.10, $0.80 for 1X, 2X and PX, respectively, seem the same as before.
Link doesn't work for me. From another source I found:

Free – Experiment in your own dev or demo app with a web and a worker dyno for free. Sleeps after 1 hr of inactivity. Active up to 12 hours a day. No custom domains. 512 MB RAM.

Hobby – Run a small app 24×7 with the Heroku developer experience for $7/dyno/mo. Custom domains. Run a maximum of one dyno per Procfile entry. 512 MB RAM.

Standard 1X, 2X: Build production apps of any size or complexity. Run multiple dynos per Procfile entry to scale out. App metrics, faster builds and preboot. All Hobby features. 512MB or 1GB RAM. $25 or $50/dyno/mo.
​

Performance – Isolated dynos for your large-scale, high-performance apps. All Standard features. Compose your app with performance and standard dynos. 6GB RAM. $500/dyno/mo.

H/T http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/881
I was born in 1987 and I didn't think of myself as a millenial until someone told me a month ago what the definition was. I'm still not sure if I agree that my behavior matches up as closely with the behavior of the people born in the 90's as the demographics people would like.

In regards to point a: I've never really driven in our downtown area enough to experience this problem. I hear a lot of other people complain about it though. I imagine, if I started driving in the downtown area more this would probably get added to my list of complaints.

In regards to point b: I don't drink more than 3 or 4 times a year. So this doesn't really come up for me, but I do agree that this is a factor for a lot of people.

As for not using my phone when moving between places, I don't use mine much during transit either. However, the mental pressure of being completely unable to check it when it pings seriously bothers me. With that being said, I actually spend most of my time on the bus reading books, which is definitely not something I can do while driving. I guess I could amend my post by saying that driving takes away time when I could be doing literally anything else, and, with modern advances in technology, 90% of the things I would be doing otherwise can be done on the bus.
Article says New Richland, Montana. Link takes you to New Richland, Minnesota.
My impression reading this and other articles is that these things are, ultimately and currently, just context aware random sentence generators.

Humanly speaking, of course.
Little off topic, but how do I get this feature on Android or can an app be built which blocks others apps from tracking ?
The address of this association is the same as that of a cleaning company:

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

This association is itself a member of an umbrella organisation for cleaning associations, the British Cleaning Council:

http://britishcleaningcouncil.org/members-2/
Hopefully the DLR will release the TanDEM-X dataset at some point in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TanDEM-X

It could be the best global DEM if it's released, but now they're still charging for it. Maybe in a few years as new DLR satellites come on line.
Oh right. Promoting individual expression unless we disagree with that expression, in which case we force you out.
That's good feedback, thank you. I think we'll be able to get clearer use-cases there within the next few months.
> not the result of some sort of technical vulnerability

So what then? Did they deceive or coerce somebody?
Though if you go to amazon.<wrong TLD>, the accounts are sometimes, depending on TLD, entirely separate from your normal amazon, even if the site is in the same language and looks basically the same.
It'll start fine if you fill it with 0W or 5W oil and didn't compromise on the battery. Even -30C should be fine.

Some people fill their car with 10W oil or don't buy a battery with adequate CCA, but that's on them.
MAAS (marriage as a service). Everything's better as a service.

Monthly payment (nobody likes to pay upfront when they're not sure about whether the product is any good, and especially when it doesn't seem to work out for many people).

Be sure to offer different pricing schemes, from $99 a month for a happy, contented marriage with a perfectly suited life partner, down to $7 a month for a bitter, distrusting eternity with an unfaithful, mendacious thief. Make sure people can upgrade or downgrade at any time. Offer a corporate product so companies can enable their employees to become married to their jobs.

edit: I have no idea why it's necessary to say this, but I am joking.
I thought the land case was implicitly part of Piketty's critique already?

The equitable way to stop the rich getting disproportionately richer is to tax other ways of gaining wealth - in particular investment income and changes in property value - the same way we tax labour income.
It's good software (I've used it more than a decade), however I found GEOS to be a sticking point. When using it on very large polygons, e.g. 10k to 1 million vertices, memory leaks are not uncommon and performance drops off considerably. Debugging SQL -> C -> C++ is not fun and hacking C++ geometry code when it's not part of your normal work is nigh on impossible. I've found the ESRI geometry API for Java to be by far the best geometry API out there. Harder to use initially and obviously JVM specific but faster and more reliable. It's a very good fit for Hadoop / Spark or other JVM applications. Ignore the brand name, I'm not affiliated and it's FOSS with an Apache license.

https://github.com/Esri/geometry-api-java
Indeed. It's definitely working, just not working well enough to satisfy my performance requirements in my current usage.
Theranos alert.
I'm on a well in the CO mountains. We have radon and high TDS. I installed a cheap carbon radon mitigator for the whole house and a Hague RO system for the kitchen. Tests went from scary to mostly zeroes. Water tastes amazing.
> If predictive coding and backpropagation are shown to have similar power, then there's a rough idea that the way that ANNs work isn't too far from how brains work (with lots and lots of caveats).

So many caveats that I don't even really think that is a true statement.
Hey friends!

I've been working on this for a couple days and by 2AM last night had achieved the breakthrough I needed from a proof-of-concept point of view.

I think this is pretty cool, good enough to share and, would love to get some "differential diagnosis" on the way that I'm tackling this.

Thanks for reading :)
Vultr seems entirely unnecessary in this picture (but the referral dollars probably help). They are just hosting stuff for themselves, right? The Synology can do all that (through VPN for the on-the-go devices). Separate VPSes for things like a 1-user Monica instance are insane.
I think do a little at a time and keep at it. Over time it adds up.

At sometime you will hit something interesting: Personal Sovereignty.

I've seen other folks hit this in weird ways.

My friend started working on cars with his buddy. They finally got to an old vehicle they took all the way apart and put it together. He had gotten to the point where he could pull the engine and put it on a stand, weld things, paint, redo the wiring harness.

I remember one day I went and looked at it and he sort of casually said, "I can do anything".

Anyway, I think the diagram says something else to me. It says he understands what his setup does enough to show it/explain it to someone else.
Interestingly, for my current role at Salesforce as part of the employment contract it explicitly states I’m not allowed to work on anything else on the side unless I get explicit permission from their legal department. Including nonprofits, hobby projects, consulting, etc. I don’t know to the extent that anyone abides by that, but they drill at home pretty strongly when you start. The language is far above and beyond what most companies insist about not working on anything with a conflict of interest, and I’ve never seen it before at any company, large or small.

Then again, there’s a difference between something being illegal and it being against your employment contract. You’re not going to go to jail for having a secret second job, but you might get fired. But at least you’d have that second job…
The less mysterious reformulation is that humans are better at finding less mysterious relationships.
That's not a valid comparison. On one side you have people who just want to quit their current job. On the other side you have people who want to continue in their job, but also want to work from home badly enough that they'd be willing to quit over it.
This still doesn't change the fact that piracy does hurt authors.

The sad fact is that piracy is only getting worse. Even when you can get a song for 99 cents with no DRM or restrictions, music piracy is still rampant. I'm waiting for the next set of excuses.

In '99, it was because music was too expensive and the artists were getting screwed (which is a funny excuse, because 1% of something is something, but 1% of 0 is 0). Later, it was because DRM made it too difficult to play music. This is why you don't negociate with criminals. They will just keep bleeding you dry. The music industry is learning this lesson at the expense of their profits.

Now there is a new generation of kids that feel entitled to music, software, and movies for free.

This is one of the main reasons why I no longer sell applications. I have converted them all to services. This way, there is no way someone can pirate it.
Rustboot's code generator was generally slower than LLVM. I think in some small test cases it might have been faster, but when implementing stuff like structure copies rustboot's codegen was horrendously slow because it would overload the register allocator.
> I didn't say they didn't

You said 'that's no longer the case'. Isn't that the same as saying they don't?
IIRC, there was a post on here about Redbean being able to serve a wild amount of requests, on minimal hardware. But perhaps it was a different piece of software than I recall.
Tesla is reckless when it comes to pushing out half baked features, because OTA software updates allows them to ask for forgiveness later. They move faster than the NHTSA can respond.
What a fabulous idea! I'll bet Zuckerberg hates it, which makes it even better.
This contradicts our present-day knowledge of cognitive science: probmods.org
I failed algebra one year in high school.

I thought I was absolutely the worst person in the world at math. Turns out, crappy teachers and a teaching methodology that is diametrically opposed to one's optimal learning style count for a lot in school.

However what was amazing to me was how I went from zero confidence in my math skills to actually being excited about math when I took geometry. I never studied once in that class--just absorbed and immediately internalized what the teacher said. I could look at a proof and it just sort of visually made sense to me and clicked and I could step through it because of the pattern recognition. To this date I've never experienced anything intuitive in that fundamentally primal manner.

What has been great lately is Khan Academy and a growing interest in teaching myself software development has rekindled my interest in math. I also owe a huge debt of gratitude to Kalid @ BetterExplained.com (he frequents HN) for getting me past my fear that higher-level maths were beyond my capabilities. They weren't--I just needed to find a way of applying them in an intuitive manner that I could easily internalize vs. staring at equations and their definitions.

I wouldn't be surprised if I would have ended up as an engineer if I hadn't had such a poor experience with math when I was younger. I am pretty resentful of it. Fortunately I can take steps to change that, and I am.
It is singular software by implying a plural tense. It may be miss branded as a single monolithic unit but it exist to an extent as separate entities, and yes, some have a hard dependency between each other. It is no different to that of iproute2 which has succeeded net-tools; what were your thoughts on that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
That's a good article on Bitcoin mining.

Last week a big cloud mining operation, CEX.io, shut down. (http://www.coindesk.com/cex-io-halts-cloud-mining-service-du...) The price of Bitcoin has dropped to the point that their operation was unprofitable.

Because the total weekly reward to all miners is fixed, all miners are in direct competition. If mining effort doubles, return on mining investment halves. The big operations are starting to hit that limit. The little guys hit it a long time ago.
I'm with you. It's mindbogglingly stupid.

Here's another example on why it doesn't help:

I live in San Francisco. I travel to South Korea for work, I check in at the hotel, I'm jetlagged, I fall asleep, and wake up some time later. It's dark outside. I'm very tired, but I can't be late for work. How do I know if I can go back to sleep, or have to get up?

In a world without timezones: My phone says it's 7pm. I don't know what that means in Korea, in SF it means it's time for lunch. I either have to look it up, or have it internalized that in Korea it means it's in the middle of the night.

In a world with timezones: My phone has already switched over to local time. It says it's 4am. I go back to sleep.
This is amazing. I love hockey, but I had no idea how amazingly good these guys are at handling the puck. I didn't even read the article, just watched the video a couple times.
> they refund ATM withdrawal fees

Most importantly, they do this (as well as priority mailing replacement cards) globally. I have yet to find another bank besides possibly Fidelity's checking account (?) that does this with no stated limit. It's invaluable for those who travel abroad to have access to local currencies with no hassles and a refund of all fees.
I think these are valid concerns. It's definitely a selfish thing to do; but in this particular case, I'm okay with it for some reason. I guess it's a "ends justify the means" kind of thing. I draw the line at lying about my intentions. If they ask me, I'll definitely tell the truth about how seriously I'm taking them. Regarding reputation, who knows. I think many hiring-managers' hubris gets in the way of them thinking they're a warm-up company.
That is not true. What do you think the purpose of fat is? As long as you have fat supplies, your body will use those fat supplies. Example: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/07/24/3549931.ht...
You can do it with a compiler plugin; I suspect that's what the parent comment was referring to. Admittedly compiler plugins are pretty experimental at this time.
Google the title, click that link.
Is it unreasonable to expect a company like Microsoft to be able to release a stable fix to protect their customers within 90 days?
Really? I have never noticed this. I just put it in a piece of cheese and they eat it right up. Maybe I have no sense of smell.
No mention of the ad platform they're rolling out, a key component of which will be more detailed geo-locating ability to target users, but I would imagine the two are related.
opposite of my family: 3 boys, puberty at 16, 17, and 18 (almost 19). That last one they were about to inject with all sorts of ugly drugs, when ole puberty came shuffling in late but otherwise normal
Try this instead. Best example of enhancing on the internet. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2qlmuy
Back in the late 2000's when I worked cashier at Wal-Mart in Alberta we did this. There was a threshold, something like 20% difference and it was free.

In all cases the customer was entitled to the lowest advertised price, be that in our flyer or the shelf. Rarely was the issue flyers. Most common cause of mis-marked prices was a stocker not updating the listed price on the shelf. Or an old price tag getting left behind the new price, and thus disappearing.

If anything this was a quality check, it gave the store a chance to catch mistakes without burning customers.

One source of supposed fraud was price tag printers getting left out. In theory a customer could use the printers to print up their own fake price tags, then request the fake price. Hence lectures from security on never leaving printers on shelf's unattended.
One of the most common vehicles for this are Sovereign Wealth Funds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund

Norway uses one for their pension program (AUM of > $1 trillion, owning over 1.4% of the global stock market, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...)

My favorite one, however, was created by Ronald Reagan, the United States Mint Commemorative Coin Program:

> Since the modern commemorative coin program began in 1982, the United States Mint has raised more than $506,301,189 in surcharges to help build new museums, maintain national monuments... and much more.

https://www.usmint.gov/news/inside-the-mint/commemorative-co...

Honestly a world where the government has, say a commercial for-profit version of NPR, high speed internet, etc, that coexists with other current offerings and then re-invests that into government programs and needs less tax dollars from me sounds like a great idea. Tax payer money already paid for most of the infrastructure, we might as well profit from it.

There's some odd political animosity to it however, as if asking for a tax-payer owned version of NBC with some entertaining primetime shows is like some kind of slippery slope to autocratic socialism ... it's actually bringing capitalism into the government like never before and allowing them to say, not have to ask me to vote on raising my sales tax to build a train. Instead they ask us how we want to use all those sweet profits.

... it'd be nice ...
Should all difficult accomplishments be rewarded? Or should only useful accomplishments be rewarded?
I had to put the following with chrome scripts.

$("#siteNotice").hide();
Formatting and readability!
Webdev celebs like Zeldman and Gruber helped fan the flames, too, by quickly spreading the news over Twitter. I watched this unfold through my Twitter feed; first I heard of it was a retweet from Zeldman.
What I was thinking. I'm sure 37signal guys have something to say.

But you know what, I bet they got an amazing deal because of their leverage. how can you not take the money?
I somewhat agree, but when mass hacks occur it opens people with poor passwords up to hackers because they've got all the time in the world to see whose accounts they can get into.

BTW Do you use the same password on your Gawker account elsewhere?
Great idea. Everyone knows about passwordpasswordpassword.
or just keep the extra as an endowment and eventually just run off that
Because thats the title on Venturebeat I imagine.
Yes this violates the EV EO and will likely be overturned before any vehicles are delivered. Biden just nominated 3 new members to the postal board; meaning DeJoy is on the way out sooner rather than later.
That breaks a law "unjustified enrichment" in some country and a court can enforce the return.
Well, for instance in computer science all the theorems are completely culture free, so it is not impossible. But it is indeed difficult, and to be expected for the most part.
Is that the bass assembler, or something else? I've been playing around with the default assembler setup in libdragon, but I'd be curious about trying something more intuitive.
> I have nothing against straight ads.

Why? It's almost always noise nobody wants to see. Advertising hurts usability by definition. Putting ads in the address bar of all places is actually hostile to users: people who are used to finding bookmarks that way will end up opening sponsored links instead due to muscle memory.
I like them purely because it's unbelievably distinctive -- just like the old fleet IMO