jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm still very sceptical about how genuine those are.

Nintendo is still strongly focussed on making an inclusive family environment, and I can't imagine how each person having a separate screen would help that. Those controllers are almost as big as the Wii itself. You're not going to give that controller to your grandmother as you all sit on the sofa at Christmas. Also, the controller invades on the 3DS's territory a little too much.

It's good news if they do make the most developer-friendly console though, considering their current consoles have the most developer-unfriendly dev process. Hopefully that will extend to their 3rd party developer relations too.
No, but for me Hacker News is like having the radio on in the background. It's always open in a tab and I'll read it frequently. If I wasn't doing that I'd probably be day dreaming listening to Radio 4.
There are actually better apps than Maya for modelling / UVing, but for animation / rigging / skinning / techanim it's the benchmark.

Blender's got most of the functionality in theory, but it's really not well architected / designed in terms of workflow - a bit like old Nokia Nxx phones - they had all the features, but they weren't user-friendly for many things.
Thanks for explaining. That is a pretty cool history.

I am working with a bunch of C# code written for windows as well trying to make it work on Linux and went the Mono way. So far it worked pretty well (as long as no Desktop GUI forms are involved).
Magazines like BYTE were the primary communication channel in those days. Among computing professionals, C might not have been big news for many by 1983. For hobbyists and many other computer users it probably was. Most people's knowledge about programming languages in those days would probably be Basic and Assembly.

In summer 1982, a learned of Pascal's existence at the local university...but my classes were in Basic. I first encountered C in the late 1980's in the context of the Amiga and its ROM Kernel Manuals.

Two decades later, HN is where I heard of Python, Ruby and Clojure [and Rust, Go, Haskell, J, Julia, etc.]. The medium had changed, but for anyone not tuned to the right channel it all passes unnoticed. Even today. most people use Windows and installing a C compiler is outside normal operating parameters.

None of which prevents me from noting how I miss the physicality of BYTE and other magazines from that era, too.
I must be missing something. Why shouldn't corporations benefit from freedom of speech? I don't care who says it or what it says, freedom of speech is a fundamental right.

Are not NYT & Harvard companies of some sort? Why should they be protected under the 1A but not other companies?
None of this is all that surprising, but it's a good read and i'll probably pick up the book from which it's excerpted. As an amateur boxer who's sparred thousands of rounds in the gym, i'm almost always disappointed in my inability to perform as well in actual fights or even in other gyms. Part of it is fear of the unknown or fear of embarrassing myself, but my tendency to overthink everything hasn't helped.

This, grabbed from the article, is right on:

“When you’re in the flow and you’re not thinking about it, you just bowl and you just trust your skills.” Of that day at Lord’s, Boswell said: “I just didn’t trust myself. I didn’t trust my action and I didn’t trust my skill set, and then when it was put under high pressure, it failed.”

When athletes are anxious, they overthink, and focus attention on the technical execution of the skill – those aspects of the movement that have generally become automated. It has been called “paralysis by analysis”: the mental effort actually inhibits performance. This explains why Boswell, a 26-year-old in his seventh season as a professional cricketer, suddenly found himself unable to bowl straight.
Maybe this synopsis is mistaken, and to make the game winnable, the actual contest was to be the first to bring in a bill containing a substring of digits, which sorting wouldn't help with.
A static site generator requires the cat command.

I don't see how you can call yourself "lazyjeff" when you've just written this, tbh.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted.

There's a serious argument that a source dump without commits is not the "preferred form of the work for making modifications".
"Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th."

If that's an incision of violence, then I'm sure you will apply such interpretations equally to other statements? Any time there's a riot, block the leaders of whatever party they riot on behalf of?

I get that you want to shoehorn in a TOS violation, but it's really not. But I also get that it's important for him to not have a platform right now. I'm just not into this Orwellian twist of rules/words/interpretations to try to justify the fact that we just aren't safe with him broadcasting his lies anymore.
> Don't forget Apple pressured Telegram to remove rooms or be banned.

Apple pressured Telegram to remove specific posts. There was no way to stop spamming the posts, so they removed the whole channel because it was a lot easier.
The "bar-like" scenario here is that they retain a whatsapp group chat that you are no longer in, and so you miss some stuff.

If you act unilaterally in a group context you should accept that too. Supporting your choice of communication only really extends to "oh yeah, crazydoggers isn't here now where did I put that app they use?". So you might hear from them less, but nobody is at fault.
There's a difference between the personal data you mentioned, which is on all of our computers, and actual classified information.
Thanks a lot for the detailed answer. I'm presently not interested in using any of these services, but I am trying to keep up with the developments of crpytofinance.
Some of this is Apple Public Source Licensed I think which is at (partial) copyleft - at least accoding to the FSF.
Ironically the first international cricket match was between the USA and Canada in 1844 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v_Canada_%281844%...
According to the article, blekko was in development for three years. Looking at the site ( http://blekko.com/ ), it appears they just kinda copied Google. The site looks like google, including the search results.

The name "blekko" sounds like "blech", another term for "gross" ( http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blech ). The slashtag thing is also confusing.

So, imho, no, they did not launch the "minimum viable product". To paraphrase Paul Graham, the way to beat Google would not be to attempt to replace it but rather render Google irrelevant.

Another point: Blekko is an example of what in management classes we refer to as "escalation of commitment". At some point, blekko should've realized that attempting to copy Google was a stupid idea and done something different. Instead, the longer they worked on it, the more committed they became to the idea. Three years later, no minimum viable product.
Previous large money transactions in Project Entropia have been shown to be PR manipulations ($100k "sale" from company to employee) or outright fabrications. There are plenty of references to these investigations out there on the net, though don't look to wikipedia, it's heavily astroturfed.

Bottom line is the game is a ponzi scheme, using fraudulent high dollar transactions to lure in lower dollar players. Some of them will flip property to even newer people for a profit, but in the vast majority of cases there just isn't any "there" there.

You can just back of the envelope figure they are full of shit - no one is paying $500k for a fucking space station made out of pixels and stored on Oracle RAC.

Need any more evidence? They are also the geniuses behind "Planet Micheal" whose tagline reads: "In the grim world of Michael Jackson, there is only war" (I swear I'm not making that up)

Oh, that employee I mentioned? "Neverdie" aka Jon Jacobs? Yeah, he's the one that just "sold" his brilliant investment for "$600k"

The one good take away from all this is how easy it is to fool the gaming blogs/press with a $20 PR newswire release. That is Project Entropia's biggest skill and they do it damn well.

http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2006/05/project_entrop...
There should be a community for lonely people without the possibility to contact, friend or connect to other people.
Yeah it's quite cool. I used a combination of Google calendar reminders and Posterous to do it a while ago.
In the rural area where I grew up, I would guess that one household in twenty built a shelter. I wasn't aware of any community-based shelters in the area.
If you write C/C++ for a living but want a nicer syntax and better language features, then yes, absolutely. If you're looking for a specific niche, then it depends. I'm personally more excited about Rust than Nim, but I also don't do much systems programming these days, so I don't have a specific purpose in mind.
Of course there are market imperfections for other reasons. Back at the turn of the century when people were railing at Ebay because it "raised the price of junk incredibly" I defended it as just bringing more buyers and thus making the market "more free". The result was higher prices.

In that case, buyers wanted their imperfect markets because nobody at the local garage sale realized this old Lionel electric train was "collectable" and so would sell it for $10, but on Ebay it was going for $300 and that caused the garage sale prices to skyrocket.

From the payments market perspective it is one of the reasons I find Dwolla so interesting as they decided to just take on payments completely. That was a really interesting move.
The “police have been devoting a huge amount of resources to track down
peaceful people engaged in voluntary trade like Charlie Shrem and the
operators of the Silk Road Market,” Ver says

The part you left out is the most context that that statement was made by Ver, someone interviewed for the article, and no real claim was being made that the Silk Road is peacefully run.

You can gain additional insight into the statement when you look at how Robert McMillian introduces Ver, a few paragraphs back.

Ver put a 37 bitcoin bounty on [the hackers] head.
[Ver] was himself sentenced to 10 months in federal prison...
Upgrade to algorithm in progress... probably. Or some government getting a tap.
You realize that all modern shells have those features too right? I know I find zsh's up-line-or-search to be invaluable. I just type the first few letters of whatever command I want to run and have run before, press whatever key I happened to bind that to (I use the up arrow), and whammo, it's completed out to the last item in history that starts with what I typed out. Wack it again to get the one before it.

The main draw of the "modern" shells is their completion, particularly history related completion. The function I use for it is just one of god-knows how many, and they can be customized to the extreme. If all you want is advanced editing features, just about every shell under the sun supports vi-mode (my preference) or firing up an editor with the contents of the current line in it's buffer. Just advanced editing isn't really the main attraction.
ipod touch. I've seen/heard it referred to as iTouch numerous times.
>The problem is that Tor's pedigree is less than stellar. First, it was originally a US Navy project then released to various "hackers" (a word which in a lot of ways is just synonymous with "NSA collaborator" or at least a wannabe). Whether the source code started there or just the idea, you have to ask why the hell the Navy would work on this and then release it.

Goodness me! We should also be examining that DARPA developed honeypot called Teh Internets and take a second look at that ominous collaborator Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Once I got to Zed quoting Project Vigilant's volunteer count I had to laugh. Zed's bullshit detector needs a tune-up.
Most people seek both fame and money.

It is easier to get money by selling things and fame by giving away things. If you get sufficiently famous, you can sell some of it for money.

DHH got his money from 37signals, fame from Rails.

PG got his money from Viaweb, fame from his writing.

Zuck got sufficiently famous.

What do you want more first? Fame or money? If you choose fame, be ready to stick it out until you can sell some for money. That's how most big hit startup founders got rich.

True businessmen are rare.

That's why, Bezos is my hero. He set out to build a great business and did just that. Building a great new technology business is far more impressive to me than throwing apps on the wall to see which one sticks.
What if those downloads were by people who already paid to see the movie in theaters and downloaded it later to watch it again?

If they waited for the DVD or Blueray to be released they could watch it an unlimited number of times after paying once. Should each time they watch it at home on a legally purchased DVD be considered a lost theater sale?
you can use robots.txt to stop the ones that behave.
those that don't behave, you would need to cut them off upstream. depending on how you are metered, that might mean dropping the connection when it gets to your box or it might mean having your hosting provider do it before it gets to your vps.
Is it not possible that the shoplifter raves about the book to all their friends and they go buy copies from the store thus ending up ahead? That's the same reasoning I've seen FOR piracy of digital content. I know it's not a good analogy, but both situations are possible. Doesn't make shoplifting or piracy right.
In USA, ERGs are a management tool to "divide and conquer" and prevent employees from uniting into powerful legally protected groups.

Dues are mostly used to pay members who are fired or striking over union issues.
There's an amusing irony in the downvotes in this thread. The champions of free-speech angry that Apple might ban a platform for speech that ultimately led to an attempted insurrection? These champions of free speech seem to be agressively trying to silence anybody happy about this news.
I don't like PHP, and I do love Rails, but pretty much anything you compare to CakePHP is going to seem fantastic.
The most interesting version I have read is that the naval mutinies rendered Kaiser Wilhelm unable or unwilling to continue the war.

Pershing being a West Pointer, noted that there was no decisive victory on land in WWI and that it would be resumed in a generation. Remarkable prediction.
Taking your confusion at face value, what you should have done is to use a question mark ‘?’ instead of a plus sign ‘+’. Otherwise, the string which
oneeyedpigeon posted also matches your regexp.
I took my chances at using autotools in 2014.

I did this to see for myself if autotools bashing is justified and I can tell you this: If a configure script is that bad, then the project's developers did a poor job using autotools.
I know some more. Some of them are made as libraries, some are just code examples, where you however could extract out some relevant code.

* PyLearn, LISA labs, http://deeplearning.net/software/pylearn2/

* LSTM, http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/lstm.html#lstm

* LSTM, https://github.com/skaae/nntools

* LSTM, https://github.com/JonathanRaiman/theano_lstm

* LSTM, https://github.com/mohammadpz/Recurrent-Neural-Networks

* LSTM, http://christianherta.de/lehre/dataScience/machineLearning/n...

* LSTM, https://gist.github.com/jpuigcerver/9358036

* LSTM + CTC, https://github.com/kastnerkyle/net

* Speech modeling, LSTM, https://github.com/kastnerkyle/speech_density

* FF + RNN, https://github.com/lmjohns3/theano-nets

* FF + RNN, https://github.com/lmjohns3/theanets

Speech: https://github.com/lmjohns3/arrnn-experiment/blob/master/tas...

* FF, https://github.com/benanne/Lasagne

* RNN, https://github.com/pascanur/trainingRNNs

* RNN, https://github.com/pascanur/GroundHog (Razvan Pascanu, KyungHyun Cho, Caglar Gulcehre)

* RNN + CTC, https://github.com/shawntan/rnn-experiment (Shawn Tan)

* RNN + CTC, https://github.com/shawntan/theano-ctc (Shawn Tan)

* RNN + CTC, https://github.com/rakeshvar/rnn_ctc

* RNN + CTC, OCR, https://github.com/rakeshvar/chamanti_ocr, https://github.com/rakeshvar/chamanti3_ocr

* RNN, https://github.com/gwtaylor/theano-rnn

* LSTM, RBM, DBN, https://github.com/kratarth1203/NeuralNet

* RBM, https://github.com/benanne/morb

* Q-learning, https://github.com/spragunr/deep_q_rl

* Deep Generative Models, https://github.com/dpkingma/nips14-ssl

* RNN, agents, “bricks”: https://github.com/bartvm/blocks

* NTM, https://github.com/shawntan/neural-turing-machines/

* RL + CNN, https://github.com/brian473/neural_rl

* DRAW RNN, https://github.com/jbornschein/draw

And this is far from complete, there are countless more examples. Just search on GitHub. I just filtered out the ones which interest me (which at least have RNNs/LSTMs or some other interesting things).
This is great! Perfect resource to share with my friends when they say that they want to learn how to make web pages, after I show them some basics of how to use the terminal and not be scared of it.

Would anyone be interested in a fork of the page that includes a quick primer about where to type the given commands?
Thanks! Working on that.
> Why can't we just hoard iron oxide?

Because it isn't scarce.

A more elaborate answer:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/15/131430755/a-chemis...
I honestly used to think America was the best country in the world... but lately I've been seeing more and more shocking things. Very sad indeed. I would have been terrified if that happened to me.
I've been wanting to try my own roasting, but I've heard that the roasting beans smell truly vile, and I don't live alone, so I haven't attempted it out of courtesy. Any guidance there?
Google Docs doesn't save every keystroke, it is not as fast and elegant as Etherpad's.
Those statements were said at different times, before and after new information was available. Kilimanjaro is working to a plan that can adapt; this is something to admire not mock. Personally, I reckon what he's doing is great, and I'm also impressed by Paul's openness and willingness to give advice.
Yeah, this doesn't make sense to me either. 60 years ago South Korea was one of the poorest countries on Earth. Today it manages to build world-class infrastructure at very low cost.

In contrast America was the first country in the world to build subways on a mass scale. Yet today it has by far the highest subway construction cost in the world. At least an order of magnitude higher than South Korea.

I'm skeptical that aggregate experience on a national-level at decade-scale makes any major difference.
Move to Glasgow (like Spire did). It's got a bunch of companies making cube sats & cube sat software & satellite data analysis.

Clyde Space will sell the bits to make a cubesat or even build it for you.
https://www.aac-clyde.space/

Alba Orbital do the same thing at a smaller (& cheaper form factor):
http://www.albaorbital.com/

Add a sensor that you can sell the data from. Make a deal to sell the data. Use the money / guarantee of the deal to raise money to fund the satellite development and launch.
>men are at a significant disadvantage

Datings apps aren't men vs women, where a woman wins and a man loses (or vice versa). Any real life connection that gets made is mutual. So what you mean is MOST or SOME men are at a disadvantage, and then you must ask which ones and why.

>One idea I've had is to disallow conversation in the app, and instead focus on making date plans if there's a match

Why not just do this yourself? It's not a bad strategy for a guy. Why does making this a rule forced on others do anything?
I do like the tone of barely suppressed rage. With a bit of advertising you can become the Pinboard of image hosting as others go through the failure cycle.
Using a fantasy language lets you avoid anything that makes the implementation complicated or tedious.
To me it's basically stealing. The misprinted price is clearly not what the store intended, which means it would not be a consensual transaction.

I'm in turn genuinely curious how this is not obvious.

Would you be comfortable doing the same to someone who accidentally omitted a zero on their used car sales price on Craigslist?
Yes, I would imagine given how long Office has been around, there are some people who have delved quite deep into the feature set and become dependent on it. It's hard to let go of one feature that you have come to rely on.
Sure but none of the properly cooled laptops are Macs.
In fact, it may be illegal. There are a lot of very stringent laws relating to escrow, and that's essentially what Google is providing.
An overview of the current status of the "replacements" would be welcome. Every so often I go looking for one but end up crawling back to make.
As crufty as autotools is, nothing comes close to being a more robust build system. It does everything. Learning to use the autotools is difficult, but what's most frustrating is trying to build software that uses clever Makefiles with a bunch of hardcoded assumptions about the platform you are building on that you have to hack to get to work.
How about we let Singapore fix their "authoritarian" government, and we focus on fixing ours?

I think it's getting increasingly hard to take the United States and Europe seriously when we bend over and take it from the CIA and NSA, and then criticize other countries for having "authoritarian" governments. I'd take a chewing gum ban over an illegally wire tapped phone any day.
The one on the right is cleaner (even if it appears to be allergic to centering text), the one on the left is better at presenting information in a way that people can find what they're looking for.

The poster on the left also has slightly better call to action (CALL 603-431-8560).

tbh, neither of them are all that great. The right one introduces a serifed font which clashes with the non-serif fonts everywhere else. From a marketing perspective, Akido is often associated with clean minimalism and serifed fonts are not.

The new design also uses generally smaller font sizes, which are hard to read on a poster. This allows for the use of white space to denote sections, but it creates so much white space that the designer struggles to fill it all up with something and introduces a new design element (the brushed circle) to simply fill up space.

Where non-serifed fonts are used, they aren't particularly readable, the kerning is off and the weight is too high in general. The leading is also off in quite a few places, particularly between the section headers and the first line of the serifed-font section text.

Some more downthread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9282032
Lot of room for improvements, but still cool though. I personally use Mention (http://mention.com) to track HN posts and get those stories under 200.
Come on. That's a niche of a niche. Assuming it were even possible to develop such a thing, you wouldn't even pay back your R&D costs.
I've noticed people will look at it if you really have their attention, say an employer who is inclined to give you a job.

Having a site talk about requirements is useful. A lot of the times I don't know about features or needs in a system until someone told me.

20-30 minutes talking with an engineer and whiteboarding a solution to a site helped me along immensely towards a solution that had more meat on it.
Why should we complicate our bookkeeping more than necessary?

In the age of computers, the third component ("momentum") is easily calculated afterwards, isn't it?
Not to nitpik this, but I don't consider eating off the dollar menu at McDonalds anyway to save money. In the long haul--that's probably what will end up killing you or at least racking up some medical bills. I'd rather spend 10x the dollar menu at a local lunch spot with real food that won't send me to an early grave.

All around, good advice--but don't use fast food as a way to slim down the budget.