jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is really useful because you might see a screenshot of a game and go 'I wonder if they got those assets from OGA' and while the project should include a link or somesuch... Well, this will help keep people honest.
The stylesheet for this website is linked as such:

https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com/fuckingstyle.css?v=0...

And is minified. So not very simple, which was the whole point of http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

So I would say there is some room for improvement, and calling it `perfect' is premature.
All of the focus appears to be on men who are now women. I wonder how many women who have become men are anxious to be in a male prison?
There is an automatic reset to bootloader feature that will be removed prior to production, customer units will always require a physical keypress (Fn+ESC) in order to flash firmware: https://github.com/system76/launch/issues/17
Last time FB dating was going to destroy Tinder.
No, that's why you need to be specific. v4 is random, other versions aren't.
As long as you aren't taking canoes!
Does anyone still use Facebook? Seriously, I'm medicine. It doesn't even come up anymore. The only thing that reminds me is HN. My daughter and her friends seem unimpressed.

The only reason I haven't deleted my profile is that I don't want to cede the namespace. Don't cross the street to get your ass kicked.
Thank you all for scaring me sh*tless. I just started my career in digital marketing and I'm beginning to think about what to do with my money. I make 30k and I'm wondering what to do with the excess funds.
I often hear about adults buying games but not really playing them. As long as this is happening, there isn't any economic incentive to aim for quality over quantity in gameplay. Game reviewers play a big part in this since adults tend to buy games based on reviews, but reviewers consider length to be a good thing. Only when games that are shorter sell better will publishers' perspectives change.
Salinas isn't in Silicon Valley, it's in the Salinas Valley. It's mostly an agricultural area, and incomes are much lower.
I mostly agree but wanted to re-iterate that the login as the first page is a little off-putting. If I landed there from somewhere other than an "Rate My Startup" post, I just would have left. In fact, I wanted to read a few reviews BEFORE signing up.

- The font on the inside page with more info is way too small. Again, I would have just left.

- Clipping something should auto-clip and not make me hit "Clip" again to actually do it.

- I clipped a different Ask HN post that I am interested in tracking and in the sidebar all it shows me is "Hacker News | Ask HN" and "news.ycombinator.com" with no option to expand the sidebar. So if I did this often (which I would), they would all look alike. I understand that I can modify each one, but that's more clicking/typing that I don't want to do.

But I agree with DanielStraight1 that you "get" the organization I would like more than Evernote or some other sites. And that seems like the harder problem to solve. So it seems like you could clean up some of these usability items and have a hit...
Possible, sorry if I lumped you with what warpwoof said above:

> Doing full squats with your bodyweight on the barbell 15 times (3 sets of 5) is like screaming at your body to get in shape and it will respond.

I do not think (very-)high-resistance training is a good approach for people wanting to be "in shape" but, then, I make a distinction between that and bodybuilding.
I like to think of this topic using an automotive racing analogy: Fortune 500 companies are the formula 1 cars. They need a great big team to perform efficiently, and minor tweaks applied correctly can yield significant results. The MBAs are the specialists who work the electronics and the advanced controls for the race cars. A team working on a formula 1 car could find a way to increase down force by 5%, or they could install a GPS system to analyze turns and scrape 1/100s of seconds off of lap times, and that edge could help them win.

Startups are cars with a very different purpose. They are project cars, and they have 1 purpose: to go. Forget GPS systems and down force. These cars need tires and a working steering wheel. It would be a mistake to think about installing spoilers on a car that doesn't have all 4 tires, just as it would be a mistake to worry about ideal liquidity ratios in a startup. Entrepreneurs are the mechanics who decide to take on these 'project cars'. Eventually, as the car project develops and grows, specialists (MBAs) can be brought on to find the minor, yet precise changes that will improve the car's results.
Even if the wave isn't played with a wavelength of an integer number of samples, a good DAC will produce a pure sine wave as an output (as long as the sine is exact, and the wavelength of the wave is 2 or more output samples). If not you get aliasing (or the wave playing at the wrong frequency). This generalizes to non-sine waves, as long as you advance by the same number of waveform samples on each output sample, and the wavelength of the highest harmonic is 2 or more output samples.

In practice it's common to have non-exact sine/etc. waves, or not advance by an integer number of waveform samples on each output sample (generating output samples using various interpolation methods), both of which introduce high harmonics which get aliased to the wrong output frequency.

For more information on discrete-to-continuous frequencies and reconstruction, you can watch Xiph's "Digital Show & Tell" (https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml).
Thank you for the link -- is a very informative post. My small organization recently adopted (and loves) FrontApp, it's been a tremendous upgrade over trying to handle inbound support via shared inboxes.

That said, it's pretty darn expensive & it's probably "overkill" for us -- we only have ~5 team members. By the time we added in all our forward-facing "aliases" (ie support@gameX, support@gameY, media@gameX media@gameY, etc) plus a few Twitter accounts, our bill ends up around $240/month.

Comparing the two services via the [relatively] detailed comparison breakdown at your link, it sure seems like Missive would scratch the same itch that FrontApp does for us currently -- possibly better even, especially for a small team like ours -- and looks like it'd be ~50% cheaper than FrontApp.

Will definitely be taking a closer look in the future; I don't look forward to the migration (though sounds like it can be done pretty smoothly), but it's certainly an attractive product and the price point makes it quite tempting.
Thank you, Dendrite is listed as "beta", and appears to require Postgres?
I've been wondering if users should organize or unionize to get more rights on the platforms we use. What do you all think about something like this in this situation?
> Well, as someone who has saved my company's ass multiple times to the tune of millions of dollars

Even though it sounds good, this is actually a bad measure because all coding consists of constantly making new zillion-dollar mistakes and then fixing them as you go. You can always do a worse job, and if we're supposed to be impressed by you visibly fixing something, then mess up and fix you will.
I moved family and friends quite successfully over once I’d had a child and told them that I didn’t want any photos sharing on facebooks platforms.
Haha, Indeed. I loved scripting! Pretending to be the server "admin" messaging the room from a chat-bubble in the top left was the best thing ever. Well, yeah that and laser shows.

So much time spent there. And on Comic Chat.
Depending on the speeds it may not make much of a difference - wind resistance is the square or cube of speed and those dirt roads don’t look too fast.
>The default state of a human is an agnostic. If you are born and nobody tells you the Good Word, you live your entire life without religion.

There are some interesting arguments that we evolved to become hard-wired for religion. Fear during early evolution was probably the driver for this, all the earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, death by germs etc. We invented religion as a means to explain stuff - the solar cycle, disease, etc, etc. Turns out those explanations were wrong, but our biology is still the same ..
Yes and no. Yes I think it will protect independent processes sharing a computer that's fully patched. No it will not protect you if you run multiple untrusted scripts in the same process. This is partly why Chrome moved to isolate tabs in their own process after the V8 team eventually admitted defeat in implementing spectre mitigations.
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - Excellent podcast about history. The 'Prophets of Doom' episode is my favourite.

Darknet Diaries - Hacking / technology.

Planet Money - Short episodes on economics and money

Acquired - Analysis of Companies

Tim Ferris Show - He interviews interesting people. Hit or miss for me.

Lex Fridman - High quality interviewees but Lex Fridman is hit or miss.

Joe Rogan Experience - Plenty of great episodes. Episodes vary dramatically in quality.
There are different models claiming free stuff.

One is a google-style lock into an ecosystem of free apps that a company can monetize at any time. Stay away if possible: the users will be milked sooner or later.

The other is openstreetmap-style set of free data that anyone can download anytime, plus some apps (maybe free, maybe not) using it for some function. I see no problem with it as the lock-in is highly unlikely because the main feature (say, map data) is always available. My 2c.
I think this level ignorance is pretty common today.
Or you know just create a rainbow table of all the phone numbers in the world and match the hashes against that. Would probably be faster.
> The small piles would have 1000 notes in them, which is easy to check in a day.

By the time you could even buy an 8-bit home computer for couple hundred dollars, store all the serial numbers on a floppy and simply search through them once per day
So they dislike an actual Marxist for once.
It's coming for the hardware keyboards as well. See comments in this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/95f7lw/das_keyboard_...
Which is fine as they were all declared as entry level machines into the new ecosystem. That Pro label was a bit odd but no matter the efficiency of their new systems it was shown a fan is still needed to reach full potential so it provided a means of product separation.

What becomes important is if this constraint it carried forward into larger machines. I cannot believe the M series chips are constrained on how many ports they can support as that usually is all in the external chipset. The real issue I think people are looking at is memory expansion, will it always be what you buy it all you get or will there be user expansion available?
We don't know what they think of the moderation though. These folks aren't bright enough to know that they've been banned.
You’re gonna “consider” complying with the law?
The browser is still figuring out the sizes (the invisible div with the innerhtml). If it doesn't have that font, it will give the size for the font it does have, and then the layout engine will use that size. It's wonderful.
Where did you end up getting a MacBook with free Applecare? I want in on this!
From the patent, in the "Background of Invention" section:

However, as will become obvious later, additional applications of this invention may also include the field of cartography, route planning for motor vehicles, marine vehicles and similar utilization.

So does this mean they could potentially go after MapQuest or Google Maps for providing route planning for motor vehicles as well?
The Moral Landscape is an ok discussion of ethics, but the real question is one of meta-ethics. Sure, science can give some pointers to help human wellbeing. But it can't make the assertion that thriving is a good thing, or that individuals ought (in the sense of a moral imperative) to care about anything beyond their individual wishes.

Harris starts with a naturalist/atheist/humanist/utilitiarian meta-ethic, and goes from there. But he doesn't (and cannot, due to the nature of science) show that such a meta-ethic is correct to begin with.
OK, personal opinion only, but ...

I find this sort of thing annoying. It would be especially annoying if I bought more than one thing, unless they changed it every time. But that, in turn, would force me to read through the entire email every time just to make sure they really were just saying - it's shipped.

In short, life's short, and I've got better things to do than read through an entire, cutesy email to make sure that it's saying what I think it's saying, and not saying anything unexpected.

It's also lying. I bet they didn't do any of that.

"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" expresses clearly the difference between "Funny Always", "Funny Once", and "Funny Never". For me, this is somewhere between the last two. I hope it doesn't catch on.

And it's not "epic".

</rant>
We should remember that the core measurement of economics is utility, not money. Money's just an easy way to measure utility for most means, but not by any means complete.
Referrer was a nice idea that led to a lot of trouble. Agreed, that wasn't the most brilliant idea but in a world of one-way-links a way to establish the origin of incoming traffic so you could simulate reciprocal links must have seemed like a good idea at the time.

Keep in mind that Hypertext as it was originally envisioned by Ted Nelson had nothing but two way links, doing one-way links broke with the view of the day in a pretty drastic manner (and actually made the whole thing possible), so I think some leeway here is allowed.
I think the biggest challenge is compilation time. With the lack of incremental compilation modifying more complex classes can result in long compilation time. Same is true for modifying templates that are widely used within the code base.

If you look for example at runtime compilation of queries in database systems, compiling can take significant amount of time, at least enough so it doesn't feel instant anymore.

To get incremental compilation, one would need fully dynamic dispatched invocation which would be probably horrible slow.

This said, I'm a strong believer in runtime code generation, just with a reduced scope rather than full c++.
You could use floppies to transfer terabytes of data, but that doesn't make it a good idea.
If you were hiring HR people, you would look for good people that can be trusted. And then you can also fire them if they don't do what is good for the company. You can't trust them because they answer to people you shouldn't trust. it doesn't matter how pleasant and understanding they are -- they won't outrank their boss for you.
You are right! I overlooked this. Thanks!
jacquesms comment is* completely contentless. I didn't downvote it but it's not exactly a high quality comment.

edit:
*was
I largely agree with most of the points in this article but personally there's one thing that drives me up the wall that every company I've worked at has gotten wrong.

The author hints at "mandatory fun" with regards to company activities. I tend to be pretty strongly introverted and don't enjoy social outings very much. Yet every job I've been at when there's a company happy hour, a group going for drinks, a team lunch, or a holiday party and I don't want to go I find myself hounded for it. Made fun of for not wanting to "have fun" or ridiculed about not wanting to be "part of the team". To the point that I'll often just call out on the day of the event so I don't have to put up with it.

I guess I missed the part where me having fun by going home and sitting in front of my fireplace reading my new Henry Ford biography is against the rules. And lets not get started on how tired I am of being made fun of for not liking to drink alcohol. Team building activities and the such are fine, and I totally get why they exist and why most people enjoy them, but I genuinely don't have fun in most social settings. And I have even less when it's forced upon me or people go out of their way to try to force me into them.
The NAZIs had some nuclear research, but its a stretch to call it a bomb program, as they hadn't even done the most basic back-of-the-envelope calculations as to the size of assembly required for criticality. Thus Heisenberg's initial estimate at Farm Hall was wildly wrong, but he refined it to something more-or-less correct in about a week.

If anyone at Farm Hall had been working on a bomb program of any kind they would have done that basic diffusion equation calculation the very first thing, before they even started, to get an idea if the whole thing was practical. No one did. Ergo, no one was working on a bomb, or if they were they were spectacularly incompetent.
If my car would make less noise I'd be happy. It totally baffles me why someone would want more useless noise in their lives rather than less if that's an option. Music is beautiful, artificial engine noise is just that: noise.
If you are on a BB download this one: http://bit.ly/4LgF2K is fantastic!
"An MBA is an education in business."

So some people claim. Other people think it isn't that clear cut. On another discussion (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1330878), someone asked

"I presume you get an MBA to give you a better understanding about business. And startups are in essence businesses. Then how come having a better understanding not impact your startup?"

pg replied,

"The cause of the apparent paradox is that "business" spans a huge range. MBAs train you to be junior officers in the armies of managerial capitalism. But there is almost zero overlap between that sort of work and what startups do."

and later

"Actually I would say it's a slight net minus to have an MBA when doing a startup. You learn nothing of use to you, but investors discriminate against you slightly.

Almost all investors are looking for founders who match past stars. So what they're looking for at this point is hackers.

I have to say I agree with them. I can't imagine Bill Gates or Larry & Sergey enduring B School."

So there are intelligent people with differing viewpoints on whether "An MBA is an education in business." is a valid premise.
Well, if you were tech-savvy, wouldn't you just go for a standard asterisk box solution? 1-800 voip minutes are usually around 1 cent per minute or less, depending how many minutes you buy in one shot.
I don't think it's about cut'n'paste or SEO but about file size and flexibility.
Your quote is incomplete, the phrase before it is important:

> If an app needs to continue functioning indefinitely while in the background

Operative word here being indefinitely, in the paragraph above he describes task completion as well (an application can request up to 10mn [or something, might have changed] to finish handling a task)
That just means that the "real game" of Cribbage lasts for one tournament, not one session. If you only played chess openings, rather than entire games, they might win some of the time as well. Almost all games that adults play competitively are made to decisively rank their players' powers of strategy over their proper play-length. Games for children introduce progressively higher levels of chance, the younger and therefore less-equipped the child is to deal with real strategy. The maximum of this slope comes in early-childhood "games" such as Chutes and Ladders—not really a game at all, as there are no strategic choices made at any point.

From this, you can take the idea that any game can be adapted for players of unequal strategic strength simply by adding chance components to it, or replacing some choice points with chance. What if, in Chess for example, you had to roll a die at the beginning of your turn to find out the maximum number of squares any of your pieces could move that turn? Or if, upon a bad roll, your opponent got to decide which of your pieces you must move?
This XKCD strip comes to mind: http://xkcd.com/435/ .

I don't think anyone is actually saying nature is math. In that strip you can see that the line continues rightward, though I don't know if that was intentional.

Math is just symbols that happen to have congruence with something deeper in reality. They're representations that can effectively substitute. Math just inherently works to explain nature and physics.

And as far as philosophers, well I wouldn't say it's far-fetched to call someone like Stephen Hawking a philosopher. The danger is the philosophers who misunderstand, or who ignore the advancements in mathematics and scientific knowledge we've been making.
The Android way has less (if any) limitations (you register a service/daemon which behaves as an application server, it's headless but other than that does whatever it wants). Apple's solution is much more limited (you register tasks against the OS and the OS runs it, which limits what you can do to what the OS itself provides) but the tradeoff is that "debatable" programming has lower chances of eating your battery alive (and the OS can more efficiently handle some services e.g. if 5 different applications asked for GPS/movement notification, the OS can poll the chip once and it will then dispatch that one message to everybody, whereas with the Android solution you'd have 5 different services polling the location API)
Is it even out yet? If so, how much is it?
Fuck Flash & fuck Apple too for good measure.

This is HN. Telling us about raphaeljs is good enough. Please keep comments civil.
When you compile from source it tells you it's 4.0.0
You should watch some talks and interviews with Theo. He is very nice and cares about his development team and his users; he's really not the cranky jerk that he's often depicted as.
I dig it. It looks like linking to a specific image does not work:

http://hugegif.com/#r/reactiongifs/1yxipe
No, Scheme was that language. MIT now uses Python because when the dot com crash cratered enrollment, which dropped by more than half after being steady and high for decades, the EECS department and I gather some higher ups panicked. They also made the 2 new mandatory introductory courses much more EE and "gadget" heavy.

(Another input might have been the school having committed an insane quarter billion dollars to build a "showpiece" (but not very functional) building for CS research.)
Thanks for your input.

Do you have any recommendations for a starting point for any of these algorithms. My first shot would probably just be trawling Wikipedia, but if there's a better place to look I'm all ears.
Wouldn't it be nice if Jeff also took down that blog post (or at least put a big, prominent disclaimer at the top about the retracted research paper. The potential harm of such thinking getting pervasive is real (to the younger generation trying to learn the skills).
I had huge problems falling asleep for several years (10 years or so). Then I stopped reading in bed, avoided coffee after five and started to consistently go to bed before midnight. Now I regularly fall asleep within 20 minutes or sooner.

I'm just saying that for some people, you may want to first try out the general tips from sleep experts. Do that seriously for a good while (I think it took me several months). Then you can try more advanced stuff.
Cory Doctorow founded Opencola, a P2P free software. (programmer)

He was also European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation for four years. (activist)
The coca-cola company sure does like to claim this! Snopes has an interesting analysis http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/santa/cocacola.asp
Within Australia. You probably can't do international transfers for free. The same local transfers system exists here in the Nordics too :)