jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If the major expense of your business is the salaries of your employees, and your number of employees need to remain relatively unchanged, and your revenue drops in 1/10th, then roughly you will need to higher employees who will accept 1/10th of the wages. Some of your current employees may accept, but you can expect massive turn-over. And arguably lower-quality employees.

In short, I'm being forced to pay for live sports, if I want cable, and I predict that very soon that will change.
Ok things may have changed since I studied ethology
Good! you got the technology, now go get those 450 million users :)
Not in California. Political activity off the clock is legally protected.

Because it isn't ever actually carrying a swastika flag. It's supporting the opposite side of a current contentious issue like abortion.
Yes we do have our own db. We love SQLite to death but we just saw an opportunity to start fresh, with a modern design that leverages bitpacking, caching & vectorization, and would yield more API & performance benefits than the ceiling most ORMs seems to have hit on iOS & Android. I personally believe that new databases should always be created as a last resort, but in this case I think the amount of apps being built and the problems people we talked to routinely ran into while using SQLite and its ORMs justified this drastic decision.
My own anecdotal proof of this being true -

Wife and I have the seemingly dumbest labrador in the world. We adopted him at an old age (8-ish) so we didn't get the chance to raise or train him ourselves.

But after we picked him up, it really only took about two days for him to settle in and learn exactly where everything was that he wanted, and he quickly learned how to signal when something was needed. He knew exactly WHAT we were good for, whether that be feeding, letting him out, play, back scratches that he can't reach, etc.

We were super impressed with his ability to learn a daily routine too. "When they get home, they feed me so I'll stand by my bowl, then after I'm done they play with me so I'll grab my toy, then they take me on a walk so I'll stand by my leash"
no such thing as free market under natural monopolies enforced by network effects.
The sport (at the elite, televised level) is not just impacted by the desire to sell shoes, its only reason for existence is as a vehicle to sell shoes. Every professional runner has a salary paid by a shoe company.
I'm curious how the "BadChoice" vulnerability did not get picked up by a static analyzer. Only initializing part of a structure should be very easy to catch.
You can buy an electric assist cargo bike for $1,500. No car payment, no insurance, minimal sweating, etc.
The fundamental problem always will be that a company running a large and popular platform on the internet has operating costs and wants to make money. The only reasonable way to do that right now is via advertising, and these advertisers only want safe, family friendly content to not tarnish their brand.

I would love it if there was a similar platform with a monthly fee free of advertiser influence, but it's impossible to get a critical mass of people to pay for it.
SO had always allowed and encouraged beginner questions, actually. These days the same question would likely be closed as a duplicate, because the question, presumably along with a good answer already exists.

So that's an example of a good question, actually. And an answer "read the docs" would be down-voted as unhelpful and quickly disappear.
Hi, Brian from Realm here.
Surely hard to find much info about the internals yet. We could and should absolutely share more about that in a blog post. And to be honest we have for a long time wanted to do that, but just prioritized to enhance the features and support people building apps. We will get back on that.
>He's arrogant and rude about it

This comment doesn't sound very modest either.

>In particular he doesn't understand object oriented programming (look at the piece he wrote about .each vs for in ruby)

Actually nothing in what he wrote (in Learn Ruby the Hard Way) about each vs for is related to object oriented programming.

Nor is there any particular indication that he doesn't understand OO (which, I'm sorry, but sounds ridiculous as an accusation). He might not be some prodigy, but he's a senior programmer with a lot of experience building systems in different langauges, and OO programming is not some mysterious researchy thing but a tired old industry staple than programmers with 1/10th his experience can grasp...
Cool, thanks for the update. I'm curious to see what the memory footprint of the JS engine is going to be.
He is not talking about anything remotely related to what you are talking about. He just wants to avoid having to register to yet another site.
I have my main work database / Django project in Python 2.

I have a few smaller projects I have started since then - I used Python 3.

There are very few noticeable differences. Why would you not start with a more up to date version. Unless there are specific packages you need or expect to need that are not supported I would say Python 3 makes more sense.
Rubbermaid is a razor-thin margin business, with plenty of exposure to both the pressure of retailers like Wal-Mart and the rising costs of supplies, and very little in terms of differentiation from competitors. That's why it went bankrupt and got bought by Newell.
Just for the sake of it, that is Aaron Patterson (yes, aka Tenderlove), but it is not aaronsw, a moniker referring to the late Aaron Swartz.
I think this could help, but I thought this is a common procedure in the US?

It is not the case in Europe.
Luxury cars are generally known for their comfort and grandness, but if you are planning to include some variable to the trip then you might want to consider getting a specific trim line or variation that would help you enjoy your stay. The few things to consider include; the number of passengers that the rental car would contain. This is quite important as the vehicle needs to accommodate all passengers and any additional luggage that may be present comfortably. After all, what is a luxury car without the luxury component
It’s harder to go from 0.1% to 10% than it is to go from 10% to 50%.
True. This article gives further support to this:

Teenagers Favor Tech Over Clothes

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/business/less-prep-more-pl...

Tl;dr teens buy less clothes, prefer tech, and restaurants. Why restaurants ? because of the wifi.
funny that one of the reasons is that it doesnt follow best practices, yet the site is built on wordpress.
I'm amazed SpaceX is valued so highly.

SpaceX is in an industry with better financed/politically connected companies and an unpredictable revenue stream. It's a risky business by every definition. WhatsApp by comparison is a stable, very popular, growing and strategically important messaging platform.

And if you think that human-human communication is less valuable than putting a few satellites in space (NASA/ESA/ISRO/etc are the real keys to future space exploration) then I would argue your priorities are a bit warped.
Indeed. Python's is better and certainly Perl's is better.
I guess I assumed since we're talking public companies here that everyone knows that profits come first. Since "profits come first" for Google, MS, Nokia, Samsung, and everyone else, its not really saying much.
So in effect, you're using bit.ly as a webhost. Url shorteners might not be completely useless after all.
You put your company blog on github? I don't see how this is original, and given your history, it looks to me like you're spamming your blog. Flagged.
Remember that thing you really, really wanted as a kid... how one day, on Christmas or on your birthday, you opened up the box to see wow there it is - all the waiting and dreaming and there it is!...

... should have just pre-ordered.
Startup Bus was an amazing success this year at SXSW.
He uses "was" like it still isn't.
If I have one for toilet paper next to my toilet.. how fast can they get here?

Or condoms next to my bed? Awkward!
With the Chromebook pixel having the same screen ratio, is 3:2 the new 4:3 ? Any context for this new trend?
The Gillette button seems the most useful to me, I'd have it in my bathroom drawer for when I take the last blade out of the pack.

I'd stick the Bounty button to the wall above the paper towel holder in the kitchen.
Then get off our lawn. :P
Good point. #1 was obviously wrong, I guess I just put it there to give more meat to the post.
I hate to sound jaded and cynical, but am I the only one who feels weird about a new framework announcement containing information for getting training and consulting? I understand that there is no money in releasing free frameworks, but it seems a little soon to be selling consulting and training on an early-access preview...
fit people do exist in the present day too
I wouldn't go quite as far as "messed up" but between 2003-2007 I was frequently hassled by people to "buy a house" because it "never goes down (much) in value."

I argued that that was a nonsensical claim, although over the previous 30 years it was pretty much true (the UK dip in the early 1990s was quite short and localized). In mid 2007 I noticed prices continuing to go up and up and bit the bullet. Naturally, I exchanged contracts the very month before prices started to go down. Out of principle, I'm stuck with this house until it's worth more than I paid for it ;-)
TeX's default language (US English) uses the hyphenation patterns from a certain American dictionary (Liang's thesis mentions Webster’s Third New International Dictionary; probably that's the one). American hyphenation tradition tends (there are cases where different American dictionaries don't agree), more often than British, to hyphenate at phonological boundaries. (This has some interesting corollaries: the word “record” is hyphenated “re-cord” as a verb and “rec-ord” as a noun.)

British English tradition tends (more often than American) to hyphenate at morphological/etymological boundaries. For instance, if you run xetex with `\uselanguage{ukenglish}` followed by `\showhyphens{typographer}` then you get:

ty-po-grapher

meaning that in the word “typographer”, a hyphen is allowed in those two places, instead of

ty-pog-ra-pher

in the US English version. (Both the US English and UK English hyphenation patterns set \lefthyphenmin=2 and \righthyphenmin=3, i.e. enforce at least two letters before a hyphenation point and at least three after.)

So the hyphenation patterns have done the “right” thing in the US case, in the sense that they produced the same hyphenation as given in US dictionaries: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/typographer https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=typographer = https://www.thefreedictionary.com/typographer https://www.wordsmyth.net/?ent=typographer https://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/typographer (I don't have access to any UK English dictionary that shows hyphenation, as far as I can tell, but I imagine it's doing the right thing for the UK case too.)

You can see more at https://www.tug.org/tex-hyphen/ and in particular Liang's thesis https://www.tug.org/docs/liang/ is very readable (both the English and CS/data-structure parts).
There is a massive difference in interpreting law vs code. Code can be patched immediately. New laws or changes to an existing law can take months, even years or decades to pass.
So Janet Yellen should have the right to tell Panama what its tax rate should be? Or China, or Russia? Good luck with that.
I know the book and it's an interesting theory. I guess most of the 'rich' people I know / know of are entrepreneurs and they didn't get rich from capital returns but by building a company that created an unthinkable amount of value and also many jobs and success for a lot of people.

In my mind also, the best antidote to that is not taxes but anti-trust (make sure companies don't unfairly stay dominant) and low interest rates (which has been the case for a while) so that people without capital can borrow at reasonable cost.

Taxing a company doesn't make it less dominant. it can be argued that it makes it more dominant because the cost to compete with the dominant company will be higher if corp taxes are higher.
Why computer science?
I think you're missing the point here.

> "We're working with G20 nations to agree to a global minimum corporate tax rate that can stop the race to the bottom."

The race to the bottom Yellen refers to is corporations playing one country off another, as in "lower your taxes or we'll move our profits to Ireland." The proposed solution - countries agreeing with each other not to lower the corporate tax rate below some limit - is an example of sovereign nations working together in a way that benefits both sides, not one sovereign nation dictating policy to another.
But it’s not global it’s whoever the allies are, which I guess is OECD and co. They’re just trying to avoid having companies move (tax jurisdiction shopping) and do reverse mergers to shirk tax responsibilities, etc.

I presume it would be via some convention which allows tit for tat reciprocity and so on.
You're confused about the incentives here, I think. Traditionally the conflict in this space has been smaller nations wanting to tax economic activity within their borders (by larger multinational corporations) and being prevented from doing so by coercive foreign policy. You really think that Ecuador or wherever wouldn't like a bigger cut of the oil they're shipping out?

The news here is that US policy seems to be moving to align with smaller powers, not the reverse.
Yeah my college MBA bro roommate for some reason got a subscription he never read (circa 2006). I'd occasionally read it and almost completely rejected its politics at the time.

I got my own subscription a few years ago and now regularly read it. Most of its politics now line up with my own. I'm sure I've changed some, but the paper definitely has changed as well.
This is easily solved by giving drivers bonuses for taking passengers that require more onboarding and offboarding time.

When you don't see such simple, market-based solutions, you can be sure there's a regulatory reason for it.

And sure enough, in this case Lyft and Uber can't do the common sense thing and evaluate a passenger's time to onboard and offboard and raise the price accordingly, because of the ADA.
Yeah, that's the crucial question in the estimating.

Here are some other issues.

She claims 2 yards of tie-off for every 4 yards of fabric, in both the warp and the weft. You only weave 4 yards before re-warping?!? Bullshit. And you don't use tie-off at all on the weft, as I understand it. So instead of 33% of thread being wasted to tie-off, I think 0% is a close approximation.

On the other hand, if I read the post correctly, it claims that there are 72 inches in 6 yards. So increase the thread requirement by 3x!!!

If I'm correct about both of these errors, a better figure would be 879 hours. Yikes.
Yeah totally, I think those are all things to consider.

I'd also guess a factor of young single people sharing households is due to limited supply and high cost. If it was affordable to have your own apartment, more people would do so. The roommate situation is partly (though not entirely) a symptom of failure to build.

You can see this when you compare regions, where I grew up (western new york) housing is super cheap even though there's a lot less economic opportunity. Nobody I know from high school that stayed there lives with roommates. Many have bought their own (nice, new) house for ~150k. That house in the bay area would be 3 million easily.

So while I agree there are confounding factors at play, the housing supply issue is so extreme I think the others are largely rounding errors.
This is one thing I love about MWI... it has at least some kind of explanation for randomness. For every other interpretation they do some stuff and then choose a random outcome, and I want to ask "and how does that random step happen?"
I disagree. I think if there's a clean uniform interface in which a device can receive video and make commands it could work out. Consider the fact that no auto maker I've seen, apart from Tesla, has made an infotainment system equivalent to a first generation iPad. I know its trendy to hate on infotainment, but I just want to see a map w/ directions to where I'm going. They're a lost cause in my opinion, and the less they do on the software front, the better.

Automakers gave up on that and now include android and apple car play as a feature. So I imagine they'll eventually give up and outsource things like lane assist, which are considerably more difficult
Robotic Process Automation.

I just don't understand that term though. There are no robots involved. As a robotics dude working with actual physical robots, that have wheels and arms etc, I got a bunch of recruiters for RPA roles recently. Why the confusing name for RPA?
A 3 layer convnet probably isnt the last word in whether the M1 is better for "deep learning". Something nontrivial where the gpu/processor is maxed out would be a more interesting comparison, even one of the pytorch vision tutorial that uses resnet I think could be a more realistic DL comparison
Just curious, what flavor koolaid do you prefer?
Speaking as someone working at Sabre, I can say that this language has no connection with this company.
Yeah, even Xemacs.org is down. http://tracker.xemacs.org/XEmacs/its/issue744
Criminals are created by (a) laws, (b) their transgression, and (c) their enforcement. You seem to think that the whole issue is in (b) - that there's something about the US that causes more people to act unlawfully, to transgress. Have you considered other possibilities, such as unjust laws, or unequal application of laws?

Besides that, there's social issues, whereby subgroups are disadvantaged and have fewer opportunities for lawful profit in life. It could be that these social issues are the same in the US as elsewhere, but the US invests in prisons rather than welfare, for self-defeating political reasons.
We regurlarly do Skype video calls with the grand parents of our daughter. Video telephony has been completely mismarketed and wrongly priced.
It's a technology with high emotional bandwidth. This means we want to use it for longer and more intimate calls. It should therefore be priced as low as possible. When it was first launched in Europe it was marketed as a premium version of voice calls and thus much more expensive. This was wrong.
Compare this with SMS which has a very low emotional bandwidth. This type of communication is much more rapid and we accept a higher price per byte.
The vast majority of what I've written and released is under the Apache License, V2.0. I've also put some stuff out under the LGPLv2. I tend to favor fairly liberal licenses, but I could see the merits of going GPL at some point.

What I don't ever intend to use are any "badgeware" licenses (CAPL, I'm looking at you) or the Affero GPL. The AGPL just seems wrong to me. I get what they're trying to do, but I just don't see hosting a service running software "X" as constituting "distributing software X."
I use the GPL, mostly due to its viral nature: if I release something as open source, I want it to stay that way, and not rely on the good will of whoever wants to incorporate it into his work, to contribute back.

This certainly makes it harder - or even impossible - to use my projects in certain settings, but frankly, I'm fine with that. I'm even glad.
I'm not familiar with meditation; I hear it's all the rage but I don't understand the benefits. It is said to "reduce stress", but stress is mostly the result of external stimuli. It's a symptom, like fever. If you treat the symptom without addressing the cause, what good is it?

Meditation sounds like a post-religion religion, but at least there was the promise of silence. Now we have loud meditation?

To me this video is quite terrifying; it reminds me of some kind of megachurch experience, a place where a guy like Kenneth Copeland wouldn't look out of place (see the intensity firing up around 21:22 and then dropping off at 23:24).
Then he asked me to do it one more time. I wasn't familiar with the python syntax for if-else shortcut (e.g., x = 100 if y is True else 0) and so couldn't rewrite it to his liking. This lack of familiarity with this python trick resulted in feedback at the end of the interview that I did not have a deep enough understanding of computer science.

Precious.

And of course, an entirely different take could be made from your response -- precisely because you do have a solid grounding in CS, you've probably chosen to spend your time with languages with (for want of a better term) more "powerful", and arguably more standard constructions than what Python affords for this kind of a logical switch -- namely, a ternary operator -- which if Python had it, would probably look a lot like this:

x = y ? 100 : 0

and that you were consequently flummoxed by Python's quirky lack of this useful (and arguably much more readable) construct.

So if you were interviewing for a senior-level, Python-specific position I can see why they'd expect you to know the if-then-else trick. But if it's a secondary language for you, then the feedback that interviewer gave you definitely seems more than a bit off-base.

(DISCLAIMER: No, I don't think Python is a flawed language because it doesn't have a ternary op, or that it should have "stronger CS fundamentals" or any of that. It's just a side aspect or a different, larger point I was making).
That sort of graphing of time intervals goes back at least to the Gantt chart:

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

Maybe Hipmunk saw the one in the presentation, but it wouldn't be surprising if they had not.
It would only be nostalgia if you found it attractive because of an old memory you had. If you put someone in a car with a V-12 engine there is a very good probability that they would find the sound exciting, even if they never heard it before. That has absolutely nothing to do with nostalgia.
I think people are being very nice to here. There is some parallel with Nokia.
I've never used SublimeGit (or heard of it before today, to be honest), but if that's how you fix merge conflicts it sounds like a broken product.
Thanks! Being able to search by article URL is a great idea. I'll try and implement that over the weekend.
Heads up, it would be useful on HN if you were to disclose your affiliations / interests when posting, especially about something like a cryptocurrency you helped design.

It gives readers a better sense of your ability to answer the questions accurately, in addition to letting people make assessments based on the potential conflict of interest.

Also, responding here and inviting discussion on a technical level is possibly the best thing you can do for perception of Mob, because this is a forum where those questions are likely to get asked.

Edit: I see you've done that in another post on this thread. Since we don't have anything like flair it would also help people who don't read the whole thread.
I've not been following recent Rust development as closely, can you elaborate on what limited form of dependent types Rust is adding?
> The guy is a citizen, works for an "All American" type company (Ford), etc.

How is that substantially different?

In April 2005, 70000 people were on the list. I bet most fit this description of yours.
Yes, we’re well aware that you would love to sell us those coins you pre-mined.

That’s the problem.

If Signal was serious about this they would have launched their own fork instead of pitching a pre-mined coin to their users.
The use of the little plastic flippers to control the junctions reminds me a lot of the Dr. Nim toy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Nim

It uses similar flippers to operate a marble-driven computer to play Nim.
Arguably a bug: some of the titles listed have subsequent edits that don't show up on the page. Examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21619671

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21609572

Does the script stop checking them at some point?