jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Historically, a gin and tonic was developed to be used as a prophylactic against malaria for British soldiers stationed in areas where malaria was a problem. So it was a medicinal drink. This is easy enough to verify:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonic_water

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_and_tonic

https://flaviar.com/blog/gin-tonic-history

http://activehistory.ca/2012/08/gin-and-tonic-a-short-histor...

I've done the math. I know how much tonic water you need to drink to be roughly equivalent to being prescribed quinine as a drug for medical use.

It's a lot, but not so much that you can't consume that much in a single day. I'm not posting the figures I remember here because I'm not interested in encouraging people to do something like that.
Did one session with an acting coach once which was very useful.

Most useful tip he gave me: in between sentences focus on breathing out, instead of breathing in. If you clear your lungs they will take care of filling up automatically.
> As far as scheduling to tackle the tech debt, work toward including it in the requirements for future work. You must address X to build Y, etc. Addressing technical debt as a project that leads to no new end result (eliminating toil is one), has little (but not zero) value.

This advice is very actionable, I'll try it out, thanks for the tip!
A static site generator gives you many of the advantages from a "CMS" on-the-fly rendering, while also giving you all the advantages from static hosting.
HN Kansai meetp & slack are here:

http://hnkansai.org/

https://hnkansai-slack.now.sh/

HN Fukuoka is here:

https://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-Fukuoka/

I found them via the unofficial HN meetup page maintained by Anton Tarasenko here:

https://github.com/antontarasenko/hacker-news-groups
Text is hard to read. I'm still not exactly sure why I would use this over a VPS (maybe it's for devs who don't use VPS/EC2 as their dev machine?)

Is this for live demos or for sharing documents? If the former, why wouldn't I just turn on apache and give them my IP?
If this is only tracking cell towers as has been reported in a few places, why are there so many more dots than cell towers? Actually the FAQ says it is using triangulation, how accurate is that supposed to be?
Were you paying for AWS support?
Created a GPX file generator. Use it to convert the database into a GPX file format. Open it up with Google Earth.

https://github.com/serialx/iphonegpx
In 99.9% of things someone might be asked to explain, it's noncontroversial that at the bottom level it all runs on physics. csomar is extending that well-warranted assumption to one of the places it's sometimes contested.
If they’d committed to having every new game available both as a download and a UMD if would have done a bit better.

Oh, and it should have been priced well below the 3000 (which not only was much cheaper but also did everything the Go did along with having the flexibility of the UMD drive built in).
From what I understand, at least with google, this data (the data sent anonymously) is used amoung other things, for the maps traffic feature. If a fair number of phones are traveling below the speed limit on a road, it can be assumed that the traffic is bad on that road. Not sure if the apple data is used for that, or if they get the traffic data from google, but it is one legitimate use.
Awesome. I'm definitely a potential paying customer.

Two suggestions and a question:

* How about a free trial for unlimited access or some other kind of cancellation guarantee?

* Minor one, but the dark contrast on your website UI is about equivalent to the background on a typical lightbox...i.e. it reads "disabled" to me on first glance.

One question:

I assume I could map a CNAME record to the showoff URL? (So cookies work, etc.)
I wasn't sure about posting the above comment - I wasn't sure whether it would get up-voted (for being correct) or down voted heavily (for being unoriginal).

I don't mind Amazon choosing what it does and does not sell on their store. But as a Kindle owner, the remote deletion does worry me, even though I knew it was part of the deal when I bought the Kindle. Even worse that apparently when she complained, she was insulted for her choice of book. That's not so many steps away from reporting owners of banned books to some superior power.
Original article (full text): http://www.pnas.org/content/107/15/6753.full
good to know you don't find it confusing.

And even more cruicial to know what you find confusing. Because that really shouldn't be made confusing and you understood it wrong.

Starter plan is $12 / month and has the 90 days FREE trial period. (The plan is not limited to 90 days of course, but is free for 90 days).

Basic plan is free forever.

I will look into wording and texts and try to make this more understandable. Thanks a lot for exposing this!
Unless you review every patch and download to your PC pretty much any software vendor of a product you have installed could brick it or share your personal data. How is a Kindle any different?

The thing that stops Amazon doing it is the same thing that stops them doing it - it would be commercial suicide to do so.
This really made it to the front page?

"What will be the next giant wave?"

Great conclusion.
A screwdriver and a hammer or simply kicking the door in. Replacing the lock can be cheaper than calling in a locksmith.
There is generally about a one frame deep pipeline between the user interface and the rendering so you end up with more like a 100ms delay which is two human reaction times and enough to feel unresponsive.

Story of old: in the 90's, when the radiology transcriptionists were moved too far away for RS232 to reach their computer, and they were put on LAT devices (8 serial ports to Ethernet with crazy complicated optimization to multiplex traffic from all 8 into the same packets) their duplicate key errors and general frustration went up. Working from audio, they watched the screen and if the delay was ever perceptible they would restrict a key. Allen ended up writing them an editor that worked in half duplex mode (local echo).
I am under the impression that we can no longer go to Canada without a passport.

:(

Edit: Since June 2009.
The carrot and stick are in the wrong place. It's the individual that needs to be fined (obviously not £100,000 though, just an amount that will make them cry and inconvenience them somewhat). You can bet they won't make that mistake twice.

Companies just factor in fines as the cost of doing business.
Seems risky. Belarus is not exactly a well-run place - if I'm not mistaken, it's the last dictatorship left in Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus
The brainiacs at LessWrong have been thinking, discussing and arguing about akrasia for a long time - http://lesswrong.com/tag/akrasia/. You will find some references to scientific studies and data there.

Sounds like a very difficult nut to crack.
$60k sounds about right, although I know a couple blue collars (not plumbers, but no white-collar track professional development) that get closer than that to what I make.

But on the other hand, my rent is $500/mo, and they have mortgages and families.

Media overestimates how good the blue-collar middle class are doing sometimes (and other groups, when/if they're employed) thanks to wonky calculus like you've mentioned.
If you look at the one year graph for 2007 the spike is missing - http://www.google.com/trends?q=google%2Cyahoo%2Cmicrosoft.... Zoom out to all years and it's there.

Similarly there's no spike if you look at just the US or just the UK.

Perhaps Baidu was down or something but it seems most likely an error on just the compiled graph.
Actually, this company has their own internal development team that doesn't use PHP. They also employ full-time sysadmins. The only reason they used PHP is because they wanted to use a very well known CMS. We were explicitly told to conform to their server specs with our vagrant box to ensure compatibility, etc. So PHP was adopted to support the CMS, and I guess their sysadmin never bothered to upgrade the server.

I wouldn't the cause of this unpatched server to inattention. More like bureaucracy and a bad case of "too many cooks in the kitchen".
I kinda wanted plokithorpf to be something.
we can't disregard the laws of thermodynamics.

Given the less controllable tail end of the process creates a widely variable amount of flammable solids and gases, it isn't as though it is just the inputs you should be considering. I'm skinny and fairly sedentary and I know damn well that with a different set of genetics and the same behavior, then I would be fat. Also, seems that in terms of lifespan, I may be better off being a bit overweight than slightly under, really, the benefit seems mainly aesthetic for most people, which is a crap reason to guilt-trip a society.
An example posting (maybe even pulled from some popular companies/job sites) would be great...

I wanted to poke around the app, then I went to the page, and didn't really want to make up a spec to test
Behold the power of the Time Machine - the text straight from the 90th-00th. Everyone was like "Oh, this new Windoze uses 500 megs when idle! Then 1000 megs! Then 2000 megs! etc. etc.". Come on people, we are buying our hardware precisely for this - to be used.

Now this ET site with 28 spyware modules from random advertisers is telling me - "Don't use your CPU it will make it slower, also don't use too much RAM. Instead make your brain slower and use more brain memory for useless stuff. Because you know - think about children, and because we are entitled for our business model by birth right.".
One important point that's not really mentioned in this document is that the increased competition is good for Mozilla's goals. Not only does it force us to work harder and better to grow Firefox's user base; it's also good for our deeper goals as a non-profit dedicated to innovation and openness on the internet.

Mozilla never wanted to just kick IE6's ass for years. A market with several high-quality browsers is a big part of what this community has been working toward.
This is exactly the app idea I pitched my wife with the working title “What’s Happening”. Which she had turned into a joke at my expense. I wish you luck!
Start here: https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...
Human brains are the same or worse (smaller) for 100_000 years or more.

What do you think is easier to read: one long line or the same text in columns with a suitable width? What do you think this width would be? The optimal width may depend on the language e.g., I'd use >1.5x for Java, to get the same information density per line as in Python.

Your eyes/working memory don't scale with the width of your monitor.
Litestream runs on the VPS with your application & database and then streams changes to S3. If your VPS dies and you lose your data, you can run "litestream restore" to restore your database to the state it was just before your VPS died.
This is exactly the kind of pedantry I was trying to avoid by rounding.

Fan X moves "15x more" air than fan Y. For every 1 unit of air fan X moves, Y will move 1x15 = 15 units. In the time it takes fan Y to move 100 units of air, fan X will move 100*(1/15) units, or 6 2/3rds units. 6.666... rounds to 7.
Using Docker and Python I can only say: very, very fat. The Tensorflow image is something like 5 GB.

On the other hand, Docker images is literally the only thing taking up space on my hard drive by now.
Certainly is a weird requirement. Could this possibly a governmental requirement? I certainly know governments have some silly requirements.
Well, unlike Bitcoins, I can put gold jewellery in a sack and use it as a cosh ;-)
Buried at the end of my website's TOS, I informed users that by visiting my website, they agreed to offer their soul to me.

I don't recall receiving any comments or complaints about this.
This scenario is hard to imagine being worth a trillion dollars.
I am surprised that so few people discuss the centralized, presumably less-wasteful, less-cluttered alternative that is a furnace-adjacent air bypass + filter (particularly relevant for those of us with access to our own fans/furnaces).

The idea, as I understand it, is that a furnace can be modified by an HVAC specialist to send a portion of the air through a low-flow bypass duct containing a HEPA filter (or some other high-MERV-rating filter). This highly filtered air is, of course, combined with the less-clean air that passes through the low-MERV (standard) furnace filter before being delivered to ducts/rooms. This enables filtering of air for the entire living space without the need for an air purifier (a large plastic box containing future e-waste) in each room where clean air is desired. One obvious shortcoming of such a system is that in-duct/in-room sources of particulates (including concentrated bursts of particles from things like cooking) might be harder to combat. I don't know whether such a system can reduce particulates to levels commonly reached with in-room purifiers.

Thoughts/adecdata on such setups?
You're right, the watch is pretty much a miniature iphone.

About its sales, that I don't agree much. I'd bet it won't sell much, won't see widespread use like the iphone/ipad. In a venn diagram it would share too much of the 'geek' part of the diagram with the Google Glass. You have to keep taking it off the wrist to charge, etc. Of course, what do I know
2 days early for April Fools
Nice catch! In terms of day-to-day usage, that's probably one of the biggest new features for me.
Ugly is the purpose. And I fucking love it.
I’m not a virologist, but I did pay attention in biology class fwiw.

Evolutionary, a virus that can only replicate a few times is a dead end. That’d be like mule, a viable life form, but one that cannot reproduce successfully.

Think about the mechanisms of cells with generation limits, I’d intuit that they preform functions related to morphogenisis (we only want this bone to be this long), and forcing evolutionary iteration by limiting the maximum age of a individual. I’d posit that extreme longevity is an affront to evolution.

I could be totally off my rocker with the second part, but I’d like to think that a basic knowledge of biology and an obsession with cellular automata might have given me a useful intuition.
15,000 people are dead. Forget being fine for a moment. This is a substantial loss of life compared to recent wars. That number is guaranteed to, at the absolute minimum, double, but has a more probable lower bound at 100,000.

This will be a death toll that hasn’t been seen in a lifetime. Yeah, maybe the economy won’t collapse. Maybe it will. Regardless, it’s unkind to downplay the severity of the situation.
I think this is a great idea, and applaud the idea of bringing a high availability, high-load site template available to others.

The number of times I have thought in the past few weeks that if they had just used some static pages on S3 behind Cloudfront, or some kind of CDN, that much pain could have been averted.

Of course the first thing I did was to benchmark the test site to see how their edge network performs. For reference I'm based in Melbourne, Australia, and have a 100mbps download, 50mbps upload connections:

$ ab -n 10000 -c 100 https://emergency-site.dev/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1826891 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking emergency-site.dev (be patient)
Completed 1000 requests
Completed 2000 requests
Completed 3000 requests
Completed 4000 requests
Completed 5000 requests
Completed 6000 requests
Completed 7000 requests
Completed 8000 requests
Completed 9000 requests
Completed 10000 requests
Finished 10000 requests

Server Software: Netlify
Server Hostname: emergency-site.dev
Server Port: 443
SSL/TLS Protocol: TLSv1.2,ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256,2048,128
TLS Server Name: emergency-site.dev

Document Path: /
Document Length: 4836 bytes

Concurrency Level: 100
Time taken for tests: 106.534 seconds
Complete requests: 10000
Failed requests: 0
Total transferred: 53220000 bytes
HTML transferred: 48360000 bytes
Requests per second: 93.87 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 1065.345 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 10.653 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 487.85 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 713 808 30.7 803 1828
Processing: 230 236 4.8 236 443
Waiting: 230 236 3.9 236 310
Total: 956 1044 31.7 1039 2067

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 1039
66% 1047
75% 1053
80% 1057
90% 1070
95% 1082
98% 1107
99% 1168
100% 2067 (longest request)

I know there's much better ways of testing load/performance. It's just what I had on hand.
It’s not the stores, imho. From my experience of UK supermarkets in the last week, they’ve basically caught up with most stuff they are directly responsible for or that is produced very close to their needs. Bread is now there, vegetables are there, milk is there. What is dramatically lacking is processed food. I expect that’s because those items have much lower elasticity in their production: if you know you’ll sell X cans of tuna per year, you’ll build a plant that makes X * 1.3 or thereabout; when demand suddenly spikes to 3X or more, there is no time to build another plant (and even if there were, you might not want to invest into something that is probably temporary). Same for meat: you cannot grow extra cows in a couple of weeks.

There is a lot of pressure on supermarkets at the moment which should probably be directed at the larger food industry.
>We don't usually call a disease that can easily evolve to pneumonie "a cold".

That's not true. Just not true. Colds and influenza regularly proceed to pnemonia or long lasting secondary lower respiratory infections, especially in the elderly but also in the young and healthy.

>Way more people need a stay in an hospital (sometimes short).

No that isn't clear at all. The current understanding is that because the infectivity is so high the proportion of cases that are serious come in many times faster than other respiratory viruses, and on TOP of other respiratory illnesses.

>This disease as the power to double (or even worse) the mortality rate of industrialized country during months or even years.

That's potentially true, but it isn't necessarily true. The excess mortality of this disease -- it is plausible and it can be sensibly argued, may not be that high. That is because it is killing, in general, those who are already ill. In Italy 88% of those who have died had one or more serious commodities such as heart disease, and that is on top of the fact that the median age of death is currently 81 (median case age 63.) An unknown but potentially high proportion of these deaths may have happened in the next two years anyway. So at the end of this the excess mortality rates may not be anywhere close to double amortized over two years, and consequently in two years we might see a drop in general mortality rates as a result (if this illness does end up infecting >50% of the population as some leaders have seen fit to say.

>That some people are even asymptomatic is not even a particularly good news IMO. It will just spread more because of that...

It is good news, definitely. Because it means that we don't need to worry about most people. We need to worry about those at high risk. We may be able to get through this by focusing on isolating, social distancing, and providing at home resource for those at significant risk. Such a strategy, if properly done, could even be used to allow the illness to travel through the otherwise not vulnerable population creating herd immunity which will allow those at risk to come out of quarantine earlier.
You could have also written it as "$10B" and 100% of people would have understood what you're talking about without an explanation.

Why didn't you write 500M cars as well? Could it be that it's a stupid convention?
Since this is hacker news, where is the Girardian analysis? This situation seems to call for it with the fear of outsiders and scapegoating. Hard to worry about mimetic contagion when there is a real contagion?
I think it depends. That's similar to someone saying that cabs are overrated because they've never used them and omitting to say they live in Paris.

Could you give more context? Type of work, projects, process and workflow, team size, etc. The "making of things" interests me.
That's what I thought. Surely you could buy 10 professional document cameras for the value of that pasta! :-)
You can buy the quads at one of the stores in the park
And it's not hipchat (or bought by Atlassian). Let's not forget that.
i meant out in the ocean, not in the Bay. Of course many people would oppose it while i'm sure that many would like a view of a Millenium Gate style tower or some other tall structure(s) rising majestically from ocean several miles off the coast. Anyway, it would require state and federal political will to deal with the opposition. Of course it isn't realistic, i was just talking about it as a benchmark to compare other efforts against.
It's a bit unhandy to not use the build in contact finder. Theirs doesn't filter well.

Also, when I need to fill out my phone number, just let me pick "me" from my contact list, easier.
Hey ars, well the best way to explain the concept is to think about how you are taxed on dividends. When you buy stock in Google and receive dividends, you would pay tax on that income on your 1040, but it would not be taxed as a "self-employment income" and thus SE Tax is not levied.

An S-Corporation is a standard C-Corporation that has elected for special treatment. Instead of paying double taxation, its income is directly passed-through to the taxpayer. But, that does not change the character of the income. The income is still considered a "corporate distribution" or a dividend. Thus, it cannot be cannot be taxed under SE Tax rules because a dividend is not "self-employed income."

This rule is found at IRC § 1368 (c)(2) :

In the case of a distribution described in subsection (a) by an S corporation which has accumulated earnings and profits—

1368(c)(1) Treatises Accumulated adjustments account.
That portion of the distribution which does not exceed the accumulated adjustments account shall be treated in the manner provided by subsection (b) .

1368(c)(2)Dividend.
That portion of the distribution which remains after the application of paragraph (1) shall be treated as a dividend to the extent it does not exceed the accumulated earnings and profits of the S corporation.

1368(c)(3)Treatment of remainder.
Any portion of the distribution remaining after the application of paragraph (2) of this subsection shall be treated in the manner provided by subsection (b) .

But, note that you must pay a reasonable salary to yourself first to apply this tax strategy or plan. There are certain pitfalls that you must be aware of as with any tax plan.

I hope that this has been helpful! =D
NYTimes.com is behind a (variably enforced) free-registration wall, not a pay-wall (for the moment).
Doubt it. I learned Prolog in 1 week, the syntax is mighty simple and usable.

I'm still foggy on Erlang, however, and less motivated every time I refer to documentation (but hey, I'm getting paid for it so it kind of evens out).
The same way seo writers do it. I can write 500 words on any keyword.
I am a software developer, so I know "shit happens", but having the same configuration for database as testing environment, (same superuser name and password), which is not isolated from test environment, is pretty criminal even for a first time mistakeIMHO, especially for a product like github whom business, small and big trust with there business critical piece ("repository").

If I were running some critical code, I would have seriously reconsider github, or at-least ask for a detailed explanation on their engineering practices and fail-safe mechanisms.
how to write a pitch email?
No I make mistakes all the time. That's kinda my point.