jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The official archive seems to be a bit better https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2022-Apr...
I don't care.

And as a progressive liberal, I'm proud that I don't care. I don't think any of us should care. This should be roughly like announcing that you're no longer a Catholic but a Protestant. It should not be news, and no one should care.

That said, sure, yes, transgendered people still have a ton of problems in society. But anyone who thinks this A) helps them or B) hurts them... is probably wrong. I don't think this does anything for or against them.

Also, this is not news, to anyone who has paid any attention to Manning.

This is just circus, to everyone except those who personally know Manning. Or who might, maybe, possibly, see her actions and decide to come out of the closet with their own choices. So, for that, I guess, yay. But I really sincerely doubt it. I suspect as many would see this, and decide to NOT come out.
I have found exactly zero peer-reviewed studies that say that you can replace what is considered to be normal sleep (with one or two phases) with polyphasic sleep.

I've once seen a quote (can't find it on google right now) from a doctor who said something like "Trying to 'adapt' to polyphasic sleep is like trying to teach your bowel to excrete in portions of exactly 25 grams. It doesn't work that way.".

Alarm clocks are designed to scare our brains, as if we were in danger, to forcefully wake us up. I can't imagine that sort of punishment, multiple times a day, over long term.

Researching the subject, I have found the following link. Note that the Supermemo software is from the author, so there is some bias there towards using (and purchasing) the software. Other then that, the articles are interesting. http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic2010.htm
Absolutely, the Jamstack ecosystem is just beginning.
It's a filler piece that's there to collect the easy clicks and following ad dollars from the people who see a title who confirms their biases.

Based on the title I knew there was a high risk of it being nothing and I clicked anyway. So I guess it did confirm my biases in an edge-case sort of way.
I think they also did so due to other services scraping for things like price matching.

Paribus etc comes to mind.
Checkout this article, "Childhood autism spikes in geek heartlands": https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20589-childhood-autis...

There's a correlation between parents who are both "systemizers" and their child having autism.

I've also heard the theory that Austism is basically what we've been genetically selecting for over the last 100 years or so - the world wants brainless consumers - what is better than someone with sensory disorders, who can be primed to get up and buy with a simple prick?
> fewer women engineers so it makes sense to hire fewer women

It's not about what 'makes sense' - it's literally that there are fewer of them. If women make up 10% of the hiring pool (say in tech) and your company employs 50% women, all that means is that every other company now has fewer than 10% women.
$3? I think I paid closer to $10 for a 555 timer years ago. One of the reasons I stopped going.
From a 1978 perspective, Pascal was indeed already becoming dated, sure. But by then Wirth had already developed Modula, and started Modula 2.

But even from a 1978 perspective, most of your criticism of Pascal is for being bad at things it was never designed to be good at, and never pretended to be good at. It was a teaching language trimmed down (in terms of concepts) from Algol W for ease of implementation over feature-completeness, not designed to be a systems language.

That it became the basis for so many language implementations that opted to solve the limitations of Pascal over starting from scratch is a testament to its success.
My email is in my profile if you want to discuss off HN.
Same here. Every spring it's fascinating seeing the variety of systems our utility uses to cut back vegetation, varying from bucket lifts to helicopters with literal dangling chainsaws!
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/free, 30 days trial for "Hyper Protect Virtual Server" with 2GB RAM.
I can understand a fair bit of japanese and posts on Qiita have often been life-savers. They have quite a few medium-like long posts where people describe how to do something specific through a tutorial or step-by-step explanation. StackOverflow/Reddit aren't really great for that
> assuming that your application doesn’t actually need all the columns.

Title is a bit click-bait-ish; I was expecting some deep insight of why this:

SELECT A,B,C FROM TBL;

was superior to this:

SELECT * FROM TBL;

when the table had three columns. Instead we get a wildcards are bad argument; especially when that wildcard fetches data that you don't need etc; which I guess everyone agrees with.
Best worldwide outdoor map there is, with offline support. I use it very often to find trails not even locals know about (e.g. Japan). Don't forget to switch to Outdoor mode!
There was two talks of Moore on GA chips. Multi core forth processors were (and still are) so inspiring.
Salaries in the UK are less than the USA, or even China. I remember a friend moving from Beijing to Cambridge (for a well known big Corp) had to put up a decent struggle to keep his salary from being cut to local levels. I don’t get why UK salaries are less than most other major dev sites.
So that'll be 800m that'll never deliver value
Grammar schools in Croatia teach it, there is a subject called Logika, with all the moduses (ponens, tollens, etc) and mnemonics (barbara, celarent, etc) and everything in between. And it's probably been a subject since the austrian empire (the inherited school system here is slow to change).

As you might imagine, students mostly learn this for the exams and forget everything when they leave schools. The poor political and economical situation in the country reflects the ineffectiveness of this approach.

And hey, schools in yugoslavia also taught marxism as a subject I kid you not (it was an established science back then!). Yet the whole generation in the 90s soon abandoned it for the next shiny thing. Most probably expected to become capitalists themselves, forgetting that even in capitalism someone has to actually do the work and only cca 200 families would actually own the businesses.

(Logika curriculum in croatian)
https://mzo.gov.hr/UserDocsImages/dokumenti/Publikacije/Pred...
If I can see your post, you are not shadowbanned. BTW, why your nickname has green color? I do not know what does green nickname means.
I know people who worked in Europe, and Germany specifically, and they all said it's much harder to fire employees in Germany (and Western Europe generally) compared to the US.
I believe SSL (TLS) is stateful, though, so HTTPS would be too. The browser would keep the TLS socket connection open for multiple HTTP requests, which would tie up resources on the server.
Yes, I also started to pay for shipping overall. (Convenience or Sm. Business Labor) > Shipping Fee.
I fully expect self driving to be regulated to the point where it's more or less adaptive cruise control. At which point it will be as ho hum on the feature list as cruise control today. Because lets be honest, this is mission critical software being written by bleary eyed, sleep deprived kids fresh out of school, ultimately, and these companies would prefer to keep it this way in order to "move fast and break things" and maximize profit. In this case, I'd rather not be the one broken. Someone else can beta test your for profit software and be the unfortunate name in the next tragic newspaper article.

As self driving becomes commonplace we will see deaths go up both actual, and the coverage around deaths as you note. Building safer software that receives input from a chaotic, random, ever changing, heterogeneous world is a much harder problem than a lawmaker stepping up to regulate self driving and becoming the public hero of the story in the process. Personally, I also think there are more important problems for these engineering minds to be working on.
If you are concerned about tracking this should be your last choice.
"solving epilepsy" is indeed in very bad taste.
This is incredible. I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time. Love the site and documentation, please keep up the fantastic work. I am excited to play with this over the weekend and see what I can make!
> Don't take a job serving the public if you only like some people and not others.

Seems like this logic doesn't apply to payment processors, web hosts, and anyone else who doesn't want to deal with free speech that they find offensive. Bake the cake, right?
hello yes sorry, './' and auto-completion don't work as of yet. The website is still early, I plan to implement most of the expected unix shell features soon.
Well, I'm glad you at least had the time to write us all this little note informing us of how valuable your time is.
"Apparently
You don’t need a password. Posterous fail."

http://blog.dustincurtis.com/apparently-765
Facebook has very little legal obligation, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be upset and to talk about it as much as possible.

Facebook could also randomly delete pictures and emails if it liked and it may be within their legal right to do so, but I'd find it odd if you just said, "If they legally can do it, I won't complain".
Can you please share your learnings on how to get covered in TechCrunch if you are bootstrapped, I thought they only covered VC funded startups.
I agree. Not clear at all. I bought the deal from appsumo, registered an account on mixpanel and emailed "free+appsumo@mixpanel.com" from the same email. Will see if it works.
The first time I read it straight through. I was in the middle of college, and transitioning from a dual bio/chem major to a math/cs major, and the book really hit a sweet spot for me with the nature of the universe.

If you're a programmer, then you have a big leg up on the core concepts introduced in the first half, but its still a tough read.

The biggest piece of advice: keep going, and don't be intimidated as the examples grow. There are examples that are drawn from many fields of study, and the dialogues in between chapters give a more intuitive sense of the concepts being introduced in the following chapter. Re-read those if you start finding the main discussions too dry.

There is a _lot_ going on in that book, and you will not get it all on the first read. You will have a feeling that you are missing something and you are. Don't worry about that. Some is revealed in the later parts of the book, and you might find yourself looping back to earlier passages.

Take your time with it, but get through to the end, you will not regret it, and you will find yourself picking through parts of it for a long time to come.

Also, check out Metamagical Themas, which is the opposite, a series of discrete chapters on different topics, but just as fascinating. It covers lisp, rubics cubes, the prisoners dilemma, gender roles in language and a whole host of other good things.
Even if they hadn't, they did the right thing here. Note that Lamebook struck with the lawsuit first. It would've been easy enough to ignore Lamebook and just go after bigger trademark infringers on a case by case basis, but since Lamebook struck first, they actually had to strike back, because if they allowed that lawsuit to declare that Lamebook doesn't infringe on the Facebook trademark, there would be 200 <something>-book sites tomorrow created by copycats, and Facebook would be powerless against any of them because of the Lamebook judgment.
For what it is worth, we've had 99.998% uptime for static files on appengine - not using datastore or any other features (about 11 minutes of legitimate outages the past year).

During the same time period we've had 100% uptime for m1.small servers in EC2's US East and West regions, 99.989% uptime for EU West and 99.997% for APAC.

http://cloudharmony.com/status
According to the data (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll...) 85% of those polled rarely or never travel by air.

Draw your own conclusions.
I love app engine. The datastore issues have been the only negative aspect of it. Yes, SSL support and naked domain support would be nice, but it's a very nice platform to develop on.

Sure, the first time I wrote a toy app on app engine I ran into the so-called "limitations" b/c I didn't understand the way the platform is designed. But once you get it, it's really just a series of quite reasonable tradeoffs that you make in order to get effortless scaling.

Yes, the platform could be a bit more reliable and in some areas a bit more mature, and yes, one of my projects almost failed b/c of the datastore issues over the last few months (angry users, etc.) But we made it through, and as of Nov 6, I get very few errors and things just work again.

Is App Engine ready for every prime time app you might want to build? No. But it's definitely a platform to know about and to watch carefully.

One other feature to note is the app versioning capabilities. You can simultaneously run lots of different versions of an app... useless at first, but extremely valuable later when you want to get aggressive and roll out updates gradually, etc.

And, there is ZERO sysadmin work and NONE of the usual web server setup yak shaving.
All I can do is point to the zero deaths since 2001 caused by passengers smuggling dangerous objects onto planes. Flying is far safer than many other common activities whose risks we gladly accept, and that would remain true even if terrorists blew up a fully loaded 747 every year.

And not specifically related to the new policies, but see here for plausible analyses that by inducing travelers to drive rather than fly, the TSA is on balance killing Americans: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-safety-security/115092...
Forgive me, but crashing an aircraft on purpose excludes you from the sane club. The number is of mentally well people to do so is - and always will be - zero.
We are not talking about toxicity, but about carcinogen products. Very different.

Carbon monoxide is toxic. If I breath it while walking a previously fired forest, I feel bad today. If I breath too much I die. But if I get out alive tomorrow my body will be fine.

Carcinogen work in totally different ways. If I contact or breath it I will feel fine today but I will have created damage to some of my cells DNA. This damage will create other damages when 5 years from no my cells transcribe some genes in a chain reaction, or will accumulate errors over time.

Five years from now one of the damaged cells will start replicating itself without control, and I will get cancer.

We get cancer by indirect ways, and delayed in time, on people that are not isolated so it is hard to get the cause effect relationship.

I worked in a Hospital for some time. On oncology got people that smoke 3-4 cigarettes packages a day that got pulmonary cancer, but they were seriously convinced that smoking had nothing to do with it.

It took decades to establish a relationship between smoking and cancer, and that was with half of the population smoking. With smaller populations it becomes harder and harder.
I called Apple out of warranty and they replaced mine for free (UK).
I thought so too, but saying "two most popular" actually makes it perfectly clear which one he refers to later.
What reason is that?

They're an Apache supported project now.
http://adtmag.com/articles/2015/03/04/groovy-joins-apache-fo...
I'm 32, re-discovered film photography only about 12 months ago, and almost exclusively shoot film today. You should check out a website I built a couple months ago that has a fairly extensive list of public darkrooms and photo labs that can still process film: http://www.ishootfilm.org/businesses.
First, I believe wanting to fix broken windows and technical debt is everyone's goal. The author mentions a couple of times that fixing technical debt is just a stacks' preference. I disagree with that. Not least because fixing technical debt can sometimes take quite a lot of time and boring, error-prone work - not quite the stuff of heroic tales - but also because I have seen many examples in my career of technical debt created by people wanting to hack something together quickly, and then never getting around to cleaning it up, leaving all sorts of surprises behind them. I think generally it's good thorough thinking that gets rid of technical debt (see, e.g., Rich Hickey's work, and his Hammock Driven Development "methodology").

Generally, I'm sorry, but chasing the quick-fix is immature, and a sign of a desire to please. That is completely normal, and it's healthy to let off steam through a quick fix now and then. But the "stack" model here sounds to me more like what happens in my head when I procrastinate...

IMO for a project to succeed someone will ultimately have to keep track of what is done. Do you want to be that person, or do you want someone else to do it while you get lost in your stack overflows?
Playing with my son.
Many people have an ad blocker installed on the mail box.
Thanks for this. We'll hash something out in the next couple of days. If you want me to follow up, ping me at leo@kivo.com and I'll reach out to you with some more definite info.
We use Swagger at work. Thanks for this!
At the point that it costs you more than sending a reminder email every week or so. For $400 just take the lesson and

a) Never work off contract again. Even in small projects that you wouldn't want to go to court over even in the worst case, sometimes they can help prevent the worst case. At worse they can give you a list of assumptions and clear up some misconceptions before you start (most of my simple contracts for small projects were just assumptions like "If you get me all content by DATE, I can have ABC Feature done by DATE2" etc

b) Always downpayment up front

c) Incremental releases and payment structure (I release this feature, I get this payment, etc., instead of lump sum 50% remainder at the end)

d) Trust your gut: I imagine you knew this guy was shitty going in (I almost always have, and in retrospect clients who didn't pay me I almost always had a bad gut feeling about and then convinced myself to do the work anyway).

e) Internalize the concept that time not wasted on shitty clients can be used more effectively to look for good ones.

Good luck!
Mac OS X is the only unix based OS that runs Photoshop natively. Macs are the only way to run Mac OS X except if you make a "hackintosh".

Linux is not as user friendly and integrated with the hardware as Macs. There are certain apps that are only available for Mac. Those are some of the reasons.
Cool idea. Works pretty well if the message has a text version but if the message only has an HTML version it doesn't try to read it.
Can you use 3G anonymously?
Not really. All it says is that depending on your niche, you get a different mixture of browsers - and a single sample doesn't even say that well; I would rather see a comparison sites in a lot of different niches to make that point.
They acknowledge but do not even address the "cops breaking down your door" problem. I don't think it admits of a solution. Technical approaches like putting unknown MACs behind a firewall to block filesharing or filter the web are imperfect and prove that you knew leaving your wifi open might help baby-rapers.

(Pardon the throwaway, but I do run an open wifi. If I do win that unlucky lottery, I don't want some zealous prosecutor digging up this comment.)
It seems Joel finds it difficult to believe that people can eat alone without being lonely. I am an introvert that is rejuvenated by spending time alone. I like eating lunch by myself. It helps clear my mind.

The idea that new starters are "not allowed to sit by themselves in a corner" is draconian, and in my case, it would prove counterproductive. It would make me feel like I was back in school, being told where to sit by my teacher. This is not the mindset you want to instil in your employees.

I think the best approach is to provide a working environment where people have the opportunity to gather together. Those that want to socialize can do so, and those that prefer periods of solitude aren't made to feel guilty for spending time alone.
This is one more example proving "No guts, no glory". IMHO it takes real courage and conviction to go to a C-level executive and state the obvious. Which is why it doesn't happen more.
I am not so sure.

Is it possible to create a standalone complex where consciousness arises or do we need human experience to bootstrap the process?

That to me seems to be the question.

Logic needs variable to work. The more you can capture traces from the physical world and put them together in the digital world the more variables you have to work with. That seems like a good start in my opinion regardless of whether it creates true AI.

I wrote a post about it recently, The Ghost Protocol http://000fff.org/the-ghost-protocol-digital-identity-for-im...

Also John Smart have his Brain Preservation Institute with the idea of CyberTwins.

http://www.brainpreservation.org/

But this is all very speculative of course.
I like Dawkins quite a bit, but I like him most when he sets aside his "mission" and just thinks (and writes) interesting thoughts.
So Apple stops playing nice with Google because Android is competing in the same playing field as iOS...

Then I guess it's kind of insulting to Microsoft's mobile division that Apple is now playing nice with Bing. :)
The answer is "no". We are a .NET shop and I've used DNN which is a slow kludgy nightmare. I really regret all the sites I've built under it.
Martin Luther King also demanded his followers to become better people to disprove the stupid-savage-criminal image they had. The Black Panthers also stood for fixing white racism and structural inequality.

It is this "become a better person" aspect of MLK, which Dennis embodies, imho.
I agree. I also suspect Amazon could sell a lot more Kindles if they made it able to run regular Linux. I bet the Kindle could become a valuable platform that has nothing to do with reading books.
I'm just starting to forge documents for this garbage. School records? Easy, download them, change my address to one a few miles away in the same city, change a few numbers of my SSN, etc. Same goes for utility bills, financial records, etc.

Fuck the data miners. The isn't even criminal to do because I'm not defrauding anyone. The address is still one in my city. They never do any actual verification so it always works.
I am a bit confused. You said it is systemic racism but can't provide a system (or systems) that are racist. I looked up the definition of systemic to ensure I wasn't missing something and it is "relating to a system, especially as opposed to a particular part." This clearly sounds to me that there needs to be a system involved. Perhaps systemic is not the correct word?

In relation to taxes: I don't think you read tne article. It says the standards are determined at the school level. That means how well students do at a school in a wealthier area is irrelevant to how they do in a school in a poorer area.

As for redlining, it is illegal. Even if you want to say there are historical issues that are still around today because of redlining, it wouldn't matter since the standards are school based not district widd based.

If it was district wide or statewide I would generally agree with you that there could be issues related to that. I do think that funds should be distributed based on number of students (and perhaps a bit of a difference due to cost of living for teachers) rather than based on property tax rates in that area. I don't know how Massachusetts (or Boston specifically) handles this so it could already be done how I described.
I have the feeling that nobody is making (or trying to make) any money on Nomad? Their cash cow must be terraform.