jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
BP might not even be held liable (ultimately) as they weren't personally operating the rig (as far as I've been able to tell). As far as I can tell BP only leased the rig to drill it new wells, I believe (although I could be wrong) that their staff weren't operating the rigs. So I really have no clue where the liability will ultimately land.
Aaah - I was assuming this was similar to the Ayn Rand's books coming back into vogue during recessions, but I guess Glenn Beck works like a recession... Ron Paul probably increased sales of Rand, Hayek, Von Mises, etc. as well.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/04/27/ayn.rand.atlas.s...
Thanks for your kind comments :)

First, I never claimed DeltaIV's cost was lower than Falcon 9's (or discrediting SpaceX)...I just said Falcon 9 was about market cost and probably won't be close to their $50m stated price. That price probably is the cost of the rocket anyways, not the mission. And no, I don't think the two craft are truly comparable because their missions are different, but I'm just arguing SpaceX's rockets won't be dramatically lower in price all things considered.

Second, looking at their launch manifest (http://www.spacex.com/launch_manifest.php) most of those flights are for the Falcon 9 with the customer being NASA (the government). How many of those customers are purchasing the low-cost Falcon 1 rocket? 1 maybe 2? 8% of their manifest is low-cost flight. The rest are for (probably) market-cost flight. Do you have any links to suggest that the market for low-cost spaceflight is booming?

My point being: Most people think SpaceX is the future of spaceflight when it looks like they are just another NASA contractor. What's horrifying to me is how they were able to win the NASA COTS $1.6bn contract with absolutely no record of mission success.

EDIT: Another interesting tid-bit- NASA reportedly spends about $114m per a Soyuz mission (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=13441.0). That docks with the ISS as well and the Soyuz is arguably the most efficient and reliable rocket out there.
This title is misleading, as the article makes no mention of 'corn syrup'. Instead, they thickened with guar gum to achieve "liquid twice as thick as water". I'm not sure what standard they are using for 'thickness', but corn syrup has a viscosity thousands of times more than water.

The article points out that "below a certain threshold of speed and size, viscous drag becomes the dominant force". I'd strongly guess that humans swimming in corn syrup is below this point. Thus despite the summary article, I'd answer that one can swim faster in water than corn syrup.
If Uber Pet costs any more than just Uber, then it’s not ok for guide dog owners. You can’t charge a surcharge for transporting a service animal.
It shouldn't be us vs them. He should be having the backs of justice and innocent people. And everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
Increasing dosage to feel consistent management is normal for ADHD patients. The goal is to reach the highest dosage that doesn’t cause side effects. This is where we actually get consistent relief from some of our symptoms.

The reality about ADHD and self medication and substance abuse is that it’s untreated patients who experience it the worst.

If your friends who’ve talked about this with you are anything like me, they learned to develop a reliance on alcohol to sleep before they were treated. If they developed that after, it’s definitely possible they’re overprescribed. But it’s also a sign they’re indulging on both and probably have an underlying substance abuse problem.

A healthy response to ADHD medication is generally to use as much medication as needed and not want more. I’m currently prescribed an as-needed boost in the evening if my daytime med wearing off causes too much anxiety. I’ve only needed it three times in two weeks, and when I took it today it was a relief, but it was also a relief to recognize how little I’ve needed it.

Those of us who benefit from these drugs aren’t constantly trying to get more. We’re just trying to get help from our doctors to feel normal.
Paradoxical then that as your comment won’t be worth preserving this makes it worth preserving?
https://www.oracle.com/business-analytics/business-intellige...
Put on a coat/rain jacket
Identity politics is all about witch hunts ultimately. It requires targeting, attacking, hunting and splitting people by tribes. If there are not enough targets, more will be made by inventing new divisions. Once you begin dividing people so aggressively by identity - as is happening now - cultural war inevitably breaks out. Tribalism always leads to conflict. What Twitch and all other social media platforms have begun doing is an inevitable consequence of that cultural war, they're very willing participants.

You want a prediction for the future re this subject that is a certainty? The big tech companies will require (and will deploy) military style protection and will have to wall off their campuses in the not very distant future. No other outcome is possible given where things are heading, the cultural tension will keep rising until it explodes.
Most people don't add more code just for fun. If you're deleting something you had better have a solution to whatever problem that code was solving in the first place.

It definitely makes sense to delete code in some cases, but most of the time the solution requires the addition of code. This makes sense, the size of a program doesn't tend towards zero over time. They tend to grow as new features are necessary and yet the old features can't be retired without causing disruption.
This was made for you: https://sahillavingia.com/work
If someone who stream on Twitch does something bad off of Twitch, would people blame Twitch for that? I know I wouldn't.
I'm certainly not looking forward to go back to an office. Not sure about that 34%, seems pretty high, but I can believe this
How do I know I can trust you and your site?

If you are legit, then how can I trust you won't pull a Target or Home Depot on me?

Assuming I use your service to buy something with an account I already have with one of your partners, how do you keep all that secure so you're not exposing way more than just my credit card data?
Yep, we ran the entire Linux stack pinned in the L3 cache, so no data or code hit main memory which was not encrypted.

Ironically, we could test this by disabling VT-d and using a DMA device to read encrypted main memory. Here's an old demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chvJpEmXvDk
The actual phrase is "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
In places like downtown Tokyo you may encounter some resistance.
If you're not in the majority, it really sucks though:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205794/Rape-horror-...
What's strange is that they seem to not really be making any effort. It's as if Slashdot launched in 1996, noticed that the discussions were kind of lame, and never did anything about it. Never introduced threading, or moderation, or karma, or meta-moderation, or manual deletion/banning, or any of the other measures they've experimented with. Not that Slashdot is an example of an ideal discussion site, but its S/N ratio is miles ahead of, say, boston.com's, and part of the reason is that they've made some nonzero effort to think about how to run a discussion site.
Heck, Windows looks more like OS X nowadays. And even in the mid-90s, Linux desktops wanted to look like Nextstep, so the Mac envy seems a logical succession (let's better forget the CDE phase).

But the whole design space is really, really small. You're mostly making a distinction by a subtly different look and some procedural differences. This is true for every desktop since the 80s, whether it's System 6, OS X, RISC OS, KDE, GNOME or WPS.

That is what the audience wants. The amount of developers isn't that influential anymore, and even they are most likely to use Windows 95/Nextstep style interfaces since they started out using computers. The old Unix greybeards (and their spiritual successors) populate a very small island with weird palm tress.

There still are about as many, if not more people who use their DE as a glorified terminal multiplexer (or Emacs life support). But for them, "Linux on the Desktop" never was an issue in the first place.

I seriously doubt that anything really new will come on the desktop. Everything that tried failed (mostly integrated systems like Oberon, Smalltalk, Plan 9) for the "common user", or got integrated in the normal desktop (web apps, terminal emulators). Everything new seems to happen on different devices (mostly mobile), and even there I don't see a different frontier, it's mostly a mash-up of traditional desktop GUIs and web apps, adjusted for the limitations on the devices.
Well, I can't seem to do anything without a login, so that is a big flaw.

The home page is very poorly laid out. Your logo is WAY too huge, and you don't do a very good job explaining what you do.

'At The Healthful Source ®, we believe disclosure is what it will take to make a difference' - looks like you took a page out of Simon Sinek's Start With Why, but unfortunately you didn't tie the why into what you actually do. What does disclosure have to do with clean air?

You've got a good domain name, but that's it as far as I can tell.

Sorry if that's harsh, but you haven't shown us anything here.
By why does karma matter? Why should I care about an integer assigned to an anonymous online pseudonym? It doesn't change that your fundamental carrot is being a valued member of a community. It gives an objective measurement of that, as opposed to reading (and potentially misinterpreting) what the community view of your contribution. Attaching the notion of a score is useful for manipulating behavior, but people aren't going to try for that high score unless it's associated with something they already find valuable. The karma system helps and reinforces the community aspect, but a karma system will not in and of itself grant quality of discourse.
Engineering Turnover Rate? That's one the of the questions I wish I would have asked where I work now. The smaller the company, the greater the effects of turnover are on the product....
One thing I've noticed while posting for a sublet is that there's a lot of "scrap" left over in housing both demand and supply. My landlord required 60 days notice, so after the premature ending of my last project, I'm on a lease for two months I don't need. There are tons of people who have gaps between leases and need housing for the odd month or two, and there are tons stuck with ends of leases they don't want. Landlords don't want to deal with that stuff because it's not cost effective for them to vet someone for less than 6 months. Why couldn't an Internet company handle this? Charge people an application fee of $35 or so, vet them like a landlord would, then let them into the lease scraps market.
The DMCA protects Google.
It happens all the time when you're working with substrings. Under your encoding, "é" would be a substring of "ჩ":

10000011 11101001 U+E9 "é"
10000001 10000011 11101001 U+10E9 "ჩ"

This would make it incompatible with many existing processes that already handle text, which was one of the goals of UTF-8.
I bet you're right that a lot of parents aren't all that interested in the quality of education their children get, as such. But ...

If you say your school offers world-class education, parents have no reliable way of telling whether that's true. If it isn't true and they send their child to your school, they still have no reliable way of telling; in particular, they will have a lot of trouble convincing a court that your description of the school was dishonest.

On the other hand, if you say your school has free laptops, no homework, lots of high-tech gadgets, and free trips to Spain, parents can check that pretty easily and get you into legal trouble if it isn't true but you said it was.

If parents care more about things they can actually check, that doesn't necessarily mean they aren't interested in education. They may just be realistic about what they can trust educators to do.
I know nothing of Hank, but it is funny how the canonically most-environmentally-friendly people, hippies, do that kind of thing all the time without a second thought. The ancient Beetle that puts out more smoke clouds than horsepowers, for example.

Hank certainly has other options. He can stay at RV camp grounds and use their hookups. He can buy massive banks of batteries. He can travel only in good weather in temperate climates. I'm just speculating assuming none of these are acceptable options.
Comic Sans to a summons. Now THERE's an idea!
Excuse moi, man, but TPM IS a backdoor.

How would you define that when MS wants it could enter your computer and control it without you ever realizing.

Then if something is proven is that if Microsoft can, then NSA can too.

Why Microsoft controlling the crypto keys to your computers is a problem? Are you serious?

Why American companies controlling all the computers of the rest of the world is an issue?

Europe for one should not depend on American companies for basic use of their computers. This is obvious, if you are not American.
Or well known as a dead man's switch.

Speaking tangentially, what is the current state of the art of homomorphic encryption? I found this: https://hcrypt.com/ - Anyone try it yet?
I may be projecting, but I don't interpret Kurtz as saying it's sad that people want an invisible boyfriend. More that it's sad that people feel pressured to have some sort of boyfriend, and get an invisible one to relieve that.

If someone genuinely thinks "actually, an invisible boyfriend would be better than a real one for me", then great, more power to them. But if someone's getting an invisible boyfriend because they can't get a real one, or because their parents are pressuring them, or because they don't want to come out as a lesbian. It's good that invisible boyfriends exist for these people¹, but it's sad that they need to exist.

¹This is debatable in the long run and the big picture. But here and now, it removes a little pain from the world.
But for some reason you trust a hoax which originated with falsified study?
The United Nations World Health Organization, contributed to by the entire world, is a propaganda arm of the Chinese. [citation needed]. Weird, as of 2012, the largest annual assessed contributions from member states came from the United States ($110 million), Japan ($58 million), Germany ($37 million), United Kingdom ($31 million) and France ($31 million). [1]

They may well have been wrong, or made mistakes early on. You can't exactly claim that the US' response was bang on the money the whole time either. Remember two weeks ago when Donald Trump told us this was nothing to worry about then the next day declared a national emergency then the day after invoked the defense procurement act then did nothing with it? Remember a few days ago when he called it the "deep state department" in front of Fauci who couldn't contain his laughter? Is Donald Trump a propaganda arm of the Chinese? Uh actually wait don't answer that, but you get my point.

It's usually incompetence not malice. Provide sources, not speculation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization#Fina...
The second one is "chi = alpha plus four." The general point he is trying to make here is that in a Greek word we would see the chi and alpha because of the context, but if you typeset an equation with letters intended for setting text there simply isn't enough distinction in the characters to prevent confusion because there isn't enough context to distinguish the "a" and the alpha. You need a mathematical typeface with characters that cannot be confused even though text set with those characters would look awful. In other words, a proper mathematical typeface requires more than just symbols.
If what I've seen in the grocery stores of the bay area is representative of overall behavior in the US, we're screwed. People still have very little awareness of personal space and very few people were wearing masks. Unless people commit to actual social distancing, there's no way we're going to stop the spread.
Is the map machine at the REI flagship store in Seattle still there? That's what I used to use.
I’m betting on a V-shaped recovery. Reasons:

1. There’s so much friggin stimulus coming that something big will happen. The (U.S.) Fed is buying trillions of anything resembling bonds at the moment. Treasuries, commercial paper, muni’s. And doing a trillion PER DAY in the repo market. Plus $2+ trillion coming from Congress, which includes checks directly to consumers and also up to $4 trillion more in direct lending to small businesses with forgivable loans. Not to mention interest rates at 0% and gas prices at $1.50/gal. The financial sector is healthy. Big tech companies are still sitting on a few trillion in cash.

2. Everyone has cabin fever and missed their spring breaks and perhaps summer vacations. Prices on travel and leisure are at an all time low. A weeklong trip to Hawaii for a family of 5 is down to like $1500.

3. At some point (I believe in days/weeks) there will be a medical breakthrough. Hydroxychloroquine+Azithro has had stunning results in South Korea, China, and France. Many US docs are already prescribing now. Even if this works only 40% of the time, that’s significant enough to flatten the curve and most importantly lower the death rate around the seasonal flu. Early anecdotal evidence suggests it’s been effective in 90%+ of cases.

4. I think by mid-April folks especially in the U.S. are gonna say enough is enough and break containment. The rest of the 80% of America isn’t willing to shutdown the entire economy for the 1% who face almost certain death from this disease. I know that’s crude and sounds cold-hearted, but Fox News is going to be very convincing that we should just resume our normal way of life and let the chips fall where they may. Election season starts in earnest in mid-Spring and Trump I believe will end the shutdowns and tell us to go back to living our lives. Biden will almost certainly do the same with a focus on rebuilding America. People can shut down for a week or two, anything longer than that and you face rebellion. School has been out since early March and the soccer moms here just want to go back to being normal. Expect a presidential candidate to jump out first with a “let’s get America back to work” strategy and end the shutdowns and maybe only recommend quarantines for the at-risk population.
My intuition tells me otherwise. Do you have evidence that I don’t?
No. It matters if it's true.

When people divide an issue into "our side" and "their side", it gives them a lot of ammunition when they catch us in a lie.

The problem is alarming enough without needing to lie.
The US home ownership rate is 64%. So to answer your original question, that situation applies to nearly 64% of people.
Ansible's creator was actually working on a new project that was a pure Python DSL: https://github.com/mpdehaan/opsmop

I was really excited about it, but unfortunately he stopped work on it since it wasn't getting much traction.
> we just need a serious typographer

Well, that is why Hermann Zapf was commissioned to design AMS Euler. Knuth supplied the METAFONT and critiqued it in iterations by trying it out.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511643
this was more recent (6 months). It included emacs which brought "Other" up a bit.

Linux: Went from 36.4% to 39.3%

OSX: Went from 38.1% to 31.4%

Windows: Went from 21.9% to 23.4%

Other: Went from 3.6% to 5.9%
When I "did" YC (S06), another one of the startups in my group was exactly this... I believe they even had the same name...

OK just did a lil search, and it turns out they were called Talkito. So close! http://techcrunch.com/2006/11/09/the-y-combinator-companies
I get similar emails throughout the day and while it might be healthy for me to get the continuous stream of positive reward, sometimes it is demotivating to me. I start the day by waking up in the afternoon and checking my email, and I've already generated my wealth for the day without doing anything.
Actually "fastboot oem unlock" is the command you type into your computer to unlock the phone. "unlock" is the feature name :)
I take a multi stream approach to the problem. Half my income comes from a web app I built (task.fm) and the other half from my personal site - I just review the books I read and products I use and earn through affiliate commissions. A couple of pages on my personal site make over $500 a month in commissions, because they are highly targeted (first result in Google).
The study is true, sadly. If it was about basic geography the results would have been even worse. A surprisingly large number of Americans cannot find their own country on an unlabelled map.
TBH, I can't really think of any other pronunciation.
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It always depends on the circumstances. If people don't like the term rewrite, you can just call it re-factoring or adding unit testing. You are probably using something from the old codebase, right. If anyone asks why something that used to work is no longer there, you can explain that you found bugs, and so you temporarily took it out to add more testing.

Although, rewriting can be a lot of work. While there may be a temptation to rewrite everything overnight, it can be quite difficult to pull off. Although, I think devoting some time to a rewrite attempt may help you gauge the total time it will actually take. If it proves easy enough, you can go for it.
"It's still under a very early stage, so there is no way to test even a Beta."
I have been fighting the same issue myself and finally just asked myself, why do I care about being a morning person? The honest answer was that I thought I should be one.

Since that revelation I have stopped fighting it and just accepted that I am not. I don't sleep more than about 7 hours a day so there is no major problem with this approach.

Try just accepting that you don't really want to be a morning person and see if that works for you.
The EPA defines "pollutant" for the purposes of the Clean Water Act as:

Pollutant means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials... heat... 14 C.F.R. § 122.2 (definition of "pollutant").

EPA discharge permits, which are required to discharge any pollutant in any amount into US waters, certainly do regulate thermal discharges.