jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah, there are a whole slew of religious curse phrases -- "oh my God", "mother of God", "for God's sake", "for heaven's sake". Or even exotic variants like, "sweet mother of mercy".

I find it interesting that they are generally used to express awe, surprise, or to invoke a sense of gravity or urgency -- opposed to other swear words which generally seek to disgust, communicate an offensive attitude, or invoke taboo to draw attention through shock. The religious oaths seem to me more like the oaths of fantasy ("By Turin's beard!", "I swear upon the sword of my father", "In Vela's name") than the language of shock and offense ("scurvy maggots", "Why don't you go stick your foo in a bar and then baz it?")

I'd speculate that they're referencing the strong emotions religious people actually feel -- the awe and gravity of the sacred, a cry for help in a moment of fear, not the offensive force of blasphemy. The amplification is always toward the sacred ("sweet Mary, Jesus, and all the saints") or the silly ("Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick"), never toward the offensive. "Jesus" amplifies to "Jesus Christ" or "holy Jesus", never to something like "Jesus' stinkin' piss".
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Yep I'm getting the same. Guess his server wasn't prepared for publicity.
us dollar pyramid scheme is weak but still holds. if bitcoin will be able to be same pyramid as us dollar - i'd use it )
Yeah, but the point of grad school is to do research. I understand why grad school tuition may go towards paying for research labs and publishing papers.

Also, grad students have funding - so tuition is more like an overhead fee on the funding provided by grants and private research partners. Grad courses are also typically seminars, with no more than 10-15 students per course where you get to work one-on-one with the professor. Not to mention that profs tend to actually like teaching grad courses.

Grad school makes sense to me, conceptually at least. Undergrad tuition and the whole system is just insane. It's all basically diploma mills.
Pushing companies like Facebook to implement data portability is a great thing, but these companies want to maintain copyright control and that is apparent by their actions.

Since it doesn't look like these companies will give up copyrights anytime soon, I chose to promote self-hosting with WordPress so heavily because it is one of the only proven and relatively easy methods I know that provides publishers with complete control over the content they produce. Millions and millions of articles have been kept in the rightful hands because of WordPress and similar open, self-hosted publishing tools.

I think more people will chose to self-host if they are aware of the consequences and it is easy for them to do, which WordPress is probably the best we have to promote for now.

Eventually I'd to promote a viable and open alternative to Facebook, but nothing like that exists yet.
The most impressive feature of F# clearly is its tight integration to dotnet/C#.

It’s super easy to mix C# and F# code in the same project and it works out of the box.

This allows you, if you want it, to write your domain code in F# and your technical code in C#.
OneWeb's constellation is high enough that it'll take a lot more than 25 years for any satellite that fails to deorbit itself to decay. On the way down, these debris will cross the ISS orbit and the most popular sun-synchronous orbits.

Starlink is lower, but still above the ISS and the SSO at 282km.
One of the problems with the hyperpartisanship in America is that it prevents people from acknowledging leadership problems that both parties share. Though I think that Trump has done an incredibly poor job of handling this crisis, there's little evidence that other leaders - in Congress, at the state level, in the media, etc. - have done any better. Of course all our leaders will want to blame other people right now - failure is an orphan, as the saying goes.

I just did a search for news articles from the end of January to the end of February, and only found articles like this one[1], where politicians are criticizing the Trump administration's communication, but aren't callng for stronger efforts or mass mobilization (and the article has a quote from Pelosi saying she has confidence in how the CDC is handling things). Congress wasn't passing legislation to fight the pandemic as things were heating up, and governors don't seem to have made effective plans. The media didn't consider it to be a major disaster until recently (it didn't get brought up in the presidential debates until a couple weeks ago, IIRC). Issues like our lack of emergency stores for things like masks and our lack of an ability to manufacture them here is an issue that goes back for years, as is the poor safety net that leaves Americans so vulnerable in times like this.

Hopefully this crisis will encourage people to look at the poor leadership America has had across the board. Simply getting rid of Trump and calling it a day is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/02/05/some-law...
Renegotiate your rent during the crisis.

It's extremely unlikely your landlord is going to be able to rent it to someone new in the foreseeable future. Most landlords are highly leveraged and need income.

Make an offer to cut it in half and see if they bite.
Meanwhile, a bunch of my classmates junior year of high school took a tour of my future alma mater and came back with stories about how the thermite demo went wrong and exploded.

Later I saw black and white video of the same classroom, the thermite set the projector screen on fire ( which for some dumb reason was down at the time), the instructor panicked and pulled the screen causing it to retracted.

This did not put out the fire.

Unfortunately the video cuts out there. The building did not burn down, apparently, but I would have liked to have seen the full saga.

I almost skipped chemistry class the day they did the thermite demo for us. Instead I sat way in the back.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22655398
~90% of tests administered with restrictive criteria come back negative. There's a lot of other infections out there.

I don't say that to diminish the importance of testing, my point is that the anecdotes aren't necessarily very informative.
Yes, and I am waiting for the next updates on CO2 from Mauna Loa, HI to see if there is even a tiny blip in the rate of increase during the shutdown. So far, I can’t tell if there has been any meaningful change to the pattern. https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/monthly.html
Agreed, I think that managing trust is important. At the same time, choices have to be made about what information to emphasize and what to not emphasize, this is inherent to communication.

I think our government's decision to emphasize to the public that masks are not completely protective and that washing your hands is a more effective intervention is probably a good one, even if it neglects the fact that masks are more helpful than not.
A friend of mine suggested truly distributing companies. His theory is that if you can outsource payroll, then you should be able to outsource everything, everything, that is not core to your business.

In a sense that is what the App Store does. You build the software (your main skill) and you do not even need a website. You could take it further and pay another company x% of revenue and they take care of marketing, another will do your customer service for y% etc...
I live in Pittsburgh. We have a huge lack of talent at the moment. There are tons of startups with funding that are looking to hire people, but a huge lack of skilled people around. We've got companies paying $1,000 bonuses to anyone who can get a hire. It's crazy.

I'm not sure how to properly attract and keep talent in the city.
it's more a problem with the APIs for talking to the vendor's DB. the easiest way to add user input to a DB query should be the right one. minimally, a DB query should not be trivially the same type as user input.
As long as I don't have to worry about rogue background processes (like widgets) eating up my battery life, then yes.
Many large apps have something like it. Notice that the minute you choose your weapon, it asks you to install.

The reason is to get users invested so they're motivated to click that button. You'd be amazed at how many people don't want to. It has a scary message that basically says the developers will get the rights to your first born child.

So a lot of people throw the avatar creator there before requiring authentication. It's a helpful trick, but doesn't change the fact that to play the app, you still have to install it.
Through a local python user group. I introduced myself at the beginning and said I was looking for a job. Over pizza and a beer afterwards, somebody mentioned an open position. I applied, interviewed, and that's where I am now.
Yes, I meant algebraic. Thanks for the correction. The transcendentals are the reals that are not algebraic.
I have a degree in math, I know about Lesbegue measure and probability. My math knowledge is slightly more sophisticated than you give me credit for, if not much more!

What you're describing is, to me, the "slippery way" that there is always one more. Yes, one more than a countable set implies infinitely many more, clearly, because there will always be one more even after adding another (or a countable number.)

However... the point I'm attempting to articulate - which is not defined precisely and hence is not mathematical, is that almost all just doesn't work in my brain if there are an infinity of "countable" numbers between any two "uncountable" ones!
Why is this trending when this is actually the more important news story?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383525
that's a good point, but Apple's bet on this ecosystem continues to pay off with each of their new consumer product reaping pretty sizeable dividends from that ecosystem.
It's more efficient for very long distance transmission.

With AC transmission at 60 Hz, the wavelength is 5000 km. Things get complicated when you approach that distance.

Also, with maximum peak voltage limited by arcing, DC uses the wires more efficiently because it's constantly at peak voltage, rather than oscillating up to it.

Also, AC current creates a varying magnetic field that pushes the current flow away from the center of the wire, so only the outer region gets used, increasing resistive losses. It's not a huge effect at 60 Hz, but it makes some difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
Just a conjecture: I have noticed that some sites nearly vanished from the Google search results after a layout relaunch, even if the actual content is still there and the URLs did not change. After some time the sites were visible again - this could be weeks or even some months. This phenomenon appears to be triggered by changes of the entire site or large parts of it. Maybe there is some kind of global re-evaluation of the site going on at Google... but only some Google engineer could tell us about the details.

I would expect that your blog will soon be visible again. Maybe it helps to be a little bit more active than usual, like writing more articles, getting some attention from the web, and finding some alternative ways to get visitors to your site.

But as I wrote, this is just a conjecture. Solid explanations regarding search engines and their secret ranking algorithms are nearly impossible most of the time - too many variables are involved and the web is just so very big...
Didn't say that it was. I like most chain stores actually, far better than mom and pops. However, it is diminishing opportunities for a lot of people, and immigrants especially. My main point of concern is access to capital -- certain people can raise easily without merit, simply by way of personal networks. Others can't. This is a source of inequality.
More useful would be an infographic that showed ingredient quality info, sugar/caffeine levels, generic flavor symbol, environmental impact etc.
GoPro right now. Oculus Rift tomorrow?
Those arguments often represent a symptom of an underlying belief about "the government". I find that many people view "the government" as this monolithic, do-gooding entity. One useful approach is to redefine it - government isn't a benevolent entity, it's a huge group of people with varying goals and beliefs, who wield lots of power over your life. Do you want those people to have that sort of access?
Why should SpaceX be the only competitor who succeeds in the next few years?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_com...
I doubt someone would sell all 2.2 million at once, because it's very easy for the banks to say "all the cards that have ever used playstation network are compromised" and simply deactivate all of them all at once. UPDATE accounts SET flagged = 1 WHERE id IN (SELECT id FROM accounts, transactions WHERE transaction.merchant = 'PlayStation Network'). Done. All 2.2 million numbers useless.

(This is a lot of customer service / re-issuing work, so it's probably a last resort that the banks will only do when they're sure that they are not deactivating non-compromised accounts. So if you are the people that broke into Sony for this info, you are probably going to want to sell only a small percentage of card numbers so that the banks' risk analysis does not decide on the above strategy.)
Hmm, that might be true. I don't like the java interop much, as it confines me to the JVM infrastructure that I really dislike.

Yeah, it might be mostly the functional bias. I was just reimplemting persistent immutable hast tables when I said, well dammit, why not try Clojure. And well, despite that I don't particularly like many things like lacking TCO, no continuations, and mostly probably the Scheme macro system, there is a lot of things that they did better.

I really like the data-structure access syntax (no more list-ref), I like that I have generic operations that work on any datastructure supporting the seq abstraction, I can see the point of reducing the number of parents in forms, I truly love that partial/curry is really part of the language, not in some implementation specific extension, I just love the -> 'operator'. Clojure is for me like Python, with much the functional programming support that Python did only get recently, with a community focus on this paradigm. Oh and with a great active helpful community in #clojure unlike the divided community of #scheme.

Before someone wonders: yeah, most can be implemented on top of Scheme, the point is that Clojure did it, and they are popular. Give me a Scheme with all the great things from Clojure and I'll never look back.
I'm really surprised to learn that they use Haystack here.

That's really cool for both Haystack and Django.
I don't see anything in PCI to indicate that it's a law or that Sony can't negotiate different terms with each of the card issuers / networks. When you have billions of dollars, you can probably get Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and Amex all in a room and dictate whatever terms you want.
If this link gets upvoted enough it will be on the best of list, and then we won't forget about it...
I'd recommend building a project for a friend (for free) to start your portfolio, they will appreciate it and you'll use it. Do this for a couple of projects. Most programmers I know think they're selling their soul when they do free work, but in this case theres no shame in doing it, its like doing an internship on your terms.
So where is all this space exploration that is produce by the Central African Republic that you are talking about?
From the same Nerves project I had founnd this:

https://github.com/fhunleth/fwup

It is a firmware updater. It seems one mode is the basic create whole disk image and replace. The other is can handle update "tasks".

Now in general Erlang was built to handle hot-code updates. Basically replace the code while the code is running (have use immutable data structures and have specials facilities built it).

But that can be tricker to set up and if you have C code or hardware control, it might not work as well. So upload firmware then reboot might work (I am just guessing here since I don't know any details or goals).
Absolutely. Platforms like Twitch, Facebook, Twitter, or other giants, reap enormous benefits from being a "platform" which contains the majority (or a huge chunk) of the sectors they play in. It's time they also pay their due price for the benefits they reap.
I actually thought the WP thing was Microsoft cross licensing Apple's stuff (circa 1997 agreement), I don't get how it's any different from iOS. (I originally had an iphone and recently traded it in for a WP)...
How is it different?
I won't do tech interviews either, but not because I think I will fail at them. I think they are completely bogus and give totally the wrong signal. It's a waste of my time AND the company's time. I wrote up my thoughts on this exact thing a few months back: http://blog.getify.com/technical-interviews-suck/

TL;DR: Everything you need to know about if I'm a good fit is available online in my OSS (et al) track-records. If that's not good enough for you, that's not the kind of job I want anyway. I want to work for companies that value the full lifecycle of OSS work, which you can only see in such a way, and CANNOT judge via tech interviews.

By the time I walk in the door for an in-person interview, I expect you to already know that I am fully qualified (tech and otherwise), and you're looking now to judge my cultural fit by sitting me down in a real team meeting and seeing how it works, etc.

If I show up and you try to quiz my tech skills, you didn't do your homework on me, and I have no more time for you, so I'll just chuckle and walk out. Politely of course.
You miss a major point. I live in rural Maine and there are plenty of folks trying to live "off grid" and generate their own electricity. Here we sit, 2013, those with solar panels on their house have to make sure not to run the dishwasher more than once a solar cycle in winter. Good luck charging your car on that. I'm sure there are ways to generate more power, but you wind up needing LOTS of panels and that increases the chance of failure and need to replace.

I know the technology will get better, but like AI, they've been promising improvements in solar panels for decades now and they never seem to appear.
Cue praise from the majority of the main stream media that only tens of thousands of communications are improperly monitored since there are roughly 150 billion emails sent per day (globally). The surveillance program will be declared a stunning success and most people will agree since they are impressed by small percentages. The error rate being so low will imply, to most people, that the NSA is painstakingly concerned with only monitoring pertinent communications.

Out of curiosity, what is a good argument against this perspective that Average Joe can grok?
So, wait, you're saying there's more to life than money?
+1

It would be useful to treat databases as those big data structures, knowing the best/average/worst case, cpu vs. memory trade-offs for search, etc.
^ I meant "reliant on dishonesty"
In your blog post you assert that "Gold and silver were valuable 2000 years ago and are still valuable" but you never explain why. What properties does gold and silver has that makes them valuable?
http://www.sinatrarb.com/ ?
Sometimes, you explain why storing a password in plaintext is a terrible idea, but the business executives simply do not care, or think it's better to keep them available, in case somebody forgets it...
Handling money requires a stable and trusted service which is why it would have been a bad idea not having a closed beta to test it out properly before released. The problem with handling money is that there is a lot of legal issues around it.

@cabalamat there is already an API that community has used to create a lot of cool stuff with: https://flattr.com/support/plugins Hoping to see many more though so if you have good ideas feel free to hack away:) Donating specific sums can already be done to other Flattr users via their profile page.

We're actively working on getting Flattr more accessible and available to "flattr everything". Big changes happening in a few days! http://blog.flattr.net/2011/04/flattr-reloads-the-cannons/

/josef (@flattr_intern)
None of the problems he outlined were a result of getting Diaspora out the door faster, but simply basic ignorance of security issues. attr_accessible, adding a current_user. to db queries and so on doesn't take any time at all, and should be in muscle memory for any seasoned Rails developer.

If they can't deal with beginner level stuff, how well do you think they will do with much harder problems like XSS?

Edit: Actually I really want to drive this point home: you wouldn't write a TODO for any of these things because it would take you as long to write the TODO as it would take to fix them.
Thanks. I wonder why the search results aren't consistent.
http://news.ycombinator.com/best, http://news.ycombinator.com/active, or (as already suggested by treo) http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ may be useful.
I understand the downvotes, but I think there is some truth in 'put the coffee down'. A lot of people think about the how to, but sometimes you just have to put the coffee down and act.
When you feel the step is to big to take at once, just take babysteps. Start in the evening (try not to work for yourself at your dayjob). (see the post of jarin)
It really depends on personal taste. If you tend to prefer younger, fruitier wines as opposed to heavier, aged wines then going for the $50+ bottle isn't going to do you any good. Some wines actually get worse with age.

You can find some really consistently great pinot noirs, merlots, and malbecs for much less than $20. I would steer clear of cabernet sauvignon simply because there is such a wild degree of variation in taste and it is not consistent with price.

Be aware of prices by region as well. Some grape varieties grow more easily in certain climates and as a result will be more cheaply produced. The Oregon wines have recently gotten noticeably more expensive, but this has more to do with it becoming a trendy region much like Napa Valley in the past.

So be aware of factors in price when buying wines, and your personal preference in wine body should be the ultimate determinant of how much you should be willing to spend. On a side note, if you're ever throwing a dinner party stick with the lighter wines. I break out the schmitt sohne riesling for $8 a bottle during the summer and while it's too sweet for my taste, guests usually love it.
Possibly someone make a recording and forward it to next person who will play back the recording and record their own voice and combine them, and send to next one, and so on. (Possibly the first recording might be the piano or organ, or whatever musical instruments you are using, if any.) This isn't as good as doing it with really choir, but for now, this is how you will have to do. Once the virus is go away enough then you can try to resume the proper way. (If you wish to use my suggestion, ensure that you must use a lossless codec, or else you could use a lossy codec if you manage the files carefully in a way to ensure nothing is encoded more than once.)
I feel like we (the US) do a lot better just by advising the elderly to stay home, give them resources (free delivery, services brought to their home, etc) much more effectively then basically throwing our economy in a 40% GDP drop shitter.
Can you please explain? On the surface this all sounds great, then again, on the surface a lot of things sound great.

Especially looking for clarity around this part:

Are there side-effects to using this?

Plasma is very safe. It is screened for bloodborne pathogens and blood typed so you don't have a transfusion reaction. Blood transfusion is one of the most regulated industries in the United States. It's one of the safest things available.
Yep, because it's an mAb. EDP1815 is also an mAb. They're expensive and complicated because of big pharma profiteering.