jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It is true what you say when you are talking about the mega rich that they can do a lot to help and that is what people like Bill Gates etc are doing without anyone legislating them to do so.

When it comes to wealth distribution, I can not see any better way of doing it than letting the markets manage it. Where the governments and charity's come in should be in efficient exception handling dealing with the various emergencies the real world raises. Don't misunderstand me though. "Rich" people are not necessarily nice people and often are not believers in free markets. They are often directly in cahoots with government and make lots of money being invested in the status quo.

The problem with just about every single attempt at taxing this little tiny group of extremely rich people is that in the end it hardly affects them, but almost always harm the entrepreneurs who aren't yet at the Billionaire level.

(Excuse my CS metaphors) My own country Denmark got rich by having an open economy with little redistribution but plenty of exception handling. Since the late 60s the focus shifted from exception handling to having a heavy handed kernel process maintaining resource sharing in realtime which now counts for over half the economy. This has stagnated the economy, which currently only looks better than Greece because of our oil resources. We are an extremely equal country, with only a small handful of outliers. End result to maintain our equality many of the smart coders/entrepreneurs now live abroad (eg. DHH, Rasmus Lerdorf) while more and more resources are being spent beating immigrants into being as equals as the rest of us to which we are now being rightly condemned throughout the world.

A little thought experiment to which I do not know the answer:

What part of Bill Gates deeds will over history have done more to multiply peoples quality of life in the developing world? The Bill and Melinda Gates foundations good work throughout the world or the millions of pirated Windows copies used throughout the developing world in everything from small businesses to internet cafe's to schools.
Everyone has a perfect launch record until they experience their first catastrophic failure.

Falcon9 has had how many launches? and none were heavylift, they were all medium lift. (The answer here is two.)

GSLV has had a 4 for 7 success ratio.

Challenger was the 25th mission, Columbia was the 107th.

Apollo 1 (which wasn't named Apollo 1 until later) was the only catastrophic failure, Apollo 13 being a successful failure. Apollo 6 experienced problems, missed its intended orbit, failed the original mission, but not catastrophically. Ariannespace has launched 200 missions, I believe 1 catastrophic failure, 2 non-catastrophic failures.

In 2008, SpaceX had a failure two minutes into launch on their Falcon 1 platform. In 2006 and 2007, they lost two, with the latter making it to orbit, but being lost after five minutes.

When SpaceX has more than two launches under their belt with the Falcon 9, then I think we can champion the success over other designs.
What about Nocturne (from the Quicksilver guys: http://www.blacktree.com/ )?

Or even simpler, ctrl-alt-cmd-8?
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So, Dropbox has censorship? Ni-i-ice.
Cost of harvesting a watermelon = $1.43
Cost of harvesting a grape = $0.002

Public sector jobs are different than private sector jobs. Looking at things as if they're the same just gives you crappy numbers. They often require more training, better education and suffer more from high turnover. That private sector number has every grocery store bagger and gas pump attendant in it too.

For almost every category of worker, that same level of training and education pays less and has worse benefits, retirement included in the public sector.
In my experience, there is always SOMETHING that doesn't quite work right with calendaring, whether it's "enterprise" (whatever that's supposed to mean) or not. Mainly synching.
You could try hooking up the UPC to a pricing API like https://semantics3.com (Disclosure: I am one of the founders)
Which has nothing to do with the article.
Although that is a sad story, the story itself shows he was cognizant of what he was doing. I think very few people would argue LSD or any drug at all (caffeine included) are harmless in the strictest sense of the word.

But perhaps the potential benefits vs the realistic risks are a good enough investment for some people to make.

Hallucinogens are deeply intertwined with human culture; "promoting drugs" is such a silly idea. It's like "promoting eating".. people are going to do it, period.

Being cognizant of the risks, and honest about the benefits is the only way to truly reduce the harm of drugs in general.

Fear mongering, blanket statements, anti-drug cultural, none of that will ever quench what appears to be an innate human thirst for mind-altering substances.

To accept this as true (which any cursory look at history will show to be the case), is the only way to ever move forward with drug use/abuse.
My first question on clicking the link was - Does there something like this exist for Clojure?

Glad to the have my question answered. Thanks for the links!
Yes, but you couldn't eat the vaccinations. This particular problem is caused by the safety solution also, accidentally, doubling as a means to procure food.
Depends on locale. In Quebec, men pretty much always take their paternity leave (at least 3 weeks, up to 5) and most of the maternity leave can be transferred to the father (up to 25-32 weeks, leaving the mother the minimum of 15-18 weeks) as well. That last part is uncommon but it does happen when the mother is the couple's highest earner (say a partner in a legal firm or a doctor) since the mat leave benefits are capped.
Yeah, calling someone out on FUD is definitely unscientific. Thanks for that.
I do that sometimes (obviously not in JavaScript), to split up long lines in situations such as this:

bool is_foo_possible() {
return
test_first_condition() &&
test_second_contition() &&
test_third_condition()
}

I don't think that's very horrible.
That just means they have to use the chip (or accept the liability on their end). Doesn't protect you from a skimmer or a camera.
This last sentence sounds weird to me: 'But he noted that he feels fine giving founders a few hundred thousand dollars — just not millions.'

Is the question 'is it fine for founders to cash out at a round of financing before their exit?' or 'how much founders should cash out before their exit?'? They're two different questions.

And an investor who says to a founder 'if you sell some shares I sell mine too' forgets that he has some eggs in other baskets while a founder spends generally all his time to only one. Is it normal / fair / you name it that a founder wants to put some eggs in other baskets too (if I mention the Buffer's founders quote when they argue 'we'll invest some money in other startups'?
[edited] For some reason I can't delete my own comment that's one minute old. I guess because it already got downvoted and commented. Learn something new every day!
Now I have even fewer reasons to log in to Facebook.
> I should add that successful & popular federated online messaging services are something we've had since the 1960s so I have yet to see any compelling reason to be perpetuating the walled-garden approach beyond a preference for a totalitarian approach to ecosystem control.

Touche, but if they were there before why aren't they "here" in popular adoption? I think, although it is perfectly technically feasible in a vacuum it is not in real life.

Because it requires that all your common contacts (friends, family) use it. The question isn't whether you can do but whether you can be easier to use and offer more feature then the competition. Most people don't care. You need to be competitive.

From a technical perceptive you will have to spend more, make less, and have decreased usability for privacy, and federation. So picking any one is already shooting your self in the foot. Pick two and you aren't going anywhere.

Simplified argument but Signal picks to minimum they feel they need to do to see change they want. And I am big fan of this method. I am tired of projects with good intentions not getting adoption.
Mark Zuckerberg:

The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden.

His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the US and around the world. We removed these statements yesterday because we judged that their effect -- and likely their intent -- would be to provoke further violence.

Following the certification of the election results by Congress, the priority for the whole country must now be to ensure that the remaining 13 days and the days after inauguration pass peacefully and in accordance with established democratic norms.

Over the last several years, we have allowed President Trump to use our platform consistent with our own rules, at times removing content or labeling his posts when they violate our policies. We did this because we believe that the public has a right to the broadest possible access to political speech, even controversial speech. But the current context is now fundamentally different, involving use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government.

We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great. Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.
What if as a user I'm happy to get a free service and be tracked?
> You must log in to continue.
You forgot about the support staff. For example, Telegram blocks from a few hundred to a few thousand terrorist propaganda channels each day. I think that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Anyone with a modicum of sense has been saying this should happen for years now.
Because it's a 501(3)(c) non-profit foundation? Why do you ask the question, this is standard stuff in the U. S.?
I've been using smile.amazon.com since August 2019, and to date I've generated $6.01. I guess I don't use Amazon as much as you. It's like, shit, for the amount of trouble I've gone through to make sure I'm on smile.amazon.com instead of www.amazon.com, I should have just given some money to my recipient.
Yes, but distro and kernel maintainers don't seem to think that supporting chromebooks is a worth their time, so don't expect it to be a smooth process out of the box.
At least $105 million, because that's what they had to borrow.

http://venturebeat.com/2009/07/07/zenimax-borrowed-105-milli...

I'd expect it to be a lot more than that. $25 million is a typical budget for a single AAA console title these days. Not only did Zenimax buy id's game development experience they also bought their tech, which is probably worth that on its own. Mind you, id were badly in need of a publisher at the time.
I knew this was a recycled blog post: http://www.cloudave.com/1720/embrace-losing/
The internet, I wouldn't be who I am today without it.
The nice thing about single-paradigm languages like Haskell is that they have very simple syntax (think of Lisp that does everything with just a bunch of parentheses).

This statement suggests the author has limited exposure to Common Lisp, which supports the widest variety of programming paradigms in one language that I can think of. Simplicity of syntax seems to be mostly orthogonal to allowing the use of many paradigms, though it's probably hard to have a very complex syntax with a semantically simple language.
For more details on the potential visual spoofs: http://unicode.org/reports/tr36/#visual_spoofing
I've been using humanized enso for two years, it does this task and periodically checks through the start menu folder for updates.

I sift through a huge file network at work and have a number of shortcuts to cut through the directory hierarchy there.
TLS server name indication can also leak your host, sadly.
I imagine they could pack dense/heavy cargo in passenger planes and leave the lighter stuff for proper cargo planes.

Presumably there’s no serious flight issue with planes being bottom heavy.
Here's an old Flash game that you can play to see how it works:

https://forio.com/simulate/mbean/near-beer-game/run/
Benjamin Franklin: “those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither.”
corporations want to extract the maximum possible value
from their human assets, without exhausting them or
provoking rebellion or escape

some continuously turnover people. their business relies on ripping people off and exhausting them.
It's rather difficult to do that and keep some semblance of safety.

Ultimately I think the simplest way to keep things sane would be to do something along the lines of "you have <x> amount of MJ worth of <fuel of your choice or electrical power> for the race" (which would then spawn all sorts of related rules about what exactly counts as fuel, but meh. Such is life.).
Agreed, I would be more inclined to watch videos if they were highly edited. If you want to watch a MOOC on linear algebra the videos you will find are little more than a camcorder stuck in the corner of a classroom and dumped online. For a topic that really doesn't change decade after decade at some point someone is going to come along and produce a highly edited video that contains all of the key points, presented in a clear manor and it will become the defacto set of videos for these type of topics.
Then, if we don't call passengers on cruise ships engineers, then why do we call Angular users engineers?
That rig would be amazing for playing the theme to Threes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unr0A2iOe1E
Unfortunately, even by disabling the logging, browsers like Chrome will keep wasting your server's resources asking for it if you return a 404. I know it's not going to overwhelm anyone's servers alone, but if you ever get a massive traffic surge that starts causing some visitor requests to fail, you'll probably enjoy having one less socket request per visitor.

I add <link rel="icon" href="data:;base64,iVBORw0KGgo="> into my HTML head section. I don't recall offhand if it stops the initial request in all browsers, but it does at least prevent repeated requests.

Most people would just tell you to drop a blank favicon.ico if you really don't want a site icon (and I don't), but I'm not going to clutter up my root directory with junk (this, two Apple icon files, and whatever else people decide to do in the future.)
I like this, very creative!

The code generation looks interesting. I'll have to take another look later; can it not be done with the preprocessor?
What's happening in the housing market right now is the result of the free market.

Market forces made housing expensive at a faster pace than regulatory changes. There are simply many more people now in their 25s-35s than there were 40 years ago, more dual-income households, and more costs (i.e., college) associated with landing the high-paying jobs than there were 40 years ago when you could get a 6-figure job with full health benefits and a pension at a factory without being able to read or write.
Only if all tests are positive already. Otherwise you should see an exponentially increasing number of positives if the number of infected is increasing faster than the number of tests.
I really liked it, well done!
It can also void your homeowners insurance to rent your home out on Airbnb.

There have been articles about this. It sticks in my mind because I used to be in insurance.

Residential buildings were not intended to be used this way and all the policy and infrastructure points to "No, really, you weren't supposed to use this as a commercial vehicle. That's not what all of society agreed to for this piece of real property."
This post has so much love for roguelikes, what a joy!

I Carbonized [1] Angband to make it playable on OS X. Then I Cocoaized it a few years later. What a rarefied game, that you can play it for years!

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_(API)
Am extending RUSTLS to work with HSM.
Thanks for the app -- quite eye-opening. The data looks good, except there is a bunch of data in Minnesota. I've never been to Minnesota! Any ideas?

http://imgur.com/ORgYu

EDIT: Data appears around the time I flew from NJ to Seattle -- perhaps my phone was on in-flight and connecting to MN cell towers? Seems unlikely, though, given the # of points.
iOS push notifications are about one idea: power management. By forcing all servers to communicate to their apps through one channel, the actual iOS hardware only needs to maintain one connection: the connection to Apple's servers.

The alternative is that 3, or 8, or dozens of apps all maintain separate connections to their own motherships, which drains a device's battery like a mynock with a case of the munchies.
Great work, and I can't wait for plugins to arrive!

This should be the next great text-editor once it's open-sourced - I'm too young to bother with vim/emacs, and a bit too poor to buy Sublime Text, great though it is!

The fact that it's written in Clojure(script) makes me want to dive into the source, and find out how a modern desktop application is built using a Lisp.
An interesting take the Kolmogorov system can be found here:

http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/cappal.pdf

In it E. T. Jaynes compares Bayesian statistics Kolmogorov probabilities and finds them essentially identical in result even after working from very different first principles.
Here is some slides about this technique, the approach seems interesting :
http://hashref.com/summaries/TheNowHabit.pdf
I find myself in the psychologies described.
Somehow like Sketchup, the 'command line' there is not perfect at all but is better than nothing and allows some productivity gains.
That was a dick move. 5 days are not enough to go through debugging, coding, reviewing, testing, and deployment of a complicate software like Windows. 2 weeks to 4 weeks are more reasonable.
Do your customers know they are being recorded like this?
I agree with you in the case of the hot CEOs at the aggressive VC-funded startup level, it seemed like the parent of my first comment was referring to really well paid CEOs, of which I don't think there are many to be found at the startup level.
Thanks for the feedback and for the great explanations. I'm a programmer and only beginning to learn visual design stuff...

As I strive for simplicity, your suggestions about spacing makes a lot sense. It would be simpler visually to have things be more consistent.
I had a chance to look at death tables recently and the drop off is rather dramatic for men starting at around 75 (for women it is noticable at 85 or so).

That said, I am sure insurance companies knew what they were doing.

Therefore, what this scheme amounts is in effect investors thinking they are smarter than actuaries(or willing to take a lesser payout, or some bizarre tax advantage).

Let's assume one 80 year old can buy a 10million dollar policy(for simplicity we assume all premiums paid to the end of life) for say 5 million.

Then investors offer 5million 100 thousand for the said policy. Person is richer 100 thousand out of this. That is investors think that the person will die sooner than the insurance company has calculated.

If the investors buy sufficient number of policies, they are guaranteed a pretty steady income, but as the article shows it is not risk free.
I agree 100%, though it's possible that what Matt meant is that his mohawk functions as a signal to attract people like him: smart, yet extremely cool and laid-back.

Btw, if you want to align yourself with reality instead of rationalizations, your best bet is to do some meditation and then set clear, conscious intentions for various areas of your life. Then in the future, when confronted with a decision, you can assess whether it will bring you towards or away from your crystallized intentions. Of course, rationalizations can still crop up, but I've found that this is a useful deterrent. Also, if you feel negative emotions but are still acting in service of your intention, it's a sign that you're probably engaging in "right action" instead of rationalization.
I would, in fact. The article gives no indication that they know more about how their computer works, that "startx" is anything more than a password that lets them use a mouse and Tuxpaint.

Now, there's certainly potential. The author could (and maybe has) explain how X works or what exactly it means to install a package. Or maybe his kids will learn something from the details that command line programs show but GUIs often hide. There are definitely learning opportunities present in a shell that a GUI lacks. (The reverse is also true.) But from the article, he hasn't done any of that.

Reading this article makes me think the author has a lot more planned, but what he's done so far, while fun, probably hasn't made his kids any more knowledgeable. That's OK: His sons are 2 and 5 and have plenty of time to learn more, if that's their interest. But Hacker News shouldn't pretend that the author has demonstrated the superiority of starting with the command line.
Exactly. Part of the problem is that the media hosting platforms don't make these reports public. And there are also multiple platforms where Warner Bros (just as an example) can get their soundtracks hosted. And then such reports would get fragmented across the platforms.
Mass surveillance has negligible impact on crime rates.

The UK is one of the most surveilled nations on earth, yet has one of the highest crime rates in western Europe.

If you want to truly impact crime rates, then put resources into fixing social problems.
Thanks for this book, I enjoyed reading the beta version.
You need a bicycle.

Then you can ride the exact same route every day at exactly the same time wearing the same high visibility clothing that you wear every day, decorated 'Christmas tree' style in flashing lights. Just to make things easier for those that might track you, cruise along at 10-20 miles per hour, obeying the Highway Code every inch of the way.

Ah, but what about the mobile phone? You don't need that turned on whilst cycling. In fact, if you are used to babysitting the battery it makes sense to turn it off just for practicality reasons.

Ah, but what about the CCTV? Look at the route options, there is bound to be a park or canal tow path to take and, as well as a nice car-free ride you get to expose yourself to far fewer CCTV operators, although total CCTV absence is unlikely. Even then though, options are pretty good. You might take that 'winter warmer' coat off part way through your route. Or that bright yellow jacket is kind of ubiquitous, 'hard to spot' amongst the hordes of other cyclists with the same jacket. You can also legitimately completely cover your face with mask, sunglasses and helmet.

Even listening for a cyclist is not exactly easy, particularly if you don't let that tell-tell freewheel announce your presence (keep pedalling).

In not one film in the entire history of Hollywood has the bad guy/good guy evaded getting caught due to the simple tactic of riding a bicycle at a leisurely pace. So there just isn't even the group-think out there to suspect the cyclist.

Nobody expects the cyclist!
That's network gaming...
Nice, I have only limited experience with symbolic regression. But, from what I gathered from the abstract of an ACM paper I found, I like the detour from the usual stochastic approach toward a deterministic directed search. Does that imply it could have problems with local optima, though?
Growing in the southeast from memory but the rest of the country saw pretty strong decreases I think.

Wasn’t Kent the first place things started to really kick off and take a turn in mid Nov?