jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Most web pages only support two video sizes:

1. unusably small
2. full screen. Which often means unusably large (27" screen), especially for less-than-HD videos

At least youtube added at some time the cinema mode which allowed the video to occupy the whole window width, that is what I use most of the time. Still, PIP also has the advantage of removing the window decorations, so saving space. Also, they are floating on top of all other windows, which helps, but also occasionally can be annoying.
20th Century Castles (http://www.missilebases.com/) has been at this for a while.

If you check out their site, you can find out how you too can own an old underground missile silo. :-)
This is an excellent read! It is also included in Gibson's collection of non fiction writing - Distrust That Particular Flavor, which I highly recommend.
First time I've heard of Nancy. Anyone got a URL since it's name is so terrible that you can't google it?
See above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8805687
It could be.
Anonymous is stating that they have nothing to do with it, though it could be a more radical offshoot of them.[1]

It could be some massive hardware problem, and they are taking advantage of the ill-will related to geohot to say that it's not their fault, even though it could be.

[1] http://www.anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=848
As it turns out, a mole of carbon doesn't mass exactly 12/16 of a mole of oxygen or 12× a mole of hydrogen. (Carbon's average atomic mass is 12, not 14.) So you'd have to pick an atom.

At present, the definition runs the other direction: a dalton is defined as 1/(Avogadro's number) of a gram. But Avogadro's number is a little difficult to measure directly; what you end up doing is picking an element and measuring its atomic mass. They picked carbon.

It seems to me that the definition you describe would indeed be a reasonable one, since Avogadro's number is known to seven significant figures at this point, which seems comparable to the mass stability of the international prototype kilogram.
Not true. As long as you entered legally, even if you are out of status now, you can adjust your status if you marry a US citizen. Just another of the many ways immigration law makes no sense.
I'm thinking of something like a pre-release album, a theatre rip of a movie, etc. Not a rip of something legitimately licensed to you, but of something not officially released to the public.
Unless they have changed the definition, back when I studied it the mole was defined as the number of particles found in 12 grams of C (C-12), 6.022*10^23.

So the mole depended on the gram.
I don't understand your situation. If you entered illegally, how can you overstay your visa? If you entered illegally, presumably you didn't have a visa.

But clearly this is something you should talk to a good lawyer about. If your current one isn't helpful, find a new one.
Yes and no.

Yes because they believe it was "Anonymous" who hacked the system, as a retaliation to "the geohotz thing" and no because it could very well be something entirely separate.

All we know is they had an intruder, have switched off the network and are now rebuilding.
"especially when you factor in substantial equity"

Unless your company ends up being the next Google or Facebook (which is a statistically unlikely outcome for any startup), your "substantial equity" may never be worth any significant amount of money. Living in NYC is expensive, and you can't pay your rent with stock options.
It seems to be quite common with movie visual effects companies. And the Toronto or Vancouver offices are often bigger than the LA staffs.

Of course, that industry is being priced down to survival levels.
Unibody construction means it’ll be a write off if the bed is damaged. Compare this with other trucks where the bed is bolted on, allowing for functional modifications to the truck: flat beds, boxes, or even just towing certain types of trailers. And if you damage the bed on those types of trucks, you can replace it for a relatively low cost.

Sure, if you’re just throwing a tool box in the back then you’re fine. Then again you didn’t need a truck to begin with.
I would imagine it would probably be similar to any current car, it looks like it has panels which could be replaced. The roof was difficult to tell though, if there was a weld or seam on to top which was part of a larger panel
I see what you mean, the amount of work and foresight needed to predict the bug and write a test for it does seem unrealistic in that light. Hingdsight is 20/20, etc.
See also (just don't do any banking/disable javascript):

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> The Chrome plugin looks very nice, but you can do the same thing with console.log() outputs in your store.

by that logic, you don't need a debugger with breakpoints and stack traces either.

i mean... you could use a spoon for driving nails into wood instead of a hammer, too.
It's not the price of Windows that was keeping people from adopting Windows 8. It's the irrelevancy and the fact that corporations don't see the ROI. The time it would take to upgrade their company isn't worth the gains, which are minimal.

Unless Windows 10 proves to be a massive improvement in performance or usability, I suspect it's uptake will be just as anemic, free or not.
This is a story of Dunbar's number and how headcount growth changes it.
>he shouldn't have been surprised when his site started hemorrhaging users who were there entirely for the freedom of speech they enjoyed.

Is this an accepted stat or is this a soundbite used by 8chan supporters? I've seen this repeated often, but it doesn't seem true. According to the archive stats (https://archive.moe/vg/statistics/activity/, https://archive.moe/a/statistics/activity/, https://archive.moe/v/statistics/activity/) - 4chan's traffic and activity has been stable.

>8chan will probably last much longer than 4chan precisely because Fredrick refuses to make those judgement calls about what is and isn't acceptable. He doesn't need to bear a heavy conscience about what kind of speech he is allowing, he just follows the law to the letter and lets people do their thing.

I honestly don't see how 8chan is different from 7chan, and I'm willing to bet that after the controversy is over 8chan's influence will die down much like 7chan's.
What exactly is the “mystery” of consciousness? This article is a long read, but it doesn't really formulate the question.
Its 2015, if we need 3rd party tools for window management, then someone is really screwing up.
The price comes down with bulk and subscription (save 20% on sub). you cited "$6/meal per now" and I believe that was a mistake. If a week (7 days) supply is $85, you have $12.14 per day and about $4.05 per meal, which hits your target of "closer to $4/meal". On a separate note if you buy a months supply (don't have to eat it in one month) that is $300 for 28 days (84 meals) it comes to roughly $3.57/meal.

I do agree that the manufacturing delay was easily the worst part of the experience, but other than that I'm loving the product. I hope that many more people trying it will lower the price more because this has done a dent on my daily food bill, and it'd be great to see it come down more through widespread use.
Fiber can make you gassy.
That's interesting, I didn't know it speeded up again. I guess it still is an issue though: it's hard to trust a currency with the knowledge that it's transaction speed could potentially slow down by hours or days if there is too much traffic.
One of the general best practices is to have diversity in the array of drives. It's not for bugs like this though although it helps for bugs like this. It's to ensure that not all disks fail at the same time.

If you use disks from the same batch in a RAID, they would all begin to fail around the same time, because all of them have the same lifetime more or less.
Maybe it differs from company to company and country to country, but at least the company I work for would hesitate enormously before purchasing a service from a company which immediate appears to do something that is illegal in many countries.

This company (is there a company behind it, I couldn't find those details) markets to countries outside of Israel I assume.
Nice, CC-BY 4.0 for those interested in the details.
Taylordle: https://www.taylordle.com/ -- words from Taylor Swift lyrics
I'm saying that censorship like this is incompatible with the western values as we know them. Yet this doesn't invalidate what the Chinese have accomplished. It's possible to have two conflicting ideas at the same time.
Git blame has a feature just for this `git blame -w -M`. -w ignores white space changes and -M isn't really necessary but will ignore moved lines
I suspect this link is just blogspam and someone went over the original with a thesaurus.
My oldest brother built a bus too. It's a different approach but similar concept. Love these builds. Check out my brothers bus and build log here:

http://www.bunedoggle.com/skoolie/
I am 40. Now it seems to me like humanity is the meta layer - their greed, desire etc manifesting through varying sub-strata like technology, wealth etc.

I do work now and then with some non-profits in the USA, Sub-Saharan Africa and India and they all seem to contend for grants from Rockefeller, Ford, Clinton and Gates foundations. I am yet to see someone preparing a grant request proposal for any of the tech company foundations. I am slotting Gates into "old money", but I am ok with it going either way.
In pretty sure the Retina MBA doesn't exist because of battery concerns. It's not a coincidence that retina screens arrived at the same time as the departure of DVD drives (and so, more internal space for the battery).

The Air never had that space spare.
I remember reading a lot about a "brick wall" when they pushed towards EUV, how challenging it would be to reduce feature size further etc etc. But it seems they're moving along just fine. What happened?
Also, someone will make a version for furries. They pay well.
> Games have had UI scaling since monitors got more resolutions than 640x480

Scaling is different from resizing. Maybe it was my fault for using the wrong word.

Have you ever tried to play an old game on a widescreen monitor? Even a lot of modern, triple-A games have weird HUD layouts on ultrawide monitors because they have to be re-hard-coded for that aspect ratio. So if they haven't, you just get the layout they're hardcoded to for widescreen monitors.

I'm not saying it would make sense to trade performance for robustness in the case of games specifically, because they're always going to be full-screen and usually target one of only a handful of aspect-ratios (at least for consoles and PC; mobile may be a different story). I'm just saying they definitely get to skip a whole lot of hard problem-solving due to the constraints of the end product.

I don't have time to read more than the first part of your reply right now; maybe I will later.
And I just wish Iran would stop enriching uranium.
Extra compensation or time off is usually a bad idea for on-call responsibilities, because it puts the wrong incentives in place. Teams should be working to improve their infrastructure so that on-call is less painful, not lobbying for additional pay because someone built a hard-to-maintain system.

Sometimes this is an "up the chain" type problem, but if the other engineers on the team don't agree with you that the on-call rotation is too painful, it's going to be hard to convince management that your judgment is correct.

If you don't want to simply switch teams, my suggestion is to think of what engineering work you can do in order to improve the on-call experience. Then propose that you work on these projects, to your manager. Quantify the amount of engineering time and increased reliability your projects will save. In my experience it is far easier to get management to agree to a specific plan to improve the situation than to get management to find someone else to solve a problem for you.

Another idea - since you work at a large company, there are probably teams who handle this very well at your company. Infrastructure teams who have scaled components that in the past have been overloaded and now are widely used within the company, that sort of thing. Try asking for advice in a "horizontal" way, finding experts on other teams and asking how they have solved these issues in their teams. These "horizontal" experts will be able to give advice that's specific to your company. This is especially true if your team is working on a product area and your coworkers are not specialists in making reliable systems, but your company has infrastructure specialists on other teams.
I go into Kickstarter and IGG and friends with the view that I want to contribute a small sum of money to see something realized. If you take a good crack at it and eat the money, that's okay.

After all, I gave you like $200. It's not the end of the world.
Fascinating, thanks for the info. In Norway, fixed-rate mortgage agreements are always made with a clause mandating settlement of the interest difference, in the case of refinancing or early repayment.

The customer therefore has no leverage over the lender by threatening to take the loan elsewhere. They'd have to pay all of the remaining interest if they wanted to settle the loan, or at best settle the interest difference if moving the loan to a lender with a different interest rate. Assuming both banks agreed to the exchange.

Of course, if interest rates increase, such settlement could also favor the borrower. But that hasn't been the case in a long time.

Most mortgages here are floating-rate.
Oh, give me a break. The issue here were the fact that people were willing to break the lockdown, and not wear masks and social distance. All the countries that followed the protocol (larger countries and denser countries) were able to deal with the problem with minimal casualty. That was the real issue. Not this BS “taking too long to approve a vaccine”
in 3d you normally represent by a 4x4 matrix, which can be easily reduced to 6 floats (x y z translation, and x y z rotations). The problem with doing that little work is you'll very quickly be bottlenecked by copying memory to/from the GPU. If you want to do any raycasts for instance, or query for occlusion/bounds testing, you need to upload data to the GPU, run a (potentialy very slow, serial) query, then copy the result back. The results normally aren't worth it.
I realize that accusatory turnabout is a fun exercise, but what you have here only meets the form of turnabout, and not the substance. One of the key indicators that you've gone off the rails: your turnabout necessitates conceptual contortions in order to make a false equivalence.

In your post above, you falsely claim that the students are being accused of plagiarism. They are not. While plagiarism can be a kind of academic dishonesty, it is not the particular kind of academic dishonesty at issue here. Then, to complete your false equivalence, you try to re-frame the de rigueur practice of drawing test items from an item bank as plagiarism, which is just laughable and ignores both the purpose of the test instrument and the different roles of student and teacher.

I contest that the professor is too.

The word "contest" in the above context means "to oppose as mistaken or wrong". So your sentence literally reads that you dispute that the teacher is also cheating. Clearly you have been arguing the opposite.

I think it might be time to give it a rest.
Please don't forget that your real reputation is what definitely gets you a great job.

"Hey bossman, my great friend XXX, who I worked with at YYY, is getting bored over there. He's a great programmer and would be a great fit for our team and the infrastructure position we have open."

And bossman will definitely give him an interview and massive bonus points for the personal recommendation and relationship, and wisely make him a better offer than some stranger that comes in from StackOverflow or GitHub.

This cuts both ways.

As an engineer, you want a job that a colleague recommends to you, far before some random posting you see on StackOverflow Careers.
clique-oriented, where you have your close friends from a very young age, but casual acquaintances keep each other at arms length much moreso

That's how I feel in Vienna, too, despite making huge efforts to find/make friends (like throwing conferences, hosting UGs, parties, etc). Even my Austrian friends who are from outside the city have the same problems. I've decided to give up.

It seems to be tied to a fear of novelty… people are too comfortable, but they complain about the advantages they have. Everything here is so goshdarn nice and even that it seems like people have lost the ability to "stretch" to deal with something new, different, or unexpected. (And sadly that seems to extend to people.) In fact, even their own emotions seem muted -- rather than excitement, or passion, or even hate, or joy, everything seems to be fairly even. Simple example: it's very rare to find someone laughing in a restaurant or cafe, and if you do, others will stare.

This social posture seems to be a lot more common in Europe than in, say, the US. And more common yet again in the Germanic cultures (incl. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, and most of Scandinavia) than in the Latin cultures.

Who knows if it's echoes from the war or something else.
Have we gone full circle? Right now I'd really like a desktop application that uses each service's API to integrate everything into one interface (IMAP for Gmail etc). I would still use the web interfaces when not on my main computer, but as a hacker I'm on my main computer a lot and don't mind having things set up for extra convenience.

I also feel that web GUIs are still hacky and limited by what Javascript can do in a window. Desktop applications have no such limitations in UX, and so works better for integration-type work.

Ubuntu seems to be doing this well, or at least heading in this direction, and this is great for me.
“I learned a lot from watching that site,” Mr. Hunter said of Chatroulette.

I'm sure he was simply 'watching'.
Very nice to see Microsoft contributing to open source and solving a real problem while at it.
So he broke the law by not fully stopping at a STOP sign and decided to go on a tirade on how to change the system so that what he did was not breaking the law?

Only in America.
Too harsh, for the reason that many of us are not better than this. For lack of a better term, most people need "coaching" in some aspect of their life. Often they either aren't aware, aren't willing to admit it, or don't know where to get it.

I am guessing that readers of this site want to be super-productive and are looking for ways to make that happen.
That's true, but if the curve uses a well-studied underlying field where the curves that are vulnerable to cryptanalytic attacks can be avoided (prime fields lead the way here, last time I worked on an ECC implementation ~ 5 years ago), the risk from this threat isn't so great -I'd worry about other aspects of the resulting system first.

A quick google search shows DJB and Tanja Lange have some nice analysis of existing curves here: http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/index.html

Of course, if the cryptographers generating the curve aren't sharing their knowledge of some new class of weak curves, all bets are off.
1) If you read it properly it's not actually a prediction of imminent collapse, it's a suggestion that buying gold is an optimal strategy and if the world realised this and acted perfectly rationally everyone would buy as much gold as possible, demonetising all fiat currencies and creating an ensuing financial collapse. He's very clear that he doesn't expect this to necessarily happen because people are not 100% rational. He also does have a sense of humour (I know, outrageous right?) which you have to take into account.

2) If you read his writings further you'll see that he considers a distinction between the financial system and the US dollar arbitrary, because the USG insures all banks he considers the banking/financial system part of the government. The fact that the banks were bailed out by debasing the US dollar is one of the political realities which he would argue makes it more logical to save in gold as opposed to dollars.

3) The housing bubble only happened because banks could take on poor loans knowing that the USG would bail them out.
We are actually working on a storage service called RESTBase (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase). RESTBase has pluggable table storage backends, starting with Cassandra. Other backends will scale this down for small installations.

The medium-term goal is to store all revisions as HTML, so that views and HTML-based saves can become storage-bound operations with low double-digit ms latencies. This will mostly eliminate the remaining 2-4% of cache misses, and should get us closer to actual DC fail-over without completely cold caches.

There is still a large amount of work to be done until all the puzzle pieces for this are in place, but we are hard at work to make it a reality. A major one, the bidirectional conversion between wikitext and HTML in Parsoid (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid), is already powering VisualEditor and a bunch of other projects (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Users). Watch this space ;)
It would most likely be in the IO monad since IO would be happening.

As for whether monads would help your code (and I still think they would) I'll need a larger example. In a small example abstraction and reuse aren't really apparent.

If you can provide a larger example, we can find out who's right ;)

Alternatively I'll try to find a larger example if you can't or don't want to.
Most of these arguments apply if you are going to be using a finite supply of money as your "main" currency. I agree that not having an inflatable supply is bad in such situations. However it is incredibly unlikely that bitcoin will ever occupy this niche(I highly doubt anyone is going to ever pay taxes in BTC). For what it is, an easy and quick way to transact payments anonymously* and securely online, it is incredibly valuable and I hope it caches on.

*How anonymous it is obviously depends on how sophisticated you are at using it.
You could think of it as insurance against fraud. (The customers can, that is.)
hmm i think you need to clear your browser cache before trying again. (this will retrieve the latest version)
Correction: Nobody has attacked a datacenter.

I think that's a fact because the folks who blow things up aren't cognizant of their importance, or aren't using weapons appropriate to the task.

When the US attacks a country, what do they blow up first? A: Airfields, SAM sites, and Command/Control/Coordination centers. Datacenters and big telco facilities fall into that category.
i checked the servers, all is good
"All I'm saying is that there is as much intrinsic value to a bitcoin as there is to a dollar, or a euro..."

The intrinsic value of a dollar is that the United States Government is obligated to accept a dollar as a payment of tax and other obligations you may have towards the government. A dollar is not an arbitrary thing, it fundamentally profoundly is a warrant to discharge a debt obligation against the United States Government. The rest of its value emanates out transitively from that.

A BitCoin is fundamentally more arbitrary than a dollar. (At least at the moment. Hypothetically this could change.) Perhaps it will make it anyhow, despite my skepticism, but it is absolutely, empirically true that a dollar is not an arbitrary value store. It has a base case for its value chain. BitCoins do not have this.