jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Social status is a hell of a drug. Clubhouse is a place where people like Elon Musk and famous successful scientists and businesspeople hang out so all the hustler startup get-rich people want to be on board. It's exclusive, it's just for fancy iPhone users. Finally an elite place where you can only get in by invite, most cannot resist. If they miss out on the bandwagon, how can they call themselves an early adopter on the bleeding edge? What will their friends thi k of them? Almost as if they used Android or something.
The web interface of the chinese fab houses directly is way better than what these guys offer.

For example JLPCB https://cart.jlcpcb.com/quote?fromDemo=yes
You first order is $10 including parts and assembly for 5 boards with 4 day turn (1 for pcb fab, 3 for assembly). Typically the boards I have done (comparable to complexity to an arduino) are about $20 for 5 copies including fab and assembly. They also have a free cad tool called easyEDA https://easyeda.com/ but I would really recommend kicad. It takes like 5 clicks to go from layout in kicad to boards at jlpcb https://support.jlcpcb.com/article/44-how-to-export-kicad-pc...

PCBway has a lot more capability, but is a bit more expensive
https://www.pcbway.com/orderonline.aspx
There's a bunch of them. Companies like this one have been offering free basic Windows design tools locked into their service for about 20 years now. I think they are where unsuccessful "value EDA" software goes to die.

I used ExpressPCB for a small project back when all these tools were very expensive and there weren't any good free ones. I found it very easy to use.

If I did not have professional tools available today, I would use KiCAD or TinyCAD + FreePCB and pick my board vendor independently.
I'm curious why anyone would think TH was all about rejecting the natural order of life and all of its metaphysics.

To me it seems more like falling prey to some very obvious and predictable instinctual drives without being consciously aware of it.
Just don't share your contacts with apps that steal them and use them for marketing purposes.

It is also illegal to do it (GDPR), if you don't have the permission of every single person in your contacts.
I miswrote the part regarding the size of each subsequent block getting larger. However, the part about the rising cost of resources to sustain the cryptocurrency is valid in practice (assuming the current trend continues and BTC continues to gain further widespread adoption).

> If bitcoin is ever going to be valued less again, the necessary resources to sustain bitcoin will shrink accordingly.

If I'm interpreting correctly, this will occur because the number of miners will decrease as the reward incentive decreases. Or do you mean something else?
I’m guessing they switched from making two system calls to send data on the socket to a single system call.
One of the odd things I've noticed is that a vast number of people sees this pandemic as confirming whatever it is they happened to believe before it. This applies equally to scientism, distributism, anti-globalism, punk, various forms of liberalism, some pro-capitalist perspectives, and Marxism. It's enough to lead me to entertain some doubts about the essential truths of any of those perspectives being illuminated incontrovertibly.

Based on this article, what should America be learning? I apologize if this seems unkind and uncharitable, I'd like to try to stay at least a little bit on the topic at hand.
> they have $$$ but thinking of cutting

Seems like they just want to cut so that

> employees feel a bit of the sting that their customers are feeling
Romanian here. We are also totally fucked.
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Most of our youth is fucking gone in Diaspora, all we have is old people.

Stuff that is happening here is worst since we got rid of communism in '89 everyone is panic buying everyone is in for themselves. Honestly a dictatorship wouldn't be so bad because we need good leaders in these darkest times, crowds are so irrational nowadays.
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Yeah, seasoned, with no motivation whatsoever...

I have beaten a seasoned champion in a Rally competition a couple of times (means I arrived before him), but he won the championship that year, I was in the lower 20% of the rankings at the end of the season

Being a champion is not about the single performance, is about consistency over the years
It's got anaconda-like project spaces? While I can see why they did that because it's what people are used to... That's a terrible, terrible choice (I joke there's a reason why docker got invented and it's that conda is awful). Why not just put deps in the project directory instead of in ./julia/..
I was just double-checking my text but I think "it's" and "its" should be used correctly. But if you spot a mistake, feel free to give me a hint. I would love to correct it :)
Assuming these numbers are in the ballpark, it seems we could easily get rid of all ads.

I tell my browser my max default micro-payment for a website view. If the site asks for that or less, I view the page. If the site wants more I can approve a larger payment or not view the site. Market dynamics will set the price levels for individual sites over time. The browser keeps track of my payment levels for different sites.

I get to set whether I want to do micro-payments or look at ads. It should then be illegal for web sites to violate that global preference set in the browser.

Bandwidth needs drop, my web viewing isn't cluttered with crap, and info providers still get rewarded for their efforts.

This seems simple, so I'm guessing it must have been discussed before. What happened? Was micro-payment security the issue? Is it just too expensive in typical scenarios?
Not sure how much open source you've done, but StandardJS is used in a lot of open source JS libraries/projects, and they have the "Add a space after keywords" and "Add a space before a function declaration's parentheses" rules in it, so plenty of open source projects does it like this.
This is not fine, they end up paying twice as much do drive twice as much.

This works perfectly.
> I bet if we invoked some type of placebo security where the guards just watched a rerun of South Park instead of the xray screen, we'd be just as "effective."

I think they already do, except they're only showing that one early episode where Cartman goes all RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAYH
I'm using a local perspective, based on self-interest.

And I'm saying that this local perspective (which I understand might not be yours, you might just be trying to articulate the perspective of the NIMBY folks) is flawed, because it doesn't treat equal impacts on self-interest equally. It protests against nuclear plants, while not protesting at all against coal plants that have a greater impact on the same person's self-interest, simply because the impact of the coal plant is "diffuse": it pollutes their lungs over time, all the time, instead of bringing some probability of being in a Fukushima zone, but the total impact on expected years of life (or expected quality of life) for that person is still greater for the coal plant.

I understand that this perspective is common, but that doesn't make it right.
So if you buy a hot dog from someone, are you now unable to claim you hired them to kill your wife?

The NSA could have paid for a lot of things besides "direct access to Google's data", as you claim. There are hundreds of shades of gray here.
Perhaps share of land / stocks / debts owned may be a better metric. Also, home ownership should be replaced with home equity ownership.
For people that use bitcoin as their international exchange protocol, how do you get your head around the possible changes in Bitcoins value, especially if it's going to take you a week or so to do the transfer (by the time your transactions get processed/validate)
Am I the only one sick of singularity writers? Its been explored since at least the 1990s and its just... boring. No wonder weirdo dystopian sci-fi/fantasy and "sci-lit" is so popular now. This ground has been retread so many times, I'm not sure where it can go or who is truly enjoying it. Heck, Accelerando is practically a parody of singularity writing fads and its ten years old!

I think this is how people felt in the 50s and 60s when "monster/alien of the week" type potboilers ruled sci-fi until a new generation of writers like Bester, Dick, Lem, Roddenberry, and others started to break away from selling trends that had a roadmap to nowhere and started taking chances with original concepts, engaging stories and characters, character development, moral ambiguity, relationship stories, etc.

Maybe its just me, but my god, is "hard" or "not soft/fantasy" sci-fi hard to read nowadays. There's very little soul or characterization or creative breakthroughs. Its like we all decided a near futurish singularity/robots/space-ships scenario is all we can handle. That said, I really did enjoy Stephenson's Anathem. I think we're going to look back at this period and wonder why we didn't demand more from sci-fi. Somewhat ironically, the best sci-fi writing I've been seeing in the last decade is in video games and not in novels, film, or short-stories. I guess that industry, at least in parts, still has an appetite for chance-taking and a young-ish fanbase that appreciates such things. I'd rather, say, play Mass Effect or Bioshock Infinite than read what's popular today or play Alien: Isolation than watch Prometheus.

Perhaps I'm too critical, but when I ask for recommendations I get the same 20 or so novels, all of which way beyond their fresh date. /r/printsf just seems like a bunch of old guys recommending Dune over and over, or the same six or seven old Stross, Watts, or Banks novels.
It's a good idea with several issues so far.

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Sample: RFC 7381 - Enterprise IPv6 Deployment Guidelines

Searching 'ipv6', 'ipv6 enterprise' and 'enterprise ipv6' don't show the result. Searching the number does.

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I can't use page down/page up to navigate the results.
Airlines and regulators have no interest in slapping on crude, consumer grade transmitters to existing aircraft. As is the case with any aircraft part, it needs to be a high-grade, reliable, tested, and certified.

When you start tying in transmitters to the aircraft's existing avionics, the need for a redundant, extremely reliable, tested and fault-free system is even greater. An absolute must.

That's where the big expense comes in. And I believe that's what passengers have come to expect. Personally, I'd rather fly on an airliner without a satellite tracking system than fly with one that hasn't been subjected to the same testing and certification standards as the rest of the plane's equipment.

The cost is the prohibitive factor. I can imagine that Delta, for instance, has no interest in a $90M charge to retrofit their aircraft with a system that they will probably never use.
Since nobody else seems to have advertised it here, there's a demoscene event in San Jose this March!

http://nv.scene.org/2015/
This reminded me of Chiang's 2008 story "Exhalation" (http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/), which explores cognition and entropy through the idea of minds which are built as pneumatic engines.
At this point do any of you really feel you can talk about patents in an unbiased manner?
Exactly my experience. There's so many hypothetical fixes on the Internet, some seems to improve intermittently and temporarily, some seems to not work at all. But toggling Bluetooth seems be able to get a reaction from the OS at times. It felt like a ritual and I'm praying to the OS god.

Then one day a fortnight ago, I chanced upon another solution. Some people are speculating that because the WiFi signals is clashing with Bluetooth signals as they are both in 2.4 GHz, its affecting the WiFi. I was using Apple Wireless Keyboard & Touchpad. I have friend who had similar setup who seems to have the same issue.

So the next day, I spent 464 USD just to upgrade my router, get a wired Keyboard and a wired Mouse.

I have definitely splurged on these hardwares but at this point I am so frustrated and desperate that I need to make sure any hardware issue is out of the question. These are the only variables I can control, anything else felt hopeless.

I then jumped on 5 GHz WiFi and stop using bluetooth. My WiFi situation have improved a lot since then. Not perfect, but not un-usable.

The point is that I could have saved those money. To spend so as to fix a bug felt so Window'ish. It use to just work, and glitch are bearable, now I always worry of upgrading.

Anyway, those money could have went into buying Apple stuff.
Or maybe he's from Switzerland, which actually does have a fairly decentralized system: http://www.bhutan-switzerland.org/pdf/Kaelin_Switzerland.pdf
It doesn't matter if consumers mod their console or not. What the rumors suggest is that Sony had a vulnerability due to the fact that they allowed their developer consoles loosely restricted access to live data. Just because hackers found it doesn't mean that an unscrupulous developer with a dev console couldn't do the same thing. An escalation of priveleges attack like that is a ticking time bomb waiting to be found.

Long story short, Sony doesn't understand security. This is the second time in less than a year that their security through obscurity techniques have landed them with a mess.
Alternatively, just install NoScript, which will rewrite #! URLs for you.
The person who let hr hire programmers should be blamed
Imperial System is based on people with 12 fingers and toes. Thus you can tell an American from a Canadian or anyone else in the World.
Nice try but you make less sense and look more desperate the more you write.

1) There have been and currently are tons of people who believe the bible to be true who are not being threatened with being burned as a heretic. It's obvious that you don't approve but thats irrelevant. Even the statement "They didn't have much of a choice…" doesn't make sense. People don't BELIEVE things out of external coercion. Belief is epistemically basic and therefore not simply controlled by the will.

2) Any sentence that starts off "Religion teaches…" shows profound ignorance. What religion? Surely you know that every overarching explanatory system (worldview) does not teach the same thing. The worldview your promoting right now is a case in point.

3) The philosophical school of Logical Positivism has been dead for over sixty years for good reason. It can't satisfy its own demands.

4) You believe plenty of things without your brand of "proof". I suggest you read Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason among other things.

5) The Bible does not condemn knowledge. It teaches that true knowledge is rejected by people because they find it distasteful and aborent, not because of a lack of veracity or evidence. Read Romans 1 to see the textual basis for this.

6) Just out of curiosity: When do you think "technology" started?
Why doesn't Indie Stone use Kickstarter? They fit the model perfectly, Kickstarter has no history of withholding money, and 5% is quite reasonable.
The field of history is fascinating and valuable but I completely understand this attitude towards history classes in the public high school system.

If you're really interested in history take a college level course. Grade and high school history subjects often contain absurdly simplified material -- sometimes to the point of incorrectness. One can miss high school history entirely and end up better informed.
The black screen with mouse cursor hang was fixed for me in Yosemite.
In the past, zom was a XMPP client [0]. From what I can see on GitHub, the new version builds on Matrix [1], so there shouldn't be a separate answer for zom.

[0]: https://chatsecure.org/blog/chatsecure-conversations-zom/

[1]: https://github.com/zom/zom-android-matrix
> there must be some difference between the CI server and our ecosystem

Well that's why I suggested using Docker: To ensure both environments are exactly the same.

You say they are virtual machines, but how do you provision them? I assume you are using puppet/chef/salt/ansible and creating them from scratch, as opposed to uploading whatever image you used in dev, like you would with Docker.
From someone who switched to a smartphone only just last year (April 2014), there are still upsides. I'm almost always by a computer too, but I've found:

- I'm way more able to keep in touch with friends & arrange to meet up. Partly the onscreen keyboard (vs. T9), partly Yelp, partly Maps, partly the variety of messaging apps (half my friends don't use txt anymore)

- I'm actually able to use a cheaper phone plan by leveraging data & wifi (most dumbphones lack wifi)

- for whatever reason, having my email in my pocket has actually resulted in me spending less time looking at my email
I was frustrated that she was stuck wasting her time in high school taking yet another history class

You don't go to school purely for knowledge. We are social creatures and should be learning how to interact socially as much as we should be learning about calculus.

College is the same way, whether it's undergraduate or postgraduate. By taking his daughter out of school he is implicitly making the tradeoff that coding is more important than any social interaction with her peers. That seems dangerous.
Which app is immune to this?
Something really struck me with this post (emphasis mine):

> I felt like public high school just wasn’t serving her best interests anymore, and it was time to do something radical on her behalf, and at 16, she just didn’t belong there anymore.

I can't decide whether it's just the way you wrote it, or whether you're genuinely making these decisions on behalf of your daughter.

Did your daughter feel like high school wasn't serving her best interests? I don't know, because you don't say in the post. It's all about you, and your actions. I would hope a sixteen year old would be at a point where he or she would have a degree of independence. I will be honest with you: if my parents had done this to my, my life would have been considerably worse. I code for a living, but I didn't learn any of those skills in High School, or college. I was a studio art major in college, and English Lit / Music in High School.

There is not necessarily anything wrong with a purely vocational education, although personally I think the humanities are vital. However, there is to me something wrong with unilaterally pulling your daughter out of high school because of the hopes and dreams you have for her.

I hope that really the problem is one of phrasing. The post would come out in a much better light if rather than portraying yourself as the decision maker it turned out actually, your daughter was the instigator. If that's the case, I apologize. But if it's not...well, that makes me uncomfortable. It seems like others here feel the same.
My experience is similar to yours. All I can suggest is that you do thorough research, and make your own informed decision about whether to do psychedelics—and if so, pay close attention to set, setting, and dosage. I am not an experienced user of psychedelics, so I cannot make any recommendations, only describe my own experience.

To those who don’t know what it’s like to have existential anxiety, here’s an exercise. Think of being a character in a horror movie who comes to the realisation that they are “not getting out of here”. An existential panic attack is the feeling that life itself is such a situation.
The world is not black and white. Cruelty is a matter of degree. A slave owner who cares about the well-being of his/her slaves is objectively and inarguably less cruel than one who tortures them for entertainment. They are both awful people, sure, but if I were a slave I know which one I would rather have as my master.
I recently went to a recruiting event of theirs in SF, and here is my personal understanding, probably wrong in spots:

The broad notion is that private-sector IT culture has undergone major change in the last couple of decades. The failure of HealthCare.gov under the old model and its subsequent turnaround using the sort of modern methods common in Silicon Valley woke people up to the possibility of doing something new.

The question, then, is how to get government working like we do. (At least where it's beneficial; we solve a lot of our mistakes by shutting down companies, but government departments can't work like that.)

A number of things have been tried, starting with the Presidential Innovation Fellows. [1] The US Digital Service is the latest pass. The USDS HQ is under the US CTO, which I believe makes it part of the Office of Science and Technology Policy [2], which is part of the Executive Office of the President [3]. The agency teams are embedded in the agencies themselves, and so I'd assume those are legally under the appropriate cabinet secretaries. I get all this mainly from the USDS pages. [4]

Personally, I suspect that this is not a lot of money. It's mainly people, and they made clear that they will be paying industry salaries, not government salaries. And given that it is getting government to reduce waste and learn from the private sector, I expect it has bipartisan appeal.

Even if the next administration dissolves it all, though, I expect it will still have a fair bit of effect. As anybody in the industry knows, the switch from 18- to 36-month cycles to 1-4 week cycles is pretty much permanent because the culture has shifted. People just expect stuff sooner now.

But I hope the next administration continues the effort. At the meeting it was clear there were a lot of people in tech who really want to go serve their country by taking a couple years to make the government run better. It'd be foolish not to take advantage of that yearning for public service.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Science_and_Technolog...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Office_of_the_Preside...

[4] https://www.whitehouse.gov/digital/united-states-digital-ser...
Cars sound like the future.

They want to aim at the younger crowd, but fail technologically. Its 2015, there should be live streaming from every cars front and back camera during the race.
Can anyone determine the printer model?
Much respect!

Reading about GOOL and GOAL is what got me into Lisp.

Working at a previous game company, on a PS2 title, we spent a lot of time oohing and aahing over J&D's beautifully fluid animations.

I'm actually still playing through the game as part of my "PS2 classics" backlog. Very nicely done!

I didn't realize Uncharted used any runtime Lisp -- could you elaborate?

/gush
I would guess it's derived from other statistics using yet more automated systems.
That's an interesting insight. In my experience, very few meetings produce anything. If a company wants to keep its developers happy but needs to have a few of them in meetings (e.g., to answer questions, comment on process), what to do???
8085 is an 8-bit machine; the 8086 is a 16-bit machine.
I think the reason tail recursion was not talked about is that it is different in Haskell, because of the laziness. You have to worry about unevaluated thunks building up more than stack space.
I've always enjoyed meeting my Net friends - starting in the 90's, when I still did business trips; I'd try to find somebody to take out to lunch on my company's dime. Ha.
If it's financial sector (and it likely is), IBM's DB2 has a large userbase.
It's not that bad. I rent a 3 bedroom flat for about 850 eur and most of my co-workers rent for between 700 - 900 eur a month. Prices have come way down during the crisis :)
Elephants vs. dogs.