jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not an answer, exactly, but there is talk of invoking the 25th amendment (possible I suppose, considering Pence and Trump are at odds currently). As of now, none of Trump's cabinet nor Pence have suggested intent to do so. I would wager it will take another event of this nature and/or a big hit to Trump's approval ratings which are very static and unchanged by scandal mostly.

There's also the option of impeachment and removal. This is significantly less likely as it requires a majority of senators and Trump only has two weeks left.

It's unlikely he will be held accountable for encouraging domestic terrorism against democratic and republican lawmakers alike. Especially if he wins up pardoning himself.

Edit:

CNN just reported a source claiming some of Trump's cabinet are in early talks about invoking the 25th amendment. Still very unlikely to happen however.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1

I wouldn't say it looked similar... The time scales are different for the same _relative_ amount printed. 2009 took longer to play out. We're not even 1 year in.
I hate authority as much as the next, but when they keep people out we complain about their brutality, when they let people in we urge them to suicide. No one in their right mind would want such a job, thus we get the people who aren't.
They* have great descriptions
I wonder why they are attempting to force him on to a legacy TV network instead of using social media?
>Wow, that's a lot of pessimism for a fairly elegant solution to the fact that almost no R code has package versioning defined.

This isn't true.

https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/rro/reproducibility

https://rstudio.github.io/packrat/
Yep, that's a good point. If the startup will be less successful without you, then it's not a perfect arbitrage opportunity. This would be especially true if the company were small or starting out.

For most established companies, however, I think the difference of one person is typically quite low.
how did you get there?, i mean what is your career path?

i'm a CS student, i would be very glad to listen to your story. i know it may sounds rude, but i'm sincere.

if you want, send me an email to

giuscri <at> gmail <dot> com

:)
I like the notion that someone at AT&T thinks we should appreciate the fact that they don't micro-bill us for usage on our own wifi networks. You just know somebody at AT&T has a Word doc with 1000 revisions in it outlining exactly how they might do that.
"2. On me not wanting another MASTER: Why would someone give me money without putting in place some sort of accountability?"

Most angels don't. I'm not making this up. Sure, there are contractual protections to make sure you don't sell the company for $1 to your Aunt Linda. And yeah, they want an interesting vision (most know that deep planning makes you too rigid, so don't encourage it).

The best balance is an angel that gives money, gives great advice and help when you ask for it, keeps you a little disciplined by asking hard questions, but largely stays out of your way and lets you run the company. Most angels know this-- and that's how most of them behave (I've raised money from half a dozen angels and pitched 15 or so).

It seems like you agree-- you don't want a master and you don't want an angel who "just forgets about you". 90% of them are neither-- so an angel looks like a good fit if these businesses (or future ideas) reach a fundable place.

My contention (which stands) is that your concerns with early stage investment are wrong (i.e. fear of loss of freedom/control)-- unless you're talking about the freedom to build an unfundable business... which is fine. A LOT of really freakin' awesome businesses aren't right for equity investment.
Article is an amazingly good example of how to sell software. Even open source projects need to sell themselves, and these guys have it nailed.
No special reason - just that freelancing and my financial situation has been simple enough that the 'ez' filing has generally been sufficient, and the potential for liability has been minimal.
A doubling of solar cell efficiency would change a lot; paired with cheap, scalable storage, it would change everything. ;)
No.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.6 versus http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.5 makes it clear that you PUT something somewhere and that you POST something to the resource located somewhere. That is the difference. The idempotence follows from that, but it is not the important semantic part.
Somehow this has a much bigger impact on me than the 37Signals series as far making the case for bootstrapping. Most likely it is because FW is a VC himself and presumably has a vested interest in seeing startups take capital.
What are some of the ways that actual-Wikileaks differs from ideal-Wikileaks?
Programmers don't know how to build businesses either, but they do know how to build something that might turn into a business.

You're equating all business people with MBA's. That's like saying anyone with a CS degree knows how to code.

The article has a point. If you read Innovator's Solution or Peter Drucker books or look at Apple's business philosophy there's a lot to knowing what works with people and businesses. I've done B2B sales before and it wasn't anything like I thought it would be.

Those books and Apple illustrate the benefits of building around a marketing focus (customer experience). I can't say most technical founders with projects that I've met do that. Some projects are intensely personal ones built around a technology (insert API) instead of a problem potential customers are having.
It depends on the personalities involved. The old-school mentality is that business-people tell the programmers what to do. The modern approach appears to be the inverse. Perhaps in a few years things will stabilize to a nice equilibrium.
You don't even need to do that. It's only one species of mosquito that is a problem.
I have no idea what the right number is. But as the article points out, part of the issue is precisely that traditionally female jobs tend to pay less because they are traditionally female. Here's one apparent example of that in action:

"One of my lecturers at university once presented us with this thought exercise: why are doctors so highly paid, and so well-respected? Our answers were predictable. Because they save lives, their skills are extremely important, and it takes years and years of education to become one. All sound, logical reasons. But these traits that doctors possess are universal. So why is it, she asked, that doctors in Russia are so lowly paid? Making less than £7,500 a year, it is one of the lowest paid professions in Russia, and poorly respected at that. Why is this?"

The answer? It doesn't seem to be a coincidence that in Russia, doctors have been a traditionally female profession, unlike western Europe and the USA. The low pay and low status of medicine in Russia appears to be directly tied to its identity as a "women's career" there.

(Quote from this page: http://cratesandribbons.com/2013/12/13/patriarchys-magic-tri... I don't know whether this site was the first place I heard about this fact, but it's the top hit for it on Google.)
If you are worried about people not realizing it is cold outside maybe start advocating against drinking.
The author is criticizing Apple's versions, not the Java/C++ ones.
He didn't convince himself he could fly - his note said to dispel the ashes over the ocean. I knew him personally, it was more than 10 years ago.

If you heard some similar stories before - it's not strange, probably such things happened many times.
I'm a tester. Some of my work is manual; some of it is coding.

I know I get paid less than the devs (both at my company and in the industry on average,) but I'm paid well and enjoy testing more than the work the devs are doing.

All it takes is for a tester to go on Glassdoor to find out that their average salary is lower.
The difference is that we have a chance to actually eradicate Malaria. We can beat it.

The flu? That's a completely different story..
Unsurprising but still thoroughly depressing.
The only drives available are taken from the top model rMBP, last time I looked it was over 1000 EUR for an upgrade.

If you buy an old (2013-Spring or earlier) model then it is upgradable.
"In fact, why can't all floats that are ambiguous wrt an integer interpretation have a ".0" tail?"

In JavaScript Object Notation, everything's a float. There are no integers, just floats that happen to not have any fractional elements.

Numbers are the weakest part of the JSON spec in general because Javascript has very weak numbers. A spec merely intending to tidy up certain questionable corners hasn't really got license to "fix" the numbers problem.

(And just to make it clear one more time, I fully agree that the numbers are really problematic in JSON... I just don't think that problem can be fixed here. It would take a JSON 2.)
Man, those adverts sure brings back the memories. Looking at them now (I am in my mind 40s), I am really surprise how much more "hardware" focus the adverts were. Many of them have pictures of ICs, add-on cards for display extensions etc. There was even one from Tektronics about their 60Mhz CRO.

And the Apple II clones and the PC clones...:-)

Back then, I was just going through high school with an Atari 800.
I wouldn't really call this spying, it's pretty necessary for Google to do some human verification of the content they are selling advertising amongst.

I'd be more surprised to find out that they weren't reviewing content, really.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-...
Ha ha ha, if only :).

But on serious note, with all the brains we have, we should've created some tools to automate things, progress is too slow. I think we can do way more.
Did you not see my links to where a ThinkPad, certified by Ubuntu, has broken screen brightness? I own an X140e and it has been a nightmare. I've had it for a year and I still can't get bluetooth to work[1]. I've also tried a Carbon X1 and it leaves much to be desired.

Like I said, it's a gamble. Sometimes the hardware and drivers and phase of the moon is right and everything works. Sometimes no amount of kernel flags and customized modules will fix it. I (along with many others) am willing to pay to not have to worry about potential problems.

1. I ranted a little about it near the end of a recent blog post: http://geoff.greer.fm/2015/01/03/ten-years-of-progress-in-la...
> the cause (or causes) must lie with changes in our environment or lifestyle over the past few years.

This is not exactly true. The time span here crosses four or five generations. That's enough time for genetic forces to be at work. People keep forgetting that very large numbers of children died of infections before the 1950s and 60s. Very large numbers of people walking around today have genotypes that for most prior human history would have been eliminated. You also increasingly have a lot of people walking around who wouldn't exist without fertility therapies.

I suspect this plays into a lot of disease trends but it's really never mentioned in the press.
Don't know a 'paid Linux OS' but system76.com makes PCs specifically for Linux, which is effectively a limited set of premium hardware.
I take it back, we did measure average case performance of expf() (though not expl()), and it was slower than exp():

16:12:48 < gmaxwell> ha. So, completely eliminating all the doubles made celt slower.

16:13:23 < gmaxwell> I'm guessing that this is because I used the C99 float versions of the math functions and they suck.

16:13:57 < gmaxwell> looks like 3% slower or so.

16:14:05 < gmaxwell> <3 GLIBC.

16:26:02 < gmaxwell> with float approx the no-doubles is .9% faster. Whoohoo. ;)

17:24:06 < derf> Yes. Don't use the float versions of libc functions, at least not on x86-64.

17:24:24 < Dark_Shikari> what the heck did they do ?

17:24:53 < derf> They reset the rounding modes on entrance and exit of expf(), for example, regardless of whether or not they're already correctly set up.

17:25:07 < derf> Apparently this is really slow.

17:25:32 < gmaxwell> derf: I was hoping that they'd be fixed by now.

"Float approx" refers to our custom polynomial approximation of exp(). Given that, I think it's safe to infer that expl() would also have been slower than exp() in the average case. That was in 2010, though. This appears to have been fixed for expf() in 2012 (which now uses SSE/AVX instead of x87 asm on x86-64), but not for expl().
This extension can be made without a content script and with many fewer permissions. You should look into https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/commands to see how to properly integrate keyboard shortcuts, and https://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_window for the floating UI.

Unfortunately, Chrome extensions are not allowed to use chrome.app.window.create (which you will need to make the floating UI without modifying the content page), so you will need to convert your extension into an app to use this API.
I've been considering this for a while -- especially after the Yosemite upgrade, in which my machine has been randomly hanging [0], and in which my machine gets noticeably slower (cmd-tab takes a quarter to a half a second to actually finish switching and repainting windows) over the course of a few days of uptime. OS X software quality is very clearly not a priority at Apple, which is a shame, because this machine is still the best hardware I've ever had the pleasure of using. I don't know what my next machine will be, but if things go at the current pace, I imagine it won't be running OS X.

My previous Linux machine was a Sony VAIO SZ, running Ubuntu 8.04; it did basically everything that I needed, and my only complaint that I'd have if downgrading to it today would be the reduction in battery life. Is there a great set of laptop hardware to run Linux on these days? What do people use when they just want a candy-reduced window system?

[0] MacBook Pro Retina 15", Mid 2012; periodically, usually while I am scrolling through a web page, the machine becomes unresponsive (sound stops, cursor stops), and a minute or two later, the machine powers off. Sometimes it reboots on its own; afterwards, there's no kernel panic log. As far as I can tell, something goes wrong, and after a few minutes, the SMC's watchdog timer gives up, and shoots the machine in the head.
It seems like "fact checking" in the snopes sense is just another vector for propaganda. The truth of what happened in the past is only knowable as fact by those who witnessed it, and by what can be proven with evidence. I don't think that's a modern problem.
I've heard of Ketamine as another non-opioid approach to pain, I don't know how effective it is quite for pain or dental issues.

Dental pain is awful. I'm so sorry. I had a hospital-and-hydrocodone-worthy case of oral thrush a few years back and beyond losing the ability to speak...well, at all, for a time, I found myself slamming the counters with my fist so the new pain in my bruised arms took away from the roaring, unending pain in my mouth.

I can't imagine having that kind of pain for more than a day or two before being in a dangerous mental state with respect to my own personal safety.
I'm not really understanding what relevance one child having a rare reaction to the varicella vaccine has to do with your decision to extend the duration of the normal side effects of other vaccinations on your other child, and not sure how either of those things related to your claim about Big Vax Baba Yaga.

Stringing together a series of non-sequiturs is not the same thing as constructing an argument.
How do you even go about figuring this out. Do you just go to a primary practitioner and say “hey XYZ” and ask for a test/recommendation to a specialist? I haven’t been to the doctor in years outside emergencies and have suspected some issues but I’m not sure if I’m particularly interested in the cost / time involvement of any treatments for anything.
What struck me about the data was how congested the area seems. We know about noise problems but I found the data very helpful in visualizing the size of the whales habitat compared to the quantity of boat traffic.
No conspiracy. When I first calmed down after I felt the shaking I checked the JMA website and it was reported as a 7.3. Later downgraded to 7.1. This happens all the time
If you're in a neighborhood where this is common, property tax increases will rise to compensate.
I would guess it is this one: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale...

It basically describe the now pretty common practice of trawling social media sites and forums for something which can be made into news, conducted by very large news papers like NYT.

In my view its a kind of low effort data mining when there is news droughts. Nothing to report? Then go and look up the all the employed truck drivers in the nation and see if you can find one that does not have a driver license (it most likely exist one or two). It does not ask if the portion of truck drivers that have lost their license is higher than the overall population, or provide any insight into the profession, but rather just want to attract reader attention by highlighting something which look controversial.
How do you keep your magnet link database fresh? Do you crawl the web for those links or do you rely exclusively on people uploading them? Sorry if the question doesn't make sense, I'm not very familiar with how BitTorrent works.
The risk that the company folds hits the early employees just as hard as it hits the founders.

Founders don't typically provide a whole lot of capital.

Three guys meet in a room somewhere, hash out an idea, assign themselves CEO, CFO and COO, plunk $1000 on the table each, call each other 'founder', then get some funding and then hire you to implement their vision.

Their risk is just about the same as yours, only you get to share - if you're lucky - maybe in 1% or so of the success (assuming you don't get screwed somewhere along the line) and in 100% of the failure.

And if you're in for a profit share the odds are even worse.

If you're good enough to be engineer #1 you're good enough to be a co-founder.
From the article it sounds like it may describe another level of reduction to LTP. So, rather than 'this mechanism vs. LTP' it offers a potential genetic mechanism that may explain the changes to neuronal growth during memory formation.
Indeed just buy it!

Or if you can't afford to buy it use one of the free style guides!
I am partial to the "don't solve problems you don't have" argument which holds true in a lot of cases.

That said, the database is the one part of the system that is very tricky to evolve after the fact. Data migrations are hard. It's worth investing a little bit of time upfront to get it right.
I recently launched:

https://4dayweek.io/

Software jobs with a better work life balance. Might be of interest!
That's only true in that particular hypothetical. There are a lot of possible circumstances without such a clear conflict of interest.

Also, in the lawyer example, someone's freedom or livelihood is on the line. In the company example, it's a company's profits, which has a much less clear relationship to either of those two things, especially in today's world of 250:1 salary ratios.
I've also been watching Florida. Schools open since August, only a brief lockdown, few mandates. Middle-of-the-pack death rate results slightly worse than California which has major mandates and lockdowns.

Florida is also a large state with a large senior population, so it can't be easily dismissed.

Death numbers ticking up slightly, but absent a major increase in deaths, it will be hard to say that Florida made a bad decision.

Note that I'm only looking at death numbers, not case numbers. I know it's a trailing indicator, but is a much better indicator of the actual results.
Actually, while most infections happen in densely populated areas, most deaths don't.

Healthcare access out of densely populated areas involves delays, transportation, sometimes airlifts or is just simply sub-par. Also densely populated areas tend to have younger population which is overall less likely to die. All of which shifts a significant part of the death rate towards sparsely populated areas.

Death rate by population density is basically a shapeless scatterplot [0]. Even superdense micronations (Monaco, Singapore, Liechtenstein, etc) don't seem to have significantly high rates, with the notable exception of San Marino, which is still "just" at the level of Czechia.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-19-death-rate-vs-po...
I could hope that the hackability could at least extend to changing behaviors not related to safety, but I'd imagine there would be some justification for just about anything being about safety.
Potentially applying for a job that you're way over-qualified could fit your criteria. It's not that uncommon for people who retired to still want to work but with less responsibility and more free time. I.e. I've seen former CEOs driving Uber for fun or mentoring younger founders.
Ideally they don’t, but they have - go live in Asia or South America for a bit and you’ll find spots where this is the model, and Signal can’t easily (or at all) reach those users without competing.
I mean, this is a reply to a comment pointing out the that article says

> each layer requires the previous one

So at least the article thinks the hierarchy has order.

And complex topics can be conveyed in a readable way, it's just a bit harder.
Your answer makes a lot of sense. I think you've made the right compromise.
> Norvig's code is beautiful and very good Lisp. But it's so dense that it requires more lines of explanatory comments than actual functionality. The code's functionality isn't self-evident. And sure, you can write Java code that has the same flaws, but I find it's easier to write readable Java code than it is to write readable Lisp.

I mostly agree with this in general, but in my opinion, this kind of stuff gets exacerbated with programmers like Peter Norvig.

I was a really early MOOC student, and I was taking Udacity's first programming courses. I was a senior in college and already had plenty of coursework and multiple jobs/internships under my belt when I took their "Introduction to Programming" course. It was extremely easy for me.

The next programming course in their curriculum was "Design of Computer Programs," which is a course by Peter Norvig. When it was released, it had the difficulty set at "Beginner." While people were still going through the first iteration of the course, it got changed to "Advanced."

The problem, in my opinion, was the code. Even though it was Python, it was always extremely dense and required an insane amount of thought in order to comprehend what was going on. His variable and function names were also often very short and not descriptive enough.

I was able to get through the course, but it was a lot harder than I'd like to admit. As a mildly more seasoned programmer (I'm turning 30 soon), I would not think highly of a coworker's abilities if they wrote code like this. You definitely need to be smart to write the code the way Norvig does, but it takes a certain skill to write code that other people can understand, and I don't think he has that skill, regardless of the programming language.

All that is to say is that it's probably not just Lisp's fault, at least in this case.
How is Ling not free software? From its LICENSE¹, it's using the Berkeley DB/Sleepycat license, which is considered Free by both the OSI and FSF.

¹ https://github.com/cloudozer/ling/blob/master/LICENSE
"GOOGLE knowingly tracked children, marketed towards them, but somehow the FTC allowed them to transfer liability to their creators."

I do not see the the transfer here. Google would still be liable, but able to ban owners who do not properly label their channels. This would protect them of course, but not transfer liability.

The FTC specifically mentioned channel owners tracking users via third parties. I did not know that was possible. I did not see any examples referenced either. As such, channel owners cannot be liable. Correct?