jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Etiquette for whom though? The English? Apparently the French eat salad after meals. I found an interesting link concerning this about dinners at the White House. (http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/599224)

Looking at this photo of the menu from the White House National Governors Association dinner, it looks like the salad course follows the main course, as is common in Europe. At the risk of sounding like a hick, is this arrangement of courses standard for formal dinners in the U.S.? (looks yummy, btw).

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2b_SPCr78uQ/SaMrIOb1FzI/AAAAAAAAHu...
Apple's iDisk is not Mac/iOS only. Any WebDAV client can access it. I use it on an XP machine without any extra software. In fact, using an open standard like WebDAV is probably the reason for iDisk's performance issues. Any WebDAV "disk" I have ever connected to has had performance issues.
Some notable unions go too far in protecting the jobs of their members... so the entire concept of unions is bad?
It's from February of this year. It's also in my queue to look into asking the doc to consider treating me into the more narrow range. But first I want to investigate the Celiac possibility, since (as you mentioned) the Thyroid might be secondary. Thanks.
your response seems to encompass unions in general. are you saying that workers should never have collective bargaining power in general?
This is certainly true of many companies and may well be true of Apple, too, though it doesn't really fit the prevailing narrative we have of Apple as a company precisely steered by an extremely hands-on executive team.

Personally, I'm tickled by this silly and completely implausible variant of the "corporation as federation" idea: That the the executive team is focused on the iOS platform to such an extent that the desktop Safari team implemented Reader -- "annoying ads" marketing and all -- simply to see if they could get away with it.
Of course this begs for a series of posts: clojure.py, clojure.js, clojure.pl, and clojure.arc. ;-)
The infographic claims it will take about 500000 square kilometers of solar panels.

1 square kilometer is one million square meters (1000x1000).

At a cost of $100 per square meter, that's $100,000,000 (one hundred million dollars) to complete 1/500000th of the project.

Did I make any mistakes?
What are you trying to say? All murderers and dictators breath oxygen too.
Another technical problem is that you have to transmit all that power somehow. I'm no expert but I would imagine that you would need orders of magnitude higher voltage transmission lines (or more of them) than currently exist. Also, the geography of most of those location is pretty intense.
The other "universal bytecode" that came out of Sun and actually has seen a lot of use is Mitch Bradley's Open Firmware Forth based boot ROMs, used by Suns' 68k, SPARC and x86 boxes, Apple's PPC Macs, IBM, ARM, OLCP XO-1, and many other systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
Agreed - Apple could easily charge 3-5k. The LG TVs I mentioned cost that much.

They could offer three sizes. Mini, Normal, Max.

They could use it as a jumping off point to own the “living room” if they wanted.
> I don't think the term "unamerican" should be used seriously. It has no strict definition and is often used to encourage an "Us vs Them" mentality and brings to mind the "no true Scotsman" fallacy.

It's whatever the House Un-American Activities Committee doesn't like, isn't it?
Excuse me in advance for 'edw519'ing out:

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- - - - wants to be cross-platform - - - - - - - >

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It remains to be seen where deferred-reading is on this spectrum. My gut is that it's somewhere in the middle, but that the total market for it --- notably unlike special-purpose voice recorders --- is so big that you might not need to work too much harder to retain the status quo.

My point is that it's not as simple as you make it out to be. There's plenty of room on iOS for a better calculator (like PCalc); plenty of room for portfolio tracking, even for special-purpose camera interfaces.
Vim is still usable for day-to-day work: it works on Windows, it has a gui binary, it's a stable build and not a beta. People are going to have bug reports/fixes for what they're using.

Also, fixes seem to be flowing from vim to neovim.
Top Gear and Clarkson have always given me mixed feelings. It seems clear that he's a huge ass, and their misleading reviews of Tesla and extreme nationalism put me off, but there's no doubt that the show has more entertainment value than almost anything I've ever seen, and was hugely influential. I'll miss it, despite its flaws.
The Internet isn't a technology; it's a collection of standards. Much like the industrial revolution wasn't about mechanisms; it was about interchangeable parts and standardization of forms, such that they could be usefully combined without eternal one-off customization.

In the short-run, your approach is sound. In the large, a web technology isn't a web technology if my browser doesn't support it. Seems that the people in charge of Dart decided it had crossed the event horizon from situation 1 to situation 2.
JavaScript as a compilation target should only be a temporary measure.
In case anybody hasn't tried it yet: It is pretty cool to check out the first copy of git that was committed to git. It is incredibly simple, yet was sufficient to create a commit that is still in the same git repo as modern git.

https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23...
I hope Google developers who were working on the Dart VM will now be able to move to V8 and accelerate its ES6 support.
That sounds very tempting! What's the dependency bundling story like with F#/Mono - what would be the equivalent to assembling a fatjar for the JVM, or indeed `go build` for Go?
That doesn't sound like something that was your fault. Sorry it didn't work out man :/
which of his books would you recommend ?
It would be nice if there was a Demo setup somewhere.
That one is excellent - visually as well as auditorily pleasing.

In terms of interesting evolution I keep coming back to this one I just sort of randomly put together: http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=04046g043q515p3...
Great job on the redesign. I've been following Khan Academy for a long time and the new design is great leap in usability and the playlist feature is excellent. The old site required a lot of in-browser searching and definitely was not as appealing to younger audiences.

BTW: Sal's TED talk was very inspiring and really demonstrated the amazing potential of his work. It's great to see all of the recognition and support he is receiving and the excellent team now in place. His talk even inspired me to start blogging about Education last month -- see the first post on Education2.org [http://www.education2.org/2011/03/welcome-to-education2-org].
I literally laughed out loud in my office. Great comment.
that was long time ago ;-)
Maintaining this type of code is impossible...but offers an excellent job guarantee if you convince your code reviewers to check it in.
a skip ahead is different than the officially being at 23:59:60, albeit quite many NTP nowaday use leap smearing to avoid that https://developers.google.com/time/smear
Are you sure about this?

> With Signal I can already add a new device and continue existing conversations without the other participants being notified that I've added a new device.

Just today I had a group chat notification that said:

"More than one member of this group is no longer marked as verified. Tap for options"

Tapping brought me to a menu that said:

"Safety Number Changes -- The following people many have reinstalled or changed devices. Verify your safety number with them to ensure privacy"

At which point I was given the option to re-verify (e.g. via a provided QR code), but also the option to manually mark "verified". That is to say something does notify participants of changes to recipient devices.
OTOH, if it is set up such that presenters need to log in with their official credentials to access their shared documents, it would actually be the machine to keylog.
You’re mistaken if you think I’m defending what happened at the Capital yesterday. I am an ardent supporter of the right to peacefully protest.

I am against any form of violent protest, and as a matter of scale, I’m much more offended by the dozens killed, hundreds maimed, and billions of dollars of damages over the summer than what happened yesterday.

The framing of this particular riot as a coup is nothing but a duplicitous political flame war, and I see the politicization of this riot is a coup versus that riot is a mostly peaceful protest as a dangerous gaslighting of the American people.
Exact opposite, based on Monero and Signal code, decentralised by relying on service nodes that anyone can run, implementing it's own onion routing. Honestly, on paper, it looks pretty good.

The core problem is that devs are Australians and can be secretly compelled to backdoor their app via Assistance and Access Act.
It's also a machine the kids can't screw up and takes next to no IT resources to administer. Unlike a shit Dell bolted to a desk.
We've hit the Ballmer peak!
There are a few things worth noting when talking about Balmer and MSFT's share price. Since 2004, MSFT has returned over $164 billion [1] to shareholders in a ~50/50 split of buybacks and dividends -- on today's balance sheet, that cash would be worth an incremental ~$20/share (assuming $0 reinvested). Meanwhile, revenue and free cash flow have grown at a respectable 12.4% compounded, and it wasn't until 2012 that Apple passed Microsoft in terms of gross profit.

I don't think anyone would argue that Ballmer's been the most innovative CEO of his era, but as a custodian of shareholder value, it's pretty hard to fault him. Could he have done better? In hindsight, we know the answer is yes, but the answer in hindsight is always yes. He managed to try and fail at big ideas without bankrupting -- or even significantly impairing -- his company. Not many CEOs can claim the same.

What happened to Microsoft? It built and sold unsexy products that people were willing to pay gobs of money for. I'm sure many businesses would love to fail so successfully.

[1] http://www.gurufocus.com/financials/MSFT#cs. For the sake of reference, AAPL returned ~$26 billion to shareholders over the same period.
OEMs like Dell were shitting all over the Windows brand with plasticky (and still expensive!), heavy, unreliable, loud-as-shit laptops with terrible screens.

This is utter nonsense. There simply is no other way to put it.

There have always been premium Windows machines (Sony was doing the extremely-thin, fits in an envelope, made-with-unobtanium laptop thing years before Apple did), and discount machines. Focus-on-aesthetics machines, and ugly but functional machines.

That is how a diverse ecosystems work, and the consumer gets to choose what they want, and what matches their priorities (the fact that you have some sort of hipsterism dislike of "plasticy" should not restrict my purchase when I see it as simply a material that is often optimal. I don't have a fetish for materials).
> So don't sign up. For some this is the golden ticket into the middle class, and worth the price.

Therein lies the catch, I think. It's not the golden ticket people want to believe it is... but telling people that the offer of their dreams is a sham is a losing proposition.
Can't wait for the movie... where everyone just sits behind the computer typing and clicks all day long...

It is very weird that a undercover agent that investigates this kind of thing is that bad at covering it up.
Yes.

I work at Conde Nast. I helped work with a bootcamp program to create a "internship" program for new graduates. We took eight students after attending a recruiting event and invited them to work on a cycling program. From the eight, we hired four.

We cycled the students through four of Conde Nast's brands/responsibilities. Currently, we have junior developers from this program working on GQ magazine, Glamour, and our in-house CMS system. They are doing JavaScript web app development.

Going into the hiring process, I was betting on the students rate of learning. We knew they didnt have the domain experience. We were hiring out of a RoR bootcamp, so their knowledge was also going to be irrelevant. Knowing they spent 10 weeks learning at a rapid pace, I believed we could extend that to our own code base.

Our experience was good. Because our company was in a unique hiring period, it made sense. We wouldnt do it again.
No one's saying that Python 3 doesn't improve on Python 2 in significant and tangible ways. The key phrase is "If you learn Python 3 then you'll still have to learn Python 2 to get anything done" which is absolutely true in my experience.[1] This is because as soon as you hit a single dependency that doesn't support Python 3, you have to switch to Python 2. And there are still a good number of important modules that are Python 2 only. (And no, reimplementing the functionality of dependency oneself is not an option for a beginning programmer.) And even if all the modules you need right now are available for Python 3, you might find later that the new feature you want to implement in an existing program requires a Python2-only module. No matter how great Python 3 is, and how much we all wish we could switch to it, we can't just will all our dependencies to add support for it.

[1] Obviously your experience may vary depending on which modules are considered essential for your work.
"106 113 0120 – Shows credits"

I think this might be Japanese NTT phone numbers/prefixes, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Japan

106 Operator assisted collect call service

113 NTT technical faults hotline

0120 NTT Freedial, toll free services
Tax Rate is a significant factor in the investment model. It's obvious to say, anyone investing without considering the tax implications is not properly prepared. So it goes without saying that taxes directly impact the level of investment. Saying there's no other option is not understanding the market is a spectrum of individuals making their own choices, I'm not saying the entire curve is shifted up, but the curve certainly shifts in response. (Macro 101)
I'm curious if anyone really expected Perl 6 to arrive like the article describes ("The problem wasn't apparent in 2000."). I was just a junior programmer, and I loved 5.6, but from the beginning 6 sounded to me like it would be a wholly different language, probably never delivered, and certainly never adopted. Maybe I'm projecting, but I felt that was a broad sentiment back then. By 2001 I was writing Python half time or more, and even though I felt a great fondness for Perl while Python left me cold, it still felt like it delivered everything Perl 6 aspired to (if you could stand the lack of regex literals, grr.....). Once Ruby became popular we got all the good things of Perl without the aridity of Python, so there was even less reason to care. In the late '00s I took a few years off programming to do a degree in Classics, and I kept telling myself half-jokingly that if Perl 6 shipped I'd know I'd been away too long. When Parrot was released I figured I'd better get back in the game.

That's not to say Perl 6 wasn't needed. Among programming languages Perl was probably my first love, especially the linguistics tie-ins with $ @ % etc, but write-only was a real problem, and people were moving to Python on the one hand and Java on the other. Maybe PHP killed Perl for low-end cheap hosting, but for larger projects, among people who would never have considered PHP, it lost because picking it seemed irresponsible.
Man, I remember UBB. I worked in a dot-com run exclusively by teenagers in 2000, and UBB was the go-to solution for forums. I also remember spending a day writing a Perl CGI script to do polls, since the idea of SaaS or outsourcing widgets on your website was in the far future, and everyone knew that you had to have all the source code for your site in cgi-bin.

Those were the days.
The New Yorker had a story on Lexicon in 2011, too.

'On a Mind Map, someone wrote “strawberry.” Then someone wrote beside it, “Strawberry is too slow.” Placek pronounced the word—“Str-a-a-a-w-w-berry”—drawing it out. “This technology is instantaneous,” he said. On the map, someone else wrote “blackberry.”'

Honestly, though, most of these stories are fairly similar.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/03/famous-names
Can someone translate?

Might be some good wisdom in there but that is the most convoluted, badly written several paragraphs I've seen in a while. Maybe they're taken out of context or something or assume some knowledge that is missing?
The system clock on such a system will typically be way off when the system boots. If the no time warp mode is used, and the Erlang runtime system is started before the OS system time has been corrected, the Erlang system time may be wrong for a very long time, even centuries or more.

There's something incredibly badass about Erlang/OTP's documentation addressing the idea of an OTP app running for "centuries or more".
Of course it has. Any activity that is meaningful has.
You might enjoy reading up on the French Republican Calendar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar) then, and see what could have been.
I'm a software engineer who has spent most of my career working for medical device companies. My advice may not be a good short-term fix and it's just one of many paths, but it's based on my experience.

Be a doctor. A good one. The more specialization, the better. Gravitate towards a specialization where technology either plays or will play a big role (surgery, radiology, etc.). Get experience with these technologies (new or old), such that you know what works and what needs improving/replacement. If you can, write cases and do research that influences your field. Work at a hospital with a strong bio-tech research element and find ways to collaborate (hint: collaborating clinicians are always in demand). Through collaboration, you'll inevitably be exposed to spin-off and startup opportunities. You'll work with all sorts of programmers and engineers, who will drop everything to spend time with you when you have a free moment.

Once you've got some good experience under your belt and perhaps have built a small name for yourself, congrats, you are now a relatively hot commodity for a multitude of medical device companies. We often use the term KOL (key opinion leader) for certain clinicians - they command big bucks and get huge influence on product development. If you network well, you'll get early access to new technologies, perhaps the ability to work with the engineers during the design phase, your opinions will be treated as gold when it comes to product development.

This all hinges on you actually practicing medicine in a fairly active fashion for at least a few years if not a decade. I know that's a big commitment, but you should know that it comes with a lot of non-monetary rewards. It opens doors.

Even as a relatively unknown MD, a few years of active practice are invaluable in your back-pocket. If you ever decide to do a medical-based startup, investors will surely value your credentials.

To be perfectly honest, I'm an engineer, I love software and technology, but if were to do it all over again, I'd go to med-school first!
Same racket for anybody over 40, much less 50. I pay $750/month in premiums just for bronze-level coverage on my middle-aged self.
You can check catchafire.org. There's some opportunities there for technical volunteering
Exactly. Facebook and WhatsApp likely have very little to worry about. Zuck knows that most users will keep using WhatsApp. However it does show that Facebook is not doing so well. The fact they need WhatsApp user data indicates problems in their "core" product.
In that picture (1) it's actually an aid's computer that is unlocked. No chance Pelosi shares an office with someone six feet across from her.

https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2021/01/06/d-c-protesters-s...
Their graphs don't only adjust up. That one does, but that's because the only really significant downward movement is while their regression is still trailing behind.
What exactly is preventing poor people from getting basic checking accounts? They give those out to 12-year-olds with no assets and no credit history.
Yes. I messed up the time format. I would have said 0:00 If I meant midnight in germany.
I was going to write an extension this weekend. Worth my time?
Can anyone explain to me what pony powered is? Is it just a way to say you are running django or is it something more?
It's kind of surprising there is no mission to Europa in any form of advanced planning, the idea certainly seems to have been around for a long time.

You would imagine to that there would be much to learn from Cassini like missions to Uranus and Neptune.
There is no way google maps says that takes 3 hours, right now it shows 27min but obviously there is no traffic right now. In order for that trip to take 3 hours you would need a perfect storm of EXTREME traffic, zero knowledge of the city, and no gps to help you navigate. I would be astounded by those numbers too, but they aren't even close to accurate.
It also does voice to voice. I speak into my phone, it types it out, translates it to whatever language then speaks it in that language. It's a travelling app that they don't seem to advertise. It also does the augmented reality translation someone else posted about.
It's a vacuum seal plastic bag and you let the pid controller keep the bath at a temperature a few degrees warmer than you want the steak to finish at. Take them out of the bag and sear them really quickly and you have perfect steaks.

Here is a great guide if you want to look further: http://amath.colorado.edu/~baldwind/sous-vide.html
The situations are very different from each other. The recession in the 70's was provoked by the fed by raising interest rates in order to stop rampant inflation. The cost to the economy has been calculated to 17% of GDP (about $2.8 trillion today). So when the fed started printing money again the economy bounced back rapidly. (and it was "morning in America" - gee thanks for nothing Reagan) Now we had low interest rates before the crisis and 0 interest rates for the forseable future. There will be no bounce back, but a long slog. Very possibly a lost decade. Especially if the deficit hawks (where were they during the Bush spending spree?) gets their way and the government pulls back fiscal and monetary stimulus.

You can say that we are not dealing with the situation, but it is not at all clear what should be done. Or what can be done.