jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This article might be completely factually correct but its overall quality is pretty bad. It doesn't tell you whether these chemicals are found in the liquid, in the vapor, or in both. No exploration of what the vaporization process does to these chemicals or whether there are types of plug-in fresheners that don't contain hazardous chemicals. No attempt to quantify what is and isn't a dangerous concentration. If my brother keeps one in his closed bathroom do I need to wake him up to yank it out? If I only have one freshener and it's in the big living room is it safe? Are there any filtration or neutralization methods that let users keep most of the scent while being safer?

Then the big question, are scented candles just as bad?

This is a kernel of good info but damn it could've been so much better.
That's only if you want to backfeed. If you just want to supply your home in an outage, it's pretty straightforward to get a permit and have a transfer switch installed.

Something tells me that it will be a while before we have EVs with built-in 240V split-phase inverters.
Down to 2-4 from what level unfiltered?
It's bad in the way that tipping 5 cents is worse than not tipping at all (in countries where tipping is not expected like most of Europe). It's a bit of an insult.
It’s getting closer to its true value. Volatility gradually decreases the higher its value. If you filter out the crashes of early adopters cashing out.

Once the final cycle of 10-100x followed by a crash has complete then I think a more interesting period for Bitcoin can begin.

That’s where mass adoption starts to become more viable.

Bitcoin is the tcp/ip stack, lightning is http, the exciting part is really yet to come.

If the web and all the innovation that arose came about because of programmatic decentralised information transfer, then I’m interested to see what can occur with programmatic value transfer.

In the 90s a lot of people couldn’t be convinced of the benefit of communicating with people on the internet but many of these same people are convinced enough to use social media now. But it couldn’t occur until the network effects were present.

I’m excited to find out what that equivalent paradigm shift looks like.

Of course mass adoption may never happen, and I won’t spend my time trying to convince people that it will or how it could.

But I do see price approaching a true valuation and reaching stability as a prerequisite for it being truly useful.
Then why not use something like https://6to5.org/ ? Most syntax features can be transpiled without a runtime (generators being an exception) and everything else can simply use polyfills.
Student tickets are $125, Individual / Enthusiast tickets $350, and Corporate tickets $600 (https://us.pycon.org/2015/registration/)
Has anyone tried scraping the Who is Hiring thread? I know it would probably have some errors due to formatting, but it would be interesting to see how well it could be automated.
Bullet seems to be the most mature of the game-oriented physics engines, but its story for those of us not using C++ is significantly less compelling. Bullet 2 doesn't have much of a C API, while Bullet 3 requires a high-end desktop card, considerably narrowing your customer base. Guess I'll have to re-evaluate the alternatives or resign myself to a truckload of shim C++.

C++'s generally poor interoperability has been annoying me since the 90s. :-(
I think he means a vehicle parked in front of the garage door.
This seems to be the matching fix for Mountain Lion for SSL that 10.9.2 fixed.
You appear to be missing my point, which is that this proposed protocol responds to network congestion by increasing the amount of bandwidth that it uses by a factor of more than 10.

Consider what happens when many clients are using this protocol over a shared transit link and it approaches 80% utilisation, so starts to drop packets at a low rate: all the clients will start batching up larger amounts of history and sending them, which increases the utilisation, which increases the packet loss, which increases the amount of history each client sends... it's a destructive feedback loop that launches a DoS attack against the congested link. The absolute size of each individual client stream is unimportant, as we are merely assuming that the number of clients sharing a link is high enough to congest it. The last-mile user connection is not the worst problem here.
I am addressing the article's statements about mice not loosing weight despite changing their diet and exercising. the length of time they loose the weight is less important, and the fact that the reason why they put the weight back on after reverting to their previous habits only works against the article that argues the obese may be at the mercy of their genes - diet and exercise wont help them.
A "product" can consist of different parts.

One part is an editing software/gui and one part is a reading software/gui. Both working on the same data.

Since both are used by different kind of users, I would design them as different programs (one a site and one an app).
Uh, a couple things to consider:

a) This is an article in a magazine, not a research journal. The standards are inherently different. This is similar to the lower level of 'rigour' demanded out of scientific magazine articles, as opposed to research journals.

b) Huge chunks of history consists of interpreting evidence. In so much as interpreting is a matter of opinion, this is pretty much an opinion piece. Historians really don't have any offer a citation to back up their interpretations. Certainly, it helps, but the point is that they offer up evidence (in the form of selections of contemporary journal entries), and then interpret that evidence, and present it to you. You're suppose to accept or reject (or wherever on the spectrum) this interpretation based on your critical faculties and own background knowledge.

c) Since we actually do lack 'objective' measurements for huge amounts of things that we really are curious about in the past, all we have are anecdotes. We cannot perform experiments on the past. Archeology is limited. Conclusions drawn from normal historical methods are certainly limited, and heavily influenced by biases, but that's pretty much all we have to work with.
I'm a bit confused by this approach. Is it related to some established design approach or principles?

What is MVP or BDD? Could you provide an example of your process?

Would it be similar to this example?
1. I want to put out a rpg for iOS.
2. Implement a pokemon style battle system -> when health < 0, NPC dies.
3. Not sure where automation fits in?
4. Code it and test until it works.
5. Move on to adding experience when killing an enemy, etc.
This is from 2013, and much of the article comes from this HN thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6229858 . (I mention this because the reason I went to the page was to see if it described why FB hadn't learned from what happened last year.)
If you liked that I recommend Jane Jacob's books, Cities and the Wealth of Nations is the classic.
They're a plague on SourceForge.
Let's do some logic.

1. For 2000 years people have read and thought about these books. Much new thinking has taken the ideas in them and developed these ideas out of all recognition.

2. The human condition is not as it was when these books were written. We do not have slaves, nor do we have a farm with olive groves and stuff all else. We have cars, tvs, computers and THE INTERNET.

3. The person we are talking to is 14.

If Socrates were to read this thread he would start looking for you so he could shout at you. Plato would dip his cup in the wine and shake his head and Aristotle would skip around waving his arms and hooting like an owl.
I still think Speaker for the Dead is worth reading, and there's no reason you can't stop after that.
The Navy deals with this with strategically placed supply ships. A commercial ship contractor can do the same.
I am biased, I will admit, but neither of the choices you presented is optimal. If I were you I would opt for Python/Django. Let me explain why.

PHP is in a terrible state, they are working on cleaning it up but it will take some time. You should not abandon PHP yet, but neither should you rely on it. Also PHP's scope of use is extremely limited. Laravel is quite good, but having worked with it for a while I feel it gets very messy.

RoR is good if you want to puzzle together CRUD applications. But if you want to make something other than CRUD it gets in the way far too often. I am sure more experienced RoR users will jump in and holler "you just haven't gotten used to it yet!" like they usually do. Might sound like I am bashing their community, but truth be told, they are very supportive if you choose to join their club.

Django is in my experience the best documented framework for web development. There are so many batteries included that you will be hard pressed to find something you need to do that it won't do out of the box. Being a Python framework it will run on most operating systems out of the box for development purposes as they come with Python built in. You can use Python for any type of development you want
(Ruby can be used for any type as well, but have a lot more gotchas across environments)
> i saw that its job market is declining

Not really.

> is it worth my time to learn for employment opportunity

Yes, if you're interested.

> what is the hottest things right now in development job market

You really can't go wrong with JavaScript in general. Its a requirement for UI development on web apps, and it can also be used for many other things.
It's an interesting idea but I completely disagree.

Example 1: I own four personal computers and operate two virtual machines in the cloud (with two different providers). I don't ever see me owning fewer computers. I will always want at least one machine completely under my control with guaranteed resource availability, regardless of connectivity to the internet.

Example 2: The place where I work has computers too. Lots and lots of them. For legal and governance reasons we're not to run our infrastructure externally.

I actually think that the number of providers of commoditised mass computing and infrastructure is going to increase over time as computers become more powerful. Right now it's tricky to operate at vast computational scale because of the amount of capital investment required, the sheer number of machines required, and the staff required to supervise them.

In the future I think we'll approach a point where there are "chips with everything" and buying computer cycles above and beyond what's embedded in your jewellery (or your skull) will be as simple as bidding a certain amount (or buy-it-now!) and firing off a long-running task into the compute-market.

I really can't see a situation in which a small number of players will be able to dominate over the long term. Even companies like Facebook who currently have a huge edge due to the network effects of their large memberships will lose market share as commoditised services spring up to replace them.
Well ok that's understood. But still - instances randomly crashing is not acceptable under any circumstances in my view.
This is a detail but both of your testimonials are from people in the same state. That's better than none but the fact they are both from the same place makes me suspect one is your wife and the other is your accountant. Solicit real user feedback you can use to build your testimonials - bribe people with an iPad contest or whatever if you have to!
This paper is staggeringly awful. Beyond the misleading stuff in the actual meat of the paper, even just the results at the end seem to be completely made up!

I attempted to replicate the results and found the following to be true:

1. They used a different keyframe interval for the two encoders.

2. They cherry-picked four test clips out of the hundreds available to find the ones where libvpx did best. They did not show results for any of the most widely used test clips, as libvpx loses badly on all of them.

3. The numbers on their graphs are simply wrong. Running libvpx with their exact settings, on the exact same source, gives almost 1db worse PSNR than they reported (note: I only tested Deadline CIF). The x264 results match. Either the parameters they used don't match the ones they actually listed, or the numbers are fudged.

The worst thing about all this? According to VP8 developers, this paper was already accepted into a major journal.

(If anyone's interested, I can post more detail on a few of the other things wrong with this paper, such as how they compared a known-to-be-fast VP8 decoder with a known-to-be-slow H.264 decoder, or how they fudged the scale on their graphs...)
Hmm well that was not what I would have guessed a few months ago to say the least.

But if you look at the article it does include a $0.99 promotional offer.

I wonder how many people paid that.
The impossibility of a full elimination of trust, for any particular problem, doesn't mean a partial reduction isn't valuable.

If you disagree, would you be fine with changing the political and justice system of your country into a fully opaque black box? As in, you still can vote for the policies you want, but it's impossible to know how the government functions, what are the reasons for its decisions, or even who personally forms the government, to the point it could be run by aliens or an ai. Sometimes people are arrested for crimes, but it's impossible to know what's the evidence or even what the crime was, even after sentencing.

If you don't consider this equivalent to the currently utilized system in your country, you have to agree that there's value in trust minimization.
> "Please enable JavaScript to view this content"
Why people are so interested in follow our private life?
I recommend taking a look at https://sequencediagram.org/

I've been using it in various projects, since it only requires a small text file and only a web browser to view those diagrams.

Would be awesome if this diagrams could make it into Markdown.
> Taking white dudes down a notch, I have no issue with that

Then you should have no problem dismissing the author and the content of his essay.
Another angle: it's a form of dishonesty. Dishonesty cannot be tolerated in academia, or in professional contexts more broadly.

This article is pretty weak sauce.
People who think carefully then call Google 'evil' may as well be the same people who used to call it 'good'. Corporations aren't good or evil. They are powerful.

Being good is many things, but a key part of that is restraining the self from acting improperly. Corporations can't do that, they will sooner or later do whatever makes money. Or they get replaced sooner or later by a corporation that will. At best, there are stylistic differences around the edges that are simultaneously important but minor in the grand scheme of things. Sooner or later a corporation will be thinking primarily in terms of 'profitable' and 'not profitable'.

Calling Google 'evil' is trying to articulate something else - Google are powerful and dangerous. Any entity harvesting and directing the flow of information at that scale is. They have an unprecedented capability to cause harm; and sooner or later it will get used by someone to do exactly that.
We can use that to add the domains to 'spam' lists as they host a lot of ads/spy subdomain.
http://www.reddit.com/r/wikileaks
Doom actually ran at 320x200

Good points regardless though.
"I will have no such integrity."
I use a backpack, usually with my iPod in my jacket pocket when walking to/from work.

I have a pretty terrible attitude towards phone usage - I rarely answer it (I usually let it ring out and return the call if it is from someone important). Most people I deal with regularly know to text or email me rather than phoning.
The kernel list approach also has the advantage that there's only one implementation of the list operation functions, whereas the one outlined in the article generates a new set of functions for each type.
If that's what he thinks, it's strange he was up-voted three times.
C'mon folks...don't reward the blatant blogspam with traffic. The original source is linked right there in the second paragraph:

http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/cloud-innovator...
I can't imagine it's so different to including third party repositories in your sources.list file.
The core algorithm is called "Operational Transformation".
See http://www.codecommit.com/blog/java/understanding-and-applyi...
I wonder how long does the battery last with two 14" screens...
Thanks to you both; sounds worth a try. This wouldn't be my primary backup because I've already got a (semi-) regular mirror to a backup drive in my workflow, but domestic practicalities make getting an offsite copy complicated so that's what I'm really looking for here and Mozy sounds like a good fit.

I should stress too - 50GB / month is a worst case scenario, not a typical usage! Raws and processed JPEGs for a couple of big events can hit that together but I don't often have a couple of big events in the same month.
Pretty cool, but can it withstand a steel ball?
“ Davis has recovered from most of what she says her doctor told her were neurological effects from a chemical exposure.”

Is this another way of saying the placebo effect?
Here is a slightly newer (although still quite old) answer from rram, peak of 924.21 Mbit/sec.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/r6zfv/we_are_sysa...
> EBS is a step back from that philosophy and it's a point worth noting.

Amazon doesn't use EBS itself, right? Isn't EBS something that AWS allowed its customers to nag it into against (what it considers) its better judgement?
The United States has many Nobel Prize Winners: E.g. Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Herbert Simon, Al Gore, ... What?
Nook has had froyo for some time, just not officially

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/nook-color
So pg is right because he is pg?

I'm not suggesting there will be any confusion, i'm suggesting that he's (assuming a "he" here) limiting himself by saying his entire project is just a cheap derivative of github.

It gave you an idea of what he was trying to do? How? I assumed it was maybe a tablature hosting site or something. It gave me no idea whatsoever of what he was doing until i read his page.

Furthermore, why github? Why not bitbucket, or codeplex or any of the other millions of code hosting sites? Is it just about what's "hip" right now on HN?

Why not entitle it, "I'm building a site for sharing amp settings". Just as short, and it actually tells the reader what his app is about, unlike the current title.
Main questions:
Does PG actually need more money?
Would a store do anything more for the YC brand than if the time required to create it were spent doing other things, like helping startups/doing interviews/thinking?

I suspect that the answer to both questions is not really. Thus, probably not gonna happen dude. Bummer.
> No-one internalises feedback if in their heart of hearts they don't agree with it, although they might pretend to to appease their boss.

This is not true. One may accept feedback to try a different perspective than his own, which may be effective... or not.
I don't think its software was designed to rotate as often as iOS does.

I've noticed this too, that iOS devices do the screen rotation thing with far more grace than Android devices.
I can't provide a concrete answer since I have to write new parsers myself, and I'm not familiar with scala. However, if I see the project take off in any significan way, I will dedicate some time to adding support for more languages :)

That reminds me that I should put some contact info up on the site somewhere...
It's interesting - I used to be of the mentality that my online persona should be completely separate from my real identity and valued my privacy greatly - but, as made obvious here on HN, I have moved towards using my real name in what I do. I'm not sure what my reasoning for this change was, and it intrigues me what makes people choose the route they go when using a handle or not.

Thanks for the article :)
A big universe is a very interesting place to find ourselves. There are all sorts of weird philosophical complications if you think about it deeply.

I recommend the writings of Max Tegmark on philosophical cosmology. He's an exceptional popular science writer and doesn't dumb it down. http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html The Multiverse Hierarchy is probably where to start.
You make a very good point. However, the obsession with economic growth itself isn't the problem - it's how economic growth is measured. As an example, if a hurricane sweeps through Florida doing billions in damage, Florida is surely worse off, but because of the rebuilding activity that follows, it will register significant growth.

As you state, we need to think about what makes people happy. Economics is a great tool to do that, but it will require a rethinking of how the economy is measured.
Bo Xilai was deposed eight months before Xi Jinping took over. The corruption crackdown that ensued under Xi overwhelmingly targeted officials who were not "Second Generation Red." After Bo, other princelings made sure they got off scott-free by making a media spectacle of scapegoated fall guys: corrupt up-and-comers from "commoner families".
Please educate me (and everyone else reading). What is incorrect?
The complaint is signed by Tigran Gambaryan, a special agent with the Internal Revenue Service

It's been said before... you can do a lot to harm the gov't, but never, never piss off the IRS. Uncle Sam doesn't take kindly to messing with his cash.
I was introduced to less +F a while ago and it is quite nice, but there is one simple "feature" of tail -f that I miss quite a lot: being able 'mark' the log with gaps by hitting enter a few times. This is especially handy when you have to first load a page or warm up the app before performing the operation you're interested in watching, letting you separate the earlier output from the lines generated by what you're testing.

With less, you have to keep track of the current position by timestamp or other unique message, and it's easy to lose your place when the output starts streaming in. With tail, you only need a moment to mark your spot and then it's visually distinct even as more message come in.
Bitcoins make everything so tempting.
I read Cosmos having not seen the series (living in Australia at the time) and it is a great book. I think A Brief History is a similarly pitched book that's somewhat more up-to-date, and Bill Bryson is still around to revise it.
I dislike the sensationalist title, which is not really supported in the article. But the article itself is quite detailed, and have many interesting insights.

While most of the issues mentioned in the article are not new, the tightening of the Internet is quite worrisome. Based on online comments, GFW is still passable through most VPN, although some have stopped working (banned presumably). I hope this is just a temporary crackdown instead of a growing trend, because it will be a serious blow to the economy and academia, and a step toward becoming North Korea.

And back to personality cult thing, I don't think Xi enjoys as much support as the article claimed. I mean, of course you only hear good things about him from Chinese media, because talking badly about the leader is generally done in private, which is the case for all the leaders before him.
I think that you think you're arguing with me, but are actually agreeing with me.

Like, I agree with every claim about fact that you're making. Of course you can have high code coverage without having good tests. If all you do is, like, touch lines of code, all you're really testing is that they don't raise an exception. That's why I said that once you hit 80% code coverage or so, I start to want to know not "what your code coverage is," but "how good are your tests?"

But if you don't even run the majority of your code, then your tests are kind of by definition... not testing your code well.
I know a cousin of a friend of mine who also ingested these ingredients. Still anecdotal, though ;-)