jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Gold's primary value is from it's rarity. Very few cultures value gold for it's artistic attributes, India being the primary one. How often do you see someone wear gold jewelry in western countries?

Gold derives its status as the store of value element from it's physical properties. They are universal in the literal sense. If martians were real and there was gold on Mars martians would come to value gold for the exact same reasons we value gold. The exact value is still fictional but the point is that gold is a natural shelling point. The shelling point property will not disappear in the future.

Bitcoin derives its shelling point property from being the first cryptocurrency with the largest mining network. There is a real risk that it will be replaced by something else.
That's realistically out of reach for non-enterprise companies. If they're not primarily standard senior engineers doing typical day work, you need at least 4 people to cover the on-call week + redundancies for leave. You're talking about employing a whole extra team just to handle an occasional callout.
Can I learn from what you wrote, or do I need to do something to learn I can't learn anything from reading?
Just like some companies in different industries where some dev need to understand design, front end, backend, database, QA, devops, etc.

> No other industry has low pay and crunch

I wasn't talking about the workload or low salaries. I was talking about the statement that "video game programming" as a discipline is the most difficult of all.
I've tried 3D modeling and failed to get anywhere several times. My only observation is that the mesh fairing example looks like a really cool feature. If 3D modeling "felt" like that, it probably wouldn't be so intimidating.
The Billings Method != "rhythm method". And there are other similar methods that belong to the modern NFP family, grounded in well-researched medical science and backed by clinical trials.
Wow, racist much? "Christians be like this, Muslims be like this"

Muslims are not a race. My post was not meant in a racist way.

There's a lot of ignorant assumptions going on in your post, but let me just remind you that those "unenlightened muslims" are those to whom we owe modern mathematics.

I never claimed no science was part of the Islamic or Arabic world, but I'd argue that compared to the Judeo-Christian (or Western) world practicing and advancing science is much harder and therefore less progress is made.
I've watched the first couple of HD 16:9 episodes (thanks BATV!), and as far as I could see, they were flawless.

I was afraid it wouldn't work in 16:9, and thought I would prefer it to be kept in 4:3 like the Star Trek TNG HD remasters, but I actually prefer the new 16:9 ratio over the old ones.
Yes it is possible, and I know people are doing it.

But it is a too short time to get an accurate reading on the level, a single photograph is exposed under a very short time.

And a camera is probably not shielded against radiation, so it might be impossible to predict how long the actual time of exposure is.
I am not an expert on the field but as far as I heared from my friends who do business down there the country has a huge problem with corruption. It goes through all levels of the entire system.
So, I don't think that's so unlikely for the United States - hear me out ;-). 2020 is 10 years away. By the end of this year, around a third of Americans will be covered by 4G technologies. 4G technologies (in order to be considered such) must have a theoretical peak exceeding 100Mbps for mobile usage and 1Gbps for fixed usage (ie. home broadband). Now, initially, these 4G technologies won't get anywhere near those speeds. It will be very much like 3G where 300-400kbps was the norm, but now 1Mbps is more the norm.

When talking about what people see in the real world from these theoretical peaks, we can look at Verizon and Sprint who are offering a theoretical peak of 3.1Mbps and AT&T who is offering a theoretical peak of 7.2Mbps. In real life, tests show:

Sprint Verizon AT&T
PCMag 0.99M 1.01M 1.79M
PCWorld 0.8M 0.88M 1.41M
Gizmodo ~0.9M ~1.3M ~1.4M

With that data in hand, it looks like average real-world speeds come out to about 28% of peak theoretical speeds. If that holds true in the 4G era, that would be 280Mbps of real-world speed wirelessly. Even if they only achieve 10% of 5% of their theoretical peak, that's still 100Mbps or 50Mbps (and I think that 5% is being very conservative).

Now, that is clearly years away. What wireless companies will be pushing in 2012 will likely be in the 10Mbps range for mobile devices. However, I think it's reasonable that we might see 100Mbps broadband to more than 75% of the American population by 2020. Some companies like Clearwire are counting on home broadband as an important source of revenue. As customers start getting increased choice in home broadband (likely from 2 or more wireless providers), cable companies and local telcos will have to enhance their offerings to stay competitive (or maybe the economics is such that wireless makes more sense given American geography).

2020 is a long time away. 4G wireless technology is exciting and is promising to reach very high speeds for fixed wireless. Wireless companies are much more competitive than telcos and cable companies with most Americans having the choice between at least 4 (and MetroPCS has been coming on strong in many urban areas to create a fifth). Companies like Sprint/Clearwire are even thinking about making their own microwave backhauls which would eliminate a huge cost in network rollout (fiber to the site). There's a good decade for 4G to really ratchet up the speeds before 2020 is here. I'm hopeful. At the very least, the competition will give a swift kick in the pants to wired providers.
Anybody out there using neo4j?

Looked at using it for an app I've been hacking on. Getting it to market seemed faster to do on a traditional rdbms, but I may migrate later once I incorporate collaborative filtering. Just curious if anyone has significant experience with it :)
Not a standalone book, but there's a guide for doing practical things: http://docs.racket-lang.org/more/
It's not quite as clear as that. People aren't confusing DPI and PPI -- they're the same thing. Pages like the linked that suggest otherwise are muddying the problem, because they're misunderstanding how printing works by ignoring line screening and halftoning.

A 300ppi screen that fits 300 pixels into an inch is exactly the same as a 300dpi printer that can fit 300 dots of its laser into an inch of drum.

The difference comes because screens can directly vary the colour of an individual dot. Printers can't -- ink is either present or it is not. The way you get around that is by varying the size of the dot, in a process called halftoning.

Halftone dots are very small, and are arranged in patterns you'll recognise if you look at newsprint photographs close-up. You measure the size of the screen in LPI -- lines per inch, the number of lines of dots (at max size) that can fit in an inch.

Because of the need to vary the size of the dots, on a 300dpi printer you end up with a very coarse line-screen of about 60 LPI. This looks rotten, and so printers go up to resolutions of 1200+dpi. This means you can have a linescreen of around 150lpi, which is good enough for most printing. Each line roughly equates to 2 pixels, and hence a 300ppi image is sufficient for printing, regardless of the resolution of the image or platesetter.

But this doesn't mean there's a difference in ppi or dpi: they're still exactly the same.
A bunch, actually:

MySQL, PostgresSQL, SQLite, and SimpleDB.
Eager. I think it compiles via C generated from its own compiler/typechecker, written in OCaml.
Who cares about the electronics going. The deaths from planes falling out the sky will be dwarfed by the cancer incidence.
They're competing with lawyers. I'm not sure who to support.
Instead of what?

On a more serious note, this would be a complete non-issue, except that education is state controlled. So now it's politics.
Where it private people could choose what's best for their child without choosing what's best for everyone elses.
I agree with MicahWedemeyer -- it's creepy. I went from being very impressed by Hsieh's article to being completely creeped out in the last two paragraphs (and being glad that I'm not his employee). I fully understand the desire to have employees interacting across departments, but this IMHO this is a terrible way to try to acheive that.
The main feature of Hacker News/Reddit/Digg is that such site provides "front-page articles" which was upvoted by the community, so put it on the homepage makes sense.

Tagmask idea is to provide personalized feed for each user. So, that's why its structure much like Twitter/Quora, they also didn't display any posts on the homepage.
"Made to play" is a contradiction.
There was mention of a performance overhead of _ as a suggestion as to how to improve... How does JSPP, in its current state, compare with V8 execution speed?
Stallman isn't the tide that raises all boats. Before the GPL we had the BSD licence and when I was a kid, things were just put into the public domain.

I think its very arguable if RMS and his group had anything to do with OSS success. Their attempt to build HURD is a huge failure and Linus's success may have more to do with his better management skills and the desire to build a free OS and an easy way to collaborate.
I think the most useful application of this technology(except entertainment) would be conference calls. Even with a polycom conference phone, you still have to concentrate to follow the conversation. It's even worse when people don't wait their turn to talk...

If someone can include this technology in an unobtrusive way in Skype, there's a Nobel prize waiting for them...
I kept asking how many 9s of reliability

That's a nonsensical question to ask.

If your business is amongst the chosen few that can justify the cost to guarantee any number of nines then your availability strategy involves multiple vendors anyways.

The cloud is not for all businesses.

Whether Amazon can be part of an availability strategy has nothing to do with the number of nines.
It's a private service that specifically states it's serving as an editorial filter for ideas -- how is there a discrimination lawsuit in the making?
No. The reason Rome's expansion plans fell short of expectations were because the perimeter to area ratio was too high. Defending lots of land with an enormous Mediterranean sea in the middle is far harder that a tight peninsula of farmland.

Similarly, Cisco buying Groupon increases perimeter to surface area far more than Google buying Admob.
The link should lead to http://angel.co/av-squid .
Why don't you expose how you would go about designing this invincible website? We are all very eager to learn from you.
Lots more comments on the previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=985965 as well as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994358
Yes, I agree, number of cores and size of L3 are commonly cases cases where functionality is disabled. But do you know which of the other factors listed in the article that this is true for? For example, are there cases where two processors share the same die but one supports AVX and the other does not? I don't know the answer, but if there are not, this would substantially undercut the argument in the main article.
I'd have to see specific examples. It's most likely that there was another version of the story that had gotten significant attention. It's also possible that some software made a bad call.
Not the author, but while I agree that it would be nice if NoScript didn't break the site, isn't this closer to an application than a content page?
First thoughts were, why should I submit these ideas or stocks. Why should I really trust people's advice based on karma? I would rather see people ranked by the accuracy of their predictions.

Perhaps when you submit a stock or vote on one during the week it could record the current price and after a few days your karma points are based on the new price of the stock.

I also think you should have links to the stock price. I'm too lazy to type in all the ticker names into google.
Sounds eerily familiar to people who write about computer crime.
That ignores inflation, which is 3%-ish annually in the US. The number is less than $5m, but it's not $1m assuming you're reasonably young.
Agreed, but it sounds lazy.

How hard is it to check the work chronology and just bong any resume that doesn't look like it would be anywhere near a good fit? It's not like H/R people are overworked filling hundreds of positions in their companies at the moment.
Spot on about reuse - I think it's really the core of a lot of problems people have. Models get complicated because people naturally want to design them for reuse, when in almost every case it's just not feasible. You can't point to something like .NET and say "look at that level of reuse, our LOB applications should shoot for that," because entities in .NET represent things used by all computer programs, regardless of what they do. They model the machine and the network at a level of abstraction appropriate for the vast majority of computer programs out there - not all, but most.

Trying to achieve reuse like that - hell, trying to achieve any reuse in a collection of LOB apps - is incredibly tough, and in most cases not worth it. What's an "employee?" Height/weight/age? ID number? Location? Skillset? LOB apps are just like people: they have different ideas of what are and what are not defining characteristics of an employee.

Software development needs to focus on reuse of ideas, patterns and knowledge (both domain knowledge and computer knowledge), not code. The key to object modeling is making things loosely coupled and encapsulated enough that you can easily modify and add behavior later on, when you realize you actually need it, not throwing everything including the kitchen sink into your model. Even then, you can never be sure that your app or domain isn't going to take a hard left turn at some point and you need to do some major refactoring/remodeling.
Yeah, those people DOA are cheaper than surviving, if you ignore what kind of wealth a person is likely to create by being alive. AFAIK, the latest numbers on acute MI survival are ~30%, and getting better in recent years due to the widespread adoption of the CHAMP protocol. Rates go up if things happen in a certain sequence of events, within certain prescribed timeframes. Medicare is beginning to compensate at a higher rate based on how well hospitals perform in cases like heart attacks. (And other common procedures/infection rates.) I'm not familiar with the specifics.

I don't disagree on running the numbers on primary care, but any savings is likely to be trivial next to other areas of improvement. "Fixing" medmal is likely to be bigger than changing primary care, and the latest numbers on that (Amitabh Chandra, 2008, IIRC) are $50bn/yr. Medmal rates don't keep pace with the rest of health care inflation, so this is basically a one-time discount, and in terms of overall health spending, $50bn is only like 2%. In addition, even in states which have instituted some kind of tort reform, it hasn't changed how medicine is practiced, which is the ultimate cost driver. (Refs available, I'm just not at my primary computer.)

It was very depressing to watch "health care reform" become "health insurance reform" sometime between late 2008 and summer 2009. The two aren't the same, and insurance reform won't due anything in the long run because demand for health care services is relatively inelastic, as you had mentioned, and I had alluded to before. Very depressing.
That's nonsense. If you have 5M in the bank, you can take out 200K (4%) every year and still never run out of money. Surely you can get by with a little bit less than that and still be financially independent? Honestly you can probably get by with just 1M if you're single, but 2M would be more realistic.
My dad the machinist prefers Brown & Sharpe or Fowler (depending on the particular tool) to Starrett. Styling mostly; it seems like Starrett stuff has the old fashioned look and typefaces, whereas the B&S has a more 60s clean and simple hi-tech look.

I actually have the same model Starrett dial caliper pictured in the link.
Sony Ericsson, a global phone manufacturer that recently announced that it would be bringing 180 new jobs to the Buckhead, Ga. area, also recently posted an ad for a __marketing__ position on The People Place.

A Craigslist ad for __assistant restaurant managers__ in Edgewater,

These don't sound like highly technical fields to me.
Huh. I don't recall Jennifer.

But I do recall the cam streaming thing. For a while, a distant girlfriend and I streamed each other. But, as far as I know, it was totally private.

And now I'm reminded of Doctress Neutopia aka Libby Hubbard.[0]

0) http://lovolution.net/
Why are you making this about character and personality. Vinod bought a property advertised as having particular rights associated. Does it have these or not? Clearly the courts should decide.
Want to visit this beach urgently? Get a kayak.
That's very neat, but it's not simply about me. It's about thousands and thousands of other, much less experienced people who use these software packages (Homebrew and Etcher and Atom in particular). They deserve privacy too.

I think most people don't realize. That's why these things do it silently.

Most people do care if you ask them. They don't want to be spied on. Given the option, most people will say "no, thank you". That's why these maintainers are so afraid of opt-in. They pay lip service to respecting user consent, but it's just that. They don't actually want to accurately reflect user consent, because they know that if they actually ask to measure it, they don't really have it. It's just like shitty web shops that automatically sign you up for their weekly marketing promo newsletter because you bought something one time. You don't want it, they know you don't want it, but they're still going to rob you of your time deleting them until you finally click Unsubscribe. Same deal.

Did you watch the John Oliver interview with Ed Snowden?[1] The show went out on the street and most people had no idea who he was or what he did or the information he released, but when asked if they knew that the government was logging all of their dick pics (which Ed gracefully confirmed that they are, in fact, doing), they said that they did not know and were not okay with it.

I think the core issue is ignorance, not apathy. I intend to educate people on the matter, and give them actionable steps to take to express their displeasure to the maintainers and their parent organizations. We can solve this issue before it gets any larger.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M
I had the same problem in high school math - symbols would be defined once, then the teacher would use them constantly but never explain what they meant again. And the only way to find it again is to thumb through the textbook page by page because the index lists names of concepts, not the arcane runes that correspond to them.

Learning to code helped my math ability greatly, now I see sigma and think "for each, add to total".
Yea, I agree with you except for the fact that in just last 100 years we have tremendous changes in the way we understand the universe. In last 400 years, even more so.

Think about the timeline in terms of a million years from now. I cannot fathom to speak for the truth of what we know today, despite of evidence which may be proven otherwise in the future. That's how science works.

Obviously, I have no proof, but I hope you can acknowledge the magnitude of the time difference and our rate of progress.
Over treatment with antibiotics is rampant not only with genitourinary syndromes but even more with respiratory diseases. I am not sure how a female patient, afebrile, without any other morbidity, presenting with classic symptoms of dysuria, urgency, frequency, and hematuria, but having a normal urinalysis, would dissuade me from prescribing antibiotics empirically. As much as most physicians would do a urinalysis routinely, just because it’s done like many other unnecessary tests, it adds little to the management. And let’s not even go into the challenges of obtaining a clean catch. What I would do if not sure of the organism or the patient had been previously treated, is to order a urinalysis with a reflex urine culture.

Nonetheless, after my argument against the use of urinalysis in managing an uncomplicated UTI, I still think you may have a winner given that testing is still widely done. If you have robust medical provider support who understands the limitations, then a significant number of patients would benefit without incurring the large cost or time spent seeking help.
It says 1.5c per GB month but then starts at 100GB minimum. Any options for users who would want to use less storage than that?
It used to be considered common for people to have their own office or personal space (cubicle), but that's gone out the window.

Having to share an office with others is fine too imo - every team can determine their own levels of distraction and noise and whatnot. More than one team in one room is asking for trouble though.
A recommendation on a Rails blog. Investigated: sane pricing, painless API, worked with Paypal. That was my shopping list.
Bah, this story is as bad as the TC article.

Just more blog spam with no added insight. You can get everything you need from the blogpost, and the HN comments.
If possible can you throw some light on which would be good for starters on server side language Python (which I am currently learning) from http://learnpythonthehardway.org/static/LearnPythonTheHardWa... OR PHP (which I already know)
You wrote 'many'. Provided 'one'. Now go away.
Any such group is simply a niche market and one that would be more clearly defined and quantified than most, assuming its ever allowed to exist at all. All kinds of companies target niches all the time.

You say this idea assumes markets are free enough to be called capitalist? How does it do that exactly?
And how to find out if u can get...𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓰𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓮
Probably you have seen CCTV cameras monitoring premises 24/7. CCTV analyses areas to find out threats and hazards in real time. Similarly, predictive maintenance is also about monitoring your in-service asset conditions. However, it is a bit different from monitoring premises.

This process involves monitoring assets to find out about its performance. Based upon this analysis it chalks out a report about the need and urgency of maintenance. Furthermore, for monitoring asset conditions, predictive maintenance relies on IOT devices.

Probably, you got an idea about what predictive maintenance is. Now let’s know why it is important.
What about sustainability, ecology, ease to dispose the materials? Isn't that gonna trash the land?
It's carbon and nitrogen today.
Remember that time a high up WHO representative was asked about COVID in Taiwan and he faked the video call freezing and disconnected? Then remember when they got him back he was again asked about Taiwan and said they had already discussed China?

I remember thinking that the WHO wasn’t what it seemed. Just one small example of course.
Right, yes, that was early March. The guidelines evolved as more information became available and they released new advice in early April, which is far from ideal but better than a lot of governments reactions.

Their official stance before that was rigorous test, isolate, and trace, which was not done seriously anywhere outside China.