jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Electricity costs for large datacenters are higher than the equipment costs. They absolutely care about idle draw.
Tragically, with uMatrix installed and default configuration, no images load, because external third party JS is needed just to load an image.

A parody that plays itself a little too well, sadly.
We're likely in for the long haul. Clickbait-y titles have existed since the invention of the printing press.
Using a GC doesn't preclude doing a correct use of ResourceManager.
> I'm calling for an strategic discussion

There is practically no information about Babelfish available to analyze. You can currently request a preview of Babelfish if you have an AWS account, though I'm not aware of anyone having even that level of access. There is a single page placeholder on a Github.io that says "Babelfish for PostgreSQL will be available on Github in 2021".

And so I genuinely don't know what a strategic discussion really means here. How much can be decided about something based on a vague press release?
The Atlantic is not even close to a leftist magazine! They had a cover story from david frum on why immigration is bad and another one fearmongering about trans kids.
If you really find this to be a limiting factor for whatever reason, you can get a programmable keyboard and have it perform the translation between your desired layout and QWERTY or the default layout on your systems.
[T]he healthy should not be compelled to subsidize the costs of healthcare for the unhealthy. Can you tell me why it's ethical to force my compliance?

TDR-TB.
We should always remember what is being sold and who the customers are. Apple sells iPhones to consumers. Facebook sells our attention to businesses.

Both companies are trying to sell more of their product.

Of these two I am much more concerned about Facebook because I have much less control over the transaction.
Here's a short video clip from ELP (Japan): https://youtu.be/W_4sooWCh_Y.
Yes. That's why the NFS servers have IP ACLs, why the office networks have 802.1x to get onto the corporate VLAN, why access to the datacenters is physically restricted, and why getting to our cloud accounts requires authenticating to a bastion.

Setting up an IP ACL to known NFS clients is pretty straightforward and doesn't impact the performance characteristics of sec=sys.

(And you should be doing the remainder of those anyway - are you really telling me that in a non-NFS environment, you wouldn't mind an interviewee or guest plugging in their laptop and seeing what they can get to? There are no unauthenticated resources at all on your network?)
BTUs are used a lot in Canada, but Canada only made about 9 years of progress toward metrification between 1976 and 1985, I was still in high school when our Metric Commission was abolished along with most legal requirements to use metric units, while still retaining them.

Maybe it's generational (I'm GenX), so I'm not sure if all Canadians muddle through both systems as much as I do but I seem to live in a constant superposition state between Metric and Imperial, with little sense about which I'll use for any particular purpose.

I use Celsius for cooking and low temperatures, but Fahrenheit for body temperature and most room temperatures; kilometres for long distances but inches and feet for height and most short distances; pounds for body weight, but never ounces (for that I use grams), for cooking and large weights I seem to mostly use metric units. Volumes are almost exclusively metric, I suspect because we also went through a transition when gallons shrunk from Imperial (4.54609 litres) to US gallons (3.785 litres).

I envy European consistency when it comes to metric.
"The moral arc of the universe is long, and it bends toward irony." Ouch.
It seems like this could help solve the thundering herd problem [0][1][2], no?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15636319/why-is-accept-mu...
[2] http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/articles/Seriali...
You're missing a piece here.

If automation is ubiquitous, it doesn't mean you own it. And if you don't own it, you don't own what it produces.

No yachts for you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9257571
We're basically tapped out in terms of arable land usage; you should look at the numbers some time, they are alarming (I recommend the FAO's "Livestock's Long Shadow"). Meanwhile, the energy budget of the planet exceeds by many orders of magnitude what is required to satisfy the meager energy needs of humans. What we need to do is stop dispersing our energy consumption through soil, plant matter, cow intestines, etc., before it gets to humans.
How do they make money, or plan to make money? Enterprise contracts? Hope to get bought out?
That's only valid if people would consume infinitely. There's clearly enough dirt and oxygen on earth that we can give it away, even though there's a finite amount of it.
Not sure if this link was posted here before. Apologize if it was.
This is why I think it makes sense to have research languages and production languages. The design constraints are totally different.
Apple Insider? It must be pretty high up her!
It's impossible to do in O(1) in the worst case, because you have to at least examine all the input (e.g., if the input matches the regex AA*B.)
They were looking for someone with experience in a client-facing role, but conducted the interview over IRC. This means they couldn't assess that person's body language etc. An odd decision IMO.
By the time the debt collectors are called in (3 or more months overdue), the chances are already more that the money would never be paid.

These people have a bad reputation, but debtors too are reneging on a contract. It's terrible to be a business owner (not just credit-related) and to have one of your customers stiff you on a bill.
And comments were occasionally altered in the early days.
I store sensitive data in Dropbox using an OS X encrypted disk image in my Dropbox directory. It's not an elegant solution, but it gets the job done. I mount the password-protected disk image when needed, access the data, and unmount when finished. Upon unmounting, Dropbox syncs the encrypted blocks to S3, other computers, etc.

(Encrypted disk-images can be fairly handy. I picked up the trick from a friend and colleague who used them to protect email and other sensitive documents on his laptop. E.g. he sym-linked Mail.app's mail directory, ~/Library/Mail, to the disk image.)
The limitation on housing is the key to the game's structure. Most people don't seem to play it this way (letting players build hotels if they have the money, regardless of the number of actual plastic houses remaining), and it screws the game up. Not to mention house rules like "free parking" artificially adding money to the game.
It doesnt matter. I want more things to carry in pocket to feel cool and call it disruptive.
So what prevents me from changing the code I'm running so that the difficulty level is lower? Is this another instance of "if it's accepted by most nodes then it's the truth" mechanism.
I don't believe it was. At least, when I was in the states a few weeks back, I wasn't asked for ID when I bought a cheap pre-paid cell phone.

There is a tendency to be pessimistic about the place of anonymity in the future, but I prefer to look on the bright side. The US government doesn't win every fight it enters, and there is a long-term trend toward more freedom and openness, rather than the opposite way around.
free betas should not ask for credit card info...
You should be worried for your gf, probably. And all the other millions of non technical users.
The sad thing is that strategy works and it works quite well. Most people that are not very technical will just click "Next" and "Agreed" blindly to complete software installation. I've seen numerous PCs plagued with toolbars and crapware for that specific reason. I always try to educate them to always read what's on screen and never agree for the "toolbar thing", but it's mostly a lost fight.
It's not pervasive if each cop has a camera recording - the cameras are in the same places as cops. Plus if they record only in the case of interactions with members of the public then it's even less "pervasive".
I'm assuming you meant to say the "Linux/BitKeeper" mess. McVoy is the BitKeeper guy.
Strange. "The winner must drink" is a confusing way to say "the winner gets 1 point". And "roll a 3 or 6" could just be "roll a 3 sided die".
Anecdotal of course, but I have a Facebook friend from political circles, and I see posts from him every day about the Dallas Cowboys. I ignore those and typically like or comment on political posts, but I still see Cowboys all the time.
"First, in training up for Iraq..." is about training, not what happened or could happen on the ground. Which leads to the observation that the US Army gave up on marksmanship in the '60s or thereabouts (in part based on SLA Marshall's fraudulent WWII "research"). Of course you aren't trained to take advantage of weapons capabilities available to mid-19th Century soldiers when your issue weapons are very weak in them.

That you make the best of a bad weapon system and round does not say anything about what could be achieved with better ones, and more emphasis on personal marksmanship, something I'm told the Marines never gave up on. And aren't rifle rounds a little more discriminating than the alternatives?

(My background, BTW: only JROTC in the late '70s due to eyesight, but my Senior Army Instructor was an Infantry officer who mentioned he fired around 10,000 rounds as part of the effort in fixing the original issue M16s and their ammo, and was a great rifle team instructor. The rest is based on growing up with guns and hunting, and studying this issue immediately after the Vietnam War when I wondered how things had gone to hell in the previous decade and a half while I was too young to really follow or study them, and preparing for a stint as an infantry officer that was not to be.)
I am not convinced by the star rating. But neat UI!
Ah, but t'weren't t' North 'as started shootin':

Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired upon Fort Sumter, a key fort held by Union troops in South Carolina.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

Some transactions are more than strictly financial.
This is a very confusing name. My first thought was that this is a opensource election software.
I thought that was the parent's point -- Western medicine has done superb work for acute diseases and injuries, but doesn't have solutions yet, and may not even have the right approach, for chronic ones.
Or, to put it in terms of a simple thought experiment-

can you 'coast' or 'glide' in water?

can you do the same in molasses? How about caramel?
That post read like a job security pitch for his field. I think as a general rule you want to avoid and delay using lawyers as much as possible: too much complexity, paperwork and cost, too early. Get to a sellable (and selling) product/service first, otherwise you're wasting your money and time.
For me, my soul, if it exists, is in what I create.
It is a pretty diverse group. In 3 page refreshes on my mobile site, Google has delivered a online radio ad, a mobile virus scanning ad, and a Gastric ByPass Attorney Ad.

And, the CPM rates are huge, and people actually do click these ads (based on my revenue numbers)
I'm also curious about the other end of the spectrum. How thin could the fluid be? Obviously, it would have to be more dense than the human body, but beyond that how thin could we make it?
Slippery slope. What profiles do you break it down to? Race? Age? Education?
The bit I particularly like is the fact that Feynman was also one of the great minds who did understand ordinary people.

I regularly dig out his lectures on pop-physics for a refresher :D
Unfortunately we're about 40-50 years out before an automated flight control system can reproduce the critical activities of a well-trained human team of pilots.

But yes, we'll reach a point where the liability of having human beings fly planes vs the sophistication/reliability of an automated system will reach the point where the answer is a foregone conclusion. It's just a half-century away.
The acetaminophen in Tylenol ( a common over the counter pain and fever medication used by millions of children and adults every day ) is carcinogenic and hepatotoxic.

" There are, however, published data giving clear evidence that paracetamol causes chromosomal damage in vitro in mammalian cells at high concentrations and indicating that similar effects occur in vivo at high dosages. Available data point to three possible mechanisms of paracetamol-induced genotoxicity: (1) inhibition of ribonucleotide reductase; (2) increase in cytosolic and intranuclear Ca2+ levels; (3) DNA damage caused by NAPQI after glutathione depletion. "

"Paracetamol induced sister chromatid exchange in human cells in vivo, and it was aneugenic and induced chromosomal aberrations but not micronuclei in mammalian cells in vivo. It induced DNA single-strand breaks in mice treated in vivo. Paracetamol induced sister chromatid exchange and chromosomal aberrations in human cells in vitro. It weakly induced cell transformation in a mouse cell line. It induced chromosomal aberrations, micronuclei and sister chromatid exchange in mammalian cells in vitro. It did not induce gene mutation, and the results of tests in mammalian cells in vitro for unscheduled DNA synthesis and DNA damage were inconclusive. Overall, paracetamol was genotoxic in mammalian cells in vivo and in vitro. It was not mutagenic to insects but was clastogenic in plant cells."

And here is an entry from the NIH TOXNET database about liver and bladder cancers induced by tylenol.

http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cpdb/chempages/ACETAMINOPHEN.html

Everything including water is toxic under the right conditions.
Yes, it's a good clip, I suggest watching it from the start to the very end and then making up your mind.

The interview was apparently supposed to be about the golden rice, which is a topic that is completely unrelated to Monsanto in any way at all.

Also, if I was in the shoes of the interviewee, I wouldn't drink it as well, even if I trusted it was completely safe for me - it probably doesn't taste well, and I don't feel like doing a show for a disrespectful jokester in front of me who thinks he's funny, and refuses to talk about the thing he was supposed to.
I think this could be prevented by removing humans from the cockpit and let computers take over.

I think we are not there yet:

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/lufthansa-airbus-computerpann...

tl;dr: frozen sensors put the plane on a crash course. Plane is saved by pilots completely shutting down the computer system.
They nest inside each other as the picture shows. This is clearly a low-labour product. Though I think if you have a lot of people needing a house, there's already a pool of excess labor available.
Intereseting example of a connectivity problem that site wouldn't spot.
Perhaps an odd question, but, are there any hobby astronomers here who might've managed to digiscope images of this thing?
I've been having really spotty site connections and timeouts, though

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/news.ycombinator.com

says all is OK.
>I have no idea why, though.

You mean, besides them being awesome?
Hint: divide the mass of 1.2million tons of water with the mass of the Pioneer probe.
Yes, agree...was not raised with coffee/caffeine in the home. However, succumbed to its use, due to work schedules. Tried coffee, energy drinks, caffeine capsules (very cost effective), etc. Caffeine withdrawal was very real for me, each time. 2 to 3 weeks of headaches, sleep issues and lack of energy.

It's the 2nd most addictive substance on earth (sugar is 1st), and imho only has temporary benefits. It should be used sparingly, as a tool (when really needed, like a fire extinguisher), not as the crutch it has become.

The question becomes, does caffeine use lead to other addictions, like prescription drugs or worse?

There is a very nice article about how caffeine was the cause of this man's migraines, and how he didn't listen to Dr's who told him to quit.
In case anyone missed it, this article is just the text summary that goes along with an episode of 99% Invisible. It's my favorite podcast, and I would encourage any HN fan to check it out.
He doesn’t have a coherent or consistent politics. He’s just not that smart. Genuinely not being snarky - guy’s an effective entrepreneur but no kind of great political thinker
A behavior I see here and elsewhere in recent years is this idea that everyone I disagree with is an idiot. Kind of like the intellectual equivalent of total war, it seems deeply unpopular to believe that people you disagree with have merit.
I understand the justification for the DMCA's existence. I agree with the measures that Google for instance has put in place both to file DMCA requests and to file counterclaims. Google also goes to great pains to proactively inform users of possible infringement on Youtube. That's all well and good.

However, requests should be filed in good faith, under the understanding that you have standing to file the requests. Clearly Dropbox does not, nor does the original author, having MIT licensed the code himself.

That pretty succinctly summarizes why this is problematic. Everyone here knows that they can't do this. The fact that they prepared letters and fired off the requests anyway demonstrates that they were acting in bad faith.

You don't accidentally reach for the DCMA and accidentally shoot off requests to github.

(and it's on that count alone that i criticize Dropbox, i think otherwise that i totally understand why they think this is a huge problem, and exposes them to legal liability.)

Edit: just read (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2482803 ) explaining that the DCMA takedown letter that was email was in fact accidentally sent via an automated system. :P
Regardless, I can completely understand the actions of staying away from Rapidshare (read the full comment for a day pass of $5, or wait 30 seconds).

However, pissing off the constituency that originally promoted your service isn't exactly #1 in your marketing plan. I'm not well known, but many who reside here are. Scaring off hackers just seems wrong, being Hacker News and all.
Sorry, I read the part about packing and minifying javascript and it made me want to mention that.
Your comment does appear disingenuous, though I'm sure that's not deliberate. Neither false DMCA notifications nor github takedown requests are legitimate responses to "simple nerd-rage" when it's about MIT-licensed code. I'm sure you understand this and you say as much elsewhere in your comment; but your sentence appears to trivialize these actions by including them after a soothing "the only thing... purported to have done... to politely ask...", and dismissing their significance with "simple nerd-rage".

Sure, this isn't a big deal in the larger scheme of things; but it isn't as trifling a deal as your comment's rhetorics make it out to be. Dropbox's actions are hurting its geek credibility, and rightfully so; I take your point about them possibly wishing to appear tough on rapidshare-ization of their service, but they don't have to do this employing tactics that are widely considered to be low. A proper amount of posturing and some real tech work behind the scenes to make this sort of access harder, if not impossible, would achieve more and not hurt their image.

I do have another, more substantive disagreement with your original comment, not about style. I don't think it's as clear as you present that the code in question was obviously not going to be suppressed by Dropbox, and they obviously understood that, etc. Yes, the author of the blogpost is possibly biased towards seeing himself as the hero; but I see nothing to contradict his claim that if it weren't for this one stubborn developer, the code would've disappeared from public access. The amount of goodwill towards Dropbox in the community (notably so in the case of the original author) and their swift attempt at censoring the code might have helped this succeeded.
Help me, I'm trying to get my head around this.

You developed a file sharing system that allows anyone to obtain the full contents of a file by simply knowing its hash?

Then when developers make tools to allow using this for simple cross-account file transfer you send DMCA takedown notices, claiming you are the rightful copyright holder of their code, to places like GitHub?

You seem to equate other file transfer services with "illegal file sharing".

Did you ever consider the possibility that someone could steal the contents of another person's file by knowing the hash of it? Sometimes hashes are public info and the file contents are not.

Or am I not understanding what just happened here?
>With this method, you get anonymous file transfers without bandwidth limits

Yes, only if dropbox let you do that. They can make you stop with a fix in 5 minutes and they will do it very soon.
Yes. I'll update it when I get back to my work computer.
Thanks for asking. Couchbase Mobile is build of CouchDB for iOS that my company has been working on since last summer.

The technology is stable (based on Apache CouchDB), but the build integration and optimizations are still underway. We are in developer preview now with community contributions coming to the build.

For 1.0 our target is to cut the download size to 5MB. One option is to make JS optional and support ObjC Map Reduce.

If you are interested in joining the community we have a group here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mobile-couchbase

Or just mention Couchbase on Twitter and I'll hear it.
Yup. Their interface doesn't even support the ability to add licenses to an existing certificate since their software update. Thanks but no thanks, I can save my company a bomb by going elsewhere
Thanks. You may wish to make that explicit -- the label on the email field suggests that everything else will be public.
_Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X_[1] by Aaron Hillegass is really great. It's not an iPhone book, but there's enough similarity that it'd still be a really valuable read.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Cocoa-Programming-Mac-COCOA-PROGRAMMIN...
then 20K of equity can be better from a tax perspective for you, as 30K in income after tax would be 20K or less i imagine right away.

at the same time, it's really worth digging into and understand what they mean by whatever equity they're offering, and how they would get to whatever valuation that means. also what % of the company it is that they're offering, what stage is the company at etc., to form your own estimation of valuation of the company etc. looking at % and yr estimation of valuation can be more important than what they're saying...

good luck!
If you go open source a degree is not necessary.

If you go enterprise, it will be hard to get your first job. In enterprise it may limit your ability to be promoted.
Are there any offline Geocoders that work for the whole world, even if not free? Nominatim doesn't work for a lot of Asian addresses.
Incredible that Darwin should need defending in any advanced country today. I'm also a university (associate) professor and though I don't teach evolution per se it obviously crops up now and then (I teach molecular biology, in Sweden). None of the students ever (ever!) even as much as hinted that evolution might be questionable.

But some of the foreign postdocs of course are religious. There was one guy (catholic) who believed the Earth was created 4000 years ago by God including all the evidence for evolution as a kind of mind trick on scientists. I find it hard to understand how you can hold such weird beliefs and also be a scientist, but it isn't very rare.