jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Mostly as the world's factory, I would add. For all the criticism of China's environmental standard we tend to fail to mention that we procure many of the products that are built in unsustainable ways, largely unwilling to pay a premium to make it more sustainable. Add to that the apples/oranges comparison where hundreds of millions of people in China live in 1800s industrial-revolutionesque environments, it's hardly fair to hold them to a standard of modern, efficient, sustainable 21st century production processes we find in many OECD countries today.

Anyway, I don't mean for this to be a giant cop-out for China. But its environmental record should be contextualized. An interesting part of that context is that it's one of the most rapidly advancing countries in terms of investments and capacity of sustainable energy. Policy makers definitely do not look the other way and ignore the problems as if they don't exist. It appears the environmental issues are acknowledged, but not always prioritized over trying to lift hundreds of millions of people into a lower-middle class from de facto poverty.

One may be more sympathetic to that than some of the global-warming denier policy makers we see in the west, who are either ignorant of the problem or prioritize economic goals while the average American or European already makes 10x more than the average Chinese. (who, again, use a significant chunk of this money to move their CO2 production out of the country, and to China, benefiting from the production but offloading the CO2 onto China's record, and in the process moving any affects of local pollution onto relatively poor Chinese. If it's waste, we call it toxic dumping and outlaw it. If it's air and water pollution from a factory that creates jobs, it's but an unfortunate side effect of globalism).

At least, that's the Chinese's perspective. There's more to it, but I think it's important to be aware of the above in any case.
> 1. Safety: drones - multirotors, specifically - are very safe devices, inherently.

The first or second time the blades on one of those drones hits a kid, drone delivery will be as dead as the Segway.
And enables their insurer to increase the cost of the insurance.
A thing to consider is that if you manage to depressurize the cabin by opening the door or otherwise making a hole, an automated mechanism should open the cockpit door (to prevent the differential pressure from blowing it up / damaging the airframe / destroying the plane).

Then instead of jumping to an almost certain death you and your fellow passengers can storm the cockpit, angrily beat up the murderous co-pilot and let the captain guide the aircraft to safety.
Netscape 3 had so.e rudimentary dev tools, and a WYSIWYG editor that were dev tools, abd a JavaScript console.
The Met is really on top of their digital game. Their website is super informative, functional, and attractive. I didn't use their app but it seems very comprehensive. My only complaint is that it's iOS only, grumble grumble.
The impressive part of the article is the network the author has developed prior to beginning anything. The real startup killer in Aussie edtech is the sales cycle and this product has ostensibly hit 10% market saturation in Victoria (~120 schools) since launching a month ago. With a paid product.

For comparison, many edtech startups in Melbourne are offering a trial period until the next billing cycle (July), because it's the simplest way to get through the bureaucracy. Might not be the best approach, but it's one that seems to be the fastest way to get users.

The real cost here isn't the $10k in dev, its however many hours/dollars were spent getting the network together.

On a side note, having 'lorem ipsum' as both the public terms/conditions and privacy policy is an interesting corner to cut when selling to schools, particularly in Australia.
The home page would be a lot more compelling if it was easy to find code examples and a tutorial--digging around all I could find was a rather opaque (at least for a beginner) reference manual, and I had to click on the "screenshots" link before I could find examples of what Ciao syntax is like and how one may put a program together in the language. The "Other Documentation" has a bunch of self-labeled out-of-date items and rather academic papers in PDF format. Not ideal!

It's too bad because this sounds like an interesting language which I'd like to learn more about (which I still will, don't get me wrong).
Many cities expect even sole proprietors to obtain business licenses from them.
Wow, that looks way better than I thought it would. I'm saddened to hear that after all the effort into the new VS text system it isn't capable of doing all you wanted.
This comment is exactly the opposite of reality. 3.x was the most locked down Android ever. Its source was never released. Since then, AOSP has gotten strictly more functional with every release. The proprietary Google apps built on top have gotten wider distribution on the devices that have Android installed, but that doesn't make AOSP itself more locked down.
By that argument, the customers of Heroku who weren't prepared to handle Heroku's failure were at fault. They should have had alternate rails hosting lined up.
I'd really rather use NaCl. And, I think SIMD is in the plan for NaCl, eventually...

But, you might be a bit surprised by the raw float performance of the latest JS VMs. Running this benchmark, http://stepheneb.github.com/webgl-matrix-benchmarks/matrix_b... on my 3.4Ghz AMD in FF4, CanvasMatrix can multiply 20,000 pairs of 4x4 matrices in 1.5 ms. That's about 1.5 double-precision gigaflops on 1 core. 4 webworkers would give 6 gigaflops. That's low compared to the 50 gigaflops that native, pure-cpu-burn benchmarks get on that processor (when overclocked to 3.6 Ghz) http://www.overclock.net/amd-cpus/499526-official-phenom-ii-... but it's not terrible.
That doesn't seem to be thesis of the article, since they don't mention anything about the wine tasting experience of the subjects. I really doubt that doing similar experiments with wine experts would give the same results.
I'm really disappointed in YC on this one. I'm sure there were some awesome companies selected, but http://trunk.ly flat out rocks.

I have no vested interest at all. I'm not an investor, not an advisor, just a user and a fan. Trunkly's become an essential tool for me, it has traction, it has a product that 100s of thousands would find useful today and millions could find even more useful in time.

Maybe I'm blinded by my own selection bias (because I find it so useful and everyone who joins makes it more and more useful for me), but I'm going to have some very high expectations for the startups that do get selected :-)
Yup, he was a marketing genius, and all that know-how went into making a vodka that tasted like burning urine but appeared as though it must have rained down from heaven... at least to the gullible masses with money to burn and dinner guests to impress.
I used to use /admin2/
I don't think anyone ever found out, but the website was a hideous mess of a first attempt at using PHP/MySQL.
Tokaji can get pretty darn pricey, you know.
Having a 30 second automatic refresh on the status page can't help.

(Edit: Also, my Heroku apps are fine. Makes me feel a bit more secure about multi-tenant hosting.)
If you total the number of people living in Western democracies, you get more than 1.3 billion, the current population of China. You can prove this easily, if you count India as a Western democracy, or harder, if you don't (US + South America (except for Venezuela) + Mexico + Western Europe).

>there are some cultures to which democratization is simply incompatible

There's no evidence at all to believe that democracy wouldn't work in China, as it's never been tried. On the other hand, if you look at the downfall of the Soviet Union, Russia's experiment with democracy has been quite a success, even if it's not so perfect a freedom as we're party to in the US. It's certainly not Stalinist and the very existence of organized resistance movements in Russia, something that would have been entirely unheard-of thirty years ago, is a sign that they've made huge strides in the right direction, and their global standing seems to have benefited.

>Even here in the US, we're finding that our rights to move freely must be tempered by TSA searches, PATRIOT act and other impingements in the name of security

If by "security" you mean "security theatre", then sure. The vast majority of academics disagree with the new restrictions, and most people I know think they're absurd.

>What if that is actually the end-run for civilization and it's actually the US that is behind the political ideology curve?

Let's all hope not! I cannot understand this argument, as there seems to be no substance to it. There's a weight of literature on the value of freedom (e.g. John Locke, Voltaire), and little inquiry in this regard.

>We seem to be moving inexorably toward China-like "freedom with caveats" direction, and the electorate actually seems to prefer it

I have no idea how you could come to this conclusion. The vast majority of tea party anxiety over Obama was that he was restricting freedom too much. The main issue of the protesters was that their freedom was threatened, at least in their perception, and whether the candidates they chose are actually working to improve freedom is not quite so relevant as the reasons they chose such candidates.

Quite the contrary, just two weeks ago the US state of California came closer to legalizing marijuana than has any other entity for the past thirty years. A general movement toward restricted freedom, indeed. We're seeing such major gains such as legalized abortion and gay marriage even in highly religious regions such as South America and, aparently, Tunisia, and many countries with a long history of human rights violations, e.g. Bangladesh, Vietnam, Nicaragua, have improved markedly in recent years -- the current state of affairs is close to the freeest many such countries have ever seen. You don't hear about all the good things happening in the world in the news as much, but they're happening. The doctrine that freedom of speech is an inalienable human right may have been implemented in the US some 234 years ago, but it only became international law 60 years ago. Progress, indeed.
If you're going to get hit by antidilution clauses, of course forget it. Otherwise, it may be a equity based way to buy into an investor network. If you're far enough along, forget it and find a reasonably connected individual or boutique ibank.
The vast majority of unpaid internships don't meet those criteria.
VCs are a dime a dozen. YC is a network.
No true-er words were every spoken before.

Thanks for throwing this perspective man. Now I know I really should stop caring about CSS Galleries and 'make it pretty designer gatherings'

A designer's true reward is 'used'.
If I'm not mistaken what happened was this person was the one reporting the income, they were just reporting it incorrectly.
I ran into this too. It's because of the index that Sublime builds for its Goto Anything feature. If you never use Goto Anything, in your User Settings:

"index_files": false
Ghostery shows 14 trackers on that link.

Before we get to “but the journo doesn’t make the website policies”, If they wanted to not be a hypocrite about it, they could write a blog post on a tracker-free site. They chose to write on nytimes.com instead, and therefore implicitly are supporting what the site does.
My favorite part of that is, even if that happened, Bill Gates would still be ~10x richer...
By installing the fork you agreed to the statement "everything is exactly as before except the balances of two addresses"
I sometimes use Basex as an XSLT/Xquery processor from Python. It is possible to do this with Saxon, but it is little easier to use Basex. Maybe someday we'll get proper Python bindings for Saxon-C, but last I looked, it hadn't been done.
It isn’t common but it can happen if something is in short supply with high demand. There can be regional differences too. I’ve seen the same item sell for more in a place with a higher cost of living than a place with lower cost of living 50 miles away, at the same retail chain. In those cases, the retailer is trying to squeeze additional margin to compensate for other factors that my run down profit.

It’s like how a 20oz bottle of Diet Coke might cost $1.00 in a small town, $1.25 on average, and $2.00 or even $2.25 in NYC.
1. Find a way to return cubesats from orbit

2. Sell your system to anyone who wants to do science where the payload has to come back, but can't get onto the ISS / wants to experiment in open vacuum not a station.

3. Find goods that can only be manufactured in micro-g which are profitable at tiny scale, make them with your returnable cube sats. Made in Space, FOMS, etc are trying to do this but you could iterate faster/cheaper on cubes than mucking with ISS bureaucracy.

The window to do this is small and might not exist though. Eventually private stations will likely be the better option.
Not if they refuse Manifest v3 and remain the only Blink browser with full uBlock Origin support.
Well, sure, git provides an append/log-based distributed hash store. It's probably not what you're looking for, though: It doesn't have a library for efficient in-process access, so you need to spawn a git shell command per operation, with somewhat opinionated semantics. It's also GPL'd.

It's good for prototyping, though. (And I hear it's good at managing changes for source code!)
yes and that will be the Last War. the one that Skynet wins. :)
Theoretically, the market should "price in" the risk at different exchanges.

If I can sell a bitcoin for $200 on a perfectly stable exchange, or for $202 on an exchange where there's a 1% risk I will get nothing, then by switching from the stable exchange to the risky exchange there's a 99% chance of +2 and a 1% chance of -200, for an expected benefit of 0.992+0.01-200=-0.02 so it wouldn't make sense to use the risky exchange. The exchange with a 1% risk would have to offer a price of at least $202.02 for it to make sense to switch to them.

Of course, knowing the relative chances different exchanges will collapse is the hard part!
> Minified at 124k. Sure, but with gzip that's absolutely negligible. Unless your app utterly tiny, 124K is nothing.

Well React is just a view engine so you have to combine it with something else, usually a flux implementation. Then if you want to make things even easier you throw in ImmutableJS which is not small either. Or you might just use Omniscient which wraps this all up into a nice package.

But by this point you're close to 400k pre-gzip. That's gigantic compared to the competition. IIRC MercuryJS (which has a VDOM and Immutable data structures) is like 40k. Mithril (which is an MVC VDOM library) is 15k.
You clearly love React and it works for you. The article is about the issues we had and how Riot solved them.
Happens in the US all the time, too. It's the very thing that makes the line-item veto so controversial. I want someone to be able to knock down pork (or worse, like this) added to non-related bills, at the last minute, in the middle of the night, with no debate. But do I want that power to always exist?

Edit: happened like 5 times just last month and could have shut down the government. Now Dodd-Frank is all but dead, campaign donation limits are up from $92k to $777k, the EPA is further defunded, and more - all last minute riders with almost zero debate.

http://www.newsweek.com/what-did-congress-sneak-last-minute-...
There is a lot more than bypass the kernel here. You need special dma hardware that will preload cpu cache lines and stuff like that. Maybe even specialized cpu cache that can be pinned
No, just OpenVPN, and from the searching I did at the time, this is a well known problem.

These days I just tunnel over SSH or even remote desktop into a remote server.
It's called diminishing marginal returns and it's a feature of many different economic and physical systems.
I know that and you know that.

There are a considerable number of wikipedia admins who don't see it that way. There are even more young wikipedians who don't yet have adminship who take a hardline on that kind of thing - although to be fair WP has worked hard to reduce that particular malign influence. (Removal of "vandal patrol"; stricter oversight of twinkle and rollback use; etc etc).
While I do not know VB.net at all, or how hard or easy it is to access databases with it, Python has quite a few modules to ease DB access.

http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ would be a good starting point, in my opinion.
For HCQ, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7534595/

There's another site I cannot remember the domain of now, that aggregates as many studies as it can find. It claims something like 2/3 of studies show positive effects.

Edit: Found it, and it includes links at the top for similar sites on Ivermectin, Vitamin D, Zinc, etc - https://c19study.com/
They can be relatively localized. Consider contrails, which with the grounding of air travel in the US after 9/11 had climate impacts that could be studied.

https://globalnews.ca/news/2934513/empty-skies-after-911-set...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dimming_t...

One of the interesting aspects of that is that it returned to normal (well, contrails being normal) rapidly.
You don’t need to control supply with the equivalent of taxi medallions for cows to ensure that dairy production still exists in the country. There is no reasonable way to enter the market as a small local producer. The current system largely exists to protect the profits of large established agribusiness, fleece average families, and discourage innovation and enjoyment of food.

Cheese quality, price, and availability in Canada is absolutely pathetic compared to any European country, the US, or Australia and New Zealand, and we are usually several years behind on product innovations present in other countries such as ultrafiltered, lactose free, grassfed, and A2 milk.

> The cost of supporting farmers is borne by those who buy the farmers' products.

This should be true of any product, but you don’t need to take out a million dollar loan to purchase the quota from existing producers in order to raise cattle, grow blueberries, or produce sugar beets. All those industries are fine and supported by their consumers.
this doesn't make sense. THe freelancer is not invoicing you directly; the payment contract is explicitly 2-sided. There's no reason they could not send you a single line-item invoice other than they want to extract their cut but not be viewed as the middleman.
I have stories :-)

We held a Digital Art Conference down here in Brazil and we brought Beeple in for a keynote, and it was an amazing experience, he's super bright.

But yeah the guy is always dressed to kill, impeccably, almost too serious -- so it's quite contrasting when you see the real artist and his likeness compared to how wild his art is.

He also was quite curious about Renoise (a tracker software I was using to play live music at one point), and asked "What software is that?!". That was a fun moment.
Crypto is a given at this point; fiat currencies are on their way out. Whether it's Bitcoin that takes the stage is up for debate.

So here's why crypto is useful:

* Ease of dissemination has intrinsic value. Keeping track of gold/fiat/etc. and transporting it is difficult and error-prone. Crypto doesn't have that problem.

* Cutting out middle-men. You don't need transaction services to send and receive crypto.

* More transparency (or more privacy). We can easily see how much Bitcoin people are moving around, as we often see with the seemingly quarterly "whale sends $1 billion in Bitcoin to someone" reports, and yet no one can really know how much crypto you personally have.

* Smart contracts. You can make the transaction of crypto trigger events, or create second-degree value as part of the transaction.

Crypto is very young, so these things are being worked on and improved. Some things might not pan out, and some new things might suddenly become extremely valuable.

People saying "lol, crypto is stupid like who even needs it" are dinosaurs living with delusions of grandeur - and stability. Society is at a crossroads whether people like it or not, and things will drastically change over the next decade.

To say that Bitcoin is behaving like a Ponzi scheme isn't inaccurate. Yes, it's almost like the gold rush in terms of people rushing in to probably find themselves washed up and broke. It's still a gold rush though (so maybe start making shovels?)
The worst kind of nitpicks are ones that address lines that weren't even touched by your PR.

(And that's not to say it's not sometimes useful to ask someone to fix something else they noticed, but to nitpick on it is the worst.)

Getting good at code review is about learning that just because something isn't exactly how you'd do it, byte-for-byte, doesn't mean it's not "fine".
I was recalling this paper characterizing loss of system drive performance due to environmental vibrations (though I'm sure there are others).

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sustainit10/tech/full_p...
The only problem is that it is not compatible with any of my other action figures. Also, I had to buy the iPlay License just to use it.

He doesn't work with any of my other action figure furniture either... I had to buy the iHouse, the iChair as well.

I tried to have him use my older iCar - but couldnt, I had to upgrade to the iCar Pro which wont even go in REVERSE unless I pay extra!

When I inquired about having him interact with Barbie, they said that Steve wouldn't work with Barbie's open play system because it would devalue my play experience with Steve.

Also, the Steve doll was 4 times as much as any of my GI Joe or Barbie dolls....

But hi turtle neck and jeans really do look good on him.
Why don't you bookmark and cache ALL visited pages. And keep caches for, say, 30 days if space is a problem. I'm very likely to want to search/revisit something I visited 2 weeks ago. This would provide a set-it-and-forget-it approach to bookmarking.
I have been looking at relocating to Vancouver in the future. It seems like a nice place to live but has a horrible tech/startup community. I don't get why that is.
No joke, really. It's a drugstore/pharmacy that also sells greeting cards, house cleaning supplies, candy, snacks, coke and pepsi and milk, and really low-quality hardware like screwdrivers made of weak steel.

The sorts of electronics they sell there are overpriced and low-quality unless they're actual name-brand items. An LED nightlight sold there is likely to be weak, and badly designed, and overpriced even at $5.

If I saw a $99 Android tablet at Walgreens, I would assume that it would be better to simply burn the $99 - at least then I wouldn't have a useless device to store or dispose of.

(I was just at a Walgreens, and they actually had some Wii units for sale. I wouldn't buy one there, but I assume there's nothing wrong with them.)
You can't even send private messages that have a lamebook URL. At least Facebook makes it obvious that we shouldn't trust them with private communication / Facebook Messages.