jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They did try to jack the interest rates (full disclosure: I'm British and I had a bank account at the time :) -- the base rate rocketed by roughly 1% one day, then 2% the next. Then they chickened out and pulled the eject handle on the ERM, and cut the base rate back to where it had been before Soros' assault.

That was the moment when it became obvious that the next government would be a Labour one. (And the reason Labour instantly hived the BoE off as an autonomous entity.)
I disagree; I think it's a pretty important line. The aim was less about it being a sob story and more about introducing the idea, without accusation, that he is being slow and unreasonable.

You do have something of a point; but I don't think it will open the way for him to control negotiations. It was deliberately worded to be neutral with no suggestion that the writer is desperate for money.

On the other hand; if the gp is concerned then anything will do. Perhaps "I like to ensure a steady inflow of money whilst contracting and, as you can imagine, a missed payment can affect my bookkeeping"

(that wasn't a very good example - it's early - but yu get the idea).

Finally; if it does amount to leverage it is only a little. On he other hand the gp has the big gun of the 30 day limit to hand - that is definitely something not to mention till on the phone :-)
Your point certainly sounds reasonable, but it's not how the human mind works. The point of conspicuous consumption is to make believe that the man is "in a position to throw away money like this", because that (imaginary) man is considered to be a good provider/sexually attractive. Talking about it beforehand would be like telling your kids you were going to dress up as Santa Claus to put presents under the tree—the reality is no different, but the fantasy is ruined.

And DeBeers certainly didn't create the notion of conspicuous consumption as a romantic gesture—women have been receiving silver and gold trinkets for millennia, especially ones adorned with various gemstones. DeBeers just popularized diamonds as the gem to be specifically associated with such gestures—and they're a fairly effective/obvious one, too, since they're eye-catching, distinctive, and easy to adorn oneself with.
Why wouldn't you just forward them a link to the driving directions page? You lose all the functionality of the awesome Internet we have in 2010 by sending someone a static map. Anyone who can receive that would be in front of a computer connected to the internet, or if they are on the go, would be on a smart phone with internet access so they could look it up themselves. Might as well just carry around a paper map.

Unless you want to be a doormat like that guy in the commercials whose friends call him to ask him for driving directions and movie show times because your phone lets you browse the web while you're in a call at the same time. Let your friends look up their own directions.
Remember that Twitter has a certain 'scale' in terms of expenses (employees, servers, etc) and in terms of VC invested so far. So bussiness models that generate less revenue than required by this scale are not acceptable to them (their investors).
Similarly I find parallel coordinates diagrams hard to grasp. I know they show direct and inverse correlation between neighboring variables but surely there are much better tools for that.
If you're in the UK, try http://kashflow.co.uk/ - there's a free 2 month trial to get you hooked!

(I'm not affiliated, just a happy user)
Tesla has superchargers exactly for situations like this. Lots of people do this trip (or longer ones) all the time in Teslas.

Anticipating your next complaint (“It takes so much longer to recharge!”) - You also save a lot of time by charging at home and never having to stop at a gas station. Overall, I think you save time because of this. It’s not exactly 1:1 equivalent because maybe long drive waits are more costly than frequent short gas stop visits and waits when you aren’t on a long road trip , but it’s really not the end of the world. Gives you some time to stretch your legs.
What Rowe is saying is that without those people, you wouldn't have the freedom to "follow your passion." I don't see why you're so critical of what he's saying.

Manual labor is rewarding. It may not scale, but my guess is you'll feel a lot better internally when you finish building that shed than when you create a feature for your web app. He is celebrating our capacity to more or less 'suck it up' in order to get a task accomplished, and the sort of character that builds in oneself.

How does this translate to something you may be working on? There are tasks with running a business that you may not particularly enjoy, but it's your job to just get it done.

Respect hose who do the work that you don't want to. Embrace then, because they have a bigger impact in your life than you seen to acknowledge.
>The best thing I can say about Rowe is that he ranks up there with Malcolm Gladwell in his ability to throw around a bunch of unrelated contentions and anecdotes and pretend to tie them all together with a facile and unsubstantiated thesis.

I think that's unfair to Rowe. He seems quite genuinely to believe two things:

1) The manual and/or menial labor required to keep society working is unfairly maligned, and this can become a problem if no one is willing to do it because it's not respected,

and

2) During his show he has met people who are perfectly happy doing these jobs, so it IS entirely possible to be happy doing them.

I agree that the message felt a bit tacked on in that talk, but it is genuine. He seems to be dedicating himself to spreading that message (see http://www.mikeroweworks.com/) - I think he tried to pick the most interesting examples he could find for this talk, which turned out to be atypical, but most of the people he meets on his show are far from millionaire entrepreneurs.

I say it's unfair to Rowe because Malcolm Gladwell's theses are more pop science for entertainment. I don't think Rowe ever claims any kind of scientific method or results - he is more campaigning for his beliefs and trying to cause what he sees as necessary change in society.
Well then let's call it Gnome 4 ;)
> I have gotten Rust to compile for 386 DOS machines before

I don't know why I laughed so hard at this. Why would any sane person do this?
We are working on this.

In ~2 weeks, we'll release a version with an interactive CLI "tour" that can generate the "sane-defaults" configuration for your application.

Or you can start by copying the configuration from one of our quickstart tutorials.
We really have three OK-ish options for rich collaboration:

* CRDT's

* OT

* Maybe differential synchronization

If a key OT partisan now backs CRDT, that's a significant development. It means CRDT's arguments have become compelling enough to convince people on the other side.

Now, maybe something new and wonderful will pop up and supplant all of the above...
Agreed, and it sounds like it will be better than Comodo, I mean, "who knows", let's give it a chance...
> What Sense-Wilson and her daughter seem to be having trouble grasping is that the "savages" in the book are only called "savages" because the mainstream society which they aren't a part of is so perverted. In reality, Huxley's savages are indeed the heroes…

Indeed. The “savage” reads Shakespeare, which no one else in the book does anymore, for example.

It’s just like people wanting to ban Huck Finn because it uses the word “nigger,” without realizing the friendship between Huck and Jim shows just how silly racism actually is, or how the novel basically satirizes slave ownership by making Huck explicitly contemplate the “immorality” of helping a slave escape.
Aye, the irony here is sickening. And that a single parent who obviously hasn't actually read a book in ages is able to negatively affect an entire school board that easily is sad beyond measure.

Sometimes people are wrong. In fact it happens a lot. Apparently calling someone out for being wrong is as bad as calling someone out for being fat. Can't have controversy!

Huxley is spinning in his grave.
I can't speak for everyone, but one reason is that there is also a cumulative effect from these "small things". A progressive eroding of civil rights also affects a nation in "big ways".

Isolating one effect of one loss, and comparing that to the complex effects of terrorism is not a fair comparison.
Why do I feel like I'm being indirectly trolled? I mean, this woman can't be serious about this, right? Sad. Seriously, seriously sad...
A web registry of seized domains seems kind of pointless when it's really easy to set up guerilla DNS servers that provide the information far more efficiently to clients.

I'm not sure of their current status, but AlterNIC and OpenNIC are/were two major non-official name registries.

Then there's .onion and other darknets to consider.

This battle is far from over; we're just seeing the first few open skirmishes at this point. If something this draconian came into law and brought down sites of any major popularity, I wouldn't be surprised to see either alternative DNS infrastructures or even a new torrent-like protocol to provide censor-proof DNS-like services crop up to totally disrupt such stupidity.
See mortality during the Canadian physicians' strike.
On the other hand, it is easy to crawl DHT. "Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit" (2010) says "We find that we can establish a search engine with over one million torrents in under two hours using a single desktop PC".
http://jamesgolick.com/about.html
every single article on the matter has says that it would be a step towards potentially explaining dark matter and dark energy, which would help towards a unified theory
Probably because there are more people around trendy restaurants than lumberyards.
I think you and Kottke are both right.

I commented a couple of weeks ago on a thread where I talked about brand equity, and iTunes is a perfect example of this -- it hasn't been solely about music in years, it has a half dozen bolted-on functionalities and it's in desperate need of a refresh. And yet the iTunes brand is so strong that none of that matters.
My wife is actually in a Family Practice residency. I can't figure out how to send you a private message with my email, so here it is a little bit obfuscated:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void){puts("\x6d\x69\x6b\x65\x40\x6c\x61\x69\x6f\x73\x61\x2e\x6f\x72\x67");return 0;}
I misspoke, sorry about that. Overriding drawRect: itself isn't dangerous. Overriding drawRect: in a category is. The order in which the runtime determines which method to use isn't documented and should be considered unreliable. Relying on a runtime implementation detail is just as icky as method swizzling is - and just as good of a to wake up and find out that something randomly broke one day.

And what happens if there is a second category somewhere in UIKit or elsewhere to override drawRect: on UINavigationBar?
Hmm, possibly. These deal sites (Groupon especially) have always been pitched to me as a way to find out about deals at places you don't go often. For me, I know all of the small shops (that's all our town really has, our ban on drive-thrus really stops the chains from coming in) and I know which ones I like. I visit often enough, so when they are having sales or events, I know they are going down because the cashier told me last week, or I saw it on a sign as I biked to work. Do you have any links explaining the "group buying" in china you are talking about?
Can you give us a clue? :P

Anyway pretty good UI, a few suggestions:
Perhaps you could add a graph of the normal distribution and where you lie on it.
Choosing the location of your workplace is a little confusing at first, it might be more intuitive to make it similar to the Facebook checkin sections, show a list of places nearby.
Just curious if you are making any ad revenue yet? :P
What a load of crap....
They don't earn as much as they do because they don't spam every possible place with additional advertising and not competing directly with groupon, youtube, foursquare and google, duh!

Just to 'replicate' a basic functionality of the sites above it would take them lots of time and effort and really not guaranteed to become anything interesting.

And adding way more adds? Really? Well, I suppose they could get away with it for a while, but I'm sure it would kill lots of other important metrics, like user engagement etc. Which I suppose are not less critical for FB then just the bottom line.
"Half of the Lisp programmers I know had Lisp as one of their first languages (MIT or Berkeley alum)."

We also learn Scheme as our first language at Indiana University computer science@
Yeah, I don't know what the big deal is either. I am a happy Zipcar member (for when I'm in SF) and I own my own cars (down in LA) and I drive a fair amount (30k+ miles/year). People driving around me would be lucky to have that kind of liability insurance in CA where the minimum is like 10% of what Zipcar provides, and that scares me more than the idea of getting into a catastrophic accident in a Zipcar.
IMHO IB is the equivalent of writing HTML in Frontpage. No one is saying we should abandon tools like compilers that make us more productive, people are saying we should abandon needless crutches like writing HTML with Frontpage. IB is annoying because it doesn't work all the time and there are a lot of limitations to it, I'd rather just not use it.
A removed tweet is a pretty bad example. Seems like the content is getting moderated just fine then.
> These are private companies.

So are Baidu and Tencent.

Large companies are part of an industrial–congressional complex, with lobbying and political contributions on one side, political approval and threats of regulation on the other.

Just because something is done by a private company, it doesn't mean that it's not the state or the government wielding its power. In the current political climate, and given how intertwined corporations and state power are in the US, trying to maintain a crisp distinction between private companies and public authority is itself comical.
It can’t possibly work like that, logically. Those being deplatformed are as certain as you are that they are right.

I’ve been disillusioned about this e.g. in trying to have conversations about religion with believers. No matter how much better I think my case is, they will think their case is just as much superior to mine. For every time I double check my books, they double check theirs.

Philosophically, I don’t think that’s a “solution” to the puzzle.
> If you cannot install an run your own software on a device, you do not own the device.

I agree with this, and your analysis of the inaccessible cost of those devices people truly can own and control. However, I do not think this is an accurate parallel to the many horrifying political events of this week.
I think a much better, much older, and much more philosophical argument is...

"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

And actually, the more I think about it, this is a more apt analogue to what's happening with Paler then first engages the mind...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest#:~....
Sofi money has something called "vaults" they just launched which may be the same thing. May be worth checking out.
Judging by the overall tone of your comments, you don't have any actual intent of engaging in any sort of discussion. I will try nevertheless.

Mail dumping, interception and modification of ballots, just plain errors in ballots or failure to mail them (these last two are not in the 'game the ballot' category, but they do happen with mail-in balloting) all occur in almost every election. Even if they do not materially change election results, they affect the perception of the legitimacy of results. The perception is as important as the reality of the process. Any law that helps improve the perception should be welcomed.
Indeed, it means "to deceive". Judging by the user's other comments, they are trying to express vague and incoherent but confident distrust of "the system".
> , but my CS professors made it clear that iteration is basically just a special case of recursion.

That seems a bit disingenuous, since iteration and general recursion are fundamentally equivalent. So you could say that "recursion is just a special case of iteration".

Unless we're talking about specific iterations like iterating over a list, I guess.
This isn't clear. Are you talking about the default accepts header in a jQuery AJAX request or in some jQuery script loader script that rails uses to load the jQuery library?
> However, you are not the king of open source, and you cannot dictate how other authors must write their projects

No, but I can convince other people who don't like their computers being used a spying tools against them to put social pressure on maintainers so that they stop doing this nonsense.

Atom's telemetry used to be on by default; spying silently caused them such a shitstorm that they added a consent dialog. They're almost there! Now they just have to make it functional.

https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/12281

There are precedents. We can push back, especially against open source projects.

> There's always going to be trade-offs.

I don't think that's how software works. I certainly don't take that to mean that I should just accept that it's going to spy on me. I don't want that, and I don't accept that, and I will yell, loudly, at anyone who says I should accept that without a fight.
Emacs daemon,emacsclient,shell mode and -nw ? Works ok if the disconnects are infrequent once an hour or so.
> The company I now work for started as a parking app. . . . We were growing sustainably as the result of having a superior product based on a great understanding of consumer needs.

> But sustainable growth isn’t what VCs (or the execs that they install in the firms they have stakes in) are looking for. So we pivoted.

> Without going into too much detail, we are now exclusively focused on getting acquired by a big tech firm. Meetings with low-level product managers at a few of the world’s largest com­panies dictate every decision about which projects we pursue. We’re no longer building a company. We’re not even building a product. We’re building a feature that we hope will end up getting included in an app owned by a mega-corporation.

> When I talk to my friends and peers at other tech startups, they tell me that it’s pretty much the same story at their compa­nies. Everyone is building to the specifications set by Google or Amazon or Apple. This “competitive” industry, supposedly a shining example of the power of the free market, is really just a massive risk-free R&D department for the faang companies.40

ooph.
If anyone is interested, here are a couple of other qualities that might be correlated with this one. I wonder if anyone else sees the same patterns:

- aphantasia (not seeing images in my head)
- being of eastern-european / ashkenazi jewish descent
- reading a ton as a child instead of socializing
- liking intuitive reasoning and geospatial reasoning, such as physics over logic, algebra over analysis (within math), higher-level languages over systems-level ones, and OOP over functional programming
- being very distractable / ADD and easily addicted to things like video games
> I will do my best to strive for and support sustainable and minimalist technology.

Start by not using the internet. Thank you in the name of 7bn humans.
> For that reason, I support the government acting as an employer of last resort.

I like that concept as well. But there are problems. Quality of work is one. Another is the complication of getting something useful out of that manpower. Would probably be done by lending that workforce to companies... subsidized if necessary, but with significant bargaining power. Still this could end up becoming a nightmare with incompetent / corrupt governments. It would be a great natural minimum wage, though, since you'd be stupid to work for less than you could get at you gov job.
We decided for an "open-first" approach unlike most other apps but are considering adding a flag to configure this. Feedback welcome!
totally doesn't seem sketchy in the slightest ;p
though advertisment is on point and well done...
I used to simply ignore that nag screen, but decided to buy a license of ST3 since I use it every day - best investment in a while. I hope to see a stable ST3 build soon and some nice new features soon :)!
Ok.

Fresh steaming proof as requested:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=urgent&...

All high severity bugs against 7.1 which was relased 16 days ago. Check the dates on half of them. They're before the release date and half of them haven't even been assigned or triaged.

When 7.0 came out, datetimectl and systemd didn't even work properly. Enabling ntp threw dbus errors galore. On some kit it didn't even boot. Total lemon.

RHEL doesn't generally work properly until the .2 releases. I've been using it for 10 years so I've got plenty of experience on the matter.

I would go into detail about the CIFS/smb kernel hangs I've had on 6.x but I've had enough of it by now.
What are your thoughts on, and how do you let your clients know (since you're a web agency?), that using anything built by Facebook comes with a huge business risk?

With the included PATENTS file, if Facebook decides a patent they filed is something you violate then they will sue you or ask for a royalty. If you try to fight it or even suggest it's not valid then your license for React and all other Facebook projects becomes voided. This gives incredible leverage and power to Facebook for anyone developing their core business with anything they've made/open sourced.

EDIT: https://github.com/Raynos/mercury was suggested as an alternative, I'm not sure how viable it is for different types of projects.
Thank you! Yes, planning a photo shoot, hiring a photographer, hand models and post-production usually takes a lot of time and gets expensive quickly =).
For those curious about what "Hi-Res" meant at the time, there are some screenshots:

http://www.apple2games.com/wiki/Hi-Res_Soccer

http://www.apple2games.com/wiki/Hi-Res_Football

There's also a scan of one of the manuals, without screenshots: https://archive.org/stream/Hi-Res_Football#page/n0/mode/1up
To add to that:

While Nim is garbage collected primarily it can also be used without a GC. However, the many scenarios where going GC-less may be beneficial such as games, web browsers, or kernels where the application cannot afford any pauses during runtime is alleviated by the real-time aspect of Nim's GC which allows you to specify exactly when and for how long you would like it to run (http://nim-lang.org/gc.html).

In this sense Nim is betting on you using the GC for those applications whereas Rust is betting on not using a GC and providing you with tools to manage your memory manually more safely.
I would be willing to wager the shoes on my feet that this indexing system is not written in PHP.
Splunk, SF, CA, two blocks from the Embarcadero.

Python engineer. Fantastic product, very successful, four kegs at work.

We hired someone from one of these threads.

lanstein yahoo com
Amazing.

Article summary: The iPad is just too great to keep.
It worked nicely at OSU when I was a freshman (2002-2003) until the student responsible for setting it up got raided and prosecuted.
Men's voices tend to deepen over time. Almost thirty years later, I remember the simply awful sound of the Beach Boys (upper 30s? early 40s?) trying to sing in the keys they used at 20. Could the middle-aged BBs have thrashed the twenty-something BBs?

(No, I didn't pay for a concert ticket--they were on the radio from the Mall on 4th of July.)