jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
a short interview with Lloyds of London's space underwriter:

http://www.lloyds.com/News_Centre/Features_from_Lloyds/News_...

Q: What special skills does a space underwriter need?

A: With only 150 satellites in orbit and perhaps 25 satellites being launched per year, statistics are less meaningful than most other classes. Instead we have to use experience and engineering judgement to assess the risks. Most space underwriters have some level of engineering support.

At ASIC, the London-based underwriting team is supported by a Canada-based engineering team, with almost 60 years of satellite industry experience between them. Having good engineering support however is only of use if the underwriter can translate the engineering risk assessment into a suitable coverage design, and a thorough detailed bespoke policy wording with no ambiguities.
Although this is great for consumer choice, I shudder when I think of all the corporate heads at telecom companies thinking of how to screw customers on this. The phone becomes a sunk cost and companies can then screw us on a higher go-forward price for their service. This is especially true in Canada where the industry is practically a duopoly.
Or if you need the precision and speed that a physical keyboard provides (until Swype or something changes the game).
'disingenuous to frame the guests as imposing'

this was not my intention. What IS imposing is the guests deciding what the south african hosted world cup's atmosphere/culture should be like. We've had many european-flavoured world cups, but now we have an african one - this is something you may not like or enjoy, but it is what it is.

'There are genuine knocks on globalization. This is not one of them'

You might frame this case as inconsequential, but on the contrary this is a case of 'global cultural dissent'. Ask any southern african (where african is defined as having grown up on the continent) for his/her opinion and it'll unequivocally be in favour of the vuvuzela - for the rationale I cited (It's always been present / it's distinctly african etc.) I could flesh this argument out, but this would take us severely out of context.

To give context, I'm also of the opinion that the vuvuzela's should be filtered for live broadcast - having been to a game highlights the dramatic difference between their effects on-the-ground and recorded. What I find amusing is the attitude towards the instrument and its use live - especially from those who've never been to a game and witnessed it for themselves.

'So, I'm calling BS on this logic'

which logic would you be referring to? The argument that this is a case of globalization?
Yes, I'm an entrepreneur and sometimes I work from home naked. Just because I can do it and nobody will know.
Tangent story [Asking for Permission]

http://kbiri.blogspot.com/2009/01/lens-story-about-yesterday...
At that point you are better off finding a partner. I am sure something can be built on that budget, but it better be very simple!
I love to see PHP vs Haskell debate about productivity while actual work is done in Python.
Spot on comment: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/jesus-what-happened-to-america-our...
2 lbs is totally sustainable. I lost 80 lbs this way and have kept it off for two years.

I would say 10 lbs a month is about average for someone who is motivated and losing weight.
My apologies -- you seem to be correct.
If all you want to do is be notified of events that are happening on your phone (sms, calls) you can use http://code.google.com/p/android-notifier/

It even shows you the phone number and in the case of sms, the contents.
I'm surprised they didn't include Demand Studios in that list. Great way to make a quick $15 when you need it.
It's made to be easy, and part of the effort to do that is making the vocabulary as trivial as internationally feasible. There are languages made to be even more directly understandable, like Interlingua, but they are a bit harder to pick up as an actively used language as you have to learn a lot more words to be able to talk about things. Esperanto provides shortcuts to say a lot with just a basic vocabulary.
Not to mention the infamous Click-N-Run store in LindowsOS from the early 2000s.
I am surprised the negative comments on HN. I worked at Microsoft, where one team followed your policy while another did not and lunch time was always better with the team that had your policy. I think you should really just ignore the comments on HN. Maybe they are missing some kind of context.
And I was down-voted because? :)
Our view is that many people don't want to break out of their existing contracts with their carrier -- which one has to do when porting their current # to GV
Instead of single open access points I would prefer seeing unified mesh network. It is my understanding that the 2.4 GHz spectrum where WiFi is operating is extremely busy, and therefore noisy. Instead of setting up your own AP which competes for a piece of RF spectrum, there should be a way of providing bandwidth and range for neighboring networks. Of course I realize that routing a mesh to internet is quite difficult, so I just keep dreaming on....
I really like this idea, and have been meaning to code up something similar for a while. A few points:

* I would like to set lengths of time shorter than 15 mins.
* If you visit a URL like http://timeslot.me/agendas/#day/2011-4-29 without being logged in then the interface appears, and slightly works. A redirect to the login would be better
* As others have mentioned, drag/drop of tasks and length would be great
* And a random idea: I would quite like to have a "repository" (todo list) of tasks with the length already set which I could drag onto a day.

With the drag and drop functionality I would happily pay a few dollars per month for something like this.
For me, todos wouldn't add much. Todos require something with more sophistication than any calendaring apps I use (BusyCal, iCal or GoogleCal, all at different times.); I use Things, and could probably stand to move to OmniFocus.

You can't beat the frictionless entry of a native application, and it's probably not worth trying. Right now, with some improvements, I can see your app as a way to either replace my current calendar (doubtful right now…native + natural language entry via AlfredApp and QuickCal is hard to beat), OR a way to fluidly plan my day/week in real-time, changing it as I need it. A way, more than anything else, to keep me focused by shooing out any thoughts of planning.

But I may not be your ideal user, and this would be a new tool with efficacy TBD.
Wow, amazing! This was the last reason I was using Chrome. It was literally the one thing they had I couldn't get on other browsers and they kill it.

What an amazing company. Guess I should be happy that I'm now officially done with Google.
There’s zero reason to change 8 digit passwords every 6 months if your /etc/passwd isn’t insecure
I would say that both sides do have common ground, where common ground is lacking is mostly between politicians and the lower/middle class.
Require by who? How? Why?

That authority is given by users basically. And users don't really care about media health.
True pacisfism isn't not congruent with his capitalist leanings. Rand Paul is someone who's very ok with the police beating up and killing black people, so it makes sense that they'd be yelling at him
Totally agree and I wish to those people to leave the place they are currently in and find a better where their skills are truly recognised.
Those are fair problems that I wasn't aware of.
This sounds to me like kind of a roundabout way of saying we should all just accept the status quo without questioning it.

Let's talk about some other status quo questions you should accept:

1. Encryption is bad because the police need to catch bad guys.

2. It's fine and good for Google et all to sell your personal information.

3. Drones are good. We've been in Iraq for 20 years and that's fine and normal.
> Sometimes, we want a zero inconsistency approach to storing objects, so it might make sense to make the identifier (or part of it) the checksum of the content that is to be stored. This guarantees that the underlying content has not been modified.

No, it does not. I come across this false statement again and again. It seems that a lot of developers do not understand what checksums or hashes guarantee and what they absolutely do not guarantee.

Let's set this once and for all:

1. Differing checksums or hashes guarantee that the content is different.
2. Identical checksums or hashes do not guarantee anything. The content could be identical or not.
I think the parent meant the physical building, not the institution.
And, if the rumors are true (the rumors are never true), we'll get Safari 5 on Monday. I'd like to see the browser score then.
There's a difference between rules/law and morality. I don't dispute what he did was against the Metafilter rules but that doesn't in itself make it wrong from a moral standpoint. At least no more wrong than people who post off topic stuff on HN or any number of other minor infractions.
>You have asserted that there was a problem arising from the fact that google.cn's government relations team was all-woman. And then you have asserted that Russia would share that property.

yes, if you look at my original posts, it is my personal opinion. It is based on my experience living the first 30 years of my life in Russia, ie. "just know".

>You didn't back your latter statement with any facts, so I would like to hear some.

I wonder what facts you imagine can be used to back such statement.

>then I would symmetrically declare that I "just know" the opposite

and i'm pretty surprised that you may "just know" the opposite. Have you been/ are you living in Russia?

>and I don't see how it would progress from there.

There is no chance of progress here. It is one of the reasons i left the country (please spare the propaganda that thing have changed during last 10 years - it isn't always working even for people who live there permanently)
His comment had two parts. How would I know you didn't up vote for the poll remark? I'll tell you how... By reading your comment. :-)
"The domains of popular poker sites are no secret among online gambling aficionados."

Since their DNS entries were seized, the IP numbers are about to become "no secret" among online gambling aficiondados.
Maybe it would be okay to use Greplin for company mail stuff where technically the company already owns all of your emails anyway -- of course they'd have to deploy Greplin company wide though.
"I'm always wary of arguments along the lines of 'we weren’t successful because we were too awesome.'"

What do you mean by "we?" Implicit in the Lisp Curse is the distinction between the Lisp language and its users. Furthermore, later in that essay, I wrote:

One result of these secondary and tertiary effects is that, even if Lisp is the most expressive language ever, such that it is theoretically impossible to make a more expressive language, Lispers will still have things to learn from other programming languages. The Smalltalk guys taught everyone -- including Lisp hackers -- a thing or two about object oriented programming. The Clean programming language and the Mozart/Oz combo may have a few surprises of their own.

Note the use of the words "even if" in that first sentence. That means that I'm open to the idea of there being a more expressive programming language than Lisp. Especially after taking a look at languages such as Clean and Mozart/Oz (which I learned about by reading Hacker News). And if such a programming language doesn't exist, then (as I wrote in that paragraph) Lispers would still have to have a measure of humility.

Remember that the essay focuses on expressive power, but no one claims that that is the only thing that matters in a language. I did not imply that much. Paul Graham has noted that libraries are probably more important than the base language, nowadays. I took pains to point out that Lisp hackers aren't innocent. Re-read the section where I compared Lisp hackers being satisfied with Emacs and Smalltalk hackers having stellar development environments.
Can you explain why someone would leave that much money in there? Are there tables that you can bring 250k to? Do these sites pay interest?

How do you trust these sites? A casino in Las Vegas will get huge fines if one of the employees rips off players. How do you know some internal IT guy isn't cheating you?
Cashing out is not working for me...
The short answer is that this is a different beast. Much of the hardware in Macs before the M1 was commodity hardware. Now it is all bespoke and undocumented. This is a big undertaking.
This isn't exactly an answer to your question, but a general piece of advice: you might have more luck if you take your "very technical" product and explain it in a way that others can relate to more easily. Something like "We've built a service that allows programmers to create Android apps from their iOS applications automatically." And then follow that up by explaining that typically building an Android app takes a full-time engineer 6 months at £XXXX/month, while your product makes that unnecessary, so you think you can charge developers £XXX to use it.

When you give a bit of context to what you've accomplished, it shouldn't take someone with a BSc in CS to understand what you're talking about.

All that said, sometimes the best way to find good investors is to just go where they are, as others have mentioned.

EDIT: sibling comment by mseebach beat me to this point by about 5 minutes
If understood “flatmapping monads” as anything other than the name of a band I’m sure I would agree.
"The sentiment you're expressing is the idea that one 2k player is so much better than two 1k rated players that it doesn't make sense to simply sum up each team's rating and keep it even, which is the false assumption that the AoE 2 devs made. Elo is not linear."

It's even better than that. Elo is purely relative. The difference in score between two opponents is what is supposed to predict the likelihood of victory for the two. This means that you can add any constant you like to the entire Elo pool without affecting the Elo rankings at all.

As a matter of aesthetics, when initializing an Elo pool it is nice to try to start with values that will result in nobody having a negative value, because that gives humans the feelbadz, but that's not mathematically necessary; you can run the whole thing deep in the negative billions if that floats your boat.

The Elo math is very much based on two players playing head-to-head. It would be completely broken for almost any other scenario, as multiplayer introduces new degrees of freedom that Elo has nowhere to put. By that I mean that there may be one game for which the team's skill is essentially the max of the members, another for which is it essentially the minimum, and a wide variety of things in between. Elo has nowhere to put that "wide variety", and it was never designed or intended to do so, so that's not a criticism of it. It just isn't what it was for.
A salaried employee is never going to gain anything from this except a small bonus, a marginally higher salary increase than his or her peers, or a pat on the back.
I have a Logitech MX Ergo which I quite like, which is a thumb trackball. I'm not sure how that compares to finger-trackballs though as I've never owned one, but a few friends have things like the Kensington one and like it a lot.
yes, that's the joke. it also wouldn't make the local news.
Citation needed.

If anything, a lot of nations were subjugated with the help of or by the US.
I know it's irrational. That's not my point.
I guess I'm extremely fortunate; I had two: one in economics and one in accounting. I very nearly switched my major to economics or accounting because of them. I ended up with different teachers for next-level courses and realized it was the teachers and not the discipline that I found appealing.
it certainly helped

That was my experience as well, having learned vi before emacs. Unfortunately back then computers were scarce and I frequently shared my account with friends less pleased with this strategy. One even thought it was a joke On him and after he eventually got his own account he got "even" with me by putting 'nice 5' in my .login, which I didn't find for weeks...
The article posits that the question of cheating isn't a matter of catching or punishing the students. It's a matter of creating engaging learning experiences and treating students as the teacher's customers. A student will only get from a class what they want to get out of it; seek a grade at any cost and you'll find a way to earn it, seek to learn at any cost and you'll come away better off (and likely with a good grade to boot.)

So the way I see it, a teacher does have two options: (1) try to force students to learn by trying to make "learning" the only way to earn a better grade, or (2) try to encourage students to learn by trying to make "learning" feel like the rewarding experience it should be. Note that neither of these approaches involves catching or punishing students, nor does it involve forcing students to learn in order to achieve a better grade. If in the end you're a student who finds yourself with the same grade as someone who cheated their way through the class, so long as you got what you paid for (an education), why should you care?
Writing code is also very important and should be taught in CS school. As stupid as it sounds, but the best way might be in the middle. Giving tasks to create code and also giving task to reuse and change code. That is how our teachers try to teach us and I feel acceptably comfortable in both situations, writing a new program as well as moving around in other peoples code.

One thing I want to add: The really bad thing about these "reusing" students is, that they have no skill to see which code to reuse. Most code you find with google is just duct taped itself. And trying to solve any problem with ducttaping an already ducttaped monster is ridiculous. What I saw in my undergrad classes from my classmates was so bad to read and use, that I decided for myself to write a lot by myself and don't rely on others. That got so far, that in one project I wrote my own linked list instead of using the Java's basic one. Of course that is a little too far, but makes for a small, funny story. I'm still not a really big fan of reusage, because design and engineering is something that is treated to lighthearted by many many coders out there. Until you are finished analysing all the options, you often have constructed your own solution and learned more about the innards on the way.
Which is smart if they're going for SEO. That button shows up everywhere.

Case in point, do a search for "Click here": http://www.google.com/search?q=click+here That's the ubiquity of the default generated code for inserting a Flash file on a web page.

PayPal has likely spent a ton of resources on figuring out exactly what is the best text to put there (and in what format), because they don't get to change it after the fact.
After college, I have taken many classes and taught many classes. All of them involve the student paying the instructor to teach them something. If the student does not want to learn, he will not show up, let alone pay his own money to the teacher. If the teacher doesn't teach well, he won't get any paying students.

There are no exams, and there is no cheating, because there is simply no point to either. Though there is homework.
Depends on your location and your pipe, I suppose. I expect simple pages like this to be returned and rendered within a second.
Webkit's resource tracker shows that most of the static content is taking anywhere from 10-14 seconds to be requested, and then loading with a 304 not modified.

The page, from the news.ycombinator subdomain is loading quick, as is the tracking code. (180ms latency)

Firefox works the best for me, as it seems to just time out and not request anything.
Where would that "saner content" be?
During my rescue diver training there was a fair amount of time spent on crowd control during an emergency. For instance an incident on a boat, on shore or in the water. How do you handle spectators? Who is responsible for what? On a boat, for example, you might specifically ask one or two people to keep eyes on a distressed swimmer. When diving, there is a hierarchy based on experience and when diving you know the experience level of your fellow divers. More or less, everyone knows their roles.

In a situation like this someone needs to step up and assist. Contrast this to Patraeus fainting, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtZSkGvARCg, during testimony to congress. One of his aides was assisting him within 8 seconds. I imagine his aides are military and consequently trained responders. Nevertheless, assisting could be as simple as getting someone a chair and/or keeping them from smashing their head on the floor. The most important thing is to specifically assign someone the role of calling 911.
There is a nice thread @ Typophile dealing with a similar situation: http://typophile.com/node/61920
Awesome. I really dig DC and have been throwing the idea of moving out to San Fran for some immersion but maybe this will broaden the culture here.
Whenever an item about sexism in tech or harassment in conferences comes up on HN, this guy ownz the comments: http://privilegedenyingdude.tumblr.com/post/1600786503
From my understanding, the current data is not free. Yes, it's fully accessible, but to get access to the whole thing you would need to either scrape the site which Twitter will most likely disallow, or use the API, whose access Twitter controls.
well GTd methodology is great, but following it to a "t" is a bit much, I have a little Nugget from GTD that works for me- it's the process of "categorizing" your life and actions.

I basically structure my inbox with categories (like categorizing tasks but doing it with email) and send myself emails of individual action items that get categorized.

Then I can filter by category and focus on 1 project at a time.. been working great for me for several years and I feel insanely more productive!
My theory is that it hasn't quite hit the fan yet.

Microsoft and mobile handsets hangs by a thread at Nokia. If Nokia fails, and it probably will, that's it for Microsoft and "devices" as in a "devices and services company."

That means Microsoft can wait a decade or two for the Next Big Thing, while it watches Android take 50% or more of enterprise endpoints. And that is enough to make a dent in revenue.
Vanguard is holding 358m shares as of June 30th. Ballmer is sitting on 333m shares. Gates is holding 460m shares according to this USA Today article:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/08/23/ballmer-micros...

Although Yahoo Finance is reporting him at 398m shares.
Yes (assuming the author is correct in calling it a 5150), but it seems doubtful that a clip of any length would play on a stock, non-upgraded PC.
If a platform has to work this hard to define and explain what it is, it might not be that great of a platform.

Still unsold: Why is Medium better for individual expression than starting your own blog?

Further: If SEO is doing what it should do, why should I care how my articles are arranged on my own site? What genuine advantage does Medium offer regular, non-hyper-connected authors (especially in it's current, invite-only publishing state)?
So are you saying that the researchers went to Sushi shops and only tested sushi that was labeled as "white tuna" and deliberately avoided samples that were just labeled "tuna"?

The study claims that 95% of tested sushi places were selling mislabeled seafood, but you claim that selling "white tuna" is not common. Can you give us a bit more to go on here?

I really wish tacking CSV files of the raw data onto the end of papers was more of a thing... Charts are such a royal pain in the ass if you are trying to find information that the authors aren't intentionally spoon-feeding you with them.