jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> They’re trying to draw more attention to it

That’s what they are claiming, but there are many ways (probably a lot better), of drawing attention to taxes, aside from forcing you to go through a bad process.

Additionally, if they were truthful about what they are saying, they should be trying to draw attention to government budgets and make them transparent, i.e. how much the government spends and collects.

Government spending is out of control, and clearly people being forced to file their taxes through a crappy system hasn’t fixed that. Why would anyone ever think that keeping things as they are will do it?
> The biggest problem with these posts is that authors seem to fail to see how K8s isn't targeting home servers or small companies.

Indeed.

On the same bus one should be reading posts like "how I switched to a minivan for my family and dropped the complexity of enterprise-grade multi-carriage trains".
Throaway to not get sued.

E-ink, the company, holds the patents of the pigment core tech that makes "paper-like" displays possible and strongarms the display manufacturers and the users of their displays to absolute silence. Any research project or startup that comes up with a better alternative technology gets bought out or buried by their lawyers ASAP.

E-ink don't make the display themselves, they make the e-ink film, filled with their patented pigment particles and sell it to display manufacturers who package the film in glass and a TFT layer and add a driver interface chip, all of which are proprietary AF and unless you're the size of Amazon, forget about getting any detailed datasheets about how to correctly drive their displays to get sharp images.

In my previous company we had to reverse engineer their waveforms in order to build usable products even though we were buying quite a lot of displays.

With so much control over the IP and the entire supply chain and due to the broken nature of the patent system, they're an absolute monopoly and have no incentive to lower prices or to bring any innovations to the market and are a textbook example of what happens to technology when there is zero competition.

So, when you see the high prices of e-paper gadgets, don't blame the manufacturers, as they're not price gouging, blame E-ink, as their displays make up the bulk of the BOM.

Tough, some of their tech is pretty dope. One day E-ink sent over a 32" 1440p prototype panel with 32 shades of B&W to show off. My God, was the picture gorgeous and sharp. I would have loved to have it as a PC monitor so I tried building an HDMI interface controller for it with an FPGA but failed due to a lack of time and documentation. Shame, although not a big loss as an estimated cost for that was near the five figure ballpark and the current consumption was astronomical, sometimes triggering the protection of the power supply on certain images.
One important fact to take into account is that the cost of labor in the middle ages cannot really be compared to today's minimum wage. The calculation based on $7.25 an hour, coming to $3500, is a bit of a hyperbole [1].

In fact, even today in many places in the world (India and Africa come to mind), artisans still produce fabrics, clothes and other low-tech products by hand for way less than American minimum wage [2].

I'm not a historian by any means, but it is my understanding that before the industrial revolution the major cost of production was the cost of materials, and the cost of labor was marginal. Contrast this with modern production, which is continually occupied with reducing the cost of labor, either by automation or by offshoring to third-world countries.

[1] Of course, any kind of cost comparison across 8 centuries is suspect. A quick search produced this: http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng240/medieval_prices.html

A peasant's linen chemise is listed as costing 8d in 1313, which is equivalent in purchasing power to anywhere between GBP 22.30 to 5970, depending on the index, according to this:

http://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/result.php?year_sour...

[2] http://www.bls.gov/fls/ shows cost of labor for different countries in recent years. According to the site the average hourly compensation in India in 2010 was $1.46.
For one there is the Openmoko Neo Freerunner (GTA02) which has a US version. It also has a seperated baseband only connected by some serial and audio lines.
Motorsports are about the most even, but consistent winning is probably another generation out since car time is so important.
Interesting idea. But I question the overall security philosophy of a project that includes so many suspected to be weak, known to be weak, or provably weak algorithms, e.g., MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1, and DES.

If this is for serious security, DROP THOSE NOW. Sorry to scream, but the sooner we stop using them, the better.

I also wouldn't spend a lot of time on AES 256, given some of the recently described weaknesses that reduce it to by many bits of strength. Better to work on CAST5, e.g.

Better yet, work on the RNG. Make sure the RNG is cryptographically secure. Without a cryptographically secure RNG, all the key derivation algorithms are pretty much useless.
"If the effectiveness of a justice system is seen in terms of rate of incarceration, then the society that takes that view does not sound particularly as though it believes in freedom as a fundamental value, but rather prefers values like retribution and security through deferment to authority."

There are certain behaviors that the society has to be protected from, right? After all, freedom doesn't mean much if i.e. you can be attacked, killed or have your properly stolen without consequences. Incarceration might not be a particular effective method, but how else do you propose such cases should be dealt with?

it becomes patently ridiculous to try and justify it by claiming people in the US are that much less moral than other people

Not saying that people in the US are "less moral", as this could create the wrong impression, still US do appear to have significantly higher rates in homicides and violent crimes. I.e.

"In 2004, there were 5.5 homicides for every 100,000 persons, roughly three times as high as Canada (1.9) and six times as high as Germany (0.9)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#Inte...

"I know you don't subscribe to these stances and say that they are just other possible explanations

The reason that I am looking for other possible explanations is that I don't feel the massively higher number of incarceration that you are mentioning is reflected by a similarly massive difference in the laws, culture and practices of the US compared to other developed countries. I mean, simply put, what are the things that in the US would get you in jail and they wouldn't in, let's say, the UK? Somehow I don't feel they are that many to justify a massive difference in incarceration numbers.
With AMP, it should always be possible to use pure in place of return.

https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Functor-Applicative-Mona...
there is now a browser extension which does this automatically https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22659216
We need innovation and quick thinking. Proper pivoting. One example is UK Restaurant Chain Leon pivoting to retail [1]. Another is restaurants becoming or setting up satellite Ghost Kitchens [2], perhaps moving to cheaper or more evenly spread locations in the mean time.

For HN, we now have a whole new set of problems. We are no longer supporting, enabling or competing with existing institutions and structures - we're building systems that will save them and in the process define new ways of getting food to plate and co-ordinating the people and payments involved.

We have food. We have people. We have new constraints. Solve for X :o)

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51996773

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_kitchen
I like the Czech pragmatism. Obviously it is not perfect, but anything that obstructs droplets even a bit is helping to flatten the curve, and that's what you want right now. This is one of the most reasonable and easy and pragmatic rules I have seen so far. It seems clearly superior to telling people, because there is a shortage, that masks are not preventing an infection, implying that they don't help.
Pranayanama, the ancient breathing technique practiced by yogis, focuses on various types breathing exercises including Diaphragmatic Breathing.. it is explained in Adham Pranayanama.
Grocery Outlet's store brand of bread has been $1.59 a loaf for a long time. White or whole wheat.
He said "was used". Bitcoin was run on CPUs and GPUs for a long time. Ethereum and other coins are still good on PCs i think.
I don’t think it’s a matter of finding something 0-risk as much as it is reducing risk as much as possible. And I think drive through with 0 contact between patrons and employees helps with that.

I’ve been in crowds just two times in the past couple weeks, both were at grocery stores.
You can turn Gatekeeper off.
> What about the filesystem drivers? Should each application developer pick those?

KIO vs GVFS? :)
Whenever I look up the definition of ADHD, I can't find myself in it. But I share one thing: Disability to focus on things I don't care about. That is, sadly, almost everything, including coding. At some point, sheer necessity and time pressure together start to cause me so much mental pain, that I'm able to push through regardless.

Now, with all that said. Sometimes, I actually can focus on coding. Maybe even enjoy doing so. But that'll never be enough to catch up with people who genuinely like doing that all day, every day.

How do ADHD people deal with this? Knowing that you never will be consistently good at your job?
>I haven't even really thought about it

I hope that is the case, and I hope your posts aren't indicative of your mindset and worldview, because you come across as very whimsical and insecure--two qualities that I can assure you are not conducive to actually generating the kind of wealth you apparently desire.
The things I want to do aren't expensive, but they weren't supposed to be. But they're things that would prevent me from making money, which means that I need some other way to pay for the other things that I'm paying for now that I want.

And while you argue that I'm clueless about human nature, I'd argue that you are. It's human nature to want more, even if it is only temporary. In fact most things I want to do provide only short-term satisfaction. I know that and I'm fine with that. The things that give long-term satisfaction are generally free, but those aren't the things I want money for.
If being your own brand is so important than why not just get your own domain name. Also, these profiles on about.me seem to just provide short bio with some links to twitter, flickr, facebook, linked, etc... You could do just do this directly on your tumblr, posterous, linkedin etc.. page.

Someone posted a link today to the PG essay on stuff. The site about.me makes me realize that maybe sometimes people collect too much virtual stuff. About.me seems to be just more social clutter in the tangled spider-web of a user's online profile. I don't see how about.me adds more value.
I'd probably cancel skypeout too if we didn't use Skype to IM and run chatrooms at my (virtual) workplace.
Based on feedback we put together a tutorial for using IndexTank from Ruby:

http://indextank.com/documentation/tutorial-ruby

I would love to know if it's useful, or what's missing from it.
Agree re doing something completely different. I have an old diesel F350 that I work on. The work is physical, tangible and dirty as hell. I find I'm completely refreshed and ready for more 1's and 0's when I'm done.

Also, make sure you have a way to give yourself credit at the end of the day for all the work you've done. Often it feels like you've achieved nothing, but if you look at the list of checked off items on your TODO list, or your list of code checkins it'll give you a healthy sense of accomplishment.
Will it delete your comments as well?
Awesome, but way too short. To be really interesting, make it 5 times longer and more detailed.
I'm too lazy to look this up, but did the video get smaller or larger with the iteration number? This is more interesting to me than the look
I believe I did say "and the bad parts". I agree - there are lots of bad parts to JS - I often wish it could be remade without the bad parts. However, a lot of these bad parts can be mitigated with sane conventions - that's what Crockford's "Good Parts" is all about. If you haven't read it, I highly suggest it.

I can't speak for Ruby, but in many ways JS is more powerful than Python, especially on the functional side of the house.
> By definition, a person who is working only because he must will not get a fair wage. One side has leverage, one does not. So the worker gets screwed.

By the same definition, a person who is hiring because he must also will not get a fair wage. He needs to get the job done, so the laborer can charge him an unfairly high price.

Of course, it doesn't work that way. While a person needs to work, he doesn't necessarily need to work at your job. And while an employer needs a job done, he doesn't necessarily need you to do it.

Wages are fair in a free market because workers hunt around to find the highest employers will offer, and employers hunt around to find the lowest laborers will settle for. The result is a nice compromise between the lowest people will work for and the highest people will pay.

Do you have a better definition of what would make a wage fair?
sigh
These types of companies sound like amazing places to work.

At the same time, it is somewhat depressing because they don't seem to hire non-programmers. I'd love to work in an environment like this, but do any of these awesome companies hire 30-year old MBA grads who are technical but don't program?!
My comment on the blog: I disagree that emailing strangers makes you a entrepreneur. But, I do agree with the spirit of what he's saying that to be a successful entrepreneur you do have to step out of your comfort zone and contact those that you don't know.
See here's the problem with the layman: Yahoo Answers.

I didn't have health insurance for years and to cure some maladies I would look it up online. Forums of laypeople just get bogged down multi-page threads full of speculation and misinformation. Sure, you get some real answers once in a while but for the most part its just all anecdotal suggestions, 'you have cancer' or 'drink some more tea' type comments.

Maybe the comment system for laypeople would have to be validated by some sort of 'buried until proven legitimate' type of user rating system.

And as far as malpractice goes, there are many medical advice sites there are out there with legitimate doctors. Usually they just preface everything with "consult your doctor first". I think the difference between this and that would be its objectiveness - the doctors wouldn't necessarily be offering up advice, just suggesting & voting on tests and treatments.

What the medical world would think of it, I don't know. That's up for the market to decide I'd think right?
The second sponsor (hostgator.com) has taken this approach. They're sponsoring for two months.
Thanks, I've only used PPAs for apps and such, didn't realize people put kernels up too. Though like you say, probably would only use that for a virtual machine instance, will wait till the next kernel patch for my base workstation.
Let the bidding war... begin!Bidding is over! The ex-antimatter goes to...
http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/ is the source for the Go compilers and standard library. Very clean, clear code in the Bell Labs tradition.
It's written in java and it just isn't quite the same as the old next quantrix. Doesn't play as nice as native nextstep quantrix does.
Hopefully, you'll add some RSS feeds for your various sections, including the comic (with the images!).

If a webcomic doesn't have an RSS feed, it doesn't really exist.
I hear the new API is pretty sexy
Cheald, could yu run this test:

function numNumNum() {
var I;
var num = 10;
for (I = 0; I < 10; I++) {
num = num + num + num + num + num - num;
}
}

See if that changes the results?
There's some back and forth on our Plancast link for the NYC event tonight and I'm responding to each.

Just a heads up for anyone coming to Dogpatch. We're limited to 100 attendees so try to get there as early as possible. I'll be over at 5:30 PM to help set up.

Next time we do this and in order to keep seats/spots numbers, I'm going to move back to our usual service of Anyvite. We decided to stay with Plancast since someone already created a plan there and there was enough interest that I decided to leave the RSVP there. Sorry about the confusion for folks in NYC - been trying my best to manage this here on the ground.
I'm mostly a gym rat, but there's an excellent bouldering spot nearby. I'm not too interested in top-roping or lead climbing...it gets too expensive too quickly.

I know this is off-topic, but I've contemplated this question for years. Why aren't there better technology services/products for outdoor sports in general? I've attempted a few "adventure sport" themed projects, but they never seem to take off. I think there's a paradox between my love for technology and my love for the outdoors. I enjoy both immensely, but they don't go very well together.

Best of luck! I would be interested in hearing some stats (daily reach, submission stats, etc.) when you have them available.
Really neat!

Any plans on open sourcing the formatting library?

It's a good functionality, but (at least for me) would mainly be useful for view-layer on-the-fly formatting, and we wouldn't use an remote API request for that.

Sort of like Strip's jQuery.payment[1], it would be a simple and clever marketing trick. People searching for a phone number formatting library are just the people you want to sell your services to.

EDIT: just found libphonenumber, which does local formatting[2]

[1] https://github.com/stripe/jquery.payment
[2] https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber
Periclean Athens, Elizabethan London, and Quattroceno Florence all had astonishing concentrations of artistic vitality; none of those were in economic decline.
As a child, I remember watching a special on TV about how children across the globe go to school.

What struck me than (and has re-surfaced now) was when they showed how children in the remote parts of the Australian outback "attended school".

Basically, they did everything via radio. E.g. the teacher would say "Here is a problem. Bobby, what is the answer? Great! Now Mary, what is the answer to the homework problem #7 from last night?"

You can find out more details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Air
I gave you an expanded textbook definition. Here’s Wikipedia’s: “Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.”

Have you been to the DPRK? Who told you the means of production there aren’t controlled democratically by workers? Was it perhaps media owned by capitalists with a vested interest in slandering alternatives to capitalism?
This is a tad ironic. It's like backhandedly saying "we're so great that foreign nations wouldn't miss a chance to spy on us" but at the same time this great nation allowed its Capitol building to be ravished by a group of citizens. There are infinitely bigger concerns about this event than what this thread presents.
does it? Seems pretty up to me...
We economists call this rational, as folks are minimizing their costs.

IT says no to or unnecessarily complicates acquiring a needed product? Fine. In Excel it goes.

It never matters how un-auditable the mess is. That never enters the calculus.
That is directional evidence, not the kind of evidence needed for a study like this.

Assuming we accounted for every one of those court cases, would that nudge the data? Are there 100x cases that 'never made it to court' for every case that did, or only 2?

How wide is that Gaussian distribution of assertive policing? Is it limited to a specific unit? Or a specific tactic, i.e. no-knock warrants?

What was the nature of 'over policing' in those cases, vs. the kind of issues that police face daily? Because typically, it's going to be the 'egregious' issues that go to court, probably not 'the little things' and of course the 'little things' might be the real problem, or not.

Are some police letting people off the hook for serious things aka "I saw you with that gun in your belt, son, I'm not going to ruin your life in this moment because you remind me of me when I was your age, but you need to get that thing home and put it away, if I see you on this block again I'm going to check up on you". Which FYI might actually in some ways be a rational policing tactic - or not - it's hard to know.

Or is it almost entirely a function of profiling and the likelihood for police to act given certain bits of information, whereupon the actual type of applied policing might be the same?

Maybe it's the reaction of the offenders - perhaps young men of colour are really that much more likely to not flinch when someone 'who looks like them' approaches?

Paradoxically 'more policing' in the broadest sense seems to lead to less crime, at least by some measures [1], but that doesn't take into account level of assertion.

There are too many variables to just assume that police are, in most cases under or over policing with respect to application of the law.

[1] https://around.uoregon.edu/content/study-finds-largely-black...
Companies usually give in to avoid bad press so we’d be unlikely to hear about it. In this case the leak is public knowledge now so CDPR have even less incentive to pay.
Add to this that there is a lot of research that goes into production processes and translation from a basic-sciences setting to a production setting.

So, say you have a novel antibody, you have to have a ton of non-academic researchers who have to figure out how to make the thing stable, safe, scalable, deliverable, cost-effective, etc.

It's all research, just not university-style research.
You're right, my unconscious bias made me object to offensive rhetoric. I should be better.
I had a doctor chew me out for expressing skepticism about something the medical industry was saying. This is why I have skepticism.

This is also why there are some conspiracy theories. This was a conspiracy, and who knows what other conspiracies there are.

If scientits want people to trust the body of knowledge that people wrongfully call science (science is a process, see https://gavinhoward.com/2019/11/what-science-is/), they need to prove they are trustworthy. But they are not. See https://gavinhoward.com/2019/12/replication-and-retraction-c....
Some good 20s and 30s jazz can be found here, too

http://www.jazz-on-line.com/
It might be a stunt, but sophisticated investors that aren't tech savvy are scared to death of this pandering. Furthermore, it justifies so many people's public position on bitcoin. After all, if you say it enough it must be true.

How do I start a petition for his resignation - at least from the Senate banking committee? As far as stunts go, this one at least serves a meaningful cause.
I'm sure there's a flatsat somewhere, but probably without the optics or sunshield...
I'm not sure where he's get expensive from: 3% is entirely in line with payment processing costs.

As for the other stuff, yeah it seems fairly dickish but at the same time they've clearly stated they're working on APIs to make it require less work.
Just to clarify, your first sentence couldn't be more wrong. Varoufakis is a Marxist-style activist who has dedicated his life to advocating for placing power in the hands of regular citizens and taking it away from those who currently have it.

The utter misunderstanding is something I imagine comes from the fact that in this particular article, he's critical of the particular ways that cryptocurrency movements are shifting power. He doesn't think they are shifting it in a useful enough way and is skeptical that they really will end up shifting it much at all.