jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
IANAL, but i think there's an argument to be made that a congressional vote held under duress (like any other contract) is invalid.

Ultimately, the question of who controls the US government (and its monopoly on the legitimate use of force) falls to "who can order the army to collect taxes from the states". In the absence (or ambiguity) of guidance from the representatives of the states, the decision would come down to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US armed forces, to decide whose orders he takes and to give the nuclear football to somebody.
It is important to note that the Keiretsu are split vertically, no two companies within a keiretsu should be direct competitors.

At least such was the case. A major counter example is Mitsui and Sumitomo. The Mitsui and Sumitomo banks merged, which triggered partial merges of other Keiretsu companies: except the real estate. Mitsui Real Estate and Sumitomo Real Estate still operate as competitors. Both developing new housing complexes and office towers.
What? Is the merchandise rioting now?

This is idiotic and is a non sequitur to the unadvised happenings at the Capitol.

This is a political statement that says only some political views are acceptable and others are not approved.

It’s so blatant.
It really depends how that process is adopted. If it's organically in-house grown and it does makes sense then it becomes a synergic glue. If it's imposed top down from the outside because "that company does it, lets follow suit" then it can become a pain and cause more harm than good. I liken that to goo.
Since everyone is recommending Spectacle/Rectangle, I just want to chime in that I tried that, and Yabai, and ended up settling on Moom.

What you can't have is focus follows mouse, however. Moom gets me everything else I want.
Nah, I just wanted to play some basic 2D games like Cogmind, Factorio, Slay the Spire and Pyre whilst abroad. It was one of the main selling points of the XPS, that it was an ultra-light that you could play a few games on.

I certainly didn't fancy a gaming laptop that's all compromises and no upsides just to play mindless AAA titles.

But the problem with the XPS is they jammed as much processing power as they could. It's great in theory having a Nvidea card as well as an i7, but it just can't handle both running at above half capacity.
OT: I'm very tempted to be an asshole smug lisp weenie, and make some Greenspun's rule joke, but instead I'm going to try to be helpful. Ruby hackers pride themselves for being early adopters of new and cool technology, learning new skills, and libraries. What I've failed to notice is any interest in the old technologies, from which ruby got most of its good ideas(lisp, smalltalk). There is tremendous value in learning from the past(a lot of really good ideas didn't make it to the "cool kids languages" of today). This isn't specific to ruby, but its a good example. So my attempt at useful advice is: do learn lisp, instead of reinventing the wheel badly.

Anyway, I've been thinking about this kind of stuff, and it seemed like a good opportunity to mention it.
What's wrong with running a business indefinitely with modest growth? There are tens and thousands of small businesses all over the world that survive for years and years and their owners genuinely enjoy running them.
I think your comment on share buy backs is not steeped in reality. Moreoever, share price is not always tied to fundamental value of a company. For value stocks, it is. But for tech companies (growth stocks), it is often tied to implied or expected growth. And if Page can't articulate where that growth will come from, the stock price can get hurt.
I think you're missing the mark if you condemn "Web development" as a whole just because enterprise culture is pathological.
"Your comment makes me wonder if Dropbox has an exit strategy. Or if they're going to do like Digg and sit there until the entire industry moves on."

Those are not the only two alternatives.
I’m not sure many people in Portugal would call “açorda" a soup. The most common variety has the consistency of mashed potatoes and is either a course in itself (when mixed with prawns, for example) or used as a side for meat.
I still like a generic job server like gearman better. You can do sync, async, back the queue with memory, mysql, tokyo cabinet ... and if you have a need of PHP clients talking to Python consumers no, problem as well. Those libraries exist.
I think you just won startup buzzword bingo ... congrats!! :)
It's a big UX design problem to come up with something demonstrably better than a series of saved milestone copies plus Word's "Track Changes" feature.

The milestone copies are the equivalent of commits. If your doc is in Dropbox you probably get them for free, but there's definitely room to improve the interface to those old copies.

Track Changes is the prose version of "diff", plus it lets you put in editorial annotations which are kind of akin to commit messages.

I expect that the designer who attacks the problem will quickly realize that prose is just much less clearly structured than code. Code is built of very simple syntax, grouped into lines, which are grouped into blocks, which are often named as functions and then called from other bits of code via tightly defined interfaces. This is done to make the code easier to change, and it simultaneously makes the changes easier to track, easier to categorize and label and annotate. (That's not a coincidence; "making the diffs neater" and "making the code easier to change" are aspects of the same task.)

Prose does not look or work like code. It is not DRY, not at any level of abstraction from the grammar (change "he" to "she" and you may have to edit a lot of other words, not necessarily confined to one sentence or one paragraph) to the semantics (because English doesn't have a gender-neutral pronoun, a substitution of "he" for "she" threatens to alter the actual meaning of a sentence, and of adjacent sentences) to the theme (in 2010, a novel about a man who becomes President of the USA is necessarily different from a novel about a woman who becomes President of the USA). And so it is a lot of work -- work beyond the powers of a simple algorithm -- to detect which edits are logically grouped with which other edits. Composing sensibly organized "commits" and writing the "commit messages" for each revision of The Waste Land would probably be harder than writing the poem itself. Just ask one of the historians, whose job it is to do so.

If you are a historian with all the time in the world, an Etherpad session of T.S. Eliot composing The Waste Land would be awesome. But would it have been so awesome to Eliot? Or would it have been only marginally more useful than his typed and scribbled hard-copy revisions? Or maybe even less useful? Forgetting is a very useful skill. We've got fancy mental mechanisms for managing the process, and those mechanisms evolved for a reason.
Zecter's _Zumocast_ app just got picked by Macworld as one of the best apps of the year, incidentally: http://www.macworld.com/article/156321/2010/12/appgems_media...
I find your second paragraph unsettling and it took me a while to see why. It's because, I believe, your premise is (mostly) wrong. The advertisement is effective because the culture does not condone destruction of perfectly good gadgets. Instead it makes us cringe, it's like burning a twenty; it's just not done. And that's why it's effective.

(Not that I'd give this an up-vote.)
Yea, MS's vendor lock-in is old and well-known and part of why MS was considered evil.
lol reminded me of this:
http://www.jokeawhenever.com/archive/media/pictures/horror_m...
Thanks -- I've seen that. I'm just going to make frequent backups and hope that lack of journaling doesn't bite me in the ass o_O
Hasn't he been there for some time now?
Right. Say anything in an interview to suggest you won't work 60 hour weeks every week and you're suddenly not a good culture fit.

Workaholism is a real problem in North America I guess
You are still not addressing the point despite wording clarifications that addressed your original quibbles.
Well, some of them are. With a rather large probability, libraries I would need are not.
Oooo... does Rust have a good way to do this with submodules instead of copies?
Basic income is not enough to cover everything..
Obsidian, which uses markdown, supports tables and has several community plugins available that make manipulating tables much easier. http://obsidian.md
At least someone is thinking about all of these things...
Creating “useful” compounds from atmospheric green house gasses isn’t some “have your cake and eat it, too” type thing. It is going to be extremely inefficient and expensive. Emitting less is still cheaper.
The linked article talks about this timing issue a bit, including samples of what happens if you print too soon on a physical printer while the CR is still physically happening (in the "flyback" section).
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David French is a conservative (and very Catholic) American political commentator, one of the OG never-trumpers. Like many people like that - at least, the ones who aren't hopeless hacks - political developments (in the US) of the last few years have made him Work Through Some Stuff™. This article is, in his pundit-ish way, part of that process. I don't think his analysis and takes are beyond critique and there's been plenty of it. But I also don't think any of his serious critics believe his efforts are in bad faith, whether they agree with his analyses or not. It's still interesting stuff and I think it's a mistake to dismiss it because some reflexive tick of his stuck in your craw. To use your own example, in context, it's a lot less craw-sticky than dismissing rights issues as 'identity politics'!
By having yet another discussion about OSI's version of the term "Open Source", and in particular about whether restriction in military use is covered by the "Fourth Freedom" (or wherever they postulate absence of purpose restrictions).

NB there's no such thing as an "Open Source community", just individuals and orgs with different goals: some want to show off, some want additional maintainers if at all possible, some want to give away their complement, some want to establish an alternative to a competitor's product, some want to promote a language or format, some want xGPL for political reasons, yet others don't care at all
I think you aren't understanding the answers we're giving you. There is no difference between asking "why does my brain have my consciousness" and asking "why does my head have my face". It is exactly the same question.
It took me several years, when I was part time (my first two years) I think I was billing about 40. When I jumped to full time I went to 75 and over a year or two slid it up to 85. I got a call about 10 years ago for a weekend gig doing some perf tuning on a web app and they offered me 150/hr, asked if that was sufficient (It was a large company, they were used to big firm rates). I just about died trying to contain my glee and not be to emphatic with the yes I gave them.

From that point I started negotiations out around 125 or more depending on the client. The whole thing gave me confidence that people would pay more for my skills. Funny, I probably only made 4K that weekend all told, but in a sense I made hundreds of thousands because it taught me to charge more. Only a couple times since then has someone dismissed the idea of hiring me because of rates.

Honest truth: I have been in this range for too long, I worried back when the economy tanked in 2008 that I would have to cut rates but it never really happened. Time to start raising them so new engagements I am now quoting a higher rate.
What would the percentage be, if it were random?
Variety is good but Microsoft has an ugly history with standards and that is very hurtful to the ecosystem.

They promised that they have changed in regards to that, but those are just words in the wind, time will tell on that. Also, they were lagging behind HTML5 standards for a long time, then they sort of caught up, now they are lagging behind on ECMAScript 6 features.

Every time I check, it is Microsoft's fault that I still can't use an otherwise widely implemented feature.

Quality implementation and standards adoption is the name of the game in the browser market. After 10+ years in that market, my opinion is that they have neither. The only reason they are still playing is end-user and corporate inertia.
Where did you hear that? This is from June 2014 [0]:

Unfortunately Microsoft does not break out its Bing revenue separately (and a Microsoft spokesperson referred us back to the earnings release when asked) so exactly how much Bing rakes in is anyone's guess, but the company did note Bing managed a 40% ad revenue increase in its recent fourth quarter ended June. CEO Satya Nadella, one-time leader of the division, also noted Bing would reach breakeven within two years.

So Nadella thinks it'll break even in 2016.

0. http://www.thestreet.com/story/12821420/1/microsoft-is-using...
They're not exactly for Joe Bloke the Safari user.
The basic system call, execve, requires that you specify the environment explicitly. The whole idea of an inherited environment is a construct of shells and historic libc functions, and the libc functions that do not have an explicit environment should be deprecated. The man page examples show constructing the environment from scratch, which is best practise: you should never refer to the whole environment, just access individual items from it, ie never reference environ, just getenv etc.
It's too bad you're unaware of the calculation problem and its consequences.

Also, let's reverse your argument -

"you make the free-market the source of all evil. blame a lack of regulation, blame the people working in corporations, regulate their pay as well. what happens? free-market service will suck. no one qualified wants to work there. a self fulfilling prophecy."
Mike continues to contribute to the standard long after he's left Google
> Latency != bandwidth

No, but latency has a linear relationship with throughput

Test at page at 1Mbps thorough 10Mbps and 25ms RTT and watch how small the performance gains are above 5Mbps, then do the same with 10 to 200ms RTT and 10Mbps and watch performance dive.
As we mention in the intro to the guide, we don't address product-market-fit questions in the handbook (or other things you need to figure out in the earliest stages of your company creation) - we are really focused on the time between seed and Series B and hiring is a key aspect of that phase.
Context is important. My team is a web systems team. I wouldn't expect someone that has written flight software to know the answers. I would expect someone that is advertising themselves as a senior web developer or web systems guy to.
Yes and virtue signalling that will only drive a large segment of public opinion highly against them. I'm completely against Trump but doing a mass political purge of everything associated him will only prove a lot of the things his rabid followers say about social media platforms as true. I'm just hoping it won't be followed by employee retribution for holding political views that agreed with the president. We don't need more division in this country.
We (the Linux kernel community) put a lot of work into scalability back then. One time we delayed a Red Hat release several weeks due to a persistent bit flip on an NFS filesystem on one of our stress tests that we thought was a kernel bug. It ultimately turned out to be a broken Cisco switch that was happily fixing up the CRC and checksums on the NFS packets it was bit flipping.
This looks interesting so far, thank you.
You have lost a sense of perspective. People storming the capital was symbolic act ( with some violence ). Move by Google will likely have repercussions beyond that violence and that storm. Some of us horrified, because that song is always the same.
Even if that's true, that doesn't prove the incorrect assertion that "BLM protestors stormed the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse with weapons while chanting about killing their representatives". The dog-piling and deflection is very cool though, definitely keep doing that if you want to be taken seriously.

Also, please try to link reputable sources in the future: https://www.opb.org/article/2021/01/07/portland-mayor-ted-wh...

While we're adding random bullshit to confuse the issue, maybe we could talk about how a Republican representative helped Republicans try to storm the Oregon Capitol too: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/01/video-clearly-sh...
This is how news networks like fox news become #1.
From replies to that thread, it looks like there are multiple errors.

One reply is from one of the original engineers working on EC2 that said this swapover had nothing to do with AWS and it's origins, and another reply is from a former distinguished engineer stating that they swapped from compaq/digital tru64 alpha servers, not sun.
1:100 doesn’t make escalation a wise decision
They can side load Parler. All the stupid violence-inciting peeps can still talk to each other and incite violence, just not so easily
I don't like how it looks like Sublime text... couldn't they have designed something new?
the "attack" was using a dictionary. Salting would certainly defeat that

No.
Thanks, you're right, plenty of options - http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/arrows.html

But there doesn't seem to be one for the simplest: just a basic triangle.
I made these stats up in about 30 seconds. I'm guessing they'r e not that far from the norm. Even if the average use was only 1 hour, or 30 minutes, and the average pay for half of what I assumed, they should still be losing money.

I just wanted to point out, people forget these things when they do a cost/benefit estimate.
As I understand, the main hypothesis for how the big bang does not violate energy conservation is the zero-energy universe hypothesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_universe

The general idea is that negative energy due to gravity (this is hard to wrap one's head around) perfectly cancels out all of the energy in the universe (including energy in the form of mass).
Question to people who have small (e.g. <5 people) startups: what system do you use for employee heath care?
Could someone with better knowledge of astronomy/aerospace explain (with less hyperbole) which part is the "impossible" part here? I don't really get it. Reading the article, I got that they're sending a telescope into space with a very large camera sensor and will record information about many stars.
"50ms should be quite enough i think"

If you are going to make a statement like that, make it "64ms ought to be enough for anyone". Either way, it won't help. If you write kernel code or interface with unknown hardware, you must be paranoid to the bone to get robust code. Double so if your kernel code talks with hardware you do not control.

"more than any proper device should ask for."

If devices asked for time, things would be easy; you either reply 'no', or you give them the time they ask for. The problem is that they take time without telling you.
How does the WakeMate communicate with the phone to set off the alarm? Bluetooth or Wifi?
If HN allowed comments on YC job posts, people would use the comments to post job ads for their own companies ("we're doing something similar, &c &c, contact us at &c &c"). This would significantly dilute the value of the YC job ads.

The inevitable discussion about how we could just have an etiquette of not doing that, or a guideline for not doing that, or a new kind of flag button for that, or or or, will just serve to illustrate how much simpler a solution just not allowing comments on those posts is.

These posts aren't hurting you. My bet is most HN people actully think they're a benefit of HN --- early access to YC jobs! This is a fake controversy. Can we think about tolerating the YC job ads in terms of "least we can do for running HN"?
I don't think you have to MAKE mistakes to succeed, but you have to be willing to RISK making mistakes to succeed. Anyone who isn't willing to make some mistakes probably never left the proverbial 'cube farm' in the first place, since that in and of itself is a potential mistake. After all if you fail in that you are probably going to end up in a great deal of financial trouble, assuming you never got VC funding.
I'll admit it also: I usually just use Test::Unit. I have nothing against RSpec, but Test::Unit does enough of what I need it to do and I am used to using it.
It could work.

"The temperature at night is much much more colder then the temperature outside.
A distopian car for a distopian world.
While there's been some noise from the opposition about government spending in Australia, the problem isn't nearly as bad as in the US. (And I say that as no fan of the Rudd government.)
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3. Meet girls and learn how to date them

4. Learn something useful that can help you later in life, actually just learn as much as you can about anything and everything

5. Have fun
I heartily agree that "think what you're assuming" is a good take away here, but can't support "think what culture your app is targeting", because I've seen that virtually invariably blow up straight in the teams' faces.

Many Japanese people think racial/cultural homogeneity is practically a national trademark, and this issue has bitten nearly every Big Freaking Enterprise system I've ever seen in Japan. Do you think your global-facing web app or small American town is going to be less culturally diverse than Japan is? That strikes me as highly improbable.
It appears that the exit condition is that you're a little weasel, or your mom finishes the story.

Clearly, the original mom could have optimized by telling a story about a little weasel that couldn't get to sleep.
Funny. I love the take on calendar models.
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Unless I have read this wrong cryp.sr uses Javascript to encrypt/decrypt data right?

In which case "host proof" is really only a marketing term. This has been discussed a couple of times here in the past week or so (mostly by tpatcek) and, really, there is no way to effectively secure data just with Javascript.

These sorts of apps have some use - so long as users understand the flaws involved and trust the server owner (and their browser).
Having just come off 4 months doing a student life... I can't give you a fullout breakdown, but the cheapest way to get your meat is to buy all the parts that takes at least an hour to cook. No jest. Brisket, flank, legs, w/e. If you can stomach it, get to know a butcher, and then ask for animal heads.

Needless to say, I stopped at the flank/brisket stage. Head is a bit... nuts to deal with.