jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> What about starting a family?

I can think of one reason not to -- contrary to a popular belief, parents aren't necessarily as happy or satisfied as single people, and I suspect this is more likely to be true if the parenting decision is based on something orthogonal, like thinking of it as a way to deal with loneliness, rather than any real commitment to the activity itself.

"All Joy and No Fun ... Why parents hate parenting": http://nymag.com/news/features/67024/

Quote: " ... a wide variety of academic research shows that parents are not happier than their childless peers, and in many cases are less so. This finding is surprisingly consistent, showing up across a range of disciplines."

> ... just do what people have been doing for ages.

To me that's not much of an argument in favor of doing something. People owned slaves for ages, claimed that women were stupid and subhuman for ages, and burned original thinkers at the stake for ages.
It seems contradictory to get a rejection email that bemoans the idea - we keep hearing that caliber of the founders is all that matters.
In a similar vein, Robert Laughlin's The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind. (Available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Crime-Reason-Closing-Scientific-Mind/d...)
"So does this mean we should all start swilling Two-Buck Chuck? I’m not so sure. "

As a connoisseur of Charles Shaw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Shaw_wine) I resent the implication that by costing $2, Charles Shaw is somehow an inferior wine. Isn't that the entire _thesis_ of that article, that you don't associate quality based on pricing?

From the Wikipedia article:

"At the 28th Annual International Eastern Wine Competition, Shaw's 2002 Shiraz received the double gold medal, besting the roughly 2,300 other wines in the competition.

Shaw's 2005 California chardonnay was judged Best Chardonnay from California at the Commercial Wine Competition of the 2007 California Exposition and State Fair. The chardonnay received 98 points, a double gold, with accolades of Best of California and Best of Class."

I've seen Charles Shaw win at more than one taste testing.
There might be legal issues with collecting money on another entity's behalf (while saying you're collecting it for them) without their consent. I'm not a lawyer and it's probably not a show-stopper, but it might involve more hoops to jump through.
I have been working on a similar project for a while, but for lack of time it's going nowhere. I've been wanting this forever though. Great to see these guys took it seriously and shipped. Woohoo!

Excuse me while I go sign up and watch shit, now…
On the other hand, I have problems finding google maps on my iPad ever since the latest icon redesign. It’s so different that my brain just filters it out when I am looking for maps.

I’ve used Apple Maps way more often just because I can’t see the google maps logo.
I don't think it's elitist, it's really just HCD, no? We know that users are great at helping engineers hone in on their problems, but not so much their solutions - the whole "faster horse" thing.

There's more than one problem here, but one main one seems to be that users don't understand that incognito is more about your own computer (cookies, history) than the web's ability to do its thing.

Solutions could be anything, from do not track toggles and added incognito funtionality, to a simple visual indicating the point of incognito, to some trivial copy/branding changes.
Uk has already approved 6ghz
They're doing what you tell them to, not what you want them to. Same with GPT-3; it's predicting what (from its experience) it thinks a human would say, not what is ethical to say.
Also, I'd rather read about other people's cherry orchards, it's way easier compared to me getting one: I'd have to move to the countryside, plant the cherry trees themselves and then wait for 10-15 years for the trees to become big enough.
Thanks. Braid looks interesting, but complex and mathy. It's not clear to me what the use cases would be or why I would choose it over SSE or WebSockets for any given problem.
Saudi royal family is the problem? Without the royal family, Saudi will be controlled by radical Islamists. The royal family is the major force to keep the country away from the religious fanatics.
Capitalism has healthy and dysfunctional variants based on the attitudes of the people who engage in it. Meat eating is only wrong when you factory farm for billions of people. Abortion is distasteful, but as long as the child is reliant on the body of the mother to survive, she should have the ability to withdraw that support.
- even in fast cars you often can't turn off the esc (electronic stability control)

- it might actually not allow you to make unusual maneuvers (handbrake turns, etc) ; this actually can trigger the automatic emergency hotline call (been a witness)

- it beeps at you for not wearing your seat belt (even while driving across an empty parking lot going 10 mph, or being on private property)

- it has distance sensors (car beeps at you when driving out of a narrow parking garage constantly)

- it warns you when it's cold, wet, you drive too fast ...

- you can't set height of headlamps manually anymore (good for xeon which burn out everyone else's eyes even with default height settings...)

- it might check whether you are in lane and warn when you go outside of it

you might not agree, but all of that frustrates me (and does, whenever I have a rental), and makes me feel less in control and being treated like a child.

-> add to all that : many electronic pieces are hard to replace, repair, debug if something isn't working ; not even talking about the full blown modern electronic gizmos where you now have to theoretically worry about your car getting (or not getting) software updates.

Being in total control for me includes the ability to shoot yourself in the foot. I realize this isn't what your average 'a car is just a utility for me' driver wants, but what an enthusiast wants.

to maybe come up with an imperfect analogy : average users use windows, power users use linux ; as long as I have linux as an option, I am happy. But the current development goes to a windows only world (in this metaphor), and it's rare to find cars that are exciting anymore.
Why is it bad for users?
You can make it universally available with:

if (!Array.prototype.map)
{
Array.prototype.map = function(fun /*, thisp */)
{
"use strict";

if (this === void 0 || this === null)
throw new TypeError();

var t = Object(this);
var len = t.length >>> 0;
if (typeof fun !== "function")
throw new TypeError();

var res = new Array(len);
var thisp = arguments[1];
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++)
{
if (i in t)
res[i] = fun.call(thisp, t[i], i, t);
}

return res;
};
}
Any thoughts, suggestions or question are appreciated.
Thank you for this reply, I redact my indignant post :)
I definitely agree, and any "lost sales" are clearly evident in future revenue data. Opportunity costs are factors in economic decisions, but writing them down would be laughable.

My point was that Microsoft probably had some revenue trajectory with slope X before the write-down, and experienced a new revenue trajectory with slope Y < X after the write-down. I'm curious about the area between the two lines.
In practice, it does. The reason you get fast fixes is most likely due to AGPS, and that would require getting aiding data from a server.
I've been doing office hours via phone since Oct 2009 (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1973-announcing-ceo-office-ho...).

It's been great. Lately I've been available less so I haven't been as consistent as I'd like to be, but it's definitely been worth it.

http://37signals.com/officehours
Surely search syntax is something it would be fairly easy to transform however you wanted, before passing it to the engine?

Writing a whole engine seems like overkill just to allow custom front-end syntax.
Don't take this the wrong way, but if everyone you are encountering is screwing you...you have some hard questions to ask yourself.

My experience has been that when someone "only expects bad things from people when they depnd on them" it means one of 3 things.

1. They have a hard time accepting responsibility and taking ownership of their own problems.

2. They are running with a really bad crowd, and need to go to the library to make some new friends.

3. They project an image that lets people walk all over them.

Everyone has problems that come up in their life, but if you haven't experienced nice people as being the norm... there is a better that 66% chance its something YOU ALONE CAN AND MUST CHANGE.
Over the past 6 months I've had multiple clients drop their mobile requirement to focus on web. I think it has mainly to do with scope creep and cost.

All those extra features that you can cram on a web page need that much more effort on mobile. People, for some reason, seem to be understanding that mobile costs a LOT of money, so they wait until later. But they expect to be able to build the web side really cheap, so they stick with that and argue price.

Just my little anecdote....
I've used Knock before and while ultimately I settled on using Alfred (app launcher+) to lock my computer it worked leaps and bounds over this app.
Love the interview - must watch for non technical cofounders
Oh, I don't know, I can think of loads offhand that would be caught - even more if they applied the 18R rules to static images as well as VOD.

But I'm not surprised it's already on the cards - this has been coming since the early 00s (e.g. the "usenet is CHILD PORN!!!!1!!" newspaper outrages, the Sexual Offences Act 2003, etc.)
I don't think what the site developers (or most users, for that matter) want to see is good answers to novel questions. I think they want to is good answers to all questions.
As a side note, the closed questions are not deleted from the web site because Stack Exchange takes a conservative approach when it comes to deletion. Nevertheless some questions do get deleted. The Help Center[1] and Meta[2] have more details on this.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/help/deleted-questions

[2]: http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221/135744
Why would that matter? Energy use = energy conversions = IR.
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1 point by nick_j_r 8 months ago | parent | edit | delete [–] | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)

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We are looking for a software engineer to join our team. If you are looking to be on a team where you have a say in the vision of a company and future direction of services this is your place to work. You will also be involved in the development cycle from the beginning stages of planning all the way to the push to production. Along with engineering you will have the ability (if you choose) to bring on new technologies, improve skills and knowledge of the business side of the tech industry.

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Doesn't that require another active SIM card?
People do that with money. "Can I borrow $20 to pay the rent? I'll pay you back next week, I promise."
yea totally! I love plv8... it's actually how I got started with postgres functions.

I ultimately switched to native PG. There were known memory leaks in plv8 and eventually after learning pl/pgsql it became more natural and clean, plus AWS at the time didn't support plv8 which was another incentive not to use language extensions
Another great thing about 2021-03-11 is that, even putting aside its technical advantages, it is (probably) intuitively understandable to any literate person even if they have never seen it before and, most importantly, it is almost immune from confusion because (hopefully) nobody is insane enough to expect YYYY-DD-MM. YYYY-MM-DD both satisfies the American intuitive expectation of month coming before day, and the Worldwide expectation of time units being displayed in a logical order.
Free versions of the actual specs:

https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/iso-tc154-wg5_n0038_i...

https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/iso-tc154-wg5_n0039_i...

Or https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:8601:-1:ed-1:v1:en

The ISO8601 yyyy-mm-dd format is fine and intuitive. What trips people up all the time is the ISO8601 yyyy-www-d format (year-week-weekday)[1]. People who know it well can appreciate the benefits. But it's deeply unintuitive to people who encounter it for the first time, that the year in yyyy-www-d sometimes differes from the year in the yyyy-mm-dd format. And a perpetual source of bugs when inexperienced devs use the wrong year specifier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18762988).

The biggest wart in the spec IMO is the (optional) T in 2021-02-26T09:24, which makes the datetime format much harder to read for humans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date
The reason it was big at UCL was that the main computer room has about 100 computers all within sight of each other.
I really love the hero unit. It's a great example of an animation that tells a short story, and gives you a feel for the app.

First you see a flat rectangle with drag handles, which sets your expectation, 2D WYSIWYG editor.

The rectangle animates into a 4 sided cube, 2D becomes 3D, it's a 3D tool.

Then the cube breaks into 2 angle brackets, the output is just HTML and CSS.

I'm left with a nice little feeling :) Awesome work
I'd love to see a high quality 2d image renderer or a common 3d format exporter.
Weisberg and Taylor showed, with 30 years of data, that the orbital decay of the binary pulsar PSR 1913+16 agrees with the gravitational radiation prediction of general relativity to within 0.2%:

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0407149
To be honest they redacted only some names, the names of the isps they are working with, some numbers, and the names of certifications. Certainly there's some really interesting stuff here left non-redacted.
Great idea and execution. You're filling a need that many people have and nailed the design. Naturally, this thread is full of legitimate suggestions for improvement, but you've got an excellent first iteration.

I'm not quite the type of person who needs your site, but I'm close enough to recognize its value. Keep it up and pay no mind to the "Why not X instead?" people. This is unique and worthwhile.
I had to look up "scada".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCADA for those of you in the same boat
Url changed from http://boingboing.net/2014/12/26/war-on-general-purpose-comp..., which points to this.

Discussion of related talk from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8805039.
Most of the towns are built with roads wide enough for two wagons to past each other, and pedestrians around the wagons. All in all, not too different from smallish cars.
I'm sure everything is happening very fast right now, but I hope you arrive at a policy more carefully drawn than this.

All terrorists suck, and they haven't any right to use services like yours to coordinate hurting other people. Nor does anyone have the right to incite violence. But people do have a right to political opinions, and some such might be interpreted as "remotely pro terrorist", without actually being coordination or incitement.

Finding the right lines for these determinations is hard, and I don't envy anyone the task of drawing them. And again, things may be moving fast now, and I understand that if there are real concerns about safety that a broad brush might be the first starting point for you. Even so, I hope that whatever policy you adopt iterates over the fullness of time to something that respects people's rights to express their opinions.
People will only know what really happened in 2014 when it's 2017. It's too soon to say whether something is just a fad or an actual paradigm shifting trend.
They haven't abandoned the casual gaming market, they've conquered it and now they're moving up the tier where Microsoft and Sony have retreated and where those two may meet their doom. See http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20080325182052/http://mal...

I've gotten used to dismissing people who dismiss Nintendo's next things as mere gimmicks. "It's a toy" is often the hardest criticism: well so what, we're talking about video games not deadly weapons.
Yea, that's a great point/question. Unfortunately, one which I don't have an answer too.
Have you actually tried searching for "Jewish" in that book?

It comes up. Nazis, Hitler, anti-Jewish laws, etc.

Now, if you want to continue being a whiny, defensive white guy freaked out because someone noticed that an early 20th-century film only had white guys in it, you're going to do so without any further responses from me.
Yeah, he's the kind of guy who is too busy getting things done to work on a personal site. Still, I find it amazing that he still manages to make some comments here from time to time.
While it's nice to see how this relates to online reservations, I'd like to see how it correlates to overall reservations.
This is something I have been wondering about; it would be good to be able to have space in a cloud DC - where you can have a rack or ten of your own equipment as well. Thus being able to leverage both.

I don't know if it is offered at all by any of the cloud vendors, but it would be good to be able to install specialty machines/disk into the facility but still leverage all other aspects of the cloud provider.
Technically you don't authenticate using OAuth, you just have a secret token - which is proof you own the account. If you wanted to stretch your analogy, you could say a check from Donald Trump is just an authorisation.

OAuth definitely does authenticate though (hence the name).
"Boffins, are you having trouble communicating the fruits of your labour to a wider audience?

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This reads like a Register article after Lewis Page has forgotten to take his pills again.
Could this also be used as a viable technique to approach auto-immune diseases like Sjogren's?
No you are not alone, but since people often simply just downvote instead of discussing dissenting views, which takes more time, there is a risk to express minority opinions in certain threads, as it will drain your precious karma.

To half-answer your question: RMS once got 150,000 shares of VA Linux which were worth millions at some time, but I have no idea if he ever sold them before they became worhtless. He lives mainly from his speaking engagements nowadays.

And in case you will ever want to have him speak at your event, this what you are signing up for:
https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/forum/#!msg/mysoci...

That line from War Games, you are going to need it: "Remember you told me to tell you when you were acting rudely and insensitively? Remember that? You're doing it right now."
> Does this match most people's experience?

It does not. I used to work for a non-profit that ran our own SMTP server, and we had issues with our subscriber e-mails getting marked as spam, mainly for Office 365 users. We set up DKIM, DMARC, and SPF, but it still happened. We ended up having to move to using Google's SMTP servers just so our e-mails would go through.
The issue with this thread is that it seems like an argument, but different people just have different sensibilities.

Get the machine that suits _you_. Unless you want to run Apple OS because then you're not given choice.
Yeah that's my experience as well. And it's impossible to find anyone to talk to at Google/MS/Apple about an email issue -- unless you send really large volumes, then suddenly all kinds of support and tools become available. IMO it's a deliberate attempt to get more people to switch to gmail. But maybe I'm a cynic.
The bad news mentioned here are that New Glenn's maiden flight is delayed by approximately a year compared to earlier estimates.

Things being delayed in space-flight related activities is completely normal but it is disappointing anyways. If SpaceX manages to get Starship to orbit and back, I do not see how Blue Origin could reasonably compete with them. It's not that they are a national space program that is supported no matter what because of national security reasons. They actually have to compete for something sooner or later.
I think the particular problem for devices based on ARM SoCs is they’re not on the mainline kernel, support for hardware and for upgrading software relies on a whole pile of hacks on top of an ancient kernel version, and that means that upgrading to a new Android version requires applying a pile of new hacks on top again, and can be very laborious to get a reasonable, stable result. So Fairphone used a chipset whose manufacturer quickly dropped support for upgrading beyond a certain Android version, and that made it difficult for Fairphone to support the upgrade themselves.

Whereas if x86 systems have support on the mainline kernel, future kernel upgrades will be supported.
Nearby networks won't harm your signal to noise ratio unless there is active traffic. Most of the time, 90% of the 30 SSIDs you see nearby are mostly inactive.

Anyway, Ubiquity and commercial gear in general just has better software and hardware design.

* The UAP‑AC‑HD has been around for at least 5 years and still gets updates. Wifi is full of weird bugs so its impossible to release a new chip set bug-free. Consumer gear just doesn't get the same duration of support as commercial.
* These access points are designed specifically for setting up networks with multiple APs and lots of nearby networks.
* These APs are just access points and offload routing and even their UI to a router and management server. A lot of consumer gear uses/wastes a lot of RAM on their fancy management interfaces.
* Exterior profile stays the same. Consumer gear companies spend a lot of time & money on marketing and redesigning the 'look' of their products which diverts focus.
* Better management/software: All the Unifi APs use the same management server software which consolidates features and fixes. The software also has a lot of performance related features like disabling/limiting the slowest speed enabled on the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz network.

Really the last point is a really big one; consumer gear (besides new consumer mesh networks) is often sold on having great range/coverage but these can cause the whole network to be bogged down by a single device operating in 802.11g or older mode. Commercial gear expects you to use multiple APs to satisfy coverage but has the features to prevent network degradation.
Full quote from Rightmove plc half year report, under the "Operational Highlights" on the first page:

"Pace of product development accelerated despite lockdown with 300 software releases, 10%
more than a year ago"

Says a lot about management that they think this is a relevant stat...