jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I believe that it is a power plant that switches between natural gas & coal from time to time (When you see the nasty yellow smoke, it is coal, I believe, which is probably even worst then a gasoline-powered car).
Not sure why you're being downvoted, we can't have a discussion about the topic of single parent homes without asking where %50 of the parents are, what incentives make that route seem more economical, and what the effects of missing one might be.

Discrediting the nuclear family unit as the tool of patriarchy is absolutely a central tenet of anti-oppression education programs. I would be surprised if anyone who had exposure to that kind of curriculum would find that controversial.

If that is controversial, perhaps we need better frameworks and tools that enable people to discuss it.
> There was no good mechanism to widely distribute updates, so if we wanted to get more money from a customer after that initial sale we had to do it by making the next version of the product compelling enough that they would go the store and buy another box.

This is also something the article points out though...

> The problem is that the tech companies have only one big tool to entice you to upgrade each year: piling on new features. More, more features. Microsoft Word was once a word processor. Today it's a database, and a Web-layout program, and a floor wax.

> Eventually these companies have no choice but to add features that nobody asked for. Meanwhile bloated, overwhelming technology has a very real emotional effect on us; we feel like idiots when we can't master it.

Though overall i agree with you that i prefer the way you mention. If nothing else i felt more in control on what goes into my PC.
I'm not expressing my support for or against the author here, but the statement made about the problems being applicable to any fiat currency is troublesome.

Fiat currencies are a store of value because they are backed by a Central Bank and by extension by the economy/economies that Central Bank supports combined with the 'general trust' in the currency. Bitcoin only has the latter, so there is a key difference here.
If people start purposefully ignoring you as a politican, how are you supposed to influence them? I don't think that they'll implement something which gives themselves a disadvantage.
They absolutely missed out on an opportunity. You can argues it would have been unethical for them to take advantage of it. But there was an opportunity to raise a substantial amount of money, which would help the company.

Unlike AMC and AA they couldn’t easily take advantage of it due to disclosure requirements.
Those homes are owner occupied though. I am talking about absentee foreign ownership, which is mostly about parking money and money laundering.
Of course it's additive, but potential clean energy supply is not capped at current levels.

To clarify whit an example what I meant re other industries: In order for transportation (cars, trucks, ships, planes) to switch to clean energy, they have to replace their fossil-based vehicles. Bitcoin mining rigs run just fine on clean electricity, hence the lower friction to switch.
"Since when is it reasonable to judge a language on how the amateurs use it, instead of the professionals?"

What are your thoughts on PHP and Visual Basic (pre- and post-.net)? I assume that, under experts, they can be excellent languages. But that's not the typical opinion either.
Most people will actually endure a sign-up process. We are so used to it.
But you should stop asking for an e-mail address! Or make it optional.
Further details about batman at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kish
Everyone with basic knowledge of CS could realize that Hadoop is a waste.

Unfortunately, it isn't about efficiency at all. It just memeization. Bigdata? Hadoop! Runs everywhere. Same BS like Webscale? MongoDB! meme.
Their pricing of household items is not very good. Almost everything I'd buy is cheaper at retail stores and I don't need to buy a pallet load.
Sorry, I don't understand what you are trying to say.
You are correct. Most people don't realize this about how medicine works.

Eating a healthy diet and getting vigorous exercise will cure type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and help with many others. Medicine ignores the early (mostly harmless) incarnations of these and then advocates drug and surgical therapies when it's too late to remedy them via lifestyle.

My answer shows that I have confidence in medical science to do what it can do (which the guy has tried for 18 years) but not to work magic.
It's questioning the idea of work for wages, not the idea of producing in order to consume.
An alternative system could be co-operatives or contract working, for example.
I see where you're coming from, but I think we have a different definition of "health." Athletes are not necessarily the definition of "healthy" to me. They have usually specialized in one aspect of performance. In fact a lot of what they put their bodies through can be detrimental in the long run.

For the normal person who works out a few times a week and then sits at a desk 40 hours, I think removing grains would be very helpful.

A professional marathoner is a different story. Grains might make sense because of their carb density.
I was so excited when Kathy returned to us on Twitter but that seems to have been shortlived :(

I'd love her to start an email list like Jason Calacanis...
For Windows users just right click on the movie, settings, storage, put the slider on 0kb.

There's a new global settings option that probably does it on a global basis.

If you play Flash games you will probably find achievements/progress/etc don't save though.
The counterpoint to this is that if you are they type of boss who would nit pick a candidate over something like this, he probably wouldn't want to work for you anyway. Especially when you take a quirky/cute spelling and try to expand it into inferring all sorts of other traits.

It reminds me of people who say they would never hire a developer who doesn't write comments. Really? Writing comments is a precious skill that takes years to develop? You just tell someone, if you work here, you need to write comments. Problem solved in one sentence. Same with variable names. Its a standards issue, nothing more, nothing less.
But I observe that in C when iterating over a string you don't know in advance how big it is, you merely have to keep going until you find the '\0'. That's why some people will find it more natural to use a "while" when walking down a string.
Yes this is useful. In terms of the "infrastructure" I would drill deeper around surprises for people, what pieces they see as critical, etc.; just knowing the infrastructure is much less valuable than its relative importance and key lessons around its use... Good luck
Humanity, and everything that follows from it.
You should try this out for a few hours and see the difference.

Just the fact that it gives you HTML5 Desktop Notifications with easy way to reply, and syncs with your actual texting stream on your phone (not GV) makes it worth looking at.
I can confirm this story, or at least I can confirm that I've heard the same thing from people who know Raster personally. According to the reports I've heard, the GUI runs incredibly smoothly.

Personally, I look forward to this because EFL can run on top of XCB, so this might allow a credible X environment without Xlib.
We're immediately giving access to anyone who mentions they saw it on Hacker News.
I use Arch Linux with gnome, to program in php and java. I think its brilliant, quick and stable. It took me some time to get it all working, but it was worth of it.
It's probably better to say that OSX power management is better on Apple hardware than all the rest. I was getting about 40% less time when using Windows XP than when I was using OSX.
Sony is probably such a big merchant that the rules don't apply. Sony said, "we have 13 millions users, and we're fucking Sony, not Mom And Pop Coffee Shop". The banks said, "fine, store the damn CVV2s so users don't have to type them every time".
I'm in a bar, drunk, and this was my exact reaction. This is what I remember reading on, I think, arstechnica. When will the lying stop?
My question, too.
It's kinda ridiculous that protest turns to riot and they break in wouldn't be in scope for a place with constant protests outside
Don't forget about Reddit.

Reddit is designed around grouping people in echo chambers and users come to it for this reason. Facebook may still be more impactful due to the sheer volume of users, but I don't think Reddit's impact is negligeable.
Yes, that time Antifa stormed the US capitol, they erased their tracks so thoroughly that virtually all Americans are still unaware that it ever happened!
Interesting. I am in the EU as well and got the new terms of service screen. Only an Agree button, but I could avoid agreeing (I hope) by clicking the cross (X) at the top of the dialog.
An alternative perspective is these protests aren't actually all that unprecedented. Protesting against a new president is fairly routine (they did that for Trump) and violence is not so unexpected in economically tough years (like 2020).

The sensible response to not being heard is to establish a voice, not to riot. So riots are probably not a sign of that.
Conservatives controlled America for all but 2 years in this century, only in 2008-2010 both executive and legislative branches were under Democrats. Republicans heavily gerrymandered country in their favor in 2010 and given that 2020 census is practically a failure, that advantage is going to stay. Conservatives get to control the SCOTUS for decades. Voters from the red states enjoy unfair influence their vote gives them via Senate.

If after all this the electorate feels profoundly unheard maybe they should look at who they vote for.
That's a tough one. Often the sensibility about what needs to be done comes from hours/weeks/month/years hacking away at their codebase in their specific setting. Much of that has to be rebuilt from scratch in a new place. If you don't find that same connection with your work at the new place - or are unable to develop the relationships with your peers or your manager, you may not end up able to make that impact at the new place either.

I tend to encourage folks who come to me about quitting to explore opportunities within the team/organization/company before leaving so they can leverage all the social capital they've built up.
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Deconstructor of Fun
There is no nice way to say this anyhow, but it needs to be said to further the discussion that does in fact exist: this is thinking like a chump. Being a chump is not a competitive advantage, it’s being taken advantage of. I fully respect your right to sell yourself short, but please don’t present it as somehow economically sophisticated and potentially lead less experienced readers here to follow the same foolish path.
My joke finder only kicked in when you mentioned the battery. We live in a scifi world, except for those darn batteries.
Since I didn't get one of these letters, I'm pretty sure he is. ;)
My twelve year old learned cursive, but I think they spent comparatively little time on it compared to what I spent. She's never had to write a paper in it. My nine year old hasn't learned it, at least not yet. They both have markedly better (regular) handwriting than me, mine has deteriorated over the years.
That's actually not true. He/she quoted the original two sentences. The parent post was later edited to add a third (middle) sentence.
I was hoping from the title this was a biting parody of the pervasive 'everyone, learn to code, right now, drop everything else it's all that's important' culture. Instead it's a full embrace. What a truly terrible idea. If you, as an adult, want to go all in on this silly meme yourself by all means feel free but don't allow, help, or encourage your children to. There's so much more out there to explore.
I knew what I wanted to do when I was 8. I'm 27 now, and I've got a solid career ahead of me, doing what I wanted to do when I was 8. Couldn't be happier.
Why I pulled my son out of school to learn chimney sweeping

"He thinks it's great, like getting to climb a climbing frame all the time; that's all he liked doing in school anyway."
I developed a chrome extension in the early days of Google+ (2011) as a side project to help me remove inactive people from my google+ circles and unfollow unfollowers. Circloscope is now a full-fledged Google+ circle management tool which can help you build and grow your audience in Google+.
Why is that? Nobody ready to improve LibreOffice Calc? Calc is not good enough to start improving on?

Do we need a list of missing features? I would also add:

* Copy paste from Writer does not work

* Summing a column (not a range) isn't possible

* Type detection is not as good

* Auto-update doesn't work at all
> So, was nuclear a net win or a net killer? Does anyone know?

I guess it depends whether nuclear weapons kill everyone or not. That will overbalance all other factors somewhat. But in any possible conversation, that didn't happen yet, so that possibility can be ignored I guess...
I'm going to watch this carefully. Once it's complete I plan to base a scheme of work on it for my secondary school CS students.
"(I don't know what the American version of this is, but it's basically a bar for ex-service men)"

VFW: Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Or Amercian Legion.
I should be careful when I say this (but I'm not so take it with a grain of salt and don't be offended.) The crash in the housing market is definitely a good thing for young people. Here in Australia the prices of houses are getting so expensive I don't think I'll ever buy one at this price, ever; It'd just mean mortgaging myself to the hilt just to make some baby boomer rich enough to retire comfortably. A housing market with house prices kept high artificially is called robbing the next generation.
I'm trying to prevent myself from being baited into making a website out of all this--i'm booked, but it is definitely something that the HN community should band together and provide. It sounds _very useful_.
i think in general what we should take from this article is one user's experience with gae and use it as just another data point. many comments on here seem to suggest that they're upset about the bashing, but this is just feedback, a grain of salt, i find it helpful, although noted that you could probably find most of these in the documentation.

i originally also considered gae for my project, but decided against it, my impetus was that i wanted to use a homegrown best of breed stack: tornado, mysql, nginx, memcached, python2.7 and have more control over the environment.
I own staffing/ consulting firm names http://www.Sohosquaresolutions.com. We are profitable from 1st years and mostly focused on financial firms in Tristate. We have solid revenues and many people working @ client sites. The business is totally self sustainable. Only time I spend is to grow the business in recruiting new people and identifying new clients.
I think I see what you're getting at, but I guess I still don't fully understand. Any thoughts on proving that the perimeter is pi without using the knowledge that the limiting shape is a circle? Does that question make sense? To me it seems strange that for any integer number N (number of times this chunking operation is applied), the perimeter is 4, but somehow in the limit the perimeter is not 4.

Edit: Nevermind, reading cousin_it's posting I think I've got a handle on it. My confusion was exactly the difference between a sequence of approximations, and the limit itself.
With Rupert constantly rattling his sabre at Google[1], I wonder if this will be were old media finally learn to make money on new media...

I think the days of free mainstream news on the internet are drawing to a close... Save for maybe the government funded BBC and similar.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/24/2751561.htm
There isn't really any sort of distinct boundary between "you" and the "rest" of the universe.
I presumed is was another example of the infantilizing of young adults today. 'Look at my cute pupper!' 'Just got dishy installed today Elon!'
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In my opinion one of the best Ruby talks of 2014 is "Refactoring Ruby with Monads"[0] by Tom Stuart held at Barcelona Ruby Conference.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1jYlPtkrqQ
Tinned sardines gently mashed on toast with a splash of Worcestershire sauce or similar.
Isn't that just monkey patching?
Yap some patches or suggestions made it in and the greater community benefited. Some lock contention points removed, memory management stuff etc.

Also remember this is just one visible project. Erlang VM is being developed actively and many other companies and people are contributing. For an almost 30 year old language it very active. Maps are coming in R17 so are dirty schedulers, {active,N} on sockets, lots of goodies.
Neat! It even almost works! http://i.imgur.com/f1HjoNW.png

SO close...
Full disclosure. I'm one of the Umano cofounders, I figured it's time to jump in here.

There are many things mentioned in comments that I'm not going to try to cover, but I will cover the basics. I'd be happy to answer any direct questions.

The vision behind Umano is simple. We want to provide our users with a new way of consuming content. Many times it's the content they wouldn't otherwise read. How many times have you come across an interesting article that bubbled up in your twitter stream, you added it to your Pocket, and you forgot about it forever and ever. Reading is a heavy task. Reading takes time and your full attention. You can't read while you are cooking breakfast, getting dressed, standing in a crammed Muni bus, or riding on your bike to work. Listening is passive. Listening is easy. Listening allows you consume longer pieces of content with less effort, while doing something else. Umano is here to offer great content in a different medium.

We started Umano with no licensing deals from any publishers (big or small). Sure, having licensing deals would be amazing, but "Even if 100% of people they asked were fine with it (Scott seems to imply he is) probably less than 10% would bother to respond, that then knackers their startup instantly." as @robinwarren said above. Now that we are bigger and more mature, we have deals with many large publishers. However, at this point it wouldn't be scalable for us to ask for permission from all bloggers that write amazing content that our community would like to be voiced. If the content producer doesn't want their content on the platform, we will happily take it down. As we grow and start to make money, our mission is to do revenue shares with content owners. Until then, the benefit that we bring to many bloggers is distribution. Popular articles often generate a significant number of listeners. Finally, one interesting point about Scott's article that was narrated - it was actually requested by one of our users through a new "Submit Any Link" feature that we recently launched as an experiment on Android.

Now to attribution. We never claim that the content we voice is original Umano content, and we always provide attribution. We link to the original article, and always include the name of the publisher and the author in the narration. Scott mentioned that we do it poorly on mobile web and will fix that shortly.
git commit -a
git push
git diff

I usually work by myself, so rarely use git pull :)
we don't know enough about the brain to say that there's redundancy and sparse data.

nature tends to be efficient, so I am guessing not.
It remains very good to remove SFH mandates, but it probably won't result in significant change for a good long while.

Purely from the underlying economics, you'd be surprised but in many cases the "highest and best" use of land will still be to maintain an existing detached house.

This policy however could make it that in cases where existing property is a tear down, and we're talking about what to build on bare land, it makes more sense to build with intenser uses.
This looks cool!
Does anyone know of something similar but more appropriate for a 4 year old? This one might be good for me but I’d also love to get my kid playing something like this.
It's a light attack / armed reconnaissance aircraft:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Attack/Armed_Reconnaissa...

The Tucano several other comments have mentioned was a strong contender. The Scorpion also looked pretty great, and went from concept to first flight in just over two years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textron_AirLand_Scorpion

I don't know why it was disqualified.
I dunno Lockheed Martin managed to put out a banger so it's not a total loss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF7x0ZIFeVc We at least got this instead of paying teachers more, or healthcare.
I've been looking at Rust API frameworks and the question I keep finding myself asking is, what is the FastAPI equivalent in Rust?
Pretty basic question: the author states in the very beginning: "I used to work at AWS". Is it possible that things went smoothly for him, because they still remembered him, and prioritized his requests because of personal relationship?
Read the guidelines:
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I can see how that could reflect poorly on the hospital, but it's less obvious to me that it reflects poorly on the doctors. Unless you expect the doctors to have refused to staff the emergency room until the camera crews left.
What's the key differentiator from Grubhub/Seamless, or is it simply a direct competitor?
Here's a funny thought - what if someone did the assignment, put it away, then wondered, "Huh, so why is the Glorblar Problem notable?"

Dirty, dishonest intellectual curiosity - you have to catch those people, right?
The good and the bad:

“While officials said [the scanners] performed as well as physical pat downs in operational tests, it remains unclear whether the AIT would have detected the weapon used in the December 2009 incident,” the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress’s audit arm, said Wednesday in written testimony to the House Homeland Security Committee.

http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/gao-raises-questions-abo...
Better to be raised by a liar and a cheat who is comfortable turning around and making unreasonable demands on their hard-working ex? And putting them in jail if they can't pay? NO.
>> Also, at what point is he willing to acknowledge that maybe this thing is not all that well designed, especially going by how widespread this problem seems to be?

Perhaps the bigger question is at what point will Apple acknowledge that it is a real problem?
Yea, but if they go away completely, so does all of our entertainment. So I surely hope there is a middle ground somewhere.
Ask Chuck Moore what he thinks about ANSII Forth.

I'll save you the trouble : "The ANSII Forth standard does not describe Forth, but a language with the same name."
I got an extremely loud noise when I used it for the first time, so be careful after installing it.