jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The expression is "without further ado", broadly standing for "without any more fuss", and not "without further adieu". "Adieu", borrowed from the French word for "farewell", doesn't make any sense at all in this context.

I know it's nitpicking and doesn't add a lot, but still. And I can't even post it on the website because it requires a facebook account. Blegh :(
The whole problem with these scaremongering articles about equality and the lack of it is that it doesn't matter. They promote this because it fits in to their zero sum world view. A world where it is always someone-elses fault and where we as community must do something or we are selfish. This world view thats based on Dickensian stories of children living on the streets with coal dust on their cheeks. It just isn't true.

I find it particularly disturbing that these thoughts even find an outlet on HN which is the antithesis of the zero sum world. You, yes you coder, entrepreneur are part of building wealth out of nothing. How can you possibly think that by doing so you are stealing food out of the mouthes of poor children in the inner city. You are helping them in the long run by growing the economy.

To a poor person objectively speaking it doesn't matter on anything but an envy level if someone else is rich. What matters is their own life. And this is what Gini coefficients and graphs like this one doesn't show. Yes it's interesting that people have different views of this, but it is not important.

Imagine we can put a number on quality of life. If the poor person starts out at say 1 and is at 10 after 10 years (as has happened in many developing countries). Does it matter that the rich person also is 10 times better off or even 100 times better off? I don't think so. That poor person now is healthier, has better opportunities etc than before.

The children of this poor person will likely have a much better life while inequality might not have budged much in his country.

See Hans Rosling who illustrates this very well:

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_o...

America is a very unequal country that is true. Just not unequal in opportunities. The richest people in the US (the ones with 80% of the wealth) have probably in most cases earned it.

Many of them have come from other parts of the world and created lots of jobs both here and abroad. Due to the fact that there are so many opportunities wealth distribution of course is skewed towards the rich.

Another fact that simple populist statistics don't show is that many of the poor are new immigrants arriving here because of those same opportunities. Their kids will be considerably well off.

Just by virtue of the HN community being who we are, we should keep doing our bit to increase the overall wealth of our world and countries, even if we may end up with more than our "fair" share.
I though this would be a simple "put the thing under the X-ray and read it" and not like reading a burned "toilet paper roll"

Amazing
Does this utilise Twilio? Would love to see a pricing structure and what countries it's available in before registering. Is it tied to a single phone or can you set different numbers on a per meeting basis?
In the interest of completeness, I've tested the following browsers:

Internet Explorer 5: no score
Mozilla Phoenix 0.1: 16
Mozilla Firefox 1.0: 12
Mozilla Firefox 2.0: 37
Netscape Communicator 4.5: crashes
Netscape Navigator 6.2: 12
Netscape Navigator 7.0: 16
...in the short term.
You need to do criss-cross merges that revert previous commits on one or both sides of the merges. If you're not reverting you're not hitting Bram's corners.

This is a though corner case and I'm pretty sure you can confuse any source control system currently in production with cases like this. BitKeeper has some theoretical solutions, but we haven't gotten around to actually test them in production.
googletechtalks on youtube.
That's annoyingly normal - he went vegan, feels great and thinks everyone should try it for a week, now drinking milk and eating meat makes him feel ill.

He doesn't explore though; could he be feeling better simply from eating less? Or more? Or more greens, or more of a particular nutrient? Or less of one specific thing he doesn't digest well? Or does the change in diet make him sleep differently and that's why he feels better? Is it just the act of change itself that does it?

And does he now feel bad about eating animal products and that makes him respond badly? In the comments he refuses to test it and isn't interested in finding out. Does raw animal produce do the same? Unpasteurised milk, raw meat or fish? What about goat or sheep milk? Or byproducts?

I am of course interested in the mysterious weight which lifted from him such as the "annoyance of getting out of a chair", but all sorts of strange practices practitioners claim unverifiable things like that.

Does anybody like this measure anything quantitatively?
Apparently entry-level software engineer salary is "making too much money".
My point was, I'd rather not provide the citations, but I could. I'm just finishing up an M.A. in Buddhist Studies, and as part of a Buddhist Ethics course I recently did some work on the scriptural bases of the precepts in five different canons, but I really didn't think anyone here would be interested in the details. I was hoping that you'd be willing to just take my word on the issue.
Thats why I said operate like freenet - in giving its users total anonymity and complete deniabilty - not freenet.
Yes, but there's been a common workaround using window.orientation for a while:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2313194/can-i-trigger-a-c...
> To what extent does BSD follow the "everything is a file" philosophy that linux does. Where is information about devices and processes to be found?

You got this the wrong way around. "Everything is a file" is a core UNIX feature, and predates Linux by more than 20 years.
Well apparently one side is the mob
Thanks very much for taking the time to reply. I was unclear on the fact that it was the DOM configuration itself that was causing the performance issues.
They don't trust their currency, so aim to convert it into anything else they can.
Well really, how many spouses does one need?
Glove and finger gestures, are pointer like. Also could a touchscreen not detect proximity, perhaps using light sensors?
Just wait until the Creative Labs Zii EGG device gets released and updated a revision or two .. this thing kicks ass and has had all the key features of iPhone 4 already - HD video, front-facing camera, etc. Okay, its not a phone (yet) but it sure does have the chance to steal a bit of thunder .. c'mon Creative, release it already!
So according to their lawyers you can view their RSS feed as long as you haven't purchased the viewer?

No, you, the consumer, are not making commercial use of the NYTimes.com newsfeed.

The company producing the Pulse reader, however, is making commercial use of the NYT brand and content by featuring it prominently in the advertising material.

So, as mentioned by others, the easiest solution seems to be to remove all NYT references (and other unlicensed brands) and resubmit.
You definitely want to hire someone for this, unless you have a business background or are comfortable with accounting already. Accounting is something you REALLY don't want to fuck up, as the tax and legal consequences can be ugly.

At the very least look into hiring someone for a "bookkeeper" role. Often accountants, or others with an accounting background, will moonlight doing the books for small companies. Search craigslist or the equivalent in India.
LiteAccounting.com - easy to use. I say that because I wrote it though.
I just might get downvoted for this, but submissions like this tarnish HN.
The start of the rise of the geeks.
"Move fast and break things", there's no time for deep thoughts and too much uncertainty for carefully planned architectures.
>Your job sounds horrible if people can just walk up any time for any reason.

I think this speaks more to what you think about your coworkers than actually weighing in on open floor plans.
* derives from the successful application of force against its people.

Fixed that for you.
I had the same thought after I reflowed the GPU from my iMac. It didn't work before, and it did work after, but it may simply be that dismounting and remounting the heat sink put enough pressure on the cracked solder ball to make it work again. I will never know, short of xray inspection, but it's been working fine for half a year now.
This was the #1 story a few minutes ago but not to be found on any of the top pages anymore. Out of curiosity, do you mod down stories you feel aren't fitting and/or duplicate discussions?
It should be just as likely as for a parade. If not, that seems like something that should be taken to the courts. Everyone could benefit from some clarity in the law.
Exactly. He's responsible for many of the tools which make it much easier for everyone else to automate jobs away.
>the hassle involved in setup and debugging, and the perceived inefficiency scare most developers away.

Hmm, I don't see why there should be any hassle in setup an debugging. You need tooling to do that automatically, and the tooling is almost there (although it still requires a bit of manual wiring, but it's only a question of time). Browsers already compile this .js code to run at near native speeds, and modern browsers support debugging compiled code reasonably well. There are still significant areas to improve, of course.

In fact, you can treat "compile-to-JavaScript" as a form of VM "scriptcode".
Here's a link to satellite data for the storm they flew through:

http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?lat=-5.52037&lon=111....
It's gotta be legal and infrastructural challenges. Don't know if you've been to SLC but aside from its downtown it's a very very spread out city. I don't know the numbers but I imagine the ppl/m^2 is less than 2,000 maybe even under 1,500.
I've been outsourcing all my life, 19 years of career. I have a firm belief that outsourcing is an evil and should not exist.
Leetcode+Referrals/cold app Series A,B,Seed companies
I think that is largely a misconception from people who live in the US and think the US is the worst of all possible worlds (based largely on the politics of the last decade or so)...it isn't. Not even close.

The US is an extreme example of a system that optimizes totally for choice...and it achieves that aim. The UK is an extreme example of system that optimizes totally for access. They both achieve their aims but there is a necessary cost. The most successful systems are mixed ones (Mazzucato is prone to make extremely reductionist statements about this: the private sector has this disadvantage, the solution is all public...in the UK, we know this doesn't work...we have tried it).
It's counter-intuitive but the best time to get a new job is when you are happy at your current job. Most people think "well, things are going great. Why should I look for another job?". It's pretty simple. Ask yourself the question "What offer would make you change jobs?". Most people start searching for jobs when they are unhappy with their current situation. If your job is crappy, then you will take pretty much any offer just to get out. If things are going great at your current job, then the only thing that would make you move is a fantastic offer. Why wait until things go sour then move on to another sub-optimal situation? Why not use the time to find a fantastic offer now?
I do a lot of small-batch hobbyist stuff and I've had really good results from PCBWay and JLCPCB - boards usually show up in about a week via DHL.

Never seen my IP show up anywhere but it's generally not very interesting to begin with :P
Decred set up it's mixed PoS/PoW so that there is an opportunity cost to staking - your funds are locked for a random amount of time up to several months. The staking rewards are also not enough to keep indefinitely staking. Your share of stake will continuously decrease, and, aside from ticket splitting, you would need to acquire more decred along the way to continue staking at the same level.
I've work for large national ISP where they are heavily trying to create a new series of network engineering tools (device discovery, adding new ARs with ease, upgrading existing devices, pragmatically change thru-puts between regions based on load, etc).

Most of the backends for these types of tools would explicitly be done in Java. Why did they chose Java? Mostly because they would staff entire teams with H1Bs and dump them after 5 years. The directors of these projects would only hear about "buzzwords" surrounding the latest tech if they themselves went to conferences or happened to luck out if the project managers they hired had varied experience.

Oddly enough, there's a lot of greenfield work being done using Scala at Verizon and Comcast. But from my direct experience, it's entirely dependent on the team. The more the team doesn't rely on contractors the more likely they are to use niche tech.
>At that level of depth you just hand it over to the CSS champ or the DB champ.

Developers are blaming other developers for not knowing everything they do because businesses forced them to learn everything (Fullstack), but that's actually a bad arrangement and somehow the solution is to just punish the developers more rather than hiring DBAs.
It's not arbitrary because screwing up your data integrity is far and away one of the most painful and business critical mistakes you can make as an engineer. Your product isn't finished if it looks like it works, but is either storing data improperly at rest or doing the wrong thing with it.
On their main site, start.duckduckgo.com will get rid of any of the "first time user" popups. They added it specifically to address the user concern of "I block cookies" users, who had no way to permanently turn off the messages.

I checked with start.duck.com and s.duck.com, and neither of them redirect properly. Seems like a semi-obvious oversight. If the popup is genuinely necessary, it would be nice to have a quick way to avoid it.
Fiction:

Permutation City - Greg Egan

Revival - Stephen King

Glasshouse - Charles Stross

The City - Dean Koontz

Non-fiction:

Predictable Revenue - Aaron Ross

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World - Steven Johnson

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - Jon Gertner

How Doctors Think - Jerome Groopman

Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up To Biotech's Brave New Beasts - Emily Anthes

Zero to One - Peter Thiel
If the Ronald Reagan had happened to choose Donald Rumsfeld or any of the other plausible candidates as his running mate in 1980, would we be taking about George W. or Jeb Bush at all? And if the Republican Party had thought the 2012 election winnable, would we be talking about Mitt Romney?
PayPal is, just like their mothership eBay, way too broken beyond repair to be fixed.

Sadly - at least in the case of eBay.
I don't think you read the article. You don't need to do anything extra for Spartan.
From my understanding, they grabbed the computer just seconds before the arrest.
> Just because a computer can pass the turing test, doesn't mean it can spontaneously diagnose your medical problems, design a suspension bridge or play Go.

I think you may have too narrow a view of a turing test. As part of any reasonably tough turing test would be the ability for the test subject to learn something new and apply it.
aristocracy != monarchy.
Your conception of trolling is totally inadequate.

What you want to do is state something obvious (inflammatory or not) and see who is self-righteous enough to correct you on it.

Sure, it's easier to troll with inflammatory material, but it's more fun with the banal.

This sort of thing even has a little merit. Given people's propensity to pick on the first, most obvious point in any given article, you just throw them a bone up front, put in something about how "Windows Sux" or whatever, and let that be a lightning rod for the Instantly Hostile Crowd. You can just delete or ignore their comments. Anyone who passes up the lightning rod probably has something thoughtful to say. Or at the very least can keep their temper.
It would be pretty cool if you could replace advertisements altogether. Imagine driving down the road instead of billboards you see art work.
1k/2k/4k video streaming seem to be coming along alright in many markets so I don't think lossless audio streaming is over the top. Totally understand the sucky situation in Australia though. Maybe an aussie cdn cache could help in that particular market?
Thanks for acknowledging the problem with the graph. We'll have to disagree over "correct in spirit" versus "stupid."

I suggested building a LSM out of cache-oblivious b-trees because of the claim that they were better than b-trees in all cases, including (ostensibly) read performance. I didn't realize that it was another name for fractal trees. (It's been a while since I read the fractal tree papers.)

I'm not convinced that LSM-trees are suboptimal. The lower levels have shorter trees, so the price of redundant lookups is small, and you should get better write performance because you can do compaction without touching other levels.

Conversely, SQLite4 has designed an LSM-tree with forward pointers between the levels. However I think that actually sacrifices some write performance for read performance, which probably makes it closer to a fractal tree. (SQLite4 is also vaporware, unfortunately.)

I don't think there is a free lunch here. If you want to claim theoretically better read performance, you have to admit theoretically worse write performance. Tricks like compression or bloom filters (for LSM-trees) help in practice but don't change the theory.
We've started doing this in pair-programming too, without knowing a term for it. Make a change, then before running it, verbally state what we expect to happen. It seems to help a lot. It's turned into a regular habit for me when programming solo as well.
The thing that matters is that code is written as s-expressions, which has a simple textual serialization format with lists, symbols, numbers, strings, vectors and a bunch of other data types. Thus any Lisp form is automatically data: not simple strings or complex syntax trees.

This enables a bunch of stuff: code can be relatively easily treated as data. It allows easy code generation, transformations (-> macros), traversal (-> interpreters/compilers) or editing.

The parentheses are just a part of the s-expression textual syntax. The s-expressions then are used by basic operations like READ, MACROEXPAND, PRINT and EVAL. Additionally many of the primitive data functions can be used to manipulate code: first/rest, list, append, reverse, map, ...
I still don't know how to really judge software from changelogs, but I think it's really hard to do and this post is not a great example either.

This is a changelog backup software which does data storage and encryption mainly. If it ever has bugs worth talking about they're going to be in... data storage and encryption. If we look at rsync for a change which is much older, simpler and mature: https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-3.1.1-NEWS

- fixing .. traversal in V3 (how did that survive so long?)

- issues with copying attributes

(There won't be much data corruption since rsync does 1:1 copies)

Time-to-fix could give us a better idea maybe? Either way, software doing X has bugs in X is "normal".
it's interesting that for non-english populations, this part of programming does not really require explanation if the course uses local language words for names, and english vs local language is clearly keywords vs chosen names.
A lot of the time you can also just ask wolfram alpha (or at least once you have a formula) and you'll get the answer.
Just a note for anyone trying to download this -- please first try `pgsh@0.10.1`. The `.2` bugfix release caused a regression that I'm working through now. Thanks :)
1800 is your approx BMR (~12 cal/lb),

You are already at ~3500-4200 cal deficit a week. Recommended typical safe is ~7000 (2 lbs).

If you are doing any kind of exercise you will get close to that, but at 150 lbs, im not sure you need that much loss.

Stay safe my friend
This is huge. Love the concept. My company is 100% remote, and we're having all the pain points with Zoom that have already been mentioned. We also all have more than one monitor.

But we're on windows.

Get that pre-order form online already! ;)
Was his solution to crimp the pipe?

The pressure differential between the oil and the water is pretty low (20k barrels/day isn't that much for a pipe that large) so crimping wouldn't require much more energy than bending a pipe without any flow.

However, I don't know if there are ROV attachments that are strong enough and whether there was the required access.

The other problem is that a crimp probably won't result in a complete seal. I don't know if there was room for multiple crimps or their cumulative effect.

On the other hand, crimps would have reduced the flow while the relief well is being drilled.

The other problem with crimps is that they may make it impossible to do other things.
Instant karma's gonna get you!

Really though, it's the people who take knowing-it-all and evidence denial to a personal level who deserve a special place in hell.
China's population is aging much faster than ours due to their one child policy. Our debt isn't really a whole lot worse than it was after World War II, and that preceded pretty good growth for us. Lastly, the effect of the value of the dollar going down and manufacturing jobs going elsewhere is of debatable importance.
No hardware acceleration on the browser just yet and still scripted canvas so that is slower.

So until WebGL, even then, OpenGL ES will still be needed for most games/interactives/apps until we hit 2GHz and about 1GB of RAM or higher.

Then things like Flash also start to perform reasonably enough, same with html5 animation. If they were hardware rendered now then they would be reasonable but still wouldn't be compared to compiled, native apps on the device. Just like desktop now only the current mobile hardware is the desktop hardware of the late 90's.

WebSocket support, canvas, svg etc is awesome for games though.
I graduated in May and got a job with a startup merely because I spent my spare time building a fairly cool product built in Ruby on Rails. I would argue if you've shipped a product and can show it off, thats more valuable than having a degree from a well-known school.

But my real advice: Start a startup out of college if you've got no debt and have a good idea. It is what I'm doing right now and I'm pretty sure its the right time to take risks. At the very least you'll fail, have another product, and be even more employable than you once were.
Good question -- I honestly don't remember. He only wanted to punish the cheaters, so I imagine he curved the test. He often added a fixed number to everyone's score to bring the best or second-best score up to 100. (It's not really "curving," but that's what we called it.)
I'm assuming Mixpanel works fine with a mobile site. What about a mobile app? Would you just put the hooks into your backend?
Shrinking manufacturing? Perhaps due to the recession, but otherwise not so much. Peak output for US manufacturing was in 2006, current American manufacturing output is about 40% above what it was in the mid-90s. Just because there are fewer jobs due to automation doesn't mean manufacturing in America is in decline.
There are ways to limit the influence, such has prohibiting elected officials from maintaining "official" accounts where they announce and do the public's business on the social media platforms.

Also making some of the support the social media platform clearly have for some candidates as "in kind" political contributions.