jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The problem is that a lot of people worry about their aspartame intake although their diet sucks and they don't exercise at all. Aspartame in this case is your least problem. If you get 90% of your nutrition right, then you can worry about the amounts of aspartame in your soda.

I'm interested in the current state of stevia as it is a real (maybe hyped) alternative sweetener.
More like, come up with a great web-interface to allow a single, one-time idea from an individual user (which otherwise would have been heard only by him and his friends) to be made available to the entire internet.
You borrow stock from someone (or your broker does) and you then sell the borrow stock. You give someone (usually your broker) a promise to give them back the stock at a later date.

That's it. In it's entirety.

Depending on the value of your portfolio/margin account, if the value of the stock goes up too much, they may ask for more collateral, etc. But other then that, there isn't anything to it.

Shorting a stock is a bet against the price of the stock. Honestly, it doesn't make sense as much as buying a put option in many cases, but sometimes it does. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put_option
I was half-trying to recognize the music myself (almost second nature by now), but it really sounds like Generic Presentation Background Music. Not quite elevator-territory, but nevertheless, musical equivalent of a stock photo of <insert presentation cliché here>.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise at the down-votes.

From the article:

"An internal _Pentagon_ memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,”"

and

"“There is stunning potential here,” Gen. David H. Petraeus, _commander of the United States Central Command_, said in an interview on Saturday."

and

"“No one has tested that law; no one knows how it will stand up in a fight between the central government and the provinces,” observed Paul A. Brinkley, deputy undersecretary of defense for business and leader of the _Pentagon_ team that discovered the deposits"

and

"The _Pentagon_ task force has already started trying to help the Afghans set up a system to deal with mineral development."

and

"Soon, the _Pentagon_ business development task force brought in teams of American mining experts to validate the survey’s findings, and then briefed Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Mr. Karzai."

If someone points out that the US Pentagon has discovered riches under the soil of a foreign country its troops are waging a war in I'll certainly point out how much that war effort has cost and is costing each and every person in the States.
Tern.js is pretty solid and is compatible with a bunch of popular editors. Nothing in the IntelliJ family though. I have enjoyed working with it in SublimeText.

http://ternjs.net/
Science isn't a religion because it can change with new information
Regarding Postscript vs web: I'm only talking about device independence. Specifically in the case of pixel perfect layouts. I am not talking about the layout constraint problem, which is extremely challenging no matter the technology. But layout constraints depend on a solid notion of coordinate system, which the web lacks. Device independence gives you that in postscript and SVG.

Besides, windows faces a similar problem of multiple resolutions and devices. How do they v&v? They set the resolutions the same for certain tests! Even if you do this for browsers, they cant pass the test. Yes, it would be nice if we could have device independent layout constraints as well, but even the simplest most constrained test not involving layouts fails. At least now, its close. Before ACID it wasn't even close.

If webdevs can't even rely on their browser coordinate system in the most heavily constrained case, how can they hope to trust it when they try to solve challenging problems of dynamic layouts across multiple resolutions?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAM_Mozambique_Airlines_Flight_...
Man the CIA is getting obvious
I wonder how much that would have helped in this case though.

Someone determined to crash a plane would not have too much of a problem incapacitating any cabin crew member (by surprise most likely) before his attempt. I believe that having a second person in the cockpit is more useful (and seemingly essential) if the Pilot/Co-Pilot loses conciousness in order for the door to still be opened.
Previous discussion can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8206038

Have noticed quite a bit more buzz about Racket and Lisp very recently around here. It's always been something I mean to explore.
I don't like the message Twitter sends with the semi-walled garden. Maybe I'm completely wrong here, but this to me says "develop on our platform and if you come up with a good idea and we like what you do we'll just do it ourselves"
So what you're saying is, this is actually good for bitcoin?
Those don't always work. There are checks and balances in place before pilots get to fly airplanes, too.
This is an interesting concept. But I can't help but think it looks like it's focused on UI design interaction, and not necessarily full app design. What provisions are in place for persistent storage, push notifications, or access to an external API?
It seems like the source for Arch discussion, that seems to be similar, but slightly different, to Hacker News.

But it's better than nothing.
There is definitely a kind of person who's interested in the social aspect of ride-sharing. In fact, there's always been—the people who hitchhike and those wiling to pick them up.

You're right though. It's a small group. These features are for a very small percent of the total user base. Neat though.
Unfortunately, if you pick cans, you quite probably will have an a-hole boss, and, unlike an a-hole customer, she will not go anywhere.
There is a chemical compound going through investigation currently that emulates exercise in your muscle tissue:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/exercise-in-a-pill-...

What we can't emulate in software or robotics, shall be done in biology.
Always amaze me to see the new trend of DevOps that will be happily following such a tutorial, wget and running random code from the internet in production...
The only other option is passwordless webauthn which has a lot of downsides compared to social sign in. Allowing people to sign in with social is a personal choice that i'm happy many sites give the option of using.
"Beautifulness" of programming languages is so subjective it's hard to have a productive conversation around it.

But I'll bite. Most of the languages you've listed are C-like and all of them have mostly similar syntax and function although the ecosystems are very different. Have you ever experienced larger applications written in completely different class of languages? Languages like various lisps, Prolog, ML and so on.
The USDA seems to share his ignorance. Less than 2% of the country even reported losing weight as a result of food security. The word "starve" doesn't even occur in the report.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR66/ERR66.pdf

More intuitively, go live in a poor neighborhood. For the most part, the only skinny people you see are the addicts. Everyone else is fat.
Thanks for that!

mplayer -dumpstream "mms://proedvid.stanford.edu/knuth/musings/101206/101206-knuth-500.wmv"
That is a great deal for $900, but I'm not sure it's an MBA competitor.

Screen res is lower than the 13" MBA's screen (1440x900), which to me is a pretty big deal. I find the 1440x900 res on my 13" MBA just barely workable, I wouldn't want any less vertical resolution these days.

The other thing is that the Dell runds Windows. While this is totally a personal preference, I just do not like working in Windows. Had this machine been available for $500 with a higher-res screen when I got my MBA, I still would have opted for the Mac. I'm aware of the hackintosh projects as well, but I don't really enjoy fighting with my OS anymore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poona_Pact
"Every program can be reduced by at least one line and every program contains at least one error. Therefore every program can be reduced to one line, which is wrong!"

Dan Garcia
Right -- the prosecutor and DA are really the first line of defense in wrongful prosecutions, in that their highest goal is supposed to be justice, and good ones will not pursue a case if it is inappropriate, or even if it unlikely to result in a conviction. They also are involved in deciding if they should go for capital murder charges vs. life or lesser offenses. If you don't trust the prosecutors to be reasonable (as elected officials in many jurisdictions), that's a major point against capital punishment as an option.
Yes, usually by their manager. Things like Node.js get over-marketed to the public, managers are fooled into thinking it's a valid solution to their problem, then they force developers to use it against their will. node-cgi increases the number of scenarios where Node.js can be inappropriately forced down the throats of otherwise competent developers.

And there's also the long tail of inexperienced developers who made their own decision to use it and left a broken application that an experienced developer is called in to fix.

I also prefixed my statement with "akin to", which is to say it's not literally being shoved down the throats of developers but the effect is similar.
"the target is always clearly framed as a 'meta' point."

Can you unpack this statement? What's a 'meta' point? And why is it not an effective zinger?
Skype (and to a lesser extent meetup and stumbleupon) are pretty good examples, no? However, Most of the acquisitions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_eBay have made some sense IMO.
Your situation is not as bad as you think. Although you have financial problems at least you have a job. Remove all unnecessary expenses from your life, only buy what you need to survive. Focus on a few things, focus one work and your side project. You must eliminate distractions and time wastes. It's easy to say, harder to do.
How do you keep space junk (which can include larger objects as well as small as bolts and the like, all of which may have considerable momentum) from tearing through the cable?
Approximately $1.76 million

Starting in 1837, gold coins in the US had 0.48375oz of gold per $10. So $27,000 in coins would be worth $1,755,432 given a price for gold of $1344 per oz. This excludes the value of the copper with which the gold was alloyed, which would be worth roughly another $30.
On the bright side it will be an interesting way to analyze how people's views change over time, seeing how they tweet over a long period. Note that the same tool that can condemn a person can also exonerate them: if they were once upon a time filled with hate an ignorance, and then over time changed, you can show this path convincingly with a full tweet history. But yeah I hope the power to quote out of context to hurt people fades, and quickly.
Depends on the jurisdiction. The sexual assault is a crime, obviously, but very hard to prosecute even with this rare video evidence. Publishing nonconsensual porn surprisingly isn't a crime in a lot of places. Scotland recently criminalised it. Check your local jurisdiction.
I’ve got the gift of the gab and so I see this differently. If I had no scruples or morals and chose to drive Uber, I could make an obscene hourly wage simply by picking up elderly people and engaging them in conversation. Most phone scams rely upon preying upon vulnerable, lonely people like this so sadly, it’s a public 0 day with no known fix.
No one ever became stronger by getting their legs crushed by a ton of metal. In fact, I'd argue they mostly became weaker.
Don't allow pets? Service animals are not pets. And service animals can be removed from a business for being disruptive.

> they can't just eat the costs, which are also not equal the price of the room rate

Amortize the costs does not mean eat the costs, it means bake them into the base rate.
The user submits the same posts every day in a loop, interspersed with a few new ones. The user has been doing this for 2 years. It seems like an effective way to earn karma and possibly? make the new submissions get greater traction.
Thanks—we've changed the title above to that of the page.

Submitted title was "Archive.org is archiving every tweet". The word "smattering" implies much less than "every". What's the actual situation?
I would prefer to have some level of control over how my corp(s) will be taxed at the local level where I have some semblance of control by voting for X political party. Letting tax rates be controlled by an even bigger, global quasi-government makes it less likely for me to have any agency. This is just further eroding the control of the individual and the sovereignty of nation states.
> The incentive structure is bad. However much money you make for organizing unions, I'm positive the company they're attempting to unionize will pay you several times that to give them the list of workers who want to unionize. It's the same problem review sites have; companies that want to game the reviews will pay more than users who want honest reviews.

That's probably solved by having a union or a nonprofit develop and run the app, instead of a for-profit company.

Is seems like the default assumption is for-profit companies are the best vehicle to accomplish any task, but there's a lot they just can't do or can't do well.

> You'll also have issues with companies paying someone to join the unionization effort to spy on it. That's not insurmountable with proper designs, but it makes it a lot harder to assist with organizing when you have to silo users from one another to prevent espionage.

Yeah, that's harder problem, but it's an issue that needs to be solved for any such effort. Maybe you could have some kind of validation/referral type feature, e.g. refer your coworkers anonymously, and part of on-boarding they verify a list of people and their roles, including the initiator. You could probably structure it so every person gets vetted, but it's unclear who started the process [1].

[1] e.g. initiator refers the effort to 10 coworkers. You have a list of 11 potential employees. Send random 3-worker subsets that together cover all 11 to each referral for vetting of employment location and title. At the end of it, you should have some confidence that you can filter out bogus people and management. Though you still have the problem of snitches and spies who actually work the job.
I think "mean" maintainers in open source are also often a result of burnout, and if he's been working on it for 25 years, perhaps it's time for him to take a break.
You can read it here: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/03/29/ten-lessons-from-gi... and https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-...
This attitude is gross: open source contributors are not your bitches.

And in open source, if you spot a problem: fix it by contributing.

Shaming someone publicly (isn't it bullying?) that contributes a lot for «being unnice» on his spare time helping people is like shaming a construction worker for being sweaty.

Instead of whining he should take part of the load. Especially if he ares about the community.
You shouldn't take it too lightly either. The hiring process is a two-way selection. And the words they use to describe the position say something about their culture. If part of the job description raises red flags with you, it might be an initial sign there there is not a cultural fit.
Yes the "us" and "them" feeling is hard to handle, it's the same in every kind of organization(sports, hacker group etc) where some people have been around for quite long and invested much time in different things even if the formal roles are different
The point was that Bitcoin already is regulated pretty much everywhere. If you have pockets deep enough to exploit any of the remaining loopholes it'd likely be cheaper to just get a regular license.
But if we define it as something that the society should
encourage because it's beneficial to the society then
for-profits are arguably on a higher ground ... KKK is a
non-profit.

And Comcast is a company. Just because people give money to an organization and extract value from it doesn't mean society should encourage that company's behavior. Your argument makes no sense. You're saying:

1. Moral ground is "something society encourages because
it's beneficial to society"
2. People give for-profit companies their money
3. Therefore, companies have a higher moral ground since
companies are "demonstrably beneficial to people"

How on earth do you arrive at that conclusion? You then throw an example of a bad non-profit (KKK) as I can equally give you an example of a bad company (Comcast) that takes people's money, provides a necessary service to their customers, but is by all accounts one of the worst, most parasitic organizations on the planet.
I think I usually noticed when someone felt uneasy, so I left the room for a few minutes.
Test anxiety might be really bad for some people, I know. But if it's that bad that they can't explain to me how to check if "n mod m == 0" then I think there are usually deeper underlying problems in their programming ability.
And if it was really just anxiety, I'm sorry I'd rather have a false negative than hiring them.

I tried homework, it didn't really work that well for me, people would google and copy paste stuff and invest way too much time, in the end they couldn't explain what they did and it was just a waste of time for both parties.
The other problem is that I usually let people work with whatever language/frameworks their familiar with. I ended up beeing not familiar with some C# stuff they used and couldn't really judge their code.
Fizzbuzz is simple enough that you can see if it looks right in pretty much any language
And it's done in 5 minutes even if that means accepting a few false positives.

Oh and, we had I few people where I noticed that they were really nervous and I thought maybe that's why they failed Fizzbuzz, so I invited them in for half a day and gave them a toy project to implement. Usually something really simple like, fetch this RSS Feed, parse it, save it somewhere, make sure that if you fetch it multiple times it doesn't save duplicate entries, and spit out the titles and URL's to stdout or a webpage or anything. A relatively real world exercise I think, nobody was constantly watching them, it was just a "get it done" job, they had internet, their own IDE, their language of choice and everything (a few people complained that they can't implement FizzBuzz without an IDE).
And all of them failed. Hard.
So I ended up not doing that anymore and treat a failed FizzBuzz as a K.O. criteria.
Generally those are for additional classes taken by current employees -- either individual classes or a graduate program. Very rarely would that be for a full undergrad degree, and wen less likely they would hire a high school dropout and pay for full time college tuition for 4y first. ROTC is pretty unique in that respect because they have legal force of government for the contract.
Gmail, Workflowy, 30boxes (calendar) -- Those are my staple 3.
Honestly, I would say that it's more the court hearing these that's performing the public good by crushing Righthaven's cases.

But I'm still glad that they're expanding fair use, even if they were hoping to do the opposite.
http://dryicons.com has some good ones and offers custom service.
It seems like you'd be IO bound when scanning the array so using larger than machine precision integers shouldn't slow things down. Particularly since you know the number of bits you'll need beforehand.
Sometimes you can use this for trade ins to Amazon directly. Last week I traded in a book that had several prices for $100.
Amazon took it for $27. On other sites you can get it for $24.
This is where you wish you had a data center address and a cabinet number where you could pop in, grab your servers and move the heck out to another DC.

I wonder if this will get more companies to maintain a non-cloud, vanilla setup on some dedicated or collocated boxes.

May be we should have an annual day to bring down our primary servers and see how the backups do. The idea shouldn't be to confirm if everything works or not. It should be to determine what did work and did not work.
I see EC2 as a good piece of infrastructre to have as part of a failover plan. But should it be even 1/3 the providers for servers? No.
Ec2 is fine here. All systems have downtime. Its not having a backup system in place that's the problem.
Those things have non-social utility. High heels once did (horses), but no longer do.
Aren't you talking about naked calls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_call)?
This has also been my experience.

When we first launched on GCP, there was no question that it was the way to go (frankly, because of BigQuery). Working with AWS, when we launched, was going to cost us significantly more up-front, before we had even brought on our first customer.

Fast forward 5 years... AWS has closed the gap in every way that matters. I still, frankly, trust Google's Security more than Amazon's, but I don't encourage folks to use GCP the way that I used to.

Just the opposite. In 2021, no questions asked, it's either AWS for general compute, or something more targeted if your business doesn't need it.

Until you get to the point where your bill is larger than a dozen engineering salaries, you won't get any respect from these people.
In America, if you don't move out ASAP, you are considered a failure, a loser, a (wo)man-child, etc.

In other countries (or even cultural enclaves in the US), it's considered perfectly normal and acceptable. You'll see highly paid professionals like medical doctors, hedge fund managers or SWEs making huge salaries living with their parents.
"And some of claims that a baby crying is dumping enough cortisol into their bodies it will permanently damage their brains is NOT supported by science."

This is misleading. You're correct that there is not conclusive scientific evidence either way, but there are decent studies that support the cortisol theory. Not necessarily that it will "damage their brains", but that cortisol levels spike during sleep training and remain elevated even after the baby learns to stop crying at night. We know that, in general, elevated cortisol levels are bad for humans.

The studies that claim to support sleep training are all terrible, unless there are new ones I haven't seen. The most-cited ones use self-reports from the parents themselves to measure "wellbeing" of the infant, which is plainly ridiculous.
Now do the same for asciidoc as this is what book writers use, and make it easy to export to epub, and you have a product that will be used by the next generation of self publishers
Is it really necessary to test every browser on PC and Mac?
They should name it Notheranos
It's really useful, but it's dynamic. You need tests that actually trigger the UB to make it useful.