jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Uber from lower Manhattan to JFK is ~$60. Most of the time it won't take more than 45 minutes. The 2 hours they are pushing here is likely talking driving in heavy traffic or taking public transportation.
(IANAL) The thing is the ACLU only has leverage against the Federal gov't if they pursue a settlement - the federal gov't doesn't want to see the agents deposed. Even if they have immunity, it'd make them look bad. If this went to trial, that leverage would be gone. So, the settlement deal gets them point 2 on that list, instead of just (potentially more) money.
Going with what your interpretation, I would consider wording it like that to be obfuscation by the author. The author is clearly arguing from a left wing viewpoint, and wants to emphasize lack of social mobility. Fine, but then the author is using an exaggerated and wrong feeling to emphasize this point, even though reality might not be that bad.

Like you say, if people do feel like this then it's important to understand it. But there is a big difference politically between saying poor people feel unable to improve their situation, and that poor people actually are unable to improve their situation.
Not very familiar with the RBMK design, but the CANDU reactor is a heavy water breeder reactor it does produces weapons grade plutonium in quite good amounts.

It's fuel cycle isn't optimized for doing so, and they actually intentionally have a burn stage in which the WG PU oxide is mixed with Uranium to burn it out of the spent fuel. But if you tweak the fuel cycle slightly, and forgo the burn phase you are getting a very good PU 239 factory.

If anything trade in nuclear technology has to be done with countries like India and Pakistan it should be in nuclear fail safes, and command and control systems.

The US system has so many fail safes and checks that even the president unlike in the movies can't launch a nuke with a button, ground silos can be launched within 30-45min, subs can take hours with the new regulations and launch prep.

On the other hand no one knows which nuclear fail safes Indian or Pakistani nukes have if any, and their command and control system is completely none existent, India launched a central network in 2009 but as far as it goes for both of those countries nuclear launch capabilities still remain within the hands of local field commanders once the forces go on launch ready alert.

Blame Bush, Obama or Osama frankly my dear i don't care, but the worlds first nuclear power, and the defacto "world police" should not trade in nuclear technologies with a country who didn't sign the NPT, especially when it has a nuclear armed neighbor that could turn into an AQ run state over night.
It's not that much of a myth. When Google first announced that the Galaxy Nexus was not getting KitKat, I was pretty disappointed, as I had one too. I looked into why there was no official support, and when I found out it had to do with the firmware, my gut reaction was "WTF, that makes no sense." Digging some more, I found out that it actually has to do with kernel driver-firmware compatibility. Google wanted to ship an update, but they needed changes that TI was no longer willing/capable of making. In order to release KitKat on the Galaxy Nexus would either require Google to reverse engineer the hardware and make their own radio firmware (not likely) or holding back the kernel to the same one on 4.3 (subpar experience if it even works).

Neither the Glass nor Moto 360 suffer from this problem since neither has a cellular radio.
> what we in the old days called "rewriting", before the hipsters made it cool

Calling it refactoring dates back to at least the early 90s[1], which I'm pretty sure predates "hipster hackers." If anyone "made it cool" it was probably Martin Fowler[2].

[1] http://www.ai.univ-paris8.fr/~lysop/opdyke-thesis.pdf

[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201485672
But the API is entirely open, so you can use an open source client.
That read like you have had scurvy, multiple times. Surely not?
I am aware of that.
Of course I am not using a kernel that fits in 512k, but personally I prefer software that fits in 512k and I write and use such software regularly.

But it still does not change the point of my comment.

One can either say a smaller, lighter system is "fast" or one can say a larger, heavier system is "slow". It depends on the "benchmark" one chooses.

You characterize the performance of "small" software as a "huge boost".

While I might characterize the performance of a "large" software as a "huge slowdown".

The difference is my benchmark is small software, not large software.
And here's a screenshot of Apple's Newton OS, which came out three years before Palm released its Pilot in 1996.

http://pdadb.net/img/os/newton/newton_os_2.0_all_icons.png

The lawsuit isn't just about Samsung using a desktop metaphor. They copied all sorts of hardware and software characteristics from the iPhone.
Speaking in general terms, the software load on a 5th generation jet has much to do. It must tie multiple systems together into a coherent whole. An incomplete list of what the software must do includes:

1) Provide basic flight control services through the control laws that transform pilot intent into commands to individual flight control surfaces

2) Basic and advanced navigation (GPS, TACAN)

3) Sensor fusion. Taking in data streams from multiple types of sensors and presenting a coherent picture to the pilot of the space surrounding the aircraft, notifying the pilot of dangers and target opportunities

4) Stores management. Keeping track of the ordnance loaded on each station of the aircraft so that the flight control system can compensate as weapons are launched. Communicating with active weapons so that they have the necessary targeting information.

5) Electronic warfare, jamming, and countermeasures.

6) Operational mission plan. Fans of the old Microprose flight sims would recognize this as a set of instructions that tell the jet something like -- 1) Takeoff from Sicily 2) Destroy missile boat 3) Destroy SAM Radar at Benghazi...etc.

7) Data links to other aircraft, satellites, and ground systems.

8) Provide interfaces for future system growth and improvement.

You can see that there are a vast array of data interfaces that must be managed with all kinds of operational and time constraints. Writing and testing all of this code does take much time and effort.
There is an interesting opportunity here for a Thunderbolt "condom". You would permanently attach it to your Mac's TB port -- and plug everything through that. It would block Snare attacks by detecting/preventing PCIe reads in a certain address range.

During boot time, it would read your BootROM and compare it against a known good and visually let you know if your ROM is compromised or not.
The real answer is they are comparing age adjusted death rates per 100,000. This has fallen across the range of all causes of death by around 20%.
It is not near impossible to get Japanese citizenship, but you are technically required to renounce other current citizenships. Permanent residency is a more attainable goal especially for technical workers in Japan.
Perhaps `dang can bump this back to the front page on Monday.
Could TikTok buy a corporate city if the city is successful successful?

Could TikTok make its own corporate city?
I don't think that's the reason medical school is exclusive. It's expensive and time-consuming to train good doctors. If you are sick, would you rather have your doctor be the one who who graduated from a class of 25, or the one who graduated from a class of 250? Which one do you think got the better education? More hands-on experience? Direct attention from instructors?
To be fair, an editor built on open web technologies could also be at the core of a dream to travel the world with a Chromebook.
GitHub itself isn't open source, nor are its desktop clients, so it is par for the course. On the other hand, if this was from Gitorious...
"If you do not want this information reported, disable this package from the Metrics section of the Settings view (cmd-,)."
If you’re on this website you may be interested to learn that Bardeen won for inventing the transistor.

(His other prize was for explaining super conductivity; he won for experimental work and separately for theoretical work!)

Bardeen didn’t bring his young children to the Nobel award ceremony the first time. The King asked him where they were and jokingly said Bardeen had ought to bring them next time. And so he did!
Not to defend the Prius too much, I wouldn't buy one, but it seems like you are being a little tough on them. The thread you linked to about the oil burning problem starts with a post containing... the solution to the oil burning problem?

> It cost us over $2,000 for each car which completely negated any money we might have saved on gas over the lifetime of the vehicle.

Really? I haven't done the math and I imagine it's heavily dependent on what vehicle you're comparing it to, but... $2k is not an expensive repair for a $30k, 10 year old car.
While I do agree with you about Haskell's close association with maths (and an assumption about the users), in this case the author is pursuing a mathematical proof (or rather, a counterexample to a mathematical hypothesis). The use of Haskell here is just as a tool to that end. It is therefore reasonable to expect a greater than normal amount of mathematical notation.
You are absolutely right. Even more, people are using it for free using mods like these https://bestforandroid.com/apk/spotify-premium-mod-apk/
True, I'm not in favour of global monopolies.

That being said, we've seen time and again governments will introduce laws with a fair reason and then totally abuse it down the line (Patriot Act anyone).

In my country, the government locks people up for making offensive Tweets based on mostly unrelated legislation from decades ago.

The free and open web is still here, just most people don't choose to use it. Whatever you think of Big Tech, you can go somewhere else and build a website. DuckDuckGo proves it's possible to crack these companies with enough of a value prop.
It sounds unfair. It's OK for these other countries to keep enjoying the benefits of eugenics they did in the past, but China can't join in? (same argument can be used for pollution)
When Murdoch cries poor in Australia just remember that he spun out what newspapers traditionally made money on - the real estate ad business - into a separate company, REA (realestate.com.au), and today it's worth $20B

REA still makes up about 80% of news corps value.

When they talk about news being a bad loss-making business, they're talking about the newspapers that are subsidised by their online revenue and used to control politics in three major large democracies (yes, three - I count Australia!)
I'm thinking 1 or 2 percent neanderthal DNA sounds like a lot? Maybe making it a little bit necessary after all?

(At the same time, who knows what was socially accepted back then, at various places)
Seems to me that iTunes captured the market because of the amazing integration with music devices and not the price point. Until someone beats them at that, I think things will continue as they are.

I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means, but nobody else has produced a device that makes it so easy to find, buy, and listen to music on the go.

Amazon's Cloud Player is a good start, since it eliminates having to load the music on to the device, but the player still needs some polish.
I'm into the shared account / shared cost idea for small side projects. But the reality is that managing an app store account for a popular app can be its own full time job. I spent weeks tinkering with account settings, exchanging dozens of app store support emails, and managing the release process. A lot of unexpected things. A lot went wrong. And it's not just Apple. The Chrome Web Store has plenty of quirks too. I trust my fellow devs but I don't trust myself to not screw up a shared account.
On ubuntu this is getting really much easier than it used to.
Market pricing appears random, but it is not because of a random number generator deciding when to go up and when to go down. It appears random because prices actively resist the formation of patterns, and a chart with no pattern by definition appears random. If a trader recognizes a pattern in a stock that is 100% guaranteed to play out they can borrow heavily and put it all into trading the pattern and walk away with a huge profit. If there's even a small probability that a pattern will play out, then a trader can place a proportionally small bet on it and still have a significant edge over everyone else. But the act of trading a pattern works to counteract the existence of the pattern: if the pattern predicts that the price will go up, then people will buy, thus driving the price up and making it harder for others to jump in until the profitability of the trade evaporates.

Now imagine 10,000 people (and robots) all doing this simultaneously. This is how markets work at the micro level. It may sound like a self-fulfilling prophecy but it happens so fast that the pattern never really exists to begin with -- it's just a way to explain why there are no patterns.

At least theoretically. Most traders (by head count, not dollars) haven't the tiniest idea what they're doing. Luckily, these "noise traders" all tend to counteract each other, and when they do manage to push prices off-course then someone who does know what's going on steps in and pushes things back in the right direction, making a profit in the process. Sometimes there are catastrophic failures, but while they might scare investors they don't affect the ability of the market to predict pricing long-term. The broad markets recovered extremely quickly during the flash crash and without any regulatory intervention.

As for whether the random walk means the pricing is "noise": the market price is an estimation of the fundamental value of the company, which is an imaginary number that is impossible to calculate but is occasionally pinned down when someone gets bought out. Because it is an estimation, and because the fundamental value is also ever-changing due to uncountable external factors (interest rates, consumer confidence, phase of the moon), the result looks like a random walk. It's a noisy estimation of an imaginary number. Neat, huh?

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PC games will run with wine, but that isn't exactly out of the box like the check list presents.
They have a FAQ here which includes a list of items which they won't accept. It doesn't mention anything at all about occult materials, but it's quite possible they've recently decided to include it under the heading "Businesses that present a high risk of charge-back"

https://support.squareup.com/entries/160793-frequently-asked...
MITCH JOEL BRINGS YOU DIGITAL MARKETING, NEW MEDIA AND PERSONAL BRANDING INSIGHTS, PROVOCATIONS AND FORESHADOWS FROM HIS ALWAYS ON/ALWAYS CONNECTED WORLD.

Wait...you can get a job, a paid job, doing this?! I'm in b-school and that even sounds like crap to me!
TC seems to be down? I don't see an article.
I think you're overgeneralizing here.

Most of Apple's APIs are wonderfully general (e.g., look at their full 3d-aware Core Animation capabilities that are better than any desktop system (other than Mac OS X, which shares the same capabilities).

They specialize APIs when it would be harmful to generalize.

They're fighting at every turn for battery life (I'm at WWDC this week, and have seen that mantra (optimize for battery life) at nearly every talk), which is tough on developers but great for end users.
I think they are trying to point out the options - MS office vs. Open Office. People visually scan lists like these and ignore the rows where the both products are identical. If they checked that MS supported open office, the natural way to read this list is that Ubuntu doesn't support office of any kind, which isn't the point they are trying to make.
This has nothing to do with taxes and everything to do with power games. The telecommunications board has been flexing their ban-muscle all over the place in anything that might be objectionable. The moronic part is that the ban is carried out instantly, and then the owner can contest the ban afterward.
on April 4, 1943, the Lady Be Good and 24 other airplanes took off from Soluch Airstrip in Libya to bomb the port at Naples, Italy

Hmm. Well history didn't just repeat itself, it reversed itself this year eh?
I believe so. They referenced TAOCP Vol 3 in the patent. But, they just cited the entire hashing chapter (p. 506-549).
examples:

- Show Hidden Files in the Finder

- Disable the ‘Unexpectedly Quit’ Dialog

- Enable ‘X-Ray Folders’ in QuickLook

- Show the File Path in the Finder Window Title

etc.
In 1983, Rescue on Fractalus and Ballblazer, the first releases from Lucasfilm Games, were built with a system written in Lisp. It was a 6502 assembler with Lisp syntax and a Lisp-style macro facility, written in Portable Standard Lisp, running in Berkeley Unix on a 4MB VAX 11/750. Unfortunately it was eventually abandoned because the developer had left and it was a bit of a strain on the VAX that was shared by the whole development team.

Yes, I wrote it. Yes, it was my first non-academic programming job. Yes, the users complained about the parentheses, and the slowness. But, they also took advantage of the powerful macro facility.
Complex systems fail, regardless of who owns the hardware.
Amazon's EC2 Failures. Since April 21st 2011, is the date that the fictional Skynet (from Terminator) seizes control of the worlds computing infrastructure, some have been amused by the timing coincidence.
As far as I understand it (I could be wrong as I've pieced this together from multiple sources), forking still reserves the same amount of memory that the parent process is using without actually copying the data (since it could very well use all that memory eventually).

The wrench is that Linux has a feature called memory overcommit (which I haven't been able to decipher completely). Supposedly it causes forking to not actually reserve that much space, but by default it's in a "heuristic" mode so it may or may not take effect.

These are the best resources I could find on what happens when you fork:

http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/subprocess/subpro...
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accoun...
FYI: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
When you use `console.log` that way it gets `this` set to `null`. When you call `console.log("hello")`, `this` is set to `console`. Your code would work if you set an explicit `this`.

n.forEach(console.log.bind(console));

I don't think there's any reason for this library to exist after you understand `this` semantics but I may be missing something.

e: was, in fact, missing something. Apologies for the disparaging comment, see replies.
Here they include both:

https://www.iamroadsmart.com/campaign-pages/end-customer-cam...
Why is it not a good solution for those that don't know what `ssh` is?
On the Mazda MX-5 2020 the touch screen only works when the car is not in motion. When in motion, you have to use their "Command Controller" knob that's near the shifter.
I have to wonder where you live if you had no input latency.

It seems to me that statements like that are reserved for people who live relatively near a datacenter or have extremely high internet speeds, or sometimes both.
There were two common misunderstandings which were widely promulgated people whose confidence exceeded their actual knowledge:

1. The developer preview systems didn't support it, but that was because they used the older A12X chip. Lots of people spread that on social media as this not working on ARM at all.

2. Docker for Mac did not have ARM support at launch. Docker does have full ARM support so this was just a function of needing time to develop the desktop app (and not having access to the M1 hardware much ahead of anyone else) but some people panicked and portrayed this as something which would require a huge amount of work. There's a preview release out now: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/apple-m1/
The list is two clicks away, buried a couple paragraphs deep, here's the copy paste of what everyone is looking for

Bebida Beverage Co. (BBDA);

Blue Sphere Corporation (BLSP);

Ehouse Global Inc. (EHOS);

Eventure Interactive Inc. (EVTI);

Eyes on the Go Inc. (AXCG);

Green Energy Enterprises Inc. (GYOG);

Helix Wind Corp. (HLXW);

International Power Group Ltd. (IPWG);

Marani Brands Inc. (MRIB);

MediaTechnics Corp. (MEDT);

Net Talk.com Inc. (NTLK);

Patten Energy Solutions Group Inc. (PTTN);

PTA Holdings Inc. (PTAH);

Universal Apparel & Textile Company (DKGR);

Wisdom Homes of America Inc. (WOFA).

The SEC also recently issued orders temporarily suspending trading in:

Bangi Inc. (BNGI);

Sylios Corp. (UNGS);

Marathon Group Corp. (PDPR);

Affinity Beverage Group Inc. (ABVG);

All Grade Mining Inc. (HYII);

SpectraScience Inc. (SCIE).
I am feeling scared more than amazed tbh.
If one of your top commands is `cd ../..` you may like my alias/function `..`

$ .. 2 # go back 2 directories, i.e. 'cd ../..'
$ .. # 'cd ..'

https://github.com/Aperocky/unix-setup/blob/master/.bashrc#L...
It's also not 200 miles anyway.

You can't use 100% of your battery.

Most people preserve their battery health, so will not charge to 100% or drain to 0%

You can't (practically) supercharge to 100%. It will probably take as long to get from 80 to 100% as it does to get to 80%. In many cases it's not nice to hog the charger.

And its really hard to get to 0% even if you tried. There probably won't be a supercharger located right where you hit 0% even if you risked it.

So.. you really use the middle 60% of your battery, between 20% and 80%
> If u consider Julia as ur next language dont use it to any medium to big project outside pure scientific purposes it just isnt ready yet

My employer, Invenia, uses Julia for what I would say is at least a medium sized project.

~200k LOC, ~30 people concurrently working on that code base, literally the core product/system that makes us money.

Julia's not perfect, but I would not blanket discount it out of hand for medium projects.
Like all technologies the tradeoffs need to be investigated with reference to the task (and team) at hand.
The worst is some arbitrary goal of reading X books per year. That clearly optimises for short, easy to read books (eg New York Times Best Sellers) and avoids more technical and difficult books (eg Art of Computer Programming)