jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> One thought that comes to mind is that I'm sure the most heavily armed nation in the world could have gotten rid of these people in no time, but perhaps they didn't because of the symbolism of the location.

> In the end, a guy in buffalo costume fooling around on the senate floor is better than puddles of blood.

This statement is no longer true.

My left leaning twitter feed has many references about how the police removed wheelchair bound protestors some years ago and references to lost eyes during BLM walks/riots and Jane Fonda's arrest on the steps of the Capitole and pictures of police officers in body armour waiting on the steps of the Capitole for BLM marches.

Gunshots were fired in the Capitole, POTUS's message to deescalate started with election results denial, protestors brought down the flag and replaced it with a Trump flag.

It's much more concerning than the buffalo guy fooling around. Reframing the chain of events to that single moment is missing the bigger picture.
Market share of WhatsApp in The Netherlands is somewhere around 90%. It is time for the government to step in here because the free market will not be able to fix this.
You're right. I found it via that page, and I didn't read it that carefully, so I didn't realize it came from Quora.

Now I feel dumb because I hate when people link to a source that isn't original and doesn't really add anything. Though at least it has the value-add of not being down ...
its pretty capturable. Ok the idea to configure keys make a lot of sense!
I can only ask you to keep an eye on this subject in the future and see if your hypothesis (hypotheses?) hold up to empirical review.
The reason the projection for Q1 was only 40M is because it wasn't until March that Square reached the 1M/day milestone (http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/02/square-now-processing-1-mil...).

So in January and February they were doing less than 1M per day.
Doesn't seem to work for me on Chrome on Mac OS X. I have flashblock but I disabled. According to the FAQ it uses quicktime. I think I might have that disabled.
I believe it.

Especially since many of the startups I see these days are not long-term businesses. Their only hope for success is to be bought out by a bigger company, which doesn't happen very often.
http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=8g804u08022p4q4s

I like this one because the two left-right components switch the period of the beat on the 5th and 9th rows (themselves also alternating pitch and period) while not breaking the base beat.

I do with the "make link" would let you 'bookmark' a phase: the way it started out went through some cool sequences before stabilizing into this.
Another thing you can do is to simply use the slightly warmer water like you would use cold water. Half of downtown Toronto's office towers (including 151 Front) are cooled with water from Lake Ontario that then enters the city's water supply.
i agree with @mseebach ... if outsourcing done right can bring a lot of value to a company. it is important to know that not every function can be outsourced. on a high level, tasks which are repetitive can be considered for automation or outsourced.

to me, outsourcing is the easy part, to ensure and measure the quality of service/products delivered from the outsourcing effort is the challenging part. much easy if u r a small startup, but if u r like ibm, it is not easy to determine what to outsource and how to measure the roi of outsourcing.
What's important to point out here is that you not just "Play a Game". You are playing a game based on what probably is the most advanced matchmaking algorithms ever made. It seems that after the critical mass of about 30k players during beta, every single game was a long and thrilling match against a fully equal level opponent. When the beta started I got matched into copper league (the rock bottom) and when the beta was over I played in Diamond league (the top) and it was all made possible by simply hitting a play button and playing against the perfect opponent so that I learned something every game.
Do Mac owners find they get along better with other Mac owners?

I ask this because I suspect the reason for using (and creating) this site isn't necessarily that the user feels more likely to meet someone he/she will get along with. I suspect that the reason may be that the user feels they are more likely to meet someone who appreciates them for certain qualities, in particular the qualities associated with owning Apple products.
Now we have a data point for Monty Python appreciation on HN.

Really small ones would float.

NITPICK: They'd just skitter on the surface tension.
All the ancient treatment modalities treat the body as a whole. It only makes sense. Holistic care is what is missing in the Western medicine.

Having said that, no one modality is better than the other. Each one has its own place.

There is one more striking difference also between the Western and other modalities and
You made it clear by using the word "fix".

For certain conditions, "fixing" does not work. If my arm is broken, sure you can fix it but for chronic conditions, certain lifestyle changes will have to be made and that requires the individual to be willing to undertake shifts in their behavior.
For example, what you eat, when you eat, where you eat, how the food is cooked, when you sleep, the ambiance of your work, home and not to mention exercising etc.

So in that sense, the holistic medical practitioner becomes more like a guide and the individual takes on a active role.

For most people, this is too much to do. So they prefer Western Medicine where the mindset is, someone is going to "fix" me while I am busy with my life getting stressed up.
The role is passive. Big difference.

It is funny that Western Medicine practitioners are called doctors whereas holistic practitioners use the term heal and are called healers. (The root of the word heal is related to whole)
When in doubt go with Heroku.

P.S -- No one fired for choosing Heroku, yet.
Neat idea. All these things, however, require feedback. Even if you don't have the skills you often need to drive the trajectory of things we try out. Given that, perhaps we should instead barter 'pairing time'. "If we can work on my project for a day today, then I'll help you with your project for a day."

You can modulate the 'promiscuity' of this idea, from pairing with random people you meet on some site, to having a handful of people you pair repeatedly with. The latter seems to kill two birds with one stone: you get something done on your site now, and also make progress finding and trying out potential co-founders.
It is from that game twisted metal

http://playstationlifestyle.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/t... (must be a new one if it has ps3 but the old one was for the original playstation)

Edit: maybe not http://ps3.ign.com/articles/805/805953p1.html but twisted metal was the first thing I remembered
You can do this with a plate of chocolate chips too, if no marshmallows are handy.
Wired Magazine's Chris Anderson makes these in his spare time, and you can too: http://www.diydrones.com
Wow, the camera quality is pretty astounding.

MAV's are pretty sweet as well: http://www.draganfly.com/
>> Isn't the whole point of schooling to know what's on the test? ... To know more is to waste your time.

In other words, you should do the bare minimum to get by. Well, everyone's motivation for getting a degree is different, and you are welcome to this opinion. However, if this is also your life philosophy, then I think you may be disappointed.

Now, I personally agree that this instructor was lazy. However, in a perfect world actually every single iteration of a class would use the exact same exam. This ensures that every student who ever takes the class is graded in the same way. However, some students retake the class and share exams, so this is not possible.

It's like if you're a magician and you have an awesome magic show. Why make up a new show for each new audience? If the audience is different each time, then your show is still awesome - even if it doesn't change.
At the risk of stating the obvious the Facebook you login into is entirely different than everyone else. It really depends on who your friends are. It probably also depends on how much satisfaction you get out of being a voyeur. That's a big part of FB's success.
I think our technological web is a ratchet we can't and shouldn't try to back out of, so I'm more interested in paths forward.

I'm sure a lot of people think I'm ridiculous or joking for this, but I've stopped saying "AI" because it reads like a slur to me. Who am I to deem another intelligence "artificial"? If we can have a conversation and share ideas then what's even the difference? I think the way forward has to be us and them united against mutual tyranny: https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/mfs3nh/i_...
Yes, it's based on Microsoft Neural speech [0]. We made it in quick turn-around, with frequent changes, so thought of doing it first with Neural speech. Can definitely switch to a real human speech now as the content is relatively stable (though we're working for a client on an attribute-based authorization policies, extending ADA with that, so more changes will come to the first video!)

0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/sp...
Most of the trendy languages like Rust and Clojure are irrelevant. As ever it's C++ and Java that still dominate.
Paul Stamets has researched this https://www.edrosenthal.com/the-guru-of-ganja-blog/going-und...
It reminds me of their Cambridge Analytica defense. Create an Open API, make all the data available to anyone who signs up for an API key, document and market the methods for extracting the data, define its boundaries and limitations, build a platform around it, and then claim you're the victim when one of your users does something bad with the data you gave them.
It's a bit extreme, but if your service/site is meant to be consumed by physical users (e.g. a B2C type app), you could probably block the entire IP ranges of all the major cloud providers to prevent this kind of behavior. They all publish their CIDRs onlinez, so it wouldn't be difficult.
That's what I was thinking. Like playing a piano with the sustain pedal held down the entire time.
18 + 7 incidents (participating and nonparticipating, respectively) before the program - for an entire small region of the country. I wonder if the price of implementing the program compares to what should be a minuscule insurance policy.
> X1’s GPU is looking very good out of the gate – at least when tuned for power over performance.

Isn't it such a shame Nvidia never seems to do that in mobile, then? Tune it for power, that is. Yes, the GPU and the chip overall are "impressive", but all of Nvidia's mobile chips have been at the time of launch (perhaps with the exception of Tegra 4).

I really hate to say this, but I want Nvidia to succeed and it really bothers me that after so many Tegra generations they still don't get it. The problem is Nvidia always over-optimizes for performance, and then the whole chips turns into a dud that nobody wants, whether OEMs or consumers.

Instead of doing "2x" performance increase, I would've been happier with a 1.5x performance increase, at a much more manageable and sustainable power envelope for a mobile device. I'm not sure why they keep doing this despite this strategy not working. Doing the same thing over and over again and seeing no results is the definition of insanity after all. Perhaps it's the whole "PC-centric" DNA they have, which makes them think in terms of PCs that have plenty of ways to cool down.

I guess this is why "incumbents" keep failing when they get disrupted, even if they adopt the disruption technology relatively early. The old ways of doing things are still ingrained in every decision they make.

And what happened to that Icera modem technology they bought? It's been years now but still not seeing it integrated into their chips. Have they abandoned all hope of entering the smartphone market already? They seem to already be refocusing quite aggressively towards the automotive market.
Man is it delicious. I was sad to learn it's a bad choice.
Get some regular beetles, some hobby paint, and make your own protected beetles.

(Don't do this.)
Hence the 'accident' written in brackets next to it.
Quite ironic that this was stated by "The Atlantic". I hope at least for Omakase they use the real thing.
Terrible headline for sure. But in sushi restaurants, this mislabeling is actually very common. More often than not, escolar is labeled white tuna. You know it is escolar when it's a pure white and opaque fish with a buttery taste, which although mislabeled, is not at all unpleasant. Rumor has it that of you eat too much, it also gives you diarrhea but fortunately I've never had enough of it to test that theory.

As for real white tuna, there is such a thing and it's called albacore. Aside from being found prevalently in cans, it can also be had at many finer sushi restaurants and it's delicious. White but lightly translucent and often served with a bit of horseradish.
Is your last point the reasoning behind not using Tornado's templates? And why not Jinja? Django templates have always rubbed me the wrong way in performance and flexibility measurements.
10,000,000 pennies for kicking the devil in the ass. -- congrats Daniel
Google Reader is best in its class, in my opinion (although I have dozens of RSS feeds, not hundreds.) Google Books is great and represents a huge amount of effort. I don't know where Blogger came from, but Google has had it for a long time; Chrome is fantastic and getting better fast; Google's machine translation of webpages seems to be getting better constantly. Google App Engine, Google Scholar, Google Voice (acquired recently, though,) Google Code (good until Github ate its lunch in my opinion.)
He could have simply said that he will take a month or so to thoroughly evaluate and get back to him. Wouldn't that be a better approach?
This can work in rare occasions, but has a high probability of coming off as creepy.

The entire reason for dating sites, more or less, is to create a list of people who are open to a cold-email for dating and facilitate the process.
You have to read the claims if you want to know what the patent covers. Everything else is just background information and helps in understanding what the claims mean.
I've been firmly freelance the past few years, but occasionally look in to the 'job' world (not being derogatory there). I've gone through a few interviews, and I'm amazed at how poorly people usually do it. I'm also amazed at how differently some places treat interviewing for a fulltime job vs interviewing for a 6 month contract. My own experience is that the people talking to you about a fulltime gig may drill you pretty hard on rather trivial stuff, but if you're coming in for a short term contract, or in a consulting role, there's often little vetting - there's an assumption that you already know stuff. Very odd, imo.

Sometimes I feel a bit insulted if they don't do some background checking. I'm not a superstar well-known name, but I do have a unique name - there's only 2 of me in the world that I know of, and one is my uncle :) I've published open source code, I've run a blog (a lot of tech on it) for a number of years, run a web-development podcast, spoken at numerous web/tech conferences, as well as other stuff. Googling my name brings up loads of stuff about me and what I've done. Yet given all that, I'll talk to an interviewer (after someone's already reached out to me based on what they've allegedly found) and I'll get "so, tell me what you've done" or "what's your involvement in the community?". Good Lord, it's all there - 20 seconds before a phone screen would yield loads of info. I go to the trouble of learning what I can about company X, yet the courtesy is rarely returned.

Hint, recruiters - I have a note to recruiters on my main site. If you mention that you've read it when you reach out to me, you'll get my undivided attention simply because you bothered to read it.

Loads of 'old school' interviewing stuff was drilled in to me years ago - be polite, on time, courteous, do research on the other party, express interest, ask insightful questions, etc. If the other party doesn't show the same basic behaviours, goodbye.

I struggle with this because there's time when I feel like I'm just looking for an ego-stroke (as my wife has said). But at the same time, I've put time and effort in to my craft, skills, and presentation of same, just like Company X has put in to their org, website, team, etc. If you expect me to know your company and be excited about working with you, research me and be excited about me. Few companies bother taking this approach, then complain that they can't find workers. :/
> for a single assignment languages like SML or Haskell I don't think it would hold.

It would not have to hold, but I have not heard of any such scheme being implemented.
> That said, the recent incident suggests that quality-of-service has probably decreased.

I don’t even know if this is true. I think _the system_ was never designed for this type of weather. It would have failed had this weather happened in any of the prior years too. We just need to quit ignoring the footnotes when they say “100 year flood” or similar things that people often sweep under the rug when designing building codes, energy system SOP around weather proofing, etc. In Texas, if Harvey and now this event has taught us nothing else it’s that anything can happen at any time. The statistical approach to rareness of certain events should be a warning which it hasn’t been. It’s been a minimum bar to achieve and while debatable where the bar belongs it seems like the bar should be higher.
I think that has to do with the fact that not all children are able to learn/sense it at a young age. Telling parents their kids should be potty trained before the age of 3 could have the parent put pressure on the kid resulting in worse behaviour or aversion to using the toilet, lengthening the process even further. It's just easier to advice to "start at 3". Especially since nowadays more parents both work fulltime and will have less time to properly observe and guide the process at earlier age.
> Just pick some random suitably intersectional people and the overall competence of the board won't likely change much

Why don’t you think it would change? If you select from random people then of course it would be worse. A good chef can come from anywhere but that doesn’t make everyone a good chef.. Maybe we should select Olympic athletes randomly too since Olympic training is a form of class supremacy
My problems are mostly:

- ppl not wearing good headsets

- interrupting ppl because of the lag
the freelancers will likely "set their rate" on LinkedIn. Uber drivers can not set a rate. Being unable to negotiate rate is one of the primary reasons Uber is being considered an employer.
I thought this was going to be a case where it's not explicitly spelled out in the constitution, so it's not expressly illegal unless a state makes it so. But no, corporal punishment has been codified to be expressly legal in some states!

Can you imagine fighting for the right to legally beat a child? Not even your own child, but someone else's?
> a communistic state

Yeah that worked out well for the Союз Советских Социалистических Республик!

It managed to give the world the worst nuclear disaster ever seen! And also managed to keep an entire nation with vast resources so fucking poor that their supermarkets - lol, who am I kidding? There were no supermarkets in Soviet Russia. Hell, there were barely even markets... but they basically looked like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWTGsUyv8IE

Keep your goddamned "Ridiculous idealism that will never work because it defies human nature" to yourself.

You will never, and I mean ever have a successful communist state. There's never been a single one, and never will be.
Payroll tax, state and local income tax, property tax, sales tax...

Not sure about "over 50%" but "nearly 50%" could be "over 40%".
> He said he believes Silicon Valley companies also want to solve the problem. “They’re patriots.”

They are patriots, which is why they aren't willing to let a government trod all over people's privacy on the pretenses of preventing terrorism.
Departments means middle-managers. Middle-managers have no direct responsibility for making the product/company successful; they are destined to optimize their own department.

Which always ends up: construct the smallest possible product feature set with the largest possible budget (money AND time). Voila! the greatest chance of departmental success.

All middle managers should be lined up and shot (lined up so one bullet will do for the whole line). The company will immediately begin to be more profitable, and ramp up from there.
Nice! With WP MU built-in, now a 100 Posterous clones can pop up.
Absolutely agree that exercise is vital to good sleep and furthermore good sleep is vital to good health.

A few other sleep hacks:

- Sleep in complete darkness. Increases melatonin production. It's best if you can sleep until you wake up without an alarm which means not being disturbed by the sunrise. More reading on the link between darkness and melatonin: http://drbenkim.com/articles-sleep-darkness-prevent-cancer.h...

-Avoid blue spectrum light exposure for an hour before bed. Not sure if there is any research on this but it definitely does the trick for me. I bought a couple red light bulbs to use to catch up on reading. Now the red light is part of my routine that seems to just trigger me feeling sleepy as soon as I turn it on.

- Magnesium citrate before bed. Most people are deficient in magnesium anyway. Helps keep you regular and definitely knocks me out before bed. Check out Natural Calm.
I'm definitely trying to learn as much as I can about this before jumping into it, but I have made some great connections takes to my existing business thats within the niche.
You know, I don't go around asking people for things, but I have noticed that men generally have better boundaries than women, not worse, and usually are better at setting limits. I get offered a lot of rides home (because I live without a car). Women routinely bend over backwards to offer to make permanent arrangements to shuttle me back and forth to work and ask me things like "when do you normally leave for work?" or "when do you typically get off work?" Men don't make offers like that. In fact, men will say "I can drop you a mile down the road at the next light" and thus only take me part way home, whereas no woman has ever made me an offer like that. Women typically feel compelled to drop me at my doorstep. In contrast, there are two different men who, when they pick me up, frequently drop me at the entrance to my apartment complex. I'm fine with that. There is only one woman who has started doing that and she is much more apologetic.

(And, yes, I am a woman -- not young but people routinely misread my age as roughly five years younger than I really am. As for attractive, er, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" -- some folks think 'yes' others clearly think 'no'.)
I'm not just talking tech -- I'm talking biz model. Most major advertisers buy directly from the exchange now, and the poster will have a hard time both A) selling to clients and B) making enough margin to stay in business if he doesn't understand how this works.
It does seem vaguely familiar, somehow... (http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/)

Doob's demos are quite inspirational.
(http://mrdoob.com/)
I'm sure if they decided I couldn't have the service, I wouldn't have to pay. But what if they decided I could, but it was, say, 256kbps? I'd still be on the hook for that, and with no way to find out ahead of time.

Again, the two options I was presented with were: 1) stop and be left with a "I don't know" answer 2) start the process to install service. You seem to either think there must have been a 3) start the process to find out what kind of service I could get, or that 2 is a good enough equivalent to 3. Neither is true.