jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why you're assuming companies would willingly choose to use Bitcoin over banking alternatives.

Even companies who transact in Bitcoin generally won't be sending Bitcoin blockchain transactions on the blockchain with all of the associated fees, not to mention risks of keeping your company's money in a computer program where a rogue employee or hacker could simply embezzle the money instantly and irreversibly. They'd use banking services, which would handle the transactions for them off the blockchain (charging exchange fees as appropriate).

Not to mention: Using Bitcoin as a currency only sounds good in times when the price is going up. As soon as it starts becoming volatile again (it will) everyone remembers that maybe it's not a great idea to keep your company's funds tied up in one of the most volatile currencies of all time.
That’s another thing, on my own profile the “load more comments” doesn’t work and hasn’t (not one time) since they rolled out this new design.
It always boggles my mind when I think about how public companies' shares are valued based purely on "what the market thinks". It just seems so ripe for abuse. And I guess as someone who lived in a world of software, I don't like the lack of "logic" behind valuations.

I wonder if there are there any markets anywhere in the world where company shares are publicly traded, valued by a quantitative means, such as a multiplier of revenue or profit?
Having a type language on top of an untyped one is fine (except for perf). It's having multiple typed ones that compose well and aren't just reskins of the same basic type theory that's the harder part.
But those are not functions that should be combined with an air filter.
Java's sub-strings used to work sort of like this but was changed to use copy semantics. The structure was to have a "char[]" and an "offset" into that array. This allowed sub-strings to share the underlying array. However if you had a 1 char sub-string to a 1 GB array, the underlying array was never trimmed for garbage collection.

In the case of a 1 char substring to a 1 GB string, is Go smart enough to free the rest of the array and keep only the 1 char?
I have a copy of the SQL layer from March 1st, 2015. It's up on github: https://github.com/jaytaylor/sql-layer
The wikipedia article consistently refers to it as a doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction

> Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy ...

I'm unable to find anything about the "Assured Destruction" doctrine which isn't about MAD. If you have some links I should read to learn more, please do send them. But presumably, the US's official doctrine is that if Russia sends in a first strike, the US will retaliate with a second strike? And presumably Russia's official doctrine is the same? If that's the case, isn't that just the MAD doctrine, even if it's under a different name officially? Or has both countries officially said that a first strike won't be followed up by a second strike?
Speed limits exist because stupid people exist. When I was young, I was stupid. I thought it’d be cool to count how many streets I’d on which I’d driven at least 100kph. Soon after that I got into an accident because I was going too fast and couldn’t slow down in time.
> Not being able to buy a $100k car doesn’t mean there’s a car shortage, and not being able to buy a home in Boulder doesn’t mean there’s a housing shortage.

It means there's a housing shortage in Boulder. The car analogy is not effective because a Camry does the exact same thing as a BMW. But a house in Oklahoma doesn't help you if your job is in Boulder.
Yup definitely forgot bits vs bytes lol.

So 3kB/s, if your site is 15kB you're looking at 5 seconds per request, or 0.2 rps.

Plus overhead. I thought my original math sounded too fast.
I always had this intuition at the back of my mind that crude information cannot be stored efficiently in our brains, just like direct food cannot be digested. We need to chew it and break it down to digest. Same with information. It needs to be broken down into smaller simple parts to be understood. I think this study would extend in the future and show that now only working memory but most of what we call understanding and conceptual memory of things are this way: made simple to be digested and stored.
Not just the Nolan movies; a number of comics mention that, and a memorable scene in Batman Beyond makes it even more explicit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t7yiN_Z5eg
Or that time Obama had a sit down meeting with heads of the FBI and directed them to go after Trump's national security adviser in order to get Flynn "arrested or fired".
> Can someone explain why they would buy a Mac and install linux?

Because OSX, besides being a user prison, is certainly far from being as good as their hardware.
Combine google profiles, facebook and 23andme and I think that the data will have repercussions even beyond the lives of those directly addressed by it.
Wireless is already under Title II (also Sprint probably wants in on wired so they are for open competition there), that is why AT&T, Verizon, etc take their winnings from the wired internet market and invest it into competing in wireless because they have to compete as there is competition.

The monopolies on the ground were used as wireless investments/banks, nearly all investment went into the wireless side, not fiber or residential internet.

We have seen 3G, 4G, LTE etc all rapidly rolled out by all wireless providers, yet we are still running late 90's speeds on wired. The reason is the competition. Title II is at least a start because it somewhat works in wireless, better than wired anyways.
How about in the ballpark of a health specialist (doctor) salary? 200k at least? 300k? Or maybe pro-Athlete level salary? 700k/season (NBA, 2nd round draft)

Am I exaggerate in terms of salary? probably... these days, who can learn every single technology (from hardware to software) under the sun?

WebServices, REST, ORM, DB, data modeling, data warehouse, virtualization, security, capacity planning, storage, performance tuning, backup and recovery, test automation (you do test your own code right? not just throwing shitty code to QA right?), build and deployment strategy.

[No, NoSQL doesn't count]
I get the same thing FWIW (using python's base64.decodestring.)
(Oh I forgot the new software keyboard rocks too).

Come to #koush. mtwebster has a very initial build. Google Apps won't apply correctly, but there is also a link floating around to a rather large patch that you can install after the initial build that gives you an old version of Gapps, but the Market updated instantly and I got all updated Gapps.

I can see if someone has written something up yet, if not I can throw something together, or, like I said, if you drop by #koush people will help you.
To anyone looking to get a Nexus S in the UK:

The link from http://www.google.co.uk/nexus/ takes you to: http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/mobile-phones/NEXUS...

Here, the Pay As You Go model is £549.95 and the Pay Monthly model is free from £30/month with the usual low low usage caps (and in some cases apparently no internet allowance included at all?).

However the sim-free model is a slightly more reasonable £430, on the same website. The page is harder to find. I have absolutely no idea why anyone would order the PAYG "model" (as in it's exactly the same phone) instead of this + a free sim card from any provider.

http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/choose-tariff/NEXUS...

By the way, I've been using the giffgaff sim-only network for a month and recommend you take a look. Unmetered internet usage is the big one.
you are on the right track.
Sorry for misinterpreting you. (I gave you a point.)
Can you prorate? I.e. give the pirates the service but on a first-come first served basis, basically allow them to use one server if the capacity allows, if not, display that "free version has limited access". All paid customers are on separate servers, with great service, and your additional costs are minimal.

And pirates can use the app and convert to paid customers once the delays/notifications become a showstopper for them.
"Mathematics" is a singular noun so shortening it to "maths" just doesn't make sense.
It's funny, to me, to see a culture that values personal freedom and shuns regulatory oversight get bent out of shape when their platforms take those values to their logical conclusion. It's even funnier when they realize there's no Free Market solution.
Cheers, good luck.
I wouldn't call talloc a small piece of functionality. Also, the LGPL explicitly states that dynamic linking suffices, and also explicitly covers the inclusion of bits from header files. I do agree that the LGPL makes it non-trivial to statically link a proprietary application with the library; personally, I think it would help if the FSF had standard exception language libraries could use if they don't care about relinking and only care about requiring source for modified versions of the library. That said, I don't write proprietary software, so that doesn't affect me. :)
His personal refusal isn't even part of the letter or in any way criticized.

Nothing wrong with that and the letter makes that pretty clear. It's about persuasion and spot on when it comes to that.
"... tasty, tasty murder" is how the t-shirt ends, I believe. That is basically the point. "meat is murder" is so far over the line it's laughable to most people who aren't vegetarians.
If you portray yourself as someone who wants to be persuasive, you better be prepared for being criticized when you are not living up to your mission.

There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be persuasive if you do anything other than persuasion but RMS is very much in the persuasion business.
From the website I think this analysis is correct. Holters store the 24 hour data on the machine as well. The 12 leads are not continuous but set pieces which also store locally. If they were providing real-time monitoring with alerts then this would be more serious. This seems to be a backup system, ironically itself without backups.
In-Q-Tel http://www.iqt.org/
You're using ground-based assistance to get that extra accuracy. This upgrade gives the satellite signal better accuracy without the need for ground based assistance stations (and expensive receivers).
> $10 a meal is just crazy expensive for a cooked meal.

Yes. I have to be clear that Blue Apron only makes economic sense for us in the sense that it has replaced dining out to a large extent. A sit-down dinner for two usually winds up being at least $50 including the tip. If you use it to replace restaurants, it's a win.

If you use it to replace groceries... well, kudos to you if you can afford it. :)

(Another caveat is that Blue Apron's prepare-it-yourself meals generate a lot of packaging waste, since every ingredient is individually packaged. This is actually my least-favorite aspect of it. It's all recyclable, which helps tremendously although still incurs an environmental cost obviously)
Woah. I missed that one. I thought RabbitMQ was written by the LShift guys, which based on the fact that the LShift website has a big banner saying "SpringSource acquires Rabbit Technologies" is accurate, but is LShift dead, in favor of the obviously spun off Rabbit Technologies? Or is LShift going to continue to be around, but with a few less people. This has probably been discussed before--will search.

EDIT doesn't look like LShift is dead. From the press release, they spun off another company for Rabbit, potentially in response to acquisition inquiries, and will just lose a few people it seems.
I work in an Investment Bank and I can second it.
This article can be summed up as "I do not like when things change."
By using the well designed and thought out frameworks that Google provides exactly for this particular reason. Honestly this whole "fragmentation" thing is a red herring. You create your app, you create different sets of resources (images and layouts) for different classes of device (broadly speaking there are three groups of Android phones) and that's about it - you're done. Developing for Android has entailed way less worry about specific devices than, say, Blackberry or feature phones.
Actually people tend to really overestimate how important trenches were to the stalemate. Sure, it took a lot of effort to break through a trench line but both sides were perfectly capable of doing it when they could devote enough resources. The problem was that railroads meant that the mobility of the defenders was always much greater than the mobility of the attackers and telegraphs meant that the abilty of the defenders to coordinate was much greater than the ability of the attackers to coordinate. The internal combustion engine and radio changed this when WWII rolled around.

There were also very many places where things could have turned out differently. For instance, if the Germans had stuck to the original Schlieffen plan and managed to outflank the allies they might very well have captured Paris right at the start.
I agree. I almost added a section about the importance of channel and promotion, but decided not to because that's about how to promote your blog post and not how to write it.
That is so awesome - thanks for that!
Is it just me or do some of birds look like pokemon. The blue one looks like articuno and the red one looks like moltres.
He was skeptical of its existence:

“But there is no real evidence that intrinsic motivation even exists.”
Well in that case, the IRC might be a better fit for you.
Maybe Intel making its Fortran compilers for Windows and Linux has helped. Fortran Discourse https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/ is a recent, active discussion site, and Fortran-lang https://fortran-lang.org/ is a recent information hub. On GitHub the Fortran Programming Language group https://github.com/fortran-lang is active, creating a Fortran standard library and package manager.

That said, although I'm a Fortran fan and programmer I doubt its relative popularity has truly jumped so much in 1 year.
Would you please kindly provide some more expanded argumentation about FSF being "on the wrong end of the movement for years"?

I would also like to hear your ideas what should a "vision for the FSF that is still relevant" include? It will be OK for me if you will please kindly tell what is wrong with current 'FSF vision'.
I actually forgot that Delicious was all about tags. It's been a long time since I visited the site.
I came back to emacs after years with another editor just for org-mode. I can't say enough how it's helped my workflow!
You assume that votes are a good indicator of who holds the most accurate opinion.

Mathematically, that's a good bet to make. An information cascade usually produces a good answer (probabilistically).
Blogspam, plus yet another minor release spam post on HN.
This comment is a complete non-sequitur response to the previous comment. It's completely true, but in no way addresses the points raised.

The Terms of Service are irrelevant to the idea of whether "it's the users that make Facebook". Put it this way: how useful would Facebook be if you were the only user?
Ostrich eggs?
Terrible story. I can't begin to imagine how the family must feel knowing he died this way.

In related news:
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/money/food/2019/11/23/bumble...
Seems like a very General Magic style story.. I'm sure apple will acquihire them back if successful.
I feel like the lowest-overhead way to manage such a theoretical would be to have a progressive tax rate that, in the higher brackets, negates the UBI.

That is, you give out $X to everybody, but everyone making over $Y+$X total has $X added to their taxes.

This feels a little silly on a but-you're-doing-things-twice level, but it lets a UBI program and taxes both operate independently without needing to cross-verify things, which allows for lower overall staffing and less in the way of possible bureaucratic loopholes for people to get stuck in.
Where is it being done, and by whom?

The only one ongoing I know of is Sahara dust being (naturally) blown out to the Atlantic ocean. Otherwise, just talk. Somebody who did an experiment had his results suppressed, crudely, with a false narrative promoted in its place. Why that was seen as necessary, and how it happened, seem even more interesting than the experiment.
Malaysia is planning (or at least was planning) to decriminalise cannabis. Also it seems to me that they are much more relaxed about it than they let on. For example I came out of a business meeting in KL and there were 2 guys casually smoking weed at the entrance to the office tower.
This is often called an "architect."

I was on that path in my previous job.

First: I had to defend that path. When my manager was promoted to director, and needed someone to manage my team, he tried to covertly turn me into a manager after I declined. Fortunately, the VP of engineering intervened, but if he hadn't, I'd probably have left for a company that supported the technical specialist path.

Second: You are expected to lead in some way; you can't just do the same job that you did with 5-10 years of experience out of college. In my case, I was architect for a business critical component of the product. I designed critical path parts, reviewed other engineers designs, implemented critical path parts, reviewed other engineers code, ect. We promoted one of my co-workers to manager, and the manager and I worked very closely together, but I directly reported to the director.

2.5: Your job is no longer to "do what you're told." You need to be able to manage up and help management anticipate technical issues. You will need to push for major refactors, rewrites, protocol changes, code quality, ect.

Third: Job changes are going to take more time. No one wants to pay extra just because you have extra years of experience. Finding the match for your technical experience and career experience, with the pay premium, takes time. This mostly has to do with the learning curve of tech stacks; no one wants to pay a guy with 20 years experience in ABC stack to learn XYZ stack from the ground up. You will also have to walk away from opportunities that are just trying to hire cheap people who "do as their told."

Finally: Consider "consulting" when you change jobs. It's an easy way to leave if you don't work out in a new job. There's a lot of reasons why a job won't work out, and may of them aren't your fault. You just can't screen a company closely enough in a job interview to know if it's going to be a good match, so starting with a 3 month or 6 month contract, and not renewing it, is a good way to protect yourself when you realize that you just can't work with someone.
Mind blown. C is truly a terrifying language and I can’t help but love it for that.
They are going to have to be geo-fenced so they cannot operate in Texas or Illinois.
> - I can run a root Pod? Lets mount the docker socket and start building images with it.

Just in case you haven't figured out the proper way to do this, you should use docker:dind.
I've been following this for a while (~months), unless this a new bill. If it's the same bill, then I see it possibly propelling us down the road to Shadowrun style corporations with extra-territoriality.

What I'd like to see implemented is a city government formed as a Distributed Autonomous Organization (DAO) into which city taxes went, and for which the owners are the inhabitants of the city. The security would need to be set up much better than the DAO corporation was for this to work though.

There are a lot of thorny issues to be resolved beside security too. For example, if you make owners be the taxpayers, you excluding population segments (many students, those earning less than the poverty line, etc.). If instead you have ownership be based on mandatory buy in when people move to the city, that creates other problems, including two classes of citizenship within the city (owners and not-owners).

I still think a DAC (Distributed Autonomous Community) is viable and possibly a good idea though. I just don't want to see it under a Board of Directors control, or individual control. Because.. "You know that road. You know exactly where it ends. And I know that's not where you want to be."
When referencing baby genital mutilation, it might be worth dropping the "female".
It's just as horrible to slice up a male baby's genitalia, and it's done much more often.
So now you have something to play with every night before going to sleep :D Just try some combinations for 15 mins per day :)
What has made google look at the facts and think this is the right way to proceed? Do they think this won't blow up? Do they fear unions so much that this is worth the bad PR?

Or is this just a corporate process that no-one took a big picture view on? Because from where I am standing, this just seems like a dumb move.
They are dirt cheap on Amazon, around $40 for an inspection camera.
I had the opposite reaction. It may also be worth noting that the gist of the article tends toward the opposite as well.
So? You still have the hole and can peek inside to see if is empty or not. And if it's not then get it out and sledgehammer it in your garden, just for fun, then sell it to your local junk yard.

On the other hand, that you want to use it, then design your own robot and try all combinations. There is no time constraint since you're the owner, no need to "finish in 3 days"
I suspect that number is too high. 90 numbers per dial doesn't necessarily mean 90 valid positions. It could easily be 20 or 30 valid positions which comes out to a lot less. Plus, not all combinations of individually valid positions are themselves necessarily valid.

For example a standard Master dial lock has 40 hash marks but, IIRC, older ones had only about 12 valid positions. There was a trick you could use to find the third position, which would have left 144 combinations try except there were a few invalid combinations reducing to around 120. This is for a lock that a naive estimate would but at 40^3 or 64,000 combinations.
I would love to read or watch about how you use all that!
Like many "soft-sciences", psychology has had a serious case of physics-envy since at least the days of Freud, with it only getting worse since. There were some brief respites now and again, with the likes of Jungian and Humanistic psychology. But these have largely been stamped out by scientistic, mechanistic, reductionist approaches.
Or maybe because they don't sell a lot of domains and need to provide a whole array of staff to service the registry and stuff. So they charge a little more then your average .com which sells millions a day.

Not everything is because people are unrealistic.
The author got bullied in France, but he have not realized yet.

I had lunch with my friend and her French friends everyday. As they refused to slow down when speaking to me in French, it was learn or starve!
> gait recognition (distance)

actor plus doesn't allow for injury to the authentic person.

> face recognition (mid-distance)

photograph or prosthetics + makeup

> retinal recognition

photograph or prosthetic model iris built to beat "aliveness" check

None of these are hypothetical, all have been demonstrated (though perhaps not simultaneously)

To my knowledge the only biometric that hasn't yet been fooled or broken would be a scan of your brain whilst you invoke muscle memory of an action which itself is unknown to anyone but you. I wouldn't wager even that couldn't be scanned and copied in some manner.
The guy in the videos(the company founder) has said its had a noticeable effect on sales.
Is there an updated version of this? Would be really good to see the full list of improvements in this space.
What am I going to do with all this popcorn :(
talk about putting youtube on shuffle mode.
This still doesn't prevent me from getting arrested.
You're right, but I wasn't saying they don't treat people badly, just that it doesn't seem likely that his characterization of the company's attitude towards innovation was accurate.
Epicfail.
His guess at why Facebook won could easily be wrong.