jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the "DIY" approach: ask all the gay couples out there who tried that with big expensive packages of legal documents that ended up being worth sweet fuck all precisely at the moment they needed it.

Part of the reason there is a push for gay marriage is because the alternatives (civil partnerships, "DIY" marriages using contracts) and they've failed to provide the necessary protections for couples in the way marriage rights seem to.

There is a compelling societal need to be able to say "here are people who are in an intimate, long-term trusting relationship for the purposes of decision making, finance, tax and so on".

I wish you luck in your campaign to find a compelling and convincing political and intellectual argument for something that would serve the social goods that marriage does and would effectively replace marriage for gay and straight couples. Until then, I'd quite like to be able to get married to someone of the gender I'm actually attracted to. (And as of Saturday, I will be able to, thanks to the marriage laws in England changing.)
But if you have really any professional job at all, you'll get shafted on salary compared to the US.

In software, developers get ripped off big time in the UK and all of Europe really. Even after accounting for cost of living and additional costs in the US, you can earn 200% more salary there.

It's really no surprise all of the top talent get out as soon as they can. If they stay in Europe they're willingly throwing away millions of dollars.
I do need to try an iBook, but I think good old fashioned web pages work great for reference material [1], especially if you can combine it with something like Diigo [2] for note-taking. Can't beat the book-markability and searchability of the web. What I wonder is if something like a Surface Pro is good enough for pen-written notes, because if I were in school again I'd probably just use that for everything.

[1] Consider the SVN book: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/index.html

[2] https://www.diigo.com
Can someone remind me what aardvark did?
>Investors that think companies are overpriced are always free not to invest.

Not to detract from the general point, but during the last bubble crash, we ended up being forced to invest via bailouts.
the project is open source and you can view the code. the underlying os is the base Ubuntu image provided by amazon.
Your angry comments remain anonymous. I'd like to know more about your experience and why it has been a so big failure, if this is really true.

Also generic comments like "backup strategy is not existent" when OrientDB supports backup/restore and export/import let me think you want just trolling this topic. Seriously, if you had a real bad experience on using OrientDB, please let us know by motivating all the statements above. Just drop an email to info at the company web site. Thanks.
Yes? No? Maybe?

I also expect my co workers to both ask and forgive a simple question once in a while. Otherwise it might be time to seek a friendlier work environment.
48.2% of bodies in the US are cremated now, but it varies significantly by state. The NFDA predicts that it will be up to 70% by 2030.

http://nfda.org/about-funeral-service-/trends-and-statistics...
The difference between 1994 and 2014 seems more quantitative though. Here we are talking about the ownership of the referral traffic and how those companies who own it try to benefit from it. Nothing that happened between 1994 and 2014 comes close to it in terms of the impact on how people see the Internet and by extension how they see the world today.
You have no reference because that statement is false. It's perhaps a bad misinterpretation of Kellerman.
And since then, moved them even closer.
Yeh but what if you have no obsession to use your talent ? Then what ? What is the point of having amazing talent like singing but instead you get stuck in mc Donalds flipping burgers. Obsession is the key. Obsession & talent combined would be unstoppable.
Reading the article it really appears that this wasn't an attempt at spying on them. So unless there's some kind of wiretapping law in Ireland...
"You do realise that the USA is supposed to have a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people”?"

Oh come on. A simple slogan is hardly evidence that we're all individually and collectively responsible for the things our government does.
Even without referring to specific alternatives, the supposition in the parent comment that Communism is bad, therefore how can Neoliberalism have room for improvement? as if the current world order were some sort of End of History is laughable
>United States control of the Philippines was never intended to be permanent. From the beginning, the colonial mission was seen as one of paternalistic "tutelage"

That snippet sounds a little self-serving, "we're just a force of good and we want good for all". The situation is more complicated, and the more powerful countries -including the US- around the world at that time were all in pursuit of expanding their territory and power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Imperialism
The Volkswagen emissions scandal was done by engineers.
"The charge is bank robbery. Now, my caddie's chauffeur informs me that a bank is a place where people put money that isn't properly invested. Therefore, robbing a bank is tantamount to that most heinous of crimes, theft of money."
I prefer using Octal - https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/octal-hacker-news/id1308885491
Most people don’t care about animation, but getting their work done. Still, I’m rooting for W.
Lottery like yosemite camp 4 has. I really enjoyed my experience with that. You could make some lotteries months or weeks ahead to match different needs.
Oh wow! I had a customer who was really bad at it. All! there Software was effected by it in one way or another.

Now I have a name for that at least :)
If anything Wayland makes network transparency worse because there's nothing like ssh -X for it that works out of the box. Another commenter mentioned waypipe, which is a start, but it'll likely be years before it achieves the required ubiquity.
This comment breaks the guidelines by being snarky and shallow. It would be much better to instead provide some information about what the world is/was actually like (in your experience). How did pricing vis-a-vis MSRP actually work? What do you actually remember about it? This would be much more interesting than just directing belittling rhetoric at someone else for getting it wrong (in your experience).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
During the Stalin area, the intelligentsia and people with university education were basically killed off. What happens to a country when you remove most of the educated and intelligent people from the gene pool?
Does anyone have a mirror/cache of this?
Sometimes you should be skeptical of people who agree with you.

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And your own reasoning ofcourse.
I always thought that was what all Physical models were, a best approximation, given the empirical data available at the time.
Skepticism is never impoverishing.
> And emojiis in code, really?

What is the problem? As most code nowadays is UTF, why do you care?
My reason: they recently rolled out message snoozing on the server side (this is normally achieved by client apps), however the native Mail app doesn't support this.

Fastmail's iOS app does support this functionality.
Its JSON via REST - so totally different than IMAP. Which may be good.
I don't know if it's true, but maybe they want you to look around City 17 and admire the scenery in the earlier part of the game (larger FoV) and later want you to focus on action once you meet Alyx (smaller FoV)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs8yldyeoZg
The first generations of magsafe adapters did not have stress relief at all, because form over function was still in full swing.
Every charger had the cable completely break apart at the connection to the brick, because stress relief ruined the pretty minimalist design.

To say it's nothing but function means denying the evidence.
>when I was requesting the non-consensual tome of personal data that Sift keeps on me

I hope Berbix has a plan here for the fact that when sketchy companies use their service, it will make them look sketchy by association.
Aren’t most Flyknits not wool? What aspect did they knock-off? The shoes appear very different in aesthetic and construction.
Clang has its own libc++ implementation, but I think clang still uses the system libc and associated headers?
Everyone who is happy with Fastmail, what is your "mobile strategy"? As a Fastmail customer, I find Web app wonderful but mobile app on Android severely lacking UX. Switched to Aquamail for client over IMAP but search is unusable/slow. Suggestions/success stories?
This is a good point; I didn't notice this until I read this comment.

Would have been interesting if the post had ended with "so from now on, we're going to use the Chaos Monkey."
Yes, it is a pro-investor clause. You would agree to it in the situation where you feel you are satisfied with the term sheet (and who its from) and are ready to commit.
No, their particular brand of hateful racism is only acceptable if they can portray as despicable another group even more hatefully racist than them.
Make the offering of such cash inducements a serious criminal offense and offer a very high reward (millions) for any voter who acts as a witness for the successful prosecution of a candidate. If voters are simply doing it for the money they could take the bribe from the candidate and then dob them in and collect the reward.
I feel your pain, and I hit my threshold of frustration. Here you go:
http://isolani.co.uk/blog/web/UrlHackForLifehackerHashbangLi...
Does it work the same for binaries as text?
To paraphrase Freud, "Sometimes a humorous article is just a humorous article."
What about Greece? Is, for example, 2000 EUR per month net a decent salary there?
I run Django apps on AWS and two other VPS providers and I wouldn't walk away from Amazon because of this outage. Amazon have some great features that collectively aren't available as a package elsewhere.

My tip would be to host the db and app server on a single instance to start with (less things to go wrong), and assume that server will fail.

Have a warm standby either in another AWS region or (like us) with a completely different provider. And make sure you have several copies of your data available to restore if need be. (For this I use dirvish on yet another VPS provider).

Finally, test your failover / restore procedure on a fairly regular basis.

My email is in my profile. Feel free to ping me if you have any specific questions.
I wonder if everyone here is using the same definition of "working on"?

Perhaps if the engineers had 20 minutely updates with each other, the coherent picture would emerge more quickly?

Hopefully they aren't doing the same "jiggle it until it works" that is being discussed elsewhere on HN right now; so, what are they doing, precisely?

I know we don't know because they aren't saying, but what are people who work in teams on huge important systems doing generally when they fail? What should they be doing?
I followed the link to the patent, and just want to make sure I understand things correctly. I'm not very knowledgeable about legal jargon, or formal CS terminology.

>> Performing storage and retrieval that uses the hashing technique with the external chaining method for collision resolution.

Isnt this just describing a hash table?

>> In order to prevent performance deterioration due to the presence of automatically expiring data items, a garbage collection technique is used that removes all expired records stored in the system in the external chain targeted by a probe into the data storage system.

So the software doesn't run slowly, we're going to do something special to get rid of those pesky expired records.

I believe, "removes all expired records stored in the system in the external chain targeted by a probe into the data storage system." is just preparing you for the description of what they're going to do, without actually saying anything.

>> Each insertion, retrieval, or deletion of a record is an occasion to search an entire linked-list chain of records for expired items and then remove them.

Whenever an action is taken on a record, remove expired records near the record targeted by the action.

>> Because an expired data item will not remain in the system long term if the system is frequently probed, it is useful for large information storage systems that are heavily used, require the fast access provided by hashing, and cannot be taken off-line for removal of expired data.

Expired items don't stay long. System doesn't have to be taken offline to remove expired items... Because they remove expired items after CRUD of a record takes place, I guess.

Surely I'm missing something here. Or is it just that silly that you can get a patent on something like this?
I would assume that you are either talking net income or you mistyped the number?
Are you sure that only HN readers read the blog?
is it now ? my parents whom were 100% tech illiterate were able to put up a moderately complex website with frontpage in 1996 without touching a single line of code and with a 100% custom look. Would they be able to do the same today with current tech stacks ? Not so sure...
I'm guessing you're right.
Consider that C/C++, being highly portable, has support for many platforms and architectures, including the possibility of cross-compiling.

I guess if a package manages works on all those architectures and platforms, then the implementer would have to support all of them, and it's not always the main objective.

Let alone if there are several package managers.
> The reality is that even when I strive to work the least I can, I still am being underpaid

I use a simple "heuristic" to determine whether I'm actually being underpaid or I'm just unhappy with my earnings.

- are there companies out there paying more for my abilities?

- do I want to do that job, in case it exists?

- do I manage to get that job, in case it exists?

In case ALL those questions have an answer 'Yes', THEN I'm being underpaid. Otherwise, I'm just unhappy about how the market priced my abilities.
yah, microsoft won office productivity 2 decades ago with exchange and outlook (and owa), not just excel and word. the integration between email, calendar, contacts, documents, and access control is still unmatched, certainly not by google's hodgepodge of web apps.

proton is working on calendaring but it still has a long ways to go.
So, a key difference here is that in Rust, the standard library and the language designers are two different teams, with two different standards. The parent is talking about the standard library; there's a reasonably low barrier to entry to add something, but it is added unstably, and the bar to getting it to stabilize is higher. The language does not accept additions by "drive-by PR", the barrier to getting something to land, even in an unstable way, is much, much higher.

The whole language team has to sign off on these stabilizations and language additions, which is what keeps up that consistency you're talking about.
I am twitching reading this. This is cartoon punching fight cloud meets head-inside-church-bell.

This is like the social equivalent of How To Write Unmaintainable Programs ._.
Personally, I believe consistency is an indicator of defined process.

Consistency can still produce negative results, but, because it is a defined process, it is much easier to ‘pull the levers’, and wrangle the process into an outcome you want.

Serendipity is great, but it really does take a special group of people for that synergy to work, absent a process.

I think of it like a good band.
Unlike C++, Rust has pretty strong conventions around formatting and naming, and these conventions are followed in almost all major libraries. Furthermore, most such small APIs tend to bake in nightly for a while before they are stabilized, and so get two rounds of review: once during the initial commit, and once during the push for stabilization.
I actually think modules-ts is worse than include...
In the case of evite, yes they rely on advertising, but remember they are owned by IAC (also ASK.com) which allows them to cross-sell, and they do have their own ad sales team.

In your case, I don't think I'd follow their path. They suck, and there are other better products, but evite has momentum from '98. It would help if you'd be more specific about your utility, where you are located, and where your target market is located because these factors are major when considering monetization strategies.
Wasn't it at the beginning mostly indentured servants from Europe?
I agree. I am, if anything, overzealous about screaming "corruption," but I really don't see it here. When someone worth $26bn sits on the board of a company (with no mention of equity) with ties to government contracts, it's hard for me to believe he's doing anything unethical for his own personal gain. There's just nothing of meaningful substance to be gained from it.
Same here!

Once they called the frontdesk and left a message for me to get back to them(cuz I have no work number).

They also called the frontdesk for a coworker and lied that they were someone that played tennis with him months ago. When the coworker called back, the recruiter admitted he lied because he thought the frontdesk wouldn't relay the message if he said the truth... o_O;

Another thing, is I really wish they'd stop emailing me at work.... or maybe my company should give us the option to stop routing firstname.lastname@companyname.com from external sources. It's terrible to get that "Exciting Job opportunity" email pop-up when other coworkers are looking at my screen. I've disabled that notification-alert in my email client(Thunderbird) because of that. My LinkedIn contact-info says not to contact me with any other medium besides LinkedIn's InMail. It also says the office must be walkable from a BART station and organic food locations must be nearby for lunch(I know, I'm a spoiled bayarea techie).

Nobody reads my LinkedIn conact-info since I always get stuff that misses these requirements. If anyone from LinkedIn is reading this, you should give the option to make the contact-info section very conspicuous. I want mine to be freaking glowing bright red. In fact, just let us have custom CSS like the hatenablog platform.
Causation doesn't reveal her bosom willingly.

Answer why Japan lives two years long on average, than the US and the UK, and you could help a lot of people:

http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=sp_dyn_le...
What? The general rule in Sweden is that 100m from the coast line is protected.
Sounds similar to how parents are responsible for actions of their children up to a certain age. So the common intuition is on your side.
Wow. "Uphill" and "downhill" are brilliant. I hope I remember that next time I need it.

I tend to use "the slash with the question mark" and then either "the slash near backspace" or "the slash NOT near the question mark", since the backslash keyboard position isn't completely standard.

Of course, these experiences are when dealing with having to have an end user type them in (thank you, internet).
"Hello, this is 2015 and people learn in totally different ways than 20 years ago."

The learning process will be similar to 20, 200 or 2000 years ago as the brain does not change that quickly. The mode by which we access things to learn may well change from generation to generation.

Challenge: 'boring' may imply resistance to engagement, perhaps because the material is hard.
seeking work remotely (based in vancouver, bc)
http://appsonify.com
john AT appsonify.com
Not sure why the downvotes. It's actually a reasonable question, the answer to which can vary by state. The details vary but, in some cases, having only water access to property--even if not an island--is considered access for purposes of the law. (For example, I believe in Maine it's OK to own a property that doesn't have a legal right of way by land.)
Yes, but that works great when doing it on the spot in your head, and not so on paper where you have the benefit of writing down the steps of ( non-core ) arithmetic algorithms.

Common core breaks down when you have to involve writing down the steps due to the size of the operands and there ordinary algorithms shine.
How does package security work in Nix? How does security compare to apt?
And a local government that loves to create laws will always be inundated with lawsuits related to their technicalities.
as a die-hard lego fan I am quite worried about this. Will an alternative marketplace develop?
For me it's the fact that so many of the new wave of techs are mainly focused on Linux. Docker being one. I think OSX is losing it's hacker status. Linux as an open source OS will eventually take over in this market.
He probably means the additional security of whatever is running in the VM, a compromised VM wouldn't be able to escape its restricted virtual world.
Windows 8 wasn't all that bad. Relative to Windows 7 it was just two steps forward and two steps back. For all the Metro haters: the core workflow to launch applications (winkey + number keys or winkey + search + enter) is still the same as Windows 7.

Windows 8.1 improved things a bit by identifying some scenarios where Metro was unnecessary and keeping it out of the way. So relative to Windows 7 it's now two steps forward and one step back.

I've used the Windows 10 preview and early signs suggest that it's going to be two steps forward from Windows 7.
The results are more mixed than the author implies

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120515-are-sperm-counts-dr...

There are falling sperm counts in some regions, and there is evidence that Bisphenol-A etc can interfere with sperm production (note the use of "can", not "does"), but there is not definitive evidence at present

It is a complex picture, as with much in vivo biology, and the research is still in its infancy, which leads to confusion.

Here are some links to some other journals:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09600760/127/1 <--- An issue of a journal covering many areas of endocrine disruptor research

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.15252/embr.201438869/a... <----- a more recent paper
To be clear, I'm not referring to candidates. I'm referring to the questioners/interviewers suggesting this approach.
In Japan, established companies are king. Nintendo claims to be 100 years old. My buddy's company sells semiconductors, and they also claim to be 100 years old. Of course these companies aren't truly 100 years old, but it means a lot to work an older company. There's a lot of pride in it. Not to mention, banks want to deal with older companies and so do landlords (the article says some are looking for 2 years of profit).

I've certainly dealt with the pushback that comes with suggesting new ideas in Japan. I've heard "efficiency" derided as a foreigner idea, specifically "you Americans always want to change things to make them more efficient" in regards to no longer grading 1000s of multiple choice entrance exams by hand.

And I don't want to get political, but while I can understand how Abe's economic policies might help pump life into the startup scene, I don't see how the hyper conservative social atmosphere he has charged since taking office will help. I don't mean to be too cynical, but when I read that Abe wants to encourage Japanese startups, I read that he wants to encourage startups of Japanese people not startups in Japan (evidenced perhaps by all of the articles on this subject that mention Masayoshi Son go out of their way to tell you that he is Zainichi Korean, even though he's a Japanese citizen and his family has been in Japan for generations).
Are you a programmer or just idea guy?
Yes! I've had this _exact_ thought while reading "Sell Like Crazy". Such a badly written book in this sense. Tons of ideas and methods but it doesn't truly stick in my mind if everything is ELI5'd to infinity. I'd rather read fiction (e.g. Murakami) where I have to close the book and think before I continue.