jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
On the topic of not restarting your web server after making changes: more interesting to me is parallel sessions running different versions of the server code. New sessions coming in get the newest version of the code, while older sessions keep running the old code, for an arbitrary (configurable) amount of time. This was a property of a system I was part of building in a previous job, and it worked very nicely; all session state was in a tiny (<64K) blob of data which contained in its header a pointer (intranet URL) to the server application metadata. In an ASP.NET environment, this made minor upgrades to the app server software painless, with no need to partition the web farm, bleed out old sessions and bring up new sessions, etc.; it's all automatic.
I found the "open/open other" dialog non obvious. That, and it doesn't open most of the video files in my mac, most of them are ogv, mp4 or mkv, which doesn't help. I'd rather see an "Import" button than "Open other".
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Shared decision making is all about everyone having a say - it doesn't matter if the boss/manager is there and could make the decision on their own - the boss will engage his entire team to share a decision so that everyone feels part of the team. That's my point that it's a cultural difference/value - it's not seen as time wasting, it's seen as an investment in good teaming/community harmony.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computronium
He's saying that any consultancy, however structured, will be disregarded if its consultants perform too much of their work for a single client over the course of its tax year.

The IRS' reasoning is that the consultancy is just a way for the client to avoid paying payroll taxes and other taxes incident to the employee relationship.

The result to the client: a deficiency for not paying those taxes. The result to the consultancy: a deficiency for taking now-inapplicable deductions or for paying the wrong type of taxes. Yes, its silly, but that's the way the tax code works...
Agreed - One can't look at the system from the outside and honestly say it's perfect and incorruptible. So instead it relies on us having "trust" in the institutions that facilitate them and the "election officials" with potentially ridiculous training, no audit, no recordings and no mandated certification, all topped with the real potential for bias because hey, we're humans. And we know that trust in governmental institutions and politicians is not universal.

I'd go out on a limb and posit that a good chunk of the individuals here would advocate and insist on all sorts of various audit trails, cryptographic hashes, check-digits, security layers and "oversight" with privacy and security guarantees with certification and training and and and... if this were health data. But when it comes to something like the leadership of a nation, we suddenly revert to "it's okay, trust the election officials and pieces of paper with dubious transportation mechanisms and security", don't worry, there were official "processes" to ensure no irregularity.
Goethe’s was always my favourite rendition (ignoring pt2). Just enough romance and woe
There have been a lot of "water from air" dehumidifier projects that basically amount to scams whether intentional or not.

No, people in arid locations have water problems, precisely because there is not enough water in the air. Nature already built a large scale dehumidifier called rain.

They only reason these "projects" are done is because they appear to be directly producing the solution (water in this case) without having to fix the underlying problem. The most perverse thing about them is that they never work out in the end. It's just a money pit and conversation starter.

The reason why even the poorest members of first world nations are wealthy relative to developing countries is because of infrastructure. Without roads, schools, electricity and internet we would be doing just as badly as them. Imagine living without indoor lighting. We take so many easy things for granted.

Everyone benefits from infrastructure. It doesn't matter if you are poor or rich. But that's the crux. People only want to help the poor. Once they cease to be poor nobody wants to help anymore but how is that supposed to work? If you remove support too early those people will fall back to poverty. It becomes a privately funded welfare trap in the end.
Where is your data to backup this claim?
Maybe you are right that claims are approved most of the time but in my experience the problem with our health care system is not just denial of claims, but about the cost of medical services and medicine.

In my anecdotal experience I have had insurance deny claims on medicine prescribed by my doctors frequently, in one case they would not cover a medicine costing $50 over the counter, but instead had me switch to an alternative with a $10 copay which turned out to be billed at $170 to the insurance company once i got the detailed statement!! how does that even make sense?

It makes sense to them because the insurance company benefits from higher cost of delivering health benefits as it justifies higher premiums. Since they are by law limited to earn a capped percentage on premiums minus costs (at least in my state), the only way they can deliver increased returns to shareholders is by increasing our costs and hence our premiums.
Did Apple ever try to prevent people from running Linux on Macs? It sounds like that is what you're saying, but my impression is quite the opposite, the made Bootcamp etc.
> people usually expect open-source to equal free.

Open source has a specific meaning - is the Software released on an open source license. (https://opensource.org/licenses) For example if you pay enough, you get ms windows source as well - that doesn't make it "not completely open source". Your project doesn't seem to be open source at all.
Not related and slightly off topic, but here's a recent reddit thread, from a subreddit called ShittyGeneWolfe. Worth reading for the giggles.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ShittyGeneWolfe/comments/k58ar4/lis...
It would be better to use NT4 or Windows 2000. Delphi had a habit of crashing hard under 9x whilst debugging and taking the OS with it. I used Delphi from 1 - 5 commercially and we never used 9x because the experience was a lot less usable. I did use maybe, Delphi 3 under Windows 98 at home, but it would never have been for anything important.
I mean that it will go out of business.

Venture backed companies raise mone because they have have some significant buildout to complete before they can got market. Raise too little and the chances of reaching that point are too small.

Additionally, if a startup cannot attract a certain amount of interest from investors, that is a big hint, too.

Note that didn't say how much that minimum is. You are making assumptions.

Bootstrapped businesses are great, too. But I am talking about a different kind of company.

Anyway, yes, the news space is dismal and I avoid it. But I never needed to get to that part of the analysis.
They could have easily said we have been acquired and we are shutting down. No ambiguity.
Why would that matter? The largest single part of the market is Office for Windows, so that's what they targeted first. Google employees are likely using Google Docs for most things, anyways.
One thing the web version of Office does better than Docs is most definitely Powerpoint slides. While the interface for making presentations in Docs is impressive by web standards, there's so many things that I routinely need that I can't get in Docs that making presentations there is pretty much a nonstarter.
I think that's a matter of perspective that you're arguing, and a bit pedantic to say the least. People that work in infrastructure will tell you that replacing and repairing infrastructure is an impossibly imbalanced equation, it simply degrades too fast. So, lead pipes are to be expected, among other things. Lead pipes are just fine as long as there's chemicals in the water that build up a rusty layer. Flint, when it switched plants, did not use the chemical they had in their previous plant. I can't remember if it was because a machine was broken or if it was more direct cost cutting, but both come down to cost.
> to namedrop some that were published and loved all over Europe: Asterix, Tin Tin, Mortadelo y Filemon, Lucky Luke, Blek, Judge Dredd, the Smurfs, Manara, Corto Maltese, and so on

Many of these were loved in Latin America as well. Lucky Luke and Asterix are my personal favorites, though there's a special place for Corto Maltese (Hugo Pratt is revered in my country) and I also liked Manara for erotic comics.

To this day I consider European comics way superior to American comics, where superheroes tended to dominate. Yes, I do love Sandman and Robert Crumb, of course.
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What we are looking for in an engineer is creativity, strong frontend skills, and attention to detail. If you're motivated by creating new things, this is an environment where you will thrive.

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You can also be dropped on Mars with a pressurized Tesla.

Most people would put 'buying access to a track' into the 'things I will never do'-box.
Assuming these ever make it to production, the will absolutely be the vehicle featured in the eventual inevitable Back to the Future reboot.
> On average rust is 10% slower on the banchmarkgame

If that claim was true …

> gcc is in average 20% faster than clang

and if that claim was true …

then we might guess the rust programs average could be 10% faster than the C++ programs average, if both used the same compiler backend

— because those rust programs were compiled with llvm but those c++ programs were compiled with gcc.
Yes and Google has 70%+ mobile phone market share and was dominant in the search engine market. Neither is applicable to Apple.

* But if you then correct someone for not using the strict meaning of monopoly properly, then really you're just showing that you are unaware of the regulations around anti-competitive behaviour. The actual rules don't mention "monopoly", they are centred all around market dominance.*

I guess if I’m “unaware” so is both the EU and the United States since you still have failed to show where either government has defined a monopoly as a minor player nor has either government defined a market as narrowly as you’re trying to. What next? Apple has a monopoly on smart speakers running whatever variant of iOS that the HomePod runs?

What random posters on HN “mean” by monopoly is irrelevant.
If you ask me about my identity the first thing that comes to my mind is the life I've lived. The things I got to experience, my failures, my accomplishments, the choices I made.
The base model is RWD, the higher specs are AWD
If meditation is making you cranky and uncomfortable, I'd say you haven't yet found the right form of meditation for you. There are a huge number of different practices out there, and most of them strike me as self-violent and painful. Of course, they probably work well for some people; to each her own.

Personally, I've always been drawn to practices that emphasize simplicity, ease, gentleness, and acceptance in the cultivation of awareness. If I need to pee, I get up and pee; if I need to adjust my position, I adjust my position. I don't force my mind, I do the opposite: I let go of my mind and instead watch it. Thoughts come and thoughts go, and a surprising number of them are pretty funny when I'm not caught up in them.

It's truly easy because you can't do it wrong: the goal isn't to have no thoughts, be perfectly present, or have super-concentration. You will have thoughts (lots of them at first), you will have moments when you're present and moments when you're not, you will have pretty crappy concentration at first. Over time, you develop a very easy, effortless form of concentration that doesn't involve forcing anything. Concentration isn't the goal, just a pleasant byproduct.

The benefits? I feel much more centered and present, more relaxed, my mind is sharper. My mood tends to be better. To be sure, there are times when I'm cranky when I start and cranky when I finish -- we don't get to use it to force our experience to change. But by practicing being gently present, practicing accepting "this is what my experience is right now," I seem to have more pleasant moods and fewer, briefer unpleasant moods.
I kind of agree with both.

Learning new tools doesn't mean that aesthetics aren't important. New tools can help you be more productive and even spend more time doing the design work that you love.

I also understand that as a designer (or any other consultants) you want customers that are easy to work, pay you well and on time. It is your right to choose you customers. It is also their right to choose you.
Here is a video review of "Retro Fever," a 2014(ish) game for the Apple II.
I'm expecting to see that a version of IP over Avian Carriers with Chinese Characteristics (IPoACwCC) becomes true. Actually we can setup smuggling service like we smuggles brand new iPhones, discounted Louis Vuitton and stuffs out of Hong Kong. In the next decade, for example, when you want to file a pull request to github.com from Beijing, you just place an order at Taobao.com and save your pull request well in an SD card, mail to Shenzhen and wait for it being smuggled to the other side (Hong Kong), sent to github, and then the response being sent back.

This service is expected to work just like pigeon-based and drone-based ones, in theory. The only concern not reassured is whether Hong Kong would fall under the siege of the Great Fire Wall.

Meanwhile, I use ssh tunnel to connect to a major US-based cloud service provider at work and home in Beijing, and yes, the low speed and the long round trip time suck. And by now my own Strong VPN subscription still works.
ASSIMILATE
Maybe you're being subtle, i agree with your point.

>> christian conservatives started carrying out attacks

The Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta was such a thing, the KKK and anti-abortion terrorism is supposedly radicalized Christian.

But because The Establishment is generally Conservative Christian, it's treated differently. I wish we could drop the affiliation and just call them Radicalized people. I'd hate to be associated with Radical Atheists if ever a violent act of terrorism was performed by non-believers.

>> libertarians or socialists

Occupy? Though Guy (the face of Occupy/Anon) was a Catholic.
> - Significant whitespace, but tabs are forbidden

Here's the reasoning: https://github.com/Araq/Nim/wiki/Whitespace-FAQ#tabs-vs-spac...

If you still want tabs you can add this at the top of your files and they work:

#! replace("\t", " ")

> - Identifiers are case and underscore-insensitive (FOO_BAR === fooBar === fo_ob_ar)

This changed recently, now the first letter is considered case sensitive: http://nim-lang.org/manual.html#identifier-equality
This program makes me nervous because its primary use case is to obstruct justice, which the author tries to get away from with a thinly-veiled excuse that it could also be used to defend against criminals. I understand that technology is ethically neutral (for example, this program could be used to hinder reverse-engineering of a sealed computing appliance), but the fact that they're basically advertising this thing to obstruct police investigations puts me off.
Until a sizeable fraction of the cars on the road are silent, the learning period has not yet significantly begun.
I think you mean Google Website Optimizer, not Visual Website Optimizer.
Honorable mention, privoxy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7743261
Monads are a construct from category theory, and one with a particularly significant use in idiomatic Haskell, so I'd expect learning Monads as used in Haskell to generally precede a broad understanding of category theory for most Haskell programmers.
Can you share what did you use to make those beautiful graphs ? I really like the fuzzy axis lines.
Thank you for the direction. I'll go into more detail about it immediately.
Most videos are embedded using iframes.
I'm productive in Haskell and I don't know category theory. I didn't "learn" monads specifically, I used them in my projects and gained an intuition for monads followed by memorizing the 3 monad laws.
I have almost the exact same setup, save for a 120 GB SSD. But everything you've said is correct. I would add that the setup is surprisingly straightforward and that the OptiBay product comes with great installation docs. Unlike 2007 and earlier Apple portables, this generation is pretty easy to crack open.

I love my 15" MBP configured as described. No, it's not especially light or sleek compared to a MacBook Air. But it's the fastest, most responsive machine I've ever used in my life. And the processor is a smidge fresher, so I feel better about obsolescence.

One tip if you're going to go the two drive route:

You can symlink heavy files that apps expect to be on your startup disk to your HDD. So in my case, I've symlinked my iTunes movies, iTunes U, iPhoto library, and a couple of other things and store them on the HDD. I don't touch these often and when I do, time isn't of the essence, so there's no point consuming my precious SSD capacity.
A rating can tell potential readers that a book is worth reading or not. It can't grow a talented but unskilled author into a great author. Most successful authors will tell you that they had to write hundreds of thousands of words worth of crap before they were able to produce anything worth reading, and then only because they were getting quality coaching while writing all of that crap.
I've started reading this hit piece, and saw, e.g.

> "One can lose weight on a low-calorie diet if it is primarily composed of fat calories or carbohydrate calories or protein calories. It makes no difference!"

Quoted from one of the "experts" refuting taubes. And yet, research by Robert Israel and Michel Cabanac (full list of references in Roberts' "What Makes Food Fattening" bibliography) shows that this is completely untrue - even flavor makes a huge difference, let alone "caloric intake". (BTW, if anyone can point me to any peer reviewed paper that validates "calories in-calories out" theory, I would be thankful. It appears to be an argument of faith, not of science, as far as I can tell).

Good Calories Bad Calories is meticulously referenced. You may disagree with the content, but as far as science writing goes, it doesn't get any better or more rigorous.

(And that's less of a compliment to Taubes, and more an indication of the sad, sad state of science writing).

Taubes is a scientist and a journalist. The fact that nutrition is not his original field doesn't change much.
I recently started digging into Arch and getting sleep to work was surprisingly easy. (pm-suspend and modifying handler.sh for power button/lid events).
Totally right -- it's well within FB's TOS and you have no recourse other than to email them. But, humans responding to email doesn't scale well, hence the poor "customer service".

(The quotes because, you're not so much the customer as the product...your eyeballs at least.)
I feel like I'm repeating myself daily at the moment. If you're not paying for it, you shouldn't expect anything. If people paid for the services they used, they'd have recourse and the interests of the provider and the consumer would be aligned. As it stands, why would or should Facebook give a shit?

Brands building their online presence via Facebook are mad as far as I'm concerned, Facebook owns that content, they can do with it what they want and as this demonstrates, zero recourse.
If you are in a field that isn't negatively effected by the Walton's downward pressure on salaries, then yes, they've raised your personal standard of living.

When the Walton's employ people for less 40 hours a week just so they don't have to pay benefits, they are externalizing that cost to the other taxpayers (food stamps, housing assistance, health insurance).

I'm not without blame here. I'm pretty sure whenever I eat at a Chinese restaurant that they are exploiting workers. The fact that the workers are better off than they would be in China isn't really a defense.
I'm mildly surprised that a media outlet is actually calling this out at another organization.

In my opinion, every media outlet has been complicit in helping the U.S. powers that be try to discredit Wikileaks and distract from the contents of the leaks. Not to mention hiding corruption.

Wikileaks has done a great job at showing the world how much those in power don't care about anything but their own power (and their "conspiracy network"). But all I'm seeing is the same apathetic and head-in-the-sand response from the general population to reality.
it is a good idea. It gives you an idea of what the user himself is looking at it. Got it. Thanks
Is the locomotive engineering industry really this conservative, or is it just a lack of appropriate battery technology? Because diesel electric locomotives have been common place for ages, and according to wikipedia they already use dynamic breaking they just bleed it off in heat instead of store it in battery banks.

It's seems like a pretty small jump that should have been made already to hook batteries up in a DE locomotive.
Until they start competing in price instead of features, expect to pay the same $1500.
I'm usually dumb until I've gotten something done. Then I realize I could have done it much smarter.
Get a thinking cap. Whenever you're thinking, put the cap on. If someone asks you what you're doing, tell them you're thinking, and that whenever they see you wearing your thinking cap that's what you're doing and you'd like not to be interrupted please.
Although the linked article was posted in 2010 the included paper has been published in 1997. So I assume that most ideas in the paper are now either outdated or state-of-the-art.
TL;DR summary: Glenn thinks Kevin Poulsen is a disgrace for not publishing the chat logs Adrian Lamo gave him involving Bradley Manning (or somebody claiming to be Bradley) (as potentially edited by Adrian).
There's a logic to unsustainable price wars - your competitors might not sustain them as well as you can.

Price wars can be horrible for consumers, that's why some forms of them are illegal[0]. If Lyft and Uber talk to each other about gutting prices to put cabs out of business it's illegal. If they read the same econ books and independently come to the conclusion that it's the best thing to do, it's legal.

We regulate the cab industry to insulate it from this type of thing, because once the high prices and bad service that come with market concentration happen it may be months or longer before better options become available.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing