jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>"The Bondic compound stays liquid until you want it to harden. As soon as it’s exposed to UV light, it hardens into one of the toughest bonding agents available."

(Note To Future Self: I should compile a list of things used to cut things apart, and a list of things used to bind things together; Bondic would go on the second list, as would such products as Flex-Seal and Flex-Tape (Phil Swift! <g>), and others as well...)

It's a must for makers and future makers, everywhere...
Didn’t the mayor of DC literally request that the feds NOT provide federal agents due to experiences with the BLM protests? She probably saved many lives with that decision. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/532739-bowser-to...
Police take orders from above. Clearly the order of the day was to have minimal presence and avoid conflict with the protesters.
> it provided an explanation as to why his hardships weren’t his fault.

I think that’s the core of the problem on both sides.
I think the characterization is what's surprising. I would imagine there's a major supplier for petri dishes out there that everyone in the medical field knows of, but I've never heard of them and wouldn't call them "obscure" just because it's niche. Using that criteria every software company outside of Microsoft or Apple would be considered obscure.
Apple is the only large company with a functional organization. Could that be it ? Coupled with their unparalleled ownership of a family of platforms (intel’s OS comparably is nonexistent).
I was really disappointed and disheartened. It showed great weakness.

I recently watched the movie Olympus Has Fallen. We were just wanting a dumb action movie to pass the time. The North Korean terrorists just basically walked in and took the White House. We were like, how stupid is that, no way that could really happen. And here today, we literally saw it happen. People took over one of our nation’s most important buildings with extremely high level people in it without a sweat, without resistance, and basically without repercussions. I remarked today to my family that I bet Russians and North Koreans were watching going, wait, we can just walk in? Of course they couldn’t because they aren’t white “Americans”. And all of this really paints a nasty picture of what happened today. It was a soup of treason, violence, white privilege, disgrace, sadness, and weakness.

I mean, a bomb on the grounds was found and detonated by a bomb squad and people were still allowed to stay on the premises. I really could not believe how they could just take over the place. I even saw a video where police actually just opened the gates for them.
I can give you an example from my career. We were building out a new webapp feature to deliver medical textbooks, which we had as xml documents direct from the publisher. Our customers, mostly large academic libraries and medical research companies, would get the electronic access to the books for much less than it would cost to get sufficient physical copies, and our cost for supplying the books would be minimal.

A problem came up. Many of the libraries were government funded, and required physical possession of any books they purchased. I was in a meeting with the c-level execs, sales directors, and pms, and they were planning out the cost of building an organization that would produce a cd-rom version of the textbook products. They were going to need a large team to manage creating the books on cd, and for managing the production and mailing of the CDs when orders were received. It was going to cost a fortune.

I told them to hang on a minute: I'm already converting the xml for these books into html for display in the app. I can easily generate static html too, write it to disk, and generate an iso file, every time we publish a new book. Then I can add a download link in the webapp, and if they need a physical copy they can download and burn it to disk themselves. We'll include instructions. This will take me maybe an extra week, and we'll have no ongoing operational costs.

I think I got a $50 Amazon gift card for that suggestion. Or maybe a Starbucks card.
There's a longstanding case still bouncing around the court system:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers_Diamonds_Antitrust_Lit...
Subsidies don't recover the investment, they just make other people pay for it.
The particular set of file types recognized (character device? block device?) are clearly ripped straight from posix. It even says implementations should try to match posix. But ok, yes, this is more than just posix. This is posix plus directory separator character.

FWIW, I've found automagic backslash handling more trouble than its worth. Everything seems to just work until it doesn't. A pathname is inevitably "pretty printed" on Windows which then makes its way as input to a unix system where it's interpreted incorrectly. Of course, back then we called this boost.
Infinite loops aren't necessarily a form of misbehavior in Erlang. It is how you keep Erlang processes up after all - just spawn a function that calls itself at the end. Though the vast majority of those have a receive statement so that they're not always running.
My team which uses Clojure recently decided to grow. I regularly attend a local Clojure focused Meetup, and it is very easy to find interested developers there. The Meetup, which meets in Philadelphia, has over 150 members, so at least there is a large number of people interested.
`async/await` is only for sequencing, it's not gonna replace anything other than `.then` chains. If you have such chains to the extent that you think `async/await` will solve your problems, you should think very hard if every item in the chain is truly depending on the previous item in the chain because you are currently losing a lot of performance to that otherwise. I have often seen examples using generators and `async await` that needlessly turn fast concurrent promise code into slower sequential code.
"Selling outside of AppStore" is not necessarily meaning that you should not release the app on App Store. It's still a good channel and even the only channel. The challenge is to find a way to get paid outside App Store.
Perhaps your first problem is that there isn't even a "Careers" or "Jobs" link on your homepage, and Googling "seomoz jobs" and "seomoz careers" leads to a job board and not your company's hiring page?

Seriously, I am interested in hearing about your machine learning openings, and I can't even find the job description anywhere.
I posted to the thread and I thought I was being positive but realistic. The majority of programmers are not capable of creating a $2000/month cashflow business for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to skills, marketing knowledge and not least of all overcoming laziness.

The BoS forum has a lot of people selling downloadable desktop apps into crowded markets. That's why there is a lot of 'very hard' type comments.
The Google toolbar reports URLs back to Google if you have page rank or a few other features turned on. Their privacy policy says that they store the URL and provide you with whatever feature you requested, but it doesn't say weather they do anything further with the data.

Relevant bits:

URLs and embedded information

Some of our services, including Google Toolbar and Google Web Accelerator, send the uniform resource locators (“URLs”) of web pages that you request to Google. When you use these services, Google will receive and store the URL sent by the web sites you visit, including any personal information inserted into those URLs by the web site operator. Some Google services (such as Google Toolbar) enable you to opt-in or opt-out of sending URLs to Google, while for others (such as Google Web Accelerator) the sending of URLs to Google is intrinsic to the service. When you sign up for any such service, you will be informed clearly that the service sends URLs to Google, and whether and how you can opt-in or opt-out.

For example, when you submit information to a web page (such as a user login ID or registration information), the operator of that web site may “embed” that information – including personal information – into its URL (typically, after a question mark (“?”) in the URL). When the URL is transmitted to Google, our servers automatically store the URL, including any personal information that has been embedded after the question mark. Google does not exercise any control over these web sites or whether they embed personal information into URLs.

http://www.google.com/privacy_faq.html#toc-terms-urls

Uses

We process your requests in order to operate and improve the Google Toolbar and other Google services. For example, by knowing which web page you are viewing, the PageRank feature of Google Toolbar can show you Google's ranking of that web page. And the Sidewiki feature can tell you if others have written Sidewiki entries on a given page. Likewise, by processing the text on a web page, SpellCheck can offer spelling suggestions and AutoLink can provide useful links to information.

http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/answer.py?hl=en...
Hi Cory -

Can you see my response below regarding Posterous?

Also, it does appear that your email address is available on the Internet, e.g. http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=nBw3lBQAAAA...

Thanks,
Blake
Woah there, "mos1b". No need for that.
Exactly. If I have paid for a game, it doesn't make sense to prevent me from accessing large portions of it. At least provide cheat codes to unlock "undeserved" content.
Sheesh, that's pretty severe—it's a fun performance to watch, and I was still able to enjoy it despite the incidents where he was late (I only counted two). Is there anything wrong with sharing an enjoyable but imperfect experience?
Writing Maven plugins is quite easy and doesn't require you to learn another language (like in case of gradle, you have to know groovy).
On the contrary, walls of text are greatly appreciated
Believe me, I truly don't want to sound pedantic, but why are you waiting for someone else to implement those (or other) things for you?

What abilities does "that someone else" has, that you don't?
I second this. I've been using Typora for some 2 years now and I'm extremely happy with it.

It's currently free but the developer intends to charge for it once it's out of Beta.
> The same is true of pretty much everybody - PMs and QA included. Everybody misses details and edge cases.

No, the same isn't true of everybody. They would all have to miss the exact same details and edge cases, was the point. It's the same reason that you have sensor redundancy, you don't have the same sensor measure twice and trust it.
Most of their effort now seems to be driven by saving them money, hence the big podcast push. Every time you listen to a podcast instead of music costs them less money so their profit from you goes up.
The other thing I don't entirely get -- and I am not entirely sure I want to know -- is why penguins. The article highlights that they're a bad "oil" animal. Rendering livestock remains down is not a new idea and is something that would have been done industrially on land at the time of this expedition.

I am a lifelong vegetarian, but I am not sure that my partner would let me get away with going totally vegan. Things like this make me want to: at least plants don't have a central nervous system and the ability to feel pain or fear. They're also far more energy efficient as a food and fuel source.

I feel like I need cheering up after reading this article!
It's up to the Tor user to encrypt her end-to-end traffic. If that's what she wants.
"what % of test score variance is explained by the home environment?"

C.f. my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2046264

Both of the sources I linked to are a good place to start in terms of understanding the numbers. Another good source is the Coleman Report, which is probably the most important education study ever done: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/06389

The data was later reanalyzed using more modern statistical techniques, so I'm not sure if the link has the new analysis or the original analysis. Both come to basically the same conclusions though. The most famous finding of the study was probably that within-school effects are much greater than between-school effects, meaning that what track your kid is placed into inside the school has a much greater impact on their education than if they go to a 'good' or 'bad' school. The interesting thing is that this study was commissioned in order to find evidence that black schools were performing much worse than white schools in order to justify integration, but the study actually found the opposite so the government essentially tried to bury it. But it was actually the largest study ever conducted at the time, and I think it's still one of the top five largest to this day.
He missed a few steps:

Install parallels on MAC or Linux machine
Install Windows 7 on Parallels

There, now we can compare.
And you don't find the idea that in terms of education potential, the author's assumption that there is something fundamentally different about Americans of Asian, Caucasian or African descent just a little bit creepy?

That's not an assumption, it's just a possibility the author is attempting to control for.

I just don't see how you can reasonably differentiate between someone of Chinese descent whose ancestors came here in the 19th century to build the railroads to someone of Irish descent who came here a century ago.

The simplest way to reasonably differentiate between them is to look at them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Irish_Americans.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_American

You seem to be asserting that allowing for the possibility that cultural or biological factors might affect educational outcomes is creepy. Is that an accurate assessment?
I love what you folks do, and your segments are spot on, and you get great people on, but I don't think me e-mailing the guy would get an answer. It was just so out-there that I still cannot figure out what the heck was up.

BSD Now and bsdtalk are the two podcasts I look forward to each week.
Why do you think I believe in Christianity or what the clergy say? I don't.
I know it's not really substantive, but it's tweaking my OCD: why does 'small' in the list of adjectives in the marketing code block have an embedded newline?
So here we see the culmination of the great Frameworks vs. Libraries divide. Frameworks alleviate the need for the type of articles like the one linked here because they eliminate choice paralysis and imposter syndrome. Everyone is worried about whether or not they're doing things The Right Wa y™ and so they either blaze ahead and hit the same pitfalls everyone else does (and then write blog posts to warn others) or they hold off on adopting the tech until they are shown The Right Wa y™ by someone else.

The truth is, libraries and frameworks both end up being equally complex to work with, precisely because the problem of building large applications is inherently difficult.

It all comes down to personal preference:

Are you the type of person who is more likely to believe you can do something better than everyone else, or are you the type who is more likely to defer to those you believe to be better than you?

Are you decisive or do you agonize over the smallest choices?

Do you feel a compelling need to understand how everything works, or are you willing to implicitly trust other people's systems?

I find it amusing that people who gravitate toward smaller libraries like Backbone.js and React.js rail against frameworks like Ember or Angular for being overly complex, heavy, and "magical", and then proceed to cobble together a Rube-Goldberg-esque system of disparate dependencies to achieve the same goals. When React first started getting popular all you read about was how simple the API was and how it was Easy to Reason About™. Fast forward to today and you need to have working knowledge of WebPack, ES6, Redux, immutable.js, Babel, and a bevy of other dependencies to be aligned with the React ecosystem's ever-evolving best practices.

The exact same thing happened with Backbone.js and it will probably happen again with the next shiny new view-model library to ride the hype train.

It's important that I point out, however, that none of this is necessarily a bad thing. Smaller libraries like React.js and Backbone.js encourage a cavalcade of innovation from which awesome things like Redux are born. But let's not pretend that this doesn't result in a heckuva lot of churn for the average developer whose job is to simply get shit done.
course requests are also welcome :)
> you just had to put a file named favicon.ico at the root of your IIS Server, and you were good to go!

That sentence says a lot about MS's view of the world in the 90s. "Just put an image in a Microsoft-proprietary format in a Microsoft-named location on your Microsoft web server to see this neat little feature in your Microsoft browser."
Thanks for the suggestion. I've opened https://github.com/shurcooL/gtdo/issues/33.
Joining a startup as employee no 1. It was my worst investment. I'll be happy to merely get the value of my work hours back some day, even in the best case that the exit will be quite a successful one. I don't expect to get more than what I could have made as a freelancer during those years. I'm now making way more money just working. Simply buying the shares would have been cheaper for me.

Now whenever I do the math for accepting shares over money, it's usually not worth it.
Common Crawl is more interesting for research purposes than for real search engine business. It refreshes only 4 times a year and has only 2 billion pages. For anything under ~10B pages is most likely to be called "research" or "toy" index. You have almost zero chance of building competitive index if you are below ~15B. Google is rumored to crawl about 150B pages as reference. There are estimated 1.2T pages out there which does not get crawled due to various reasons.
No judge commentary (I'm a little disappointed, I was hoping someone would comment on the constant I used), but most of the entries are documented.

I put my own entry on github last week for easier reading:

https://github.com/ryancdotorg/undercrypto2014

The README was added later (wasn't in the actual entry) - it explains what the other files are.

As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, all the entries are in this repo:

https://github.com/simcop2387/underhanded-crypto
Saying the software is so bad you wish it was done in hardware seems like a step backwards to me. Surely a simpler answer is to write a nice xmodmap GUI.
Transitioned I can understand, but the article specifies "regardless of anatomy", which seems like too loose a criteria for potentially violent inmates, group showering, etc.
This is a very important, often overlooked point.

Also food malnutrition is way less common, than it was before.

But we also are exposed to many new chemicals, not occuring in nature, so we could not adopt to them.

So ... I guess there is no definite, simple answer.
Prove I’mUnprovable using proof by contradictions as follows:

In order to obtain a contradiction, hypothesize
¬I’mUnprovable. Therefore ⊢I’mUnprovable
(using I’mUnprovable⇔⊬I’mUnprovable). Consequently,
⊢⊢I’mUnprovable using ByProvabilityOfProofs
{⊢∀[Ψ:Proposition<i>] (⊢Ψ)⇒⊢⊢Ψ}. However,
⊢¬I’mUnprovable (using I’mUnprovable ⇔⊬I’mUnprovable),
which is the desired contradiction in foundations.

Consequently, I’mUnprovable has been proved to be

a theorem using proof by contradiction in which

¬I’mUnprovable is hypothesized and a contradiction derived.

In your notation, the proof shows that following holds:

¬I’mUnprovable ⇒ ⊥

Why do you think that the proof is for the following?

¬I’mUnprovable ⇒ ⊢⊥
The scrolljacking on this site makes it literally unusable on my device.
Pretty sure Spotify will mess this up regardless of actual gender. I live in Germany but only speak English. Spotify can't work out what language to serve anything to me in.
A counter anecdatum: I have been keeping a lone, unmated Pseudoneoponera rufipes queen since August 2020. Since she is unmated, she cannot produce any worker. She just keeps eating all the eggs she lays after a few days.

I keep her in a test tube nest and feed her fruit flies. She's still alive and kicking as of this writing. And she still has hunter instincts when I give her a weakened, but live little fly.

Maybe queens are more resilient to solitude?
Hibernate IS great, IMO. It saves massive battery life, nobody cares about the hiberfile size with large disks, and for me it’s often more reliable than S3 sleep. Sleep may run out of battery and I lose everything open. Sleep may not power back up correctly and I lose everything open. I only use sleep mode for short trips between locations, with car rides or walking to another office. But overnight? Hibernate or shutdown for me.
His work is great! Linked to from the blog post...
It seems fair to call someone a liar if you know they've said something factually untrue. (I'm no weighing in on the debate itself, but it's possible for someone to be factually wrong and it's appropriate to highlight that when it happens.)
Now there's a real source! "Amazon Web Services owns 11.9 million square feet of property, leases 14.1 million square feet"

That's 26 million sq ft vs Facebook's 40.5 million.
Matt Parker of Numberphile fame, did an interview with the authors two years ago: https://youtu.be/iwzzv1biHv8
I am keeping an eye on this offering. In a B2B setting, this is a compelling way to expose certain sensitive services to the public web without forcing our customers to make complex/problematic firewall changes. Not everyone is sitting on a fat stack of public IPv4s they can just point at their infra. Many of the businesses we work with can't even accurately describe their own technology circumstances.

Reducing the conversation to "Can that server ping google?" would make my life 1000% easier.
Except society hasn’t decided that such action is unlawful even if some people, such as yourself, wish it was. I am sure at least a few vegans would like to outlaw eating meat, but democracy also works the other way ensuring such extremely unpopular laws never get passed.
No one "banned" LIDAR.. I think whatever comes to be will rely on more than just vision at some point in years to come. Regardless of what Elon says.
Agreed, the human pilot is the problem. The sooner we can remove them from the situation, the more lives will be saved
Is there a specific example you are referring to re: “ People moments after surviving imminent death will jockey for positions of influence with their saviors”?
Looking at US politics as a european, it seems like the republicans are far right and the democrats are center left. The problem is how these two parties have a duopoly. I'm pretty sure that Sanders supporters and other more progressive leftists heavily critisize Biden and the democrats.

So no, it's not only republicans and Trump that get "cancelled".
> If you don't understand the joke, then the joke's on you.

Completely agree
Anyone know more about this?
To be honest, the unmoderated (those not ending in .moderated) usenet groups were always a bit a home for flame fests - nothing particularly to do with Google.

Speaking as a contributor (not to flames, or at least I hope not much) way back when.
Gradle, perhaps unfairly, left me not liking Groovy.