jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Singapore is an interesting case.

They do not have a free press, and many other freedoms are lacking.

OTOH, they have a very, very strong anti-corruption standard. They consistently rate at the top of anti-corruption indexes: http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/...
I knew him only through his books, but both 'Ordinary Differential Equations' and 'Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics' were highly influential - the use of geometric methods was a breath of fresh air at the time I read them.
That might be a somewhat unsolvable problem. The "average" Facebook gamer isn't looking for a game with a "storyline". They want to farm lettuce, kill pimps, throw sheep, etc. The vast majority of FB gamers want something simple and mindless.

For an involved game with a storyline you might be looking at a more narrow, niche segment of the population. They key is getting them hooked and sharing with friends in their niche.

I can't see the game right now (blocked at work) but you might try posting about the game on some fan pages or community pages that are either related or strongly correlated to the audience you want to target with your game. In a non-spammy way of course ;)
no one is advocating making a hiring decision based on 2 numbers. but they can show involvement and engagement in an online community, which can be valuable to a startup
hugh3: awesome quick feedback!

1. Yup, the "at" is basically for the regular season pro teams in American sports. We'll be fixing this soon for all other situations
2. If the guy was your friend, would that be more useful? Like in real life?
3. The server is OK, we haven't implemented any polling yet to the page. It started off as a quick check-in, leave, and come back tool early on. Our roadmap includes a smart decaying poller that will update the page often. A lot of our users now just refresh, nobody's complained too much yet, but we definitely need to get that in ASAP.
4. Definitely need something that says: "You can be anywhere!"

Thank you for trying it out and giving us the feedback even though you aren't a huge sport fan. We appreciate it!! Hopefully we can cover more big events like World Cup, Olympics, Formula 1, etc. where you'll use it.
This just makes me smile. It's nice to see good things being done by good people.
I realize that Twitter threads have no title and so the submitter has to summarize it as best they can, but this headline is just wrong. It’s not clear that VAT is even owed for GitHub sponsorships because it’s not a payment for goods/services, and even if it is, Microsoft isn’t “evading tax” that they owe. Something like “Microsoft avoids responsibility for calculating GitHub sponsorship VAT” would be better.
> 0.4 kWh/h

Isn’t this just, umm, 0.4 kW?
Why would there be a distinction? Names have always been about "owning" an identity. The Brothers Grimms' Rumpelstiltskin would be just one historical example of the power attached to knowing and using a name.
Could someone explain to me why/how divorce ends up delivering such fate?

Do these citizens in these countries think these laws around divorce are fair?
I don't really understand why Plug Computers [1] didn't catch on a lot. A decade and a half later and hardly made a dent. Super things, very simple to use, just plug it in and leave it running. A decade and a half however is a long time and they've not come far other than getting bigger and less able to compete on features with new offerings. Perhaps the horse has left the stable on these.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_computer
Well, those are 'tricky' regions. I don't believe that in Rondônia they will say: "what, this tree belongs to Bolívia! don't take it down, please!". It's like a mess in the that 'border'.

When Brazil stops then, and there are no more trees to take down in its side, then it will stop being a Brazilian problem?

Maybe we should act to salvage what remains instead of discussing who's fault it is. Well, as we are discussing, another 100 trees were down.
> Wires take hours/days. Credit card transactions take 1-2 days before the seller's bank account is actually credited. Obviously speed isn't an issue for adoption given that people tolerate systems much slower than Bitcoin.

Wires take hours, rarely, if ever days, and in my experience the money is in the receiving account before I hang up from sending it.

Also people tolerate this system because there is nothing else available, and much of it is not a result of lack of desire but anti money laundering. Countries are already moving to digital currency tokens.
It feels like this has been reposted regularly for years, but the demo videos and slightly threadbare use cases haven't changed at all. Re-imagining how we interact with computers sounds great, but it doesn't feel like this project is actually going to achieve it's goals beyond letting a small number of lucky users play around with stuff.

I'm not sure if darklang is going to succeed, but that seems like a far more fruitful direction to approach the problem from. It's a very hard problem, and they are attempting to make programming a little bit more visual while not removing any power from the user, instead of making it entirely visual and almost completely dis-empowering the user. Importantly, it's actually accessible to people all over the world, and they can use it to achieve real world goals.
> Or maybe I'm just grumpy because I interviewed a Caltech CS grad last week who flat out did not know C. Never touched it in his studies. World's gone nuts.

I've heard stories about some students in France, who are doing a whole year and half of C projects before anything else. Maybe these are just far tales of unicorns.
That's not completely true. They actually also pulled a very big story to not endanger their financial data business in the country:

- http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/03/bloomberg-editor...

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d121fd70-49f2-11e3-9a21-00144...

They lost a lot of credibility when covering on Chinese matters due to this incident.
> the problem is that academia rewards producing papers, not stable software libraries.

isn't this the good thing about academia? aren't you kids getting paid the big bucks to write and maintain the software libraries, while we work on novel problems for pennies?
The bluetooth address is actually just one character different from the phone's MAC address -- although this might just be an iPhone standard. Need to check up on Android standards and if it differs by manufacturer.

What makes WiFi (currently) more relevant is more people leave it on. Likely to even out over time as more bluetooth devices are made commonplace.
Dating advice for a person who's shy are as useless as a chocolate teapot - the problems are in the fact that he's shy, not that he'd desperately need dating advice.
Are you aware that by not citing the author of a quote, you are denying her the title of "Great mind discussing an idea" and instead claiming it for yourself?
Hardware is not software, but it's trending in that direction. The price of the raw components keeps falling, we are headed towards a future where a tablet is really a hardware dongle for an operating system or an advertising platform.
Making polls has been reserved to users over a karma threshold you have not reached yet (with that account).
Meh, I'd rather just use "hacker", media be damned.

Maybe my perspective is warped, but I feel like the original meaning of "hacker" is gaining popularity lately. "Hackathons" have made their way into the media thanks to Facebook and Zuckerberg. And of course PG's writing and "Hacker News" are somewhat well known in the tech and startup circles.

Still it's far from the mainstream meaning. In some ways it's cool that it's not, it's almost like a secret handshake. If you know what I mean when I say "hacker" I have a little extra bit of respect for you.
Here you go - bicameralism on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
Their "marketing strategy's balls" are firmly in Facebook's control regardless, because their customers don't have a firm grasp of the distinction between a Facebook page and a stand-alone domain. (In terms of what it takes for a Facebook page to disappear vs. a domain.)
Seeing so much awesome stuff out of the Mozilla team yet again makes me thankful for such an active browser ecosystem.
The transparent replication is inside the availability zone; as I understand it, Amazon doesn't provide any sort of user visible direct sharing between multiple AZs, e.g. to copy or move an EBS you have to snapshot it first ... which was of course a control API they blocked during much of this mess.
> $9 million an owl

Quoting the figure that way is really strange. The relevant thing isn't the cost per owl alive now but either the cost per owl potentially alive now and in the future (probably with some discount rate) or the cost for the species considered as a whole.

Imagine three alternative worlds. One is ours. One has 10x as many spotted owls currently alive. One has 1/10 as many. In all of them, the owls will (all) go extinct unless we spend $46bn. Does it really make sense to say that in one case the cost is $900k/owl, in another it's $9M/owl, and in another it's $90M/owl? Is there any plausible belief about the value of these owls that would say we should be willing to pay 100x more to prevent extinction in the case where there are 50k of them rather than 500?

(It would probably make sense to pay some more when the population is larger. Larger population now means (a) probably larger populations in the future if extinction is averted and (b) better prospects that avoiding extinction now really will avoid extinction for longer. But I don't see any reason to think that either of these is simply proportional to the present population, or anything like it.)
I associate this with the previous discussion about response to bullying in school. The argument then was, should we teach our children to withstand physical abuse and report it to authorities after the fact? Or should we teach them to respond immediately as it happens and loudly, physically if need be, protest?

In this case, the TSA agent obviously broke protocol. I can't see it as mandatory for the victom of the breach to stick to her part of the protocol by keeping still and silently enduring the abuse.

However, it is clear that her lack of immediate response was not a concious decision. I'm very familiar with the paralysis of mind and body that occurred. As a martial arts instructor, I see this happen a lot especially in the beginner's classes. With an opponent just holding your arm or making any kind of physical contact in a fashion you're not accustomed to, your mind can very easily go blank and you fail to move at all. A lot of self defense training is directed to just overcoming the paralysis induced by fear and/or shock.

It is clear that the author post-poned all reactions until after the fact. Perhaps from a legal standpoint this was the best course of action. But from a human standpoint, it is my view that the trauma incurred would have been far less damaging if she had reacted immediately to what was happening.

To get to my point: for anyone that want to explore your own reactions to similar situations, it is both very affordable and illuminating to try out a few self defense or martial arts classes. Read up on what is available in your area and just try it out.

With just a few classes, you can learn to react to abusive physical contact with a sharp, verbal NO!! instead of freezing into silent paralysis during the abuse and bearing the resulting trauma. You even react to verbal abuse or just plain criticism from other people in a different way if you practice martial arts. It is beneficial to everyday situations a lot less dramatic than in the post above.
FWIW, my Linode is in the NJ DC:

Timing buffered disk reads: 142 MB in 3.00 seconds = 47.28 MB/sec
It appears to be how the holidays of this season are celebrated around the world.
The email you put in the email field is not visible to others (bad design, I know). You need to put it in the about field.
They're pretty, but also pretty useless. Besides the bug, cookies, coffee cup, and lock all of them require text in addition to the icon in order to make sense. Even the filetype icons include textual descriptions. They're also too complicated for use in most scenarios (especially the computer icons). Additionally, the package icons won't make sense to anyone who isn't a coder, and possibly not most people who don't have non-Windows experience.

Pretty and shiny, but for real work I'll stick with something like the Tango iconset (or hire out custom designs).
> You have chosen the product that best suit your needs from a variety of different products.

But there's no competition within the product categories themselves. Say there's only one breadmaker allowed to make bread in your city. The fact that you can still buy potatoes or pasta doesn't mean that you're dealing with a free market.
Clipperz also has a PHP SRP implementation, but it accepts any A = 0 mod N and thus allows people to log in without knowing their passwords, which is a nice feature but maybe not what you want in a secure auth scheme.
I see two things in your story.

1. You want to learn something new. When it comes to learning a new programming language (and a new framework), there's really just ONE way to do it: work on a real project, full time. Two hours a day is too short to solve the issues you'll find, and without a real project, it's hard to stay motivated.

2. You want to quit your job, for a number of reasons. It's boring, you don't like how the project is managed, the code base is awful, etc... So you'll probably should be looking for new opportunites.

But as I understand your post, you're asking: "should I quit my job to start a new career with a technology I don't fully know yet?" This is not the only option. Quiting your current job for a new .NET developer position may be really good as well. Learning the structure of a new project, working with a new team, etc... will satisfy your need for novelty. You don't necessarily have to pick up another language.
You were probably thinking of print, not eBook.
You can easily change which despot rules you via this method.
BTC can be used in electronic black markets - not many currencies can be used for that, and that fact gives BTC huge value to many people.
It is analogous to how USD is the only currency the USG will accept taxes in, which you have mentioned.
Not to say that this black market might become unviable whatever reason down the track, but right now it's a big driver of value.
The whole thing with an electric car is that you decouple the car from the fuel, which he acknowledges by calling it a coal fuelled car, he doesn't call it electric fuelled, for instance. So it is an n fuelled car. You could decide to fuel it entirely by setting fire to old socks in the burner of an old steam genset, if you had enough old socks.
Maine isn't representative of the amount of potential solar energy available in other parts of the USA.
Right, but this isn't just about teeny-boppers posting pics of themselves partaking in underage drinking on Facebook. This is about journalists being intimidated by government representatives if they start writing an article on their private computer that is embarrassing to a particular senator. Sorry, but that's in a totally different baseball league.
If you don't have a CS degree, it is harder to get a job here, because visas are tied to your career path, and for an engineering visa, you need a related degree or ten years of professional experience.

It is possible though to do development on a visa other than the engineering visa, as I've written about here: http://www.tokyodev.com/2013/01/12/japan-visa-programming-jo...
Just for the record, I chose that example because I was aware of the fact it was happening.

The scary thing though is that this means that people the NSA doesn't like can find themselves at the center of whatever scrutiny they think is most appropriate.
Are you saying it is impossible for a person to change their stance based on time and increased exposure to something? Heck if you had asked me when I was 20 my stance on any number of things and then asked again today, you'd find they had changed. The basic facts about them haven't changed, but my perspective and exposure to their consequences sure has,and therefore so has my understanding and attitude towards them.

How is it so unbelievable that a kid wanting to serve his country was changed by the experience of doing so, having been placed to see what it means firsthand?

Finally, it is well understood that brain development continues into the mid 20s - so changes to thinking should be physiologically expected at least.
I really hate that attitude. I'm tired of seeing features and options constantly disappearing from the applications I use.
> These events don't disprove the hypothesis.

Then the hypothesis is useless and false. You can't claim markets are efficient and then exclude all evidence to the contrary.

> because the EMH is predicated on fair dealing

Yes, which makes EMH false in the real world. A hypothesis that's only true in an ideal world isn't useful nor is it meaningful in the real world.
There's been some limited research on the placebo effect of alcohol.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00652249

http://www.jsad.com/jsad/article/Offspring_of_Alcoholics_Hav...

http://www.jsad.com/jsad/article/Alcohol_and_Aggression_in_M...

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02245081#page-1
Where can I find details about this?
Imma just gonna leave this here: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/74
I'd assume it's literally because their management philosophy holds that half of all employees are not good enough to deserve being rewarded with a transfer. Or perhaps they're trying to protect managers running poorer-performing teams from getting hit with so many outgoing transfer requests.
At the end of the day however, it's still patching code you don't own. Doesn't the term strongly imply modifications outside the scope of the author's intentions? Even in ruby and python, monkey patching is rarely the documented means to modify a library's behavior.
Didn't see Rumi in the list.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about
language, ideas, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense.
also how do i get to your normal gifts or are the bitterness ones all that you're running now

edit nvm i saw your reply below. i think i ordered a product? is there a confirmation somewhere?

edit edit i got the email awesome! you guys should do some sort of order history list in the app
Check out 'byobu'. Stupid name, but it's built on screen and can use the screen commands. Byobu has F2 for new terminal tab, F3/4 to shuffle between them.
After I got separated I drove around in a 93 Civic with 200K+ miles on it. Only scheduled services. This thing started first time, every time, even in the winter. It ran smooth. It's KBB value was $800.
> How can you have technological or scientific advancement without someone to pay for it in advance? Who would pay for it without a reasonable expectation of getting more out than they had to put in?

Value is not the same as growth. We may pursue technological advancement because we think it will provide more value than whatever assets we have on hand. Continual reward is not the same as continually increasing reward. Continually increasing reward might be good, but at some point that goal may come at too great a cost.
So, you want to argue it is important people have the right to lie to blind people and dump them in the middle of nowhere?
In almost every database-backed application I've ever built someone, at some point, inevitable asks for the ability to see what changes were made when and by whom.

My current preferred strategy for dealing with this (at least for any table smaller than a few GBs) is to dump the entire table contents to a git repository on a schedule.

I've run this for a few toy projects and it seems to work really well. I'm ready to try it with something production-scale the next time the opportunity presents itself.
On the aerodynamic side, this aircraft has a mass of 1.8 kg / 4 lbs, which is an equivalent weight of 0.7 kg / 1.5 lbs on Mars. That is also the force required to maintain altitude. Imagine picking up four or five apples; that's what we're talking about as a minimum to stay in the air. For comparison, a DJI Phantom weighs 3 lbs, and a Mavic comes in at 2 lbs.

I can't find numbers on the power system or materials so I can't speak to the thermal side or how much flight time that affords.

EDIT: Apparently there's enough energy to fly for 90 seconds (!) per sol.
That, if true, is even more disturbing to me. Imagine the blackmail potential of a corporation with that much data.
> It is important to clarify what the law has been decided to be, once and for all.

> because again, a SCOTUS ruling is a proclamation to the people, once and for all, of what the law has been settled to be.

That is not how our common-law legal system works. Even setting decisions that the court has later explicitly overruled aside, when the court announces a new rule, that rule is not totally complete and set in stone. Later decisions frequently flesh out, revise, or reinterpret prior decisions.
Apparently a quick google is less reliable than direct experience :)

I'd be curious to see your impressions after your test drive.
> the corporate tax is pointless because in the long run, all corporate profits go to capital gains.

No, they do not. Rather than belabor the point, which you repeat over and over, just do a little more cursory research.

https://www.accounting-degree.org/accounting-tricks/
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2017/11/30/the-next-...
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/substantial-income...

If you have the assets, you can do it too. Trump takes advantage of it, for all the good it does him.
There's a reason to separate your accounts receivable from payables. To separate invoicing from receipts.

And so on and so on. You don't realize it until you suddenly realize why it was such a bad idea to have one point of failure for everything.
we know a lot about memory, but most AI researchers are simply ignorant in neuroscience or cognitive psychology and stick with their comfort zone.

Saying "we have no idea" is just being lazy.
I didn't get to go to Stanford.

So, when I got my rejection letter, I replied with "I reject this rejection" like in the Snopes story.

Then went to talk to the admissions folks, who thought that I had literally hopped on a plane and flew half the planet just to make good on a joke (I was already in the US for work actually).

Ended up working with a Stanford prof for a semester, after which I decided I was done with academia.
I love how far the world has come over the past few decades. It is amazing how quickly you can get content up and online, and available to people.

Great post, I really think it highlights the power of technology and the appeal that it offers.
Yeah, but it has the virtue of existing, unlike (sadly) Genera.

One of the reasons I like to use stumpwm (c.f. supra) is that I have an always-running Common Lisp process which I can connect to. I have some ideas about how to make it even cooler, but sadly I've not explored them yet.
This has bitten me more times than I'd care to admit.
I just put it there. Thanks for the comment. Obviously not my day today…
Of course, that's an edge case. That's not a critical mass app. You aren't going to go to the mall and hear a someone talking about swype for android.