jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>with a sense of purpose?

>"I really don't feel like it, but I am going to walk to the park/bridge/waterfront and back. I am going to get a beer/coffee/tea at this place I've heard about. I will walk to the store and pick up groceries. It doesn't have to be anything miraculous or life changing and I don't have to meet or talk to anybody--I just have to try, because it will be worse if I don't."

Where is the purpose there?
Thank you for your anecdotal account. Many petroleum farmers suffer from soil runoff. There is also desertification. Also, there is inefficient usage of water draining the acquirers. Note that California monoculture petrol farmers are largely responsible for using nearly 80% of California's water usage.

There's also habitat loss for insects & other organisms. There's also pollution of water from the excess nitrogen. There's also the poisoning of the people who eat chemical agriculture foods. Note the obesity epidemic & it's relation to the disruption of gut bacteria. Herbicides & Fungicides disrupt biological processes in humans.

You mention "scare tactics". The problem is temporarily mitigated by mining & importing the nutrients. This is inefficient on fossil fuels because we are trucking in nutrients that are available with natural systems.

Here's another account a farmer using natural systems to build soil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yPjoh9YJMk&feature=youtu.be

His yields increased & he is the most profitable farmer in his local area.
I read Google Ads as the business unit, not the "displaying ads". I don't really know how anyone would read "Google Ads" and "million lines+" and think wow, all that for banner ads?

Alas, I'm writing this and reading the above..
This is the third time you've submitted this in as many days. Deleting then resubmitting things on HN is bannable.
How do we get more people to evolve to this position?
Isn't google giving away money for documented security breaches?
My head hurts slightly from trying to parse your comment. I realize English probably isn't your first language, but I think you should try and rephrase it if you want to be understood.
I think most CMSes are a balance: how general are they so that they can be useful to many different use cases vs how complicated that makes them.

All these CMSes bring their own terminology too. WordPress keeps it simple: it's a page or a post. Leaves it up to you to interpret what that means.

Drupal takes that a few steps further with content blocks.

Joomla, when I last used it, was like having pages ripped from a book, shredded into tiny pieces, and jumbled into a pile.

So when judging end user design, I'd also mention the context and the use case: Do I simply want to produce content that is sorted in reverse chronological order? Do I want to be able to handle all types of content imaginable or just text? And what kind of meta data are you keeping track of in conjunction with the content? Meta data is the author, category(ies), various timestamps, etc.
AdWords. Use accelerated delivery and scheduling to deliver a bunch of traffic to your site within a one or two hour window. Pick good keywords so the people actually want to play a game. This method won't be super cheap, but it will do what you want. Whether your game will hook them is another question.
I wrote this in a comment to Drupal, how does it hold up to EE?

"As a rule, if the CMS puts you away from your page and to a list of "posts" to edit with TinyMCE, it's not modern. Atleast in my book."
What the average person should understand about high paying jobs is: it's bullshit. One guy gets paid half what another guy gets for doing the same job. You can analyze it any way you want, you can compare markets and the critical nature of the job crossed with the experience and yadda yadda. It's bullshit.

Many of us have worked with people making tons of money and they just don't seem to have a clue... That's because they're good at bullshitting. The pointy haired boss, the brainless engineer, or my favorite, the government employee who gets mid-6 figures for re-filing someone else's paperwork.

What the average person doesn't understand is they can easily get the high paying job if they can bullshit well enough. And we all suffer because people like this keep getting hired and we have to deal with their bullshit. Why some companies have great hiring practices and others are a joke, and they pay virtually the same, I have no idea. But if you can bullshit, there's a high-paying job waiting for you somewhere.
I'm sometimes amazed at just how antiquated California is.

I remember taking the DMV test there, and it was all pencil and paper stuff, and then it took something like a month to get the license.

In Oregon, it was all computer-screen driven, and licenses were issued in very short order.

The business name search is all on-line in Oregon, as is all filing, at least for LLC's. http://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_web_name_srch_inq.login
"His job was to sell advertisements for Facebook and he was not remotely doing that job."

"involved and had helped in some small financial ways in getting the site started at the very beginning at Harvard."

He probably put up ALL the money needed to start facebook, but later when you're rich you can post-rationalize that he "wasn't really necessary, it was a small amount". Money tends to warp memory a lot. Particularly where money, ego and ownership intersect.
Sometimes COVID gets compared to flu. Thing is, most people underestimate what flu is like (I suspect this is because of the tendency to say “XYZ got the flu” when they had a common cold).

This is what COVID is like — First roll two D4: If you rolled a 1 in the first, you now have a liver injury; If you rolled a 1 on the other, you lose your sense of smell.

Now roll a D20:

• 1-4: asymptotic but still infectious

• 5-16: somewhere up to “mild pneumonia”

• 17-19: severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia, etc)

• 20: critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock, or multiorgan dysfunction)

And that’s with treatment. All that “flattening the curve” talk early last year was about making sure people could still get treatment — if you exceed the capacity of the healthcare system, you don’t get to save all the people whose conditions would have been well within your capacity in a non-overloaded system.
Normally I would be against this kind of "arbitrarily corporate censorship" and think people should be able to have a voice as long as they aren't convicted for breaking any laws. But in this case it seems pretty warranted.
Indeed, I agree with all this.

The trick is finding a balance, as a friend once told me the sweet spot is "as little process as possible, as much process as necessary".
Thanks for the tip. I've had Anathem sitting on a shelf for months, but didn't get past first couple of pages. Need to get into it.
I was already thinking that :)
I'll create and post a torrent as soon as I'm done downloading the video. Which should be in about 25 min.
You may find this useful: http://math-blog.com/mathematics-books/ (DISCLAIMER: It's my site.)
Given his previous throwdown for Android, and because he doesn't come to a point about the challenges facing web developers, I interpret it as a swipe against the existence of fragmentation as a developer challenge on Android.

I sympathize with feeling like one has to prove a negative (rhetorically, it's a bit like being a Mac user in the 90s and always hearing "there's no software for it!"), but this is a thin argument either way. As Android's growth ramps up, it'll be lucky to have as small a set of differentiated targets as there are major browsers, or as deep a bench of strategies to cope with them.
Disclaimer: zerohedge is a bunch of hysterical Austrian economist nutcases.
I agree that it would be nice if it were easier to be a research scientist, and I certainly support more funding for basic science research, but mostly because I think it's important, not necessarily because scientists are especially exploited.

If you are really good, connected, or lucky, and are willing to make the requisite "sacrifices," then you can end up in a permanent research scientist role. I put "sacrifices" in quotes because these are many careers that people choose to go into (social work, community organizing, arguably teaching) that require much greater sacrifices and would be equally irrational if one were not passionate about the work. The correct response is probably that all these groups should be compensated better, and I (perhaps selfishly) agree, but right now. a research scientist is a much cushier, more prestigious, job than a social worker, and arguably marginally less important to society. (more disclosure: my wife is a social worker)

If, like most, you aren't able to get a permanent research job, or aren't willing to make the "sacrifices", you can go into industry, where (usually) you will make much more money but not get to work on things as interesting. If you hadn't gone into a PhD program, this is likely where you would have ended up in the first place. There is some opportunity cost of reduced total earnings (even if you get a higher salary with a PhD, it's likely you would have made up for that by not being a low-paid graduate student or postdoc for so long), but if you are passionate about science, then at least you will have spent 5-10 years doing it before getting a "real job."

I, like most of my peers, do want to end up being a researcher, but I harbor no illusion that this is the most likely eventual outcome. If I can't find a comfortable arrangement, I'll leave the field, do something else and be no worse off for it. I do realize that I am fortunate to be in a field (experimental high energy physics) where the impedance mismatch to industry is relatively good. Other fields may require different ratios of passion to "sacrifice" to be a good choice.
> Full disclosure: I work at Google,

Good for you buddy.
Encryption with a backdoor isn't really encryption anymore, it's just obfuscation.
A lot of the complexity of the RCC++ solution over others (I listed those I can find on the wiki https://github.com/RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus/RuntimeCompiledC...) is about compiling the minimum possible code quickly in a platform independent way. I'd love to see C++ get modules in the spec, along with introspection to make this easier.

Compiling C++ code at runtime is less about end-user code than about improving developer workflow for those who use C++ and want rapid iteration (game developers for example), so avoiding extra languages and VMs is one of the goals.

As for full dynamic dispatch, RCC++ does use virtual functions. I advocate using a 'data oriented approach' so the function table pointer lookup should be amortized by having expensive functions process multiple data items. In practice in my own code I see no detectable overhead.
Are you Christopher Johnson? This is an obvious throwaway account. I've sometimes stumbled over this weird feud, and it seems that Christoper Johnson is not a "real journalist", but someone who may need psychological help.
Ansible has a neat feature, called Ansible Vault, which lets you encrypt sensitive files. This in combination with dotenv-deployment works pretty well for our Rails Apps. The only thing I’m worried about is someone gaining unauthorised access to our serves and thus being able to read all the credentials stored inside the .env file especially the username & password to our externally hosted db. Probably the only way to prevent this would be “to properly secure your server” and the use of an IDS? Anyone has any experience with someone hacking their servers and successfully preventing e.g. a db dump? In this particular case, how easy would it be to stop attackers in their tracks?
Since Sergey stopped wearing it [1].

[1] http://beta.techradar.com/news/portable-devices/other-device...
We have hired from both a Boston-area camp program (3 people) and from a university internship program (1 full-time, a couple part-time).

Nobody got a 100K job offer, I think. All of them are productive junior people, who will probably go on to have good careers in the field.

But simply completing the program isn't a guarantee of suitability or even competence -- it's just an indicator that they are willing to spend significant effort learning.
Mixed : Investment into Nook.

I'm still convinced that eReaders are a good future for distributing books. It isn't Microsoft's fault that the Nook is failing (Barnes and Noble need to pick up the slack), but I think its a good idea that Microsoft branches out into that distribution platform.

Its a Hail Mary pass to attempt to get into the eBooks market, but probably the best attempt that Microsoft could reasonably make. Actually, even if Nook ends up losing money for Microsoft, I'd argue it was a good move.
You chopped the context out of the quote. I thought the original was sufficiently explanatory.
The third half is being able to explain / budget / justify / sell your approach. That might be subsumed in your second half, not sure.
I was a freelance web developer for a few years (utilizing skills I picked up growing up) when one of my clients hired me to come on-board full-time for my first salaried position. My supervisor wanted me to build a team, so he had me right a job req. I sent it to him, and he sent it back with the addition: "Bachelor's degree in CS".

I pointed out that, not only is my degree not-in CS, but I would probably be dissuaded from applying to a job that required one. He said "don't worry - it doesn't mean anything, they just all say that."
Usually you have just one hour, there is literally no time for warm ups.
I don't think this was racism so much as the company trying to suggest it had US connections.
I have a problem believing this is about Israel since:

a) Defense companies in Israel _do not_ offer "very good salary." In fact, it is a generally accepted fact that they universally offer lower salaries than civilian companies. This is offset somewhat by the benefits that stem from being a large and influential enterprise as well as the inherent governmental bureaucracy.

b) Engineers at Israeli defense firms don't tend to be particularly militaristic or in any way "these kind of people," and I know quite a few...
Clearly the OP is referring to New Zealand, renowned globally for our military might and political strong arming.
Hah. I have this poster in my home office:

http://www.despair.com/motivation.html

It reads "if a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon."
(j/k)
> Manning is an idiot

I have to agree with that. I always expected military intelligence to be more careful with who has access to what. I am disappointed a guy like Manning was given access to as much as he claims (specially the diplomatic cables).

That said, I am happy the info was leaked. I only hope there are more leakers. I don't care whether they are patriots or idiots. I prefer the patriot ones, but we can't afford to be very picky.
The author should just publish it through Fifobooks.com instead (disclaimer: I am a co-founder of that site).

We can get it on the iPad, and he'll get a better deal, both economically and in terms of IP ownership.
True but there’s a lot of work that goes into making your Objective-C RLMObjects work seamlessly with the storage underneath (i.e. without copying), so at least that part wouldn’t work without an additional implementation in Realm.

Someone is already looking into it on the ML though[0] so we’ll see how far we can get it going.

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/realm-users/Dn0wg0Uk...
Money is the only influence I have ever found effective. If they and their supervisor know you have the full support of whomever renews the contract, then they will be more responsive. You may have to do some digging to find their upper management and get their attention, because the person responding to you may not really care. This is assuming an enterprise scale agreement.

If you are asking about individual support from a business as you being the sole consumer, then try to find competitors. If they don't care that you are looking at competitors, then vote with your wallet and make their competitors happy.
I know Hulu still shows you ads even if you pay to remove them, but that may be an outlier.

That said i personally still have cable (YouTube tv) in order to watch sports and cable news.
mine would if I made that kind of money.
SkySight | https://skysight.io | REMOTE | Part-time/Contract | React developer

Small company based in Aus, myself and a few contractors, looking for React JS/Native skills for a frontend rewrite project. Should have an eye for good design/UX.

WebGL/GIS/charting/infovis/aviation/weather skills a bonus.

email to: matthew (at) skysight.io
I'm not an epidemiologist, but partial contact tracing is probably better than none

especially if the goal is to slow not stop
I was being charitable and assuming you didn't actually realize that "poverty threshold" was really code for "2x poverty threshold". It turns out you knew this but were attempting to mislead people.

My mistake.
I think both situations happen with a much higher frequency than competing platforms.
What are your goals before the end of the world (?)

If I thought the world were actually ending, I would have completely different goals than I actually have (and they would sound rather Bacchanalian).
Most political arguments involve hypotheticals - arguments against progressive taxation are nothing special. See, for example, Krugman's continual use of the baby sitting coop example.

The real data is usually not as convincing as toy examples, analogies, or assertions that your political opponents are pure evil.
And HN discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2032776
Am I the only one seeing this?

"Well, we have a list of integers [Math Processing Error]. And [Math Processing Error] for monoid [Math Processing Error]. So [Math Processing Error] since [Math Processing Error] is a monoid, yes? Of course."
Seriously? I'm totally indifferent to Obama. This isn't even about censoring material. This is about a whole group of people who think they can make accusations, then consider their accusations confirmed if the accused does not make every effort to disprove. THIS IS BAD LOGIC. As hackers and programmers, we should be able to see the logical steps that take place in this thinking and realize it is flawed.

If you want to attack or discredit Obama, thats fine. Just do it in a way that doesn't sound like a bunch of third graders arguing over someone having coodies. This inability to think critically is destroying America. We've become a nation of people that emulate the talking heads on t.v. that do nothing more than argue over each other until one gives up.
See richcollins comment above.
Like it, but price for enterprise is way too high.
Are you going to eat meat? Just try to capture a wild animal with your bare hands and eat it raw, you will look ridiculous. This isn't a practical option without technology.

There is evidence that humans started eating meat about 2-2.5 million years ago. There is a theory that the addition of nutrient and calorie dense animal foods provided the opportunity to develop large brains which require significant energy to run.

http://www.paulcooijmans.com/evolution/eating_meat.html

There is also a theory that cooking was highly significant for human development, because otherwise about 5 kg of raw food would be required daily to survive, which pretty much does not leave any free time for anything but gathering and chewing. Fire was discovered at least 300,000 years ago.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8543906.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_Fire:_How_Cooking_Made...
I think it would be newsworthy if Linus was invited to speak at the CIA, or Andy Rubin, so: yes.

I find it pretty hard to believe that linus would either a) send a warning to a mailing list that he'd be speaking at Langley in a few months or b) that anyone would link to such a low content post on HN.

What sort of pattern would qualify as not organic to you?

First five to ten votes of each story mostly coming from different people/ips. Or whatever standard HN usually uses to break voting blocks or set a spammy url to auto-dead.
I can use search with an ebook which makes me prefer ebooks for reference books. I can also copy and paste from it if it's on my computer.
The screenshot tool in macOS can take full screen, region or window screenshots. It can also capture video.

This is all I need from the screenshot tool itself and I am glad that they don’t add a bunch of additional options and stuff inside of screenshot taking itself.

If you want to annotate the screenshot open it in Preview and edit it there.

If you need really powerful editing tools, a third-party tool is appropriate.

It’s better that way to me. Have a system that works nicely for everyone, and leave it to third-party developers to build niche tools.

Imagine how much useless to me stuff there would be on my screen, if the operating system had to ship with tools that did absolutely everything for absolutely everyone.
There's already PyPy. It's faster for, I estimate, 90% of workloads that don't use NumPy or Tensorflow, which offload work to faster implementations in different ways. It can certainly be 5 times faster.

It doesn't have that much adoption, which suggests that performance isn't critical to Python's user base. If PyPy got significant market share, perhaps the CPython developers would prioritise an approach like this. (Or perhaps they'd have even more justification to say look, there's already a performance-focused implementation, we'll do our thing).
This is a song in Ladino. Ask any person fluent in Spanish if they can understand it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t2NYMTs_20

To me, a fluent Spanish speaker, it sounds like a Spanish person with a foreign accent.

The pronunciation and grammar sounds a little bit off (with respect to Spanish), but otherwise I can understand this 100%.
That’s interesting. You should write a post or something with all the links, because if you’re right that’s going to be spicy.
0-based indexing is an artefact of pointer math. Modern languages don't treat arrays as a pointers to their first element. So, it is still with us only because almost no language designer decided to challenge existing convention.
Most of the answers I would give to your questions are in this post: https://ivypanda.com/essays/performance-management-essay/
Nuance and shading is not entirely unselfish. Too much nuance indicates a lack of trust in your reader.
For people interested in regulation in EU/CEPT area, unlicensed bands (ISM and SRD) are captured in ERC 70-03, where you can see the bands and associated limitations (in terms of EIRP, Duty-Cyle, and other things)
https://docdb.cept.org/download/25c41779-cd6e/Rec7003e.pdf

Annex 1 is about generic SRD. The other annexes are about other bands and/or more favourable conditions for specific applications. This may seem complex and over-regulated, but there is a good reason for that :

- CEPT cares that all applications get a fair chance to access the spectrum (not just "the technology which emits the strongest signal") : for example, all Wi-SUN equipments (APs, relays and end nodes) can emit up to 500 mW (with power-control) while Lora end nodes have a 25 mW transmit power. Technical studies and simulations have shown that Lora (and siblings) would not survive if wi-sun was going to be widely deployed, and this is one reason why some parts of the bands for networked SRD have a 25 mW limitation while other parts are less constrained.

- those "additional opportunities" in other annexes are made based on dedicated technical studies (to check the impact on adjacent bands/services) that do a lot of assumptions with regards to potential/future densities of devices (because what matters if often the aggregated interference, not just the one from a single device)
Because nobody needs retraining or relearning when moving from one version of MS Office to the next.