jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You can't force people to be motivated. You can only show them the way. Build out your own projects. Pick one friend, show them what you've been working on, ask them if they want to join you, if they say yes, then tell them exactly what you need and by when. If they don't put anything together by the due date, then you do it yourself and move on.
> * Using mirrors next to elevators so people distract themselves and feel less bothered by the wait.

Pretty much exactly like a pet bird.
I was interested in why she was there, given that most of her self-referential imagery has her depicted as an innocent toddler, and most other inmates have unflattering depictions. Was she in for something that would generally be seen as 'not a crime' by the wider public? That was my curiosity.

And it's not exactly a 'random person' - the author is specifically announcing an article on her personal experiences. She's trying to draw attention and in this context is a public figure. It's not like this question came out of the blue for someone trying to keep their time inside on the quiet.
> None of the cancellations have been of core services, which Drive definitely is.

What prevents them from redefining a core service to a non-core service on the go?
Does anyone here work remotely on a satellite connection? How has your experience been? I live in an extremely isolated town of 200 people in the North Cascades (Washington state as well) and currently use CenturyLink DSL. Because the line to my little community is saturated, they can only offer us 1.5 down. It's slow, but I make it work and thankfully the bandwidth is very consistent and my work isn't super bandwidth intensive. I have often wondered if it would make sense to put satellite into the mix as well. We already have Dish for TV.
http://tailoredwp.com/ Recurring revenue is from hosting services plus some affiliate commissions. It started as a side project, and I think this year will become my main source of income.
Yes. Absolutely.

They should have made their new version a new extension. I think they were trying to take advantage of the previous user install base without realizing this is really a power-user addon.

I'm impressed that they are willing to help while they try and get a handle.

Ideally they would do what you said and issue a "roll-back" to v2.0 with a link to the enhanced add on.

I applaud them for their openness and responsiveness, not their marketing tactics. We'll see where it goes from here.
Just to put the current oil spill in context, Bhopal represented:

- The world's worst ever industrial catastrophe
- Was committed by a subsidiary of a U.S. company
- Killed 3,787
- Families receiving compensation of around $2000 for each death
1. Good inflation hedge (and not gold)
2. Physical ownership
3. Easy to buy & sell

Pick two.
And extremely active moderators who are themselves respected, accessible community members, and who will actually help new users understand why their posts or comments were deleted and how to act within the social norms.
I myself went from C to C++ to Perl to Java to PHP and Lisp and Python and Ruby and Haskell and tons of other stuff.

But see my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1439535
If you're only using DT for mounting, give Virtual Clone Drive a shot. That with ImgBurn seems to take care of everything I need.

Last I checked, Virtual Clone Drive didn't have any sneaky opt-in/ out ad-ware in the installer.
As you have quoted, its the Independent who claims there are agreements in place, not the Guardian or Greenwald.

So, it's the Independent who need to clarify their claim, the Guardian employee has flat out denied it. How clear does it need to be from the Guardian if a total denial is not enough?

Edit: seen you edit now. Fair play to you. I've done the exact same thing in the past!!!!
It was the massively popular government policies of aggressively encouraging lending to people flatly incapable of replaying the loans. This was the problem. Of course they're doing it again. Promising people they can have a house that they actually can't afford is a huge vote winner. Rigging the market to make sure property prices go up, making home owners feel wealthier is a huge vote winner. Blaming nasty bankers for making it all go wrong also neatly avoids having to take any of the blame.

Take the Greek and Spanish economic problems. Spain was in massive property bubble mode for the entire 2000s. The Greek government was willfully deceiving both it's people and the EU about it's finances. We're expected to believe that these issues would all have worked out fine, and these economies would have naturally stabilized all by themselves if it weren't for the wicked machinations of the US treasury? Really?

Of course Lehmans and the other banks badly underestimated their exposure, but the regulators that are cracking down on the banking industry now and ticking them off for being so greedy, were themselves willfully ignoring all the signs of danger before the crash because it was politically expedient to do so. It was politically expedient because that's what the voting public wanted to believe. Nobody came out of the crash smelling of roses.
Nope. As crazy as it sounds, I have a 32,000 lb Neoplan AN345, which I have re-titled as an RV. It requires no special license.
Just an eggcorn, everybody has them:)
Chinese and AGA scoring rules are essentially the same as Tromp-Taylor, just not expressed quite as concisely.

AGA rules actually have a neat hack which makes it so using either area or territory scoring gives you the same result (by making you give an opponent a stone as a capture every time you pass).

The reason Japanese counting is so complex is that there are situations where it would hurt you to play it out in order to determine life or death, as you would need to fill in your own territory, so they've developed a whole bunch of special cases to determine life or death for disputed groups without playing it out. Area scoring eliminates this problem, as does the AGA rule of giving your opponent an extra capture every time you pass.

Really, if people are having trouble with scoring, just teach them area scoring and tell them to play it out until they can score the game unambiguously.
I think the hardest thing for people to get for programming in Lisp is the immutability. Once you get over that hump, everything is downhill. From the outside, the parenthesis seem pedantic but it's completely superficial. You will stop noticing them in a few hours, if not days.
I'm not suggesting anything but that you can't build it from first principles. Collecting data and building a theory is not working from first principles, it's just a more structured way of hacking it until it works. You're still liable to have the next website you crawl break your parser.
Do you know the difference between tha latter two?
Please don't do this sort of tit-for-tat flamewar on HN. I know it's extremely difficult not to get sucked in (believe me, I know), but when the comments get to this stage, the path of curious conversation was abandoned a long time ago. We're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
More accurate headline: The Register publishes ad for Google Cloud services
If regulation and safeguards were the main problem you might see China or Russia crack ahead. The main problem seems more to be economics.
ISO finances their operations by selling documentation, subscription from members, etc. The point of ISO standards is to facilitate international trade. The intended audience for these standards are large multinational companies.
MIT licensing is also how entities like Amazon get away with pillaging OSS.

I think you have a real product here and would caution you against releasing the source code.

If you do want to open source it, I highly recommend GPLv2 or 3.
How do you expect to hail a taxi when you don't have internet access in the first place?

Does the app use SMS when the internet connection is lost?
A lot of California companies are relatively early-shifted in their workdays, so for night-owl devs it lines up nicely. Probably less so for people who spend their evenings with family or friends. The east coast of North America is in between in this regard.
Affinity Photo has some traction. They have several good products, and momentum started when Adobe went subscription and they stayed perm license (with a reasonable cost).
Capitalism. Animators are willing to work for what animation companies are willing to pay them, which isn't much. Do they have unions?
Instant?
which includes the power to apprehend people who try to run away from them

Do we know that for sure? In the US at least, generally workers in those positions specifically do not have the power to apprehend people - if there is a problem, you call the police or the designated security personnel. It's really easy for a person without the proper martial training to unnecessarily hurt someone, or get hurt themselves.
The original OCaml compiler didn't have essentially any of the static analysis that Rust would eventually be known for. Rust in 2011 (when rustc bootstrapped) was dramatically different from what would later stabilize in 2015.
This is a great garden-path sentence. I had to read it like, 3 times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
> Is the name “Groovy” trademarked? If so, who owns it? How about the domain name? How is the decision making done? Who becomes committers?

Groovy 1.0 had a copyright message saying Groovy was a registered trademark of Codehaus. However, I couldn't find it in the online U.S. trademark query service at the time, and in Groovy 1.5 the notice had been removed. When Groovy's creator James Strachan left the project, he still refered to Groovy at Codehaus as the "current reference implementation" in his last ever mailing list posting.

Codehaus currently lists 5 people as "despots" [1] viz Jochen Theodorou, Guillaume Laforge, Paul King, Ben Walding, and Cedric Champeau. One of them, Laforge, has always claimed to be the "Project Manager" but recently started pitching himself as the "creator". Another, Theodorou, claims to be the "Tech Lead", although Laforge stopped using that title for Theodorou after Champeau was employed by SpringSource/Pivotal 3 yrs ago. Another despot, Walding, is the Codehaus administrator who has nothing to do with Groovy, and Groovy is the only project that has him listed as a despot.

Groovy isn't only losing its Pivotal funding but also its Codehaus repository soon: "Codehaus hasn't made an announcement yet, but contacted some of us privately so far. But they mentioned a mid-February deadline, after which all projects will have to have been migrated elsewhere. Everything hosted at Codehaus will disappear. JIRA, website, mailing-lists, Git/SVN, Bamboo..." [2] Some of the developers are promoting a new internet address [3] but I don't know who controls it.

I'd agree that the ownership problems related to the brand, codebase, support, channels, and what not, makes the whole mess is a legal nightmare. Pivotal obviously decided simply terminating funding was more profitable than trying to split off a separate business and sell it all to someone else.

[1] https://xircles.codehaus.org/projects/groovy/members
[2] http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/GPars-Web-site-revolution...
[3] http://www.groovy-lang.org/
If any of you want to try out stable diffusion on the web https://pinegraph.com/create
sysadmins who have to run services.

the same way you separate you model from your view from your controller, you can separate your various services from one another.
It's just because NYT is positioning the chart stupidly (but probably most-reliably, knowing browsers...).

It's absolute-positioned, and they're updating its 'top' when you scroll. WebKit has a fast enough JS engine that this sort of thing is seamless, but not every browser does / not on every computer.

edit: tried Firefox (4 beta), it's a handful of pixels off the top, and bobs. You'd think people would know about position: fixed by now.
I'm sure it varies by system and the specific hardware, but I don't think it was too bad when I did it and I'm hardly a Linux expert (I've been using Arch for a few months). There will probably be a couple hurdles as you'd expect from a fairly custom Linux install, but the extensive wiki and large community make it relatively quick and painless to figure out what's going on and how to fix it.

That said, if you're looking for something as quick and easy as possible you might want to look around a bit more to see if there are any prepackaged systems that do exactly what you want with less setup. No sense making this more complicated than it needs to be if something else comes up that closely fits your needs and could potentially save a couple hours of troubleshooting.
Yeah, he has his moments ;-p It'd be ideal if suddenly it earned enough to buy a couple of tickets from Canada to Warsaw so that this guy and his +1 can collect a pint in person :)
> calculate its Total Cost of Downtime (which probably isn't very complex for many companies)

Not complex even factoring in reputational damage?
box-shadow is seriously slow

We had a site with the main content area shadowing over the nav bar. When the browser window was large on my big monitor scrolling was very sluggish. SpeedTracer (in Chrome) was reporting 90 to 110ms times per render, dozens per flick of the mouse wheel! Replacing the box-shadow with an image resulted in 6 to 10ms per render: silky smooth.
Very interesting post. I'd advise you to go read Keith Rarick's introduction to doozer http://xph.us/2011/04/13/introducing-doozer.html. I think this could gain traction as a credible HA data store. As stated paxos is part of the core of doozer, its something that's also used by google's lock service chubby which is used in systems like GFS, bigtable and map reduce.
I've messed around with VP8 a bit, and I'm very impressed with its quality/compression ratio. However, when I last used it (August), it had significantly slower transcoding times than any other popular codec. Hopefully they've fixed it by now, because in all other aspects, VP8 is the best codec I've used.
Hmm, "bitched at you" has the ring of feeling persecuted because you didn't jump up all dreamy eyed at the latest buzz word trend. Occupational hazard I suspect.

If someone says to you "We need to improve the efficiency of our IT by adopting a cloud based strategy." Rather than ask them the 'meta' question of what sort of reliability guarantees they have, have an actual and honest talk about what IT costs and why. And perhaps they will relax their uptime requirement which will let you reduce your costs, or they will come to understand what the costs are for the level of uptime you're providing. Annual reviews of those questions (how much downtime can we tolerate, how much are we paying to achieve our current availability?) should be de rigueur.

"The cloud is not for all businesses."

Of course it isn't. However it can (and does) run some businesses more efficiently. And while Quora might be down for a day while folks at Amazon scramble to fix what ever it is they did that brought it down, their "business" won't change all that much. There will be no mass exodus of users because they could get their questions answered for one day. Now if you take someone's email away for a day, that is real money, or if you take away their ability to connect to the Internet period.

For something like icanhazcheeseburger even two 9s is probably good enough. That would be offline for 3.6 days of the year.
It's a rocket docket. So cases move through very quickly. And many of the rulings have been very patent-friendly. There aren't very many judges in that district, either, as I recall.

Now, you will find stats saying that patent holders don't win disproportionately often there. What those leave out is how many EDT cases settle beforehand. Basically, only the strongest cases even go to trial there and they still lose about half the time.

I can't remember if there's a rule requiring local counsel or not, but I know that several firms have set up shop in or near Marshall, Texas.
Or just make jQuery as builtin.
Languages don't "die", they are smothered by a society hostile to the community that speaks them. That may be outright genocide (as in the article), or it may be something as simple as forcing children to go to attend school in a language foreign to them, that offers zero recognition of their mother tongue. The kids may have to learn the content in a foreign language, and they are denied even so much as a hour-a-week class on the literature of their native language.

A system that is intent on eradicating the cultural heritage of a people is not trying simply to do only what is beneficial for the kids. =/
> no documentation is needed

I would not want to code against your API.
I actually stole that line from something Dom said in our email conversation...

(Also, this is offtopic but I'm on a quest to get people to realize that Brandon's comment has been unfairly characterized:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28293146

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275)
I apologize for hijacking the thread, that was very, very off-topic of me.

After I take a phone call I'm expecting, I'm going to head home, catch some ZZZs, as well as call my shrink. I'm not sure if I'll call her before I sleep, or tomorrow.
Good. I didn't see. Thank you.
It's the TSA agents standing by the machines all day that are first in the fireing line.

I wonder how long the cancers will take to start showing up.
There has been coverage of this elsewhere. I didn't have time earlier to find it so I just pasted in the link other had posted which explains the distinction.

Assange did not force anyone to have sex or physically violate anyone. Swedish law calls it "rape" when a woman has regrets about sex later on.
I just installed RoR on a clean Ubuntu install and it wasn't easy at all.

First, I had to install rvm (Rails wouldn't install with Ubuntu's Ruby packages) which took some time to figure out. Then I tried installing Rails and got some problem related to sqlite3. I then figured out that I had to install the sqlite3-ruby gem. Of course it didn't work. I found out I had to install the libsqlite3-dev package.

The whole process took a good 30-60min.
In Sweden, the definition of "rape" is when a woman has any regrets about having had sex. In this case, the women found out Assange had slept with both of them, decided to file the complaint.

They have both stated that the sex was consensual.
Even on non-politically-charged topics, that is pretty much the standard operating practice, at least in the more science-oriented parts of medicine. If you want to know, "is this practice safe?", you run a study to find out, rather than speculating from first principles (though you can use speculation from first principles to come up with reasonable hypotheses and narrow down how to best design a study).
The Senate Judiciary committee passed the bill. It still needs to approved by the full senate: http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2010/11/18/senate-judiciary-app...
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Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes,

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Great!! How do you get around the copyright issue and how did you monetize?
You’re nitpicking words to mean what you want them to mean. I outright used the word taught in my context. If you disagree with the use of this word you should take it up with Vaccine companies since that’s how they market mRNA and literally how CDC defines how mRNA works.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different...

your idea that a cell is not made to do something is clear double speak when using the CDC definition.
Obama administration did some ridiculous environmental regulations this way which Trump rolled back and looked bad.
You can't exclude the one defining reason haha. That's all there is, other people use it.
Almost 20 years ago when they were struggling for survival they even sponsored a Linux distribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Dog_Linux

> Terra Soft Solutions held the unique distinction of being the only company licensed by Apple to resell Apple computers with Linux pre-installed

A fact that I bet many HNer aren't even aware of.
I may be misunderstanding this legalese vocabulary but doesn't "unable" mean "technically incapable"? As in, there's no technical way of matching users?

Because if so, man, whoever wrote this must have laughed a lot when they wrote it. You may not be able to match 100% of users of course, but with the amount of personal data FB has access to it should be able to match a good chunk of the userbase with a high degree of confidence if it wanted to.
That's my hunch too. Prolog is a different world and you still want to keep one foot in more mainstream languages. The idea should be use Prolog where it gives real advantages and use mainstream languages where it doesn't. So how do you divide your application into those two "islands"? Answer: Use persistent Datalog for database/persistence but do the rest in you bread-and-butter language.

Basically saying replace SQL with Datalog.

That is just what I think I'd like to do. I don't know what would be the most practical platforms to do that, which mainstream language + which Datalog database. Any recommendations?
This looks really good. Kudos!
You should check out the Digital Asset Modeling Language, DAML. [0]

They've built a language for distributed ledger platforms based on Haskell with defined state transitions based loosely on traditional contract law. For exactly the reasons you've mentioned, this makes modeling the participants, rights, and obligations of a smart contract use case incredibly efficient.

Whether smart contracts are useful or not remains to be seen. There seems to be a lot of potential in the finance and supply chain worlds.

When thinking about DAML it makes me wonder how impactful something like Cobol was in reality. Definitely found use and even long term value add, but transformational? I don't know.

I'm not even sure what the technology comparison should be for DLT without DAML. There's only so many use cases or niche areas where it's valuable.
"Unable" is an interesting word. Does that mean they would never allow the possibility by policy, or that they could not at that time do it, but they have the option to enable it technically in the future?
opera mini does a bunch of magic to strip websites down a lot.
Not possible currently. I'd like to find a source of "how common is this word" and add some kind of quantifiable number to each word. Perhaps I can scan existing open source text and just figure it out. On the backlog.
> "I didn’t say that I’m personally a smarty-pants Haskell hacker."

You didn't? You said serious Haskell programmers are smart and then pointed out that you worked on the largest Haskell codebase on the planet; we were supposed to not conclude that you are smart, but rather that people working on said codebase are non-serious Haskell programmers?

"Nobody likes to talk about it, but we Haskell programmers are smarter than everyone else, especially bickering Javascript plebs" is kinda surprising it hasn't been flagged as flamebait.
I used to train (barbells) early in the morning on an empty stomach. I tried it during the day at about midday, I felt stronger and had more energy (probably because of carbs). I also at about 4pm, similar results but couldn't sustain it cause i would finish work later and end up not training.
Yeah, my housecleaner, dogwalker, and certain other people have keys.

I run the risk of them deciding to one day loot everything I own, and yet, I realize that the convenience of the services they provide is worth that minimal risk.

Same case with my cell phone.