jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wonder what the mood was like when homo sapiens was transitioning - unbeknownst to many - from a hunter gathering nomadic lifestyle to a sedentary agricultural one.

I know the scales are different but sapiens is in another transition, again unbeknownst to many.
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This could have been written by me. I loved Delphi and learned how to write software using Delphi 5. We got a cheap copy from school so I didn't have to pirate it. I still have that printout of the class hierarchy of the standard library and the CD ROM.

I loved Delphi and I'll be forever grateful for the lessons I've learned.
I can't help thinking that in that case this really is your fault. Remember, we're talking about SF tech salaries being given to employees who aren't in SF here; many people get by comfortably on far less.

(Obviously there are orders of magnitude more people who get paid much less than the sums we're talking about, and don't have enough to get by comfortably. But the question is specifically about people who have been golden-chained to a job in the top 5%-ish of income.)
Boreal forests have a complex interaction with the climate system. The masking impact of trees on the snow underneath means the albedo or reflectivity of a boreal forest during winter is quite low -> absorption of heat in contrast to a tundra where the snow is fully exposed -> reflection of heat. Bonan 2008 [0] is an excellent discussion of the land surface heat balance globally. A google search for the title should give you a few links to a readable PDF.

[0] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/320/5882/1444.full
The four states pillars of the Constitution of my home country, Bangladesh, are “nationalism, socialism, democracy, and secularism.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujibism

It seems quite bizarre to me to not have a level of nationalism. Obviously the purpose of American government is ensuring the prosperity of Americans. What else could it be? And how else can you get 330 million people—who don’t share an ethnicity, history, first language, etc.—to consent to common governance without encouraging a healthy level of nationalism?

Fascism is nationalism taken to the level of justifying war on others because of self-declared superiority. That’s beyond ordinary nationalism.
While it can be a good idea to supplement with material like the links you provided, at the end of the day you have to understand and internalize the canonical approach to music 'theory'. Why? Because the main point of it all is that you can communicate with other musicians and it doesn't do you any good if you create your own secret language that no one else understands.
None of the first three apply here. They are all clearly marked as intransitive ("The train disappeared into the night") rather than transitive ("Tumblr disappeared her").
Yes, that's what I recall happening in the valley from 2001-2004. Other startups just swarmed over the hundreds of thousands of developers out of work.
If their legal department determined this is "valid" (assuming that means she is infringing on the mark, which is the only case in which I could possibly see not contacting her), their legal department must be staffed by baboons.
Not when I search for 'Zephoria'.

.org (her site) has the first 6 spots; .com (them) has the next 4; and then it's her twitter and flickr accounts.
> but not something i'd pay $20 a month for considering I would probably just do it myself.

Keep in mind that if you're reading HN you're quite likely not to be in the target market for the site.

Coders are probably notorious for doing everything themselves to not spend money & get the chance to write something themselves.

There's a whole bunch of people who use Twitter for marketing and promotion who wouldn't think twice about $20 a month given the time saving and flexibility it provides--especially considering their alternative isn't a 5 line shell script but a minimum wage underling (or intern).
"Change your blogs name. Not that big of a deal."
I did that; it was called miniredis: https://github.com/bpollack/miniredis

Your performance will be absolutely horrible compared to Redis. I can't see doing this for anything production-worthy. (Miniredis was made for a very specific use-case where the performance hit was fine--and even there, we've replaced it with the real Redis for the next version.)
You are right, especially if you aren't pushing much data. Your restore times be rather long though. I hope to implement a prefetching strategy to make this much, much faster, so one could do that if they absolutely wished.
“Failed to open %s: %s”, fn, strerror(errno))

Adapt to your own language. Don’t make your users hate you by having to resort to strace.

And I love me some strace. I just enjoy NOT needing it even more.
I personally don't think the problem is "lack of representation", it is that the representatives are far more beholden to their party than to the members of the district.

This isn't solved by having more representatives. It could best be solved by having a voting method that actually elects the "consensus candidate", which I would define as the first choice of the median voter.

As it is, Duverger's law forces it into a binary choice. (Parties arise mostly as a defense against the vote splitting that happens in plurality, and it inevitably converges on two dominant parties)
Yes, there's a correlated actuarial risk.

But there's also an equitibilty element to that risk: it falls inordinantly on those who must drive, must drive long distances, and have no viable alternatives -- carpooling, transit, or remote work. Most impacted are delivery drivers (obviously), particularly those who use their own vehicles (e.g., pizza and other low-end delivery work), real estate agents, construction workers, service workers, rural residents generally, and those with nonstandard commute patterns, either off-peak, alternate-shift, multiple jobs, or highly-variable hours.

To the extent that these are workers often under-compensated for their work, and offering services benefiting society at large, the impacts are all the more inequitable. The risks are independent of actual driver safety practices and attentiveness.

Insurance is an inherently social function, one that's heavily regulated, and has specific exemptions to anti-trust regulations, in return for the benefits it provides. All business ultimately serves the public interest (or should -- an unpopular view but one expressed explicitly by Adam Smith), and should society determine that a specific public interest be served, then it has the legal authority to mandate and regulate those goals.
That’s the important point here. RNA analysis by chips or sequencing is nothing new. But there’s always a long way from the lab to the clinic, and its capital intensive to fund a startup in this field.
The article is useful and worth reading for its analysis, but the title makes me curious: are there people that don't think gross margins matter?
This wouldn't work, or rather, it would work quite differently than the idea. This would just create a new level of middle managers in the house tasked with herding the foot soldiers. There are only so many hours that they can be in session or in committees, an ordinary representative will be lucky to get the microphone for a minute here and there. And there is no way the party's leadership can give them all individual time and attention. So there will naturally arise a management level or two between the leadership and the ordinary representatives to bridge this gap.
The downclock would only be on the core using the instruction.
I think the European Union is a lot closer to what the founders imagined than the current situation in the USA.
Fascinating but I didn’t get a sense there is a winner here (or is that the point)?
I mean, I think you'd still need someone with commit rights to actually push the change (presumably our elected officials), and you would need to have some way of tracking merges well, but that's all seemingly pretty solvable.
So a forager makes a fruitless (har!) trip to the apple tree, explores elsewhere, and finds food. That slightly deconditions the "revisit" behavior, and slightly conditions the "explore" behavior. Such a planner doesn't seem too difficult for evolution to generate.
> Also you can just take 5mg of melatonin at 21:30 and half an hour later turn off the lights and go to bed.

I read an article in -- I think -- NYTimes, maybe a year ago, about melatonin. It revolved around a study which found that the typical 5mg dose of melatonin causes the body to build a resistance very quickly. They found that 300 micrograms had the same effect on sleepiness, but didn't cause the body to adapt.

I've been taking 300mcg doses (Nature Valley, I think) most nights for the last few months and my sleep has been more sound and my dreams much more entertaining and memorable.

Edit: updated 3mcg to 300mcg because I was an idiot.
Same here.

Wow, I just found that this is a disease. I always thought that it was my life style choice at school and now at the startup. I guess not.

Trying out f.lux now
Why is that? Virtually everyone in the entire industry is contributing to OWASP. Aspect doesn't own it. I'm pretty sure the reason Matasano is on the list is that Matasano's Stephen Ridley works with Dan on the class. Maybe Aspect just doesn't contribute to his class.

Since you go to NWU, you're in Chicago. You should come to Chicago OWASP. Matasano's Mike Tracy coordinates it.

(Backstory for the rest of you: Aspect "sponsors" OWASP in some manner --- I'm not clear on how --- and drama like this is why CitySec has a no sponsors rule.)
The mob wasn't replaced by FSB, it was the FSB from the start, after Soviet Union collapsed.

ex-KGB agents were in the most favorable position to participate in the power and asset grab after the collapse. They knew how things were run, they had the connections, they also were most educated and most trained. They sort of represented an elite class of individuals selected, educated and trained better than the rest.

When things fell apart a lot of them scattered looking to grab whatever as available. Political and patriotic allegiance to the party has become a running joke since after the 60s. Most of them had absolutely no problem switching practically overnight from staunch supporters of communism to brutal capitalists.
Take-a-away... VCs funding is not a good idea. They just want to grow their investments and not grow the business. To build a great company, you need to have some form of identity... To think Zappos is a Billion $$$ company that sell shoes, etc. Crazy..
Oh, must be a recent change. I don't like that they removed the text on the arrow keys as well. They used to say page up/down and home/end since fn-left is home, fn-right end, fn-up page up and fn-down page down. That's not obvious to switchers from any other OS.

I get that they want to be all zen and remove unnecessary stuff but some of this stuff is necessary. Not good for users.
This is extremely impressive! great work.
What if they could explain what a b-tree is, and why they are useful, but that they'd have trouble implementing one on the spot. If they told you the name of a good book they know that has an explanation of b-trees. That they read the chapter a while ago, which is why they can generally explain what a b-tree is, and that that's where they'd go if b-trees came up and they needed to write/implement one?

I don't mean to imply that this wouldn't be acceptable to you. I do "know" that I've been screened out after giving an answer like this (to the extent that I can really know the reason, legally they aren't allowed to say).
> "Do you know who did 9/11?" Taken totally aback, I answered: "Osama Bin Laden." Then she asked me if I knew what language Osama Bin Laden spoke. "Arabic," I replied. "So do you see why these cards are suspicious?" she finished.

As horrific as the situation, I think we can all enjoy the humorous nature of the conversation above. Lack of shame and intelligence is surreal.
I lost confidence in Wallabag when I encountered a bug with the long lasting session. Everytime I want to save a site, I click the plugin icon, have to login, reopen the site I want to save and click the icon again. The bug is several months old and the developers are unable to track it down. It's very worrisome when something as important as authentication isn't properly understood by the developers.
"Full node" has a specific meaning in Bitcoin. It's a node that validates the entire blockchain and all incoming transactions, and relays transactions to peers. This is different than a "light" node or just a wallet, neither of which relay transactions, for example
The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html
This is a very long post! The bit that actually addresses the title, after all the "here's a thing I tried, here's the weird error message, here's the mistake I made" business, starts way down towards the bottom, with this text:

Before we move on, I'd like to congratulate you on reading this far. Believe it or not, you're in the minority!

The title is very misleading when the content is a very, very general discussion of compile-time versus runtime errors, mostly focusing on problems that Go doesn't catch at compile time.

TL;DR: the mistake Rust doesn't catch is recursive mutex locks.

It does seem like it would be good to catch that one, and that the borrow checker in some form ought to be able to do it -- it should be able to track the static scope of a mutex lock, and block further attempts to lock it inside that scope.
No one is in any way damaged or traumatized cause they saw some sex on a screen at approximately 13 years old.

I don't think that's necessarily true. People are influenced by what they see (advertising wouldn't work if they weren't...). It's certainly possible that watching porn makes people want to emulate what they've watched. As consenting adults that's fine, but I don't think we really know what impact that has on younger people, and it would be irresponsible to just say it doesn't have any impact without studying it (just as it is to say the opposite.)

I don't think there's anything really wrong with wanting to protect children and limit what they see and do until they're capable of understanding themselves well enough to deal with what they've seen. But I definitely think it has to be done in a way that actually works. This policy almost certainly won't, so it's a giant waste of time.
Firstly, I’d like to say congratulations on your success in family and business!

I can only offer some “bio-hacks” (but really they’re key science-backed natural health habits) to master to optimize the mental well-being of humans.

As they say, health is wealth.

First thing: sleep well.

Lack of good quality sleep is known to drive up anxiety, depression, cravings, forgetfulness, irritability, and countless other negative things. It also (perhaps ironically) leaves us feeling empty and constantly unsatisfied.

I’d recommend getting a good sleep tracker (Apple Watch or Oura Ring), and to be diligent about treating your 8ish hours of sleep a night as sacred—though not to become too anal about. It’s important for your energy and spiritual bank account.

Moving on…

Go on a walk every morning in the AM for 30-60 minutes. It’s been demonstrated to have great positive effects on your mood, not to mention your learning ability. I get high from long walks. Maybe it’s due to the fact that I feel that I’m in control of my life when I can be at peace doing “nothing productive” for an hour a day while walking on sunshine, especially before I do any work.
On that note, flex your abs when you walk, and walk strong and proud as the godly creator that you are.
IMHO if one cannot make time to walk or exercise or otherwise do good things for oneself, then one is enslaved.

Walk periodically throughout the day and look into the distance.
For every ~45 minutes of work, we should ideally get up to walk and look into the distance for 5 minutes.
Lack of doing this is known to make us feel trapped and can lead to feelings of depression.

Diet is also very important. I won’t spend too much time talking about this, but the Whole30 diet plan is recommended to try out alongside a proper sleep and exercise routine to optimize your mood and cognitive function. Try it for 30 days and see for yourself!

Otherwise minimize excess carbs, processed foods, and foods made with industrial vegetable oils.

Finally…

As others have mentioned, find a good therapist.

Delegate and outsource as much as you can. Your time is infinitely more precious than the extra money that you make.

All the best.

Feel free to reach out.
Since you are an independent contractor and not an employee, did you sign a contract stating that all your work was a "Work For Hire"? If not, then you likely own the copyright to all the work you've created -- which means that while your boss may have a legitimate license to use the work you've created to date, he doesn't have the right to create derivative works (read: modify the software) or sell copies of the work.

You may find these articles interesting:
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/article-29953.html
http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/ownership.html

If you were an employee on a W2 then this wouldn't be an issue -- your work would be a "Work For Hire" by default.

Your boss has created a legally perilous situation for himself. If you're a contractor, then he likely doesn't own the software he thinks he does. If you're an employee, then he owes a lot of taxes.

So if you're ready to burn a bridge, here's an idea. Find an attorney who will take your matter on contingency -- many will do a no-fee consult to see if there's a case. What you want to do is license your code to your former boss (the code he thinks he owns already) for a reasonable but substantial one-time sum. Low to mid five figures doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

And as everyone else has said, find a new job. If you're looking for contract work and you know CodeIgniter, email me (in my profile).
Most of the old apps can't be updated, so they are sort of frozen in time. They all hit APIs on the backend, so as long as the APIs they hit remain backwards compatible it "just works". The old apps don't get any new features that require UI changes or can't be supported on the platform if that platform is updateable.

So the short answer is, everything is an API, so as long as the API stays backwards compatible it just works.
What's the penalty? It ought to be equivalent to a DUI, given the impairment is similar if not worse from phone distraction at the wheel.
A tiny userbase working on tony codebases that implement just enough feautures that the program's worth it for elite users can be worth it to elite users.
Lets have compassion for the innocent people doing nothing wrong, who are confronted with injustices imposed upon them by people who are doing drugs and other criminal acts with impunity, while they're just going to work.

Compassion for homeless sure, but what about people who are victimized by the homeless, who have done nothing wrong?
This addresses entirely the wrong question. By looking at it as a technical problem you're completely missing the broader ethical problem. Why was anyone allowed by law to amass this amount of data? And why did PDS not take the security and privacy concerns of 1.2 billion people seriously enough to ensure the data was handled correctly? They obviously thought it was valuable enough to amass a huge database. Do they sell this to just anyone? If not, who can buy access to this data? How much does it cost, and what steps are involved in doing so?

This makes me want to talk to a lawyer.
Wouldn't most things need Hyperthreading off to be secure on Intel or is it fine if you have your own hardware?
Geometric mean is the implicit default measurement for benchmarking
Granted that surveillance state is what the UK is now, but Corbyn is a person with a political ideology that would have you get the free internet without surveillance. Not something that can be achieved easily though.
No, adults are usually capable of providing constructive feedback without being harsh. We generally learned that somewhere in our mid teens.

This ‘criticize people to death’ shit should embarrass everyone here. We can be better.
Is this model actually taught in high schools at this point?

I remember being taught about electrons with their valence shells, protons, and neutrons. That's it. I didn't hear about a boson or a neutrino until well into adulthood.
I was in a snowmobile accident as a young man and it happened to me.

It's like time stands still for a moment and you get to revisit some fairly important memories stored away in vivid detail.

It's odd to fathom the evolutionary reason for that.

As someone who takes a slightly different metaphysical perspective than 'scientific materialism' ... I think there's something 'a bit more' going on.
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It does seem very much like a kludge to get pseudo named parameters working. It would be great to see this dropped as a hash syntax and used for only named parameters in 2.0. The genie does seem to be out of the bottle though :(
Neat! Didn't know a drone/helicopter was part of the mars mission payload. Is this autonomous or remote controlled?
Interesting question. I think there are two angles:

1. Having already shut down and the team gone separate ways and onto new projects how much would you need to get back on the horse so to speak

2. Are there still things you want to accomplish and what would it take to make them succeed

Personally I’d happily take a check to do more development. There are a lot of Flynn 2.0 features that were in various stages of completion, if someone was willing to fund development to complete them up front that’s great.

However I wouldn’t want to do sales for this/run a b2b company around this again.

So if one of the companies that was using Flynn called and said they wanted to pay our development team to keep building, that’s great. But if a VC called and said “wait! Let’s finally make this company take off” there would have to be a decent sized bonus check attached. Mostly that’s just because after years on a ramen profitable startup as a founder your finances aren’t awesome so saying “yes” means turning down higher paying offers.

The biggest problem we had financially was being able to develop features before our customers needed them. We knew what to build but didn’t have enough budget to ship them. Any offer would have to come with the guarantee that we could focus on development for day 6 months before starting sales back up.

At the end of the day there’s work we left unfinished and if someone was willing to fund that in advance I’d generally be up for it. But if someone just wanted to keep the business wheels turning that’s not super attractive at this point, so it would need to be a https://levels.fyi salary rather than a startup founder salary.
This advice fails when you're like me and struggle with procrastinating the interesting stuff too.
While they might not know the specific term, they do know that something is different with those services b.c. they can’t save the ‘gif’ videos as easily as they can with real gifs.
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> If I wanted to have a service that would certify someone uber wealthy or old money and display an icon, I bet it could be done.

$1000 isn't enough to charge to establish that someone is meaningfully wealthy; the app should have cost $10 million.
If you take time to explain your position, you might not get downvoted. As it is, you undoubtedly will.