jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This has been a long standing argument from a certain "trickle down" group in politics. And like the groups that promote austerity as a cure for economic woes, they have been proven wrong.

The economy grows when people can afford to spend. (If this spending is based on credit as was largely the case during the Bill Clinton years, then there is a later cost to pay - no doubt.) But the fact remains that when people can afford to buy things, the economy grows.

Better paid workers spend more money. People who cannot afford basic necessities actually do not blow their money on luxuries as is commonly promoted. Instead, they spend their money on housing, car gas and insurance (since there's been a perpetual movement against public transportation), and food. They're not out gambling and buying drugs in general.

What is not in doubt is that better paid workers means not quite as well paid executives. If you look at the US history, executive pay is at or near the highest multiple relative to workers compared to any time.

And while this is my speculation as I have not experienced living on 1 million dollars vs 100 million dollars (per year), I am inclined to believe that the difference in quality of life is not really terrible. Therefore, executive pay levels are not really a valid reason to suppress worker pay.

We have not even ventured into the tax avoidance that has occurred in the last 40 years. Somehow corporations and executives (and workers!) managed to survive quite ok in the 1950s and 60s, even while corporate taxes were effectively much higher.
There are two ways to avoid getting TIME_WAIT states in the first place:

1. Convince the client to close the connection. The initiator of the close will be the one holding the TIME_WAIT socket (for ~2 minutes)

2. Send RSTs to clients that refuse to close. RST avoids creating a TIME_WAIT state. I think this is slightly more dangerous than a normal FIN close, because wandering duplicates could interfere with the next connection. From Python, you can close a TCP socket in a way that causes a RST to be sent:

# Set SO_LINGER to 1,0 which, by convention, causes a
# connection reset to be sent when close is called,
# instead of the standard FIN shutdown sequence.
self.socket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_LINGER,
struct.pack("ii", 1, 0))

(From the patches and branch in http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/78)
The same community that would generally react very negatively to reports of a company storing passwords unencrypted in a database seems to effortlessly explain away Apple's approach to storing a significant amount of personal tracking data unencrypted, not on one pretty inaccessible server but on multiple easily-accessible devices. Fascinating.
An update has just been posted saying that Lady Gaga loves it, it was her manager who made the decision without consulting with her: http://alyankovic.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/gaga-update/
I used to work on a high profile old media site, and based on my experience there, I believe that the motivation is that it's easier to game ad metrics with stupid gimmicks this way. Approximately at the time I had lost hope and was looking for an exit, they were working on a new photo gallery that would count each "next" click as a new page impression. In short, it allows you to muddy the water around what exactly constitutes an "impression."
Earlier HN submissions on the issue include

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1257229

(submitted by pg, 374 days ago)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=956770

(submitted by benzim, 513 days ago)
I wonder how many are paid repositories?
I believe GNU Bison parser generator is capable of generating GLR parsers:

https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/html_node/GLR-Pars...
On one hand i am glad that a transnational company is getting stopped like that, especially when breaking the rules. they are basically a giant money hoover that comes in and sucks the money offshore with offshore interests as #1 priority.

on the other hand, often it often takes an outsider to disrupt a well established and corrupt market in order to move it forward.
Above you said "they're doing it because they like working for Uber". Now you say it's just the best option they have. That's quite different

> If uber wasn't their best option they simply move to a better job.

Simply? You know there are costs and risks associated with changing jobs, right?

> If you ban uber you simply remove the current best option for most people working for uber

This is blackmail and using workers as hostages. If Uber were a decent company, it would have hired the workers they need instead of the fraud that is the partner scheme. In this situation of Uber losing license to operate, the drivers would either be still employed or be fired and get severance packages and unemployment benefits.

This is why a lot of people dislike and want the "gig economy startups" gone: they ignore the rules in the name of "user experience", exploit their workers to keep prices down and eat up the market, and then use the position they have to force their views on public policy. Governments must stop them and make them pay what they should have paid if they were operating correctly.
Not when Newton discovered it they were not. The early versions of laws of thermodynamics were derived by just considering invariants (leading to conservation laws), not symmetries.

Such that things didn't just start moving on their own with no explanation. This is also why gravity was easier to approximate to them than heat. (Heat is symmetrical but hard to keep invariant, unlike motion.)

This is also why heat was considered an item (phlogiston / caloric theory) not a property of matter until quite late. (With Joule.)
Or why the link between light and heat had to wait for so much longer.

Symmetries are actually much harder to pull off and verify. The big change there came with Maxwell or thereabouts.
I guess that depends on what end effect of the magnetic field we are trying to replicate.

If it's protection from radiation, then we have multiple avenues of research and action. We can use particular materials in our domed cities, we can build underground, and we could bioengineer plants and ourselves to better cope with radiation damage. We could even create a huge solar array or nuclear reactor in space and create enough of a magnetic field to deflect solar and extrasolar radiation. It's a difficult problem, for sure, but not an impossible one.

If it's depletion of the Martian atmosphere, then once we've added a whole bunch of material to it, the depletion happens over millions of years. So there's not a huge effect even in the 1000s of years timescale.
A gender gaps exists on Wikipedia, and the community has been consciously working to address that for several years.

Encouraging contributions from females has probably been the Wikimedia Foundation's largest policy effort. Increasing Wikipedia's coverage of notable women is a common theme in edit-a-thons, events where Wikipedians get together at a library or cafe and edit Wikipedia together for a few hours. There is more to do, but these are effective and useful efforts.

I am not familiar enough with the editorial conflicts surrounding Gamergate to make an informed comment on Mark's post, but thought I would offer some broader context.
There are two top-level comments complaining about the colors that were posted about 10 minutes before you posted this.
That's a rather slanderous thing to say, and I honestly wish programmers would quit this fear mongering of others in the profession. I do it too, but lately I've been saying that we need to stop it.

You've never met me in person, so read some of the comments from people who have. By saying that I should never work with people you are effectively attempting to prevent me from having a job. That's an incredibly abusive thing to do to someone else, and it's just an odd thing to do in a professional setting.

Based on this, I wonder how you are to work with? Are you the kind of person who goes around getting people fired? Are you to be trusted in your opinion of others if it's so easily swayed by public opinion? Are you potentially racist or at least blindly biased?

See how that works? It's possible to take anyone's words and, with a bit of grammar jujitsu, use it to destroy someone else. I've recently tried to stop saying people shouldn't work with someone or that I won't work with others, and I have been meaning to write about it. Hopefully my comment will make you feel the same way.
Retro Camera / FxCamera as alternatives for now.
Actually, the fonts on the computer are generally more expensive than anything else. It's better with opentype, but a lot of agencies still have a ton of mac-only fonts that would be prohibitively expensive to update.

Plus, really good designers are like really good developers. If they don't get to work on the machines they like, they'll walk. Which is just too bad for anybody in IT that wants to push Windows.
I'm confused about your parenthetical Greek remark. Isn't ancient Greek a European language, and doesn't our actual word "democracy" come directly from it?

And I'm not so sure that their concept of the meaning of "democracy" was significantly different to ours, even though there were significant differences for how it went on in practice.
Trevor put that on the graph as a joke. Actually all the labels are ones Trevor added as jokes, except the "Trough of sorrow."
I'm not in an ASCII-english speaking country, and it's not like that at all. And all projects that started to rectify TeX with regards to unicode text, have fallen behind or are totally abandoned (I speak of stuff like LaTeX3e, Omega et al).

Xetex is still actively maintained, and at the very least it's utf-8 aware. Googling around, I found that non-ASCII users report that Xetex doesn't really do a very good job of handling language-specific spacing, but at the same time there are an abundance of packages and extensions to Xetex that address a lot of these issues. I'm curious though - where are you from? Would Xetex really be unworkable where you come from?

For some it's the problem, for others it's the allure. I like Framemaker style tools myself --but Adobe it has had it stagnate, and it's also not on the Mac.

Yes - I too was disappointed when they killed the Mac version.

It has styles, and can present a list of them et al. Not many people use it that way, but it's quite powerful. Not as powerful as Framemaker though.

If Word had a mode where it could enforce styles - prevent me from accidentally dragging a paragraph margin around with the flick of the mouse or something - if Word insisted that every bit of formatting in the document came from one of the named styles, that alone would be progress.

No, but you are distracted of keeping a syntax NOT RELATED to the document content in your head.

Well, I've been able to learn TeX/LaTeX syntax - so for me it's a sunken cost. And for me at least, it's a lot less distracting than the tools and accoutrements of WYSIWYG text editing. YMMV.

There have been improved hyphenation/justification algorithms during the 90's that InDesign et al utilize, that provide better visual output even for simple paragraph text compared to plain ole TeX. Mainly utilizing the hz algorithm.

Interesting - I've never heard of the hz algorithm - although Wikipedia has this to say about it:

According to Zapf,[3] Hàn Thế Thành made a detailed analysis of the Hz-program for micro-typography extensions to the TeX typesetting system and implemented them in pdfTeX. These are available as part of the LaTeX and ConTeXt typesetting packages.

So it might be as straightforward as \usepackage{microtype}? I've looked at the pdfTeX document on the microtype package and it does indeed seem to improve the text layout quite a bit, at least with the font expansion feature.
Agreed. They didn't seem to have issues finding investments or visibility. If this is one of those "other issues" cases, there's lots to learn from here.
Foot-pounds is very commonly used to measure firearm projectile energy; I've never seen foot-pounds per square inch before, though.
Needle exchange programs already exist, surely this would be similar enough to get them enacted.
Thank you!

I have a nice lil' prototype going on in Snap, I have Persistent running, and I'm this close to have auth working.

But in the meantime, I have lots of logs to parse ; )
Just to add some color to this: another billionare (Peter Thiel) played a more direct role in the Trump administration on Science (and especially) Health policy and appointments. Thiel was officially a Science Advisor to the transition team.

1. https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-s-white-house-...

2. https://www.statnews.com/2016/12/20/peter-thiel-donald-trump...

3. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-rsquo-s-sci...
So you run out of paper, press the button and, under 2 minutes, an Amazon InstaPaper delivery drone arrives (yes, they bought the service and the brand), entering your apartment thanks to wonders of a cloud-synced Lockitron, and drops the paper next to the toilet door. As it leaves, you're left wondering if maybe it's time to buy that Amazon Echo and have it react to you shouting "OH FK", saving you from having to clean the button...
Here's another: when the first Egyptian pyramid was built in 2600 BCE, woolly mammoths were still around.
Somewhat related:

ThreeJS GPU boids simulation http://threejs.org/examples/#webgl_gpgpu_birds
There are some really addictive games that are open source though. And some of them are quite rightly famous. For example, Nethack. I've played Nethack for countless hours over the course of decades. It's definitely given me more entertainment than 99% of all commercial games that I've bought, and I have it installed on all my computers (and there are even phone versions).

https://www.thegreatestgameyouwilleverplay.com/
> > I'll admit that a normal blockchain would be impossible to store that level of transactional data. Of course that doesn't mean that it isn't possible to store it in a decentralized manner

> Translation: blockchain a) doesn't solve this problem, and b) isn't required for this

Clarification: The data structure of a typical blockchain that is regularly talked about (single-chain, no shard/web) definitely cannot store that level of data. In order to reach that level of data throughput, better data structures are required to do so.

Single-chain blockchains are great in terms of determining transaction finality, but are poor in terms of data storage. This doesn't mean that research into decentralized & computationally-assured data storage techniques shouldn't be pursued.
OK, so no, only millenials: "The Harvard Public Opinion Project conducts a biannual poll examining the political opinions and civic engagement of young Americans ages 18 to 29." So this shows nothing about, "a generation". General trust in government is down across all demographics: http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/26/section-2-views-of-th....

The idea that distrust of the government has suddenly leaped on generational lines implies that millennials are savvy, informed, and active in comparison to demographics over 30 who are assumed to be complacent and naive in comparison. But the reality is that most people right now will gladly answer on a poll that they don't like the government as much as they used to, and that most people are still almost entirely complacent in any case; there are no millions marching in the streets in protest,
voter turnouts remain terribly low across all demographics, and everyone freely donates datapoints to Facebook all day which is one of the NSA's most bountiful conduits for information.

That's not to disagree with the very original comment here. The original comment refers to the interaction of subcultures as well, namely the "builder" subcultures who can direct their efforts towards pro-privacy or anti-privacy efforts. That is of course an important conduit.
You are correct. This is a screenshot taken on Firefox 36.0.4 on Ubuntu 14.04.2: http://i.imgur.com/XMIgQfi.png

As you can see, media.mediasource.enabled is disabled by default.
Strange time for the Nicaraguan Canal to be breaking ground. Just saying.
You pretty much just reiterated his point for him.
why use bind and not a "c++ lambda" if you are using boost?

The expression:

bind(std::plus<int>(), _1, bind(&Die::faceValue, _2))

makes the code harder to read instead of easier, which isn't an improvement.
That looks fine to me. He's talking about reducing a matrix to reduced row echelon form, and gives a pretty clear example. If you're giving yourself 4 pages on linear algebra, there's not much better you can do.

That said, you're not going to learn linear algebra in four pages. No royal road, and all that.
nice visualization! I remember it but I can't recall where I saw it, did you posted it already? Anyway it's good to see different way of presenting information for ecommerce.
There should be like, DDoS insurance.
No - as stated, I have jumped to "there are many cases that aren't covered by generic diagnostic algorithms", and the doctors I'm interviewing who are espousing "I want to be a data entry technician" type philosophies.

Independent of the examples, that's a worrying philosophy. I write the tools for this - in theory, I assume the liability when Shit Doesn't Work - not that we don't do our best to push this off to Other Organizations With Medical Expertise.
This is really amazing and inspiring to see. Every now and then, I get scared when thinking about what would happen if my eyes or my hands started to lose functionality.

I sometimes feel pain in my pinky fingers when typing, forcing me to adapt to using only my other fingers.
It's edited.
I remember a parody account where a girl livestreamed her life from a camera shoved down her pants. Of course the screen was dark the entire time.

Edit: A remnant of the site still exists!

http://www.monzy.org/pantscam/
Build your own product. Start your own company. Take it public or sell it. That's really the only way to make significantly more dough than you already are. It carries risk - but at your age, with the money you've been earning, you should be able to weather a storm or two. Good luck!
Not give the example that proves the rule but...

Don't watch him much but from what I've seen Chris Wallace from what I've seen actually tries to practice professional journalism on fox.
> My thought patterns and assumptions had made a complete jump from one train of thought to another.

William James uses the analogy that our set of habits are like an irregular polyhedron resting on one of its faces. Everyday experiences may rock it up onto an edge, but it will usually come to rest where it was, or perhaps on a neighboring face.

A more singular, meaningful experience has more “push” to it, overcoming the force of habit in a way that no amount of daily prodding would, rolling the whole thing onto a new face that would take ages to land on otherwise. He was writing about religious conversions at the time, but there seems to be a lot of overlap with the effects of a psychedelic experience.
Are you assuming proponents of the war on drugs would be rationally motivated by facts?
What! They use a machine learning technique without understanding how it works, just type the numbers in and trust the answer and get rewarded ... sounds like it is preparing them for the real world!
Why do you assume copyright no longer exists in a post-scarcity society?

Patents wouldn't make sense because they are meant as an incentive to share your inventions while protecting your income, but copyright comes with more rights than just money.
I would love it if you could find this article.
I'm inclined to disagree with you, purely because 'Ask HN', in my opinion, should be reserved for text-based submissions where the generation of discussion is predicated more greatly on their purpose.
If the US is nowhere near being an authoritarian police state, at what point will US become a authoritarian police state?

When they have kill lists without any trial, jury or judge?

When they keep prisoners in jail indefinitely without a trial?

When they torture prisoners?

When state officials lie to the public?

When state officials lie to public representatives?

When the secret police interfere with lawyers communications and interferes with legal cases?

When the secret police silence individuals that want to inform about abuse?

When the secret police use surveillance for blackmailing?

When the state use strip searches and surveillance indiscriminately against the population, including children?

When the state implement state censorship?

When they use force against peaceful demonstrators?

When they utilize military resources against peaceful demonstrators?

When they seize bank assets without any trial, any intention of a trial, or even without ever formally serving the individual with criminal papers?

Please state what criteria we should use, so we can have a final definition of what an authoritarian police state is.
The user needs to know when the almanac is being received and when the whole thing is in when looking for a clear-view-of-sky spot to sit a while.

The best you can do with CoreLocation is set desiredAccuracy to kCLLocationAccuracyBest and wait for it to fall below 100 feet with no way to find out if it ever will.
Developers have to come a long way to build an user base and good ratings, so it would have been fair to give a warning notice prior to removing the app, ihmo.

(speaking as an Android app dev; and yes it is too intrusive)
It only works if thin, if slightly overweight or overweight one has to reduce all sugar intake and carbohydrates to re-adjust the body's insulin trigger levels.

Simple test ..consume some carbohydrates..if one-half to one hour later you get sleepy to the point of napping you should have your health checked..
I'm pretty sure dash (quicksilver/spotlight) and the dock were in osx way before they appeared on linux.
Hydrogen is not very efficient, hydro is very efficient. But the energy density for hydro is lower than people think.

m * g * h -> you either need lots of water or lots of height. Best is to have both. You only get that in the Alps and you need some special geoprgaphic features to make it work. Europe is also densely populated and the nature we have left, we want to preserve, so we can't flood all of it.

Do the math, figure out how big of damn we would need to store 3TWh.

My result: at 1000m pump height, you would need 3000 billion liters, which is cube of water with a length 1.5km. Double check this tough, I'm not sure if I did all the conversion correctly
You know that Charlie Stross, author of TFA, is a sci-fi author?
Only one of those options will even leave you remotely prepared for college level mathematics. The fact it stops at Algebra 2 or Part 2 for most of those options is criminal.
The fact that random internet posters think they know more about the P&L of media companies than the executives running the organizations is endlessly entertaining.
And how does that specifically help a family?
>If you expend more energy than you take in via calories, you lose weight, period. With a rational approach to food intake, that 10-15% the researchers claim is like cutting the crust off of a sandwich. It's nothing. You don't see a lot of obese animals in nature, regardless of any genetic metabolic mutation, because they have to actually work to acquire their food.

In theory yes, but the vast majority of people who try to lose weight through diet fail. And obese people who are forced to stick to a diet have the metabolisms of starving healthy people - their body desperately trying to return to it's previous weight.
Reminds me when they built a (much older, smaller) kernel on a pSeries (POWER architecture) in under 5 seconds: http://es.tldp.org/Presentaciones/200211hispalinux/blanchard...

Gosh, 18 years ago, now I feel really old :D