jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The thing is, once you have $15M I'm sure that financial manipulations are enormously popular.

I don't think about getting into fortune 400. I think about going from 5 figures in the bank to 8, for which I feel entrepreneurship is the best choice.

of course I've been an obsessive programmer since I was 13 (16 years now, eek) so it is a more natural path
Les Earnest's anecdotes have been a real inspiration for me over the years. His Japanese Spy story is pretty good. But if you want a real laugh, read his Mongrel Race stories: http://yarchive.net/risks/mongrel.html
Plots in R are far superior to those generated with matplotlib or other packages. Take a look at ggplot2.
My legally blind grandfather learned to paint when he was 70, I'm sure you can learn to move some bits around.
I agree with all of your points, yet I still find myself using R on a day to day basis instead of python. My reason for doing so is the large number of statistical packages that exist for R. I know that scipy exists, but it does not seem to have nearly the same coverage as CRAN + base libraries... Are there other python libraries I should look at?
By the way: tax rates are way lower in Singapore.
Mixmax supports pasting Gists too! https://mixmax.com/blog/github-email-how-to-embed-gists-in-g...
Just as much room as there is for us living in the Matrix. All fantasy, no reality.
> Chill out, winston

Please don't do this here. This comment would be fine with just the first sentence.
> phase 2 so successful that it's being halted and moved immediately to phase 3

Doesn't that sound super fishy to you, too good to be true, doesn't sound like it would be legal if you think about it for a second, that sort of thing?
For context, the workers here have been pushing for this for a while. Amazon has put up every scummy obstacle it could in their path: hiring spies and anti-union consultants, firing outspoken organizers, trying to delay the vote, holding daily indoctrination meetings, and even attempting to make the vote happen in-person despite there being a pandemic. For those of you on here saying unionization kills innovation, destroys jobs, oppresses workers, etc, let me say this.

How would you like to work 8-hours days under constant scrutiny and pressure to pack as many boxes as you can, without official employee status (you're most likely a temp), having to pee in bottles because taking a bathroom break could get you flagged or even fired, and having to run a huge distance and scarf down your food within 30 minutes to prevent Amazon from firing you? At the end of the day I can imagine your back and arms are going to be sore from the incessant and demanding labor.

This is the definition of backbreaking. If Amazon is not going to make things better (and they definitely don't care to, they like their pennies), only organized pressure from you and your buddies through a union can. You literally have nowhere else to turn to.
Exercise is certainly important, but it takes incredible amounts of exercise to burn the calories consumed during just a single super-sized fast food meal. The amount of exercise needed to maintain a healthy weight while regularly eating 4 or 5 thousand calories a day is not doable for most people with jobs, families, etc.

The fact that you can consume in 15 minutes more calories than you can burn in 150 minutes makes it a losing battle, especially since people who are already overweight often find it impossible for exercise for long periods of time due to medical complications.
The most hilarious part of the New York Times decline was the "public editor". Every public editor piece was carefully selected and prepared to admit the least amount of negligence possible, to frame even blatant lies in a mere "he said, she said" or a confusion of the moment.

Eventually, it dawned on them that having an obviously incompetent, incapable public editor is worse than having none at all, so they unceremoniously canned the position.
You should see the various veiled virgin sculptures to see amazing examples of stone shaped into an illusory form:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veiled_Virgin
Measuring the intrinsic demand for a currency is an exceptionally difficult problem and prone to cognitive bias in terms of which factors are weighted and how it's calculated.

Measuring the money supply is a trivial matter - if we observe a radical change in the money supply which correlates to asset price increases it's reasonable to question if our understanding of the economy is correct.

This may be in actionable information even if you buy the argument however. Holding assets while they inflate is the best move and at 0% interest rates there is no alternative to holding assets.
This thread is a really good example of why people like SSC. Personally I have no problem believing biases against minorities exist in this industry. And to whatever extent it does exist I support trying to fix that. But then the discussion starts to get heated and people start saying things that stop making logical sense to me with the implication that if it doesn't make logical sense to me then I'm a racist, sexist or whatever.

Someone in this thread asked how it's not a pipeline problem if 80% of graduating CS students are male, and your response is to just stop caring about CS degrees. But how does that make sense unless you think that there is an equally disproportionate ratio of uncredentialed yet qualified women programmers? And frankly the rhetorical techniques you're using here feel dishonest, implying that if I don't accept your argument then either I didn't think hard enough about it or I'm sexist. Or the "this is my last reply on this topic". If people have genuine questions why not answer them?

And after seeing this kind of discourse so many times there is such a sense of relief when someone is willing to say "let's look at the truth even if it's an inconvenient one" because to come up with a good solution you have to start with what's actually true right? For a lot of people that's what SSC represents and that's why they feel so strongly about defending it.
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett is a good reminder on how to find time here and there.

It's available for free at Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2274) or even Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/How-Live-24-Hours-Day/dp/144952849X).
hundreds of different video file formats

So just when most people started to finally standardize around one, we're going to introduce a new one that's already opposed by some of the most important players in the industry.
Kind of off-topic, but I don't really understand what Node.js is about until this presentation.

http://jsconf.eu/2009/video_nodejs_by_ryan_dahl.html
http://s3.amazonaws.com/four.livejournal/20091117/jsconf.pdf
You mean in the US. The internet is bigger than the US, and right now Apple is introducing the telco-tied and crippling systems previously only seen in the US worldwide.

Gee. Thanks Apple.
You can set the categories with the expense manually. It generally works pretty well.

New Zealand doesn't really have a Walmart type company that sells TVs with your groceries.
Surely also you have the option to have free users generating advertising income. I've heard that works for some people.
Wonder if there is any significance to 9C5A203A.
A lot of banks (I'm assuming you are in the US) don't charge for initiating pull requests (or receiving them from another institution). While it seems a bit counterintuitive, I've always moved money between banks by setting up the transfer from the receiving end.
In a nutshell, public choice theory. Try The Myth of the Rational Voter by Bryan Caplan which explores the phenomenon from a systems standpoint without being especially partisan or ideological.
I feel this general unease about an impending depression is what keeps it from happening.

Every one remember 2008 and 2000. Beating the drum about a depression being around the corner, makes people takes preemptive decisions that stop such disasters from happening.

The seed of skepticism has been sown, and while I hope it doesn't grow, I am glad it has planted itself among people with power to swing economies.
That party is currently in the minority, but more importantly their policies do not reflect Marxism. Their last Presidential nominee and last President both supported capitalism. You can point to some figures that pay lip-service to socialism, like Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez, but even then the details of their policies are a mixed-market capitalism with a bigger socialist band-aide than we currently have. Marx was suggesting that people would identify as a groupman and act as if everybody mutually possessed everything. Obama (who was widely accused of being a communist) forced people to purchase healthcare from private corporations or face a government-imposed fine. These things are wildly different. While I wouldn't argue that the Soviet Union was ever really embodying Marxism either, the idea was certainly orthodox. If the Democrats widely identified as Marxists despite not actually implementing Marxist policies, I'd give you that Marxism was orthodox in their party (and simply call them hyprocrits in addition). This is not the case. They both widely denounce Marxism and don't implement Marxist policies. We can't call every welfare program Marxism unless we're willing to retroactively label Emperor Trajan a Marxist; Marxism is more specific than welfare.
Sponsored content should still be labeled as such even in a native format.
Ok, Tycho, Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing, tell me again how the supposed dot com crash was all about Pets.com and dozens of internet companies that would go on to become some of the largest corporations in history?
I guess you're worried about coming across aggressive because it could put them off. In my experience, you can phrase that "assertively" - something like:

> Hi, I imagine you either haven't seen my email or haven't been able to reply for some reason yet. I'm really keen to follow up our initial chats because I liked my interview and the company, so I've been nervous about sending this email in case it comes over as aggressive or impatient. However, I am in a position where I could lose other opportunities if I don't give them an answer, and I don't want to lose those if I'm no longer a candidate for the position here. If I don't hear back from you by Thursday night, I'll have to assume that you're not interested in continuing on this occasion. I'm available on email and mobile, and I would really appreciate a follow up so I know what to do next.
Hmm... is the sperm count stat normalized to the obesity problem? I keep hearing things about America’s declining health, some of which seem to be “mysterious” and concerning. But then I’m always reminded that a lot of it is just people being fat. People being fat sounds like a highly probable culprit for why sperm counts are dropping on average.
Motor vehicles aren't the only risk; whether a helmet would prevent serious injury in an accident depends on factors such as how fast you're travelling, and you don't need to be sliding along the ground too fast and connecting with a a kerb/a wall/street furniture for a head impact to cause life-changing injuries.
"Mowing down" doesn't mean anything except mass murder, generally using fully automatic firearms. We both know this.

This is Destiny saying that if it takes someone committing mass murder to stop property damage, it is justified. There's no two ways about it.

Whether it is tamer or not than "America deserved 9/11" is a matter of opinion, I won't pronounce myself on it but I totally understand that opinion. It is categorically true that while "America deserved 9/11" is a statement of ethics, saying that you personally bless mass murder to prevent property destruction is incitement of violence.
Their country is already a ruin.
The idea was to get rid of the Artillery positions and leave the rest, I don't think getting into another nationbuilding exercise would be wise.
> I was not denigrating the OP's effort in any way

Sorry if it seemed line I was implying this. I didn't mean to.

> but most of all, we can vote.

I guess this sentiment is what I was replying to, though. I'm starting to think that beyond a certain threshold of imposition on one's personal liberties, voting - while surely important - is no longer "most of all" what we should be doing. But I guess you American's have to decide what that threshold is for yourselves. Hopefully it won't be too much further past where you are currently... you're setting a bad precedent for the rest of us. :)
> You're inferring the feelings of an animal to make your judgement.
> No one actually knows the living preferences of a chicken or a cow.

Does the lack of knowledge of their living preferences somehow bolster
the argument that it's ok to factory-farm them though?
One thing that's always baffled me is how many students at my school had mediocre or crappy jobs off campus while going to school. Yeah, you can make more money working off campus, but you could probably be gaining experience (and usually getting paid for it) while going to school. Most every state university has at least one or two large experiments that just need manpower, be it chem, math, cs, bio (especially bio), physics, whatever.
Totally agree. These aren't presentation slides, there is way too much text on them. They are clearly designed for reading, so it should have just been made as a text based blog.

Why force people to use flash to read text.
It's a conspiracy theory to suggest that others are seeing conspiracies where there are none?

Man you people are nuts.
Pyre,

this morning, I woke up to this submission. Going trough my morning routine and walking to work, I completely felt bad. For the first time, I feel bad to be part of HN due to many illogical and harmful statements.

What I'm going to say is: Thank you for encouraging intelligent conversation in these threads. I'm giving each and every comment an upvote.
Pretty sure you can get 3-axis accelerometer data, at least according to this snippet:

window.ondevicemotion = function(event) {
// event.accelerationIncludingGravity.x
// event.accelerationIncludingGravity.y
// event.accelerationIncludingGravity.z
}
It’s debatable whether his final two tweets directly called for violence.
Isn't this the same segment of the population that says things like 'fuck your feelings' on the regular? Their legal cases were rejected because they were deficient or substance free. They were provided with copious explanations of why. They were invited to allege fraud or broad substantial claims, and asked straight out by judges what their actual complaints were, and they backed away from the hyperbolic claims they were making to the public. Mainstream media refusing to take them seriously? Maybe that's because they have proved serially unreliable and/or outright dishonest, despite being given enormous leeway. Maybe year after year of calling media in general 'the enemies of the people' and expressing approval for the murder of journalists eroded their popularity, you know?

Trump supporters are not hapless victims by any standard of the imagination. The plain fact is that they (and in particular their leader) have lost legitimacy and credibility and are refusing to accept the fact. And I have to say that to a large extent this loss has something to do with many of them (and in particular their leader) being assholes for the last 5 years.

I mean, do you think scientists need to give flat earthers more latitude?
This is incorrect. Vaccines take forever to develop for economic reasons. Big studies are very expensive, so companies are typically quite hesitant to move to the next step. Vaccine side effects are usually quite rare, so you wouldn't see them in a Phase-3 trial, even if you waited for decades. This is why any drug is studied after approval in Phase-4 trials. Furthermore, vaccines side effects have historically pretty much always shown up at most weeks after the vaccination.
Apple should probably remove Safari since there's too much unmoderated content on the open web.
Oh please.

The insurrection we saw in DC was planned, in the open, on Parler. That is hardly legal speech and no company is obligated to host it if they don’t want to.

Until you can provide me with some actual proof Apple or Google were pressured by anything but the written law to remove this crap from their stores, say, a threatening phone call from a certain ranking Congressperson or judge or member of the executive branch, I’ll call this hysterics.
The less worrying option 4 is that the right just has to use browsers and desktop computers and not apps.

But I worry that you are right. Visa and MasterCard have already been non politically neutral.

And where will the left stop? Even if we talk about actual nazis, should they have internet connections? Electricity? The right to property? It’s not like the left seem to be satisfied with anything they achieve, they always want more.

And first it’s actual nazis, then it’s qanon, then it’s lockdown sceptics, then it’s??
You seem to be forgetting the 3.5 year long wall of propaganda we were inundated with claiming that Donald Trump was a Russian puppet and Russia hacked our election. You had prominent, important elected officials accusing those that disagree with that assessment of "carrying water for Putin", " doing the bidding of a dictator", things like that. You had many of the same people calling for unrest in the streets until Donald Trump is removed from office.

If that isn't a sustained effort to paint the 2016 election as illegitimate I don't know what is.
iRacing is a bunch of kludges all the way down. For the longest time the only way to race was as a solo driver. However, some of the biggest races in the world of real racing is endurance events where 3-4 people share a car over 24 hours. So iRacing added team races at some point. I've done a few things with data endpoints from iRacing, and it reveals a bit about how they did it.

Every driver has an ID. It's just an integer sequentially increasing every time a new person joins the service. Teams, however, are the opposite. Every time a new team is created they are assigned a negative ID, perpetually decreasing as new teams are created. Because of this, an entry into a racing session can be handled by way of a single database column for both drivers and teams. Keep in mind that a racing session is either a "driver session" or a "team session" - you can't have drivers and teams in the same session. You can, however, have teams with just one driver in them.

iRacing is a service that started development in 2004, using custom race simulation tech from ~2001, was released in 2008, and perpetually updated since then. The team is quite small, and has always been.

If there are any questions I have 6 years of experience of both racing and developing third-party tools for the service, and I'll gladly share some knowledge if questions arise.
www.openxservices.com provides much cheaper service for small and medium businesses compared to OpenX's internal paid service.
Really? Do you what percent of groceries stores we shop in today were around in 1985? Almost all of them. Same brands, same buildings, hell a lot of the people are the same too. My Dad was doing sales for Colgate and Nestle in 1970 and dealt with almost the exact same stores we have in our area today. A lot has changed in tech in 25 years, but the rest of the economy hasn't nearly as much. Last time I was at a deli counter, it was a bunch of meat and cheese that needed to be sliced and weighed by a bunch of teenagers. I don't think that has changed along the way at all.
Bourbaki is a well-known pseudonym (at least in mathematical circles). See 'Nicolas Bourbaki', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki . "Nickieben" could be some altered form of "Nicolas", not sure about that...
This article is from 2003, and most of the external links are pointing to parked domains.
If you are going up through the central valley, instead of the coast, and if you are interested in airplanes, you might consider hitting the Castle Air Museum. It has an SR-71, a MIG-17, a B-36, and a bunch of other interesting planes (including an allegedly haunted B-29).
I don't need the studies, I'm living it.

Right now my girlfriend and I are having a hell of a time with medical bills. She recently started her job, but they won't give her health insurance for the first 5 months. To cover the gap we bought our own individual plan.

So far she has gone to the hospital for an allergic reaction to food she has never been allergic to before, and also needed to see 2 doctors along the way. Total cost is around $1,000 in 2 months, and her individual plan doesnt cover any of it because it was extremely limited. I also needed surgery recently and I've racked up a total of about $1,000 in the same 2 months (thats after my insurance paid quite a bit).

We just graduated college, so we have a sum total of about $2,000 in the bank. We have around $2,000 in expenses a month to live in our apartment, buy food, pay for our cars, etc. Our income is pretty good for two fresh college grads, but we just started so there were the expenses of moving out along with waiting for the pay to catch up.

It wasn't pretty, but we made it through with a $4k loan from my parents (which we have since paid back). Without that, we would be bankrupt or riddled with credit card debt.

Considering we have no kids, our expenses are <$2k a month, and we make decent money, I don't consider us poor. Yet it was just one thing after another that was unusual and unplanned for. If one or the other of us had health issues, it would have been no big deal. If her insurance had kicked in earlier, it would have been no big deal. If she had been able to start sooner, it would have been no big deal. But with all of that screwing us, we got in a bad position despite being extremely frugal and planning really well (how many 22 year olds know to get an individual health care plan to cover the gap between when they are dropped off their parents and their employer one starts. Our only mistake as putting the deductible at $1,000 instead of $500.)

So this isn't an academic exercise. It's not just "poor folks" that you so readily dismiss. Our healthcare system is a freaking mess and anyone denying it hasn't lived through the rough edges. Right now we'd love to have real health insurance for my girlfriend. I would love to put her on my insurance but I can't. Her parents would love to put her on their insurance but they can't. She would love to buy an individual plan that covered more than just catastrophic hospital visits, but she can't.

So maybe you should stop reading the academic studies and start talking to people living in the real world.
My guess is it's the British usage, as in "revising for an exam."
Me too.

So many attorneys, so few good ones.
Gran Turismo 5. Also some jacks and jackstands. Guess there was a 'car' theme this year.
I try to explain to the uninformed that there is a huge difference between JWs and Mormons. This graph does a good job at explaining one of the most important differences. The Mormons actually raise their children to be well-adjusted members of society, if a little straight-laced.

P.S. Ex-JW party on Hacker News! The shunning was hard at first, but it feels so good to be out.
Did you install rvm locally, or system wide? I have never had a real problem installing rails with rvm on 10.10, I just had to apt-get the required libs for ruby, and then everything else worked fine (with a normal rvm install).

I would try rvmsudo gem install rails, who knows...

Also remember, when you run the rvm install script or any of the following rvm commands, dont sudo it for a normal installation.