jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Afaik there are at least dozen or two different recipes of borscht in Eastern Europe. In fact, just a map of them and spellings of ‘borschtsch’ would make for an interesting resource.

BTW, borscht was originally made with hogweed, which is where the name comes from. The beetroots variant is a later development, though it has now practically replaced the original.
Yeah I know, that's why I pointed out that it was mainly private hire. Yet it wasn't solely them as most black cab firms also took calls and bookings and despatched just like minicabs, opening them up to the same scam. Genuine street hire only black cabs still exist, but they're pretty damn rare now.
>>> Uber initially lost its licence in 2017 but was granted two extensions, the most recent of which expired on Sunday. The firm will appeal and can continue to operate during that process.

What a time to be alive. Don't have and don't need a license.
You have to remember that people work for the best option they have right now. If uber wasn't their best option they simply move to a better job.

If you ban uber you simply remove the current best option for most people working for uber. You would worsen the conditions for them.
The impossibility of being sure of the rules of the parent reality is why I find all arguments that we can't be in a simulation because it would take too long to calculate certain aspects of our reality to be unconvincing.

The computational complexity hierarchy could be different in a parent universe.

I do wonder though what things might have to be the same. I would be very surprised if any reality that allowed intelligent life forms able of creating and running simulations didn't have causality. What about the concept of number, or certain parts of logic? I think there may well be reasonable assumptions that can be made about a parent universe, even if they don't reach the level of complete confidence.
> Being able to talk to a manned rank in actual contact with their drivers is so much better in practice.

The counterpoint seems obvious here. That’s more expensive. Even more than hypothetical unsubsidized Uber. There’s lots of valid complaints against Uber. These feel like the lowest priority ones available. Uber is about cheap prices and secondly low interaction costs.
But the question really should be: Why are no large software development projects done in Haskell?

It is a common language in University CS-classes, so it gets a push from that.

What is missing from the platform?
Your rudimentary discussion about launch page have not any point for me.
On a similar note, I built quite a few things, one of which resulted in millions of daily active users, getting its own Wikipedia page, articles in The New York Times, Fortune and 50+ others.

I built an alternative to a popular website and it slowly snowballed from there. I did no marketing other than to share the link with a few people and it just went viral.

I did not build every feature the original had, but I was spending a lot of time engaging with users and making sure they feel welcome. I event sent them postcards for Christmas! What made it work in the end, is the fact that I treated users with respect and dignity.

Now, the above was a community, and I loved building and nourishing a community.

When it comes to building a business, however, a whole new set of rules kick in, and with no marketing experience, it's bound to fail, especially if you think that people will come, and all you need to do is build it. This stopped being true a long time ago, and marketing is crucial. The last SaaS I built definitely has a market, but without reaching out to actual people who need it, chances are, they will never find it on their own. This is where a co-founder with marketing skills and a network would be great, but finding one is super difficult, especially for me as a dev.
The main difficulty with this circuit is actually dealing with the galvo itself. Feedback alone is not sufficient to linearize the thing to get an excellent image. You need to get position feedback from the galvo and then drive an error amp with it.
It’s clearly not trivial, otherwise it would already be done.

Sometimes “obviously” inferior solutions are actually local maximums, and finding the global maximum is extremely difficult.
I think many of us mistake "creativity" for "having great ideas appear in our minds". That's only a part of it, and "rafting guide" is a great environment for that part. The next part - filtering and workshopping those ideas - probably works best in a more traditional work environment with some constraints and teammates.
I think the accelerator can only pick up pitch, yaw and roll while the gyroscope might also be able to pick up left/right and up/down (or is it the other way around?). Not sure about that, though.
How is self-interest even relevant here? HTML5, even if it's being promoted in an Apple-biased way, is still far better for the industry than Flash is. The Reg can gripe all it wants, but the point of the Apple showcase is that 90% of what Flash is used for is being obsoleted, and Apple is 100% right about that.
It also badly needs proximity based search. People don't find me unless they enter Berkeley in the location field, so I'm stuck between listing San Francisco for more hits or Berkeley for more accuracy.
Accelerometers can only detect orientation relative to gravity, gyros can detect it relative to themselves.

This is the same thing that Nintendo added to their controllers a few months ago.

For example I wrote an app that calculates Horsepower based on weight and acceleration, however it's hard to determine if detected acceleration is due to the vehicle or gravity (if the device tips or tilts during the test). By having the gyros available, I can detect and compensate for the error-inducing influence of gravity.
If you touch the two parts, in theory you short the antenna to the ground and you absorb most of the radiated power. But I'm sure they have thought of that. You see, RF (radio frequency) waves behave quite differently than DC (direct current). Your skin must have a high enough impedance to RF that it does not affect the antenna.

But then, what happens if you short the gap with metal ? That sounds a lot less nice. I'm sure the RF power amp must be shortcut protected, so you don't risk damaging it, but if you short the gap, and thus the antenna, bye bye outgoing packets.

Maybe it's more complicated than that, and the other metal half is not the ground for the antenna, but it's insulated - floating - from the exposed antenna. Therefore shorting the gap would not short the antenna to ground but it would modify the physical characteristics of the antenna, therefore its impedance, therefore the radiating efficiency. This is all messy, as I have never practiced RF design, only took classes.
Tangent: does anyone here have experience using Ekman's microexpression training products?
If you have ever used a wii remote, it's like the Wii Motion Plus add-on (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_MotionPlus)

In short, the accelerometer detects movement the gyroscope detects exact direction.
the only thing that really comes close is the artisan asylum @ artisansasylum.com
I like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Tempur-Pedic-Sleep-Mask/dp/B0027OUUFW

(Although, it was much cheaper when I bought it a few months ago!)

I sleep with this every night and find it to be quite comfortable. Being able to have total darkness and still be able to open your eyes is great. Sometimes I am woken up by my alarm clock and think, "why is my alarm going off at 3am" before I realize I have the eye shades on. Then I take it off and notice that I forgot to close my shades, and the sun has been directly in my eyes for a few hours ... and that I didn't even know. It's great.
Wouldn't this cause severe problems with copywrite and licensing? Just because you have a copy of some library on a machine doesn't mean you have the ability to duplicate it to another machine, let alone archive it for future researchers.

I could also see the possible issue of pulling in GPL licensed libraries, and the general theory is if you ship a package with GPL licensed code in it, your code must be GPL. There's a fine line between "sending along someone else's libraries" and becoming a monolithic executable containing someone else's libraries - and between those points is where GPL gets you.
> But I would characterize Reddit (as characterized by what's voted up into default visibility) as fairly open-minded, even compulsively contrarian.

Have you been there recently? They're "contrarian" in the sense that they disagree with the non-Reddit mainstream, but they hardly respect contrarianism to their own views. I definitely would not call them "open-minded." (At least, not in the main subreddits. There are smaller, more intellectual communities within Reddit for which this is not as true.)
Not on salary, I am paid hourly and currently it is at an interns wage based on the fact that I joined right out of school.

Once our B-Round completes I am hoping for a raise :-).

Honestly I am not to worried, when I joined the CEO bought me my keyboard of choice (Apple aluminium) and an extra screen to dual screen it, right now money is tight, and I am the only one that is not using the Qt IDE even-though I am programming for Qt. I get treated well, and enjoy the work, honestly that matters more to me than what text editor I have to use, and I figure it helps me learn a text editor that is used by thousands of programmers daily.
Problem with this whole thing is, air security is only really as good as the weakest link. If I take an international flight to america from anywhere that doesn't have these scanners, doesn't that negate the effectiveness of the scanners.

If the scanners are effective in preventing a planned attack won't the attackers just choose somewhere that doesn't have them as a departure point?
What I always wanted to know is whether non-US citizens (tourists, people with a visa) can opt out. The TSA website doesn’t seem to make any distinctions, it just says “imaging technology screening is optional for all passengers.“ [0]

[0] http://www.tsa.gov/approach/tech/ait/faqs.shtm
>In something like WoW...

Yes, but that is a game... badging (or gamification) of activities that are a stretch to be called games... that's what I find odd.

I will not decry these sites/services outright, simply because I have been on the internet since its inception and therefore cannot claim to be able to predict how newly adopting generations will use it.

I personally don't see the value of gamification - but there certainly is the genius site that will make the next killer with it. I don't feel they exist yet. The idea is in its infancy and will be say, 3 generations of companies will we all go "holy shit - that is so obvious!"
all I wrote was "You're not allowed to film the TSA security check point at all." - TSA, airport policy whatever, it doesn't matter.

The point is if this does go to court the videos will sadly count against him if they decide to throw the book at him.
Does anyone know how this compares with NASA's usual routine for announcing cool discoveries? The internet seems to be getting all excited about this, but if this kind of vague press conference announcement is just their standard way of announcing a new funky-looking cloud of gas, a lot of UFO hunters are going to be disappointed...

Edit: Not that I don't personally find funky-looking clouds of gas fascinating, but if you google 'exceptional object' right now the top results are all conspiracy theory websites.
A vast fraction of DNA is thought to be junk code, actually. Some of it is even believed to be remnants of viruses that inserted themselves into human DNA.
No clear monopoly? Microsoft? Huh?
"Technological progress has always made lives better" - a pretty strong claim. Historically, technology has seemingly been a mixed blessing for mankind - we can't live long without creating some sort of technology, but our technology often has unintended and disastrous consequences in both the short and long terms.

To me part of humanity growing up would be realizing this mixed blessing and honestly critiquing technology rather than dogmatically remaining either positive or negative with regard to technology.
Well remember physics constrains everything, so it's interesting to look at that too. The reason we'll look into expanding in the first place is because of energy/material constraints in our own system. Some systems will require large "seeds" to boot up depending on how advanced we are at a particular point and how long can we wait for booting. Then as soon as it boots it will start receiving updates on how to improve itself, otherwise it would be terribly outdated by the time it starts exporting computing. What we choose to colonize will probably depend on the specifics of the system, like solar power output, material availability at planets, etc. There's a question on what kind of information the seeds will produce too: improving themselves should be largely redundant with the improvements made by the colonizers, which would be streamed to the new planets. So they'll be some very long term tasks so it can be efficiently divided across the decade-or-more latency separated systems.

I need to write a book about this some day. It's just so fun to imagine :)
Ah, okay; but any of her music that she did not upload - would it be taken down automatically via ContentId, or would she have to petition them?
I'm a manager (for ~50 people), and my schedule is close to Matt's, without the kids.

I don't always go in "that early" (normal people would slap me if i didn't put that in quotes), but i'm completely responsive on email/IM/etc by about 8:30.

The main difference from Matt is that when I drive (i bring my dog in, and it's not safe to bike with her on shoreline), if I don't get in before 9, IMHO, it's essentially not worth driving in until ~10am.

You'll just waste the time sitting on shoreline.

Biking, yeah, it's always 10 minute for me.
Maker is code word for "white male privilege". Stop the sea lioning and mansplaining.
Interestingly, the article points to "medical marijuana" as the big hurdle to overcome if regulation of recreational cannabis use can succeed. Naturally it leads to questions about exactly what ailments is marijuana known to be a remedy for?

A quick review of the cannabis literature shows potential therapeutic utility for cannabis-derived compounds, particularly in conditions like depression, psychosis and anxiety. So far, it's all "promising" and no conclusions have emerged.

IOW, definite indications are not established. Risks of adverse effects are not delineated but must be known in order to prescribe responsibly. In addition, lack of product standardization makes safe use murky.

Living here in Oregon where medical marijuana has been available for a long time, the therapeutic boundaries appear practically nonexistent. It means with very little effort just about anyone can get the "card". Indeed, most users need not bother since it's easily available and laws are seldom enforced.

Of course, "decriminalization" was the reason the recent Oregon ballot measure passed with a wide majority. A good idea, but it calls into question the merit of enshrining cannabis as a "drug" when its credentials as a therapeutic agent are still in doubt.

I'd advocate phasing out "medical marijuana", and those who believe it is effective can easily purchase it from licensed outlets, just like any other user. That's not different than many drugs sold without prescription, like analgesics, gastric acid-reducers, etc.

BTW, many OTC drugs are not particularly cheap, but because they are OTC insurance won't cover the costs. Exactly parallel to buying marijuana retail even if some people might argue it's for a medicinal use.
> I have never learnt the art of work-life balance, but now I'm able to amortise it over the course of a year!

Thats interesting, I will try to follow your experience.
A lot of debugging UX is editor integration. For top end IDEs, these are available out of the box. Set breakpoint by clicking left margin of any kind of code, another click to run trigger debugging. Similar story for VS Code though a bit more configuration is required. It's only an issue when it comes to lightweights like Sublime Text/Emacs/Vim. The philosophy of things being "loosely coupled" means that you have to be prepared to spend an hour browsing man pages just to figure out how to create a breakpoint. Edit and continue isn't just a fancy gimmick used in Lisp; it's a first class feature in Visual Studio (iirc it originated in the original Visual Basic, got removed during the transition to .NET before being added back again to Visual Studio, someone from MSFT should confirm this) Python is just "rediscovering" how to do this. JavaScript (in Chrome at least) have partial support, mostly because they were forced to do livereloading so frontend development isn't too unpleasant. Rust and Go and all the new age languages never seemed to have heard of it despite proclaiming their commitment to good developer debugging process (Elm might have some support though their blog releases seemed more interested in time traveling functional data structures rather than benefits to developer experience, and no, you do not need fancy stateless functions to add Edit and Continue though I suppose they do make it easier).
Well, surprisingly, not everyone has your home DSL connection.

We're far from the country with the fastest connections, but even here you can get one where it would only take 20 days to upload, and less than a day to download everything, for less than $30/month (and that includes cable TV and a landline with free calls).
I think maybe he means something different from you here. I interpret deductive reasoning here as, "situations where you need to use logical arguments instead of being told what to do and repeating it with slightly different numbers."
It's extremely difficult to work out which things will be valuable and after the effort and time spent holding the item, you didn't really do that well. Incidental profits from reselling stuff you happened to hold that gained in value.

Most stuff never goes up in value. Most technology, even the famous/popular stuff has only gone down in value. With a few exceptions of things which were later seen as iconic but rare. Stuff like the original Nintento gameboy can be bought now for less real value than they were new. Almost certainly because there are so many around. So you have to be a fortune teller to work out what item will be more popular in the future than it is now.
> I mean how many people here, currently working in language X, would want to hire someone that is better than they are?

I have always tried to hire better than I am (and ever will be); not to say i'm very good, but a lot of people are very bad. I hired, multiple times in my (30+ year) career people who are much better than I am at pure tech stuff like creating great code. I would love for someone to make me obsolete (I don't think looking stupid is a thing), then I can focus on other stuff. In my first company I was the founder and CTO; I replaced myself with a much better CTO who was so much better that I suddenly had literally nothing to do. So I went on to create + run our research (r&d) group which was a lot more fun than being CTO. Far too many people stay in positions they don't like for pure ego; I don't care what they call me as long as I like the work and I get paid enough, in that order.

I guess when you have a job and this happening it would be less good. Although I would see it as a sign to go do something else.
I think herbsluftwm[0] fits better to this description than the other tiling wms, with its frame and virtual monitor features.
[0]https://herbstluftwm.org/
First we would need to create a huge magnetic field protecting Mars from the solar wind that has blown away the atmosphere Mars previously had.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/how-did-mars-lose-its-atm...

https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/how-to-give-mars-an-atmos...
I swear to god, I thought this was a parody on yet another product with fancy names for just a physical garage
That seems more a point in favor than a counter.

Terry Tao is surely very accomplished, but is he anywhere nearly as famous?
I think the important thing highlighted in this article is that a startup needs to do whatever it can to survive - which means its okay to quickly do things that won't be sustainable later. A startup needs to hit the ground running, whether that means building a quick MVP or taking to the road for users. If it doesn't build a stable position to start off from or focuses too much on planning/scaling then it won't ever be able to move from square 1. When the startup gains traction and critical mass, then it can start thinking about scaling and long-term performance.
I have tried the box fan + air filter. It's way too noisy and ugly. I ended up just getting a generic tower hepa air filter for a few hundred bucks. I have not tested whether or not it's more effective than the box fan, but it's way quieter and it looks way nicer, and that matters to me.
How many of those applications are ones where a single AES encryption is too slow?
> or bounce ideas off each other in real time at a marketing agency?

What? Wouldn't you _rather_ be in a zoom call for something like that?
> The problem is that when you interview people, the way you look has an impact on how the interviewer perceives and is able to communicate with you (implicit bias).

I have to disagree with your core point. If that were the real problem, blind orchestra auditions would be held up as the gold standard for hiring practices. As it is, people want it torn down. [1]

Though I agree with the aspect of working harder to empathize being good for business. Again, that’s what the interview is for. If you want diversity, add a behavioral segment to your interview loop and use it as an opportunity to actually understand the person.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-audition...
It's got a technological problem which is very much like augmented reality, picoprojectors, and such.

A movie projector projects onto an otherwise dark screen, but this thing projects on a surface: your black level is going to be good light for "seeing".

The projectors have to be pretty bright, outside light controlled and the sensor array would have to be pretty robust.

A good installation would be pretty expensive, but there must be a $1000 version that's possible.
That's such a nice response that i just want to thank you for it. Thank you, it really made my day! I'm just depressed from being stuck inside due to covid for such a long time, maybe that made me lose hope there..
Silly me. You're right.
Cables are better but "cracking WPA2 in a few hours" is extremely misleading.

If I make my WPA2 password '#@2rjoergoqj3rfowewWEFDWEjdfoqnowe2ew$^$' it would take thousands of years to crack.
True, but none of this changes that the author didn't answer their own opening question. If it was framed as "How can a company support great culture"?, then it would be a fantastic thread to read through for those curious. But leading with one question and then answering another is essentially click-bait.
https://archive.is/QdVJ2
I think you're missing quite what it is.

You can write very short amounts of python code and get a nice interactive webapp. It's aimed at, but not exclusively for, exploring data and results. Live reload/etc make development extremely fast.
Typically, people who are trying to defend themselves from nation state threat actors aren’t using iPhones or stock Android phones, and absolutely wouldn’t use safe browsing if they did.
To me it looks like the main advantage of async is memory usage, which is kind of expected because of the overhead of a thread. But if you do not need lots of thread it doesn't look like there is a huge benefit going async. Or do I miss something here?