jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The thing about Google is they have a monopoly on search. The risk for them doing good at the expense of additional profit is much lower than almost any other business. They won't be easily replaced. They could choose to be good but they don't.
Trump and Bloomberg are running in completely different primaries. While the GOP base might find a billionaire palpable the Democratic base is not so friendly to big business or wall street. There is no uniting force in the Dem party like the Evangelical vote. That veibn said I still I donated another $27 dollars to Bernie.
Please don't do this here. The site guidelines ask you not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, you should, but you don't have to check trivial things like "is this a list?"
This is why being a programmer is so great. Our celebrities actually talk to us :)
Strictly speaking, GoGo's service isn't capable of handling streaming, but it's not clear to what extent bandwidth is the limiting factor. Really bad bufferbloat does horrible things to goodput. With proper QoS, it's likely that they could sustain at least one or two low-resolution YouTube streams, just not a whole plane full. Terrestrial ISP's can't handle everyone watching video at the same time, either.

Jim Gettys reported on the CeroWrt-devel list that he tried to benchmark the in-flight Internet connection on a United flight to Hawaii last November, and it apparently crashed the connection. The routers and accompanying software being used for these systems are probably of exceedingly low quality.
The usage of term 'Extinct' in the content is confusing. There are no more Sumatran Rhino in Malaysia, there are about 100 expected to live in the islands of Indonesia.
Given how poorly most people are able to predict these things, I'm going to go out on a limb and say the next recession will happen when everyone is overly bullish on the economy. The amount of scepticism today combined with the actual economic data lead me to believe things will be OK for a while yet.
What a wonderful nineteen eighty four
It's hard to imagine how a government set to police the minutiae of everyday life of pretty much a whole continent's worth of humans, can not be antagonistic with the majority of it. Even in such a uniform cultural environment as the US, local differences will "always" be too important to make such relations with a state-wide governing entity consensual. High-level principles and policies, sure, but low level policing and surveillance applied uniformly at such a scale can't be consensual.
Not a physicist, but my understanding (from having glanced at one of Einstein's 1905 papers a long time ago) was that the genesis of SR has a context. Specifically, the following observations bothered Einstein (below are my words, don't think anyone from 1905 would say it this way):

1. Maxwell's equations did not permit information to propagate faster than some finite velocity c, which (for many good reasons) can be identified with the speed of light in vaccuum.

2. Closely related mathemaical fact: Maxwell's equations were Lorentz invariant.

3. On the other hand if one envisioned a charged particle moving in a field, then Newtonian theory says the particle dynamics were galilean invariant.

But the particle and the field really are part of one system, and it would be odd for the two parts to have different symmetry properties, as this would mean for example that when one changes between two coordinate systems their equations of motion would transform in different ways.

I know lots of you know way more physics & history of physics than I. Please jump in!
If the scratches are on the glass it could work even better to use a liquid with the same refractive index as the glass. That should make the scratches go away completely.

One option is glycerin as can be seen in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNWCB_GoQA4 (maybe it only works with pyrex glass ?)

Another option is to mix to fluids together, one with a higher index of refraction and one with lower. That way you can tune it to your particular scanner (although I would think most are the same).

How you see if your mix has the same refractive index as the glass I haven't figured out yet.
Distributive Justice is a central topic of how societies are structured. The idea of fairness is important in pretty much every single culture (but with different ideas of what is fair, obviously). Your ideas of fairness likely just line up with what the article supports, but the people who feel angry about it feel exactly how leftists complaining about the 1% feel. A violation of fairness inducing anger is exactly what you would expect, it just seems odd to you because it's not your idea of fairness being violated.
How many countries doing this can the world support?
The main point is neatly summarized in the fifth paragraph:

> But the fee model comes with systematic costs that are not immediately obvious. Here’s the thing: in order for fees to work, there needs be something worth paying to avoid. That necessitates, at some level, a strategy that can be described as “calculated misery.” Basic service, without fees, must be sufficiently degraded in order to make people want to pay to escape it. And that’s where the suffering begins.
Less like a general and more like a (for the time) state of the art high speed weapons platform, possibly with not much to do. The sort of person you really don't want gallivanting around and raiding nearby castles through boredom. So you tell them that they can kill and still go to heaven, as long as they do it somewhere else. Then you take their confession in advance and give them a nice new shiny sword and send them out of the country.
So basically, "web-based" is the new portable GUI library.
This looks fantastic! I may incorporate some ideas in my standing desk when I get it built later this year.
This piece misses a major part of the story-- the courts may be on the verge of declaring that copyright was never actually transferred to Righthaven, and that they have no right to sue in any of these cases.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/righthaven-r...
20% appreciation in a day. That's definitely a bubble.
What I feel, and what I suspect many others feel also, is that however much this might be true, it's the way that RMS presents these views to the public that instantly marginalises him and the FSF.

Were he to choose not to mention 9/11 conspiracy theories, or to not act in a way that marginalises the movement; it's quite likely that it would alienate fewer people and be generally more successful.

It's great to have a leader who is genuinely passionate about what he's doing, but for others who might agree with much of what he says, it can be disheartening to see so many turned away by some of the rhetoric.
I just updated the script with both of these features. Enjoy!
> If he thinks u.s goverment is to blame for 9/11, no matter how saying it in a lecture seems childish, he will say it.

By the way he doesn't believe that. Last time I read about his opinion on the subject he said that proofs were lacking on both sides (truther and non-truther) but that it was probably the work of religious fundamentalists (either christians or muslims).
But having one OS doesn't necessarily mean one recognizable product. I think it could just be the convergence of low level systems, drivers and creating a unified build system. Then on top of that they could plop a unique shell depending on the deployed platform.

Unify the developer tools, unify the build and deployment system, and merge the dev teams. You reduce duplication of work and streamline the whole process.
I am from Europe as well and I can wholeheartedly agree with this.

I know it has become so popular to be laughing about the States over here but let me tell you something... each and every time I had to deal with people from the States over here, they were nothing but friendly and down to earth, good hearted people who enjoy and appreciate company and small talk - even more so than lots of Germans who often give you the feeling they are just waiting for you to rip them off or wave some sales contract into their face next - just because you said "hi" and "how you doing?".
To quote a friend about this story, "Man no longer at Google makes assumption"...
im out of the city then..wish i could be there. Does this mean there might be a shinnenkai?
Another "simple" solution would be to surround the probe with a 5m thick shell of water, the protons in there will absorb most of the high enerqy particles. It might just make it a bit difficult to accelerate the whole contraption to escape velocity...
A List Apart and Webmonkey were how I taught myself. I referenced w3schools a few times as well.
@your Djangy thing: I am a Django user and would love to have a Heroku for Django. But making it for free makes no sense. Make it ridiculously cheap if you like to, but to pay nothing for something that actually really produces simple to calculate costs is awkward. I wouldn't use that!
This is not necessarally terrible in some scenarios: namely, when the repository caches enties for the duration of the unit of work, and the user in question is used elsewhere in the request (or at least is used elsewhere in the common case).

In that scenario, this can be strictly more efficient than doing a specialized query here, and a more general fetch of the user later, because it becomes just one sql command instead of two.

Obviously though there are ORMs that don't offer such caching, or cases where the value will not be used again elsewhere in the request, and in those cases this is clearly undesirable. It is generally quicker and easier to do this than adding a new custom method to the repository to get exactly the desired data which is why it remains common even in those scenarios.
There's probably a startup name in there somewhere.

Bear Metal Semiconductor. Bear Metal Fabrication. Bear Metal Labs. You could get so creative with the branding and logo.
To be super clear: the amount of heating actually done in a normal Houston winter day is very very minimal. It's just that enough of it collects in the high point of a tall home that an open window is desirable for balance (and, honestly, humidity).
Why not? Of course you need an up-to-date compiler, but beyond that I've never heard of any fundamental issues in compiling binaries that work on older systems (well besides installing newer compilers or cross-compiling being a real PITA to set up on Linux sometimes, but that has nothing to do with language features).
I didn't meant to blame ORM, only highlight the (mis)use of them in this type of scenario - but yes, you are correct. It is an abuse of the repository - ORM or other. :)
Maybe he will, I would hardly bet money against it. Maybe two years ago I would have, but probably also would have done the same about him hosting Whitney Cummings. He seems pretty open, why don’t you suggest it to him?

I think you are drawing a false dichotomy though. Somehow, cancel culture is a topic, but they aren’t talking __about__ it. Is there some other preposition that can fill the blank?
There is a group actively working on this [1]. Most exciting part is the work on constructing an artificial uterus to gestate the embryos, which can be a first step for doing the same for people too.

[1] https://reviverestore.org/projects/woolly-mammoth/progress/
I remember buying my first LCD display in the CRT era. It was tiny, thick, ugly, and of course expensive. Now they’re cheap and everywhere. The same will happen with e-ink in time.

Honestly I would rather have the iPad for note taking. Response times are important for rapid idea translation, and e-ink systems are very lacking here, whereas the iPad is not. Probably an unpopular opinion, but it’s my own experience.
Point 3 in the "plausible scenario" seems obviously bogus to me. If they knew about transaction malleability, they could have addressed it easily the same way the standard client does it, rather than intentionally leaving a gaping hole just so they could have an excuse for insolvency.
Alphonso Labs (the makers of Pulse News for the iPad) is looking for iPhone and Android app developers. If you have other skills we might be interested in, shoot us an email.

We have four people currently working in downtown Palo Alto, but are expanding fast to push out some clean and elegant UI design.

Website: http://www.alphonsolabs.com/
Contact: cc@alphonsolabs.com
I like the "From: Walt" on the top of the paper, just under Walt Disney production.
Reading that comment scares the shit out of me.
Finns seem to like coining neologisms as well. The language is extremely productive, with every base word potentially yielding dozens of derivatives. There's even a national "language office" that tries to promote Finnish alternatives to foreign loans. Some fail to catch on, but many do.

For example, the word for telephone is "puhelin" which is derived from the verb for "to chat" using a postfix (-in) that indicates a tool of some kind.

Computers are literally "knowledge machines". The word for electricity is also interesting: It's "sähkö" which I guess derives from "sähinä", meaning buzz.
For as much as we all love 37s and their preaching, Scott brings up some very valid points about their actual products outside of their books and brand.
Whenever I see code that asks for conditions that might vary according to the business rules, I ask myself if there's a better way.

Has anyone had any success with business rule engines? What's your approach to these kind of constraints?

I'm faced with code like this at work all the time (I mostly maintain corporate apps, and get requirements like "law XYZ asks for a minimum of 150.000 oddunits for ABC, we need to change all our apps to support that") Edit: or the far simpler, "we can't sell ABC to people under 21" or "people from Iran"
There is no less hospitable environment to try to run crypto code in than browser Javascript.

Start with content-controlled code, which you somehow have to memorize and reverify before you run.

Now load that code through the HTML DOM, which allows Javascript to be run based on tags and attributes littered throughout markup.

Now consider that you're working in a language that allows virtually any operation to be transparently overridden.

"Clunky" and "very early days" are not words that harmonize well with "basic idea is entirely sound". The basic idea simply isn't sound.
Cultural thing - sure, but keep in mind that professional programmer with 10+ years of experience typically can do more in 9-to-5 than your average college graduate on a 24/7 schedule. He needs to be paid appropriately though, which is something that a "startup" full of college kids may not be able to afford.
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We're looking for folks with unparalleled smarts in engineering and design. For the engineers out there: objective-c focus with ability to hop over to python and hack is a plus. Designers: understanding the real world mobile experience and being able to drive design decisions with this in mind is a must.

Read more about us here:
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Currently we have a team of two in San Francisco's Dogpatch labs - one ex-googler and one ex-meeboer.

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Send your info to jobs@burbn.com
Of course, as I say above, all generalizations are false. However, when you're asking about a general trend, broad strokes are appropriate. The number of people of that age that fit into startup culture are much smaller than the number of people that are younger.

Even though this thread sounds like "Why don't I get hired?" that's not what he actually asked.
This reminds me of a VICE program around Columbian Narco Submarines (1)

The show highlights, at one point, a guy who engineered an incredible drug "torpedo" that could be towed behind a fast boat, cut and dropped instantly if trouble arose, and recovered via digital homing beacons safe and sound at a later time.

I was struck by how proud he was of it, from a purely technical perspective.

And it was a damn smart solution to a problem, albeit one that was unfortunately illegal.

(1) https://www.vice.com/video/colombian-narcosubs
I been working in some blog to improve my writing skills and at the same time share some of the topics I am currently working with, enjoy
I wish someone would pay those guys.
It's really a question of how you value your own time.

If you want to get up and running fast, and keep it that way. Go for Heroku with S3. Enabling S3 file uploads is pretty straight with most rails plugins. Expect to spent money on everything: storage, dynos, database, mailing, S3, SSL, etc.

If you are on a tight budget, go with a VPS. But keep in mind that _you_ will need to setup the server, install ruby and a database server. Setup something like capistrano for deployments. Make backups. Secure your server. It's very time consuming.

So, as with everything, it's a trade-off.
I'm disappointed the Sandwich Video isn't there. It's a much better quick introduction.

You can see it on the Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1306413684/flag-the-app...

(I'm not affiliated with fl.ag at all.)
Interesting, root is not a superset, just a seed (NPI) for other user/permissions to exist, right ?
How does a VPN make money off data?
Until the time of ~Einstein thought experiments were feasible enough because only the intuitive-upon-closer-inspection parts of physics were discovered.

The big problem is that the finer points of the new physics are just straight-forward unintuitive. To understand even quantum physics (which is very basic) on an intuitive level is sufficiently impossible and has baffled the community for some time (see also the resolution[1]). It is however quite possible to develop a good intuition for the maths describing it.

Sadly, the history of thought experiments and these discussions still linger in the vocabulary used to describe the phenomena. Many words are common words that inspire some people to invent their 'intuitive' own version of the theory, based on what the words mean in every-day discourse[2].

[1] http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/21st_century_science/lectures/l...

[2]http://www.energyhealing-quantumhealing.com/ for a particularly amusing example
They have a $100B enterprise value, and make ~$4B/year in GAAP income. This is not even the yearly cost of a higher level lawyer. If you make $200k/year then the fine would correspond to a $30 ticket. Lol, just lol.
It is far too early to declare vaccination rollout a failure. Housing too ... the new policies are, politically speaking, very bold and we'll have to wait a while to see how much effect they have.
Still using LG G4 :)
Note: US and Canada only
The values are always very individual, both in terms of uptake and varying production qualities.

I'd suggest people check their values every other month or so to make sure their values aren't too high.

Especially those taking higher grade units, some pills are >5000iu.
I was mostly talking about deliveries, but fair point.
Hash the phone number in the browser before sending it to your server. That way it is at least possible to verify via devtools what is being send.

Heck. Allow even prehashed phone number to be entered.
There's also Heptapod (https://heptapod.net), a GitLab fork that is built around native support for Mercurial. I have been using it on a private server for a while now. It's been solid and reliable so far and I like it.
Agreed. Everything seems hunky-dory until the guillotines come out, and then all the elites are like "Who? Me?".
And there's 300 extra beds now, right?
HIV isn't spread via aerosol transmission.

If it's were, it absolutely would require isolation upon infection.

Edit: downvoting me doesn't make me wrong.
People have been successfully prosecuted for knowingly spreading HIV.
I didn't see the latest one, but the one before that was a video of Trump telling supports to go home, but then also continuing the allegations that the election was stolen. It initially appeared with a fact-checker disclaimer* that the allegations where wrong. I guess they weighted hims saying "go home" against the continued factually incorrect claims, which are now throwing fire on the flame, even if he's saying go home.

* Disclaimer was: "This claim of election fraud is disputed, and this Tweet can't be replied to, Retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence"
The NHS delays operations every year. This year, you'll go to A&E, need a ventilator and be told they're out and to ring a relative to give you cpr or die quietly in a corner please.
> incredibly scrutinized

At best you could say there wasn't enough fraud to tip the balance, but this "no fraud," "most secure election ever" nonsense is ridiculous. People like you probably also would have claimed dependent tax credit fraud was incredibly rare (from Snopes, a "FACT CHECK" site, no less):

> https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/declaration-of-non-depende...
> 20 years ago these people would have had much less opportunity to speak and reach followers, not more, and things were better then.

20 years ago was the disputed 2000 election, 9/11, Department of Homeland Security, Gitmo, invasion of Afghanistan, lies about WMD, invasion of Iraq, etc. So no, I wouldn't say things were better then.
I'm starting to believe we need some kind of regulation for companies who profit off of proliferating and re-enforcing echo chambers, though I'm not sure what that would even look like yet.
I am American, I know what it means, I expect a majority of people in the US don't. It's not a word in common usage in American English.
It's in society's interest to compensate creators for their work. But it was a terrible idea to grant them the power to control which other people use that work, and how. It should be work for hire, or supported by a tax, or anything that doesn't so severely damage the work's value to society and especially to other creators.
Unfortunately there seem to be scalability issues with Bitcoin. Currently each node needs to know about every transaction that ever happened. The size of my .bitcoin directory is currently around 100 MB. So with more users the high amount of transactions might become an actual problem.

There's also some discussion on the bitcoin forum about this issue: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=286.0
People come into the US every day to meet clients, visit suppliers, talk in conferences etc, usually on tourist visas. The author's story really is outstanding, I don't know whether it's a particular customs official or his answers.

But it seems to me the author's point is the lack of community in EU startups, rather than the usual HN US visa discussions (which, as non-American, I find greatly exaggerated - if you're not resourceful/motivated enough to build a product outside the US or, if you really must, find a way in, you might consider if a startup is really your thing)
>No one uses ramified type theory these days, at least not that I am aware

In the 1920s Frank Ramsey proved that the theory of ramified types + "The Axiom of Reducibility" is equivalent to the theory of simple types:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_theory#Simple_theory_of_ty...

The history I've heard is that ramified types were abandoned after this, since simple type theory is easier and has the same expressive power.