jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Your link is talking about clusters of 15 or fewer people with extremely common forms of cancer like breast cancer.

That is incredibly different from this case which is 100+ people with an extremely rare form of cancer.

It's a good point that even if an individual cancer cluster seems improbable on its own, such clusters may occur by chance once you look for any clusters anywhere, but it's important to understand that this depends on the actual probabilities involved which are determined by both the number of cases and the type of cancer, so that is almost definitely not applicable here.
Europe has had a structure in place for awhile and these companies are accepting smaller dollar amounts. Still, raises tend to be a couple hundred thousand dollars when they are successful, and it's not going to be a common avenue for a company to raise large amounts of money. If you're doing something esoteric but popular you can go to Indiegogo/Kickstarter and resell without dilution and without SEC oversight.

If the SEC provides a way to pool together smaller investments in a fun structure they would have be able to invest in opportunities like Uber. Probably the safest path (albeit venture investing is very very risky) is when investors get to invest alongside professional VCs because the company will have been better diligences, better capitalized, and there will be management oversight.
What is with the "joining" euphemism? ("Revolution Analytics is joining Microsoft," as the blog post puts it.) Is there some sort of growing unclean perception when a company is acquired? More often than not, these acquisitions are intelligently motivated and, aside from producing great economic outcomes for the company being bought, seem to me a real encomium to the founders.
Yes, in general, hwloc (from which lstopo comes) is the thing to use for anything to do with CPU/memory topology, e.g. pinning to logical cores rather than physical ones whose numbering can even change with BIOS updates.
Please don't do this here.

Edit: please really don't keep doing this here.
The Wikipedia census data for Ordos is from 2010, i.e. well before the 2013 article. The ghost city proper is Kangbashi, a new development within Ordos intended to house 300,000 people. In early 2015, the population was estimated at 100,000, admittedly growing but still very much in keeping with the title ghost town.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangbashi_New_Area
I agree. If I ever get a new machine it will be a Lenovo. The build quality is amazing.
Interesting that the site they're linking in that booklet is hosted on Squarespace and not AWS.
Wow, I created a color theme for VSCode some years ago (which actually got some attention by some people and there was one guy even adapting it to Google Chrome dev console) and not even one second I thought that this kind of stuff could be monetised in any way. Well done.
Power satellites like this are one of the first great possible ways to put industry in space. We need early economic reasons to get there.

Issac Arthur usually has the best overview of topics like this https://youtu.be/eBCbdThIJNE
Will it run with completely free software?
The limiting factor for lasting is not hardware but required proprietary software.
You are more brave than I
There's a wide gulf between "only a few people with the right skills and personal connections can bootstrap a space company" and "none of them could have been bootstrapped without years of unprofitable R&D on the public's dime"
Sorry, why does it matter where they’re founded?
Seconded!
The value that AMD has been bringing to the table lately is shockingly good.
I don't see why journalists should have some sort of special protection that should not apply to the "peasants".
Was reading through https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1451494/FULLTEXT... - what's the current status/eta of raw sockets? Last time I checked wasm consensus seemed to suggest they will never be supported?
Could it be even worse -- that they are shorting the stock by the time the lawsuit goes to court?

The notices of class action lawsuits for stocks I've owned have only stipulated that you've owned the stock during some time window, as far as I recall.
Is this onsite or remote? You write here ONSITE but on linked page it says Remote: NO
However noble, the risk I see is for untold man-hours and resources that will be expended on an ill-fated adventure. This project requires tons of positive tech-community spirit, which apple isn't exactly known for.
I'm not sure if / how this is done in Europe, but do these banks presumably also package these loans for sale, where a potential buyer of the note simply wants the recurring income stream for the next 15 or 30 years? That's the basic scheme here in the US anyway.
> Further, Iran has openly declared their intention to genocide Israel, on repeat.

Based on my understanding, that's based on a misinterpretation so what they're actually saying in Farsi. Even so, the attitude of the population and government in Pakistan towards Israel isn't that much different. Even if you consider the dynamics between Pakistan and India, the last war was 50 years ago and other than some skirmishes, nothing major happened.

If we were to substitute Iran for Pakistan and Israel for India, would the situation be really that different?

> North Korea for decades has declared their desire to conquer South Korea and create one Korea under their rule

To a certain extent, this is what happened in Vietnam and the country appears to be doing okay these days.
This is a lot easier than freezing the RAM to quickly read it though. Otherwise, if you have full disk encryption enabled, you can't really do much.
Having a separate English & Chinese version of the documentation can surely help.
This comment is a reference to this site:

http://yoyodawgdawg.com/about

Essentially, a send-up of the "Pimp My Ride" show, where Xzibiti is always like: "I heard you like something gratuitously big, so we minified it and stuck it in your vehicle"
heh. I attended Jonathan Gray's talk at Hadoop World this year (which was pretty good!) and he talked a lot about Facebook's infrastructure. Gray has been a primary committer on the HBase project for a while (since inception?) and I remember people somewhat teasing that HBase was kind of the pet project of the NoSQL world. I've had fun hacking on it off and on myself. Gray amusingly said that HBase was being prepped for production in a huge way, but he couldn't give any details.

Well, I guess we know now! Definitely looking forward to all the future developments of HBase. There are a lot of interesting contribs being made.
I work in infosec, so none of that surprises me. But voluntarily sending something like my drivers license is completely insane.

Correct on zip code, but not surprising since I work in public sector. My salary is published if you look hard enough.

Edit for full disclosure: correct on zip and wife's bday, wrong on others. Off by one on annivesary
They don't ban breastfeeding images, they ban images of breasts. They don't ban domestic violence survivors from using pseudonyms, they ban pseudonyms.

It is easy to make a subset of a policy appear discriminatory. For example, Facebook ban black people from creating multiple profiles. Clearly racist, until you consider they ban everyone from creating multiple profiles.
Is it radical that entrepreneurs want to keep their money, so they can invest it the way they see fit? As a bleeding heart thinker, I've come to terms with this.
Results: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewanalytics?formkey=dElMTH...
I recently started developing for Google App Engine after several years working with Rails, and my sense is that Python testing (at least on App Engine) is seriously behind the Ruby/Rails world.

GAE is especially hard to test because you essentially run it in an emulator locally. It's also pretty bare-bones, so you don't get the free testing tools you get with Rails, like fixtures (love 'em or hate 'em, at least they can get you started) and a test runner.

Sure, you can set all that stuff up (and I do) but it sucks having to do a bunch of grunt work that's done for you in Rails.

FWIW, my preferred testing setup in Rails is Shoulda with Mocha for mocking and my own fixie library for pre-populating test data (it's faster than factory_girl) and factory_girl if I find I need it. I think acceptance testing with Cucumber is over rated and I'll be damned if I'm going to program in English, so I do not bother.

For GAE, I'm using gaetestbed and writing a lot of helper functions.
No, because Internet. A better argument would replace information with IQ/EQ.
No that doesn't make sense.

Stripe's fees don't change per card.
Tesla didn't start the electric car resurgence nor is it likely to take us to Mars.

The way I see it Elon is rising up to those around him not the other way around.
The complaint does accuse the two agents of stealing directly from Silk Road during the "proffer" of DPR's employee, C.G. There is no accusation of stealing from Mt.Gox. They reportedly used Mt.Gox to convert stolen bitcoin to dollars and then wired out the dollars to other accounts).
Wonder if this trick could be used agains large binary files (like a database backup)?
Nobody wants the responsibility for "bringing it up to code." Aside from the difficulty of de-brainwashing 25 Million people, it would cost an entire country's GDP to support the kind of reforms needed for DPRK to become "modern" to a Chinese standard.

It's a political Rat King.
This was pretty deliberately buried, yes. I've been going through the evidence exhibits for the trial, and in retrospect, knowing what I know now, it's remarkable how carefully chosen exhibits are to hide all the traces on Ulbricht's end: for example, due to redaction failures, we know all the mentions of French Maid were scrubbed by prosecution; his journal is carefully chosen to start after Chronicpain was busted and used to rob SR1 accounts; the failed extortion attempt using the name 'A.A.' is partially redacted so it sounds like an isolated incident; and so on.
Wow, Gwern from gwern.net is implicated in this. No idea he moderates that subreddit.

It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out considering Gwern has a few essays on self-experimentation with drugs and discloses they were purchased from Darknet vendors. Despite the articles pertaining to illicit substances the experiments in question were exceedingly academic (like much of Gwern's writings).
Significantly reducing the number of criminals is fairly easy without overhauling the system. Decriminalize drug use and possession. That'll cut the number of trials (or pleas) substantially all by itself, and even more so if you assume that knock-on effects will reduce crime overall, as many drug legalization proponents think it would. Other nonviolent offenses could be cut back as well. Stop putting people in prison because one of them paid the other one for sex, for example. Here in Virginia, you can potentially go to jail for a year (and, obviously, have a trial if you want it) for driving at 80MPH in a zone marked for 70MPH!

Increasing resources for holding trials is also not terribly difficult and doesn't require any sort of overhaul. It's just a problem of money, and not a big one. Just for a random example, it looks like the courts account for about 0.3% of my local county budget and about 1% of my local state budget. We could literally increase court resources by a factor of 10 with only a modest increase in taxes to fund it.
>Well, if you are still at the receiving end of much international support, if millions of your people are still dying of hunger ... Then, maybe, a mars mission and now this should not be one of your priorities.

man, your sentiment and logic is understandable. Yet, do you seriously think that by dropping Mars mission India would have changed anything in the plight of the poor people there? There still would be the same poor and no Mars mission.

The Mars mission serves enlightenment and progress and those are the most effective things which improve society and the lives of poor in particular (wrt. enlightenment for example - judging by the price tab, India's Mars mission didn't have any corruption or money mismanagement to speak of which on its own is a great achievement on par with developed Western countries and well ahead of countries like Russia or China)
Unbelievable. I had this exact same idea. Get out of my mind!
talk about raw power...
here is a ray tracer in the K (a programming language from the apl family):
http://www.nsl.com/k/ray/ray.k
Hey! You demo'd this to me at Beer && Code a few weeks ago. Good to see this has come along!
"I’ve gotten more job offers because of the stuff I’ve built than the schools I’ve attended."

I feel like this may be true for many in progress students at middle to high tier universities - however once you have a degree from MIT/Stanford/Caltech/Cal, the interest in candidates for full time jobs shifted from having miscellaneous side projects and contributions to FOSS projects to having a decent GPA and a degree. I feel that the writer of the article could try to discuss that the two are at least tantamount, the degree from a distinguished university is a display of four years of hard work, weekend side projects most of the time span the weekend.
Ha, I just started working on the same exact project a few weeks ago. Great minds think alike, I guess. I'm taking a different approach, so I'll still launch it to see what people think.

I brought up this idea in a "gamification of software development" talk I gave last April.
The best camera is of course the one you have with you.
People have taken amazing photos with the iphone for sure!
However, action shots are not likely among those unless in some abstract form.
What's more likely here? That there's a nefarious plot inside Apple to let some developers use forbidden functionality hoping no one else notices the double standard, or that a human app reviewer missed this and it slipped through? I invoke Occam's Razor on this non-story.
What WM are you using? Fullscreen flash works on XMonad (you have to customize the manage-hook, but that's in the FAQ.)
oh, you didn't indeed. I just thought we were arguing here whether Finland had enough immigrants for them to make a dent in education statistics. And the answer is resounding yes.

also, Helsinki clearly isn't the whole Finland, but most African and Asian immigrants do live in Helsinki.
how about a link that does a better job of that?

https://web.archive.org/web/20210406073805/https://www.faceb...

heh, except for analytics.archive.org
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> Because Prince Charles is heir to the throne (and has been portrayed more negatively in the news media than any other living person)

The UK should quickly tweak their royal succession laws, and give the crown to Edward, or Anne, while the queen is still alive.

If Charles abdicates, the line of succession dispute would be rather funny under the current succession laws.
Do you truly understand how it works though? I was similar. I loved my setup and it did mostly just "work" but I found it unnerving that eventually when it does break, I wouldn't know how to fix it.
All three of those are unsuitable due to Omega 6 content. Coconut oil and Olive oil are perfectly fine for frying mushrooms slowly in a pan at medium or low heat.

You're worried about hitting the smoke point, which would impart foul taste to the food, but its unlikely to happen with any competent cook.
I think Apple software is popular not because it's own value and features, but because:

1. It's free

2. It's preinstalled

3. It's well integrated

I don't think I'd use Mail, iMessage, Safari or Preview if it was not installed by default and set up so it is a default app. Feature-wise I'd say Apple software it good enough not to bother installing anything else and that's it.
Do you ride a bike? You wouldn't say such total nonsense if you rode a bike.
C'mon - give me a good explanation why this deserves to be on hacker news.

Is this information why you are here?
You need to setup as a defense contractor (and jump through all the hoops) just so you can sell a Zoom zero-day and realize the NSA will give you 50k?
He was a significant public figure. His appearance here is not an unanimous endorsement, nor an anti-endorsement, just an acknowledgement that he was a significant figure.

See this search for the many other figures whose deaths have made the front page here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
This is tricky to pull off on busy projects, as master is continually progressing and all open pull request branches would need to be constantly rebased.

With the Bitbucket approach, you get to see the conflict in the pull request UI, but you should still resolve it locally on your branch before merging to master.
I think you overestimate the difficulty of setting up dead drop locations.

Were I in a law-scoffing mood, I would first set up hidden cameras in several prepared locations and let them record for a while. After reviewing the footage for unusual traffic, I would place the UAV at one such site by hand. After I left, it would fly to a second site, drop payload, and proceed to a third for later recovery.

If I really took it seriously, I would have several pre-programmed abort procedures, and a sachet of thermite powder with an electrically-triggered magnesium igniter affixed to the control electronics.

You don't actually need to recover the drone if your margins are high enough, but you do absolutely need to ensure that it doesn't end up intact in the wrong hands. I might try to design a UAV with a largely disposable, mostly-printable airframe and an ejectable/destructable control module.
Yeah, not SF, not for me. I'm in the southern US so 130 is near the top end for technical, non managerial, positions. The salary offered is a noticeable but not terrible cut.

I've had friends tried to recruit me in other parts of the country and gotten asked if I'm "king of my town" with what I'm making.

Agreed on the cofoundery-ness of it for the most part. They've been working on the idea and getting things fleshed out of the last 9 months and aren't taking a salary. I'd certainly like to make my way closer to the double digit mark, but honestly its tough to put forward much of an argument when the startup world is so capital centric.
One of the problems is the ingrained mentality that "enterprise" is defined by "if you throw enough money at the vendor, they'll add features and make changes for you." That's bollocks, in general, but because a lot of modern "good" software companies don't work that way, it's hard to make inroads.

As an example, according to a software engineer's review on Glassdoor, Concur's web app is about a million lines of classic ASP (and as a user of it, I can vouch for how crappy it is)... yet their mobile app is really slick and user-friendly. Netsuite is another company gaining momentum, with their premise essentially being that companies want an ERP that doesn't require the infrastructure or overhead that Oracle or SAP do. Netsuite, however, doesn't do the same kind of "consulting" as the big guys and you basically get what you get.

Big companies tend to be risk averse, and taking a risk on good software that can't be molded to existing business processes can sometimes mean it's not actually good software for that company ... or so the perception goes.
"The above is no longer true. The Web alone is not enough to avoid being a sharecropper."

If I build a Web app, what unremovable third-party am I required to use?
Hm.

I'm using emacs just several days.

I've used: vim, visual studio, Delphi/CBuilder IDEs, PyScripter, notepad++, PL/SQL Developer, TOAD, others.

What I found pleasant in emacs: It does not have learning curve at all.

All I need to figure is just Alt-x (M-x). Than it became fun.

I've read documentation only for cua-mode. Everything else was found through guessing and experimentation.

Of course, maybe I'm just novice and I do not know some hidden emacs dangers, one day they will pop up and bite my ass. Dunno.
My guess is that porn downloaders, like may other media downloaders (warez, music, videos, etc.), have a hoarding/pack-rat mentality. All too often I see people amassing various collections of digital media so huge, they'd never in a lifetime be able to consume it all.
Didn't work on ubuntu. ;(

/tmp/selfgz13504/hacketyhack-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libssh2.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Anon has a time machine. They don't talk about it, though.
IANAL but it sure seems by not fighting these early individual smaller cases the spammers are setting themselves up for a huge class action case in the future by establishing precedence.

Any lawyers here? How do no contest rulings in small claims apply to setting precedence?

It looks like a fair amount of the time he's settling out of court -- I also wonder if any of the companies settling have deep enough pockets to be worth organizing a large class?
It's also the simplest hardware (no keyboard/trackpad/internal screen/camera to worry about), and no-PM Linux will be useful already on the Mini (no so much on laptops).
I think that an accounting system which encodes uncertainty ("it could be any one of these two dozen images") will help create pressure on the upstream, as well as downstream visibility into who is affected.
About 20 paid subscriptions. Have over 100k students. The paid subscriptions are from a point where we are starting to monetize but everything was hacked together.
Maybe https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/world/middleeast/some-ira... (there's also a Wikipedia article). I think a good comparison may also be "damn Kubernetes", you're not literally damning some technology. It's less clear in the phrase "damn you to hell". I think it's kind of similar, it's overloaded.
But it's irrelevant to the quality of the policy, which is what is in dispute here.

EDIT: I suppose personal motivations would be relevant if they were part of a conflict of interest, e.g. in cases of bribery or when the public official's associates benefit.