jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And yet you and everyone else are unable to produce any meaningful sources or analysis that justify your beliefs. [citation needed] and we can talk about it.

Healthcare is a social policy matter, not monetary policy, and nothing to do with increase in the money supply. You take that up with your representatives not the Fed.

Housing is a function of city council zoning policy. You take that up with your city council not the Fed, or with the federal government it you want Japanese style zoning rules. [1]

Childcare is social policy, not monetary policy, and you take that up with your representatives not the Fed.

You can't just point to anything you don't like and say the Fed Did It or is responsible for it. All they do is control the money supply. Nothing more.

A reduction in your welfare isn't inflation. Necessities can outpace inflation. It's bad social policy, but it happens. What you fail to understand is that these prices will continue to outstrip a platonic ideal even if denominated in Bitcoin because the increase in pricing has nothing to do with monetary policy. Any temporary reprieve is due to speculative mania.

[1] http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
I seem to remember Stefan Ziegler asking around the channels about questions relating to how to do certain features to uplift Slick. Don't know if anything came out of it.
Most interesting thing I read today, thanks!
I've always been an adept chess player, but I never spent the required time to become truly competitive. I agree with you that skill and ability differences lead to predictable outcomes; functionally, how would an educator address this in using chess as a learning instrument? Speculating as a non-educator, dividing the class into skill subsections would lead to more equal and competitive play, most likely increasing both motivation and learning.

My co-founder joined our start-up after spending a year traveling through Asia, and brought back with him Chinese Chess. The pieces are incredibly similar to traditional chess, with slight movement variations. We adopted the game as our 3am work-break for a while, and were able to build up a record over a few weeks. Unlike traditional chess in which my win rate would be near-absolute, he was able to win approximately 25% of Chinese games, with his win rate stable over time as we both developed our knowledge of the nuances of the game.
What makes you think good designers are not hackers and that Mark Zuckerberg is not also a designer?
Thanks for the thoughtful suggestion. I have identified few specific areas that can make use of our product, but as you mentioned engaging with them in a conversation may be the best way to find out.

I just read the article recommended by the other commenter (Joel's article on Segmentation) and it makes sense.

I think I should do the following to start with: talk to potential customers to find out what is critical; identify their price sensitivity; then group the features needed for various customer segments and identify price points.

I guess this will take several iterations to get a grasp, but I think I have a fair idea now as to where to start.
Problem with RAID is not just drives failing, but also the UBE (Unrecoverable Bit Error). Lets say you have a RAID5 configuration. In addition to the probability of disk failure, you need to account for the probability of some failure plus the controller's inability to repair the problem because a sector on the good disks experienced an UBE. The probability of UBE on enterprise level disks is rather low (10^-16 I think) but that quickly shoots up if you start considering 1TB and 2TB drives.

Problem with EBS benchmarks is that they largely depend on who else is sharing the spindles with you at the time the benchmark was run. Given the large variance in performance that is being reported, the sample size for some reliable statistics would need to be quite large
In this argument, i'm with pichai and chan. They just did the thing that google is known for. Google is best when it create a web-app or any enterprise from its store. When they acquire something they are most likely take the different approach then the original thinking of that company. This in most cases fails to scale and integrate that app.
Great test. I wonder if concurrent db access(submit db reads to multiple db servers and pick the first one) would enable workaround these weird variations in EBS response times.

Adrian C from netflix had a nice tech article on EBS performance. "Understanding and using Amazon EBS - Elastic Block Store" http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2011/03/understanding-and-using-...
Feature sounds disillusioned especially with the social engineering and data-mining brought together.
Just curious, anyone have experience using a rooted nook as a primary tablet?
No doubt it is. I think it's just a problem with us understanding more. There is always going to be, taking to much of something, too little of something else, doing to much of x, doing to little of x.

Things that are good for us are bad in large amounts (vitamins), and things that are bad can be used for 'good' (botox).

Find what works for you, and makes you feel how you want, and stick with it. There will never be better advice since everyone is different. But where is the scare in that? :)
Agreed. All my boys were playing chess at 5. However, they have no desire to create a variation. Their #1 goal is to beat Dad.
No-one is advocating inflation: we are talking about the best policy response to a deflationary shock and liquidity trap.

First you claimed that increasing the money supply to prevent deflation is wrong because it is theft. Now you retreat to the claim that theft is OK as long as it requires "getting [gold] out of the ground". So you're claiming that there are certain arbitrary activities (moving dirt) which should be government-protected as legitimate ways of debasing a currency and stealing from other citizens.

Leaving aside the fact that your proposal encourages political corruption in natural resource extraction, I fail to see why someone with a pick-ax should be entitled to inflate away my savings. But if you insist on the matter please tell me again how your proposal is different from Keynes' example of burying money in mineshafts.
What exactly did you not like about 1.3? It's faster and a lot numeric stuff no longer needs to be written Java.

As far as 1.2, the only thing I find lacking around protocols and datatypes is reader support and a default constructor fn.

As far as community dislike of macros, I'm not convinced.

I also don't see anything stopping anyone from submitting their CA and pitching a friendlier macro front-end. But as far I can tell most people in the Clojure community are not familiar with Scheme style macros. You'd have to come up with the code, write the tutorials, and market your approach. That it's a lot of work is the only reason I see that it hasn't been done yet - not because anyone is against the idea.
This is interesting. How does this work?
> I've got the books sitting front of me, and I've written some trivial visualizations of sorting algorithms using terminal output, but damn if I can find a way to use C as a web developer

Write a C-extension for infrastructure-level ruby gem if you're a rubyist, or fix a bug / add a feature in your favorite scripting language.
I really like the idea of merge conflicts being resolved in the open in a pull request, instead of the pull requester working in seclusion. For those of us with projects on GitHub, is there any way to replicate this behavior there?
Not "trickle down" but circularity: if you borrow money you get to bring forward consumption and the workers making your goods get paid earlier as well. Enabling them and the factory to pay off their loans. Ford uniquely went in the other direction of trying to push money round the economy by raising wages; that would be great but isn't happening at the moment.

Getting credit solves cashflow problems. If you're spending $10/week at the laundry, buying a $250 washing machine pays for itself very quickly. Except you can't save $250 because you keep needing to do laundry.
The above is not possible with Riot.
what is annoying for me is unreliability of delivery of messages. some never get to target phone! Simple scenario - I send messages 1, 2, 3. All three gets delivery on target phone (double gray "hook"), first one gets to be read (hooks turn blue), second doesn't, third does. Country - Switzerland. Both platforms - android.
Just one step away from moving away from whatsapp, considering competition offers sometimes much more (ie viber - emoticons, childish but lovely way to talk to my gf :))
This is like your hammer breaking and you deciding you need to build a new nail.

If you need "legal" identification, it has to come from your government or be approved by them. Whether it's a "digital" or paper identity, it still has to be processed by your government. If they're already not doing it, they're not going to do it in a new form, either.

Aside from this ID is the idea of digital currency. That could actually be beneficial to remote people using basic cell phones. But it doesn't need any fancy digital ID; just tie the phone identifier to some intermediate personal banking network, and you can send and receive money using just your phone number. Simple, direct, intuitive, using existing infrastructure. I don't think biometrics should be necessary (it's easily broken and costs more money).
I think I was actually thinking about 10 O'Clock Live. My mistake (and a shameful one, it was one of my favorites).
The problem with the "Don't hack things together" advice is that it's invariably written by developers who like to write code, enjoy writing about code, and want to be seen as thoughtful and influential people in their development community. Those sorts of people tend to gravitate towards the projects that have the scale where code quality is critical because what they work on lasts for years with thousands of people building on it.

If you're a developer who throws code together in a few months for clients who aren't paying for a quality product, and maybe you'll come back to it a couple of times in the future when it needs a new field added or a page title changed, then a hack is perfectly valid and can hugely improve your business's bottom line over spending even just another 10% making sure you've got tests and documentation and defensive code and so on. Spending time on the maintainability of code that no one will ever maintain is a waste of time.
Point well taken! It would be nice to live in that city I must admit :)
Do you really think the elite would accept any threat to the status quo without a fight? Besides, even if you were to somehow succeed, the scarcity of bitcoin would just be the new elite. Bitcoin ownership is already incredibly concentrated. Meet your new boss, same as old boss.
Assumption/Hypothesis: "Those individuals in a group of experts who make decisions that are most similar to the decisions of others also make the best decisions."

"It has been shown time and again that experts who are good in their field are good in a similar way, whereas poor performers are bad in very different ways. Working on the basis of this observation, we developed this new method and tested it in various areas," says Ralf Kurvers, lead author and researcher at the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.
Google are great, upvote/downvote what does it matter :)
They make the compiler to make their CPUs more attractive.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2454297
I don't know. I think the actors could use a good... Coach.

YEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
Romans 12:20 "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head."

Try being super nice to these guys. Maybe you will find that they are just as insecure as you and you can break through their shells. If you give that an honest effort and they don't break, get the hell out of there!
Note clean is a bad alias though as already a proper git command. I changed my alias again to ditch... :)
Even I hate Comcast. And I'm european.
What did you have before?
Bachelors. Not as in Bachelors degree, but literally bachelors: They're young, cheap, work crazy hours, and easily seduced by free pizza - the ideal startup employee.
Is there a real problem to be solved by this proposed legislation?

Of course, in theory, it's necessary that radio stations not transmit on the same frequency too close to each other, or there's interference. If this is happening in practice, then increased enforcement might well be called for.

If, on the other hand, interference isn't happening in practice, then increased enforcement seems like both a waste of resources and... is there a name for social benefit coming out of things being in a legal grey area?
"The protests crossed that line when they started shutting down freeways and transit. The only difference between that and terrorism is the rhetoric."

Are you serious? You see no difference between beheading someone and sending out a video of it, and peacefully stopping traffic for a few minutes, other than the way they talk about it? Flying airplanes into buildings, and disrupting a train schedule for a little while by peacefully locking arms, are the same thing to you? Suicide bombers, and a (simulated, and peaceful) "die-in" in a shopping mall, those are morally no different?

That's such an unreasonable, and inflammatory, position to take that I'm genuinely not even sure how to communicate with you.
Just a very noob question here. When carbon is released into the atmosphere where and how does it disperse? Can we expect it to gradually concentrate in lower elevations or in certain geographical traps?
it does not invalidate his/her observation
> Or is the state of the art in information retrieval good enough and thus, doesn't cost much?

Yes. Of course, you need to find the correct bias so that a satisfactory result is perceived by the greatest amount of people possible, but otherwise the real challenge is to convince websites to allow them a competition besides Bing and Google (which are often the only whitelisted "bots" for websites outside Russia and east Asia). For example, DDG has tried to use "Orange" (the name of their bot) previously in exchange to Bing but it didn't really work as expected due to websites whitelisting only MSN/Bing and Google. Google, LinkedIn and some other sites blocks access to their site index, giving boost to only established spiders. Even Twitter blocks Bing [1] as we speak, therefore only Google (and Yandex and Yahoo! if their indexer is still alive) can reliably parse Tweets.

1: https://twitter.com/robots.txt
One day we may be producing jet fuel! For now, the same exact logic applies to CO2 production: every new ton consumed = a new ton in the sky. If businesses use reclaimed CO2 to run their process, no new tons end up in the sky due to their operations since it started in the sky in the first place.
How large is the CO2 market relative to the amount of CO2 currently injected into the atmosphere?
I'd start by making it uniformly enforced, and with no "cliff" where you can go from being unticketed to owing thousands through a calibration change.

In this case, change the ticketing model to have a graduated scale so e.g. going 1mph through a stop sign is $1, going 2 is $3, going 10mph is $100. Ideally, enforce it through technology at all stops. And then anyone who accrues more than say $10 in fines in a month has to pay it, and everyone can see where they are towards that.

And then to make it properly "fair" make it equitable, e.g. ticket costs indexed against your personal income rather than a flat rate.
I've always had it memorised that LE is the "logical" order and BE the "backwards" order, specifically for this reason: with LE, the bit at offset n has value 2^n, and the byte at offset n has value 256^n. With BE it depends on how wide the total value is, which introduces an awkward length-dependent term.

Practically all multi-precision arithemtic libraries store the segments of a bignum in LE order too, despite the fact that the individual segments may be BE on a BE machine. That is even more confusing.
I like the first one more, am I weird?
Then I can’t pay the mortgage on the house I am renting you and need to start looking for another tenant. That means yes, you get kicked out.
Then use cases/capita. US has 330 million people and comparing it with #2 spot (Italy with 60 million) is completely insane, not to mention that the worse is yet to come to US.

I am all for taking a critical look at American systems and their effectiveness of the response, but the ranking by the case numbers is naive, misleading and unproductive.
What’s the ruling on using threadreaderapp? Would a good submission post the original twitter source and link threadreaderapp in a comment?
The rate of spreading is still >> rate of testing
One question. Are they shifting around the center of frame or is it safe to do soft-letterboxing to 4:3 if your playback device allows for it?

Basically using the 16:9 HD version as some kind of Open Matte source material, if there are no shifts between scenes this should be trivial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_matte
With the prize money going to the Wikimedia Foundation
For me what works the best:
Start early in the morning, before the sun and everyone else rises, this will give ~2 hours of time in a single block, the rest of the day is there just for interruptions and small tasks.
People have mentioned a CDN or Varnish. You need something that will cache the images on a CDN level to reduce traffic. Cloudflare, Fastly, etc.
We may be writing very different kinds of iOS apps, but most of our SDK upgrade problems stem from (often accidental) misuse of Apple's APIs, or a documented change that Apple made.
I was actually thinking something simpler; just having all your types implement an interface, and then following the general "tell, don't ask" dictum.

Handlers are useful for some more complex use cases, as is the visitor pattern, but they're frankly overused. It's often enough to create an interface and let the classes handle their own class-specific logic.

And polymorphism is not just a sugared version of pattern matching. Each gives you a different kind of flexibility. Polymorphism makes it easy to add new types to an existing set of operations, and pattern matching makes it easier to add new operations to an existing set of types.

Which one you need depends on your use case. The common knowledge can get a bit tricky here, though. For example, functional programming is often touted as being ideal for programming language experimentation, because you have pattern matching, but I have found that OOP is more to my taste in this area. The reason is because, nowadays, the set of basic operations a compiler or interpreter needs to do is fairly well-established and static. But the list of things you need to operate on - that is, the set of features in the language you're implementing - will change as you add or remove features from the language.
I've actually interviewed at Hilton for a SWE role. The office was pretty depressing haha.
I would love feedback regarding usability and feature requests. I have started using this framework for internal testing, but I'd love to see it used by others.
I've never had a FB account, never thought I missed anything. But, there's a Buy-Nothing group I want to join, and they are on FB. I admire the concept of Buy-Nothing, but I abhor FB and am not going to make an account to join Buy-Nothing. Even if I were to start a new Buy-Nothing group, FB provides the most reach because it's pervasive and probably easiest to use, and one can be tagged with one's location. Mailing lists don't thread well, GoogleGroup is a dumpster fire. What other tools can I use to build a like-minded community for good?
My guess is that he's mixing income with wealth (just a guess though).
You mean to say they didn't reset their registers, cascading down an undefined potentially metastable state?
it's unclear to me what statements we're making are 'not true'.

if you don't believe our statements, I'm not going to be able to convince you to trust us over the discourse in this thread :-)
Is this Google's "moat" or is Google beset on all sides? It seems Google is making Microsoft's mistakes and making enemies in every market it can.
Cray did this first. In the 1970's. They also did it cooler than these people will. The Cray-2 had a cooling tower which used artificial blood (flurinert) for coolant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2
"10:00pm – .... You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow."

Is there free beer provided after 10pm?
It is mostly beginners and students that think learning programming languages is difficult or is a big part of the difficulty of writing software.
I'm taking it very seriously. This is a meta-discussion about reasons other people may not be, and how to address that both personally and at a policy level.
That's where the signaling comes in, the "caller" generates an "offer" and this has to be relayed to the other end(s). from there, the clients take that and generate an answer that links the two.... the offer / answers include all of the ip info the machine can generate, but on a nat network that's really just only as far as your local gateway, your ipv6 addresses, etc...

you need a STUN server to add in the parts that would include your external ip... that's really all stun does is some service further up the network to give a more reachable address..
> Unclear why anyone who has legal content for which they own the rights would want to use this.

Because they don't want to use traditional content distribution channels that require content creators to agree to one-sided terms (in favor of the distributor).
Yes, this is the real issue - when you distribute your app on Apple's App store, you are giving up control on a crucial part of your business and trusting Apple (a third party and a potential competitor) to not screw you in the future.
thanks, will put some more effort into it if it ever happens again
"and accidental loss in an amount that covers maximum value of bitcoin we hold in online storage at any given time"

What about the value in the offline storage?