jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how you can gather such a targeted signal by sticking wires in just a few places.

Like, you can't just tape a metal coat hanger to an iPhone and start getting text messages through it.

But somehow you can put some wires just as few mm into the surface of a brain and extract fine motor signals??
Is this simply a trope made up and amplified by hollywood?
>big money interests who benefit from mass acceptance of libertarian narratives

I would say it's every interest who benefits from mass acceptance of completely stupid & misguided narratives from almost all Democrats & Republicans.

Libertarians, especially non-Party members, are the least of my worries.

Besides the fact that what now passes for leadership ability can not even rise high enough to polish the shoes of Dwight Eisenhower or JFK and they weren't good enough either compared to the Founding Fathers.

Corporations worldwide have modeled themselves on this American trend of precipitiously declining competence at or near the top, plenty of money can always be made by Bozos after true leaders have built the money-making machines.

By the time Reagan & Clinton came along it was far too late.

Clinton knew it so well that's why one of his earliest (naturally unfulfilled) campaign promises in 1991 was to give every citizen $5000 if they wanted to start their own business. At the time nothing else could be seen that would allow wage-earners to escape to the prosperity their forefathers had worked for and truly earned up to that point in the 20th century.
> I currently use a tenkeyless keyboard which gives me the only less-than-fullsize keyboard advantage that I care about: my mouse is closer.

FINALLY an advantage to my "handicap": I use the numeric keypad somewhat frequently, and the additional size of the keyboard doesn't bother me at all. The number pad could be as large as another full-size keyboard, and my mouse wouldn't be a nanometre further away. And ever since I bought my left-handed mouse, it's comfortable and ergonomic and whatnot, too.
> Also goes to show what a shit show Intel has become since even he was not able to right that ship

Was he exclusively working on "that ship" ... wait, I thought you said "chip".
Unlimited what exactly?
The video (if it's yesterday's video you're talking about) started by saying that the election has been stolen, it was a landslide on his favor, yadda yadda, only to end with a variation of "stay peaceful and go home now". it was 20% call to peace and 80% reinforcement of the idea that democracy has been hijacked to get him out.
Also in Africa, most business live out from WhatsApp.

You will find WhatsApp contacts for any kind of communication, ordering a taxi, food, whatever.

Move out of WhatsApp, and it is going to be quite boring out in the Savannah.
I have plenty of experience with engine performance, and s/he was absolutely correct. An overly loud engine is is opening its valves too early or closing too late, and it can only be made quieter by restrictive mufflers. More modern and efficient engine designs, enabled by technologies such as variable valve timing, are quieter out of the valves because they convert more energy into motion instead of sound. Being quieter, they also have less pressure, and are less affected by muffler restrictiveness. Straight pipes might make a 1969 charger more powerful, but the effect on a modern V8 like the BMW N63 is negligible.
Been there, done that. At one point they were giving away tablets in exchange for an app, so thought I'd give it a go. Their development process was more or less "write an android app, then run it through a converter.". So I did, and it worked rather poorly. Got my tablet, wrote off Bb for good.
You're comparing apples with watermelons. The only thing vaguely similar is the memory, and it's only cheap because you get it randomly as the market fluctuates.

In every other regard - disk space, CPU cores, data transfer, availability - the AWS spot instance option is MUCH worse than a regular VPS like from DO, or even a dedicated physical host.

Ignoring the CPU core difference, a regular (i.e. so you can use it all the time) instance with extra EBS storage and data transfer to match the DO instance you mentioned, would be $1500/month.

Places like Rimuhosting will rent you a pre-used dedicated server with 128GB RAM, 2TB HDD + 200GB SSD Dual Xeon (12 cores, 24 HT) physical server (which you can then run a single Xen VM on, for better portability) for $400 a month. Yes it's more than your $50 a month, but its completely yours, for as long as you want it.

To truly take advantage of a spot instance and NOT have it impact your business, your workload needs to be very tolerant of interruptions and variable processing time per day. For the vast majority of people using EC2 (web/app servers running 24x7) it's not a realistic option.
Wayne Gretzky wasn't!

(Come on!)
Well, he's right in one sense: legislatively mandated net neutrality is actually no less rights-violating than forcing app developers to support Blackberry.
I don't deny there's a genetic component and I don't believe stress is the single cause. I'm not well read on mental illness. But in the context of this story, stress was a cause (or trigger, whatever you want to call it) for a certain kind of behavior. It didn't seem like Giulia had any problems before her job.

"Some days, the stress of having to shower was too much. It was impossible to eliminate the stress enough since so much of it was misreactions to very low stress levels."

That's sad.
You are probably talking about threaded code which is described in "The Structure and Performance of Effi cient Interpreters"
http://www.jilp.org/vol5/v5paper12.pdf

With real code examples
Interestingly, at least at the places I've worked at recently, that functional "style" or kernel of truth is being picked up by more and more PHP programmers. It's great, makes it far easier to test code.
I strongly believe IPv6 would be more fully deployed if they had only extended the address fields, and left everything else the same.

Things like Neighbor Discovery Protocol don't have to exist; ARP would work fine; the protocol already contemplates different length addresses, it would just need a constant assigned for IPv6.
There are dongles at home and dongles to carry. For home, I need a DVI adaptor that goes into a separately powered USB 3 hub so I can use a monitor, and I can plug my keyboard and mouse into that. I am not a fan of the extra wiring though, needing to power the hub takes up one more electrical outlet, but it's not mobile and I can hide it, so no biggie.

But that means when I carry the laptop around I have to carry a dongle for the mouse or not use the mouse. It depends. The mouse is ergonomic and easier on my hands than the trackpad, so I prefer to carry it. It's just one dongle, and I'm already carrying the mouse, so not too bad.

I also need USB 2 for my Yubikey, which is USB 2.0.

Before I had USB headsets but that would be 3 USB 2.0 devices and my portable hub only accepts two, so I ditched them and switched to the old wired iphone earbuds since they are light and stateless.

That also means I have to give up my ergonomic keyboard and use the flat keyboard, but usually that's OK unless I am on a long trip. If I'm on a long trip, I'll want that ergonomic keyboard after a lot of typing at which point it's 3 USB 2.0 devices and then I need to bring the powered hub with its own adaptor. I can leave that where I'm staying and just take the mouse to the coffee shop. But this adds complexity.

All in all, it's doable, I'm not complaining that it is an insurmountable obstacle, but I would prefer a computer that was a bit thicker and heavier but had more ports built just to reduce the overall complexity of the setup and not worry if I brought everything with me. When you compare the weight of the usb hub and its adaptor to the extra weight added by adding a few more ports, I'd prefer the laptop to be a bit less demanding in input requirements. To me that would make for a more mobile solution overall.

But honestly these are minor issues.
I don't know what you're asking. What does "license e-ink technology" mean specifically? It would be equivalent to asking how much does it cost to license Microsoft technology or Google technology? I hope you can see how the question is unanswerable.
It doesn't sell those [edit: cloud] services to others.
Yes, that is how it is typically done, they throw nets over segments of boxes on the floors and secure them to the seat rails.
Can we watch his buying activity to predict the market bottom?
> Of course, it turns out there aren't that many home applications for an atomic clock

For all the people who have a rubidium standard at home, 70% are using it for electronic lab, amateur radio, or NTP at home. But the remaining 30% is another large userbase too - audiophiles. Many audiophiles claim jitter and phase noise in the clock signal significantly affects audio quality, and the most extreme audiophiles use a lab grade frequency standard, rubidium or better, and feed it to all their Hi-Fi gears.

P.S: Given all the factors that affect audio quality, is the phase noise from a PLL synthesizer of reasonable quality really a major factor? Even if it is, does a rubidium standard really have any benefit beyond diminishing return over a crystal oven? Well, of course, these are the questions that are never answered by audiophiles.

> You can buy a used rubidium frequency standard on ebay

There is a continuous source of used rubidium standard coming from retired telecommunication and lab equipment, they are the cheapest atomic standard available. The catch is that the rubidium inside the discharge lamp will eventually get depleted during operation, usually within 10 years, once its life ends, it's useless and needs to be rebuilt completely by the manufacturer. So read the manufacturing date if you are going to power it 7x24.

The real expensive ones are the Cesium Standard, such as the HP 5061A. Recently, the Hydrogen Standard also saw some uses.
Location: Dallas, TX, USA

Remote: Yes (preferred actually), but also available to travel if needed

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: My background is in math and statistics. I have experience in R and python programming, big data skills (SQL, Hadoop, Spark), cloud computing (AWS), and advanced analytics (statistics, machine learning, neural networks, etc).

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydeakawatson/

Email: korelasidata@gmail.com
Qt, for instance, is still very alive and constantly improving.
De-paywalled link: http://archive.md/rLhYP

Edit to add publication date: Updated Nov. 22, 2019 2:07 pm ET
YUP! Unity has this right. I opened multiple Firefox windows then opened a home folder. When the homefolder has focus, I single click the firefox icon and it brings all of the ff windows to the front. If ff has focus and I click the icon, i get an expose-like view of all of the ff windows. Windows 7 window management isnt as good. It slows me down A LOT.

I could see myself using this version of Ubuntu. The very first thing that I noticed is that they managed to get rid of the fat-tipped cursor pointer. The os over all looks good and smooth, a lot like a website, I'd just like to see a more dock-like experience with the unity bar (move around, resize etc)

ehhh, I hate the hidden options on the title bar (file, edit, etc) not a big deal, but could be confusing to someone
Frankfurt, Germany. It's expensive but low quality ;-)
This would reduce the clearance at the top of the door by at least the thickness of the two door panels. If you look at a traditional door its tracks allow the full use of the height under the header which is especially important for trucks or cars with ski racks which require this clearance.
http://aneventapart.com/ "The design conference for people who make websites."
AEA, http://aneventapart.com/, "The design conference for people who make websites" occurs in multiple cities.
In my experience users don't want to be educated, they want software that just works and is easy to use. They want transparent access to their documents wherever they are on any device without thinking about it. So to achieve this goal users want a piece of software (Drive,iCloud,Dropbox,etc...) to manage their data for them.
Honestly the best way to learn is to be lucky enough to work at a company that faces scalability issues. Second best is to try to speak with engineers who work on this kind of stuff.

FWIW I work at such a company (Microsoft/Yammer). I've learned more in 2 months on the job than the previous year I spent reading stuff on the side. Nothing like hearing the wisdom of seasoned engineers. I'm happy to chat if you are interested.
Location: Southwest Michigan, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP 7+ (LAMP)/C#/WPF/Cocoa (Obj-C)/AvaloniaUI, willing and able to learn more

Résumé/CV: https://cloud.babien.co/index.php/s/QpoCSARjMi32j3z (the password is 'dragon fruit' with no spaces or quotes) | https://github.com/Deadpikle/

Email: michael [at] babien [dot] co

I have worked as a programmer analyst for 4 years (the most recent year was fully remote), so I've worked in a lot of different technologies and would enjoy being able to learn some more modern ones (Go, Rust, etc.) if given the opportunity. I'm starting to familiarize myself with React and other things as I have opportunity (see GitHub). If you email, please put "Hacker News" in the subject line. Thanks! :)

Edit: No longer looking for a job. Thank you! :)
I'm not sure if this is sarcastic or not.

(with-open-file (file "test.txt" :direction :output)
(print "hello" file))

> This might open a file called “test.txt” and write “hello” into it—or it might reformat your hard drive! How are you to know?

Isn't that true when you call any user-defined function in any language? (Well, actually in Haskell I suppose you can tell if it has side-effects, but with "print" you'd expect it to anyway.)

> Also, you can't use Lisp in an interactive application, since garbage collection can kick in at any time and stop your program for a couple of seconds at a time.

Yeah, garbage collection sucks! Use Java! Or C#! Apparently.

> In contrast, Java and C# programs are compiled into efficient bytecode

In contrast to what? Compiling Lisp down to machine code?

Argh. You'd've thought I'd've learnt not to feed the troll. Sorry.
From my perspective, a relevant medical factor is germs. I clean my keyboard and wash my hands frequently for this reason. I've also worked on lots of underlying medical stuff (including circulation), but that's a long terms process (and can take way more than a couple of months depending upon what the underlying issues are). In the short term, killing the germs on the keyboard and on my hands does wonders.
There's an obvious conflict of interest with that link. They discuss the rancidity of fish oil and then pitch their own fish oil product. I've heard rancidity of fish oil discussed before. It seems like a reasonable thing to be concerned with, but I'd like to see an impartial, scientific discussion.
OpenTable isn't great if your goal is to go to a specific restaurant. It is very convenient if you're looking for a time slot in a particular area (e.g., before/after theater, an event, etc.) or on a particular date.
As a technical writer:

Job listings that say "experience with FrameMaker/Madcap Flare/[whatever]". It's useless and arbitrary, and not unlike asking a programmer to have experience with Visual Studio or Eclipse. Technical writing--and writing in general--existed long before the age of computers, MS Office, and content management systems. I think it's done because HR doesn't really know how to filter these kinds of resumes.

(Not that it matters to me because I have experience with these tools, but it bothers me because it demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what a technical writer is and does.)

This complaint does not apply to a statement like "experience with DITA and XML a must". To me this is like asking for experience with Python for a dev position, ie, meaningful.

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As a hobbyist programmer:

1) Code that isn't properly whitespaced

2) Dbag comments in code (Last night's doozy was "With liberty and justice for all")

3) Dbag responses to questions that amount to little more than "RTFM". These are profoundly unhelpful and serve only to boost the ego of the person posting them. They are not meant to be helpful or instructive to the person who needs the help.

(I'm sorry to say that I'm guilty of having done all of these things in the past.)
We should have a programming contest based on this :)
Except that Jordan is also an angel investor, so he certainly has a valuable perspective: http://jordancooper.wordpress.com/lerer-ventures/
I'll come visit you! I've been learning OpenCL and it would be interesting to get your opinions on it as a CUDA dev :)

I know from my professor that CUDA is much nicer to work with since its more mature, but I'm interested in OpenCL's future, especially when it might get some of the nice features CUDA has!
Location: Dallas, Texas, US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Kubernetes (k8s), Terraform, Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana (ELK stack), Grafana, Prometheus, Cassandra, AWS, GCP, haproxy, Nginx, Redis, memcached, Xymon, Zabbix, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Enterprise, Django, Rails, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Cisco Meraki, CheckPoint, JunOS, FortiGate, ZFS, ext2/3/4, XFS, vSphere, Python2, Python3, Golang, Shell, PHP, Ruby, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP

Résumé/CV: https://nat.sh/resume

Email: _+hn@nat.sh

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I'm a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and have been working on troubleshooting, monitoring, and optimizing production stacks for the last 15-ish years. After all the Covid changes in the workplace and marketplace, I re-evaluated and decided I want to spend some time focusing on finding the right place to work. A lead IC role at a medium to large organization would be ideal. I offer amazing troubleshooting, documentation, and organizational skills. If I have a deep knowledge of the environment, I can be a valuable resource with bringing incidents to resolution, as well as guiding follow up retrospective and remediation processes. My preference is for the 50/50 split between toil and forward-moving work, but everything has to start somewhere, so as long as achieving that is a goal with progress being made, toil is workable. I have a family with young children and appreciate being able to work as often as possible in an asynchronous fashion. Please get in touch if you think we can work together!
"The media" really loves itself.
And the achievements give you...what? A tiny shot of dopamine?

It is hard to be enamored with tech these days when you see what people fall for.
All marketing terms are bullshit, but what is the point?

The point is to use a single word that people can rally behind to be disruptive. In my world, NoSQL is a movement about using the right tool (especially open source) for the job. It is a movement about building these tools to the point where they can be consumed and put into production quickly.

There is no value in being precise (in marketing) since then we are just cats that need to be managed. By being imprecise and use a bullshit marketing term, we gain collective market power.
You know what has a very serious problem with z-indexing, at least in Chrome? The new YouTube iFrame embeds. They offered a version of the embeds that allowed you to set wmode, but it stopped working a couple of weeks ago.

It's weird, because Chrome had no problem with them at all until version 7, at least on my end. Per axod's comment, I just tried those with this and got nothing.
If that's the point the OP was trying to make, he did it poorly. And it's not that hard. Heck, you see it all the time. Images as text.
> The U.S. lacks both the population density and the dearth of a legacy bulk airline/airport network to make large-scale roll-out of high-speed rail service viable.

As a whole yes, but that's not really relevant. The US have several big metropolitan areas or groups for which HSR would be perfect: the western corridor between San Diego and SF, the north-east around NY, Ohio (Chicago area), ...

Is HSR competitive for NYC-SF? Hell no, not with current techs anyway, but for Chicago-Saint Louis or NYC-Washington? You bet (the question of whether a market exists in this place is another issue).

The idea is not that HSR can replace air travel as a whole. It can't. But more locally, it is able to much improve the situation in places where it applies, and there are quite a few of those in the US.

The bigger issue in the US is the dislike for trains and the car culture. In the 50s, when Japan and France were thinking about trains (as efficient ways of moving large numbers), the US were investing in roads and cars and in the 60s air travel took of insanely, meanwhile the train was left in the dust when it wasn't knowingly strangled. And through these, Suburbia was born. One of the biggest advantages of train is that it connects city centers (where airport usually require further connection work to reach the cities), and suburbia means deserted and useless city centers.
One advantage I'd add to your Posterous is that the two main 'live' streaming sites (Ustream/JustinTv) don't accomodate audio very well. They're optimized for better video quality and as a DJ, I find that they mangle my music.

Now for some feedback!
1) The 'Create My account' button is dimmed out, even after I've completed the form!

2) The 'Password' tooltips aren't really that helpful because they don't give me any guidance as to how long my password should be. They're cute, but I had to hit 'submit' to find out that it had to be a minimum 6 characters.

3) The 'About' box on the signup page says something along the lines of 'If you're a DJ or a live act, Mixlr is for you!' I didn't find this very compelling compared to this line on your posterous: "If you are a DJ or part of a live act, you may have already found that it can be surprisingly hard to broadcast yourself live on the web." I would suggest swapping them :) I couldn't get back to the original signup page to get an exact quote.

4) Signup process is nice and easy! I didn't try the Fbook/Soundcloud integration but a brief blurb on why I would want to tie them together would be great. For example a cool picture of how the facebook integration would look (sharing your live stream with your friends!) would be ideal. Bonus points if you get a celebrity DJ to take the screenshot of his/her account :)

5) I liked being able to set my location on a map. Felt much more personal than just typing in my City/State into some text box (even though thats what I was really doing!)

6) I haven't received my e-mail yet but i'll try to post more feedback when I get in! :)

Thanks for posting your app here. Makes me super anxious to complete my app so I can post for some feedback :D
That was/is the hardest part of quitting smoking (I still smoke very rarely) for me. I just really enjoy stepping outside for a smoke be it from work or at a crowded party. Its just something I like to do I just wish I could find something to replace the cigarette part with.
Is there anything in C++ that I couldn't do in C from Application pov?
What financial engineering program are you in? I've been looking into those and mathematical finance programs and would appreciate any feedback.
The operator() does not bring you any closer to functional programming. It's just syntactic sugar, maybe even nice sugar.