jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Our Shark just died but it served honorably for about 10 years if I remember correctly. It was very affordable when we got it as well.
Right and look at the result - Bitcoin Cash is a failure. This is true democracy. We tested both solutions and the champion still stands.

When there is incentive (if there ever is) then miners will adopt changes that make sense. But you need a true consensus. This built in conservatism is a great feature of BTC.
> Anybody can learn to code and these days it's as important as reading and writing.

So, assuming like 1 million Americans can code (....might be a bit exaggerated), approximately 99.68% of Americans are illiterate? Holy shit, we're doomed!

As of 2012, 16% of the American population lived in poverty, including 20% of children. Learning to code is difficult enough, and even more so if you are struggling to make enough to eat and keep a roof over your head.

> I was wrong as a young woman to presume that technology was not a creative subject – that's sadly a presumption still shared by a third of school-age girls today.

Many young men also presume technology is not a creative subject. In her case, she was just a regular human being that wasn't interested in computers. This has nothing to do with gender.

You also don't have to be a genius to realize a degree in literature or language isn't going to have a huge job market. There is a market for translators, and being bilingual helps a lot in a variety of fields, but just speaking spanish or french is not a career path. Gender stereotype did not determine she had to pick that degree.
It's mind-boggling that somebody would criticize the use of third-party libraries for a REST interface shortly after advocating an approach based on gluing together third-party libraries.
It packs an awful lot of assembly-optimized codecs and transformations into it.

It would be a huge undertaking to re-write it, let alone keep up with the pace of development.

An awful lot of the video processing on the internet makes it's way through ffmpeg in one way or another.
> “We have identified a novel form of therapy that lowers blood pressure without giving people pharmacological compounds and with much higher adherence than aerobic exercise,” said senior author Doug Seals, a Distinguished Professor of Integrative Physiology

I laugh at the term "novel" here, and am frustrated that we feel we need to make up a new technique and a new gadget when we could be teaching breathing practices that have been around for millenia. Try "nadi shodhana" or alternate-nostril breathing, using one's own hand to apply pressure (see the appendix of the book Breath by James Nestor; though I'm sure there are other references, that's what I've read and feel confident recommending).
I had a stint as a C++14 programmer, and I switched over to C++20 for this project.

You covered the downsides pretty well, big upsides for C++:

- ability to use C libraries directly - and thus original C API docs. I've got battlescars from NPMs deep dependency trees, and cargo is a similar story.

- I don't need the (very patient and knowledgeable!) people on rust discord to hold my hand every day. There's a stackoverflow for almost every C++ issue.

- that 5% edge case where the codes safe but the borrow checker isn't happy I can just write. No RefCell or nightly compiler.
I'm struggling to understand why you're saying you can't build a REST api with Django out of the box. It's easy to serialise python data to pretty much any format. Why do you need Django to do any of that for you? Things like RESTapi add extra features, not core REST functionality.
D3 is definitely a library, though not a framework. There are conventions, but there are also magical abstractions that work together like selections, data-binding and transitions. I would not call the eight lines of code you need to write for a basic visualization and transition "low-level".

Composability is achieved with configurable functions. Is there an alternate solution you propose? What helper would be useful for data that changes over time?
You need to consider both the dividend and inflation; $35 in 2000 dollars is $47 today. In the intervening time, they paid a total dividend of $7.69. I haven’t done the full inflation-adjusted dividend computation, but I would guess that it works out pretty close to a wash, but slightly in the red.
I'm sorry, but this is bullshit. Their privacy policy states they share personally identifiable information with third parties only with consent. Their entire business model is the exact opposite. They reason the site and app exists is to share personally identifiable information with third parties without consent.

This is nothing but vigilantism.
Funny that the same demographic will likely be the ones implementing the tech that necessitates such parasitic behavior.
the future of ninja games!
They should offer a premium feature that enables you to map your own domain name. I would replace my homepage (http://antoniocangiano.com) with something like this if the feature was available. (Of course, I could iframe it, redirect, etc... but it's not the same.)
What is RPI?
> Suburbs require gigantic subsidies to be made to work, so you need to be careful how you use the phrase "free society".

I think that you're confusing "costs more" with "is subsidized".

> Such density is economically rational.

Ah yes, another cost-benefit analysis that ignores benefits.

Here's another one.

Going to Fiji to scuba dive is economically stupid because travel from San Jose to Fiji costs money.

Whether going to Fiji to dive is economically stupid depends on the price, and the relevant prices are different for different people.
No it isn't. The NSA doesn't have to exist at all. It didn't used to. Its questionable that they do anything positive. The discussion is very much worthwhile.
If "self" is a hell, it's such a super tiny small hell that I'm happy that's the worst thing someone has to say about it. I do think it's nice when it comes to class methods vs instance methods, being clear that there is nothing called "self" in the method, etc. Further, it's a nice indication of what OO is at a very very basic level - method organization that takes a self as a first argument.

I kind of like what Ruby did with "@" instead, but dislike some of the other syntactic choices.

Now, say, Python metaclasses -- there's a language feature I don't like.
In some countries, including in Europe, "," IS the decimal "point", and "." is the thousands separator.
Amazing! So the translation can be read as "Yahweh is the bearer of the secret name, and the lion of Judah secure in his shrine.
Looks like they're getting their money's worth out of those mechanical drives. I am certain they use SSD in other data centers, or other parts of the data center though.
(facetious-comment
"It's a tragedy how much brilliance is wasted on grammar parsing when it's a solved problem; just use a Lisp")
That is if Alibaba don't eat them for lunch.
Do you have any suggested good reads about the topics ?
Just google yurts and see what I find?
Did you upgrade straight to the Bifrost/Asgard or did you have something like the Vali/Modi before or? I currently have those, but I'm looking at upgrades some time in the future.
Of course. Alpine climbers and mountaineers have known this for decades. They intentionally put on extra fat before big climbs, knowing that it will be nearly impossible to ingest enough calories to keep up with their bodies demands in cold temps.
Meh. Here is the tradeoff.

If everyone is co-located, you have inconvenience and higher productivity. If everyone is remote, you have an inherent overhead, but enormous flexibility. If some people are co-located and others are remote, you naturally tend towards a divide where people who are co-located without thinking about it wind up networking with each other and excluding the remotes.

If you are a small startup, the productivity difference really can be the margin between success and failure. Hence the pressure to co-locate. But conversely the availability of better talent in theory can allow for a better workforce which might outweigh the productivity overhead of remote work. But when there are just founders, by definition you can't assume that there are better people available. And the need for close working at the initial stages gives strong pressure to co-locate.

Therefore there is a natural tendency for startups to co-locate. And once the seed of the company is co-located, switching to a remote model is going to involve crossing a difficult cultural barrier that not everyone will succeed in. Thus the continuing pressure to co-locate.
I certainly agree.
Exactly. Let's pick one hot year out of the whole series of hot years so we can then say, "It's just a data point." Each year is just a data point. Nothing to see here. I can't live long enough to prove a trend, therefore nobody can with their climate science based on 100's of measurement backed up way more history baked into the geology, etc. To argue the science, at this point, questions the arguers understanding of the process of science or the grasp of the quality of the science at hand.

Unfortunately, people give in to vain impulses and try to desperately undermine science in action by parsing data and charts to cast doubt upon something which has an ever higher likelihood of being true. We can't wait 10,000 years to say, "Yep, the data didn't lie."

What's the real downside to hedging your bets and leading on actions to wind down the climate impact of people? Disruption to existing market systems? Painful career changes for fossil energy industries? Increases in the price of beef? All of that happens without planned change anyways. Who's afraid of change when you still have a modicum of control?
> “Once I got into the veterinary industry, I noticed there were a lot of gaps in technology all the way through,” Hur explains. “And since getting out and practicing medicine, I’ve really focused on bridging those gaps and making sure that veterinary medicine can be upgraded for the dot-com era.”

This sounds like a lot of fluff. Vets that do house calls are not new. The vet I use is a full-time mobile vet in the Bay Area and she has been for way longer than the founder has been practicing veterinary medicine. All of my furry friend's records are stored electronically so my vet can retrieve them on her tablet, and she has a mobile credit card reader for payment. She emails me lab test results and when I needed to be referred to a specialist for diagnostics that couldn't be done in a home setting, records were transferred to the specialist within hours.

What doesn't my vet have? A mobile booking app and a network of independent/subcontracted vets who she refers leads to. I don't care about the former (email and phone work just fine) and I don't want the latter (I specifically selected my vet based on her qualifications and references and continued relying on her based on the quality of service).

There's nothing wrong with VetPronto's model, of course. If the vets provide good service and customers are satisfied, that's great. But to pretend that veterinary medicine is behind the times and that a network of mobile vets with a booking app represents real innovation is silly.

> Since launching in September, the company has done north of 300 appointments, and recently participated in the Y Combinator startup accelerator which offered them a bit of seed funding. But beyond that and a small friends and family round, VetPronto has been bootstrapped.

So you can raise six figures in capital from Silicon Valley's most prominent startup accelerator, as well as friends and family, and still call yourself "bootstrapped" today?
Sure, I'll reduce it to "Unless people make an advancement in structural materials similar to the invention of steel itself, which is to say 'fundamentally world-changing,' hyperloop is nothing more than an inspirational pipe dream, similar to world peace." (EDIT: This comment may actually get called out in the future once Hyperloop is fully deployed, as an example of some idiot's words. So it's probably more than a little dumb of me to have said this. In my defense, it's based on Hyperloop Alpha, as it's presented in the whitepaper. Their design could change radically before deployment.)

If you're planning on building a closed loop out of steel, and there's nowhere for the steel to go when it expands in summer, the plan may need some rethinking.

The best I can think of is some kind of inner lining, so that it has a segmented hull, like a caterpillar: https://www.google.com/search?q=caterpillar&tbm=isch

But it would need to be very strong lining in order to prevent any leaks between the segments. And any kind of a leak would need to be detectable and would shut down the hyperloop until it's resolved.

Between the wildly optimistic cost projections and the fundamental engineering difficulties, I'm much more inclined to call it a pipe dream than a perhaps-future-possibility.
You mean a copyright?
Would be pretty interesting to learn more about that tiny fraction that are urban, educated, young, and well paid.
We are currently talking about an attempt to crucify him by mob rule, which is not only about him, but about a dangerous trend in society.
Who is disagreeing? It’s far more difficult to argue the i verse.
Freedom of speech has lost, freedom of thought is next and they are coming for it fast.
Misleading headline, the first sentence is "how Spotify optimized and sped up elements from *our largest Dataflow job*". Surely it's not the largest ever run, even on Dataflow.
Please check if this is accessible https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1pTkj1HE768-3aM4huTW...
> Well, in this case, people are mad at Azure/MS and Canonical for betraying developer trust, not the individual salesperson. He's just a pawn in the game. It's not like this guy went rogue; this is his job.

It's still his linkedin profile plastered all over twitter right now though more than Azure's EULA/T&C's.
We all know that you can't trust Microsoft, but a lot of people blindly trust Canonical just because they create a Linux distro.

I haven't trusted Canonical since I noticed their pattern of creating competing alternatives to new Linux standards instead of helping them (Mir & Wayland, Snap & Flatpack, Unity & Gnome 3). It'd be one thing if they were bringing better ideas and long-term support to their alternatives, but they just seem to be half-baked copies. I appreciate all they've done for the Linux ecosystem, but I'll stick with my Debian.
And Canonical decided to take that data, search him on Linkedin and contact him. Seems reasonable to see that as a reason to loose respect for Canonical over.
Thanks for noticing. This is a typo stemming from early experiments. We started out with 16 channels, but switched to 12 channels of state when this worked just as well. I've submitted a correction.
How about a usable recipe-database, diet tracker, fitness tracker, ...

I am serious. I know that there are tons of those, but it always strikes me how even the most basic/obvious apps still suck usability and design-wise.
I believe that somebody who's good at designing easy UIs could easily outinnovate these and take some pretty good markets. And one of these days, I will.
Scratch an itch, and build something you'll use, because if you don't use it, it's much less likely that anyone else will!

I do have one suggestion, that I'd use... a really minimalistic Twitter web client, with beautiful typography and some balanced whitespace.

Watch Rick's List on CNN for when they show the Tweets for what I mean.
Awesome! This will come in really handy for me!
Its a nexus one. Pretty good it seems.

I'm also blown away by the imgur apparently on android. It was the easiest thing I've ever uploaded.
When I give driving directions to a friend, I send them the address and let them figure the rest out on their own.
The scarier fact to me is that in the 2009 budget, the deficit was actually bigger than the total so-called discretionary spending.

That means that a deficit would still exist for 2009 even if the only government spending were for interest on the debt, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal "entitlement" programs.

I believe that's generally referred to as bad.
Ah, world of text. Last year I started a journey in the /jp world.

Two full days (some 20 hours) scrolling north, leaving messages and drawings along the way. I have met other people in only one occasion, the rest of the time I was alone with the messages and drawings left by other adventurers.

Energy surges made their toll one time or two, but I still managed to get to x0y2000. I felt enlightened. It was the most spiritual thing I've ever experienced.

Its minimalist approach and absolute freedom makes it one of the best "games" I've played. I strongly recommend trying it at least once.

And if you ever scroll north in http://www.yourworldoftext.com/jp, look for the messages from The Bard ♫ ;)
Sorry for the typo, I mean worth noting

I'm referring to the tax break for foreign investments and streamlining the acquisition process by outsiders (where as before, it would take months and months to do the paper work) Read about it here
http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/08/canada-now-somewhat-less-an...
Another red/green debacle for the 15 million color blind men in America.
Nitpick:

> For example, x86 processors usually call interrupt 80, while x64 processors use the syscall processor instruction.

It's 0x80, or 128 in decimal.
So, I heard it stated that when someone has no rebuttal, instead of refuting a poster's point they will ask for references.

This isn't why I'm asking. It's just that I just would like to know if you have a better reference, i.e. where did you hear or learn this. Your article is from 'the art of manliness', and unlike the earlier sections from it on benefits, the section you cite doesn't actually contain any references to medicine at all. It just seems to be the author's speculation.

I performed the following Google query:

https://www.google.com/search?q=are+cold+showers+harmful

so I guess I'm saying I don't believe your facts, but am happy to be proved wrong if you happen to know or can find something I didn't. I think this is a civil response that leaves it quite open to my being wrong.

Thank you.
Sweet, instapaper'd!
A justified dupe. The older one was originally a link to the live stream, now it’s a link to a YouTube video of the launch. This report contains additional details you won’t get by just watching the stream or video.
Depends on how you take stock. If your on a vesting schedule that hasn't vested then you need to wait for your cliffs like mentioned. If you agree to purchase the stocks using warrants then you are in a better position.
Specifically which leaks harmed "national interest" without benefit to the public? I ask non-rhetorically, as GCHQ at least have shown themselves not to be above "leaking" carefully selected titbits and attributing them to Snowden, just to muddy the debate:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-uks-...

and the Guardian's "haha what":

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/23/uk-gove...

Note that this "leak", as well as NOT coming from Snowden, isn't really in the domestic public interest, is an activity that a far larger percentage of people would support, and presumably is already known by the target anyway. The clear intent is to make people read the article and go "huh, this Snowden ballyhoo is very overblown". I wonder why the so-called "Independent" played along.
Check your local contracting agencies
Wow, it must be amazing to write "Wrote first assembler for first microprocessor" on your CV. Kudos.

Some even thought that assemblers were confusing

Hilarious.
You're fighting a straw man. Nowhere does the article even remotely imply that human chess is under threat because computers are stronger.
While this is a good list, these medications are kind of snake oily.

I've had 5 dogs in my lifetime that have lived to age 15+. All I do is take them to the vet yearly and feed them good quality dry dog food.

I have lived in rural Arkansas to the east bay California, as far as exposure to various things. I've had a half wolf dog in AR that would routinely kill and eat armadillos, opossums, terapins, and all kinds of small wildlife. He was probably exposed to all kinds of nasty things.

Never did I give him any of these dog preventative medications that seems to be so popular today.
I like these slides that are hosted on golang.org -- navigating them on the browser gets a bit restrictive though. I figured if you "Print/Save to pdf" from your web browser, you can get a nice pdf copy.
Maybe then the objective becomes to deliberately spend as much time there as possible and keep alive the idea that you're going to buy the car then the salesman will also not have wanted to waste his time and not have anything to show for it. Always be prepared to walk away knowing he spent 6 hours with you and won't get a deal while his buddies sold a couple cars a piece. Psychologal warfare.
gps+iridium uplink ?
Fine for any application; nobody can dictate which platforms anyone must support and which they can't.

10.6 is much nicer than 10.5 on a bunch of levels. It's slightly annoying now, but will pay off in the future.
Seeing as it's a letter to Congress, maybe the phrase "Those who can't innovate, legislate" is apt...
In addition to previous answers, Melinda is working hard on giving access to contraception to the women. In fact, contraception is her "signature issue" (in her own words).
Depositing and converting that amount to Binance will cost you 0.02% in fees, and same to convert on the other end (assuming there's buyers for such an amount). Of course, that's assuming you are going from/to cash rather than keeping them in crypto.
I don't think it's that extreme. What do you mean exactly by shut out? You'll always be able to transact, put your kids in school and participate in society. A hard example - parents of a teenager that murdered an innocent child in a small nearby community still live there and still operate a business that services that town. I'm surprised by this.
I think it's useful. I just think that it's comparably less useful than doing it in a way that costs less energy like in Nano's (and others) case.
Shows the power of crypto. Except don't use unsupported crappy forks. Gotta use the original.
That was my intention. Thank you for noticing.

I'm sure people of the future will find all kinds of ethical flaws in the way we live today. After all, 500 years ago, slavery was normal and accepted.
Personally, I'd bet that our mistreatment of computer programs and robots will be considered so obscene that nothing else we do will even register.
I just found this on hackaday recently, it sounds fascinating how you can use a quartz crystal, which when a weight is applied changes the frequency enough you can get extremely precise readings.

One thing I'm wondering though, is aren't quartz crystals effected by temperature a lot? Is there a simple way this would be compensated?
If you have the ability, travel and experience new things and new people. You will be working your whole life. You've already been in school basically your whole life. Enjoy some free time, get ideas from people, learn from people outside your circle etc.

I have never regretted traveling and experiencing new things, but have regretted working to much or rushing to work on something thinking It would enable me to enjoy more time off later which never seems to materialize. So take advantage of the time while you can.
I also think it presents a highly optimistic view of the average manager.