jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you are interested in life tracking, you might want to try out one of our (Whereoscope, YC10) apps called DriveTime.

Passively monitors your location every 10 minutes, collates, and then lets you view graphs etc. from within the app. Information is not shared with anyone - it's designed purely for an individual user.

I realize this is a self-serving post, but thought it might be relevant. The app just got dropped to $0.99.
This is not new. Visa and MC have, for many years, decided what times of content they will and will not fund. By the same logic, they are also the enforcers for the anti-online-gambling lobby, the anti-hate-crime lobby, etc.

Saying that Visa and MC should be required to accept all transactions would be a very strong statement. It's not impossible, but it's very strong.
Assuming that you're just starting to code, this project sounds too ambitious.

At least try breaking it into smaller chunks that you can work on independently. For example, moving data in and out of a database. Install MySQL, learn about tables, fields, and a bit of SQL from a MySQL client command prompt. Then learn how to do these things with MySQL using some other programming language with a MySQL library. I think carpentry starts with banging nails, not designing houses.

I started off with Basic when I was a kid. I'd recommend Python to get started these days, ideally running on Ubuntu Linux.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xkcd#Book

In September 2009 [xkcd creator Randall] Munroe released a book, entitled xkcd: volume 0, containing selected xkcd comics. The book was published by breadpig, under a Creative Commons license, with all of the publisher's profits donated to Room to Read to promote literacy and education in the developing world. Six months after release, the book has sold over 25,000 copies. The book tour in New York City and Silicon Valley was a fundraiser for Room to Read that raised $32,000 to build a school in Laos.
The call to action isn't very useful if it, for example, generates calls from people who didn't read the class schedule to know if they can even take the class. I didn't say "couldn't" because it's an important distinction to make between legibility of the words and our willingness to read them before taking action.

I can't speak to whether it would materially impact the effectiveness of the ad in generating leads, but an important aspect in soliciting leads seems to be filtering them. If your potential leads don't know what your criteria are, you're more likely to get calls from people asking basic information like when the classes are, or whether their 10-year old can join. If the ad were structured in a way in which class times and age limits were highlighted, these people likely wouldn't bother calling.

You can, of course, simply repeat the information from the flyer over the phone, but if you're wondering why these people are calling to ask those questions in the first place, you might want to look at your ad design. After all, the information is there. It's just that most people see your call to action before they see that other stuff, and so they just call you instead.
Well reality has a well-known liberal bias.
I could count two non US/UK green sources. If that's the outlook they have, Wikipedia should have no business documenting anything outside the Anglosphere.
> Bail also helps prevent repeat offense while they are held until their court date

This only works for people who can't afford bail. The bail amounts routinely assigned in our system effectively do not prevent repeat offense by people like the author of this article. A $1 million bail is steep, but not steep enough to keep any established VC in jail for the 4-18 months until trial.

Part of the point of eliminating cash bail is to eliminate this disparity and make the system more equivalent regardless of the wealth of the accused.
That's actually part of the solution.

Where I grew up in upstate NY -- and I believe commonly across the US -- the buses go out first for middle/high school students, then go back out a second time for elementary students.

The solution is just to swap them! Elementary school kids wake up early naturally anyways and need parental supervision. Get them out of the house by 7:30 so parents can leave for work earlier, and your high schoolers sleep more and grab the 9:00 bus instead.
> > The truth of a story does not depend on the credibility of its narrator.
>
> It actually does. I'm going to respect the opinions of serious scientists, doctors, journalists, lawyers, etc on topics of their expertise.

No, this is just wrong. If a homeless person tells you that nothing can go faster than the speed of light, this is just as true as if a Stanford physics professor says it, despite the latter having much more credibility than the former. The truth of a statement is independent of the speaker.

In fact, your causality is exactly backwards. Credibility depends (in part) on someone stating the truth repeatedly.
https://www.gov.uk/service-manual

The service manual is an awesome piece of work.
I don't think it's as clear-cut as you make it out to be.

The middle class and wealthy have more "skin in the game" when it comes to law enforcement. Put differently - they have a lot more to lose.

If you are a white collar working schmoe then a conviction can be a big and real problem for you, affecting your employment and this flows on to your financial commitments.

If you have deep pockets and you clearly wrong somebody then you have a very big target on your back. Any number of lawyers will be tripping over themselves to make sure justice is served (... for a percentage).

An addict with no assets, no reputation and no relationships on the line has zero reason not to commit more crime, and plenty of reason to do it (addiction).
From what I've seen, prices have been static and have even started to fall in some areas. There are a lot of people staring down a refinance on a 5 or 10 year interest-only loan in the middle of a recession.

I haven't looked it up, but from what I've been told a lot of it also has to do with investment laws for Pillar 2 and 3 retirement accounts (a certain percentage has to go into Swiss assets). Taking 1-1.5% over LIBOR/SARON or whatever the SNB rate is makes sense, but the fall-out in a couple of years if and when rates start to move up again isn't going to be pretty.
Iran supported Assad since before ISIS existed. In fact their operations were almost all directed against the rebels but never against ISIS.

Iran supports Assad for a link with Lebanon and threatening Israel, and if a lot of Sunnis are forced by Assad to migrate, well, that's more like a bonus for them, since it destablizes the West.
Sometimes, it's difficult to get paid extra due to organizational barriers. Then a reasonable option is to get time off. For each hour you lost on sleep, perhaps that day you stop working earlier 2 hours. This need not be discussed, you can simply tell your manager.

Otherwise, a little extra involvement might be necessary. Ask your manager's private phone number. When there's a problem, share your problem with him. In the middle of the night. They may get some new insights in the difficulties.
It's exactly Harvard. Instructions can only be loaded from the I cache, and data operands from the D cache. If you JIT something you have to flush the relevant D cache entries and invalidate the relevant I cache and then it will get reloaded.
Others have already explained the elongation mark, but for those who are interested, there are so many foreign words that have been borrowed into Japanese that sometimes you get words that differ only in the usage of that elongation mark.

ビル: pronounced "biru" is a shortened word meaning building.
ビール: pronounced "biiru" means beer.
I think the volunteering experience is, like so many other things, dependent on who else is participating as well as what you are doing. I hope you explore/are able to explore other opportunities in the future that resonate more profoundly with you.
> It's just not willing to go all out.

Then applying logic, it can't win the war.
Is bootstrapping really a viable path to an exit in 2015? Most of the companies indie.vc mention were founded in the early or mid 2000s, so these are bad examples to follow.

Back then, there was much less competition for eyeballs, resources, developers, etc. You could grow slowly, without worrying about VC-funded company X or Y or Z catching up.

Today, that seems much much harder.
If you check the bottom of the site there is an email address that you contact to get invited into the slack. It belongs to http://oatv.com/ so I would assume that is who is behind this.
It is an argument against their deification and to appeal to their way of thinking.
It could be beneficial for people that are further down the priority list and want to get vaccinated sooner. Especially since the people further down the list are less likely to die if they do get covid
In Spain, forocoches.com (started out as a forum around cars, now tons of subforums; right-wing bias; invitation only) and meneame.net (user submitted news, tech & more; left-wing bias; draconian moderation).

Both very useful to understand what people really think in Spain about all kinds of topics.
lain, rather—laid is the past participle of "lay", which has the same form as the simple past of "lie", because English is logical, consistent language. (And this is why "lay vs lie" is a staple of word choice mnemonic lists.)
> Whatever regulatory outcome occurs here will affect all trading firms, which means that all advisors will have been paid by someone at some stage in the past affected by any outcome.

That's unavoidable, but it doesn't change the absolutely controllable and simple request that the investigator not have a direct relationship with the firm in question.

> That is not how conflict of interest works. If there is no current relationship, and no indication of a future relationship (e.g. quid pro quo or a promise of employment), and no obvious link to the firm (e.g. an unpaid board seat, etc), then I am finding it hard to see how a conflict of interest might occur.

Conflicts of interest do not have to be concurrent in order to be disqualifying. Recusal as an administrative official is generally warranted when one's impartiality could be reasonably questioned due to some significant past-or-present relationship with the parties involved that reaches beyond their role as a public servant.
The stupidity of the mask debate is breath taking and the general public needs to take some of the responsibility.

There is a reason surgeons wear masks in operating theaters.
Post is from 2005
Ads, spam content, overall the subjective "quality" of links returned is getting lower while the time spend on narrowing query or going though page with results is higher. It's basically getting less and less relevant over time (decade).
While this is interesting, I'd still like to see a link to a doctor's opinion, not an article by an economist.
Yay! Empower those young women and doll-loving men
Might work even better as a for-profit, I don't know, but yeah would make a great YC co.
> But how do I merge your "foo" and my "woot"?

`git checkout woot; git merge his/foo`?

> Um ... why should I even have to care?

Because it helps encourage separating work logically, and gives you quick way to reset your working tree to a known state should merging upstream changes go awry?

> Why aren't we just working on the same branch by default?

You are, you just create topic branches off the development one to focus a series of commits on some goal. When you're ready to share it, just merge it into the development branch and push it. If you and your colleague are working on a topic together, you do the same, just push to some common remote branch for that topic.

> What happens when I type "git push"?

In Git 2.0, it pushes the current branch iff it tracks a remote upstream one; otherwise it prints an error explaining how to set the upstream branch for the current branch.

> So, is that before or after having been gc'd?

GCing only removes garbage. Since you're creating branches to keep track of your topics, this shouldn't ever be a problem. If you had no references to a commit, it must not have been important!

> Which branches did you get? etc.

As far as I know, cloning gets every branch from a remote; not all branches will automatically have tracking branches, but making those is easy enough.

> Worst, they are ways that you can corrupt your repository or blow your code away.

Do you mean making incompatible commits via rebasing by "corruption," or are you referring to actual repository data loss due to bugs? I'm unaware of the latter. If you consistently make temporary private branches, it should be impossible to lose work.

Is graph theory really that complicated? I always thought it was one of the more intuitive compsci topics, since it's very visual. Maybe that's my bias, though.

I try Mercurial every once in a while, so I'm not basing my opinion only on old versions (in fact, I just played around with it again today.) I always feel constrained--like it's trying to prevent me from doing what I want to do. A lot of it is familiarity, I'm sure, and differences in nomenclature (though, I'll say, "checkout" makes a lot more sense than "update" to me--I would assume that "update" would be analogous to "fetch").
I don't think that Australia is more than 2% of Googles revenue, USA tend to be over represented in revenue. I don't think 2% is worth giving in for, I mean they even refused to enter China which is a much bigger market.
I can't help but feel the way people are supposed to optimize code written in languages like Rust doesn't scale too well. It relies heavily on exploratory work and the inner workings of the compiler and target platform. It can grow very slow very quickly with a large codebase.

This in itself is not the problem. The problem is that you shouldn't be doing this at code level, but at compiler level. The optimizer is supposed to do these manipulations. At code level, you should be able to describe your problem in lots of details, use identities to simplify your logic, but leave the optimizations to the compiler. From the little I read about rust, I believe its type system is powerful enough to enable the compiler to do this. I believe it is a matter of time until the compiler matures to the point of doing the kind of optimization it is required to do.
Maybe these are alright and better client app is needed, I am not sure
Interestingly, Google and Facebook seem to disagree on whether an algorithm can determine what content is 'news':

Google says: "There seems to be no clear or obvious distinction between news and non-news content, and the way that Google works, there is no algorithm that could navigate such a vague and broad definition." [0]

But Facebook says: "Assuming this draft code becomes law, we will reluctantly stop allowing publishers and people in Australia from sharing local and international news" [1]

So who is right?

[0] https://about.google/google-in-australia/an-open-letter/

[1] https://about.fb.com/news/2020/08/changes-to-facebooks-servi...
I think the efficiency then hinges on the distribution of your slowness. Is there a slow mapping step for some elements? Then it should be fine having them all near each other. All fast-mapped values before and after can be reduced in the time the slow data is mapped. Only if somehow every second value is slowly mapped you have to wait for reduce to even start.

If your reduce is slow for some inputs, its better to have those inputs near each other, as all consecutive values before and after can be reduced during that time.

And if every step is somewhat constant time, I don't think reordering (that's basically the same as combining random elements instead of consecutive ones) the input does anything.
I asked him just now and he said he thought it was known that the stones were taken from the stone circle there not just mined there. He hangs out with a lot of alternative types there, who are interested in that sort of thing.
"There is no such thing as a society" - Thatcher
Oh Hi! :)
It's great to know that you're adding scripting to dot big bang!
King of comp. Always brought out the best from musicians in a band. Henderson here, but Gambale and plethora of others. RIP, legend! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL13lJAz_wc
Paywalled. Currently no preprint on google scholar[1], nor result on sci-hub. Not on project[2] or Stringer pages. Skinner(Kent) repository copy is access restricted.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=15251536819818479...
[2] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/our-work/origins-evolution...
Thanks so much - it would be a privilege and an honour to be included in your wiki :)

Kickscondor was actually the person who first led me to your site - I enjoy their content too. I'll check out these other two as well, thank you!

Gwern's also a really interesting and passionate Internet Person, though I know you've had some interactions with him so I'm just mentioning him for the benefit of others. I've run into a couple of other treasures in my time but I'm not consistent enough at maintaining a PKM to have them to hand sadly. Maybe someday I'll start a public personal wiki of my own!
IIRC, merging in SVN is... basically something you never wanted to do. :)
Someone said that doing highly repetitive exercises like running can cause increase in the stress hormone cortisol and hence we must do that in limit. Is that true?
Additively, you need to know how your 1 addition interacts with all n elements of the existing system, so there are n things you need to understand.

Subtractive, you need to do that same analysis for every part of the system you could potentially remove, so you're doing n operations n times each. The subtractive analysis only becomes equivalent to the additive one if you know a priori which specific element you ought to remove.

Placing a jenga block, you can choose to put it in a location that is relatively easy to analyze, for example the middle of the next layer up. Removing a jenga block, you first need to decide on which block to remove, and then you have to deal with the situation it actually happens to be in. Either action could knock the tower over, but the odds of you getting something wrong go up dramatically during the removal phase.
I do agree with you. But this specific article seems to actually question the media:

> Even more troublesome, it seems that no media outlets attempted to verify that the vaping footage was actually a deepfake before broadcasting the claim to millions of Americans.

> The possible misstep by the media, and the chance that the criminal justice system could misapply laws against videos mischaracterized as deepfakes, is what worries experts the most.
It does say that the facts of a traditional print formatting specification (ie. the specific subtopic we're talking about) is not granted copyright protections.
Firefox addon:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/epubreader/

Chrome addon:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/epubreader/jhhclmf...
They don't leave much oxygen for thinking, haha
I just use the debugger and it mostly works how I expect. I don’t have to go and study the data structures and other intricacies of the debugger itself to puzzle out why it works the way it does. Git is terrible in that way, as evidenced by the thousands of blog posts of people trying to describe the inner workings of it and how it will “make more sense” once you understand it as well.
Interestingly, muzzle loaded cannons of that era, whether genuine or replica, are still legal to own in the US without a license as they are considered antiques.
I remember a colleague working on such a project about 7 years ago (he put together a prototype in 2 weeks). The reason the gyro makes a huge difference is that the image is not produced at the same time, the sensor rows are scanned out gradually, and a gyro allows you to assign a correction to each row of pixels instead only to the whole image at the same time. Doing the same through vision is close to impossible.

edit: A gyro-based algorithm is quite simple, while computer vision is still not a fully solved problem in general
CA very tightly regulates PG&E the “private” company charged with running the electric and gas utilities in Northern CA.

You can search for the minutes of the public utility commission’s decisions on budgets. They micromanage down to costs of replacing fences around facilities.

The result is a massive cluster fuck that has killed dozens in the state.
Besides the obvious reductio ab absurdum seems quite uninformed.

While things need to be done safety is considered the highest priority because of an obvious reason: money. A single accident is often much more costly then all safety measures put in place.

> not trying to be provocative

That's exactly what he was trying to be.
That's for young, fit, etc people. Some quick googling says a particularly susceptible person might very well pass out at as low as 3 Gs. Still way below what a Tesla can pull, though.
Yup this makes sense. Also to the original comment, our approach is not for everyone. It definitely skews extroverted.
Nice! How long have you been doing this for? Is the team all engineers?
I think that the article is trying to point out that some western parenting practices are potentially harmful to infants. In this case, "weird" is a very kind way of expressing the articles concern.
even this is redundant with its exorbitant cost.
there are orgs doing this already, allow a membership and its completion of x speeches to count, etc.

when we are paring costs, its best to keep the colleges to the very bare minimum of what they do well.
Texas population has grown from 21 to 30 million people in that time. Its tough to really know what would have happened if something else was done.
Imagine if we took those managing the power companies out and shot them. That is the mood of many in Texas.
It's great to see VirtualBox being actively developed, even after Oracle took over control from Sun. This is a fantastic piece of software.
If you had kept on reading, you would have seen that the article specifically identifies low wages as a likely cause for the low quality.
Not a woman. But I keep my phone in my front pocket because I used to keep it in the back and one time sat down and broke the screen. I had been able to sit on it before...just this one time I must have shifted on it a certain way.
Awesome idea, maybe biased because my friend and I were talking about a similar idea maybe just a week ago. :) Maybe some way to import contacts? Not sure if it's overkill, but maybe worth considering.
Would there be a way to set up Paypal to auto email the book to the customer? If I were a paying customer, I'm not sure I would want to wait to get my book. I think the expectation of buying an e-book is to get it instantly...
It's not the same substance.

Desoxyn is pharmaceutical methamphetamine.

Vyvanse is lisdexamphetamine, a slow release version of dexamphetamine.

Don't be mislead by the name, they're quite different. And methamphetamine is very rarely prescribed, only when everything else fails. While Vyvanse is usually first line treatment.
I don't doubt the NSA has Windows source code; many companies already do have it (as well as a small number of individuals actually). It's not unusual to have access to the Windows source code TBH.

Saying that the NSA backdoored windows is not a boogeyman type claim; it's exactly within their real capabilities and seems like a very plausible path for them to have taken.

Nor does it mean we can't fight against it. We can use OpenBSD and have a higher confidence that it's not backdoored.

The first step to reeling in the unchecked power of the NSA is not to claim that they would not have done such a simple thing but to realize exactly how atrocious the scope of their acts are - not to become paralyzed with fear, but to incite change.
I read that for 40 years the Dutch principle behind road design has been that the smallest vehicles should be the safest. Everything is designed around that.