jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> If you say something about Cato and I attack Cato or some of its supporters and explain why, that's not ad hominem

It depends on the explanation, specifically whether the attack goes to the substance of their position or, as in this case, "they're bad companies", which makes it ad hominem.

> And do you just run around posting "ad hominem" 100 times a day and downvoting opinions you disagree with?

It's easy enough to see that I haven't. I also haven't killed any puppies this week.

Any other questions?
Norvig:

It took me about 2 hours (compared to a range of 2 to 8.5 hours for the other Lisp programmers in the study, 3 to 25 for C/C++ and 4 to 63 for Java) and I ended up with 45 non-comment non-blank lines (compared with a range of 51 to 182 for Lisp, and 107 to 614 for the other languages).

Seems like the programmer, not the language, is the biggest determinant. If you have the Java programmer who wrote it in 4 hours, and the Lisp programmer who wrote it in 8.5 hours, you're better off writing it in Java!

If you want to write concise programs quickly, using the same language Peter Norvig uses might help, but being as good as Peter Norvig helps more.
Very cool. I guess J. Peterman knew it all along :)

I've a question to people following Ariely & co's work: Is there anything there that might help explain why people have no problem paying a few bucks for coffee at Starbucks, but not for, say, an iPhone/Android app?

(I use the Starbucks example since most consumers don't hang in the coffeeshop, so no experience or particular quality involved, just a cup of coffee that lasts a few minutes)
Underwriters Laboratory and Consumer Reports seem like special cases. Don't most private quality control organizations go the way of Yelp, the BBB, the BSA, etc- questionable ratings and bad economic incentives?
I suggest a more careful reading of the article by the down-voter.
Awww, yours looks much nicer. The page doesn’t specify a font so I guess it’s just using the default font of the browser (or, failing that, any font that contains the Unicode character; I would be surprised if many do). My default font is Helvetica Neue.

– edit: I did some digging around. There are a few fonts on my computer which contain a snowman. My browser uses (for whatever reason) Hiragino which is a family of Japanese fonts that comes standard with every Mac. Your nice snowman is the one in Arial Unicode. Here are all the snowmen on my system: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/snowmen.png
Thanks for letting us know. We'll take a look.
Look's interesting, but I hesitate to use a Python formatting tool whose own code runs counter to well accepted Python stylistic guidelines -- namely "Use 4 spaces per indentation level." (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#indentation)
Clojure if you need to build anything serious. You can't beat its approach to concurrency, easy access to a multitude of Java libraries and the stability and maturity of the JVM as a platform.

Scheme if you want to learn a Lisp and then move on.

I wouldn't suggest Common Lisp (although it pains me to say that, as I've spent a lot of time building webapps with it). It is neither easy to learn nor easy to deploy and maintain in production.
Oh, cool, this is generated using docco.
http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/
My point was more that as you engage your idea by actually doing something it becomes more real by facing real world problems. During this process it starts to suck. That doesn't make it a good idea, it makes it an idea grounded in reality.

I think suck doesn't describe the idea as much as it describes the validation process. The validation process can suck in a number of ways. Don't wimp out during the validation process, though, you might be onto something.

Not sure if this created any clarity at all for you. I'm sorry you didn't enjoy the article though! Thanks for the feedback!
Lego bricks are easy to replicate on current-generation 3d printers. It's nothing to do with the manufacturing process, it's just that making the molds a bit looser makes them much easier to separate, and cheaper. They also tend to round the peg size up to 5mm, when actual legos are around 4.9. This http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1005 is a lego-compatible part designed from scratch that describes the issue. Using that, it's easy to make custom parts that attach to legos. Here's one that I designed and someone else printed: http://www.thingiverse.com/derivative:5042
Any small change in the URL will let it get through. That's on purpose, to give good stories multiple chances at getting attention. The downside is that more dupes get through as well, but we catch most of those and users point out most if not all of the rest.

It's on our list to make a more sophisticated dupe detector, but I don't know when we'll get to that.
Fire safes are so shitty you'd probably be better off buying a small one to keep your documents/backups in and then a larger one to put that safe in for double insulation.
I see two. She's effectively making $800 more a month.
Use '/' (search) to enter a regexp to match a pattern on that line, and it will be highlighted.
I think the example of falling milk prices downplays the theory that deflation is harmful unfairly.

Surely, if we were facing deflation, I would continue to buy milk. However, I would be seriously hesitant about borrowing money to purchase a house because the value of a dollar at the time I bought the house would be less than the value of a dollar in the future. Under inflation, the opposite is true: I pay back a loan with dollars that are less valuable than the dollars I borrowed.

If you go beyond the individual prospective debtor and consider larger entities like banks and businesses, the potential economic effects of deflation appear more serious.

To add to this: under continued deflation, wages would have to fall to compensate. But, as Krugman and others have pointed out, nominal wages resist downward pressure[1], which means that instead of lower wages, you get layoffs. If you get laid off, whether or not prices are falling, you might actually hesitate about buying that gallon of milk.

[1] http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/mysteries-of-def...
Amazing! I'd really want to try this out in production if you guys can bump python3 support to 3.3 and have a 3.3+STM version. So looking forward to that!
I encourage everyone with interest in the overall story to actually read the complaint. It's astonishing.

It appears that these two Federal agents were doing far, far more than just grabbing some excess bitcoins that were lying around and they figured nobody would miss. It reads more like a purposeful organized crime effort, involving setting up dummy shell companies, forging letters from the government, being involved in pitching investments in shady offshore bitcoin startups, etc.

They also allege that these agents were turning around and selling insider info on the investigation to DPR in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoin. They allege an agent just basically strong armed some random guy ("RP") who was a customer of CoinMKT and stole $297,000 or so from him, using the Federal Government search and seizure docs to do so but then just transferring the money into his personal checking account.

The agent was doing shady transactions via Venmo and got flagged and had his account suspended, so he contacted them as a DEA agent to get the account reinstated. When they got suspicious (because he had been using his personal email address before going "official") and contacted his supervisors he tried to start a criminal investigation of Venmo as "a suspicious money remitter" through his office.

They allege that the other agent was responsible for the wholesale theft of bitcoin from Silk Road and its various vendors, after they managed to apprehend someone ("CG") who was an administrator at Silk Road. This agent signed Federal warrants seizing the assets of Mt Gox, meanwhile transferring millions of dollars in bitcoin into his own account.

Reading this is thoroughly jaw-dropping:
http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-release...
The web turned out that way because of google, until google came along the worst we had was on-page keyword spam. Google assigned a value to the links that make up the web and as a result those links were spammed. Hopefully Watson will be able to create a search feature that can not be spammed but so far anything that ends up being a metric that the web pages are rated by will end up being spammed.

Best of luck! At least you're fighting the good fight.
On the other hand, we may devolve to lose our ability to see in the dark. Maybe it's happening already.
I heard from someone about the relativity of spacetime, time is slowest near the center of a huge gravity source like blackhole so out here earth time is actually relatively fast and are speeding up due to expansion, as the further our galaxy/universe is flying apart the less mass and less gravity can slow them down

So our relative spacetime scale of a billion years here, might just be a few hours inside some of those crazy dense SUPER MASSIVE blackholes

And with that in mind and some loose sense our whole simulation might just took 1 second of the creator's relative time because...time is relative , just a loose assumption
Autoroute 20 has been under construction/repair since the 90s. Specifically the section between lachine towards decarie.
The build may be cheap, but you still have to upload the 100,000 files every time the global template changes.
Rockets have an exhaust with constant velocity, and they expel mass in the form of fuel. It's this expulsion of mass that generates the force that propels the rocket. Taking a force balance and assuming no external forces (e.g. gravity), you can integrate to get the rocket equation, which tells us how much fuel mass we need to reach a given velocity (the quantity we care about when talking about stellar distances).
I lost the faith, guess Joel law of not rewriting things was again upheld.
I took a narrowboat over the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct [0] a couple summers ago. It's really strange to be on a boat 130 feet up in the air, especially with no guard rail on the side.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontcysyllte_Aqueduct
Maybe you should have said read more then speak from a more informed place.
I think this is among the reasons H1Bs are typically not supported by the tech community, usually on the grounds the worker is beholden to the employer and are in an unfair bargaining position, but it could also be that most just don't want downward pressure on their compensation. Doctors, lawyers, technicians, programmers, etc.

Still, it's not cut and dried, at some point too many people will make an too much pressure on resources. Ie north Americans Europeans and east Asians consume per capita much more than people emerging economies.

Want to see this journalist change their mind, allow any journalist to settle in the us, anon and begin working legally.

So, when the blue collar worker sees a threat from unskilled immigrants, it's not surprising. Ask them if they would feel the same dislike for Mexican and Brazilian a d Indian doctors, probably not.
He deleted his account for the reason stated in the top comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25672752) about Facebook is changing their policies, now that Biden has been confirmed as president to suck up for the ad deals.
Your accusation lacks the generosity of a benefit of the doubt.

It could be the fact that George Floyd's death triggered the movement, that his character figured centrally in it, and hashtags of his name were the primary symbol of it.

But instead you take the typical high handed approach of the moral elitist movement.
I don't think the reason for their ineptitude was lack of funding.
Sorry so just to be clear, the left hasn't been "doing exactly what [I] despise in the opposite side" which is to say literally murdering people?

This is what sibling commenter meant by stop with the both-sidesism. Smashing up a Target and murdering a person are not the same thing. You're apologizing for murderers, congratulations.
Here's a list of items that are prohibited on the Capitol grounds, in the Capitol and visitor center, in the buildings and the galleries:

https://www.uscp.gov/visiting-capitol-hill/regulations-prohi...

The gallery list includes:
Firearms to include replica guns and ammunition.
Weapons, to include, but not limited to, Black jack, sling shot, sand club, sandbag, knuckles, electric stun guns, knives of any size including razors and box cutters, martial arts weapons or devices.
Explosives and explosive devices to include, but not limited to, Molotov Cocktails, components of a destructive device, and fireworks.
Mace and pepper spray.
Aerosol containers.
Non-Aerosol spray except for prescribed medical needs.
Battery operated electronic devices to include cellular telephones, electronic keys, cameras, video recorders or any type of recording devices. Electronic medical devices are permitted.
Cans, bottles, food, and food containers, including all liquids.
Creams, lotions, and perfume.
Strollers.
Briefcases, backpacks, and suitcases of any size
I think the other comments cover it well. It's a social hub with a lot of freedom. You can find knockoffs of many mainstream games and many more creative originals. You can find places to build houses, run obstacle courses, role play jobs, play hide and seek. Lots of creativity kicking around. You and your friends can transverse the multiverse together and explore, or go off on your own. It makes me think of a low fi early version of the kind of world described in ready player one and other sci-fi novels. Just wish they had better support for their users getting hacked. I know a young lady who lost everything recently to a hack and can get no response from the company to help.
I totally agree, you want a hard to win contest so more and more people tune in. But I think you want...need... a winner. The radio station and the advertiser want a picture in the newspaper with someone holding a $30,000 cheque, you want that person screaming on the radio when they win. You want interviews with that person talking about how they will spend their winnings. A contest without a winner would be a terrible thing for everyone involved, well I guess for the ad agency putting in $30,000, maybe they get their money back?

This all reminds me of the lengths I went to a few years ago. An admin assistant in my office was really into these contests. She would listen to all the various stations and call in. There was a contest that was "identify this song" and everyday it went unguessed, they would add to the pot. It was getting up to $20,000 or something and no one could guess. I ended up downloading the clip and putting it through various Shazam like programs trying to help identify it. Never did win, but it was exciting for a short time. If after 30 days, they had just said, no one wins, I would have been pretty erked.
1. less taxes I am not happy with
2. immigrant children in cages
3. easing of environmental rules
4. pulling out of climate deal
5. pulling out of iran deal
6. lying about the election being a fraud, and causing insurrection
7. pardoning his criminal cronies
http://sfist.com/2012/07/26/volume_of_excrement_in_the_wheel...
Detractors will be glad a president doesn't have an expansive voice, but the flip side of the coin is that one day it may be you, or a loved one, who is affected by similar actions for engaging in the wrongthink du jour.

From the look of the allegiance of the newly certified admin, it's not hard to entertain the possibility that in some distant future it may not be possible to criticize say, China, or Bill Gates, without facing repercussions comparable to denying the Holocaust–the difference being that this time, your social graph, preferences, biometric data, and metrics of online behavior are held against you, as a warrant.

Private companies and private interests can conveniently play the role of the data collection and profiling arm of the coercive capability of governments, or they simply use governments as proxies to exert coercion directly (as is the case with 'mandates'), if allowed to do so.
Censorship is the answer. Protect the vulnerable from information.
Thomas Jefferson is the only founder you list who ought to be associated with the year 1776. The others actually came to prominence in the 1780's. That said, they were still young.

To add a few more, Marx was 29 when he wrote the Communist Manifesto and Fidel Castro was 32 he successfully led the Cuban revolution.
Shifting the topic slightly, but I've trying to encourage colleges to do walk-and-talk meetings when your not really going to be using a computer/AV equipment (and it's only one or 2 of you). I cant seem to get traction. It seems people are just so used to going to a room and sitting there it seems to foreign to do otherwise but I think it would be a good culture shift if we could do this more.
There is no way there is less than 100 pirated links somewhere on facebook.com.

And leaving out the FAANGs from this rule would be blatantly anti-competitive.

Looks like Facebook will not only have to exit Europe, but Russia too!
His LinkedIn page has "Hebew" as a language he's fluent in. Given his background/interests, he obviously means Hebrew, but this lack of attention to detail is at least a yellow flag for me. I also am surprised that LinkedIn allows free text with no corrections in that field! :)
I never thought of it as sexual, but I was much younger when I bought my "Head First into AJAX" book [0]

What I like about the "Head First" style was that it reminded me of the photography you'd find in a lot of the 90s Klutz books. I had the Cootie-Catcher's one [1] and the speech bubbles and extreme angle photography was prevalent and reminded me of the Head First books.

[0] https://openlibrary.org/books/OL10781023M/Head_First_Ajax

[1] https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8708878W/The_Cootie_Catcher_...
... good thing they have such a good track record with security and all that.
Zoom does have product merits of its own, for example, I have hearing loss and uniquely sensitive to voice quality — Zoom has by far the best sound quality across all apps I tried. It remains to be seen if these kinds of advantages will make it stick, because on the other end of the balance lies a giant security risk due to China ties.
It seems that we more or less agree on what gender identity is.

The trouble is that that's not how gender identity is treated in the mainstream. It's treated as an intrinsic property, not a mere social construction or preference. That is, if you "identify" as a particular sex, then you "really are" that sex, in some essential sense. The idea entered the mainstream as a framework into which transgender people could fit alongside cisgender people so that nobody would have to be "abnormal". After all, if a man is "really" a woman "on the inside", then why wouldn't you treat them as one? This essentialist usage is different from the purely descriptive usage that we agree on, and it's not so much a descriptive tool as a political one - an intuition pump designed to get people to treat transgender people in line with their preferences. While this is a worthy cause, I question the collateral damage to the larger discourse about sexism.
> I would make it a plain, vanilla Nexus-like phone running vanilla Android with no skins and not tied to any contracts or carriers, but priced $50 less than a comparable Nexus 5 or whatever is the current Nexus. Or else, make it about $400 but throw in a year of Prime to sweeten the deal. Maybe add a couple of features to distinguish it, such as a microSD memory expansion port. Forget the lame Amazon AppStore, or at least provide both -- AppStore and Google Play, and let the customer choose.

If they'd actually done this, it'd probably be a pretty good competitor to the Nexus 6, which is not a bad phone at all but departed quite a bit from the precedent of the Nexus 5, other than running stock Android. (Huge, very expensive.)

The Android market is ripe for a true successor of the Nexus 5, and Amazon would have made a lot of sense to fill that niche. The best thing we've got right now is the 2014 Moto X, which admittedly is a very good phone.
Further, MC and VISA regulations explicitly forbid charging a customer when a product is not sent within 30 days.
Not sure about the goals, but instructions like sar, btc, and loop have significant performance penalty.
Actually, I've averaged about $200 at most throughout all my accounts for all the times I've asked BoA for help.
I don't think so, as they simply took away the right to use a human teller. He can still use the card and the ATMs.
Some "normal" SQL dbs can, at the very least, be configured to log this. Which is pretty great when you consider some can't.
Me too! Wish you a Merry Christmas and a prosperous new year!
I would personally list patent protections as legislative. There was an article posted to HN recently about patents and what I took away was that they do little to protect someone who isn't a large corporation. I believe this is related to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2034262 , patents (in any form not just software but also physical) are just another way to prevent a free market from forming. And libertarianism is based on a firm belief in the free market.
> Wouldn't it also mean India and china won't have to do anything for decades till they get to same per capita as USA ?

If the US does not reduce it's emissions, yes. (In China's case, it's emissions are currently per-capita similar to most of the EU).

This is a great argument for the US, and the EU to reduce their emissions, instead of sitting around, pointing fingers are China.

Again, if you aren't using per capita metrics, you will get absurd conclusions. If a country splits in half, does that mean it should be allowed to emit twice as much?
What if n=1 ? :)
$100 per what?
> The pill is just an excuse? To do what?

To heal.

> I don't think you know what psilocybin does to people.

I think I do.
I've written about this before. Substantiating my claim is easy. Here you go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21649195

BTW, this IS NOT my opinion. We have known this for probably a decade, if not more. The problem is that the masses are being brainwashed with lies on both ends of the spectrum. One end claims there is no such thing as human-caused climate change (which is false) and the other that we can actually fix it (which is also false).
erp. 7 hours.
EDIT: Just read that you said "80k less", not 80k. Actually, that's okay for me. As long as the work is quite interesting, but I'm not making anywhere near 320k.

Yeah, less workload, better pay, what not to like? I guess I just need to get better now.
Iran also has ancient natural air conditioning tech

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher

Persians are very smart people
If you set up containers to quarantine all Google stuff in one container this is still going to open in that container.
pkill -SIGUSR2 emacs

That will cause Emacs to interrupt whatever it's doing and display a backtrace.
I did the full gambit of helm 1/2 tiller/tiller-less and kustomize. Personally kustomize is only marginally better than helm.

I need to check out kubecfg, I haven't used it yet.
The problem with Google is that they force tracking and ads upon you, with little to no options of opting out.

You don’t know what background processes are running on an Nvidia Shield, do you?