jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Over the weekend, I reviewed numerous sources of documentation for the subsystems in Fedora (past and present) that are responsible for building distributions. Some systems administrators may prefer to dynamically build their server distributions based on a script, the advantage being that the servers can be dynamically set IP addresses and PXE-network-enabled boot ISOs be spun, accessing kickstart files on a server.

However, the barrier for entry on these technologies is that the documentation is gappy, and spotty at best. Please post any suggestions you have to my script, bitbuild.sh. Currently, the kickstart file package manifest it builds is broken; however, I would like to make it so it can spin EPEL and Fedora ISOs successfully. I built this out on a Fedora 20 VPS, and next chance I get, I will be building kickstart files for each dist I wish to target -- and integrate functional dist-stubs into the existing codebase.

This system will also dynamically choose code repositories - however, some derivations of the standard URL form exist. I intend on building out a repo list for all dists I intend to target.

When EPEL and Fedora are covered, I will move onto complete tools for the other free Enterprise distributions. So methods will exist in this code for detecting on which dist of Linux this tool is operating.

Please give me a star or something on the repo and follow, any suggestions appreciated. The tool is currently based on Pungi, Kickstart, and Anaconda.
In Thailand (and most of Asia I guess) most parents share the bed with their baby up to a few years old or even longer. Mother and child on bed, father on the ground or opposite. Also a matter of available space. But for sure helps the bonding process to stay close to your little one. Sex life will suffer as a result I guess... Most times family is around the child all the time. Group behavior is spoon fed. And I do agree: a separate room for a new born is madness. Mother and child stay together. You see it in the animal kingdom, and that's what we are. Also nothing wrong with a plain mattress on the floor. No falling down risk, no bars, freedom. Be careful with bedding as usual.
> Decentralizing the power to inflict massive violence leads to a ton of death

Does it? If history is any indicator (and I believe it is), the opposite seems to hold true: the centralization - i.e. monopolization - of violence enables violence without impunity, and as that monopolization approaches its logical conclusion, so does that monopolized violence increase in magnitude and breadth.

In contrast, decentralized violence keeps everyone accountable; any aggressor has to be prepared for the very real possibility that one's victim can and will retaliate with equal force. As Heinlein said: "an armed society is a polite one".
These are brilliant ideas. It's amazing it doesn't actually play out this way.
Users shouldn't have to care about this. If the browser can render the page it should.

This does raise the point that perhaps browsers should have a development mode that does raise errors though.
> I always thought of this idiom as the "last bagholder" in ponzi schemes, rigged pump+dump stocks and alike, but would be weird to apply that to Bitcoin here so not sure if I understand it correctly.

That is the correct understanding.

Because Bitcoin has no inherent value, the only way to profit from it is to sell it to someone else. But if you're the "last sucker", then you are going to sell it to? If there's no one next, you have a bunch of bits that aren't useful for anything.

Bitcoin has (so far?) failed as a payment system, as a currency, as a reserve currency, a remittance channel, a timestamping service, a settlement layer, a bank for the "unbanked", a cypherpunk liberator, a money laundering tool, a drugs-by-mail tool, a unit of accounting, a store of value, and as a "disruptive" fintech technology.

So if you purchase it, what exactly are you expecting to achieve by that ownership, except to sell it to someone else in the future?

When I think of crypto/Bitcoin, I am reminded of Warren Buffett's view on gold:

> Today the world’s gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold were melded together, it would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture it fitting comfortably within a baseball infield.) At $1,750 per ounce – gold’s price as I write this – its value would be $9.6 trillion. Call this cube pile A.

> Let’s now create a pile B costing an equal amount. For that, we could buy all U.S. cropland (400 million acres with output of about $200 billion annually), plus 16 Exxon Mobils (the world’s most profitable company, one earning more than $40 billion annually). After these purchases, we would have about $1 trillion left over for walking-around money (no sense feeling strapped after this buying binge). Can you imagine an investor with $9.6 trillion selecting pile A over pile B?

[…]

> A century from now the 400 million acres of farmland will have produced staggering amounts of corn, wheat, cotton, and other crops – and will continue to produce that valuable bounty, whatever the currency may be. Exxon Mobil will probably have delivered trillions of dollars in dividends to its owners and will also hold assets worth many more trillions (and, remember, you get 16 Exxons). The 170,000 tons of gold will be unchanged in size and still incapable of producing anything. You can fondle the cube, but it will not respond.

* https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2011ltr.pdf
I’d like to say I saw the “normal selection”, but the truth is I don’t remember. I’m fairly certain there were not many washing machines there, but probably a good deal of “tech”.

In any case, I put up a network wide Pi-hole blocker shortly after it because the washing machine adds didn’t just show up on my single device, but pretty much every device i own, including my wife’s phone.

I’ve since spent a long time since trying to convince my wife that Apple doesn’t listen for keywords and sell it (though I have no doubt Facebook, Google and Amazon would - if allowed), and that the fact she was seeing washing machine adds as well was either that she had searched for one (at the same time) or they were basing it on our public ip.

I also switched my search engine to DDG at the same time, and it’s quite funny watching the profiling algorithms struggle to find something they think I like. There are still washing machines in there, but the rest of the adds are pretty much all over the place.
Just for the record, by submitting this I am absolutely not endorsing Mullis's point of view. But I think it's worth discussing if for no other reason than as a cautionary tale about how even very smart people can get things very wrong. And not that I'm not necessarily saying that Mullis is the one who's wrong, though I do believe that he is. But it is manifestly true that someone has gotten it wrong here.
I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean.
There's like a dozen people that do significant amounts of work on vlc. Who's going to fork it?
I think there are social/political ramifications to seriously consider.

Similar to if we had a sudden large radiation hazard and it was unclear if it was some spontaneously emerging phenomenon with essentially no direct human cause, or a power plant/enrichment facility/warhead manufacturer/etc.

And beyond that, there are supposedly methods of (even purely scientifically motivated) research that would involve engineering a virus with certain properties that also happen to make it extraordinarily deadly.

Ethics committees determine all sorts of experiments to be prohibitively unethical, and a virus with particularly deadly design should certainly be held under such scrutiny.
I know fraudulent science is performed in many university labs. If you read the papers you will see only what you think is science. But the results are falsified. The slides are fake. So maybe output is high but determining what is true output is hard.

And nearly no one replicates. I'm sorry that I can't give you info. It's not useful to me or my family to prove this. But consider this a warning. If you move subtly enough you might be able to ask the right people without triggering the defensive walls.

I know I sound like a crank, so I understand if your weight on this warning is not high. But it feels wrong to not warn. So I've done my duty to the extent I find comfortable.

FWIW I believe in the scientific process, and I very much like the idea of long-term fundamental science. I'm not a Trumper, or an anti-science loon, or someone who rejects modern epistemology.
Sure, if data from US would be enough to understand and fight disease. Otherwise, you need to create some sort of world health organization to share meaningful data and investigate inside all country participant without the appearance of [or actual] invasion of sovereignty.

Thus, we have the WHO. You wanna replace it, it's gonna take a decade to get to another agreement if one even is made. Then it will have its own set of issues. During a pandemic, seems better to me to work with and hold accountable the one we have... kinda like the WH is doing today.
>Nature has lied to protect the CCP before:

>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/world/asia/china-springer...

Your article does not support your claim. "One of the world’s largest academic publishers was criticized on Wednesday for bowing to pressure from the Chinese government to block access to hundreds of articles on its Chinese website."
Cars don't tend to be nearly as loud.
It looks like they are using extra-large standard and extra-large high CPU instances rather than the more recent quadruple extra-large "cluster compute" instances. Maybe that's the reason? (EDIT: Though amock seems to have said it better than me.)
If you find this place, please, please let me know. I'd take a 20k pay cut to get out of my cube that opens on a fairly busy hallway, no natural light, uncomfortable imitation "mesh back chair" and mini-fridge with a k-cup machine for a 70 person work group.
One other observation: if you don't have the money to buy new, buy used. There's a place called Anderson's Office Liquidators in Tucson that sells Aerons for $500. Aerons last a really long time -- which can be useful in the resale market.

I think you have to be "a frugal bootstrapper," but there's a key difference between "frugal" and "stingy" or "foolish." Good chairs are an obvious place where that difference plays out.
"Gifted", like the word "Genius", pales in importance to hard work and tenacity.

Give me one child with average IQ and a lasting obsession with one or more subjects, and another child with a "gifted" IQ and a bad work ethic and fleeting interests, and we'll see who's more accomplished at 40.
Internode bandwidth seemed to be the limiting factor cited in the paper, so that makes sense.
The idea of living in NJ/working in NYC sounds nice and lots of people with families do it, but as as 20-something in NYC (Brooklyn for me) I thought about it but can't imagine actually doing this. It is nothing to do with appearing "cool" to other people but for practical reasons. Don't underestimate the importance of having a social life and all your friends/co-workers/other connections living in the same area as you. Plus who wants to take the train after every time you go out drinking instead of just walking back to your place.

Also, it doesn't seem like the people in the article are looking for any sympathy.
The answer (in general, though not in this particular case because the product is free) is price discrimination[0]. The basic idea is that by segmenting their customers roughly by ability to pay (students and seniors will on average pay less for your product than others) you can charge higher prices to everybody else. Otherwise, you would have to reduce your prices across the board in order to maximize profits.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
why does that question matter, at all?

The Apple system is not set up to skim either way, and if they have a good or service you want, just go through the motions. This is as secure as it gets.
I misread the part about the limiting shape being a circle as somehow reading resulting shape.
You're jumping to conclusions here.

a) I actually don't want to have to approve/reject people. Facebook forces me too. I clicked 2,000 approve buttons on day one.

b) pg doesn't have facebook. he and anyone who knows me, knows I would cede admin rights.

c) I'm not leveraging it for my own personal brand, it's a Facebook group. I get no personal benefit out of it. I love the community here and set it up as a benefit to everyone else.

If you have any other questions or quarrels about this, please email me: j@jasonlbaptiste.com. This thread or any on HN isn't the place for this.
Hah! I've gotta get me a kinect for tinkering purposes...
Cool! People know about asynctools and are using it! That was developed by a friend of mine at a previous job. Glad to see it's useful.
I'll bet they do, since I don't actually know anyone who doesn't re-encode their videos. Youtube certainly does, Vimeo does (at least some versions, since they offer different qualities) though uploaders have the option of offering the original for download.

Re-encoding is generally always done, since users upload so many different formats, and few of them are suitable for streaming.
Every dictionary I can find defines decimate as "destroy a large part of." A few of them mention the 1-in-10 definition as obsolete.
They brought semi-automatic weapons, Molotov cocktails, zip-tie handcuffs, pipe bombs, chemical agents, and more. The congresspeople had to escape via the underground tunnels and five people died. How is using the word "terrorism" here hyperbolic?
This is going to lead to violence by the way.
That's the idea. New submissions have to include the privacy label, be them new apps or updates to old apps.

Whatever's already submitted stays like that.
Thanks for the correction, it's been a while since Social Studies class apparently.
> it's pretty well known that individuals within the police could identify or sympathise with Q

This is worrying in its own terms. Policemen are adult, and shouldn't believe in fairy tales.

Being able to use deductive reasoning, understand basic principles of science (like the difference between cheratine and DNA), double-check the facts, and find the truth between the lies is THE work of the police.

Somebody unable to see a hole for years in theories that most 5 Yo curious children could dismantle in a hour is unfit for this kind of work. They simply shouldn't be policemen. Period.
Will end distroying the lifes of innocent people.
exchanges like bitfinex allow shorting.
lisp needs a cpan
3 out of thousands does not make a trend... Plus these are old.
My Motorola phone did OTA updates 10 years ago. As gruber pointed out, that is likely to be the first to go from iTunes.

What he doesn't mention are the reasons Apple doesn't need to cut the cord- it helps their ecosystem. I need to install iTunes (and maybe Quicktime, maybe I check out the iTunes Store, maybe I'm doing it on my Mac). I'm sure the future is headed towards iOS devices that don't need a PC, but the alternative right now is not as painful for Apple as it is for consumers. And truth be told, plugging in a USB cable once in a while is not that painful for me either.
This makes me wonder if photos left on an SD card now would still be readable in 70 years... considering the relative fragility of modern flash memory (guaranteed retention specs are at less than a decade now), I'm not so optimistic.
Later this year we will have even more choices of screen sizes for visual input/output: with Apple Watch joining iPhone5s/5c/6/6+/?, iPad Mini, iPad and perhaps a larger iPad. We also have the range of mac laptops and desktops which are not (yet?) touch-screen but have keyboards, trackpads and mice.

For all of these devices we have a choice of audio input/output, from (for me clunky) Beats headphones through to the classic Apple headphones, earpieces and other non-Apple devices and of course built in mics and speakers on most devices.

We will put these together in our own way. Tiny screens for glances and simple tasks, larger screens for two handed use and longer or more complex tasks, and computers with keyboards for the most complex tasks. We can increasingly use audio to control and get output from any device, so the large device might sit in a bag or pocket while the voice commands or watch drive actions.

So someone might be content with an iPhone 5S sized phone, but they may also have an iPad for reading. Alternatively an Apple Watch, iPhone 6+ and no iPad could deliver the same solution in a different way.

I'm not sure how it will play out, not for me let alone anyone else. I didn't ever expect to get a vast screen phone, but after trying an otherwise unusable Sony Z2 on a trip I realised that the 6+ could be incredibly useful - and it is. The old 5 looks tiny now.

I'm just glad there are choices - within the ecosystem of course.
With good lighting control, you could set up he checkerboard illusion in the real world. That's part of he point.
I understood most of this. But ELI20: Why does the electroweak symmetry breaking give rise to the Higgs field?
Nice! Thanks for serving me. It was snappier than expected.
I was told I had a different personality in English by fellow Japanese learners. I think it’s sort of common.
> It would seem to me you're just encouraging republicans to buy this phone.

I don't see anyone in this thread doing this.
HN is a safe place, kind of. It doesn't matter what feedback you get, but what you do after.

Paul Graham and Sam Altman rarely comment here. Nor does Garry Tan or the other most famous folks. you will find a response from PC if an article references stripe directly..

So you have nothing to fear here, nothing to lose but potentially, potentially something to gain. So fear not. You are among friends.
Sure, throw a link my way (see http://blog.miliauskas.lt for contact info).
Negotiation.
that looks really cool!! i wish i was a teapot ninja in real life!!
Yeah, BNI seems similar in idea, but I had my eyes on small, new companies in particular, as they have the most to gain from small-scale, inidvidual referrals. The larger ones tend to do marketing, or they already have a reputation, so it's easier for them to find new clients.
Sencha (http://www.sencha.com/) is doing very well and innovating in a cut throat industry.
RequireJS does more work.

All of those projects concentrate on loading scripts asynchronously and in parallel. However, to the best of my knowledge, they do not provide sane, standardized (standardized meaning CommonJS compatible in this case) namespacing, modularization and dependency management into your Javascript.
Me too! However, a few weeks ago I dropped in at gates and it appears they moved it to huang.
I think this article works with stereotypes and in my world rockstar engineers understand business as well as rockstar business people understand the engineering world. Engineers who doesn't understand the business maybe good developers, but they lack a skillset that is of big importance in order to succeed in such an important environment as a startup that has pressure on it to produce value in order to start generating value and not run out of money. I think we will see more and more of the big startups hiring people with business and engineering skills. In my world that is the perfect developer.
Good Calories, Bad Calories is often based on incomplete science. It certainly does not make sense when viewed through the lens of some of the largest human dietary studies ever performed (such as the China Study; which Taubes "debunked" in his own unique fashion, but he can't alter the fact that it's among the best, longest, widest, and broadest studies of human diet available; to ignore it is to ignore good science and put your faith in hunches, which Taubes has a lot of).

The Japanese diet is one of several high carb diets that leads to excellent health and longevity. Many of the most successful regional diets are based heavily on rice, legumes, and vegetables, and are very carb-heavy. Ignoring those historically successful diets requires either an extremely myopic view of diet, or someone who has a controversial new book to sell.

Don't get me wrong; I'm not suggesting that following Taubes advice would necessarily be a bad thing. He recommends whole foods, and cutting out sugar and simple carbs and processed foods, which are excellent dietary choices to make. Most Americans would get healthier by eating as Taubes recommends. But, to claim that a low-fat, high-carb, diet is unhealthy, when there are mountains of evidence to the contrary in the form of several Asian and Mediterranean diets, is misleading, at best. The problem with the American diet is not in any one macro-nutrient...fat or carb. It is that we, as a people, eat garbage at every meal. Processed, sugared, stripped of everything good and injected with everything bad. 80% of the food at a supermarket is probably something humans shouldn't be eating, even in moderation, but most of us eat it daily and as the primary source of calories.

Taubes is another fad diet promoter. His fad diet is better than most, and has some decent science behind it. But, it's not the ultimate reference, and it's not on my list of books to recommend to people who just want some ideas about how to eat better (I recommend In Defense of Food for that; it's anti-fad, free of hyperbole and outlandish claims and is based on tradition and science).
It looks like the average software developer makes about 7400 USD a year in India [1]. Assuming a reasonable average is 60k in USA, that's about an 8x salary difference, meaning spending $2/day on food in India is something like $16/day in USA.

1: http://www.payscale.com/research/IN/Country=India/Salary, 328,379 rupees is approx = 7400 USD
Depending on a lot of version numbers, you may have to pass

-Dswing.aatext=true
-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on

to your JVM. I don't know why the default is "ugly 1990s-style", but those settings made Netbeans usable for me (for long enough to discover I still prefer Eclipse, except for the profiler).
FX rates aside (I can't ever remember the £ being so weak) my friend just got back and said that a 4 pack of yoghurts was as expensive as a steak!.
It does interest me as to why this is. I think it's this and maybe the geography/population making the mega supermarkets less viable.

I sometimes play with the idea of a food co-op to bring prices down, but haven't got far.
Living in Ryde, Sydney.

Veg like carrots are a good way to get full for not much.
We found it was also helpful to have a weekend budget where you could treat yourself. Keeps you sane.
Not only that, but the White House has a Press Secretary that can summon the entirety of the American Press at the drop of a pin. That same American Press would love to have Trump present at briefings and ask him questions as well. There is far from a lack of avenues for Trump to get his message out while President. The idea that Trump is being silenced because he can't spout untruths and foment the masses on Twitter is just ridiculous.
Don't forget that if you're US based, it is likely illegal for you to have unpaid interns. See Mark Cuban's post about this at http://blogmaverick.com/2009/09/05/want-an-unpaid-internship...

The line seems to be this: if your interns are materially helping in the company's core activities, you must pay them. So if they're doing anything other than made-up-work (dig a hole and fill it in), you have to pay them.
Have airfare will travel. I love it.
I can understand being excited about a cool pacman game being playable on the google homepage, or something that warrants a discussion on A/B testing, or for that matter, Google adding customizable backgrounds. But saying "Hey, guys, look! Google silently rolled back a blooper!"? Come on.