jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Partially yes, but 1860 was the most divisive Presidential election in history. The Republican strategy was basically to punt on the South and run on an entirely pro-Northern/Western platform. Notably, the Republicans ran on a platform putting tariffs on foreign machinery, requiring raw materials to be processed in America before being shipped, granting free farmland in the federally owned West (instead of selling it), and support for a Northeast/Western railroad. All of those were unpalatable to the South. The tariffs protected Northern industry at the expense of making it more expensive for Southerns. Not letting raw cotton be shipped overseas until it was sent to the North for processing was going to be a nightmare.

The free land would again reduce the price of inputs to Northern factories by producing more agriculture, at the expense of the South. Mind you, the South had also been a part of paying for and fighting for Western lands in the various purchases and wars, and now the land they'd bought/fought for was going to be given away, which would also lower the prices of their crops.

And so on, and so on. Lincoln carried zero southern states, zero border states. He took all of the Northeast and West Coast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege1860.svg

I agree with you on the deeply evil society thing, 100% agreement. Just that's not why the war started. Or, it's one small component of it. Slavery was ended without a massive violent conflict in most civilized places and could have been ended that way in the USA, and besides, the Civil War was only partially about slavery. Lincoln's entire platform was anti-South, he ran his campaign similar to Bush II: That is, punt entirely on large parts of the country and try to win core demographics. The tariffs, shipping laws, giving federally owned lands for free, and railroads were all pro-Northern measures and somewhat hostile to the South. Lincoln didn't even want to end slavery, as you'll see in his inauguration speech. The way they teach the Civil War in American high school, as sort of a moral fight, is entirely wrong - it was about politics, money, and empire. But anyways, I'm on the North's side for the Civil War, glad they did it, and glad they won. But we should all understand the real root causes of it. It wasn't fought for morality's sake.
capital allows the labour specialization to exist. After all, capital is 'saved up labour', available for expenditure for future purposes.

Imagine if you wanted to manufacture a car, which takes a long time to make. If you didn't have capital, you'd have to find/forage for food, and have very little spare resources left to actually do the car manufacturing. If another person, with a large storage of food, gave you said food, but ask in return, for the car, it would work (it's just a matter of negotiating an exchange rate between the food and the car).
Thank you! I really like the new Firefox for Android, it made me switch back and I'm using it since the early beta versions.

I really can't understand the hate against people putting so much effort in creating nice user experiences. If you're not happy with Firefox, just use something else, but don't threaten the developers!
It was Chrome OS that did the VM approach first for Crostini before WSL2. And if you read the proposal it also mentions trying the VM approach.
Yup. To the point that guilds in the late Middle Ages started recruiting their own militias to protect their trade from "nobility" (i.e. thugs with castles).
It's available under the CC BY 4.0 license, you can find the source here:

https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book

There are instructions in the README to build epub, html and other formats (including a giant manpage).
>The Dark Ages are from ~500AD to ~900AD and as a term were first used in the 14th century.

Petrarch, the 14th C dude you're referencing, believed in a two age history demarcated by the fall of Rome and that he was living in dark, post-Roman world. The three age history of light-dark-light that would give us the term middle ages/medieval wouldn't come til the 15th C with Bruni when he tacked a modern age onto Petrarch's scheme.
At least in Poland, in the later centuries, it was pretty much slavery. Escaped peasants were hunted across the country. The punishments for escape were severe, and sometimes included mutilations which precluded the escapees from running but didn't hurt their farming abilities.

Peasants weren't exactly property like for example in the US, but in practice were bought and sold with the land (number of people living on a land was a large part of valuation) and could be mistreated or killed with no legal recourse.
Interesting post. Let me rephrase the question:

What amount of money would it take to solve my biggest problems?

Here are my biggest problems:

1. My father had a massive stroke and died. I miss him.

2. My mother has severe dementia and now acts like a toddler. I miss her too, in a strange way.

3. In the past 8 years, I have lost 5 close friends and family members including the cousin I grew up with who died very young of pancreatic cancer. I miss them all.

4. I have 3 loved ones with significant health problems. I wish there was more I could do to help. Better yet, I wish the would all just get well.

5. I love to build software and would like to build more, better, and faster.

6. The Pittsburgh Steelers (American football) lost yesterday. I'm crushed.

I have struggled with how more money could help (or have helped) with numbers 1 through 4, but I'm not quite sure how.

If I had more money, I could hire a bunch of people to help me with #5, but I think we're all learning that the correlation between having a lot of money and building lots of great software is becoming a very loose one.

I need a billion dollars to buy the Steelers and run them the way they should be run. I need another billion to pay the referees. In the meantime, I'll just sit and suffer on Mondays like this.
Seems like a nice idea, since it usually is a repetitive kind of task. May I ask why you chose Flask over Django?
The 64k and 4k demos do a lot of pre-calculation to generate impressive imagery and sounds. The modern size-coded demos all take advantage of the massive processing power present in modern machines. This demo does the reverse—almost everything is precomputed and stored in a file format that is easy for the puny processor of the 8088 to play back at a decent frame rate. Without storage space (the demo requires a multi-megabyte hard disc on which to store the "video" file) the aproach would be a non-starter.
This is a big issue for me too. IIRC the next version of the JVM will allow you to specify a target memory usage as well as a max, which will encourage it to GC more after memory spikes. You should be able to return some of this to the system without too much penalty (as long as the spikes aren't too frequent...).
> Windows laptops are packed full of hardware and software crap that nobody really wants. Fingerprint readers are unsafe toys. 17 inch monitors make it impossible to use comfortably on your lap. Doesn't matter how many cells are in your battery, it won't outlast mine because Windows drinks juice like a sailor.

You're making a logical fallacy: "I don't want this feature, therefore nobody wants this feature."

I just helped a friend pick out a new laptop. He insisted on a 17-inch screen. This was his single absolute must-have. No 17-inch screen? No purchase. Any other spec was negotiable. The screen was an absolute must-have. Even a 15.6-inch screen was too small for him.

Weight? He didn't care. Battery life? He didn't care. It had to have a 17-inch screen. He didn't want to use it on his lap. He wanted a desktop replacement that he'd keep plugged in all the time -- with the option of picking it up and moving it to another desk.

> People who buy PCs just don't understand quality. Only price.

He didn't care about price. He was willing to spend $1500, $2000, whatever it took to get a 17-inch laptop. Except, of course, that Apple cancelled the 17-inch MacBook Pro -- the one feature that might've won his purchase.
Until the time comes to quit.

When you live paycheck to paycheck, it isn't an easy decision...
> Being so sure that BTC is a bubble is just as naive as being completely sure it's going up to a million dollars per coin. It's just speculation either way, and there is no fundamental law of nature (or even principle of economics) preventing either outcome.

Which is why I'm not playing. And why I don't have any gold.
This is concerning news.
Do you believe it was a coup?

I don't think the people that got there would be capable of overthrowing a unstable 3rd world government. Probably not even a small rural town.
Why not? Everyone counted Wii Sports as the best-selling game of all time despite being a pack-in (and even today it's #4 having only been outdone by Minecraft, GTAV and Tetris Mobile).
Oh duh... You were pointing out a typo in my comment.

I'm leaving my original reply below because what the hell.

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Yes, exactly.

Think of it this way: you don't actually have any control over partitioning, therefore partitions are a given. So CAP is expressed as such: given a partition, choose between consistency and availability.

EDIT: I personally find PACELC [0] less confusing, and more nuanced than CAP, but they basically say the same thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACELC_theorem
Why did the company choose to migrate from AWS to GCP? Just curious.
B52 is even older, and still kicking (I think...)
Berkeley's population has been static for more than 70 years. In the meantime we've built a freeway and a subway with three underground stations. Also the number of _jobs_ in Berkeley has more than doubled. It is high time the city grew its population in order to benefit from these infrastructure investments.
> told rep about infrastructure we were thinking of using but they needed a dollar monthly amount since they were in sales and didn't have an understanding of the infrastructure

I am in computational genomics and this was exactly my experience with Google as well.
Interestingly enough Wikipedia says that the request for proposals for the F16 happened in January 1972 and the first completed fighter was accepted in January 1979. That’s 7 years, without the use of computers.
I think that explanation is only about Hydrogen molecules and hydrogen atoms, not Hydrogen vs. Helium.

There's a free textbook available here [1] that explains that atomic sizes decrease across the periodic table and increase down. In short, it decreases across a horizontal period because more electrons are in the same orbital shell (really a cloud), increasing the negative nuclear charge of the cloud, which is more attractive to the positive atomic nucleus, so the whole cloud is squeezed together, making the whole atom smaller.

[1]: https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/General_Chemistry/Bo...
> is itself a particular partisan talking point put out by Democrats to explain Hillary's loss in 2016

...No? Trump lied far less back in 2015. The reason he won is that media gave him a platform, not that he used it to lie. Most Democrats agree with this analysis. Curbing misinformation is not a partisan issue, either: Trump spent his entire presidency railing against "fake news" and though the fast majority of his complaints were inaccurate, falsehoods are peddled by media from both sides of the aisle.

> yours is not a good faith attempt to tackle this problem objectively

Neither is yours. Taking an aggressive stance from the get-go, claiming that Democrats are as bad as Republicans when it comes to lying – none of these are markers of good faith.

My whole point is that because misinformation can't be tackled objectively, it's far harder to censor people than it seems. Because of this, censorship is not as good an idea as one might think. I do say that "If the GOP had not been able to lie about election fraud, the Capitol attack might not have happened," but I spend the rest of my comment explaining why censorship is a bad idea.
"Jamming" usually works by putting out a bunch of energy on the same frequencies to overwhelm any actual signal. So, detect the overall amount of radio coming in, and turn off auth if it's too high.
Yep, you can make a shotgun out of two pieces of pipe and a nail.

http://i40.tinypic.com/13zcqyw.png
I think if TVs had a replaceable compute board, I'd be really on board with it. Sort of like plugging a Roku directly into the TV so it acted as the control card for the TV hardware as well, but was still user-replaceable/upgradeable.

It's amazing how the right/wrong task can cause your smart TV to slog around like it's a Windows 98 machine on dialup.
A BI also means that one can stop working and focus on innovation, without the worry of starvation. I cannot quit my day job and work 100% on a brand new startup I want to make because I have mouths to feed. I literally can't afford to make a startup. Had I been 23, no child, living with parents, eating ramen, and healthy as an ox, sure no problem.

So yeah, lots of the statements in the article seem unfounded. I do get the feeling that BI opponents have this "fairness" attitude: You didn't work for your cash, I did, why should you have money. It's the same thing as "your happiness makes mine lesser".
Is the statement in question this one?

They work on/for local markets, earning local salaries. $70 is suddenly a lot. Nothing to do with being "cheap".
At minimum, it makes it a lot easier for a viable fork to pop up if necessary. For example, I'll bet it'll make it simpler for neovim to keep up-to-date with changes in the upstream.
Cool idea but I wish it wasn't restricted to Facebook login.
Housing is a euphemism for land. The value of locations is determined by the quality of the surrounding community and the environment.

This value winds up in land because it is claimed for exclusive use by individuals, enforced by government. Yet, claiming ownership over any part of the surface of this ball of space rock is arbitrary, and no principle of justice can truly legitimize it.

Instead of Piketty's blunt "wealth tax" we should be taxing land value, which as the cited MIT/Brookings report shows, is responsible for nearly all the new growth in inequality.
This is a criticism of Lisp-based DSLs but not of Racket-based DSLs. Racket actively enables you to impose different, non-parenthetical surface syntaxes on the DSL. It is not a "this sort of works if you arrange it carefully _and nobody screws anything up_" thing like in Ruby, it really is an explicit language definition.

The easiest way to understand this in action is to read about Danny Yoo's Brainfuck embedding in Racket: https://www.hashcollision.org/brainfudge/
Been a while since I read PCI DSS but if the PAN isn't there, does it specify you have to protect that information? Also, if they don't actually have the PAN touch their servers (like, using a BrainTree or Stripe-like solution), PCI compliance is quite minimal. Even PCI DSS 3.0 is trivial to deal with using Stripe (they just insert an iframe so the CC info goes directly to their site).

Of course, yeah, they don't deserve the benefit of the doubt here. Given such a terrible API they probably are a mess inside, too.
From a nationally accreditted university, it doesn't matter if the degree was online or brick-and-mortar.

For one of these online degree mills, you might lose out.
Just wait a few months
Yep. I can really imagine explaining THAT to my dad!
TPB's problem is that it was a SPOF. Git is distributed, so even it Github shuts down repositories, people can just still pull from each other or move to a different host.
Sitting at someone else's terminal makes it sound like a crime of opportunity, but why is stealing a password through spearphishing different from bypassing a poorly coded authentication token?
A friend of mine setup a simple PHP-based proxy while he was in high school, to get around the firewall.

Then, he modified it slightly to scrape facebook username/passwords, and gave the URL to all his friends. :)

I wonder whether modern security practices (e.g. https everywhere) will make proxies less lucrative (and therefore less common).
>I won't default to a high tip for average service just because other people are doing it.

30% and up is a high tip. 20% is not. Life is short. Be the guy/gal who puts smiles on strangers faces. You can do this by taking care of service staff.
Real art may inspire the soul, but road signs keep you from dying.
Thanks. That seems risky if one's client is stateless, but I understand it's a compromise.
You have to revive a culture where truth is paramount. Unfortunately, I think a lot of cultures that value "truth" also tend to shoot down complexity in favor of simple, but wrong, "truths". For example, when it comes to complex topics like sex and gender, people tend to gravitate to either "There are only two sexes, a biological "fact" somewhere between, e.g. bimodal but overlapping distributions.
In that case, I'd suggest `p_rd` (well, IMO, just `rd` would suffice) and `p_wr`. Then they're both fairly unambiguous abbreviations.
From their FAQ:

Q10. How will you work with existing open source projects and the upstream?

A10. We will work with upstream projects directly. There are many existing projects that are creating great software. The best way of helping these projects is to join in, working with them and donating code directly to their development trunks.
Even worse, machines may enforce unnatural and potentially dangerous form (Smith machines are particularly linear, for example).

Free weights can be more forgiving when your form is a bit off (versus being locked into a groove that leads to a pull or tear).
some extra programs if you're looking for more templated options:

http://www.rosstraining.com/nevergymless.html

Ross Enamait's "Never Gymless" - this guy will turn you into a freak of nature ... without a gym. Also be sure to check out "Infinite Intensity" and his other programs as well.

http://www.defrancostraining.com/articles/38-articles/65-wes...

West Side for Skinny Bastards 3 by Joe DeFranco - a four day split involving max effort, dynamic effort, and repetition days.

http://www.aasgaardco.com/store/store.php?crn=199&rn=312...

Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe - one of the best books as far as learning the basics of barbell movements and how to apply them successfully. Also check out "Practical Programming" which will help you scale your workouts to beginner, intermediate, and advanced programs as you progress.

And finally, if you're looking for a way to get a quick and brutal (did i mention brutal??) cardio workout, I highly suggest high intensity interval training (HIIT) in the form of barbell complexes.

http://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_article/sports_body_train...

I highly suggest Cosgrove's Evil 8 complex, you'll be entirely gassed in about ten minutes. Complexes are GREAT for people looking to build mass and continue doing high intensity cardio without the catabolism (muscle breakdown) associated with slower, long duration cardio.
Under most circumstances, those benefits take time to kick in. In Ontario, for example:

http://www.health.gov.on.ca/english/public/pub/ohip/wait.htm...
Sorry if i'm going a "bit" off-topic, see disclaimer at the end.
Remove pseudonyms to improve accountability and quality of comments... it doesn't work that way on the internet, anyone could use a fake name and the only one that care about accountability are the one that have been treated harshly (in their opinion). No correlation to quality exists imo.

And i agree, using pseudonyms is the only way to maintain confidentiality when for example you want what you say to remain inside a certain community. In my case, while i have no problem with the HNers knowing who i am (and would be also quite happy to meet some of you), i don't see why someone googling my name should know that i post here, none of their business.

Disclaimer: I skipped the original "scary job hoppers/HN lack of civility/untested ideas to improve civility" querelle, because not being american i don't have a clear view of the job market there and discussion about lack of civility turn out to be pretty useless usually ("it's the internet,baby." it's usually the conclusion).
Now i've spent 20 min or so reading marks' posts and some comment here...
What i can add 10 days or so later? Not much :)

Generalizing in that way/posting useless rant will always attract a lot of angry comments, it's correct and it's also to be expected. And no, there is definately no loack of civility on HN.
Philk sums it up in a good way in his post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1401113
terrifying. the whole company.
I'm not sure if this helps:
http://programming.dojo.net.nz/
I agree with you, but I'd like to point out that the opposite of "civility" is not necessarily "vitriol". Lots of forms of incivility are orthogonal to vitriol, trolling for example.
seriously, where is the local startup gathering in Malaysia? anyone around KL?

I'm Malaysian too.
What makes this different/better than Head JS, LAB, et cetera? If you're familiar with the project, pitch us.
If you eat three meals a day, you've got a good chance of dying a few hours after a meal. What are you arguing?
There are a few anomalous millisecond pulsars that are older than the universe. The orthodox explanation is the pulsar age calculations are flawed. The heretical explanation is the age of the universe calculations are flawed.
This question is actual for me.
On week ago I've launched community for programmers which have a new approach to organizing content.
It allows users share their posts using tags.
And as you noticed - there is minimum content for now.
So on this early stage people don't understand why my site can be useful for them.
Another problem isthat I am not native speaker, so probably my explanations can be unclear.
Anyway I am working on several articles about the idea of my site and will submit it on HN, Reddit.
Also I am trying to write posts, submit links, add code snippets on the site.
At least - in this case the site looks like alive and not empty.

So, I can say that everything depends on the community niche, main idea of the site
and what problems of users it can solve. You must have a good understanding of people
who can be interested in your site and have a set of ideas how you can motivate
them to start using your community.
Anyway on the early stage you should at least make the site look alive.
Well said!

Don't let good technology go to waste just because of the "weirdness" of the people behind it.
It reminds me of the people who thought it horrible to use ReiserFS after what happened.
Right. Wikipedia says: 0.7MP fixed-focus camera with HD video capture (720p at 30fps) with 960 x 720 resolution still images

I believe the iPhone 3GS/4's autofocus makes a huge difference in clarity for close-ups.
Is favbot planning to charge user for their service in the future ?
Yeah, there's a bad copypasta there. I'll see if I can update that real quick.

EDIT: The FAQ has been updated.
Could you also match to the source article/post title?
I agree. As niche as these are ... who cares? I mean Ferrari dealerships are classist too, but there are other ways to get around.
Go on then, go look for them.

Go search on job boards and fine all those mystical jobs.

They are the tiny minority.
The name sounds more like a rehabilitation centre than a school. I think the average person is going to mistake it for 'Recourse Centre' (which probably is a rehabilitation centre somewhere).
NPR's Planet Money podcast had a show about Hutson and Pigeon.ly, well worth listening too. http://n.pr/1FZPCvw
And how do you move your money to/from a DEX? It still needs a regulated exchange like Coinbase to interface with Fiat money, no?
At this point I'd prefer few keys, just 18 per side for my fingers and a row of 4-6 for each of my thumbs. I'd handle numbers, function keys, volume, and whatever else you mentioned with layers.