jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In 1994 when Bill Gates started his private foundation, income from dividends was taxed like regular income.

You're right it's 15% right now but don't forget there is new tax law coming into effect pretty much in two weeks that will tax dividends again like regular income.
Spark Charleston, in Charleston, SC: http://www.sparkchs.com/
#1 reason for a developer to run Linux: KCacheGrind. Compiling and running this on OS X is a terrible PITA. I'm not aware of any native Mac app that's even remotely as good for analyzing profiler output.
1) That's another thing that bothers me about OSX. Everything you want to do requires some extra plugin or package. Just because I can fix a problem with duct tape doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.

3) I've tried that. I am a nerd after all. Go change the Firefox keyboard shortcuts from command+t to ctrl+t. Let mek now how that works out for you. When I do it, it changes in the menu, and the menu lights up, but no new tabs appear.

I also know about defaults write com.apple.finder... But that is an all or nothing situation. I can't hide/show on a directory basis. I also can't quickly turn it on and off. In Linux I can do a quick toggle with a shortcut like ctrl+h. In Windows at least there's a hidden GUI button to do it. In the famously easy to use OSX is the only OS that requires black magic.

I also forgot to add that the OSX Terminal still does not support 256 colors. It also really screws up trying to render fonts such as Proggy. I know there are other alternative terminals, but they have other issues. Even the humble gnome-terminal beats them all handily.
Not every company will be able to do this.

HBO Currently costs 17/month + a cable subscription locally. Why should the streaming version be cheaper?
For some time, I've daydreamed about implementing R in Racket ("Arket"?) as a means of shining a flashlight in all the dark corners of my R knowledge. Then I realize this would take me a heap of time and it goes back to being a daydream.
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Sure, and it has a very large out-of-order execution engine, but it is not fundamentally different from what other super scalar processors do. So I am curious what the OP meant by that offhand comment.
Whoa, that is beautiful!
7. Dress Code
It has changed a lot. From suit and tie to whatever you feel like wearing.
If it’s anything like Intel/Arm there are likely huge internal HPC Unix clusters with attached FPGAs for simulation and design.

I wouldn’t expect them to.
I can summarize the thing about Clinton, if you weren't already butthurt over him being elected then you were just annoyed about the BJ.

Far more damaging was NAFTA and letting China into the World Trade Association.
> Treasury will have their own view of this,

What will be interesting to see is if these views are physically enforceable.

Having more technical details would be interesting.
All I'm seeing is that the salient information is on the UI in at least three places. It spells out the freaking calculation.

So clearly, these people simply didn't look. Not once. In their perpetual multitasking frenzy that any hospital staff seems to be in, they didn't do the actual task. I'm reasonably sure that you can color code or flash whatever yo u want and they would still miss it if that's the way they work.
Interesting!

This looks like a demo day project of Le Wagon, a french bootcamp in Paris (I found a link from their demo day https://youtu.be/hHPOV8vz5Q8?t=503 ).

Where you part of that bootcamp too ? (It seems to reuse the same "Nul n'est cense ignorer la loi." gimmick!)
IMO, it's knowing how to balance code quality and handle errors within time constraints and other restrictions. Any simple application has the potential to be very complex when one wants to handle every possible scenario. Knowing where to draw the line(s) would be what I consider mastery.
Definitely this. Nothing like learning from watching your solution hitting roadblocks (performance, extensibility etc) and reassessing your earlier approaches and again coming with a solution to address the newer challenges
If they take donations in order to fund it, doesn't that give you the option of paying for the service directly?
NPM packages are uploaded / stored as `.tar.gz` files, so they can contain anything (alongside a package.json metadata file) - some public NPM packages contain binary files like images or compiled assets too. The registry doesn't really care about much beyond the package.json.

I've done something similar to the author at a previous company, distributing an internal development CLI written in Go, though in our case we published to the GitHub Packages NPM registry rather than private npmjs.com, so we could authenticate our developers via their GitHub accounts.

Including multiple binaries inside the published package, one for macOS and one for Linux (we had no Windows devs), did increase the package size, but the whole gzipped .tar.gz was around 20-30mb, so not terrible from a registry storage standpoint.

Publishing to an NPM registry, vs just hosting a binary for our devs to download, was convenient since we could use the registry API to check for updates and notify the user that an update was available. Users could then update via a subcommand, which just pulled the new package from the registry.
Supporting 'the storming' IS a call to and in support of violence and attack on our country. what if it was phrased 'praising and supporting the [armed attack and illegal invasion] of the US Capitol'

What about if we were talking about allowing the widespread social propagation of those siding with and advocating for al qaeda on 9/12?

A rhetorically extreme comparison in terms of levels of violence BUT to me this is equally as <u>symbolic</u> of an attack on our Democracy and country. Even worse because it was from our own citizens attempting to actively stop Democratic process with weapons.
You give up an element of this anonymity and repudiablity when using a mail-in ballot system instead of a truly anonymous in-person voting system. The votes are still tallied anonymously, and it's impossible to post-hoc validate who you voted for, so it serves the anonymity purposes since you can't check whether your investment in buying votes was successful.

Every state that does mail-in voting at all requires a signature. Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Missouri also require a witness -- Missisipi requires a notary.
Also Narrator's developer mode, which you can toggle with Control+Narrator+F12 (where the "Narrator" key is either Caps Lock or Insert).

Disclosure: I used to work on the Narrator team at Microsoft.
Sure but how is this the other half’s fault?

Are the other people obligated to accept lies and bigotry?

What’s the plan here? Maybe the people who are into alternative facts should not annoy people who are into facts?
On the one hand, you're right. On the other hand, a friend of mine was sued by the driver of the car that hit him to pay for cleaning his blood off of the car and fixing the dent his body left in the frame.

It'd be nice if they didn't add insult to injury.
It’s advertised as having a Virtual DOM.
Whoa!

Thanks for the correction!
Even this platform there are policies on what to do/write and how to behave. Up/downvoting is a way of policy management.
It's physically easier to touch the reader than to hover over it? Especially if the reader is a bit janky/older and takes time to complete the transaction. If you look at Oyster (TFL) for example, most people physically touch their cards to the turnstile/bus readers. The official advertising also uses the phrase "tap in, tap out" for stations where there are no barriers. "Contactless" is also fairly widely used in the UK - e.g. "do you take contactless?". Contactless is because in theory you don't need to touch your card to the reader. My new phone seems to have a good enough antenna (active?) that it triggers the POS terminal much further away than my debit card, but usually the activation distance is small enough that tapping is easier.
Also keep in mind today's portraitists have photographs to copy from. They have tracing paper and other gadgets that help them produce an even more accurate portrait.
If this was something that you wanted done, I think it would absolutely make sense to pay someone experienced to do it. They will know the right places to submit the requests, follow up on it, etc. It all depends on how valuable your time is and how interested you are in doing it yourself.
There is something comical about this: HN receives an absurd amount of traffic. More than startups and corporations with millions of customers and millions if not billions of dollars behind them, and yet it runs on effectively an arduino nano compared to what they are using. HN serves all the contents significantly faster than any of them at the fraction of the time and cost. Let's take my old job for instance: the company website had almost nothing on it: a list of products, a jobs page and that's it. That website ran on 12(yes, twelve) dell servers, each having a 4 socket motherboard, each occupied by a 12 core xeon, and each of those servers had 384 gigs of ram. Sure, it tracked every click and whatnot but the data that was tracked was never actually used and the all-beloved bundle.min.js was 15 megabytes. So much for low carbon footprint and all that...
WWR/RemoteOK but its pretty trivial to add new sources. I was using those for development with the purpose of adding a couple more right before launch.
I know that you're not copying the wordle vibe necessarily, but the animations seem too over the top to me. They're pushing into candy crush territory, and to me that a strong detractor. One of the thing I appreciate about wordle is that it isn't trying to be more than it is, and this feels too much like the free games that fill app stores and employs a bunch of dark patterns to hook your attention.
Not sure if the gif is actually from the series but the actor is one of the main characters of the famous (among geeks) IT Crowd.
ITERATE is one of those tastefully designed macros, very intuitive to a LOOPer.
Unfortunately we're way on the other coast in Cambridge, MA. If you've had good experiences with firms that also work here I'd like to hear about it though!
You only pay for CPU if you really use it and not for "standby".

So if you have 100k requests in one month and each request takes 0.1 seconds you only have 10.000 seconds(or 166.66 hours or 2.7 hours) so you only pay $0.27 for that month.
EC2 would bill you for 720 hours(30 days *24 hours). At a rate of $0.10 you would pay $72 instead of the $0.27.

(For this example I'm not taking the free quota into account)
About the exclusivity thing: A friend of mine is a financial officer for a company that just moved offices to Charlotte. Hiring two staff, they tried a couple of recruiters and hired two from the same recruiter, with a 25% bounty.

They needed a third staffer, but were informed from that same recruiter that the bounty would be 27%. Confused because the extra position was no different - "you are charging us MORE for return business!?" - my friend was told that the extra cost was due to not signing an exclusivity agreement.

His response was, naturally, "bye bye".
Facebook operates in some countries in which certain speech is illegal, such as denial of the Holocaust in Germany. IIRC they comply with the nation's laws in each country they operate in.
Now, if only web apps on iOS could enter into full-screen mode like native apps...

They can. You need to add some additional metadata to the header, and the user needs to save that url to their homescreens (homescreens? does that even make sense?), but once done the web app looks like a native one. You can even define a splash screen to display while the page loads.

Edit: here's the line you need (from http://raphaelcaixeta.com/blog/2010/08/13/meta-tags-to-help-...)

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
It's interpolated based on the previous days, similar to how Gmail counts storage size. It's not "fake" because it's pretty close to the real number, but it's not perfectly accurate either.
A very good question!

My answer:

A difficult accomplishment should be its own reward irrespective of the outside world.

A useful difficult accomplishment will be rewarded by the outside world.
From the original article:

Meanwhile, at Google, the cash cow is search-driven advertising. That allows the company to encourage engineers to waste 20% of their time on "projects"

If I remember correctly, didn't Paul Buchheit create Gmail and AdSense on his 20% time?
There is a lot more that feeds into the return on investment in the stock than specific decisions due to one business conflict.

Microsoft's fundamental business problem is that they are on the wrong side of some disruptive innovations. And that is a very difficult business problem to face. No matter how competent the management, if a company is caught in that trap it is normal to see poor returns in the stock market. Read _The Innovator's Dilemma_ and _The Innovator's Solution_ for more on that.

Microsoft's problems are made more difficult by the fact that Bill Gates stepped down and left Steve Ballmer in charge. They went from having one of the most effective CEOs out there to someone who I think is a liability.

However, despite those factors, it is still possible to look at specific decisions and have opinions on how good or bad they were. And I think that Bill Gates' decision to start the Xbox was good.
the math on this is pretty staggering to me.

360 billion 256 pixel square image tiles is about 21PB! (uncompressed, of course)

http://www.google.com/search?q=(256*256*360000000000)%20byte...

and you know they have multiple copies cached around the world for redundancy/speed.
With the new year coming is time to think: how have I improved my value?
I have grown to really dislike how techcrunch passes off information-less blog posts as news.
Very true. I try jumping off of cliffs all the time cuz this time I might just fly!
I have no inside knowledge, but I have generally found that things are usually not as good as people say they are, nor as bad as people say they are. Nevertheless, Yahoo clearly has some issues to resolve.

Perhaps they are wishing they had taken the Microsoft buyout offer?
Sure, I'm just saying ML, just like its forebear AI, doesn't live up to the hype. Lunch is very expensive.
3) There's a group of people who aren't lawyers, don't give a crap and just want to enjoy life without arguing over the technicalities and legalities of everything, especially things that can't provably affect the profits of Paramount. They likely didn't give the legality much consideration.

QFT. (no copyright intended)
> Our schema is fully denormalized, which is particularly important for performance

And yet appending a single event (you dedupe for each event, right?) takes half a second. That's an eternity!
Doanloading an MP3 from amazon doesn't require a client. It does sync to the cloud, but it doesn't require a client. I guess I don't see the vendor lock-in there?
I read the whole thing. It was interesting, but not linear, and definitely not dense. But it's The Atlantic, not a daily paper.

It was more of a leisurely interesting-but-not-actionable, flavor-of-the-story, Sunday-paper-with-a-bagel read. I wouldn't even call it long-form journalism. It's just bits of history and human interest tied to a current issue with a sprinkling of character and anecdote. Gratifying, not edifying.

That sort of thing has a place, but generally not what I'm looking for on a Wednesday morning.

Did you know that Central Valley almond crop irrigation consumes water equal to 1/2 of a Los Angeles?
>Plus, who's going to buy all that nifty "war on drugs" gear when the police no longer have "free money" to purchase?

The federal laws that grants military surplus to local police is very, very generous. The sunk cost is next to nothing. Maintenance costs are pretty much it. The militarization of police continues even without this money.
What does that look like? Force drivers to go to the doctor (even though you don't give them health insurance) to get a note that says "I sneeze around dogs"?
In Australia you the employee can get a tax deduction for work expenses. If you work from home you can claim partial rent, partial electricity bills, partial internet and so on.

Whereas if the employer pays for these things, they may have to levy a Fringe Benefits Tax on the value of the payments at the top marginal tax rate.

In total dollars it is sometimes cheaper to bump the salary and let the employee actually do the taxman dance.

Of course, I am not a lawyer, not a tax accountant and I don't work for the ATO. Seek advice, YMMV etc.
I'm sure it's great to be a kingpin, but I'd be interested to hear the perspective of the low level dealers and other rank-and-file.
Release dates are never met...we have 3 months, minimum, before we have to worry.
It would not be so much a network split as a network copy. Every user of the original network would have, to begin with, identical balances in both. Until inflation adjusted things, there would be an ephemeral increase in purchasing power.

If the new network implemented inflationary logic, as a modern state is wont to do, I can't exactly see people rushing to convert their old (relatively stable, perhaps deflationary) money to the new one. Therefore, I can't see many businesses stopping to accept the old bitcoin.

And after whatever adjustments are made, it will be business as usual. Bitcoin will remain the network for people that want a decentralized currency. Not necessarily of libertarians, but of anyone with distrust or disillusion with their governments and the banking system. Which I don't think is such a small demographic.
Who is the average apple customer? I thought Apple was about individuality and being different.
/me looks around for Nexus S photos

Yeah, there there's too much of a difference (IMO), especially as the device itself looks substantially different. Android, I think, looks plenty different to avoid the suit - the Galaxy S in particular, though, doesn't. Not sure what their aim is there.
Heh, not exactly deep or profound, but accurate.

The article of course was going for the meta-point of how the target market for a startup can influence its success. It wasn't clear if teams had a harder time executing against requirements for customers that were not like themselves or not. (Groupon is cited as a successful company that targeted customers who were not like groupon employees).

The actual situation is so much more deeply nuanced than just that, that I can understand the simplification above of 'either they succeed or they don't'
It actually wouldn't be too hard, we think we will just tap our many-many views table to replicate an experience as ourselves! That should be a cool tour for a potential user.
What do you mean by zero memory allocation? The title seems contradictory. You have to allocate at least some memory for a program to run.

Do you mean it doesn't allocate any memory per request, it just uses pre allocated memory?
There's a big difference between wars conducted directly by major world powers and little conflicts by proxy. They are not the same thing especially when it comes to scale. The other replies to your post have already made my point.
Really good points, thanks.
Slightly off-topic, but is anyone aware of an similarly capable library for hand-written text recognition, i.e. ICR?
Depends on how you use Kafka, but yes overall you can.
APISpark (PaaS for APIs) is capable of creating a REST API (JSON/YAML/XML formats) on top of a Google Spreadsheet, using it as a database:
http://restlet.com/technical-resources/apispark/tutorials/tu...

In the latest version, it comes with a server-side API cache to prevent GSheet latency and availability issues.

Note: I'm the founder of APISpark
Oh I never said these things aren't useful; but there is still not a market need for them. In your case, you had a specific problem that you wanted to solve, and you solved it. Another solution could have been to install a few night lights around your house. Until IoT solutions are simpler and cheaper than their analog alternatives, I think IoT is going to have a hard time gaining traction.

I also suspect you enjoy configuring this stuff, which isn't a surprise considering this is HN :)
The late John H Conway deduced a consistency proof that if people have free will, so do elementary particles.

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

He discusses it more in the following lecture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmx2tpcdKZY&feature=youtu.be...

Free will doesn't mean "I can do anything." I'm not good at singing, so I can't ever be a famous rock star. Free will is to make a choice between a finite number of options (will) without that choice being influenced by external factors (free).

I thought about this a lot last year, shortly after Conway died, and I think that it's possible to prove that free will is finite, the universe is finite, and therefore we have free will.

"If numbers cannot have infinite strings of digits, then the future can never be perfectly preordained."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-time-really-flow-new-clu...

MIP* = RE
https://www.quantamagazine.org/landmark-computer-science-pro...

"Prior to the new work, mathematicians had wondered whether they could get away with approximating infinite-dimensional matrices by using large finite-dimensional ones instead. Now, because the Connes embedding conjecture is false, they know they can’t."

Infinity cannot be approximated with finite numbers.

Therefore:
- Assuming that the universe is finite

-> Infinity cannot be approximated with finite numbers (MIP* = RE)

-> Numbers cannot have infinite strings of digits

-> The future can never be perfectly preordained (Gisin)

-> Free will exists (Conway)

This is not a proof that free will exists! But I think this is a consistency proof that free will is finite.
If they can prove fewer crashes/deaths with their system than with human drivers, then perhaps they'll have something. But with only 35 million miles driven, they don't have enough data to prove much of anything.
Them having gigantic margins (e.g. 4x or more on network egress) can mean that any one use case might be better satisfied with something slightly more custom, especially if we stop pretending that administering an AWS account is free and that the overlap between what we need and what AWS offers is perfect.

On both sides of this, the thing to do is to critically examine your needs and decide if one or another solution fits. AWS can be a game changer for some companies and an immensely complicated money sink that never gets good enough performance for others.
In practice, Deism is indistinguishable from atheism. Both claim that the laws of nature explain all observable phenomena.
To clarify, that's fifty one thousand, correct? Some countries use a period (.) as their "digit group separator"[0], and others use a comma (,).

[0]: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/110693
"it is easier, as a practical matter, to keep people from getting ridiculously rich in the first place than to tax the money after they have it."

Wow. Good luck with that dorm room philosophy. BTW, who paid for that nice engineering building on campus?
How does one get TC 800K ($?) at Google L6? Did you get hired during a stock price collapse?