jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As a petroleum product, wouldn't the co2 impact be very similar to something like coal or gasoline?
WHO does seem like a bureaucratic mess, though. I read their situation reports from the beginning of the pandemic, and was surprised by how often they messed up. Links were wrong, random files went down, and they were released at seemingly random time points. Their press conferences were often hours late. And Tedros Adhanom praised China to an honestly embarrassing extent.

Before the pandemic, I thought the WHO was a relatively capable organization. But from what I witnessed they just seem like a prestige farm used as a stepping stone to more lucrative careers.
> The new “right-think” on gender and sex seems to directly contradict basic common sense. You’re born with a set of parts and chopping them off doesn’t change who you are.

But no one thinks chopping of parts changes who you are.

The reactionary view on gender thinks the parts determine who you are and continue to do so after you chop them off, while the nonreactionary view is that the parts don't determine who you so chopping them off doesn't change that.
What group chat app is that? If you're talking about photos in patter chat, there's an established annotation for it that most clients can read and use.
"I shudder when I connect the data point then to today's and extrapolate a few years out." Well put.
Thanks for offering to update the post. Disclaimer: I work for Joyent, but I think it's both cheap and easy to get access to zone-based hosting. :) And I'm looking forward to Docker support for zones!
Just looked that up and learned something. Thanks!
It really isn't. In higher mammals the basic property of generating fertile offspring through sexual reproduction is clear-cut and undisputed. The only discussion there is in the species problem is in reaching consensus on a general definition that is common to all taxonomy levels and regardless of type of reproduction.

Hence the species problem being a debate regarding generic traits, and which should count and not count, hoping to form a common definition.
The payment gateway is still the bottleneck. Call it the only piece in the value chain that hasn't been 'modernized.'
100% agree, I have spoken with Braintree and they seem solid. They were not interested in removing min. monthly fees for startups until we are out of beta and actively selling...
If you'd like really cheap web hosting, try http://nearlyfreespeech.net. Write something in PHP, and you can use a SQLite database for free (just put a high timeout on write locking) or a MySQL database for $0.01/day or something. They don't support FastCGI, so any other language would require starting up a new runtime for each web request, which is pretty much a non-starter if you can't afford $16/mo (which is the prepaid limit).

If you need money for a project to get kickstarted, try Kiva or Kickstarter.

On the plus site, if 5 of you can fit onto the EC2 small instance, it's only $6/mo, if you do a spot instance with a high maximum.
Er, as a publicly traded company, what is profit defined as?
I don't understand why I need anything more than Paypal? Everybody else seems to just charge more and I don't see what you get for that. Isn't credit card processing online a commodity and using the least expensive solution the way to go?
This from a company that exploits the majority of their users.
I am not surprised that they are copying existing successes--it happens all throughout the internet. And expanding to apps makes sense when FB's news feed no longer becomes profitable.

There are a lot of mobile companies pumping a lot of dollars into FB mobile app install ads for a reason. FB definitely still has value to add.
> a comical idea to try to market a book toward students these days

I agree with you generally, but if you compare with the current math textbooks (that students are usually forced to buy) you will concede there is a lot of room for improvement on the textbook side.

Also, while I think technology might be cool to play with, nothing beats the book as a medium for the transmission of information.
And the last photo is from Bahnhof's datacenter in central Stockholm (which is a former command centre). See this Wired article about it, http://www.wired.com/2012/11/bahnhof/
> No there isn't. H1-B workers can't leave their current employer easily. (green card applications go to back of the line, must get a new job fast if they are laid-off, etc.)

Actually, that glitch has been fixed. I was witness to a counter example.

> H1-B employees are not mobile thus their salaries lack other workers.

Yes, but having H1-B employees may nonetheless open up opportunity for higher paying wages for domestic workers. There isn't strictly a zero sum game here, as cheaper skilled labour and more importantly a greater skilled labour supply can make business models viable that otherwise aren't.

What is certain though is that every H1-B programmer is a programmer that otherwise would have otherwise been working in another country, and almost certainly at much lower wages. Odds favour that they'll get a job as a programmer.
I disagree with @skorecky below.

- Look for a new job that you haven't ever worked before. If you do CRUD applications, start doing mobile software or whatever else is new for you

- Stop spending your time with your colleagues and start looking for new friends, learn from them about the world, about problems, about realworld problems and try to solve them using your mind

- ...and yes, try to contribute to open source projects, stop procrastinating, go and fix the annoying bug in your beloved library or propose pull-request

- ...or make something just for fun

Try to get break. Stop and turn another way. Open your mind. Blah-blah do!
A fast and light web browser (171kb) for android, well designed, full-featured with tiny impact on RAM and Flash Player support.
The problem of course would have been interacting with the second DB considering the fact that it was a "separate program" as the author states. If the program wasn't offering an interface to interact with it outside of the GUI and especially if it wasn't making any network calls upon querying (although hacking network calls could have been quite difficult for a beginner) I am not sure how the process could have been done differently.
OP: can you figure out a way to get vim to not load vimrc?
Fred Wilson recently used the following (which he borrowed from one of his mentors): "A CEO does only three things. Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders. Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company. Makes sure there is always enough cash in the bank."

I like concise, so I like this.

Jason has obviously expanded on that, but omitted the all important cash flow advice, not that it detracts from the piece.
Why is this the Zuckerberg syndrome? Is he supposed to be a super-hacker? I thought he was more like a casual hacker marketing guy in the right place/right time.
There is still a lot of PHP and Java in NY. I don't see as much Perl but there are still a few places that do a lot of hiring for Perl.

Scala seems to be the other growing area in NY right now---Foursquare obviously but a number of other companies like Obikosh (http://obikosh.com/job_pg.html) are pushing to grab Scala people.
Ah, I didn't know that and that is unfortunate. I've never really met any Native Americans or otherwise been exposed to their modern culture. I've heard an Asian friend jokingly refer to herself as a banana (yellow outside, white inside) but I got the impression that this was not a serious/pervasive thing in the same way as the Oreo slur. If the "apple" thing is that serious then that's very unfortunate.
The people submitting scores of 4 are probably just adding macros to their .vimrc
Not an original concept here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Perl_golf

'Golfing' different languages has been around for some time.

No discredit to the site though, certainly happy to have Vim golfing join the ranks.
Analogy fail. I believe the point is that you are severely limited in what you can do with Django on App Engine. It used to be that you could not use the ORM on BigTable, which prevented the use of the Admin. Not anymore. See: http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/django-nonrel
I'm guessing that'd be more annoying than helpful, but it'd be interesting to try. If it were timed exactly right it could maybe work.

It's not a serious camera in the sense that I wouldn't take one to do a magazine shoot, but lots of people take really good photos with phone cameras these days, they've come a long way.
This quote struck me as a bit outdated as well. Not because it mentions Java and PHP, but because it seems to imply that those are the big two skill sets. The "what does your startup use?" polls that show up on HN every know and then suggest Python and Ruby are in heavy use (though PHP and Java do still get a decent showing)
While I agree that Monopoly is a rightfully derided board game among the pantheon, I think the author pulled meaningful analysis from why it did initially appeal to the public.

Also, in case anyone unfamiliar with modern board games is reading, if you buy one board game this year, buy Pandemic. It's a challenging co-op game you can play with just your spouse or with up to 4 friends and it guarantees a fun night. That, or Cards Against Humanity :)
Especially since the dollar was exchangeable for the 10,000 tons of gold stored in Fort Knox etc. prior to 1971. Those 10,000 tons of gold are still there - obviously as a means to back the dollar (what alternative explanation is there?) An announcement on the news by the president that a gram of gold could be gotten for X dollars would be enough to put a floor under the dollar. Bitcoin does not have 10000 tons of gold in reserve backing it. We don't even know the identity of the person who invented this scam. The truth is this scam really ended in November 2013 when Bitcoins were worth $1100 and they cashed in to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.

That these worthless hashes still have people paying $226 a pop for them is a sign of all those things stated here on HN of all that loose money sloshing around due to monetary easing. It reminds me of all those subprime loan billboards I saw in the ghetto in 2007, or the pets.com Super Bowl commercials, and other such bubbles. The kids who did Dogecoin created a $14 million market cap with some goofy 4chan pictures and memes. The $3 billion market cap for worthless Bitcoin hashes are equally ludicrous.

Why are Bitcoins collectively worth $3 billion? It is an unanswerable question. The same reason the subprime real estate market, or Pets.com-type dot bomb stocks, or Dutch tulip bulbs for that matter attained crazy prices. Bubbles happen. This is the first time I can recall that something completely worthless became worth $3 billion though ($13 billion before the scam started unwinding).
If I'm reading you correctly: it gives the advantage that you can buy or sell bitcoins... which if you're someone wanting to do that is a significant advantage over exchanges that don't.
This subthread was originally in reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26116077 but we detached it so that it can float freely to a higher place.
It is of course very common and is the great majority (>99.999% in some places) and less common (maybe 50%) in others. Turkey has a very strange view in the US imho, I was from California and when I went to Istanbul to work in a startup (funny&long story) my friends thought I'm going to a desert in the middle of nowhere or something; when Istanbul is literally the biggest metropolitan center in Europe. The reality and American people's image of Turkey are extremely mismatched.

I wrote about my views on Istanbul and Turkey here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25164997
>since buying a mechanical keyboard with a Mac layout is impossible

Recently bought a Keychron K2. First mechanical keyboard ever (except the older keyboards that came with computers in the 90's/early 00's).

It's pretty great. Bluetooth and wired modes. Has keycaps for Command and Option. Has the media key icons on the function keys.

It also has a switch so you can quickly set it for Windows (and it comes with keycaps for that as well).
Its good if you need dynamic charts in JS but if you just want a graphic or a logo I wouldn't use it. Its also a huge pain to maintain, they update the library once a year with breaking changes and then it takes me a day or 2 to work out how the old version worked, how the new one works and how to move all my graphics over.
I did not scientifically measure this, but anecdotes are a good place to start for grant applications, so I'll mention it anyway.

I'm trying to turn a compacted field back into a tiny woodland. It's still mostly horizontal at this point, but it's full of pillbugs and spiders and earthworms and the birds seem to love foraging in it. An hour ago I looked out the window and saw a finch pulling a spider off the side of my house, and it reminded me that one of the supposed tenets of polycultures is that you build up the food web and the food web will take care of the pests. Then it reminded me that I don't recall seeing this many birds the previous year.

I've temporarily drawn in the bird population from the surrounding area, by providing a richer hunting ground (more carrying capacity). Next year there will be a few more baby birds surviving to adulthood, then they'll be competing aggressively for all the other invertebrates in the area, dropping more fruit seeds everywhere they perch, which means more bugs and fruit and so on.
Adding to the anecdotes:

Around summer 2014, I began to focus very heavily on "bulking" for strength training. This was about a year after I'd developed very obvious symptoms of lactose intolerance and had had to cut uncultured dairy out of my diet. My meals were not diverse: fruit and Greek yogurt in the morning; chicken cooked in Indian sauces, roasted potatoes, and some green (usually broccoli or spinach) for lunch and dinner, along with protein shakes and a pre-workout carb load (such as PB+J). Drinks were water, orange juice, and kefir.

That winter, my health collapsed. I started developing skin abscesses, and the antibiotics I received for a particularly bad episode caused me to develop a C diff infection. I had to severely limit my food intake, as too much or certain kinds would cause me to develop cramps, listlessness, and diarrhea,
and lost about 40 pounds in 3 months. My body could not hold onto food long enough to process it correctly and I developed symptoms of incomplete digestion, and especially of fat indigestion (symptoms improved with anti-diarrheals).

The next 3 years were a long battle to try to get back to normal. Store-bought probiotics didn't help; digestive enzymes did. Things didn't improve noticeably until after I began eating homemade sauerkraut, and especially after I began taking enzymes on an empty stomach (I was told that this might help to break down some structure that might harbor unhelpful bacteria).

Eventually, I was able to return to most foods without issue, until last year, when a prediabetes scare prompted to try a ketogenic diet (this also seemed to solve a lingering issue, of multiple daily and urgent movements).

All this to say... I don't really know what's going on. I've found some things that seem to work, but I could only guess at why, based on the timing of my downturns and upturns and of my interventions.

I've spent literal days over this period trying to understand why my body is acting and reacting the way that it does, and following the (often slapdash) advice of people who target the microbiome as the source of ill or good health has sadly seemed to be the most efficacious route. However, I'm still not able to achieve the level of well-being I'd like to, and I attribute that largely to the dearth of hard facts available relating to diet and the human microbiome. Over the course of this journey, I've seen more and more professionals begin to take the issue seriously, but not nearly the level or quality of research we'd hope to see with such a fundamental topic. Here's to seeing that corrected before I have to punch whatever card this adulthood of gut trouble has been leading to.
One of the best. Wishing you all the best Aaron, you made a huge impact on Starcity's trajectory...
It will be fun when hedge funds will start selling US stock options contracts on the Ethereum network...I'm not sure how far from that are we, but my friend in Europe is always complaining how hard it is to buy contracts that are so easy for people in the US.
I love Julia in general, but yeah, I hate `end`.

Re: 0-indexing vs 1-indexing. If you use 0-indexing, you turn off a lot of non-engineering scientific programmers. My personal experience is that 0-indexing is better for more engineering applications, while 1-indexing is better for math. I'm a weirdo in that I don't seem to mind either one though.
I agree plus it makes it seem like this is stripe only when the apple article says other platforms soon after. Bit editorialized if ask me
If you click through to the Pew study and look at the definitions of the categories, housework + childcare isn't all-inclusive of things that women do disproportionately. E.g. it doesn't include shopping, which shows up in the un-employed article significantly, and among working class people is mostly a chore (grocery shopping, kids' clothes, etc). The definition of "childcare" also doesn't include "the kid is sleeping, but I can't leave a toddler in the house alone and have lunch with my friends."

Indeed, if you add up work + leisure, and subtract out 8 hours a day of sleep, there's 32 hours a week left over for men, and 38 left over for women. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of this time precludes leisure activities because of the "on call" nature of being the primary care-giver.

Moreover, simply adding up housework + childcare time doesn't quite capture the situation. Spending a day taking care of a kid is much more exhausting than working at a typical white-collar job. It's blue-collar work that cuts across the economic classes in a world where most men aren't doing blue-collar work. Last year I had a 9-5, while my wife had a busier schedule. So I'd cook and watch our daughter until she got home. At 8:00 when my wife got home, she had much more energy for leisure activity. I'm a guy who regularly works 70-80 hour weeks, but a day taking care of our toddler puts me right out.
There actually are some full time developers for scikit-learn - and they are amazingly talented.

There's lots of difficulties in securing that funding though. Getting funding for permanent staff is incredibly tough - usually you have 3 year contracts for 'postdocs' that pay around ~40% of what a similarly skilled software developer could earn. The only stable positions in academia are professorship - and even those are going away in favour of positions where people are expected to pay increasing portions of their salary from their grants.

How can you credibly offer someone 40-50k dollars a year, with no job security, tied to some grants that might or might not be renewed and expect them to turn down offers from companies looking for data scientists?
I would be less inclined to oblige in the face of threats and actual attacks. Especially when done so publicly. I imagine companies like Facebook we quicker to oblige through actual negotiation and some sort of "business diplomacy."
Everone keeps saying "Chinese Governement", this has no accountability. The actual person in charge is Ji Xinping. Start naming names people.

https://www.google.com/search?q=xi%20jinping
Wow, this one has >100 karma and his other comments are actually reasonable.. Normally they're new accounts. Maybe this is just a regular nut?
Aching in the balls of my feet is the most common pain I get. I've tried using a soft mat which had no effect compared to a hard floor. It seems to be down to footwear - running trainers can be fine for several hours but with converse flats I'll barely last 2.
You, sir, just made my day.
The title should either read:
Why should you ban e-mail in the workplace? or
Why you should ban e-mail in the workplace.
Thank you for that, I was very misled by the title. Can you possibly explain this one bullet point in the text? (Only mention of a non-accredited investor).
"A limitation on the amount of securities non-accredited investors can purchase in a Tier 2 offering of no more than 10 percent of the greater of the investor’s annual income or net worth."
Thanks for the response. I might try converting some public domain text to Pollen sometime, any tips for getting around DrRacket's short comings besides separating racket and pollen source?
Yup, some people think they can teach others as soon as their first C++ program compiles without errors.
It still jumps around if you hold and drag the scrollbar - always my complaint with these.
No, it's a variant of the Keller Plan, but without the bias toward written instruction.
Just ignore the request and move on though. Certainly less energy than spewing an angry message.
This was the signature accomplishment of his first term and a substantial part of his legacy as President. He was out on the hustings making speech after speech about how buying health insurance on the exchange was going to be as easy as shopping for a plane ticket on Expedia.

It would not have been "micromanaging" for him to have done what was necessary to be sure that what he was saying matched up with reality. Yes, it was a giant IT project of the sort governments usually suck at. But that was the bill he got passed and signed. If his administration wasn't capable of leading that project to successful, timely completion, he has to shoulder much of the blame.
"It's becoming apparent she is not up for the job and can't pull the company out of its nose dive."

I wonder who would be the right person.
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I'm a full stack web developer living in Tampa, FL. I'm great at learning new things. Super detail oriented and love working with people who are smarter than me so that I can continue to grow.
FP isn't a technical definition—it's a social phenomenon. As soon as you see it that way you'll never be confused by the use of the term again.
That sounds cool, and I can really see that working well. But I'd argue that you're not really using Windows 8 strenuously in the way that people who complain about it do. It's like claiming Windows XP is stable because Solitaire never crashes.

I completely agree with your final OSX comment, it takes up way too much memory.
> because before, non technical users could be much more bold and try things out, it was harder to get things into a non working state

I'm still wishing any major OS shipped with effective partitioning between storage of OS/application data and user data by default, such that you could hit the "restore to factory settings" button (Cmd+R on OSX boot) and have a guarantee that the only thing that will be blown away is the OS.

It's kind of getting there via an orthogonal path—defaulting users to saving data to the cloud instead of the disk—but it's still not there all-the-way. If it was, I'd just teach my grandparents the "go back to the way it was" button and have much more calming holidays.