jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Dividends are a forced distribution for the shareholder. With the ability to sell fractional shares, stock buybacks are equivalent to optional dividends.
This is the one podcast on Naval's Youtube channel that I found wired. Most of what Naval says makes clear sense to me, but the conversation with Kapil & Kapil's twitter+website gave me all kinds of wrong vibes. I have seen too many of these guru type scams in India.

Naval is the only reason I want to explore Kapil's works a bit more, despite my instinct shouting at me not to. If a guy who has understood the game of life and money far better than me finds this guy a true intellect, maybe I am missing something ?
I'm paranoid and I like seeing exactly what I'm replacing. In that case I still use :s but I always end it with :s/foo/bar/gc. Although I do see the appeal of cgn for simple replacements.
This would not work.UBI would raise inflation to sky high level making basic utilities and products super expensive.

UBI needs to be combined with taxes and tax exemptions on things that are essential to life like housing and healthy food,healthcare and some other things I cant think of right now.Everything else can be treated as a luxury and can be achieved through conventional capitalist methods.
In the C standard malloc should return null if it can’t fulfill the request. Linux violates this but it usually works out in the end since virtual memory makes true OOM very rare.
Not yet, but I had this idea as well. You basically get a score describing how well a phrase is matching each of the images so it won't be difficult to do. I'll look into that!
> Furthermore, there has been an astonishing number of patents filed for COVID-19 vaccines in development, including more than 100 for the mRNA platform technology

I hope there someone with enough intelligence out there to understand that if there's a time to rethink the rules, the time is now.

Even for people that are only thinking in terms of profits and economy, if too many people die, there will be no economy at all..

People on top of social structures: government, corporations, etc, are working like pavlovian dogs unaware that the rules of the old normal doesn't apply to the new normality.
Or its just a matter of a corrupt system that is organically formed over power and money that is completely oblivious about the values they should all stand for.
Control the lights using this oage:

https://www.codebot.org/articles/?doc=9633

I tiny Pi Zero W in this case controls the power and data.

https://cache.getlazarus.org/images/pi-zero-power-enclosure-...
[3] I got a couple extra zeros in there and calculated for a square millimeter instead of my hypothetical round 1mm fiber. 10m or so should do it.
You don't seem to understand the nature of mutations.

It's not really a question of understanding mutations, that's just where the research seems to be leading us. Phenomena such as the rapid changes in fossil morphology puzzled biologists for much of the second half of the 20th century, but the latest research is suggesting that this is indeed a real effect, and not due to the spotty nature of the fossil record. In the lab, in simulations, and in the real world, we see populations change rapidly in the face of a rapidly changing environment. Don't believe me? Think how quickly the common cold has to mutate to remain viable when faced with the highly adaptive human immune system. Or how about how quickly MRSA has developed. Or how quickly we can change the appearance of a dog breed with selective breeding.

Going back to the reefs, if you have a population with millions of individual organisms of each species spread over a large area, it is not unreasonable, due to genetic drift, to expect some of those organisms to already have a few tricks up their sleeve to handle increased acidity. Some will have trick 1, some will have trick 2 etc etc. As the acidity starts to rise, these organisms will have the better success at passing the genes onto their offspring. Those offspring have a good chance of inheriting different tricks from their other parent, making them even better at surviving in the acidified environment. So it goes, the greatest show on earth.

The tl;dr version is that the mutations don't have to all hit at once - there will be many mutations already latent in the population due to genetic drift that will help make adapting much faster and easier.

Still want to tell me that I don't understand the nature of mutations?
> Are the profits not shared with the animators?

Doesn't matter. Even if profit sharing were implemented, the boss gets to choose the percentage of the profit that animators get. Due to supply and demand, they'll still get the short end of the stick. Definitely better than nothing, but the problem will continue to exist in another form.
Be careful not to conflate necessary with convenient. Static ads can still be local, e.g. in the local newspaper, on the radio station, on a sign post, or websites for local businesses/communities.
One way to distinguish between something like ASL and something like whatever system is used by e.g. scuba divers and airport staff is compositionality. (Developed) Natural language has many pieces that are "productive" to produce meaning from smaller meaningful units.
> I don't think sacrifice itself is worth respect, if the goal of that sacrifice is destructive and wrong.

Wrong is a subjective term and relative to viewing point. This is exactly what I'm avoiding here. I'm not discussing whether it's right or wrong from one particular perspective. Moreover, I'm trying to direct discussion away from war and other sensitive matters with all the power I have with my words, but you want to fixate the subject to ISIS and other terrorist organizations, that's fine.

As a citizen of a country which has to defend against terrorism in point-blank distances, I understand you, but forcing the subject to this perspective is not correct, at least in this context. Especially me, as the OP, trying to clarify it further.

My family is a victim of a genocide, but world won't acknowledge it. With your reasoning my family was on the wrong side, in a war which they weren't actively participating and was not killing anyone.

When a TV channel renames the people killing our citizens, they become heroes. They become right and we become wrong. Hah.

So, don't pull this into politics, war, genocides and other stuff. That tar pit is not a part of this conversation. It shouldn't be.

Leave it here. End of this slope is not pretty.
This looks like a great idea! How is dev tools support?
The more systemd grows, the less I trust it. This particular change to quietly fallback to what may be user-hostile servers and bypass my network controls is particularly concerning.

There are a lot of good reasons to not want a system to fallback to Google/Cloudflare. For one, I simply don't want it not obeying my own dns server in the middle.
And oh, man you should see the amount of junk mail and spam I get too!

Be jealous of how frequently telemarketers call me!

You nailed it, ace.
So where did their wealth come from? Most likely, they made it through 'business' - which usually means, through benefiting from the work of other, significantly less paid workers. The fact that our economic and political system permits this (and to the extent that it does) is not some natural phenomenon.
I believe the correct answer here is, don't be a framework fanboy

http://www.slideshare.net/NeilGreen1/framework-fanboys

Learn Rails, Django, and other frameworks. If you can make something using a library instead of a framework, then do it. Use the tools that are right for the job.

I recently graduated college, and had already worked with Rails and Django. My first job out of college uses Spring MVC. I'm on my 3rd (back-end) web framework.

Once you get pretty comfortable with 1 or 2 frameworks, it's that much easier to pick up a new one. Each framework has pros and cons. Certain things integrate better with certain frameworks.

Again, use the right tools to solve your problem and don't be a framework fanboy!
Dan Simmon's 'Hyperion' trilogy used this idea (before Matrix) and I seem to recall it being one of the less silly things in there. A book can afford to be less mass-market-friendly than a movie, obviously, but I think it did pretty well.
This was on Slashdot back in 99: http://news.slashdot.org/story/99/10/26/137207/beyond-the-pr...
That's true in certain ways, but there are also countervailing points, such as that the US is a large, diverse country and it makes no sense to tar it with one brush.

In any case, these subtleties—not that they're all that subtle—are lost in internet comment land.
"Wikipedia has a photo of a parcel where a Russian/Cyrillic address was displayed on a computer with the wrong character encoding, and transcribed from that. Reportedly a russian postal worker was able to reverse the mapping and deliver the parcel."

The linked URL doesn't work anymore but thanks to Archive.org and reverse image search in Google I managed to find it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130909052627/http://en.wikiped...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/thumb/f/fa/Letter_t...
You pick representatives, and they are shown the effectiveness of programs, because they are the ones who vote for the programs.

This isn't about you, or me, or any individual, that's not how this country works. Some things that are not very popular are absolutely necessary nonetheless.
Sometimes, problems are easier to understand (and solve) looking at them from the outside, instead of being right in the middle.
BS - half the country supports Trump, that's 50% of the business if you look it from advertising point of view.
If you extrapolate backwards, imagine how good life must have been in the 80's.
Meanwhile.. I've been highfive-ing myself in two different tabs for the last 5 mins.
Section 230 protects websites from liability arising from content that a user created. It also protects users from liability arising from content another user created that they shared.

It protects sites from liability from moderating or not moderating content.

Some liabilities are not exempted. Federal criminal law, intellectual property, privacy, and sex trafficing law are not affected. Its effect on state law is complex (as described in the article).
they didn't, go read them again, they clearly called for peace yet were deleted and then media began it's bias propaganda.
Because sad to say CP exists and is almost universally agreed to be enormously harmful, but free speech absolutists don't want to engage with reasonable questions of where of where and how limits on speech should be set. I'm in very of verybroad free speech permissions, but I'm also in favor of banning and prosecuting CP.
This makes me feel like I missed something. Are you writing this because you read the article today or did something else happen?
The word "rigged" may not be technically correct for what people were saying about the 2016 election but there were people in Congress who opposed certifying and/or counting the electoral votes because of ... mostly Russian interference.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/06/politics/electoral-college-vo...
At my elementary school this was actually encouraged for students excelling in maths[1]. It was offered - but not stressed as important whatsoever - that if you completed the official book of problems ahead of time, you could begin working on the extra book(s) named "Mathimagination". If my memory serves me, there was no extra credit afforded for taking this route; rather, it was purely to keep students interested in and progressing with a subject they enjoyed and in which they excelled. I credit my teacher that year for getting me excited about mathematics, which carried on for many years.

On a related note, my high school had an Advanced Placement English class offered to students selected by previous semesters' English teachers. This option came with an unfortunate snag for all students enrolled in the French immersion track: both the AP English class and a required French class occupied the same period. We were frankly offered the choice to stick with the French immersion we'd been part of for more than 10 years (having started in kindergarten), or to convert to the English track by dropping all French-language classes entirely.

Yeah, the AP class that year was quite small with not a single person dropping the French track. It turns out that people enrolled in the French track are much more likely to land placement in AP English, as being fluent in more than one language steers a person into understanding and appreciating languages more than someone immersed in a single language. Such a ridiculous scheduling blunder by the administration; just the memory of not being part of that class more than 10 years ago makes me sad.

[1] Having grown up in North America where it is common to refer to mathematics as the singular "math", it is still weird to type "maths" even after having picked up the habit a few years ago.
This is a question everyone has to Fong out themselves.
1) I didn't compare the technological achievement of Windows to McDonald's. It was a personal anecdote about enterprise Windows software being so terrible that I'd imagine it wasn't written in an environment where user experience was a major concern. I never compared the OS itself to anything. Do I think I could write something better? As a matter of fact, yes, I think I could. Should I put my money where my mouth is? I suppose I should, but even if I don't certainly I should be allowed to criticize software that I use on a daily basis. After all, I'm the user, no? These are my own observations, surely I don't need to claim they're gospel or apologize for them?

2) Maybe I offended some people when I used the term "software game". Rest assured I was making a slangy generalized reference to the software industry itself, and in no way did I mean to trivialize those who do dev for a living. In fact, I applaud you.
Maybe a Vagrant like model would help: install the base fastlane tool and then install extensions with `$ fastlane extension install X`
It is pretty, but I guess a simple tree map (example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8562801.stm) where the sizes of the various rectangular pieces give some idea of the %age would have been much better.
Some background: MDY v. Blizzard should get a ruling soon. The EFF has an easier-to-read post on this as well, although a bit dated: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/you-bought-it-you-own-....

Reading this, I was reminded of William Gibson saying we live in the Future now; it's truly bizarre that there's an actual court case over whether I can have my computer play a game on my behalf.
Absolutely. I cant stand all this Apple hate here. People should just stop criticizing Apple for everything they do.
This move is not about games but about iads. (funny side note: iPad insists on spelling that as aids, ouch) apple is pushing htm5 because it will be an essential component of apple's next money-making machine: advertising. And html5 is a great match for advertising: html5 may not be ready for hardcore gaming, but chucking a few banner ads at the peplum, no problem!
Stop the Apple hate , and you wont be downvoted. You guys are not adding anything good to the discussion by criticizing apple.
In the standard, it’s just "transform". "-webkit-" is called a "CSS vendor prefix" and the idea is this: If the standard changes before it’s finalized — it does happen — but Safari just implemented "transform" and not "-webkit-transform", then sites created in the interim could be stuck with broken CSS, retroactively. Mozilla did this forever ago with "-moz-border-radius" rounded corners. Even Microsoft started using the "-ms-" vendor prefix.

Apple using "-webkit-" is actually preserves the "open" and "standards" parts of "open standards". Otherwise it’s embrace and extend. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace_extend_and_extinguish)

Edit: For clarity, this is how things like -webkit-transform are born (slightly simplified):

1. Apple (or Mozilla, or Opera, or Microsoft) decides it would be nice if the web stack could do X.

2. Apple devises a property and syntax, implements it internally, evaluates performance hits, iterates, etc.

3. Apple releases a public developer build (a "nightly") with X, using the -webkit- prefix, and blogs about it. http://webkit.org/blog/130/css-transforms/

4. Apple drafts a spec (no "-webkit-") and submits it to relevant standards bodies

5. Standards bodies, browser makers, and document authors weigh in

6. The draft is modified, clarified, dropped, and/or implemented elsewhere. http://webkit.org/blog/130/css-transforms/#comment-23010

7. The draft becomes more or less finalized, and user agents should support X without a vendor prefix
I have a friend who apparently never learned to make the 'th' sound, and just replaces it with the 'd' sound or at the end of words with the 'tch' sound. He runs his own business and does moderately well for himself, but I tend to find that speech habit very distracting and can only assume many of the people he does business with are the same. I've considered bringing it up to him as something he could improve on, but I haven't figured out a way to tell him that wouldn't sound horribly condescending.
I just tried it. It works well as a replacement for Google Wave - but it's nicer. Also, the emails means that there is instant notifications, which was a flaw that gwave had.
I just signed up the other day! :( Oh well. I'm happy now that I have a local datacentre (UK). Also that my new server hasn't been added to SORBS' DUHL (the 3 weeks it's been taking Slicehost and SORBS to work things out there has been killing me, and finally gave me the momentum to move to the lower cost provider for the same specs).
I found it informative.. in an anthropological sense...
This is a cool and fun project, but a lot of people in the thread are pretty confused about erlang syntax so I wanted to post this.

erlang's syntax is not some arcane afterthought, it may look strange or even "ugly" to people not familiar with it, but it has been very well thought out and purposeful, every time there is a choice between a beautiful construct that can add confusion, or a less elegant solution that is crystal clear, erlang chooses less elegant every time.

I have been doing javascript since I started programming and still get confused by its object model + prototypal inheritance, the same is true for pretty much every language, python, ruby, c++ etc going back to erlang is a refreshing break.
Mostly agree, but after the woman agreed to buy the tickets, I think the onus is on her to resell them in an effort to reduce her loss.

Another solution would be for them both to negotiate a lower price.
By default, you get emails in FB groups for each message and comment, just like Posterous, and you can respond via email to post new messages (each group has its own email address) or comments. You could interact with multiple groups without ever logging into FB (I know because I do :).

I'm not sure about the media thing, though it's not really practical for video to attach the media...surely posterous doesn't do that either.
Years ago I ordered a box set 20 Years of Dischord direct from Dischord Records. In the package was a hand written thank you note from the Dischord staff member who boxed it, who not coincidentally was one of the people included in the box set. Instant loyalty. Small and diy are strengths, not weaknesses.
I don't get what point you're trying to make. Is it wrong to sell software that has some piece of open source in it? It's not like they cobbled a bunch of open source projects and placed a license check on it. Do you realize that virtually every application uses some open source library?
I thought I was pretty happy with myself when I passed 10 days. Not any longer.
Why doesn't the Internet count as "reading"?

Most of the time I spend on the net I spend reading forums like this or reading technical articles.

The only difference between that and reading a book is that I read more authors per unit of time.
"They need money." Who doesn't? But it does not immediately follow that a software has to be restrictively licensed. It has to be part of an overall strategy. Most Open Source contributions actually come from companies pursuing a money making strategy. In the case of GitHub very successful even!

Equating open source to "not for profit" is just a misunderstanding of both business and open source. One of the main reasons for businesses contributing open source is a solution for the problem of the necessity of in-house development and the un-necessity of an unprofitable/risky in-house software marketing effort with all the overhead that entails.
I would really love feedback on our new site. Its been a long haul since building Vimily.com and we have refined like hell to get to this point. Thanks everyone!
Even then it's not that easy. A non-optimizing C compiler will have a hard time beating the JVM's slew of optimizations.
A generous interpretation of the GP's contract is the current system is weighted in favor of the larger players.
I like to see good articles reposted — even though the site's name contains the word "News", I feel like the site would clearly be less good if it only took submissions of articles that were less than a week old. But, yes, the title of this article is awful and distracting from its (imo worthwhile) content.
It's fairly unlikely that it'll ever be robots all the way down. If it's not instrumented it can't be measured by automated systems and you can't instrument everything. Management is unlikely to be replaced by robots in the short and mid term.
Atul Gawande has written a good article on this : http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_...
It does not look that difficult to me:
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<pre>
int main(int argc, char argv[])
{
xbuf_t reply = get_reply(argv); // get a reply
xbuf_cat(reply, "Hello World"); // format a reply
return 200; // return an HTTP status (200:'OK')
}
</pre>
Apparently, the etymology of the term goes back to the Warez days, as mentioned in Jason Scott's (awesome, by the way) Defcon talk:

http://vimeo.com/15400820

While the term means something differed when applied to a vulnerability (the Warez definition comes from how many days after software was released before the crack was available), it's similar.
The only problem with that approach is it's REALLY BORING and a lot of people won't get through it. I think a better way to learn programming is to go through a Zen-like process where you learn how to make something, then go through the rigorous process once you understand WHY you need to learn these things, THEN go back to making stuff.
> Well it shows that bash has the ability to customise the tab completion. I think this is a new feature of bash.

No, I don't think it's new at all. From Ian McDonald's site, Working more productively with bash 2.x/3.x[1]:

> A relatively new feature in bash is programmable completion, which has been available since the beta version of 2.04.

Taking a quick look at Bash's official downloads site[2], Bash 2.04 was released in March of 2000.

[1]: http://www.caliban.org/bash/

[2]: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/
There isn't anything that sufficiently complex algorithms can't find out that humans can, so this doesn't seen to be a terribly useful conclusion.