jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Togos daily meal deal is less than that, with tax, without chips, and exactly $6 before tax, IIRC, with chips.

Not exactly the height of the culinary arts, but then neither is Soylent.
Note very carefully: "contained in the leaked documents obtained from the NSA by Edward Snowden".

Now, that doesn't say the documents came from Snowden, only that it was contained in them. They're both likely telling the truth when Snowden says 'it wasn't from me!' and the Indy says they've not been duped. We know that the UK government has just gotten hold of these documents, but we don't know whether there's anyone sympathetic to the cause mixed in there.

There's a lot of facets to this and care is needed from both sides of the fence, but there's no love loss between The Guardian and The Independent. Maybe The Indie has been told one thing off the record that might have a nugget of truth that's been paired down by Chinese whispers, we just don't know. The Guardian is probably sanitising what they publish after what happened with Wikileaks (no one ever took blame, the password was published by them after assurances it was temporary), and would prefer another firefighting exercise.

Upshot is, The Indie revealed another piece of the puzzle in the reach of the surveillance culture that's being built.
The ISC licenses from choosealicense.com, the SPDX site, and the OSI site differ (very very slightly.)
So it's a tiny virtual machine. Intriguing, but not really shocking.
These articles are not about supporting a new or better product. It's always around virtue signaling because google = bad... she says it right there in the second paragraph.
That's a nice theory and it seems very likely to be true: that viruses have driven evolution, perhaps much faster than without them.

But the cost for individuals is tremendous, 99.9999999% cases the infection would not be beneficial.

Perhaps in a short while we can do much better ourselves, it certainly seems we humans want to transcend evolution and death.
Assuming this is the Chinese government, what's their end game here? They must believe that GitHub will bow to their will and remove Greatfire or block it from China. Permanently? That seems incredibly naive. Also, have they not considered the Streisand effect? Also, assuming they see Baidu as effectively a state asset, why poison that brand for such a temporary gain? It doesn't make sense.
It was the first cheap computer. Cheap enough for the unwashed masses in US. And tablets like this one are the first computers cheap enough for billions of ppl in Asia, Africa and Latin America. And for many, many, many other purposes.

90% of the time innovation in IT is kick-started by cheap knockoffs ;-)
I'd really like people NOT to hit Apple's servers every 30 seconds on such a day if they can help it. Especially if someone goes all gung-ho and removes that timer altogether.
The reason why recruiters are needed is because companies are very bad in answering and maintaining their job posts and open positions. Recruiter will spend time establishing contacts with all possible prospects.

Lets take example of seatgeek.com - great way to get applicants. However, did they send at least thank you email to all people which break thru their system (even if person didn't submit resume)? No.
On the other hand, good recruiter will definitely follow up - even if a message he/she received from you was not directly about hiring.

Did you ever try to get a job in a big company by applying to job post on web site?

Just try the following experiment: If a recruiter of some big company (Google, IBM, Symantec, etc.) calls you then just say that you will think about it and you will call him or her back. Then, in parallel, submit your resume to that company web site. You will probably get no answer at all. Then, after waiting, call recruiter back. And, if you are good, they will tell you that can arrange you an interview in a week or so.
Why not build your own?
On a tangential note, I hate that word and will go out of my way to mock people who actually use it in a feeble attempt to curb its spread, even if I like the concept and will be doing it myself come June. To me it sounds like 'hey look at me, here I am one day a week looking after my kids, screw the 6 other days, I've done my share!'. I mean we don't call the day that the mother stays at home 'mommyday' either, because that would be ridiculous - every day is 'mommyday'.

Not to rag on you, just bitching a bit ;)
It's not necessarily the world that the next generation of kids want to live in ... it's the world that Zuckerberg et. al. think the next generation of kids want to live in.

There's some things that I think they're right about, in particular the focus on short messages for a generation that's grown up with texting as a primary form of communication. There's other areas where they're clearly wrong, most obviously privacy. The next generation of kids doesn't want their parents and potential future employers to be able to see everything they're doing any more than the we did. And all the surveys show that Facebook deeply misunderstands next-generation attitudes towards privacy more generally....
I think they made the right decision. The orientation lock is still available on the task switching bar, which is a better place for it since there's no need to lock orientation unless the iPad is already unlocked and in use. The problem with the current 'hold volume down to mute' is that you can't mute without unlocking the iPad first... which makes a noise. It's also inconsistent with the iPhone.
This is the worst critic I've ever read about App engine.
What I'm getting at though, is that if the source material goes from 192/24 in the studio and then downsampled to 44.1/16 into the final file that gets distributed, that material is going to have a brick wall filter applied to it in the downsampling process. If new systems like this are actually distributing real 192/24 streams that haven't ever been downsampled to 44.1/16, I'd expect to get better results from it than from 44.1/16 oversampled back up to 176.4/16.

I'm not saying that we can hear stuff on the recording at 30kHz, but the stuff right at the edge of our hearing around 20kHz will get less messed up.

My gut feeling is that it's way easier to make a well-engineered audio system when there aren't any sample frequencies that cause any of the stopbands to be close to audible frequencies.
> It's never a good idea.

I disagree with that profoundly:

I read the article. Yes, TCP over TCP include unnecessary performance-harming features in certain circumstances, because you have two unrelated collision avoidance systems running at the same time. Even so, in many scenarios TCP over TCP is an excellent idea: it can provide you with many benefits, in practical terms works great, and has no readily-available alternative which is better.

It doesn't solve the problem as theoretically neatly as possible, and carries some cruft. But hypothetical me at a starbucks about to open an ssh tunnel to a trusted connection, hypothetical you telling me that that's never a good idea. Okay then, what should I do instead?
> The only real options are RAships and TAships

Having been in that exact situation before, I wouldn't complain too specifically about Stanford's master in CS. That department makes it really easy to get a TA/RA (I'm comparing with my friends in less trendy fields of study), and while they represent a non-negligible amount of work, I think they are perfectly manageable at the graduate level. So while it's not financial aid, it actually makes it possible to go through the whole program with a positive net balance. Now I understand that the absence of guaranteed funding can feel scary for many, although the current state of the job market should greatly reduce their fears.
In my youth, the closest thing I ever had to a gaming console was a Palm. There was a plethora of quirky, indie, and experimental games for Palm OS, here are some of the best I can remember:

- All games by Naoki Ito. This Japanese genius made simple arcade-style games, always with short levels of increasing difficulty, all of them perfectly balanced and extremely addictive.

- Space Trader. On the other end of the spectrum, a slow-paced trading and fighting game set in a generative world.

- Sigma. A weird little game with dice and a bell-shaped cumulative bar graph, unusual but once you got the hang of it, it was impossible to put down. I sort of recommend installing a Palm OS simulator/emulator just to try this one out.

Edit: Alright, here's some more:

- Car. A bare-bones version of GTA I. The best part was that the level editor came with the (free) game and ran right there on your Palm.

- Space War. A turn-based strategy game where you move your (Star Trek inspired) ship on a hexagonal grid, and try to predict what your opponent will do during that turn.

- Aldon's Crossing. A fairly classical top-down RPG. It seemed like a tiny game, but the more you played, the more you realized that the world was surprisingly huge.

And, of course, tons of remakes of ultra-classic games. Note that I only played a small portion of the palm-game-o-sphere, and I was limited to those that would run on my low-end grayscale Visor.
We could pass a law saying you must live within 1 mile or your job. I don't think that'd be a good idea. Or legal. But it would improve traffic!
I find myself asking the same question as a resident of Los Angeles, where the cost of living is high, so salary is high. If I moved to San Antonio or Atlanta I could live a better lifestyle on a fraction of the salary and still take advantage of offers like these (and all the tax credits I currently don't qualify for).
My cousin flew for FedEx for many years. He lived in southern California but was "based" in Memphis so he had to commute to work (jumpseat).

One thing he said was pilots enjoyed flying freight as they were able to takeoff, land, and generally maneuver much more aggressively than they could to with passengers.
It'd definitely cover all of the international students from developing countries, but I don't think they're included in this policy. IIRC Stanford only does need-blind admission for US students. $125K/yr is an order of magnitude more than upper middle class families in Latin America make, for example.

I looked into going to a US university when I was finishing high school in Brazil but the reality is that even with aid packages and all of the assistance you can get, the process involves a significant chunk of money being spent on paperwork (official translations of dozens and dozens of documents are expensive, US visas are expensive, intl travel is expensive, the standardized English exam is expensive, etc.).

A free ride to Stanford for me when I was going into college 3 years ago would have put my family in debt. Today I know that I could've remedied that with a single internship in the US, but back then all of the costs intimidated me and I gave up.
That's brilliant. I'm definitely going to use that, thanks for posting it!
I think this underestimates the value of having someone who will answer your questions.
In that case, I'd say it qualifies as arguing over semantics since "CEO does X" is an oft-used stand-in for "CEO leads company to do X."
No, but I'd love for it to have a "Credits" app.
F.lux was written by a friend and classmate from CMU. It rocks.
And, perhaps most importantly, do the hard-assed negotiation and reality distortion with the telcos.
>Is that a good reason for downvoting all comments?

If you think karma is the least bit important, I suggest you close your browser for a few weeks.
Yeah. That probably works if you live in a place that has more than two hours of "darkness" (it's 1:41, and it's twilight) during the summer, and that has decent quantities of daylight during the winter.

The light adjustment thing works, though, it's just that up north (this being Trondheim, Norway - not that far north, but far enough) you have to enforce by using dark curtains, or even aluminium foil taped on the window. Just wish I had any. The joys of living in student housing - less choice in curtains. So I've gotten used to sleeping even in daylight, since it usually turns up in my room at 3:30 in the morning :P

http://www.heavens-above.com/sun.asp?lat=63.417&lng=10.4...

Note how there is no twilight ending or starting time.
Perhaps a better health care business model is found in Qliance (http://qliance.com/). They advertise as "Like a health club membership, but for health care." Essentially flat monthly membership fees (from $44-84 based on age), providing primary and urgent care, including telephone and email contact. They recently opened a third clinic, and closed a $6 million round of financing from Bezos, Dell, and Drew Carey.
There have been a number of posts lately about closing the ssh/scp gap, and with great reason. It's stupid annoying to find a file on a remote machine that you want locally (or vice versa) and have to open a new shell and start mucking around with paths.

Instead of all these hacks, it would be awesome to see support for in-session file transfer built into ssh/sshd.
Not nearly as many Singaporeans drive, though, and a pretty substantial proportion of the cars on the street are taxis. So, given that taxi drivers are generally good drivers but prone to the occasional stunt to get a passenger somewhere on time, this could just be pragmatic, where the government isn't interested in punishing the taxi drivers that keep the city running smoothly.

Also, Singaporeans are better trained than Californians, so less of a deterrent is needed.

And, U.S. traffic laws and fines seem decidedly optimized for raising money for the local city government, rather than the safety or convenience of drivers or pedestrians, whereas Singapore has a more monolithic and paternalistic government which can raise the money it needs through other means.
I am not astonished iOS lacks parental controls but admit they would be useful.

Establishing rules for my toddler is relatively easy when in the context of a physical object (e.g. don't touch the TV, you can only read books or do puzzles during quiet time).

The same toddler has a MUCH harder time recognizing the distinction when dealing with different apps on a single physical device. If I leave two devices in a room and tell him not to touch one, I'll get compliance. If I give him access to a device but tell he that he can't watch movies, compliance drops and he exhibits much less awareness that he broke a rule.

I don't fault apple at all for the lack of parental controls, but do see a use if they were included.
> No, they won't. The voltage range is all wrong for a full pack (microinverters work on one or two panels, so a normal working range of 30-80V, usually 50-60V per panel open circuit), and they tend to operate at their maximum power point.

Actually, that sounds just about right, if you're working with modules rather than full packs. Tesla has various sizes of battery module, but 57 volts is one common size. (I think a typical model S has somewhere around 14 of them.) So, one microinverter per module would be fine. LG Chem also makes a module that's about 60 volts. (I think it's made up of around 16 pouch cells in series.)

Of course, if you're doing this on a large scale, you could just have any kind of inverter made that handles whatever voltage you want.

On the other hand, if you're using full packs you have the possibility of recycling motor controllers (also sometimes called inverters) from cars, which are designed to send 3-phase power to an AC motor, as a regular electrical system inverter running at fixed frequency. (Maybe fake the motor position sensor data so it always thinks the motor is spinning at a constant 3600 RPM, or 60HZ.)

I don't know if modern motor controllers output a real sine wave or if they just output a square wave. I'm guessing it's probably the former, otherwise I'd expect you'd get a lot of extra noise and vibration.

You could also re-use the car's original charger (the onboard part that converts 110V or 220V AC from a level1/level2 charger to DC at pack voltage). On the other hand, if the input power for charging is DC at the appropriate voltage to begin with, that part isn't needed.
I like this description, but one thing bothers me about the last part with multiple people. The end product is acceptable to everyone since they might have had a chance to veto some aspect and didn't. When adding a new piece, you would need to consider whether it would have been unacceptable to any of the people. That doesn't necessarily seem easier than taking something out.
Also it might not have been 24 hours
There's also tealdeer in rust.
Yeah, turn Java into Python and other languages by abusing the double underscores. This is such an eyesore! C# is becoming more powerful and elegant with every new release! The envy is beyond obvious in his writing!
Bulk rename.
> An abnormal fat distribution, and in particular [Visceral Fat] expansion, is re-known to be associated with low grade inflammation and with the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin 6 (IL-6) [[14]].
Yes, it always results in at least one “this has been posted before” post.
This line of reasoning needs to come up a lot more, across a wide range of topics from universal health care to cab service and everything in between.

The US is unique in a few ways because it has oceans on either side of it, and is otherwise isolated. In most other respects, what works anywhere else should be expected to work there. If other nations can make restaurants work without forcing employees to take less than a pauper's wage from the owners, and thus depend on cultural norms and customer's generosity to live, then so can America. If other nations can get all their citizens health care, then so can America. If other nations can have elections without spending many billions of dollars, then so can America. And so on.

And if Americans for some reason can't make these things work, it is about time for its people to start looking for the fault within themselves, their government, and their society, rather than discarding the ideas as unworkable, because the rest of the civilized world has already proven them out.
It's probably not blocked by most websites yet :)

Edit: Scratch that, it's not a new site.
Meta: I understood this, but dang, this comment was thick with obfuscation. Somebody told me once that many times you can tell the contentiousness of an issue by noting the impenetrability of the verbiage used to converse about it.
I wanted to try it. I wanted to see if it could help me solve a business problem.

Sadly I just wasn't able to understand the first steps to get something out there.

I really still want to like it. But currently I have no idea how to practically start.
"This is largely symbolic, but it does send a clear message.

Like it or hate it, there is a sea change happening in how governments treat cryptocurrency."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29111446#29111572
Hi,
I can relate to your feelings.
I am 65, when I retired as a telecom R&D engineer I wanted to learn biology so I took a lot of Coursera courses and a few Edx.

I did a specialization in system biology. System biology is especially interesting for engineers as it tends to use the same point of view as do engineers.

Then I went to my local university to have master courses in bioinformatics.
Then it happened that a guy in my step family got ALS (Lou's Gehrig disease). It was the second person to have it so I started to focus on familial ALS for obvious reasons.

I have a blog with ~500 posts on neurodegenerative diseases and in 2019 I wrote a book on the state of ALS research that I keep updated every 6 months.
Yes. Applications can switch code page on their own.
Actually, investigators in the US "settled" with Google making some minor changes to their services as concession.(And as TFA implies, these "experts" may have been influenced by Google :-) You'll note that investigations in Europe are not going nearly as well for Google.
It's illegal for Israeli citizens to enter zone A of the West Bank, which is a set of noncontiguous land masses within the West Bank.

ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank_Areas_in_the_Oslo_II_...
This why I'm not comfortable with the idea of companies getting paid for this, and actually being profitable for them to do it. If it wasn't sustainable for a company to give so much data to the NSA, they would protest a lot louder about it. Remember how hard Google fought against SOPA, because SOPA would've been very unsustainable for them, and it would've even put Youtube in danger of being shut down.

Being paid, combined with them getting immunity for this sort of stuff just makes the companies a whole lot more complacent about it, and much more likely to agree to giving them all the data they need, knowing that almost nothing can happen to them,as long the process is kept secret - and they probably didn't worry too much about that, because secrecy is NSA's job.

Now, when are we going to create backlash against the ISP's and carriers for allowing NSA to scoop up most of the web's traffic? Almost nobody is mentioning them in these stories, even though they play an even bigger role than the companies listed in PRISM.
> Sublime Text has a pretty decent API. I wonder in what aspects Atom's extensibility is going to be different/better.

It clearly is. It has Node.js support.

(/s)
Can this work at all without an internet connection? Can it work offline?
Any chance for ChromeOS support?
It's hard for me to accept handmeouts, but if anyone decides to be insisting, I'll vow to pay it forward (I always do).

I made the account under ilovemymomjeanine@gmail.com and I'll follow up with you with pictures of the paid invoices. I know there are trolls that do this, but for all that I have, I'm not one.
And this one is all in Coffeescript... so there is still a niche for an editor in Javascript!
The most common cause of people showing websites inside a Macbook is that the graphic designer is using a Mac and Apple provides some pretty nice high resolution tiffs of all its products.
It's a fucking embarrassment that there isn't an obvious person to call for help here.

I wish there was an organization that would help people navigate their healthcare. Like a medical concierge/social worker. Someone is an expert on The System and acts entirely on your behalf.

The would oversee your entire healthcare. They book your appointments, remind you to go, handle most billing issues, make sure you're up to date on prescriptions, and even provide emotional support. They involve themselves deeply with your medical care the way an old loyal family doctor might. All you do is be the patient.

You would have to hire and train amazingly great people, but I think there's enough good people in the world that would find the work so fulfilling you could make it work.

Medical problems can be incredibly sad, lonely, scary and it's the one place where procrastination literally kills. Regardless of how crazily you could spend a project like this it would still probably pay for itself based on early detection, better outcomes, etc.
80000hours.org helps with finding a career in which you can do the most good for humanity.
Also a button to quickly show a random example to see what it can do would be nice.
Andreas Rossberg has a similar page: https://people.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/sml-vs-ocaml.html

...and also a nice display of SML's grammar: https://people.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/sml.html
Not just Chinese markets, but Chinese products today, such as the cat food and melamine issue, and baby formula. Consumable Chinese products should have a warning label
This article is based on a nonscientific data collection from Blind gossip.

There is no epidemic of working while high.
I never said it was better, I'm in complete agreement it's a preference.

Are you prepared to have chicken at $10/lb? Make it a luxury only the middle class can afford?
I deal with this same problem every day. But I reach out to different business people and construct a priority for my team. I would say your manager should be setting priorities for you.