jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
(I haven’t clicked or read the article as it’s Facebook and I usually don’t open FB links out of principle.)

My granny, born circa 1920, deceased in 1995, grew up uneducated in a peasant third world country. My dad was educated and was somewhat socially upwardly mobile as he managed to emancipate himself and the family from abject poverty. My gran knew nothing about the modern world and its bewildering complexities. But I still remember her giving my dad advice: “Son, whenever you’re stuck with a problem, stop adding, always remove first.”
Perhaps I'm old fashioned but I would not expect a restaurant owner to track where I come from, my demographics etc?
I’m not an expert but I know enough of the physics I’ll stick my neck out and share some relevant info.

So the effects of salt water are pretty strong, but not impossible to overcome. Extremely Long Wave radio systems are actually in use to provide submerged submarines with signals indicating they need to surface and use higher bandwidth communication channels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines

Now since there’s a level of RF penetration, you’ll get some antenna effects inducing fluctuating currents which will vary along the cable depending on the depth.

On top of that, the largest CME events can and do affect the earths magnetic field, squashing and warping it. This “moves” the earths magnetic field, and electromagnetism 101 is “conductor + magnetic field + one of these two things moving = induced currents”. So the movement of the earths magnetic field will be able to induce current all the way along the cable regardless of depth, unaffected by the seawater.

How significant the induced current and voltage are... and how vulnerable the powered repeaters and head end equipment are... is something I’ll defer to appropriate experts on.
That's not the same at all. Hash-tag is just a name for that symbol. It's not the original name, but it is a name. "/" is slash! "\" is a backslash! People who do not type windows paths have probably never actually encountered a backslash in their entire lives, but when they see a url they think that the symbol they see all the time in other contexts (/) suddenly has a different name!
Great idea. I use iA Writer & nvAlt in conjunction with Dropbox for syncing, but this will work in that scenario as well.

I also set up /usr/local/bin/notes, with the following:
# !/bin/bash
cat “path to your file”

That way, you can also quickly read all your notes from that file on the command line
In Zion National Park, there's a trail called Angels Landing. It goes up a ridge with a 500 foot dropoff on one side, and a 1000 foot dropoff on the other. The ridge between them is only a couple feet wide in places.

I think of parenting that way - there's a cliff on one side (too much strictness, say), but don't back too far away from it, because there's also a cliff on the other side (too permissive). So when you see the cliff, don't back too far away from the cliff you see, because there's a cliff in the other direction too.

So if you lean toward permissiveness, say, you don't need a book that warns you not to be too strict. You're already not going to be too strict. You need a book that warns you not to be too permissive.

> Isn't that the whole point of "resonance" and "feelings", to use them to guide our reason?

That only works if your feelings are more correct than your reason is. That happens, sometimes, but... I don't think it should be the default mode of operation. Reason alone can also lead you to absurd results. You need both, your feelings to know when you have reasoned yourself into a position that just doesn't fit, and your reason to know when your feelings are liars.
At least when it comes to Java, I urge everyone to get out of the trap : http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html
Looks likely. Whois information on the domain doesn't match apple.com.

edit: Plus, their search box redirects to Google. Amusing :)
'When Rinpoche told my wife that he was being billed as “the happiest man in the world,” he laughed as though that were the funniest joke he’d ever heard.'

Well, at least he gets it.
Which naturally begs the question, "would you?"
It makes typing on the phone quickly much, much faster on average.
Evolution works on different time scales from day to day life. It's an outer loop of evolution with an inner loop of optimization (learning).
For 15 times as many donations as text based ads (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1912983) I think it's worth it.
For the love of all that is good, how, once I have donated, do I stop the ads?
I have a feeling that started out looking at React but opted to go with SpacePen for some reason.
Are you me? That's the exact problem my girlfriend and I had and she did receive a refund.
No environmental strategy that asks people to make do with less is ever going to win. Take a look at what's happening in the BRIC countries and then try to tell me it's going to work.

People want more and will figure out how to get more. It's doing that sustainably that will save us. Kind of the whole point of the Tesla S.
I've made it more visible now.
Can you still purchase 3d tvs? I understood that the manufacturers decided to move in another direction.
Met these this last week, they're absolutely incredible and they understand their market really well. They take privacy incredibly seriously and they've built a product that can change the industry.
Unrelated question: it seems to me that the majority of music is recorded/mastered in a bad way. This is especially painful when I'm trying to judge a new pair of headphones. What do you think are some music albums that really hit the nail in terms of mastering?
I don't see what's wrong with that. Most keygen groups back in the day put some serious effort in their music and artwork.
Death is a virtually unavoidable part of working in medicine. One of the things I've heard over and over again from physicians is dealing with the first handful of deaths during medical school clinical rotations or internship after graduation. There's the second-guessing: what else could I have done to save the person's life? The healthy response seems to be becoming at peace with the fact medicine can't fix everything, accepting that nothing more could have been done given the current state of the field, and that those patients got the best chance they could have had at more meaningful life.

One of the attractions of pediatrics is, surprisingly enough, that there's less death as kids tend to bounce back from the kinds of things that would kill adults.
I have heard reports online of people having to use a cane after a few years of working in these warehouses.

15 USD an hour is not so much when it costs you your health _and_ there is no proper system of universal healthcare.
Hell yeah. It’s a futile effort to try and not waste time, because it stifles the creativity of basically everyone involved.

If you’re not regularly throwing code away, you’re not taking enough risks. The amount of cool stuff people will build if they feel safe to fail is super duper worth the lost time.
I've tried it dozens of times. I tried it this week and gave up again after several hours.

As a language and technology it's way better than the alternatives, but usability of Julia as a programming language is broken by the ridiculous startup latency. I'm sure it's not even really hard to fix (at least by some caching hacks), but for some reason the Julia community is actively resisting such fixes.

And don't give me REPL. REPL is a fundamentally broken approach to programming, and REPL people just keep looking for excuses to keep using it.

Edit: And if you give me REPL, I can answer that I have tried it too. It's broken as well. Revise.jl breaks constantly with anything non-trivial. And with the effort going to horrible hacks like Revise.jl, I'm sure a simple caching of compilation results between calls would be nothing. It seems to be something ideological.
> The inescapable conclusion is, the supposed differences between white and red wine are imaginary.

You could conclude that only after blind test.
> Pretty much all the surveys I see suggest that this will be the most common outcome. Maybe roughly 20% fully remote and 20% mostly back in the office.

While intriguing as an employee, this seems very pricey as the employer. Office space is expensive. Is it worth the cost given the low utilization? Would you really miss out on an excellent employee who cannot come in the 20% of the days others come to the office? How intriguing is it gonna be to hire someone who works the same time zone, is equally qualified but only costs 30%?
At one of my first jobs in the early days of the internet, the hiring manager had a very low budget and was offering me really really low pay, and to try and convince me he literally said: "Look, I know it's not much, but we work long hours here and there's free food. You'll get home at around 9pm every day and just collapse to sleep, so believe me, your expenses will be very, very low".

(I actually took the job despite this because I wanted to get on the internet train, and I don't regret it. Also, it took me a bit over a year to take over that manager's role and make X2.5 of the original lowball salary)
There are plenty of communities where they'll take precious metals at least.

Coin collectors, for example. Plenty of ordinary "for sale" listings say "I'll take USD50 or two ounces of fine silver coins/bars." I suspect there's also a similar sub-economy in the apocalypse-enthusiast fandom where they're always predicting the death of fiat currency Soon (tm).

Compared to bitcoin, I'd actually argue the fiat on/offramps are easier-- most any local coin dealer or pawn shop will trade a Gold Eagle, Maple Leaf, or Krugerrand within a few percent of spot price and with immediate turnaround, and it's got plenty of well-established legal and tax frameworks around it.

Actually, that brings up an interesting question: do we know how to insure cryptocurrency yet?

If my house burns down, and my physical wallet goes with it, they'll replace a nontrivial amount of paper currency that was destroyed-- something like $500. But if the fire took out a flashdrive with the key to a BTC wallet worth $500 in it, would their responsibility be to replacing the $500 in lost value, or "here's a new 16Gb flashdrive worth $4?"
now once some designer/fashion gets a wind of it, the masks will become a new niche clothing item - a nose/lips warmer like say ear mufflers.
This is obviously a ridiculous idea that exposes the intellectual bankruptcy of the Rationalist “movement”, but it does remind me of this obscure religious movement from the 1600s.

The Muggletonians founded by John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton in mid-17th century London believed that if a person were exposed to the full tenets of their faith and rejected it they would be irretrievably damned. This risk tempered proselytization: they hesitated to expose people to loss of salvation which may explain their low numbers. In the mid-19th century two wealthy Muggletonians Joseph and Isaac Frost broke with this cautious approach and published several books about the faith.

As they say, history doesn’t repeat, but it certainly rhymes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proselytism#cite_note-37
I remember drinking crystal pepsi back in the day and it being a total mind f*ck. A few times I swore I was drinking 7up. So I would like to pile on wine experts here but I don’t think this study proves they are idiots.
> Chances are Robbins will receive a settlement

I think this is underscores the biggest issue. Mistakes are made by these power-hungry ignorant police officers, usually due to their fragile ego, and then they face little consequences. Someone sues and gets a nice settlement. Nothing changes. Taxpayers are taking the brunt instead of the police officer. The offending officer will likely get a slap on the wrist, or if it's a really bad mistake that went viral they might choose an early, comfortable retirement. In order for change to happen, police officers need to be held accountable for their actions. Not sure how to implement that but I think that would result in police officers being much more careful about their conduct.
>"Every codebase is clean and elegant when in the head of a single person."

Simply not true. I recently had to salvage business rules from a codebase written by single person over the course of many years. It was probably one of the messiest code I've ever seen.

>"How big is your codebase and how many people work on it"

Depends on a project. On some I work alone. Some had 2-3 persons. The biggest team I've ever had to lead was about 35 people (not all developers). Properly organizing and splitting work and using mostly experienced people the resulting code was very decent
and quite possible to grasp. Also well documented.
> I think it's fair to restrict the definition of "research" to methods which are likely to lead you towards the right answer rather than the much older method of "just making shit up".

It depends on how strict you are with the meaning of the word "research".

Stone Age people, by that token, were just "making shit up", but that didn't prevent them from discovering fire, etc.

The alchemists were simply using the best tools available to them. Primitive, from our perspective? Yes. That doesn't mean there wasn't genuine effort involved.
It seems that this structure could be implemented in C# with inheritance (to add new entities) and extension methods (to add new operations) and var keyword to achieve type inference to verify correctness at compile time.
Puddin’ “dislikes straw-man arguments.”
you'd be surprised how many don't know about it
Simple clerical errors rarely invalidate a contract. I'm not a lawyer though so I don't actually know.

I would have done address line 1, address line 2, line3, etc. I think people got confused by your form because they are used to typing in 1234 Sample Street <tab> expecting to be asked the rest of the information further down. The other option would be on form submit to show what they have put in and say "make sure this is your full address [CONTINUE] [EDIT ADDRESS]."
There is no article title though. Unless you consider "Boeing_737-8K5_G-TWAG_04-21" to be a title.
"Hollywood’s Hottest Buttholes", an actual headline from that site (!)
Please read the article. There are lots of points made about smart TVs that go beyond internet access.
The difference is that software compilation is a fairly local optimization process - allowing you to change/inline one bit of generated code without significantly affecting the performance of the rest of the generated code - address space is cheap. On the other hand, especially when the fpga approaches capacity, one change could cause a significant portion of the design to have to be rerouted as space is limited causing significant performance differences or not meeting the timing requirements anymore.
Look up Tuvan throat singing or overtone singing[1] for general methods of production.

You can learn to be able to do it in a few days.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone_singing
Can we take a moment to appreciate the straightforward naming of graft-versus-host disease? I couldn't find the history of its discovery beyond this (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...) and even there, I couldn't find any indication of how it came to receive that name specifically, but it's much better than "[scientist's name]'s disease/syndrome" that we keep running into because people want credits at the expense of accessibility of knowledge.
I love how the reasons to delete social media keep on growing.

With someone's number you can very easily get a rough idea of where they live. I can imagine the living hell this creates for Domestic Violence survivors and others escaping bad situations.

On the flipside I plan on spending my weekends phone free, only carrying a small FM radio to play music.
well yea, they aren't "really" the same thing. It was just phone numbers weren't considered all that private back then.¯\_(ツ)_/¯ just a hot take
That's right, however I think it is worth watching again, especially when in this time he gets more screen time explaining more about it.

I think submarines designers should see this as well.
In democracy, majorities also hold power, which they do not in the US
Understanding this decision requires understanding Pivotal more broadly. EMC (which owns VMWare, which owned Spring) bought Pivotal Labs (primarily a Ruby consultancy) and used the brand for a new spinoff company (Pivotal Software, Inc). That spinoff company received as its founding endowment a hodge-podge of enterprise software technologies they had acquired over the years - Spring, RabbitMQ, CloudFoundry, Greenplum - and the consultancy, which is still called Pivotal Labs. For the most part they put the Ruby consultancy people in charge.

Even though Pivotal Software is an amalgam, Pivotal received most of its culture from Pivotal Labs. To the extent that you can anthropomorphize a corporation, it really, really likes Ruby. Because of CF, it's warming up to Go fast. Spring is too big and important to neglect. But it's hard to see how Groovy/Grails fit into the big picture. It's not in vogue with the top decisionmakers and it's not critical to the business - it's just something that tagged along with Spring. I doubt anyone has any idea what to do with it.
> I suspect that "fixing most social problems" (racism, extreme poverty, etc) is probably a prerequisite.

Disagree completely. This smells of a "busywork" solution - we know something needs to be done, but we don't know what, so we try to do something for the greater good, hoping that we can redeem ourselves and somehow be protected (or at the very least more protected) from the threat.

Incidents such as mass shootings, which you highlighted, don't tend to have roots in racism or poverty situations, but rather psychopathy; a dramatic disconnect from the wholesome core of our human nature which develops in the soul of a deeply troubled individual.

This is a problem that our society with its culture is not equipped to handle. I do tend to think that there have been societies in the past, which did have the ability to contain such problems - I don't see a murderous psychopath arising within the company of Buddha and his travelling ashram of monks.

21st century Western civilization is taking a radically different path, investing itself fully in technological progress at the expense of everything else, and will reap the fruit of this choice, good and bad.
"Geopolitical influence" covers control of both purely economic assets (e.g. oil, markets), as well as territory.

Economic competition has frequently been the underlying motivator for military action.
I was and still am a big Uber sceptic and I still resent the idea of having to use them due to their business practises. However, on a trip through London which started with a taxi driver basically lying through his teeth that we hadn't been outside, and the tubes being utterly fucked, I thought I'd give it a go. It was amazing. I could see exactly where the damn cab was, the driver was professional and gave us water, the car was clean and comfortable, and the fair was predicted in advance. No bullshitting around trying to explain where you are over a shit phone line, no wondering where the hell the cab was or when it would turn up...it was absolutely fantastic, and it made me re-think things.

There are still issues I take with Uber:

- It could quickly become a monopoly if they are so hyper aggressive with competition (even for similar things like Lyft) which will mean they just become taxi cabs 2.0.

- They should have as or more stringent background checks for drivers, especially as they seem to want to subcontract to people who run their own pools of vehicles.

- It's going to be a tall order to keep consistency and quality high.

- If they become as successful as they want, I think they will have unfair leverage over drivers and based on their ethics I doubt they are pro union.

That said:

- Taxi companies have utterly failed to innovate or improve fucking anything for decades, and so I have zero sympathy for them.
- The medallion system is ridiculous.
> Fwiw, that's one instance where unnecessary information/features were removed I would rather had been preserved.

If the information isn't necessary to reason about your program, to write
a correct and performant program, then you've just more information to
consume, and instead of the unnecessary information you could consume
other, necessary information.
> The same probably goes for driving[1], this doesn't make cars any less robust.

I don't think I can imagine anything less robust than cars, in terms of the frequency and severity of operational failure. They're pretty much the deadliest thing we've ever invented that wasn't actually designed to kill people.

It's actually a good example of the point developer1 was making: cars and shell scripts are perfectly safe if operated by highly competent people, and only become (extremely) dangerous when operated by incompetents, but in practice most operators are incompetent, in denial, and refuse to learn from others' mistakes.
Sure! Mutaflor is quite expensive, and it has to be kept in the fridge. I ordered it in Germany, but it should be available internationally, perhaps with other brand names. It's one of the few bacterial strains that is proven to help Ulverative Colitis (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutaflor).

Homemade Kefir and Water Kefir are made by fermenting milk or sugarwater. It's a wild ferment, so it's critical that the culture you get on eBay or craigslist is in a good state. So it's advisable to have a hard look and smell at the kefir you are producing. Keeping the kefir acidic is crucial so the good strains (L-Bacilli and certain funghi) can outcrowd the strains you don't want in there. Kombucha works similarly, but I haven't used if for long.

While I tried lots of things, milk and Water Kefir worked best by far. I can't remember what L-Bacilli supplements I tested, but I got the impression that they did not do as much as Mutaflor or the Kefir. But the number of bacteria in Kefir is ridiculously higher than in most supplements, so that might be the reason.

Almost forgot.. I have low stomach acid, so I regularly drink (unpasteurized, unfiltered) apple cider vinegar. This might prevent "bad" strains from getting a grip, but I can only speculate.
Orbiting the Giant Hairball (1998) was a great guide to being creative in a world structured to squash creativity: http://www.amazon.com/Orbiting-Giant-Hairball-Corporate-Surv...

Hugh McLeod's How to Be Creative manifesto (2004) is also an amazing guide http://changethis.com/manifesto/6.HowToBeCreative/pdf/6.HowT... (you can buy it too http://www.amazon.com/Ignore-Everybody-Other-Keys-Creativity...)
Why propagandize? The results are clearly speaking for themselves.
Ha! I bought Primrose and Passage on iOS back in the day. [1]

Now sadly no longer on the Apple App Store

I guess that is what happens over time at the walled garden: You don't pay, you don't play

[1] http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/

update: gotta go scrounge for my box of old iPod touches with dead batteries if they have the games as local iTunes sync no longer works.
The CalTech and MIT pranks are legendary, and generally go well above and beyond what was demonstrated in this situation.

The prosecution of this 'offense' is simply absurd.
I think I'm gonna start looking at it that way, since that's much more actionable than what I said.
How do you get persistence if all your storage is ephemeral?
It's an interesting project for sure. I especially like being able to manipulate Finder menus with this.

For someone using Slate (js) that has also read your docs, I'm not sure what you mean by more integrated. Could you elaborate on the use of that word?
If only the Nokia of old were still around.