jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Many of you have a US perspective on this, but it could be even more interesting for the rest of the world. I supposedly live in the most democratic country in the world, but that doesn't seem to prevent officials from breaking the law under US influence.

"Sweden investigating alleged U.S. spying"
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-11-06/world/sweden.us.investiga...

"New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05...

"SWIFT breaks EU law to comply with US law"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/28/swift_us_privacy_vio...

"US government behind Pirate Bay raid"
http://www.thelocal.se/3969/20060602/
Also interesting: they contributed their technique to the BioBricks Foundation: http://bbf.openwetware.org

Very exciting things coming as we get the protein expression laws down well. I can't wait to use http://mrgene.com to sequence DNA and a BioBrick Assembly kit to put it all together.

http://www.neb.com/nebecomm/products/productE0546.asp
The only reason I have pay-for television is I'm punished if I don't.

Boston is referred to as the "hole in the fiber donut", where Mayor "Mumbles" Menino refuses to give Verizon a tax break, which is reciprocated by a complete lack of a FIOS rollout in Boston proper (but in every city around Boston... just to rub it in).

This leaves DSL and few other viable options. So I have Comcast. Additionally, if I don't have a qualifying cable TV package, Comcast charges another $10/mo. So I pay $13.60 for "Basic Basic" cable, which is mostly the major networks. QAM works fine. So for $3.60/mo I don't have to deal with an ATSC antenna, nor do I have to deal with a carrier set-top box (which on top of leasing fees, will actually consume $6 to $8 of electricity a month!)

However when's the last time I've watched broadcast television on the television as it aired live? A perfectly good question. Virtually none in the past 3 calendar years.
great news... tell your buddies! We're probably going to do a soft opening the saturday after next (Next saturday is the Beijing LUG's Coding4Fun night--you should come!). What day do you think is the most convenient? [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]?
It's going to be based @ the Yuanfen~Flow new media art gallery in the 798 Art District.

Here's some pictures of what it looks like now:
http://www.yuanfenart.com/index.php?option=com_content&v...

Here's the website for our incubator - Yuanfen~Flow (I'm Stephen):
http://www.yuanfenflow.com/

I'm going to be creating a shoutbox hosted on yuanfenflow.com to focus the discussion and information about it as it becomes available. You can also find me in the #chinalug or #beijinglug channel on freenode
The $250k is per family - it's $200k for single folk.

$250k/couple is two folks making $125k.

Talk about a marriage penalty....
> […] all of your sensitive stuff into one third party […]

You can designate any OpenID provider, including yourself. In such case DNS and optionally Certificate Authorities are only 3rd parties that have to be trusted (and if you can't trust these, you shouldn't be using the Web).
Many people have been saying for years that Microsoft should switch to an open source unix core to be more competitive and move faster like Apple (and because hackers tend to prefer unix). I've always thought MS had enough money to stick with Windows and still move fast... but now I wonder, or maybe they're slow because of bureaucracy, probably a bit of both.
This is cool. I recommend letting the user auto-post it to CL like airbnb.com does. Then the user doesn't have to look at the html.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952356
If you do a bit of reading, you would discover that the reason why there is this "talk about specific food substances" is so that people don't feel the _need_ to stuff their faces with 2-3 times the calories they need.

In fact, the best diets are the ones where people are forcing themselves to choke down food they aren't interested in, because their appetite control system has basically said "No More." Upside - zero caloric excess. Downside - food becomes much more dismal/boring.

People almost never make a conscious choice about A) the amount of food they eat and B) how quickly they metabolize it. How much you eat really is not much more than a function of a fairly complex system of your hormones, stomach, and autonomic nervous system. Changing your specific foods is effectively "gaming" or "hacking" that system so you _lose_ the desire to eat. Almost nobody effectively sustains a diet through "willpower" beyond the initial 6-9 months of a sprint where they drop 30 pounds, and put it all back on.

I have a colleague at work who runs 5 miles in the gym at lunch, every single day, and is about 20-30 pounds overweight. He is a master of discipline, never misses a day - but simply can't drop the weight he's trying to. All that exercise simply results in him being hungrier, and eating more.
If I had a dollar for everybody out there who claims that they were "nearly a billionaire" I'd be a fucking billionaire.
I wonder if we can make the assumption that a suicide must have come from depression. Or at least, I'm not sure if the reasons/depressions experienced in Japan are comparable to other countries. I'd also agree that the admittance of mental illness may be lower than the actual. There are some pretty strange conditions out there, like hikikimori.
Mac os app is in development, so don't forget to check it soon)
Based on my own experiences using marketplaces to find freelancers, as long as the project posted is well defined, it is much better to have the coders submit bids for the total.

Every single time I paid by the hour I have had problems.
I understand Derek's advice is to find one coder to work on a large project. But even then, IMHO is better to start with a fixed amount and eventually change and pay by the hour (and add other perks) only later.
One phrasing is entertaining, the other isn't. Do you have the same reaction to standup comics?
I deal with those by flagging.
In case anyone doesn't know of her alots yet:
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better...
Actors are not the same as agents. Actors have their own process calculus, and are based on ideas about time, ordering and simultaneity drawn from physics.

I don't know that agents in the Clojure sense have been studied in a comp sci sort of way. (Some agent systems have been studied - I'm not sure how much transfers to this design.)
A quick update here: the googlecl package has been removed from Homebrew. The recommendation is now to install it via pip (which is available from Homebrew). Just in case someone sees this and wonders.
The realistic-looking highway shields are a welcome addition. (They're much better than the cartoony-looking ones seen on most online maps.)

I wonder if they were influenced by this: http://www.41latitude.com/post/598792787/realistic-looking-h...
Show me the line that says it has to have such a line.

This! I may be an atheist European very fond of our socialist democrat government, but the bottom line is: the government should regulate what the population thinks should be regulated and not a bit more.

If I want to fly and apply myself fulltime, I can have my flying license in a month, being free to roam most of the national airspace (as long as I tell some people where I'm going, so they can help me prevent collisions).

I would surely expect it to be the same in the US: everyone has the right to travel by air, provided they adhere to a minimal set of guidelines to prevent them from endangering themselves or others in ways obviously directly related to the 'flying' itself (and not to e.g. the suspicion that someone might have a 1% higher change of using the plane for a terrorist attach).
With China and the US MAD applies to virtually any movement. Traditional warfare is out of the question, nuclear weapons are so prevalent in their armed forces that it would quite literally be a world ending conflict (at least from the non-aquatic species over view, as even a minor nuclear conflict is considered capable of seriously disrupting modern civilization).

However non-traditional warfare like the Cold War is similarly completely out of the question. The Cold War dragged on for so long because the USA and USSR were economically independent of each other, they both had mega-quantities of resources and production in their respective regions of control. They couldn't fight outright, but they had enough resources to supply everyone else to do the fighting.

Yet the US-Chinese economies are so intrinsically connected that a war would cause immediate trade embargoes between the countries and would cause an all-out collapse of the respective economies. US desperately relies on Chinese manufacturing for everything from what we wipe our arses with to our knives, computers and even a large part of our ship production (civilian and military production both reside squarely within China's region of control). Similarly China relies wholly on US and European dollars to even have a sustainable economy.

We're not talking $1 trillion in cold hard cash likes some uber-lottery, we're talking a likely payout over the next 50-100+ years. It would be more advantageous for China and the US to team up to extract the resources than to even think about arguing over them.
That's what marketing is all about, creating the image and perception. It only shows that they've learned very well from us.
In general, who cares? If the content of the post is good, then it'll get traction on HN. If not, it won't.
"Purpose"

Your child trusts you completely. Everything you do matters to him/her utterly. Your child withholds nothing and you find yourself, compelled to answer in kind.

I am a stay-at-home Dad running a small software company. My son was born a few weeks after I submitted the first proposal to develop the new product. His first two and a half years have been circumscribed by that contract.

My daughter was born when the follow on contract went live. Her first two and half years have also been circumscribed by a contract - the second one.

The late nights, early mornings, urgent crises, and - yes - triumphs (mine and my childrens') have been uncountable. You must manage your time around this. You won't have time to luxuriate in exploration before the Person from Porlock knocks. I miss the exploring. Sleep like a soldier when you can, work fast when you mind is clear and the house silent. I used to stay up late - now we are awoken with the sun by the Son.

I have aged 10 years in 5 - no question about it. I also have lived 10 years in a very full 5.

Caution, 2 children is more than twice as hard. Space them out - be in diapers with one at a time. Have family nearby (we did not) as the buffer softens the really hard times when everything goes wrong or everyone is sick.

To your partner - be deeply affectionate for no reason and often. You will gain reserves for the tough times.

That makes four startups - business, marriage, and two doses of purpose.
Seems very, very close to profiles of mitnick.
If you have downloaded a font in the last ten years you probably have seen this.
I don't feel like driving a manual in a busy city, and much prefer letting the more fuel efficient dual clutch transmission do the work.
No, the eyes actually have to be adapted to and used in the dark.
Child poverty is not a result of racism. Child poverty is a result of people choosing to have children that they cannot support. They choose to do this with the foreknowledge that society will not provide for those children. At least, not enough to life them out of poverty.

People need to stop blaming everything on racism, and calling lots of things racist that simply are not. Conflating the issues hurts on all fronts.

In other words, it makes it harder to identify and solve the real problem, and it makes "racism" meaningless in the public dialog.
Like many I needed to replace a very old MBP recently, and wasn't enthusiastic about paying top dollar for developer nag screens and recompiling stuff for a custom processor. I decided to once again try laptop Ubuntu, with an Asus Zephyrus. It's actually working great. Even battery life is good and I have a cuda capable graphics card. I think it's finally the year of desktop Linux ;)
I think that's part of the problem in getting a proper health care system. Some think they will lose what they have, rather than gain quite a lot, in the switch to a modern public health care system.
In the meantime millions of people would kill for a green card.
90% of the time Ray Dalio has an interesting opinion and good analysis, and he does this here.

I did an analysis based on the same premise (Bitcoin competes with gold) and came to basically the same conclusion.

Dalio's writings about how the "All Weather" fund works are based on a premise a lot like the "Permanent Portfolio" advocated by Libertarian presidential candidate Harry Browne but Dalio took out the "gold" component and replaced it with "treasury inflation protected securities."

Circa 2000 I bought a lot of TIPS and they did very well despite there being little inflation. Dropping interest rates had something to do with it, but I still don't understand exactly why they did so well.

(My stockbroker fired me as a client because I went to a presentation and asked why I needed the product they were selling when I bonds were yielding so well and had all the tax benefits they had)

I don't know how TIPS will do now, but I am sure that getting into TIPS at the right time is part of why Dalio is a legend. Maybe these days he thinks gold is better than TIPS.
Cargo will not ever look on crates.io for a library if you specify a `registry` attribute for a dependency. https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/registries.html
You used to be able to get software versions but Matthias was enforcing its patent.

http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000021.html

https://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3067497
There used to be a thing called a FrogPad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrogPad
Basically that, yes. The idea is, as long as the mutable state starts and ends within the confines of an individual function, you can get away with treating that function as if it were "truly" FP.

The main argument against this is that it's a concession that makes the codebase less coherent. The more hardline argument being that the encapsulated mutable state is still more prone to bugs and should be almost always be avoided, except at great cost.
...it almost certainly makes sense to push back in those cases too, then.
Happy to see docker alternative, but the road is still long for it to replace docker
This is how I fly today (literally this morning).

As an unexpected bonus I no longer need to argue that no I cannot go through the machine that will fry my glucose monitor nor do they try to open my sterile medication any more.
SEEKING WORK

Location: SF Bay Area
Remote: Yes, strongly preferred

Willing to relocate: Open to discussing

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Ember.js, Vue.js, Node.js, D3.js, CSS, HTML, Postgres, Ruby on Rails, Phoenix/Elixir, InfluxDB, MySQL, AWS, Heroku, Docker

Resume:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B126A71kXTHWVm5UQm4ycVRNbjg...

Email: zachzibrat (at) gmail

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachzibrat/

Extensive experience working in a variety of startups on both front and back end. Have done a lot of work with timeseries data visualizations - in solar energy and performance testing spaces. I've done a lot of mentoring of junior developers on my teams.

I have been doing freelance work since October 2018. Deep physics and math background. Prefer contract / project work or part-time. Open to full-time if the position has flexibility with regards to when and where I work.
As I understand it, the firmware for the majority of MicroSD cards is very limited. The physical size and low price point are likely the reason you don't see these more complex features in consumer cards. Also, if I recall, there's nothing in the spec about levelling so you'd probably get some half-arsed buggy implementation anyway.
Awesome article, informative especially if you use Nim, but also if you don't.
I don't think cities can run a deficit. They would have to pass tax increases to fund that, which would be unpopular.
From the article: "the cost of housing in Sydney, Australia and sole-income was a leading factor in the dissolution of the relationship"

Whatever opinions you have about divorce law aside, it's a simple fact that if housing was already a difficult expense, it gets much harder when one family becomes two.
Take it from their pension (and cut their budgets). Yes, that's wasted taxpayer money but I'm sure the police also view it as their own personal money.
What about being a tech community suggests it should not be anti-crypto/blockchain?
Personally, after dumping Facebook and Twitter, I made a Mastodon instance to chill out on.

While it is arguably just as much of a time waster as any other social media, it doesn't track me, throw ads in my face, show me an algorithmic feed designed to manipulate me, "suggest" people and pages to follow, and since it's my instance I can choose what other instances I do or don't want to federate with.

The end result is a form of social media that's much better for my mental health. We've all seen the studies by now about the stress and other negative effects of Facebook. None of that applies to Mastodon and the fediverse in general. Or at least, much less of it. Ultimately, of course, it depends on how you choose to use it.

But yeah it's still just as easy to spend all day on there instead of actually getting shit done. Mostly.

One thing Mastodon doesn't do, which Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, and the rest do is bug you with notifications telling you what you're "missing out on" if you don't use it for a while. I've had Instagram go nuts sending me constant notifications telling me nothing except "this list of people posted recently, check out what you're missing!" Then, when I disabled its notifications, instead I get emails saying the same thing.

I'm probably gonna delete IG soon because it's Facebook owned and I don't use it anymore, but point is, these mainstream social networks are designed to pull you back in constantly. Federated networks are not. Much easier to not use Mastodon for a few days, nothing will bug me about it.
Thanks for the apology, and the links that you did have. Those were much more interesting videos, I thought. And it would particularly cool to see a vortex blimp in action.

Oh, for the record, you got an up-vote from me.
Well, I think a crazy robotic solution throws cheap out of the window. Could this ever get mass market enough to bring the costs down?
Thank you very much for your reply.

I agree with you on all aspects. It would be too risky for me to do anything but act normal until I settle my future plans out. One mistake I would have made would have been on the disclosure of my salary -- Thank you.

And admittedly, working at this company has been very fun and a great experience for me. However the nature of how the founder is and the current compensation drove me to where I am right now.

Thank you again for your advice.
I thought they didn't so much take long positions as ended up with being long as a result of everyone stopping buying them. Were they buying from other IBs or was it just a case that they couldn't sell some of the toxic packages they'd created?
They certainly do with -extends(). As for constructors… there's probably way around that too. Point is Reia's OO-revolution doesn't introduce any fundamental changes besides syntax.
Wait, when was advanced algebra required for web work?
To chime in - get out. What the owner is doing is illegal as well as unfair.

As for not wanting his business to fail, I agree taking intentional actions to cause harm would be bad, but I suspect they'll cause themselves enough harm simply by you not being there soon after you leave.

From the other side of the table, I employed a handful of people in the early 2000s. We had a couple good years, and then a couple bad years. Got the point where the money wasn't coming in regularly, and I had some people stay well past the point where it was good for their own financial well-being. While I appreciated the loyalty (whether to me or solely to the clients, I'm not 100% sure) but I did tell them to leave if they could find something else, or take side work, or something.

I would never want to be in a position where I was doing what's happening to you to someone else. I've been in situations where I've been exploited, but not to this level, and it sucked, and I got the heck out as fast as possible once the reality set in.

I would suggest expanding the freelancing. You don't have much time right now cause you're working 50+ hours per week for someone else. It should not be hard to replace what is effectively a $10/hour job with some extra freelancing work. I've had a friend of mine recently jump from 'job' to fulltime freelance, and while he's not booked up 100% of the time, he's increased that hourly rate, so just to keep up with where he was before he doesn't need to bill full time.

Go back to your current freelancing clients, and explain that you'll be on the market soon. Ask if they have any extra work they need doing, ask them for referrals to other colleagues they may have who need what you do, and then ask them to be a reference. Preferably something in writing - a predone text file that you can use on your website and to include in your email marketing for new work.

Update your linkedin.com page, and hit up your network there for more work.

Finding work, especially as a freelancer, is very much about your network, and you have to curate that aspect of your life with intention and purpose. Happenstance and serendipity are great - they've brought some great things in to my life - but it's not enough. Hope is not a strategy. :) Start (re)developing your professional network outside of your current employment situation, and watch your freelancing grow.

Maybe freelancing only tides you over for a few months, and you manage to land another f/t job. Don't ever forget that you're still in charge of your own career and life. Your current situation should help drive that home for a long time, but don't dwell on it. Use it as motivation to build your professional network so that you never have all your eggs in someone else's basket again. Own multiple baskets. Even if you don't put eggs in any for long stretches, they're still your basket.

Best of luck to you, and I hope things turn around very quickly for you.
That a nice clone of the Figlet command line tool. (http://www.figlet.org/)

However, real ASCII art is more than a text with a special font.
As a vegan on a limited budget, this approximates many of my meals (though I could stand to eat more nuts and seeds and fewer grains), and I can attest that any day I eat roughly this mix of foods is a day I feel superbly healthy.

I would suggest replacing the low-fat dairy milk with a non-dairy alternative such as soy or almond milk. Although this would up the cost to $3.50ish/day, non-dairy milks are usually fortified with more calcium than dairy milk contains naturally, and are often fortified with B12 as well.
What a fantastic idea!

I would love to know more about the discussions you had with miyagawa, and how the design for this evolved. Anything this elegant must have taken a ton of iterations.

Oh, and may I have an invite, please?
Interesting, I've had exactly the opposite re: black beans and chickpeas. White beans have caused me far less gas. Perhaps we have different intestinal flora?
Can you elaborate on this question? Are you asking whether people who work 40 hours per week would take a 90% pay cut to work 90% fewer hours, or are you asking a different question?
The opportunity to have an impact cannot be overstated. I worked at A9, the search subsidiary of Amazon. Given that a substantial portion of purchases go through search, we were always keenly aware that even improvements that appeared to be modest could have very substantial impacts to the bottom line.