jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Netherlands is not a good benchmark for the rest of the World where altitude it's a thing

> The Vaalserberg is a hill with a height of 322.4 metres (1,058 ft) above NAP and is the highest point in mainland Netherlands

before anyone gets the wrong idea, the biggest problem is not going up, but going down (especially with kids, cargo or kids+cargo)
Everyone being as trained as an astronaut would definitely make a difference, if only because they would appreciate the importance of science, technology, innovation... And not believe stupid conspiracy theories about vaccines.
Dangerous <everything> must be removed from roads. There is a non-negligible amount of bikers skipping red lights, or using the sidewalk (forbidden in many cities), or even going the opposite way on one-way streets. The rationale in most cases is that a bike is not a motor vehicle and thus should not observe the same rules. This is a problem even in a scenario without cars, as it leads to collision vs. other bicyclists or pedestrians.

This behaviour from a few individuals pushes anti-bikers to protest even more, making it harder for these initiatives to thrive.

As ridiculous as it sounds, a deterrent similar to a license plate may become a necessity.
A lot of OBs are outsourced
Pretty well! You can set up a build cluster that provides workers for any of these different platforms. Each of these platforms is identified by a different set of label values. Then you can run Bazel on your personal system to 'access' any of those platforms to run your build actions or tests.

In other words: A 'bazel test' on a Linux box can trigger the execution of tests on a BSD box.

(Full transparency: I am the author of Buildbarn, one of the major build cluster implementations for Bazel.)
Interested in this as well. I'd like to do some travelling over the next year, and perhaps find a city where I'd like to stay a bit longer.

How do you find a place to stay? Do you rent an apt for a set time, like a month and then book something else somewhere else at the end of your stay? What are your expenses on a monthly basis +-?
Maybe the following example is better (maybe I'm arguing more 'state of mind' than the point the OP's post was trying to make, I'm not 100% sure).

Let's say a doctor performs an examination of the genitalia on a patient, without medical necessity. Let's say she does it without sexual intent, for example because she is still in training and wants to practice more on genital examinations (this may not make any medical sense, it's just the example) Let's also assume that we know for sure she had no sexual intent (eliminate mundane evidence matters). She convinces the patient the examination is necessary and he agrees to it. Only later he finds out the examination wasn't out of medical necessity. Is this sexual assault?

I'd argue no, and I'm quite sure the law is on my side (although I don't know how to qualify it in common law terms, at first I thought the mens rea was missing but a cursory web search seems to indicate that this is related to the 'consent' part of the assault charge, and not so much the 'sexual intention'. The literature doesn't seem to agree though).
There is a crypto-currency like Bitcoin that operates on the gold standard, eCache (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECache). They operate on the tor network. You can see a photo of their gold supply (https://ffij33ewbnoeqnup.onion.meshmx.com/audit/current.png)
That's a nigh-trump-card. Wow. AWS: say hello to massive purchases from researchers.
Of course, there are a lot of apps that simply
cannot be built with HTML yet, especially
games...

Depends on the game - many genres do not require a lot of processing power (e.g. puzzle games, many turn-based games).
I've been using this as my regular browser for over a month and it's been fantastic
#1 I've never understood this as a concept. Why on earth would you first run an FTP server and then block the port it uses?

Sure it helps if someone sneakily installs stuff but that's the reason why so many things are nowadays tunneled via HTTP. Because everything is always blocked.

The point about load balancer whitelisting was a good one.

#2 works only if you choose iOS style environment where a single entity, Apple in that case, decides what to run and what not to run.

Otherwise it falls to the "Cute rabbit" category. E.g: If user gets a mail "Click here to see a cute rabbit!" they will click everything, bypass all security dialogs just so they can see the cute rabbit. And/or they will grow desensitised and click "Yes" on all dialogs. The old UAC dialog in Windows Vista was an excellent example of this. Everyone just automatically clicked yes because it popped up all the time.

#3 is just "Don't write buggy software". Yeah. We wouldn't if we were smart enough.
An inspiring notion, but there are lots of people who have as much wealth as Elon Musk. They're not doing anything like what Musk is doing. Apparently most people either 1. retire and buy fancy yachts or 2. continue working on whatever business made them rich in the first place.
For espresso this is true. For "pour over" the fresher the better, you first pour just enough water over the grounds to saturate which causes a massive off gassing, then you pour to completion.
I will argue that politeness and respect are actually essential, because otherwise that's where racism, etc., creep in. Impoliteness and disrespect set up a hostile atmosphere in which matters escalate and the cops/TSA/gov people feel threatened and thus justified in using more authority, while the "suspect" feels threatened and thus justified in pushing back or trying to get out by more dramatic means. This is where bad stuff starts happening despite everyone's "best intentions" and this is the place that white people who set off chemical detectors simply don't get to. (It's the same dynamic that can lead to bad police-minority relations -- the difference between leading with "I'm sorry sir, but we'll have to frisk you" or "You causing trouble? What are you doing here?")
Hmm, that sounds like it might have some potential. I'm envisioning a setup where the first upvote is free, but you can get a second one by spending a quarter (or whatever amount of money) that gets shared with the site owner.
Do you plan on writing a blog post about this? I'd be interested to read it.
This isn't a new idea, but an implementation sticky enough for me to use has proven elusive. Instapaper-like offline caching may be important, or maybe integration with Reeder, various Twitter clients, etc.

I'd really like one that stores my queue on Pinboard.in (as unread links, tagged as 'video').
Agreed. This post is disapointing and not a worthy HN submission IMHO. Even putting aside the silly title and rhetoric, the idea behind the post is still lame.

I can give up just about any web site I use daily with little disruption to my life. No matter how much blood sweat and tears it's creator has put on the line.At the end of the day, they are just web apps. They are not important to me, like say, my garbageman coming every week is important to me.

To classify people who start companies that build web sites as being superior to others in any way at all is laughable. (I make web applications for a living).
Not according to this (at least not the same way), http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/04/windows-phone-...:

"In contrast with iOS and Android, Microsoft says that its Windows Phone OS doesn't create any persistent on-phone record of where you've been. That's not to say that the company doesn't collect the information at all—but the large location caches found on handsets with competing operating systems aren't found on Microsoft-powered phones."
Does anyone have any insight as to how they justify 2.5 million dollars per year in operating expenses?
It's getting close to Samsung putting out a competitor to the iPod Touch. I believe it's already out in Korea. http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2011/04/07/104922.html
This is def. good and interesting feedback. Since one of our founders lives in "the D" and one of us lives in Ann Arbor, we often switch between where we're based when it's most convenient. ;)

Which do you think is better to claim we're from?
alt 955 gives me ╗
> I am low in BH4 which limits my ability to metabolize amino acids down the common pathway and thinks like phenylalanine get metabolized dow the alternative pathways creating PEA and Tyramine. But also I have the mental illness associated changes in TAAR1 and VMAT1 and VMAT2. (I have schizoaffective Bipolar Disorder.)

this is an amazing amount of self knowledge about these topics -
i'm sure some came from introspection, but for the rest - how did you find these things out or are you in the field?

seems like useful knowledge for people to have, aside from problems with over self diagnosis of course
I would advise looking at Haskell. There is just so much there, and while you learn it you get so much exposure.

Elixir is def cool but keep in mind that it is just much more normal of a language. You can probably learn it in a few weeks. Haskell is a much longer journey
How would you distinguish these two theories?

(A) Whence was the form of the word where required by the preposition from.

(B) Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and the committees compiling the King James Bible[1] were all unaware of how to speak their own language.

[1] This one could be true! The KJV was written in intentionally archaic language. But it was also a major project receiving serious attention from the best people.
This is the clip mentioned in side note 7, I believe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OEXbaJHDkE
Eastern Ontario seems to do fine handling winter temperatures of -28C to -35C every year. Cold isn't the issue driving reliability problems here, wind and ice are.
6 hours for core hours? That’s practically no flexibility at all.
Correct, you need to have enough money to get by while the work permit is processed. If you get a job via remote interviews, and book the work permit appointment in advance of coming, you can turn it around pretty fast though - I had my work permit appointment the week I arrived, and then went straight to work.
Any environment that regards marketing as proscriptive instead of subscriptive is already insecure anyway :/
In my experience, corporations are great at finding ways to get "innovation grants" and "R&D tax incentives" for things that involve no real research or innovation.

Instead of actually promoting innovation, they tend to become a subsidy for the tech industry.
I'm guessing he was working on an experiment where the proton beam exits the vacuum chamber and interacts with a sample and some detectors outside of a vacuum. https://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Chipir-technical-informati... shows an example where a neutron beam exits into a shielded block house where experiments can take place. In this modern particle accelerator access to the block house is controlled by digital and mechanical interlocks to prevent such an accident occurring.
It must help you remember where you put things. And in dealing with abstractions.
Mac users, it seems to me, wouldn't get any use out of this. Cloud App does the same thing but is on my local machine so I don't have to go to a website. Could be handy for Windows and Linux users I suppose. Am I missing a bigger picture?
Congratulations on the call. We just sold our business last year for 8 figures to a company that contacted us out of the blue. We weren't on the market or really thinking about selling at the time. Here are a few thoughts that might be useful to you:

-Keep these two factors in mind: You are in control and this is a sales transaction(although a bit more complicated). Like any sales transaction, the first thing that is important is to learn as much as you can about the buyers needs. You should let them speak first about what their business is and why they might be interested in an acquisition. Go ahead and start off the conversation with questions about this if they don't start with talking about their interests. Feel free to probe further during their initial description if they aren't providing enough detail. During the first part of the call you want them to be doing most of the talking. This will allow you to describe your business in a way that is relevant to their goals and needs. Remembering you are in control is important because it is critical to display confidence and not look too eager at this point.

-What you share depends on the buyer's potential for being a competitor and the existence of an NDA. During the first call we spoke in very broad terms about the upward trend in revenues, but we didn't get into too many specifics. We waited until we learned more about the buyer, had an NDA, and considered our interest in selling. Because it is a sales transaction(see above), you will need to share enough to make them want more information and continue the discussions. Even if you get an NDA, they can still use the information if they buy a competitor or start something on their own. So, try and keep the "secret recipe" of your unique success a secret until after the transaction progresses a little further.

Let me know if you have any other questions. I have only gone through this once, but I would be happy to share my experience with you.
Dell made a laptop with similar specs called the 'Adamo' for a while. It's small, light and sexy, costs about half as much as an MBA, and Ubuntu worked out of the box.

A good alternative if you'd like to avoid the Apple flavored kool-aid.
Cool stuff! If it works as advertized, it's basically wget plus a lot of perl/bash hacking, but then for non-programmers. I think it solves a very real problem. Basically voids a whole bunch of the infamous REBOL oneliners (http://www.rebol.com/oneliners.html).

I guess data export options would be very important.

I wonder to who they want to market this. I think the target audience willing to pay for it is very much used to working with installed enterprise software only (MS Office plus some CRM/ERP that they hate), and might be reluctant to switch over to a web application. Freemium model?
Excellent - we really appreciate it! If you have any suggestions for making it better, we are all ears.
Google already drives around a fleet of vehicles to collect this data. Wouldn't it be better for them to give all that money to the postal service to subsidize mail delivery while also getting cars off the road?
> What such bills accomplish is not crime reduction but political protection. It gives the appearance of action from legislators who do not want to take more decisive or direct action. It is easier to blame a video game than state or city enforcement policies.

Setting the absurdity of the situation aside, how can limiting the personal freedom of your citizens be the "safe choice" compared to criticizing or changing policies? And be considered a "less decisive action"? Especially in the USA, one of the countries which arguably values personal freedom the most. This is really not a good direction.
Sounds like it should be user configurable, because I agree with you that selecting the whole thing by default is annoying.
GNU Emacs was released in 1985. Other variants of Emacs date back to the 70s.
just checked - there are large sources of "common car" used parts (used 2005 Honda Civic headlights for example at $30-80/each without delivery where is non-OEM new in US is $100-150/pair) in the large Far East Russian port of Vladivostok from which those parts sold and distributed across Russia. Naturally much of this is the used parts from dismantled cars from US and Japan, and there is no way to establish provenance that any given part came from a legally dismantled car.
You don’t force her out of her house, you simply allow her to defer the taxes until she sells or dies.

Why should some whose house went from $200k to $2M be getting a tax break?
Most modern "phone home" trackers utilize cell networks to send updates on their current location. I'm not sure if Tesla's are designed to operate on foreign networks, but once they are off the network, they can't phone home.

It's not uncommon in port cities for stolen cars to be on a ship less than an hour after their theft - not exaggerating.

Unless you notice your car missing and check it's location within this time-frame, you might not be getting it back.
A significant percentage of the political content on Facebook, Reddit, and elsewhere is coming directly from 4chan.
This is pretty much why I don't use Firefox. Things like this are a deal breaker for me. I really wanted to use that browser, so I even tried at some point fix it myself.
>FFP is at the other end of the spectrum, moving all risk to the contractor.

I agree with your overall opinion but I do think the govt has a lot of residual risk in cost-plus. When a contractor is incentivized to cut corners, the mitigation is govt oversight. Meaning the contractor can keep cutting corners until caught. Since the govt ultimately owns these systems they can be left holding the bag (particularly when requirement specs are weak)
Do you really think people who get $12,000 a year aren't going to work? It's not about replacing income. It's about supplementing it. Everyone will still work. They'll just have $12,000 more with which to buy food, clothing, pay their car payment and rent, etc.
Maybe later. I took a quick google around before I posted but they are not as easy to google as they were the last time I looked at it, some years back.

I think I originally found them via McVoy's page back in 2000, and then followed links and googled a bit. There may also have been some discussion available through Deja News.

McVoy had written some interesting stuff even if his BitKeeper thingy looked horrible and very TacKy :)
It's difficult for many entrepreneurs to hedge, particularly young or first-time entrepreneurs, because a supermajority of their net worth is in their company. If you own a software company and have $10k in your IRA there is no option available which causes that IRA to suddenly be worth an appreciable portion of the value of the software company given some event which severely compromises the worth of the software company.

The best option available if you're concerned about sector-specific or firm-specific risk is to decrease your exposure to your own company. For example, if your company has already created tangible economic value, you'd do something like a secondary sale while raising a new equity round, such that part of the round goes into your pocket rather than the company's coffers. You'd then take that money and then do anything other than putting it into a high-growth tech company.

This is becoming much more common than it used to be, to my understanding. Historically VCs preferred to have founders be "hungry for an exit" (which was, ahem, so that VCs would have a superior negotiating position), but these days social acceptability of cashouts is increasing as a) the market favors entrepreneurs and b) VCs are starting to cotton onto the fact that early acquisition offers (which murder VC returns) are radically more attractive when you have $600 in your checking account than when you can comfortably contemplate e.g. a wedding, childbirth, or a home purchase (well, OK, maybe not a home purchase in the current real estate market) without suffering crippling amounts of financial anxiety.

Given that one has a non-trivial portion of their net worth outside the company, there exist options for hedging, but given that you're probably better at selling software than on financial alchemy you should probably stick with what you're good at.

That said, you might do something like I did, which was e.g. pick a publicly traded company which would get shellacked if your sector got hit and buy deeply out-of-the-money puts on them. (I picked Salesforce and spent ~$500 on an options position which pays out only if they either have Enron-sized accounting issues or SaaS gets punched in the face. It expired valueless. I'd have re-upped it for another year but didn't anticipate my net worth and professional career to both be 90%+ SaaS-weighted for most of this year.)
For JS, have you seen this? http://eloquentjavascript.net/
Go is the language name, golang is the search-friendly alt, and "gophers" are the users of the language. Your apparent distaste for Google doesn't justify your mean attempts at humour.
I agree with you both.

Technically the source is a blueprint. But this comes down to scale.

Among other things I've worked on banking and corporate management applications. You cannot reason about the codebase at that scale. In these instances it's not possible to have a good outcome without a blueprint.

Using the building metaphor, you can get away with building a bird feeder without a blueprint. You can't get away with building a skyscraper without one. Houses, maybe. Either way, high level blueprints help everyone.
sorry /me stupid kraut trapped by Wikipedia, and 2005 plant reclassification.

The German Acacia Wikipedia entry only contains the genus Acacia, while "Akazien" points to the tribe that is including all those plants that are normally known under the common name of acacia.

Btw, the picture of the English wikipedia also shows that the genus Acacia is only native to Australia. I guess they are planting Senegalia and not Acacia there. Same plant, it just got renamed 10 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegalia
Bitcoin is capped at something like 7 transactions per second. VISA handles tens of thousands. I think "faster" is disputable.
It's a statistical significance test not a mean. You expect statistical significance to go up over time. Unless the effect size is zero, it doesn't have an asymptote.
I kept my profile there for a while from 2011-2012 and at the time I didn't get any leads. When I actively searched for job postings there, they mostly seemed to be within a few core areas, usually aligning with the same things Stack Overflow proper has a lot of activity in: .NET, enterprise Java, etc.

As a web developer working in stuff like PHP or Ruby, I just chalked it up to me being in the wrong venue. Over time, I've gotten better leads and interviews from stuff like We Work Remotely and even Indeed. From my experience, the stuff SO Careers was optimizing for and prioritizing on profile pages wasn't really important for landing an interview request.

All that said, a lot can change in 2 years and it seems SO Careers's success somewhat speaks for itself.
Do you plan on utilizing your GitHub project (https://github.com/uloga/decorator) to accept issues and pull requests soon?
Yes! It would be like the Wayback machine as a service, but with some key differences:

1) The intention is that you replace your dynamic site with the static copy, but your visitors are none the wiser. All URLs are the same, as well as the content returned. Might require some .htaccess trickery.

2) It would have to preserve all the images, css, and other assets, some possibly hotlinked. (The Wayback Machine is not awesome at this, understandably)
Unfortunately, Tech Crunch labels Stack Exchange as a 'forum'. It's not.

A Forum is for hanging out and sharing. It may have information you need, it may not. You will spend a lot of time scrolling through useless material finding it. Or even worse: http://xkcd.com/979/

Stack Exchange will not waste your time. You have a much higher chance to find the answer you're looking for.

In short, while Forums and Stack Exchange are avenues to convey information, SE works to ensure finding information is easy and painless, whereas a forum does not.

(I'm a moderator on Stack Overflow).
I've been typing on a daily basis for the past 41 years. I took a typing class 36 years ago, and have continued to type probably 90-95% 'properly' ever since. This class paid off by the way, and my accurate typing speed peaked at around 140 words per minute.

Like you, I've been blessed with never having any hint of RSI.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but I think the whole 'RSI landscape' is, as with most things, very complex, including a lot of poorly understood or currently unknown factors.
Interestingly enough I only really touch-type "properly" with my left hand and that's the one I experience RSI symptoms in.