jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You’re right, I misremembered this completely, that’s very good to know. I’ve recently mostly used parking_lot, which guarantees prioritizing writers. That’s also the behavior where the post I replied to wondered if parking_lot was missing a check — in fact no, it has an additional feature.
From Peloton’s point of view (bottom line yadda yadda), you’d have to think that dropping to this price would 20X their subscriber count. Which is not to say that $40 is the correct profit maxima, but it almost certainly isn’t $2.

Just because something can be offered cheaper at scale, doesn’t mean it should or needs to be.
It's telling that you chose to omit my memory leak example. Weak developers blame the tools.
CV (Control Voltage) in the world of analog modular synthesizers is typically any signal within the bounds of the systems power supplies (e.g. -12 to +12 Volts for Eurorack).

CV can typically can also be Audio (AC), Gates (DC), Triggers (Short DC pulses) or modulations (slow changing voltages) — or any weird mixture of those.

The difference to "normal" audio inputs is typically just that audio inputs limit the bandwidth for the low frequencies roughly at the audible range, while CV inputs can also accept DC).
you can also create a c++ example where a 'bool' gets unintentionally promoted to an 'int' causing the compiler to pick the wrong template without a the compiler emitting a warning.

Or in C++ you forget to add "=0" to a method in a virtual class and you get a weird link error.
Or in the not so distant past, forgetting to add a semi colon to a class definition...
Or a simple mistake that makes the compiler emit 40+ errors on non-fitting candidate templates.

mumble mutter "pot" mutter mumble "kettle"
You have all the labels available at http://world.openfoodfacts.org/labels but you still should of course exercise caution and read the packaging.

http://world.openfoodfacts.org/label/vegan
http://world.openfoodfacts.org/label/vegetarian

Power tip: you can actually look for several criterias:
eg: http://world.openfoodfacts.org/label/vegetarian/label/organi...
or
http://world.openfoodfacts.org/label/vegetarian/category/puf...
That's cool and all but the thing that rustles my jimmies is that most non-Apple laptops have numpads. If it were 50/50 I would not complain, I complain because it's hard to find a good non-Apple laptop without it.
> You could make the same philosophical arguments against "downloading your mind into a computer" or "using a Star Trek transporter." How do you know that the consciousness on the other end is still "you?"

Yeah, which is going to keep me from using the Star Trek transporter until it's studied further.
[QBS](http://doc.qt.io/qbs/index.html)

For C++, and if you don't need anything really crazy. It's very readable (JSON-like), and custom rules can be defined in Javascript instead of "learn another language". It's also very fast - kind of highlights how slow Make is! No build system should be slow.

It's usable now but still kind of a work in progress.
I mostly agree, although Zuckerberg has compared Facebook to public utilities water and electricity. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/mark-zuckerberg-thinks-cool-w...
The other thing is that telecoms are inclined to become monopolies due to physical their infrastructure, and then they piss off their users who then petition governments for regulation. The point at which Facebook has sufficiently little competition while also annoying its users, it too will be regulated. But I don't see how you just haphazardly regulate X the same way as Y, just because both seem to do Z.
I've used Cluvio (cluvio.com) for what I think is a very similar use case. Have you seen that tool?

Killer features there (for me) are:

1) seamless integration into the Segment -> Redshift stack

2) Postgres-flavored SQL for building queries

3) easy to publish as a nice-looking read-only dashboard with fancy-looking graphs
> There are too many women who will (rightly in my view) take offense at being titled Miss or Mrs. — so using such titles is only "appropriate" if you are deliberately trying to anger some portion of the population.

I still say sir, mam, mister, and miss
(Mrs is generally considered unneeded and overly formal) because I come from a culture that finds them not only to be appropriate but pretty standard, especially when dealing with strangers. You find that declaring them universally acceptable is wrong, but if you came to my state you'd also be equally wrong, and maybe rude.

I do understand that peoples attitudes over generations will change about words. That seems to be the natural evolution of languages, but it also seems we've never overtly adopted a system that deprecates language outside of outrage, which seems inappropriate in itself if you're getting angry with someone who is going out of their way, in their mind, to treat you with respect.
There was a site that existed to block forum spam. It was designed for PHPBB forums. Also, Wordpress has add-ons to block spammers. However, something that could be used globally would be nice. I wonder if you could somehow have a DNSBL for your .htaccess file. It could check the list based on the IP address and then block. If that is not an option, some plugin files for popular languages would be efficient as well. (.php and .rb) How would the site be made profitable, though?

Or, are you referring to blocking based on the URL? Instead of blocking the content coming to your site, you would want to block access to sites with bad URLs? Spybot Search and Destroy does something similar to this with URL blocking, but that is only client side. How would this work within your browsers without using the proxy features and then giving up your privacy about which sites you visit?
Is Boy George your son?
I remember reading an example of "easy to check but hard to come up with" which is probably good for non-technical audiences. Its something like:
You walk into a party and you want to know if you know anyone. To find out, you need to look at everyone and check. Alternatively, someone can point to someone and say "do you know John" and you can check that much faster.

However, I think that reductions are critical to understanding why we care about NP-complete problems so much. The best example I've been able to give of a reduction is "reducing" addition to subtraction.
Yahoo: http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/

Sitemeter: http://www.sitemeter.com/
Thanks! I just wanted to see how similar my submission was to everyone else's and if it was a fail.
I have a commute that takes an hour each way on average. Some audiobooks I've enjoyed:

* I Drink For a Reason - very funny

* Stumbling on Happiness (sounds self helpy but is actually a great book on our inability to predict how we will feel about situations in the future)

* A Brief History of Everything - one cool story after another

* A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - hard to bear, but eye-opening

* Getting Unstuck - buddhist talk by Pema Chodron

* Born to Run - great, exciting story. Sometimes I would sit in the parking lot or the driveway after arriving in order to keep listening.
I think it's really hard to call one store "better" than the other. I'm an App Store developer, but I can see advantages to both:

App Store: Far more apps (and thus a stronger platform, attracts more users, attracts more developers). The review process generally controls quality (ignoring taste, for example fart apps), in the sense of no virus or battery drainers or network abusers or completely unusable apps. This is a plus and I think it's severely under-appreciated.

Android: No review process means you can potentially get any kind of app. Alternative app stores (or you can download right from the web). Ever-improving number of apps in the store (it's lagging behind App Store but quickly catching up).

So it really depends on what you're after and what you value. I don't think it's really fair to for the article to call one store "better" than the other.
Or Chrome needs to catch up. It is "ok" on a Mac. For instance, if I see an image on a web page I can right click and copy that image and paste it into Mail....with Safari but not with Chrome.
> It is a reporting and graphing tool for data...

It doesn't really seem like what you're describing once you run it. For one, I can make all kinds of widgets and import all kinds of code (which is confusing in its own right). But more importantly, I can't export or publish my workspace in any meaningful way.
Also the full DEL scheme proposal hinted at in RFC-1 is the subject of RFC-5.
On the homepage, it says

> Like other desktop apps, it has its own icon in the dock

it looks like it's osx oriented.
Yup, that's why you skip that too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7180672
What? How can that be what you take away from my post? I don't know what geographic area you know about and if 6 months to a year are anything but exceptions there, but my whole point was that short term (< 1 year) rentals don't make financial sense, unless you put a big premium on it. The premium would be 100% or so (as I said, for others, who can be bothered, which I can't), whereas the discount for >5 years is 0, or 5% at best.

Nobody trashed any of my properties, and the disputes I had were settled in my favor by the courts. I'm a lawyer, I can take care of myself. My point wasn't about me - it was about illustrating that short term rentals don't make financial sense at the rates people expect, and that most prospective tenants don't see that. Everybody thinks that real estate is easy money, but it's very competitive, the margins are slim and one decision on who to rent to can make or break your ROI for that year.
Sure for simple things, of which there are many, ORMs can work sufficiently up to a point.

But, the problem is that, you rarely get to go to your boss and say, well, this thing we've been using to do, you know, our data stuff, it's completely wrong. We need to throw everything away and start from scratch.

The only situation in which you get to say that, is when you're explicitly make it clear that you're writing a raw prototype that'll not scale, and that nothing short of a complete rewrite is gonna be required as soon as you finish (and even then, it can turn out tricky to actually do that).

Unfortunately, most people who get themselves into the ORM mess don't realize that this coming for them in the future. So they don't go their boss and make the prototype proposal. This all but cements the entire failure of the project right then.
Running the tests should still be completely automatable.

If there are no tests and he tests manually, then there's some commits waiting that will improve the project. :-)
oh web.de easily the most dangerous free mail sites there is.

it belongs to 1&1[1] one of the bigger internet companies in germany.

it's really odd that no one ever shot them down. they are famous for tricking users into shady 2 year contracts, if they wanted to upgrade their 12 mb mailbox.

they also upgraded the freemail to 500mb if and only if you would install their browser toolbar, which would change the mail server etc. now it's 1gb with toolbar i think.

they tried to force my mum into a contract, because she clicked on a banner while logging(for free xxx mb click here style banners). then promptly closed the account should she not pay.

the result was her saying fuck it i'll use gmail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%261_Internet

http://www.teltarif.de/web-de-freemail-speichererweiterung/n...
Nice to see that many of the developers/members of the team are GNU/Linux users. I would like to see if it can run other popular distros, like Elementary.
I just discovered that blogs and other self published resources may not be used to establish notability for Wikipedia.

Basically Nim cannot ever become notable unless there are press releases about it or peer reviewed papers written on it. And without a company like Google garnering/writing press releases and none of the authors of Nim are at academic institutions... Well this is awkward.
Mary Barra is an electrical engineer. Wesley Bush was CEO of Northrop Grumman and holds an engineering MS from MIT.

It's not the logo that matters, it's the pivot that it highlights.

BTW, if you've ever worked with engineers then you know that the best engineers are often entirely clueless about business.
I would expect not, in that a viable career needs to have enough of a range of workplaces that you can move between of varying sizes, responsibilities, and pay. I would expect only big technical publishers would actually have 'technical editors' and there would not be many of those positions available. So a thousand positions available as English language technical editor is the most I would expect. That's not a career to shoot for (in the way editor, programmer or technical writer can be)

I would think a technical editor job would be limited to a relatively few large technical publishers, and in my readings on the subject I understand an editor there would be a normal editor who sends out books and articles to technical experts (in book's subject matter) for review of technical quality.
Change happens on the margin. If success is defined by everyone moving on the same day, we’d still be using ICQ. This issue is an opportunity to make some people aware and maybe move a few networks to better solutions. So make a few changes, nudge a few groups, make people aware of the implications of their implicit decisions.
As far as the raw simulation goes, you get what you get with iRacing. Because of the online-only nature of the service tampering with it is impossible as an end-user. However, there are a few external things can help with immersion and getting an overview.

The one I find the most crucial is "Crew Chief". iRacing tells you when someone is beside you, a slower car is ahead, and stuff like that. Crew Chief does all of this, but also gives you a bunch of more information without making it an overload. With the voice-interface and spoken information you could completely turn off every HUD element in the simulator without losing the ability to e.g. set pitstop parameters or knowing how far ahead of the person behind is.

Another option to super-sede the default iRacing interface is "Kapps" (short for "Kutu Apps"). It's what practically every streamer uses for their overlays, but it's also very usable for your own racing. Gives more details about you competition and your potential fuel strategy.

When doing the big endurance events with a team you might want to be able to get a more strategic overview of the race as it evolves. Joel Real Timing is a server and frontend that gives you information on deltas, pit stop timing, laptimes, consistenty, etc. for every car on track. I wouldn't say it's very useful as a solo driver, but as a team it's invaluable.

All of this said, however, don't mistake being kitted out for being fast. These three apps are essentially usability improvements and niceties compared to the normal interface. You can easily plan out your endurance race, or do any sprint race, without any of this. Most important is to get a lot of seat hours and practice. You don't need to worry about all of these fancy information-gathering apps before they'll actually make a real difference to your driving. And that might take a good while, depending on your skill level.

Similarly, for a lot of people there is a lot of focus on setups. When some peoplewant to try a new car, or a new track, they always start asking around for a setup that fits well. 1) iRacing just recently added standard setups for popular track/car combinations - there already was a "baseline" setup available for each car 2) a setup can maybe give you a second at the most egregious. When you're two seconds off-pace no amount of setup is gonna make you magically faster. I've won endurance races in the higher end of the rankings with the baseline setup, after a bunch of practice, against people that have sweated over their setups for weeks before the race. Don't fall into that pitfall when starting out.

[0]: http://thecrewchief.org/
[1]: https://kapps.kutu.ru/
[2]: https://joel-real-timing.com/index_en.html
It’s just evolution - we put social distancing and masks in place, so variants that can overcome those emerged and spread.

Think of it like antibiotic resistance - our crappy attempt at lockdown was like not finishing the course. We gave it loads of places to multiply but didn’t finish it off so it just adapted
I thought so too, until I saw how this works from inside. Segmented networks sound fine in principle, but there's a pathological behavior happening: there's a group of people around the core instances that like to take offense over things, who then try to pressure the administrator of that person's instance to ban that person, or else they'll defederate the whole instance. The source of offense may be some wrongthing the person posted, or reposted from another instance, or any "known association", etc. Also defederation because of incompatible codes of conduct is a thing, and as you expect, this creates a pressure towards CoC extremism.

The Gab thing was funny to watch, lots of people behaving as if that service was a literal existential threat to Fediverse, and banning - or advocating to ban - anything related to it up to two degrees of separation. It also revealed an interesting pattern - Mastodon itself may be decentralized and instances are theoretically independent, but there for sure is a community of Fediverse people that's pretty hiveminded. And left-leaning. Gab definitely wasn't welcome, and wouldn't be able to benefit much from federating through Mastodon, even if technically nobody could stop them.

(To be clear: I don't like Gab, never interacted with it, and I don't particularly care about it. It was just weird to see the degree of moral panic on Mastodon happening the moment they said they are considering joining the network.)

Mastodon is therefore an interesting experiment in how the ideal of distributed web - of virtual archipelago[0] - falls to realpolitik. Freedom of curation is limited by your ability to deal with threats of defederation.

In this sense, when you're switching from Twitter to Mastodon, you're switching from a stable tyranny to highly volatile sorta-democracy. Pick your poison, I guess. I stick to Mastodon, and try not to give the admin a reason to get me banned for going against the party line.

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[0] - https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic...
This was my feeling in 2010 when I accepted an offer. It was a much bigger company by then, but upon joining it still felt stodgy and like any other big corp. I wonder if it still feels that way if you're there (I left in 2013).
> What will make WhatsApp lose?

It would have to be something fundamental. Any new feature that gains significant popularity can easily be added to WhatsApp (e.g. stories); in addition to having network effects working in their favour.
The right term would be sterilization vaccine, at least thats what a epidemiologist recently called it, if I remember the term correctly?
I'm not suggesting to include new strains on the fly while they are discovered without trials. The same way they had to do trials for Gardasil-9 after already having Gardasil, they could do the same just with a wider cocktail.

In the optimal case you would attempt the 100+ cocktail and don't have any unreasonable side effects from them. Of course if there is a single variant in there that causes side effects you would need a ton of trials to triangulate which one causes them, but there is no guarantee that that is necessary or that you wouldn't run into that variant when you just adding 5 new variants in an iteration.
> Fiat money is the real trick that removes people from poverty and increases everyone's standard of living.

This is actually completely backwards. Fiat money decreases standard of living by encouraging consumption and discouraging savings and investment.

> This is really easy to understand from first principles. If the total value of the world increases and there is only a fixed amount of either gold or bitcoin, or any finite thing to represent it, it's obvious that whoever has that asset today has to do nothing for it to grow. Just sit on it indefinitely and people will give you more value for the same amount.

Yes, as opposed to a depreciating currency where people continually give you less and less value for the same amount.

> On the other hand if the value of the world is represented in USD and the feds keep print more money, you can’t just sit on the money you have today and expect it to be worth more. You have to put it back in the value creation system for it to grow in value.

So people have to keep increasing their prices or they starve to death, how is this supposed to help the people with the least amount of money?

> Fiat currency is much better because you can print more money to keep up with the world's total value.

Thats why the poor stay poor and the rich keep getting richer. The rich own the assets, and the poor get these checks of decaying currency.
I really want to get into breathing work and I'm hearing nothing but good about Chorus! I'll be trying it out for sure!
Especially considering that 80% of the dirt the vacuums collect are his own skin flakes and hair anyway...
> no business owes an employee extra privileges

Apathetic capitalism.

We could expand this statement by saying no business owes a disabled employee extra access, or no business owes an employee maternity leave.
Even so, intentionally trying to be being a contrarian is a good way for industry to avoid groupthink and cargo culting. It's really valuable. I'm sure somebody will write an article called "Do Things That Scale" soon.
> governments simply have to make it illegal to transact anonymously

How? Are you suggesting that every single government in the world would collude together to ban crypto?

What if, at least one of those probably western, countries chooses to make the simple decision of not being a parody of a distopian government?

Then other governments who have chosen to be a storybook parody of distopian would be unable to tell the different between these legally anonymous transactions that are in the normal country that is allowing these transaction, and between illegal transactions that are not in that country.

They couldn't simply watch the blockchain, as 1 country is defecting by not acting like an absurd example of a totalitarian government that is in no way similar to how modern day western countries act.

> You don't need to control a currency if you can control anyone who holds it.

But multiple absurd totalitarian governments that pop up overnight wouldn't be able to control everyone who owns crypto, as there would certain be countries that decide to make the simple decision of not acting like a story book parody of an evil government.
> basic wire transfers are instant and cheap

This is woefully incorrect. Wire transfers are neither instant nor cheap, depending on the source and destination country.

If you wire from US to US, or EU to EU, they yeah, maybe.

The moment you move large sums across borders, especially to /from countries that aren't in the US's "good guys" list (as dumb and childish as that sounds, this is typical language in USistan for politicians and media), things gets very tricky.
Thanks! We've really enjoyed engaging with Lenus.
Sounds like progress stopped, not that it reversed. When things are stable you'd expect that a bit less than 50% are richer than their parents.
How do I remove my account? It sounds like a nice idea but I'm on Windows and without the live upload feature I have to stick to recording to another laptop.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1238621
<brag>I've averaged 28% annual returns over the past 12 years.

Factoring in your transaction costs, how does your investing strat compare to buying and holding a large index like VFINX over the same time period?

Telling us your returns means nothing without a way to compare to the market as a whole.
Flash may be fast, but the problem is that my macbook pro get's so hot I can fry an egg on it after viewing a video on vimeo.com in flash for a few seconds.