jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My understanding, although maybe this is just rumor, was that architecture had one of the highest suicide rates of any profession. My theory was that it was because it is a demanding job (comparable to engineering or medicine) but most buildings aren't really architectured. I mean how many sky-scrapers, museums, and city halls are there in the world compared to the number of mcmansions and nondescript office buildings.
Would you feel the same if you had 100% control of the data ?
Does laissez-faire involve tax financed institutions such as a monopoly on violence to uphold a commonly decided rule of law, or would even such institutions be determined by the market? More to the point, who even decides the definition of “property” in a laissez-faire economy?
Market-based solutions are almost always better than homeless services. Showers for a dollar are likely to be cleaner, available for a longer window of time on demand instead of by appointment and more humane in every way.

I would love to see more paid showers more generally available at services like truck stops and beaches. I am at a loss as to how to encourage or foster that.
I love it. What I want now is a bookmarklet for my web browser so I can use the site quickly.
RNs work crazy hours and have an insane amount of responsibility. Should they make $70 Million?
(Fast forward to 2025)

"Wait, you expect me to actually PUSH A BUTTON?"
Or you'll have to set up your MyWhirlpool account on their website so that you can pair their app on your iPhone with your washing machine so you can search their incomplete list of detergent brands and add your second choice to your MyWhirlpoolBrandSelect Favorites List and then give up when Amazon seems to stop supporting that brand.
The Catholic Church from the year 0 to 1800 did lots of that. They had meetings to draft the Bible. What should be included. What should be excluded.

The cool Pope we have now is rolling back tons of rules because it's necessary for the survival of the institution, not because he necessarily thinks they're just. His opinion doesn't matter, only God's.
Proprietary math software, to which I'd add Mathematica, has the specific non-value proposition that you cannot take home your precious research work from the university lab without expensive, hard to buy and impermanent licenses and subscriptions.
Corporate culture and the grandiose, self-serving rhetoric of startups and VC culture are no less ridiculous than this, just less entertaining.
1. Faulty lock mechanism due to aging and wear.

2. It's a trap lock and was never designed to be operable in the first place.
Of course, as always with Linux, both these features probably depend on how well your hardware is supported.

...make that "as always with any operating system".
They have to put it back online with a counter-notice.

No they don't. Doing so merely gives them safe harbor from any liability for having taken it down. Facebook has no legal obligation to its members to maintain the content in the first place, and therefore no obligation to pay attention to a counter-notice.
Reserving a micro instance only means that you get discounted usage hourly usage of that instance. You have to pay usage fees on top of that. By my math, 24 hours * 365 days * $.007 per usage hour (VA datacenter) = $61.32 in usage fees. Don't forget the cost of elastic block storage, too, especially if you're going to save snapshots. A full-time micro instance will cost ~$150/yr.

AWS pricing can be complicated, so make sure you read:

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
It struck me that that her cells were taken without her consent and that she and her family seemingly did not benefit. I'm not sure how profit-sharing would work in a situation like this or even how much money has actually been made due directly to the sale of her cells. However it's depressing to read that her family isn't able to benefit financially while others may be. Although it's a great contribution to research the ethics seem to be questionable. At least some of any money made should be in part awarded to her family and children.
I'm surprised more startups don't consider selling merchandise or some simple physical product. The margins can be pretty healthy and the value proposition is pretty simple. I think the recent spate of successes on KickStarter will tip people in this direction.

If you can make something novel, ala AirBNB's Obama O's cereal it seems like an easier path to ramen than AdWords.
There is a big difference between discouraging users from clicking, and telling users to click and then discouraging them from clicking.
Yeah and considering the iPad gpu already has fillrate issues at 1024x768, quadrupling the number of pixels seems unreasonable.
Implementing Forth will also teach you a lot of (different) things, and can be done relatively quickly.
Loaning of books would probably be the best example of this phenomenon across history. It was so ubiquitous and considered so vital that people went to great efforts to build libraries to facilitate it.
Actually, four cheap phones (4x Motorola C123) have been used, operating in parallel. :-)

And they have furthermore been modified to remove filters that in "normal" phones improve signal reception but for this particular application would prohibit you from listening to the base-station-to-phone direction.
Smart.

Me: F-ck this

Bot: Don't go.

Me: F-ck you.

Bot: No, please don't.
Stephen King, whose success is similarly depressing to some, mentions this specifically in 'On Writing.' His great gift, as he put it, is to entertain those of similar intellect to himself.

I think this is an exercise in awareness, which would be of particular value to the HN crowd. Apple's products are often castigated because their construction/composition/stats go against the preferences of a part of the highly tech-savvy crowd. However, this criticism doesn't take into account the intended audience. There is something similar at work with Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Certain purists might find the language impure and the Rails DSL too focused on a particular way of doing things, but there is a large audience that really likes and benefits from using that software.

While I find 'The Oatmeal' to be somewhat boring and trite, I don't begrudge those who like it their enjoyment, nor do I begrudge the author his income.

Well said! (Better than I did.) I don't begrudge either of those. I also hope no one in this society [1] begrudges my right to express my opinion.

[1] - Deliberately ambiguous, as it's widely applicable.
https://www.morningagclips.com/a-closer-look-at-organic-corn...
Hi Astura, apologies for the delay. To answer your question: no, we are not a covered entity - but we still maintain HIPAA compliant protocols with your data:

We follow all HIPAA compliant protocols in handling your data. We have additionally taken a number of security precautions beyond HIPAA compliance that mitigate the possibility of a data breach.

I appreciate you bringing this up as it is an important distinction and a good opportunity to clarify. We are not a covered entity under HIPAA as we are not (1) a health plan, (2) a health care clearinghouse, or (3) a health care provider. The laws surrounding HIPAA were enacted before genomics and consumer health became prevalent. This means that most of the companies in our space (23&me, Ancestry, Everlywell, etc.) are also not covered entities but are working with PHI (protected health information).

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While Bristle is not a covered entity, we can be HIPAA compliant by enforcing the same guidelines around your PHI as are used for covered entities. This is an optional, but in our opinion critical and non-negotiable, component of our infrastructure to maintain user privacy.
I imagine someone with a signal processing background could design a suitable digital filter to emulate the effects of various tone arms. Designing the filter might require cutting a special tone record so that the frequency response can be measured.

Alternatively, the "hip" thing to do might be to train a neural network on a bunch of old record recordings, and then pipe whatever you want through the resulting model.
Everybody will always have a motive to prevent others from discovering their failures. A democratically elected politician has just as much reason to want their failures covered up as a CCP member does. The reason governments like the CCP have such a hard time dealing with that issue is that their entire system is set up so that you have one party, with no opposition, all working in concert to conceal the truth from the people. The “voters” have no mechanism to scrutinize their government, and no alternative to “vote” for if they don’t like what they’re doing. A natural consequence of this is that the opacity the CCP relies on to protect itself from scrutiny, also prevents central committee members from being able to effectively scrutinize the system themselves. A good story is always made available for public consumption, but what’s known internally is equally controlled by individual political actors trying to protect their own interests.
Mahne take a chance and show initiative. Build something that the business can use and present it to them as a prototype that can be finalized quickly.

I'd say this situation isn't so bad. I've had situations where I was high performing, given plenty of work, then given an average rating for political reasons.
The history of the US prohibition says otherwise. Or rather, while overall consumption of alcohol probably did drop, the effect on society of pushing it underground was not positive.
> It requires passengers to run a nonfree program (an app). As always, a nonfree program tramples its users' freedom.

> Uber plans to do away with human cab drivers.

> It would be easy for a non-plutocratic government to prohibit this, and that's what every country ought to do, unless/until every person gets an adequate basic income so people don't need to be employed.

Which is a bigger case of "trampling freedom": voluntarily using someone's closed-source program, or having the government tell me they'll put me in jail if I offer to sell someone a ride in my self-driving car?
I'm curious, what your results were from reddit ads? I did a few days worth of ads a month or so back with mixed results. How did yours go?
I didn't make any affirmation. I don't know what the criteria are for coming under the heading "mathematician". I would count an undergraduate degree as adequate -- but he is 20; he does not call himself a mathematician; he says rather that he is 'passionate about mathematics, mathematical exposition and programming'. One could also study the internal evidence of the post.
The implication of comparing PISA scores unfavorably is that the US should then imitate other countries in order to improve. Another option is that we synthesize our own ways to improve education. That's what this article is really addressing... the implication is not that we should not try to do better, but how.
An app without a business is like a vine without a trellis.
Agreed. Anytime I'm using one of my laptops - be it a personal or business one - outside of home or work, the first thing I do is start my VPN connection.
I am exactly the type of person Kick-Ass is targeted towards. If it was not available to me via torrent, I would not watch it at all. As it is, I have it downloaded, but not watched yet.

There is no possible universe where Kick-Ass has made money from me.
I may be over-thinking this, but when I read articles like this I relate it to the difference between "social norms" and "market norms." When you're doing something in the realm of social norms (e.g., for fun, for helping other people, for recognition, etc.) it's great because you get that warm fuzzy feeling inside for doing it. The minute you cross into market norms (accepting profit for what you've done), it takes on a different form entirely and can lead some people to be less productive or motivated in their pursuit. Not that either way is necessarily good or bad, it's just that when social crosses into market the initial spark can lose a lot of its appeal. That might be why a lot of weekend projects are never properly monetized. Apps built for fun are great when they're purely in the social norm realm (and stay that way), but lose a little bit when they cross into a for-profit.
Along those lines, I would recommend to anyone to try to live in as many of these different regions of the country as possible. Visiting is one thing, but by actually living and creating roots in such different communities you end up seeing what makes America(and IMHO why it is so great). You often hear people talking about why living abroad is so great, but we often forget the diversity we have right here.
I usually find all-nighters to be counter-productive because it kills my productivity the next day or two. If you get stuck on a problem late at night you're almost always better off leaving it for the next day when your mind is fresh.

That aside, I do work until midnight-ish fairly regularly. I'll often drink Yerba Mate (a type of herbal tea) after supper and that can sometimes kickstart a second-wind of creativity/productivity in the nighttime.
Allow me to digress for a second by saying that this page is a pleasure to read in a mobile device, which is a very rare virtue, I'm afraid.
Maybe it is not Qualcomm that is to blame, but it is Apple to be praised. But I guess I am talking glass half full / half empty here, so nevermind :D
> This is the wrong direction, we should be on standard time year round

No federal law is needed for this. Each state can decide on its own to stay on standard time the full year. Notably Arizona still doesn't.
https://github.com/mytakedotorg/us-presidential-debates
Self-Hosting is a similar tradeoff to running your own hardware, imo. You can increase control and overall cost effectiveness for additional scaling, but these choices have a certain base cost you can't reduce. Thus, they only work beyond a certain initial scale, or because you have some specialized requirements.

For example, the source code as well as the tickets around a software tend to be the most critical assets of a company. As such, you need one or better 2 systems to host the source host and ticketing. However, such a system needs backups, so suddenly you need to maintain a backup solution, you need to implement and monitor the backups being created, you need restore tests. You end up needing some kind of monitoring as well. As well as 2-3 dudes at least part-time maintaining all of this capable of replacing each other during sickness and vacation.

That's a lot of stuff as well as a lot of manpower as your base cost. Of course, once you have that, you can self-host a lot of things easily and maintain excellent uptime at minimal risk, because these base services scale very well in complexity. For us it makes sense to do this, because unplanned outages at 100+ developers are seriously expensive and risky.

However, if you have 3 developers and a clock ticking to find product market fit, you don't have that budget - or spending it this way does not make sense. So you buy.
You're replying to a post describing the terrible effects of US sanctions on Iran. Imagine if you were living under those conditions, and person from the country enforcing the sanctions responded that there's nothing they can do because their two party democracy makes it too hard to change anything?

This is not the right place to complain about political gridlock in the US.
> Probably because an overwhelming majority of the Crimeans wanted to belong to Russia

If you're referring to the vote held in 2014, it was boycotted by supporters of Ukraine (because the vote itself was unconstitutional under the Ukranian constitution).
There is always a balance with these things. I try to be careful to use profanity as a tool rather than a literary crutch.

If you only use a phrase like "fucking bullshit" once across an entire blog post or book, you will find it has far greater impact on the reader. They will think "wow out of 400 pages of polite discourse, this is the one thing the author would really like to highlight as adverse".
This! There is very little selective pressure reducing the quantity or visibility of bad intros/tutorials. But for successful projects, the community puts a lot of pressure on the improvement and accuracy of core documentation. Truly complementary tutorials often ended up getting linked from or incorporated into primary project docs/pages -- so it is safer to explore from there than a Google search.
No, kids are 100% a vector of COVID, almost much as any other group.

That some cases go without symptoms is besides the point.

Kids are almost as likely to get COVID as any other group [1], they are just a lot less likely to die.

The epidemiological data on that has been consistent for some months now.

The study you presented was a short time-frame at the very start of the pandemic.

COVID is a wildly infectious disease, so the notion that 'kids don't die from it it so it's ok' is really bad logic: everyone who has symptoms, spreads, and causes other people to get it which creates the pandemic.

Also - you have provided no evidence for your wild claim that all the 'long-covid people were lying about their lyme disease'.

[1] https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-s...

(0-19 year-olds are the 2cnd highest cohort. Granted it's a bigger cohort, that said, they are getting infected at very meaningful rates i.e. they are spreaders)
Put #101010 on #f0f0f0
I've done it multiple times, fairly easily. I think the hardest has actually been after having something sweet, wanting to balance it out with a nice cup of black coffee. Fortunately there's decaf for that.
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.” - D. Adams
The idea itself isn't new, though it does open two big questions in the context of the EU.

For individual countries and citizens, do we really want the EU making these kind of decisions as what appears almost out of the blue? The EU isn't exactly lacking in criticism.

Can we truly accept "higher forces" making this decision without running it through the people? A vaccine may be a minor thing, and obligatory vaccination was likely to be accepted anyway. But what if something much bigger and much more intrusive is going to be decided that the public just "has to deal with"?

As someone from the EU, I can't with full confidence say the EU has been transparent in their actions or reasoning. These are people with immense powers deciding the outcomes of lives. I do need transparency that in whatever period of time, with all the rather intrusive technology coming out, they won't pull any weird stunts. This doesn't help making their case.
You're welcome. Just a reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0yBf1JKTw8
Supported by the C100 and Bootup folks in Vancouver. Looks like a great conference with most Valley folks traveling up the coast to Vancity.
I've been working on it for the past few weeks. The challenge is in updating the Three20 framework to support iPad.
wish it was in the evening for california :P
Wow, I didn't even know that was out there. But, it doesn't look like Google indexes those.
So did a rumour about .NET code running on the iPhone.
Actually, as an Ars commenter explains, Ars did kind of a bad job explaining NP. NP is the class of problems with an easily verified proof for existence, not the class of all exponentially solvable problems as they seem to imply (EXPTIME). Example: Is a boolean formula satisfiable? Provided an assignment for its variables, it is easy to check if it is a satisfying assignment.
It'd take a helluva lot of evidence to persuade me that eating grains is bad, because... heck, grains are tasty, and the vast majority of humans who have lived over the last five thousand years have had grain-based diets with no obvious ill effects.

Well, sugar, ice cream, cola - they are all tasty too.

Anyway, if you're interested in looking into ill effects of grain-based diets, there's a couple of links with some evidence.

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/03/paleopathology...

http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/claessen/agriculture/m...
The interview process doesn't work for some because it's a gross power imbalance where the interviewee has no control. The interviewee suffers at the whims of the interviewer. Some interviewers enjoy their temporary power over people who are normally not in a position of no power. The interviewee has no recourse for whatever power trip the interviewer throws at him. Many programmers hate not being in control and get anxious at the prospect. The process is doubly hard for introverts, who may be brilliant in the quiet time when alone, but who fail miserably when suddenly put in a position of an extrovert selling themselves. It's unnatural and upsetting.

I feel this is different than in almost all social interactions, such as working with clients or participating in meetings. There is more equality and control in those kind of negotiations.
I agree 100% with this post. Any time it is feasible, the best way to know what it is like to work with someone is to work with them. Small contracts and transitions from contract-to-full time allow both parties to learn a bunch about each other with minimum risk.
The same thing applies for an in person vote. Once they've voted and left, you can't tell anymore. One person could have submitted all of the votes for the day, and you couldn't te the difference.

This must mean that no in person votes should count at all!
I didn't endorse any of the violent protests. But I don't understand your analogy at all. Drunk driving is never ok. Are you saying any kind of protest is never ok because it has a chance of turning violent? confused face
“Frisbee” probably is “genericized.” The problem is that it takes a court ruling on it to know for sure, and no one wants to be the one to take that risk. It costs money to deal with the inevitable lawsuit, and if you lose, you need to fix it (and that costs a lot of money as well). OTOH, it costs (relatively) nothing do just choose a different name in the first place.
As with 2016, the time to investigate them is after the election under the next legislature.

Thus why trump got to keep his presidency in 2016
If you break down religion to be an organized belief system or doctrine, religion can exist without being called a religion.

Religion is no more misinformation than a particular Philosophy is misinformation; a perspective on reality. Even the meta-philosophical act (philosophy of philosophy) of having an ontology of philosophy or any form of abstraction/reification, is an organized form of how one views the world.
Ha! Not according to the title of the bill!

"H.R.69 - To make daylight savings time permanent, and for other purposes.”
No, to let them spy on America.

There are several instances of Trump going against his intelligence community, specifically in regards to Russia, to weaken America's cyber-defense. There are legitimate reasons to be concerned that he was being blackmailed by a foreign government to weaken America's institutions, and sow chaos and division.
The point is to use scaling; fonts at @2X are much easier to look at than at @1X.

Also, your DPI calculation are Windows and Linux specific - they assumed 96 dpi at @1X scale. Mac started with 72 dpi for @1X, so @2X is 144dpi. 27" 4K is slightly above that, thus perfectly usable at @2X scale. For Windows and Linux, it is better to use 150-175%.
But with SMS group messaging is rather cumbersome no?
Please stop defending an attempt to overthrow a lawful election as goofing around.
It's just a different name for virality/word of mouth/organic growth etc.
The effective method to be successful with video marketing using YouTube and various other video platforms is to actively encourage video sharing. Users who ask for shares are much more likely to get them than those who do not.