jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Agreed, some questions are more easily answered through chat and #RubyOnRails on freenode is a great place to get help.

However, I think the cool part is that it's not text.
Personally I've find it to be really helpful when I'm stuck just to talk through the problem with somebody else. Often just the act of vocalizing dislodges the log jam.
Lots of our early users have asked a similar question. We're actively working on search & browse to help improve how you discover and bring together great indexes and stocks, many of which will no doubt be themed. CRISPR is a good example, we've definitely noticed an interest in biotech developing on our platform, e.g. https://enombic.com/aml/biotech.

Another neat thing is to see how the metrics improve when you bring differently-themed indexes together (e.g. https://enombic.com/aml/diversified), since the underlying assets are more decorrelated.
No, the 7th day from Genesis is Saturday, and Saturday was the proper day for the Sabbath before Jesus. Sunday became the holy day of rest in recognition of Jesus's resurrection on Easter. That's at least the standard Christian interpretation that I've heard.

I've read some historians state that Christians started using Sunday as their Sabbath day in order to distinguish themselves more sharply from the Jews.

There are some Christian denominations which use Saturday as their Sabbath day, such as Seventh-day Adventist Church, so using Saturday as the holy day is a minority practice among Christians but it's a significant minority.
It enables 12 factor apps, and if you are using a cloud provider there is no infra setup, so you do not need puppet/ansible/etc. It's a better way to deploy apps hands down.
> Drugs are an intoxicant. They destroy minds. They destroy health. And they can make addicts lose control. Not to mention destroy communities. There are laws on the books specifically for this reason.

That's simply not true, or there would be laws on the books banning alcohol, too.

It's just arbitrary culture bias against certain drugs, weaponized against minorities.
Does ARM really have a performance advantage? Or is it the specific Apple customizations tailored to their use case?

Apple doesn't have to worry about 35 years of legacy architecture to support.
The pieces in this particular example seem to be quite a bit better behaved. In fact they're measurable.
NSFW does not literally mean "not safe for work" anymore, in almost all usages now it refers to explicit sexual material
Not right now, but it is trivial for us to add that support, and we intend to add it.

https://github.com/celzero/serverless-dns/issues/1
One important thing to keep in mind while reading this opinion is that this is the opinion of the FISC--a court that operates in secret, whose members are chosen by a single man, that has a reputation for rubber-stamping almost every request it has ever received, and that only hears the NSA's side of every argument.

If the FISC is using language this strong, what would a normal court have to say about the NSA's brazen approach to the law?
I have heard signing up as a rideshare driver if your state is prioritizing them as essential workers has worked.
Wait, did you just say that diet soda has "no calories" then proceed to call someone ignorant?
i find very consistent, not hilarious.

They understand the power of the language and expanding your culture over others.

Some time ago you couldn't even send air mail without having some french words on the envelope.
Agreed. I was on the Zone Diet for about four years, and I recall doing a ton of reading in 99-2003 on the topic. The whole idea of limiting your dietary intake to being no more than 40% carbohydrates was seen as being "fringe" dietary advice - and it only got play in the "alternative" arena of dietary advice. Atkins was seen as an outright kook. Basically, Fats and Cholesterol were the only components that seemed to get mainstream attention - there was almost no establishment focus on carbohydrates as being problematic at the time - to say otherwise is revisionist.
Do burglars wander the streets at night testing doors of random places to see if they're locked? If we put the issue to cars instead of houses, there are a lot of people who would rather have their stereo stolen than have their stereo stolen and window broken. To me most locks are more peace-of-mind security.

I just don't buy that lacking some form of security dooms you to whatever penalties the security may have protected against, if indeed any.
I see this as really no different then Dell's bloatware being installed on Dell sold PC's, though there are worrying exceptions.

AT&T limits some (all?) of it's phones to prevent them access to the standard Android market. However, I think to combat this behavior you can't call the phone a Google Experience phone or something without following some basic ground rules like allowing the standard market, and keeping up with updates.

Some phones do not allow the user to install a custom ROM or root the device. This is worrying because it would be like buying a Dell that won't let you reformat with *nix. Of course, there are plenty of vulnerabilities in the wild (akin to Jail Breaking) that get around this. I believe most vendors prevent the user from gaining root access to their device to upsell them on features that don't require any work on their part except flipping a bit in software, (tethering comes to mind, visual voice mail is another)

For the second part, I believe that carriers aren't going to let go of this income and become network infrastructure maintainers like cable companies without regulation, unfortunately.
Thanks for clarifying. VC backed startups seem like a whole different world.
Pacific Northwest here. I pronounce "squirrel" as "squirl".

It gets worse. There's a town, "Sequim". The way you know someone isn't from around here is if they pronounce it "See-quim". It's actually pronounced "Squim".
Why would I pay for Porn? But on that note, the PH website still accepts several types of credit cards.

Whatever Wikileaks originally was, it is now a Russian propaganda tool. Go ahead and try to post leaks critical of Russia on Wikileaks, or for that matter, of Donald Trump. Why would I want to donate to a website that is openly seeking the destruction of my country?
That's what I saw daily under military dictatorship in South Korea in the 1970s and 80s. My Time magazine would arrive with gaping holes where pages had been cut out. These days the scissors in the US are virtual, but the goal is the same: suppression of political speech and news deemed heretical to one's ideological viewpoint. If you approve of censorship. try China, all the public rhetoric is very clean and faultlessly progressive.
If you got banned the first time you couldn't get banned a second time.

Which is more than just semantics. Suspending an account and the associated momentum without actually banning the person might be a good mechanism to have in place.
Lol the president can show up on any television or radio show in the world at any time on any day he wants. We’ve watched him call in to live news shows many times. He’s not censored he’s being a baby.
Let me introduce you to centuries of thinking on this subject and the concept of “natural monopoly”.
I use K9 for a small LLC, and would like to support the developer. My CPA advises that anonymous[1]/charitable contributions are not tax deductible business expenses. However, if the recipient publicly acknowledges your sponsorship, it's considered an "advertising" expense.

To accept contributions from small corporations using your app, consider offering a low-friction non-charitable service such as a one-year placement on a "sponsors" page of your website, like (the Python Software Foundation does this for contributions of any amount. [0])

Another option could be an annual per-user license (for organizations large enough that the person with a credit card wanting to support you cannot also influence the advertising budget.)

If you're a solo developer, don't forget small businesses when considering how to raise funding!

[0]: https://www.python.org/psf/donations/
[1]: https://liberapay.com/about/
Ants are often siblings of each other due to the high number of ants produced by a single queen, so "group selection" for ants is really just "offspring selection".

Most cases where group/community selection appears to take place have been explained by individual selection. Similarly, most (if not all) cases of symbiotic and cooperative behavior between species have been explained by an evolution of selfish survival behavior of each species.

In both cases cooperation is not being directly selected for, but occurs as a special case of individual/selfish selection.
I have worked with a lot of people in a number of different companies (including a few startups) and I can think of a couple of engineers who really stood out.

When discussing engineering problems with these individuals, I never had to explain twice - Often, I didn't even need to finish my explanation and they already knew the optimal solution for that problem.

These people are impressive to work with but I think it often comes down to experience more than intelligence (but they are usually very intelligent too). When an engineer has mastered a particular set of tools/languages/frameworks, they can come up with more optimal solutions and they can do it faster.

A deep understanding of tools and techniques allows developers to look beyond the most obvious 'naive' solution to find the one which is the most suitable (using existing tools to do as much of the heavy lifting as possible).

Also, when a developer cares deeply about a particular project, they will invest more time reading about relevant technologies in their own time.

When it comes to learning new tools, most engineers are content to 'learn as they go' - That's OK, but it means that they are not as well equipped when it comes to finding that optimal solution.

I think engineers should take time to familiarize themselves with tools REALLY WELL before they start using them, especially if such a tool/framework/technology will impact the project for many years in the future.
One other consideration: by posting their comment, they've leaked their ip address, which is a proxy for their location.
I am in Catalunya in Spain its humid here, (not quite hot at this time of year) and we have plenty of cases.
Yes, interoperability is relevant, because it affects the necessity of copying that particular code rather than making one's own substitute, which in turn affects fair use.

But Google's lawyers (inexplicably, in my opinion) failed to talk much about the fact that many Java libraries are interoperable between Android and Oracle Java, leaving the courts to think only in terms of full applications which are not interoperable. Thus the courts have treated this case as if the only benefit to Android's reuse of Java was programmer familiarity.

Thankfully, Google won anyway, so any defendant in a future case who can make a better interoperability argument will be in an even stronger position.

Edit: For example, in the Federal Circuit ruling that the Supreme Court just overruled, they complain: "Indeed, given the record evidence that Google designed Android so that it would not be compatible with the Java platform, or the JVM specifically, we find Google's interoperability argument confusing. [..Google] points to no Java apps that either pre-dated or post-dated Android that could run on the Android platform." [1]

[1] http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-or...
Sounds like an engineering issue. I doubt that it's random, therefore other signals could be used to estimate at good enough accuracy. Maybe combining it with saliva or urine samples or finding a correlation with the existence or levels other chemicals etc. can give it away.
It can read the street signs, but it also uses published information about the road in the absence of a sign (e.g. you turn on to a new road - what is the speed limit if there is no visible sign?)
You're conflating a number of different points and mixing it together with a dash of futurism rubbish.

Handicapped people need access to goods and services right now. Services like banks, restaurants, public buildings. Laws and regulations that ensure they have access to those goods and services is not holding back "science and technology".

In some vague future where we've cured all disabilities then sure, I agree these laws are probably not needed anymore. However, until then...
That's why I say "we should want deliberate and democratic/cooperative to decide"...
It’s not that much. It’s about 1600 hours of work which seems like the right amount taking on Uber and their lawyers.

Also factor in the risk of working 1600 hours and getting paid nothing for it if the case was lost.
but I submitted the same link 25 days ago, and I got no upvote love: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2380269
Presumably if someone has reverse engineered Dropship¹ then we're not far off having an FOSS Dropbox-a-like to use it with? I'd have thought that is the problem Dropbox is most likely to be addressing?

Run your own organisation-wide Dropbox? Yes please.

Edit: ¹ I mean of course created Dropship by reverese engineering Dropbox's protocols.
They aren't. A colleague copied a whole bunch of documentation from his private Dropbox onto my computer; when I then copied it into my Dropbox it took around half a minute to sync and it was a couple hundred MB.
Yes or 'they' might use a form of energy that is totally foreign to us. Maybe it's not even a beam or a ray. Maybe it's micro-black-hole-oscillation (yeah, made that up). I mean, who knows? It's all hypothetical anyway. And here we are spending money on a bunch of dishes that pick up a specific range of radio frequency. Stick the same dishes on top of a sports bar and at least we can all watch football.
As far as I know, LLVM does exactly the same thing; the LLVM representation of that code would have a different syntax of course, but semantically would be exactly equivalent to the Gimple version you've presented.
Haha, okay, i'm gonna run with this.

Einstein's work was linked to the 'creative' ventures he had later on. From Wikipedia: "Much of his work at the patent office related to questions about transmission of electric signals and electrical-mechanical synchronization of time, two technical problems that show up conspicuously in the thought experiments that eventually led Einstein to his radical conclusions about the nature of light and the fundamental connection between space and time." So really his office job was promoting his creative thoughts.

Bukowski (holy cow, what a diametrically opposed example!) is not so much a creative person as a person with PTSD. What's more, he wasn't writing when he was working for the post office initially, (and incidentally he was a letter carrier, meaning being outside). He left after 3 years, but returned a decade later after a divorce (and her subsequent death). Once he was back on the job, an old flame's death prompted more writing, and over the next decade he continued to write, though one has to wonder if it was because of his office gig or in spite of it. At the end of the decade he quit so he could write full-time, which to me says that he both disliked his job and also couldn't be completely creative while working there.

So while Einstein was directly inspired by the subject matter he reviewed at his job, Bukowski was driven by more personal motivations, along with perhaps a disgust with authority and human nature in general. Hard to say those are good anecdotals to defend the idea of general creative work being at all easy while working in a typical office job.
Don't forget the Maniac Mansion design docs

http://grumpygamer.com/maniac_mansion_design_doc
Maybe they got outside lots as well.
> Crash detection is implemented by parsing the output of `ps`

Would there be anything to be gained by actually rooting around in /proc yourselves, rather than relying on ps?
Which, ironically, is not so different from what they are doing to get jQuery in the first place.
What the flying fuck. Basically, party A sues party B, and party B has the back of the government, so the court tells party A to go away. Reasons undisclosed.

Wow. Talk about Kafkaesque justice.
I wish I wouldn't have written my second sentence the way I did because I don't actually believe any economists would do that, though in my defense I didn't think anybody would take it seriously. I was using an extreme example to demonstrate that nobody actually gives primacy to economic arguments, so their perfectly valid conclusions aren't going to be effective when someone for example cares more about their own countrymen than foreigners. I 100% agree that some immigration would improve America economically and reduce global inequality, but I feel that I have an moral obligation to not throw poorer Americans under the bus to accomplish it. Also taking everything into account, maybe that financial benefit wasn't worth it for other reasons. Massive illegal Mexican immigration seems to have completely fucked over many Black Americans, for instance. Economics is a useful tool to find these things out, exactly as you say. I believe that most low-skill immigration to the US is a process of enriching the richest by replacing the poorest with even poorer and transitioning the other poor to government assistance.
Right. Ceph is what I've been using for that, and I'm assuming it'll be doable either in Docker or Linux KVM on SDC
I seem to recall one could damage a computer easily by interfacing through the parallel port without isolating correctly... Doesn't look like this guide covers the pitfalls.
There are several mentions of "safety concerns" and "risk", but unless I missed something there is only one recorded fatality mentioned in the article, and it occurred in 2012.

I'd be really interested to find out how many people have been injured or killed using typical elevators versus paternoster (obviously taking into account how many more people have used the former).

I assume insurance companies have already done the math on this and that's why they were phased out.
The parties can appeal.
What’s your definition of “proper”? You get a different flavor profile if you vary the water temperature. My favorite for single origin light roasts is very fine grind, not too much 170–180° water, and short steep time. It requires somewhat more beans to get strong coffee compared to a brew using more, hotter water and a long steep time, but the resulting cup of coffee is much tastier IMO.
That was not my experience working up until 2016. My rates at their lowest was $45/hr. Double or more towards the end.
Agree with RMS on this point, but I think that battle is nearly lost. Opting out ("cancel culture") seems to be the only powerful choice left for your average citizen in the shambles of democracy we have left. It could just be the orchestration problem that a large population can't self organize well enough to create a healthy democracy whereas a smaller ruling class is at a scale it can orchestrate and holds the upper hand.

We currently have a system that not only enables exploitation of people but celebrates it. If you can get someone to do something for you for nothing, you're rewarded and regarded as brilliant.

Exploitation (essentially optimization) is fine when it's applied to a mechanical technique or process to gain efficiency (general technological growth), but not so fine when it's exploiting people and their lives to reach these growths. We seem to have lost the technological growth rate options that satisfy the appetites of the most greed driven (where US capitalism has historically been fantastic and deserves celebration,
back when labor rights were strong and the industrial revolution was steaming ahead with no end in sight for technological growth) and moved on to exploiting people to eek out these never-ending appetites for growth (where US capitalism, I believe, has more recently begun to fail).
Founder has been transparent about btc: https://www.microstrategy.com/en/bitcoin.
At zero interest at that.
Sounds like an effective deterrent to keep your adversaries at bay in a variety of situations.
Same in NL, at least for a while; there was the semi-premium looking 'home brand', and there was the really shitty looking red-on-white Euroshopper brand, I believe that one actually showed up in a few grocery store chains. I haven't seen Euroshopper branded stuff in a while though.
On the contrary. The problem (if you consider it a problem) is one of supply, not demand. So the only long-term solution is to increase the supply, not create an artificial demand.
It wasn't the worst job I ever had, but the place was really poorly run, and they took advantage of me.

I was just a high school kid stocking shelves, but knew as much or more about the computers as the fulltime commissioned sales people. I was constantly getting paged to assist a salesperson.

I would do all the work, explaining the product and helping the customer make a decision, and then the salesperson, would say "Thanks, I'll take it from here."

Also, their theft control was atrocious. The cameras were not on, the guy checking receipts at the door barely looked, and people just walked about with expensive stuff all the time.

Wasn't surprised when they folded.
Amusing, but utterly not HN-relevant. Flagged.
Ones where girls like the guy to buy them food?
Market Value. Price = what someone is willing to pay.

Did you forget basic economics?

Sounds like someone just didn't get their domain and wants to whine a lot. Lots of whiners, so few doers.
Parasite infected or not, there's something wrong when a hundred and forty thousand miles per hour still isn't fast enough

On the plus side, you've got your 90km commute below 1.5s, which is quite an achievement.
They aren't a US company.
I would like to do that, but having a tool that allowed me to do that would be epic.

I like your use of cognitive load, because that's literally what this post is about... I want to stop thinking about them...
> I can't manage my 12 student loans, suggestions?

This is a one-time data-entry problem.

Enter the details into quicken.

You may need to ask each for a statement of accounts.

The only way that a service can help is if it has access to the relevant records.
Thats basically how I feel...
>" Meg Whitman was a failure: but what if she's backed someone who was a great politician instead."

It would be illegal, unfortunately. The amount of money you can spend on your own campaign is unlimited, the amount you can spend on others is capped.

>"It's just that today, with media and technology, the ratios are larger than ever before."

If you mean that more people can exert political influence, then I agree with you. Something like the Tea Party would have been impossible a few decades ago. The internet allows citizens to organize and exert pressure on politicians like never before.

That said, 99.9% of the bureaucracy is unelected. Changing the thin film of politicians layered on top doesn't have as large of an effect on actual policy as we think.
The budget is blowing out because of simple economics combined with electoral pressure, there are a large number of people who desire increased services and a large number who desire decreased taxes, politians deliver both. This combined with services paid for by A, delivered to B and provided by C are destined to be delivered inefficiently. When you combine all these factors you get a lot of services at high cost for which no one will pay for. The only answer that solves all these issues in the short term is raising debt. However as Keynes aptly put it in the long run we're all dead
For housing, your relative slice of a community's wealth is actually a pretty good predictor which bits of land/housing you'll be able to buy / live on, since real-estate prices in a region tend to rise with its GDP.
Unfortunately, MacRabbit won't be updating Espresso until the first half of 2011 (probably 4-5 months).

See: http://twitter.com/#!/espressoapp/status/18041354806370304