jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
i think many people are missing this key point. this isn't a "i need this right this very millisecond" its more of a "i need this later today if its early enough or tomorrow would be fine" button. which a single press of a button would wake up the device, connect to what ever configured network connection it is assigned to, send some data to an API end point, go back to sleep. that could make the button last many years.
The most commonly referenced measure of inflation is the Consumer Price Index, tied to the increase in price of a "market basket of consumer goods and services." The BLS chooses sample goods/service in categories like housing, medical care, apparel, etc.

I believe the core CPI figures leave out food and energy, since their prices are sometimes more volatile. So, the CPI does include healthcare and education, but I suppose those price increases must be outweighed by price decreases in other sectors.

[edit] In addition, there are "weights" for goods in different categories. Ex. in the document I found from 2013[1], the weights add up to 100, with housing-related items having a total weight of ~41.4. Healthcare is 7.5 and education 7.0.

So, the actual CPI numbers are somewhat manufactured. The weights correspond to what the BLS predicts the average family spends, proportionally, on those different goods. If your expenditures don't match those proportions, you will "feel" inflation at a different level in your own purchasing.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpiri_2013.pdf
I could inform you about non-secret stuff like culture, but you wouldn't believe me. You want to believe that these are horrible small-minded people who don't think twice about violating your rights. The reality is they are anything but that.
I am pretty sure some combination of piping through some encrypting can be employed, since it works with streams.
I'm a physicist who has worked in genomics and found biologist's attitudes toward math to be fairly weird. Some get it, most don't. But the way physicists think about math is for the most part antithetical to the way mathematicians think about it. To a physicist, math is a language for talking about things with in-built protections against contradictions. Math looks more like a very special natural language to us, which attitude drives mathematicians nuts.

The odd thing is that this difference in attitudes between physicists and biologists seems to me to be at least as much historically contingent as really dependent on the subject matter. Physics is hugely sprawling too, and a great deal of it is only passingly-mathematical.

If Darwin had been more mathematically minded he could have easily come at the problem of the origin of species from a viewpoint as strongly idealized and mathematically compact as Newton did with regard to physics. Newton was admittedly blessed with a very-nearly ideal system to study (the solar system) but was able to apply his ideas to other systems using a wide variety of increasingly sketchy approximations.

But I'm still pretty sure a mathematical mind on the order of Newton's could find a way to state evolution by variation and natural selection as a theorem rather than a theory, that follows necessarily from the laws of probability and the facts of chemistry (many of which Darwin didn't know, but still). It is at the very least a fun idea to speculate about: http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Theorem-TJ-Radcliffe-ebook/dp/...
Are you sure?
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell_efficiency#mediaview... it seems theres a cap at 45%
that's certainly not the case. If anything kids not being able to put their phones down has made it easier to make threats and start violence as this wired article points out:
http://www.wired.com/2013/09/gangs-of-social-media/all/
Or go work on original problems that have not already been solved dozens of times. Projects like this are a waste of talent. There are clearly some smart programmers writing libraries for PHP. The question is, why do they keep writing the same stuff, over and over? All of humanity would benefit if some of these smart people focused on doing something domain specific (medicine, law, education) or dove deeper and helped re-invent the stack at a deeper level. Maybe re-invent PHP as a language that has primitives for concurrency. Or leave PHP and work on other problems that plague the tech industry (the obsoleteness of HTTP/HTML as a way of delivering documents, when people increasingly want software over TCP, not documents).
I'm not going anywhere near this, just like I'm not going anywhere near any BitCoin wallet service.

I realize the underlying assets are subject to some of the same risks as owning BitCoins themselves. The person who said do you trust the Winklevoss's more than the wallet service is on the money.
Short stories, then Crash, then the Atrocity Exhibition. The last is almost incomprehensible until you're familiar with his themes (and you'll still need the annotations), but Crash and AE are his crowning glories.
I never considered having "." in my $PATH because typing "./" is very convenient in the us keyboard layout.
> I often wondered about the intellectual prowess, or lack thereof, of her teachers.

I suspect it's an issue with the quality of work they are used to getting from their students, or perhaps simply the nature of the subject. I was personally commended for the work I did in a gen. ed. class on education for papers I knew my high school AP English teacher would have given me a C+ on at best. They either just get crap most days, or the subjects are vulnerable to BS'ing, that's the only way it makes sense.
The link to the about page is practically invisible - http://littlecosm.com/about
I think, in law, that's not actually how it works. The operative phrase is "bona fide job requirements." for example if you're a fireman, it's acceptable to require that you be physically fit to some level. If you're a CS professor, you would have a harder time justifying such a requirement. That's an attribute that you can change.

IANAL, etc.
Main motivation for using Amazon is the Kindle eco system, being able to read on laptop, iPad + Kindle is something I use a lot

If there was the ability to rent technical ebooks for a short period this is something I would definitely move for, which is the same as basically being motivated by the price of ebooks
This is more of a tip than a warning. This answer was clearly written when *nix systems were largely multi-user systems. The security reasoning doesn't hold at all on personal computers - in fact I'm going to add "." to my PATH for sure now, hadn't ever considered it. (I'm pretty sure I don't leave malicious executables "lying around" my mac, and if I somehow did that'd be my own dumb fault).
I was a lab instructor for one of my favorite professors after excelling in his class. I caught one of his students cheating blatantly (assembly code was nearly identical to another students, just shifted around a bit)

The professor is a good man, and was very upset. It was almost kind of sad, he was angry but it was almost like he could've alternatively started tearing up at any moment. Damn administration didn't do anything about it though, and that very student I caught cheating has since been in several classes with me. Burns me up.

Guess it shouldn't surprise me that the prof. hasn't had any courses for several quarters now. I swear, the good ones don't seem to last. The only one we've got left in the department that cares about the students, I'm not even sure how he manages.
The joke would make more sense had you sent it from your Newton or your Palm Centro ;-)
Probably the intent of such posts is to find out if I am outdated or what? If more people haven't heard about something discussed here I would be convinced that this isn't something to worry about.
I didn't leave out details. We are talking about stunning it with a captive-bolt stunner.
I think you are more wrong than right. While 'kosher' is a dietary standard, there are certain conditions that must be met before meat can be considered kosher. These ritual slaughter techniques fall under 'shechita', which traditionally requires that the animal be unharmed (hence unstunned) before its throat is sliced with a knife in a very particular manner. If this is not done, the meat is not eligible to be considered kosher.

Various countries currently have exemptions to their humane slaughter rules explicitly for Jewish and Muslim traditional practices. Here are some citations:

http://www.rspca.org.uk/ImageLocator/LocateAsset?asset=docum...

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/poultrynews/21457/controversy-...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2977086.stm
Related: assembly programming with Python syntax.

http://www.corepy.org/
Wow. The idea that profit-motivated corporations would voluntarily do what you describe is an idealistic fantasy. That's why some regulation is needed.
So someone gets frustrated with online customer service-person, obviously non-native English speaker, and then gets 'clever' by claiming something that doesn't even pass the smell test from Level-1 support?

And then saves and posts the entire conversation? Ugh.
No need to start a new session, I'm ready to troubleshoot on Windows XP

How did you change the computer?

I have an xp machine handy and plugged it into the modem, then connected the mac (with the chat session) to a second ethernet port

Mr. Gullickson, the speedstream modem has only one Ethernet port.

i couldn't help but laugh at that part. every time i've had to talk to technical support because of some problem on their end, i always get the runaround because i use an unsupported operating system, to the point that now i just lie and tell them i'm using windows. i was pretty surprised that the technician actually called him out on that.
If you want to reschedule your Canadian citizenship ceremony, this is the address to email: RCC.DNCitSCRScheduling-ConvocationSCRCitRN.IRCC@cic.gc.ca
You mean the last three paragraphs titled "So what am I going to do about it?"?
Except that Section 230 explicitly states that they don't bear liability.
This is actually useful for me. The name of my new company is taken by a 10 year old account that has never tweeted, and I haven’t managed to find somebody at Twitter who can get the name for me.

Does anybody know what’s going to happen to the names? Are they going to become available to register on 11th Dec? I hope somebody isn’t waiting there with a dictionary to squat them all...
Noticed someone working on a rather interesting exploit in the logs:

POST /.well-known/acme-challenge/huhn2?mime=text%2Fplain

Plugged that one. If anyone thinks of similar holes I should consider, please shoot me an email at info@patchbay.pub. There are a whole new set of security issues that crop up with this sort of system. Definitely be aware of that before using it!
This is interesting, but if you really want to get user traction, look deeper into how the industry uses HDLs.

For example, one of the most common use cases is scaling code from year-to-year, e.g. the video card market. This means that in 2012, your code works with 16 bits, then 2013, 32, then 2014, 64-bit etc. And you need to keep updating your code to do this, having not touched it for just about six months - perfect time to be kind of familiar but not enough. This is currently handled by integrating perl-like syntax into the HDL. Then it gets "pre-processed" into the proper values in place. It sounds clumsy , but it may be how the machine you're using to read this was made.

A second important use case is integrating writing test code with the source code. As the register, path widths, number of cycles, etc., change, the verification cases have to track. If you could find a way to simplify that, companies would pay a LOT for it.

Another major problem becomes "ifdef-hell" in which sometimes dozens of hierarchical #ifdefs are used to compile and configure HDL code. it's maddening, hence the pre-processor approach.

So, in summary, it's not the clumsy syntax of HDLs that slows progress, it's the ecosystem in which the HDLs are used.
I can't speak to their veracity but there are new sighting that happen all the time that are largely ignored. Check out reddit.com/r/ufos.
I hear what you're saying, but it doesn't have to be so.

All of the web apps I make at work are all javascript in a page apps. But before I start doing any of that, I make a REST API. 100% of the interaction between javascript and the web server is REST.

There are many reasons for this, but a key one is that it allows easy command-line or programatic interaction. Much easier than with traditional, server generated web apps.
As a long time HN reader, this post sticks out to me as the first time that I've seen imgur reach the front page. I wonder whether we can get a "no images" rule to prevent this place devolving into reddit?
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-coding-website-github-hit-wi...
I think convincing people is usually the easy part. More often than not they'll have shopped around and choose the solution themself. Or they hit a wall with the previous solution and need a new one no matter what.

I remember the tedious part being actually moving all the projects, all the teams over. Change the procedures. Change the tools, be it on the dev machines, CI, managers etc.

Then you remake all the weird scripts that were used to take stats, the commit hooks, or the stuff people didn't even remember existed but is still critical 0.01% of the time.

Usually it won't be done in one scoop, more like building the basic viable architecture and moving one project after the other, keep both stuff working in parallel with some people who'll trail behind and keep some translation layer between the legacy and the new system until everyone around has moved and they feel the peer pressure.

I've seen a lot of these transitions in mid size (70~200 people) corps, it would easily take 2 to 6 months to complete, even with goodwill on most fronts. Not the best memories.
What bothered me most about when I went to college is that my expectations (via high school teachers) is that I would be swamped with studying and papers that meant I would have very time to myself or to work.

What college gets right (at least where I went) is that our professors viewed "homework" as supplemental, not a replacement for studying. Rarely did it feel like I was doing busy work. The fact that we tell high school students otherwise is debilitating the progression of higher education. The 70min limit sounds completely reasonable to me.
If you run a unikernel under an OS you can do very aggressive sandboxing (eg seccomp type 2 under Linux), as it does not really use any of the OS facilities, eg just read and write a raw socket file descriptor. So you end up with a pretty decent userspace security model, and small statically linked elf files as your container format. I am currently working on this, should be usefully usable soon.
This [1] is what you're referring to, I believe.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w04ZAXftQ_Y
With my personal email - google. They handle the costs of storage and transport and in exchange they show me ads and collect high level data. With my work email - my company. They pay to keep the email secure and contextual and in exchange I keep it mostly related to work.
how will this make any difference? if you're a non urm who doesn't already know that top colleges provide very generous financial aid, it's highly unlikely that you will have developed the right all round profile to get a place at stanford.
Nothing public I found was really simple and advanced at same time. Evernote, Google Keep/Task, Trello, even Jira and thousands of other things I tried. All failed - either UIX is crap or the basic things take ages.

I'm now using my own system called Kemu Note, Kemu tasks, Kemu links etc. (I'm the owner of Kemu as you can see ;) ). But it's not public yet.
I think this statement from Mind is pretty relevant:

"The terrible loss of life in the Germanwings plane crash is tragic, and we send our deepest sympathies to the families. Whilst the full facts are still emerging, there has been widespread media reporting speculating about the link with the pilot’s history of depression, which has been overly simplistic.

Clearly assessment of all pilots’ physical and mental health is entirely appropriate - but assumptions about risk shouldn't be made across the board for people with depression, or any other illness. There will be pilots with experience of depression who have flown safely for decades, and assessments should be made on a case by case basis.

Today’s headlines risk adding to the stigma surrounding mental health problems, which millions of people experience each year, and we would encourage the media to report this issue responsibly."

Sue Baker, Director, Time to Change
Paul Farmer, Chief Executive, Mind
Mark Winstanley, Chief Executive, Rethink Mental Illness"
This is uncharitable. First, you assume people were offended (and you used the loaded term 'triggered' to describe it). Then you go on to assume this means that society must be degrading, because so many people are losing their ability to think (the implication being that you are not part of that group).

A much simpler explanation is that people who read and comment on HN do not want to see every conversation degenerate into yet another political fistfight, since it seems to have infected every other part of our lives. One of the core values of this community is that we mostly manage to avoid that.
You can always use bash or python to create vcards and import them in your phone.

I've used this technique once to generate a bunch of numbers to find the whatsapp of a person, works just fine
Immutable. Such a strong safety net. I wish people could trust it. Need reflog and never clean the local repo of course. I wish for reflog in the centralized repos also. I would like to trace branch ref history back thru the merges.
Not an expert on guerilla cyber-warfare, but isn't it the whole point of this sort of poisoning? If enough people do this the cost of those bouncing emails would become prohibitive. That's my speculation. Would be great to know more from someone who knows the domain better.
Data poisoning needs to become a standard practice. Make the "valuable" ad data useless
That all sounds very counterintuitive. The "fallback" amounts to a statically configured list of DNS servers, separate from the other lists of statically configured DNS servers, with the property that if no DNS servers were explicitly configured by any method the systemd developers assume DNS servers will be configured by then the system will use the DNS servers that systemd developers thought were a good idea to use. Not only is it complicated and brittle, it also is not clear why a project that intends "to create a unified architecture for all system daemons" is rewriting the rules of how DNS servers are configured. For that matter, why is this logic (which is of questionable value) in systemd instead of NetworkManager (which already deals with DNS server configuration and is user-facing and better able to inform users that the fallbacks are being used)?
The success of this and related firms is really puzzling to me.

The legwork (mostly making powerpoints, from what I have heard) is done by bright, recent graduates from top undergrad programs. No doubt they are all intelligent and accomplished, but what value does a 22-year-old Harvard economics grad bring to (e.g.) a pharmaceutical pricing problem? Certainly not relevant experience. Probably not even "business judgment".

Teams are led by MBAs and some PhDs, most of whom will not have industry-relevant experience (though some will on certain engagements). I don't have an MBA, but two of my college friends described one top program as "a summer camp where you learn about Excel functions". This makes their advice desirable to large firms??

The breadth of knowledge which would be required of any single consulting firm to advise on the basis of direct experience across the range of industries in which consultants operate is staggering. They don't have it.

If what management wants is the consultant's imprimatur on an idea they want to implement anyway, why not either just commit to it without McK's 'approval' and save a few million dollars OR try to get an outside blessing for the idea more cheaply? I get that McK has a "pedigree" and this may be part of what the firm wants, but that's an extraordinarily expensive way to solve the 'problem' of not being willing to take responsibility for your own idea.
This article gives a lot of good criteria for finding companies that should thrive in an inflationary environment: https://horizonkinetics.com/app/uploads/Q1-2020-CVALUE-Revie...
I'd like to see a book about 8 CEOs who did everything wrong and wound up bankrupting the company. Not a blurb, like these 25[0], but an in-depth, biographical play-by-play. It takes decades to destroy a Blockbuster or Borders and likely there was more than one CEO involved. Decades is a long time to watch a train wreck and keep doing the wrong thing.

[0] https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/business/most-epic-corp...
>... I haven’t had to pay more than $12/month, and that is the fee we are charged by PGE to be hooked into the grid so we can sell them our excess.

Wow. If you are only paying $12 a month for access to the grid, you are paying a small fraction of your share of the cost of maintaining the grid. These consumer solar subsidies are a massive subsidy from the poor to the wealthy and really aren't sustainable.
> Does the US government really have much to gain from falsely claiming that North Korea is behind the attack?

Governments frequently benefit from drumming up fear against an external enemy because it justifies increased government power and control over the population which otherwise might not be tolerated. Blaming the Sony hack on North Korea creates a very tangible mental connection between cyber-war and terrorism. This makes agencies that violate the rights of citizens on the Internet seem like the good guys in the minds of many.

> it would be pretty embarrassing if it turns out that they're wrong.

No, it won't, because they'll always have plausible deniability in the form of "we have access to information that you don't"; whether they actually do or not is immaterial. Besides, it's not as if brazen lies really actually get punished, i.e. yellow cake.
Not sure why this is a case not to use Chrome. Chrome is just like any tool, it isn't stupid proof. Users still need to practice safe internet use.
I don't store process or transmit any cardholder data on my premises, but rely entirely on third party services to handle these functions.

Lots of people on this forum seem to misread this one.

If cardholder data is POSTed to your server, and then you send it on to a third party, then you're receiving and transmitting, and you've got to be in compliance.
Why would you do anything compute intensive on laptops that suffer from cooling issues?
I think this sounds like a really fun thing to do. I'm told that I write decently, and have been trying to get into the creative side of writing lately. Also, the PI-like aspect sounds fun! I'll hit you up on email.
The indie gaming scene is absolutely full of guys who're just getting started - the barrier for entry is negligible!

Every day on Kongregate and Newgrounds you can see guys who're producing shit but at least giving it a go, and on FlashGameLicense.com you can see everyone trying to take it to the next level and turn their hobby into some kind of revenue stream.

There's a community at play there that does actively help, offer feedback, collaborate, offer quality art,graphics and support etc, even if some of the players are douches.
Those flashes work by charging a capacitor bank to 1kV, then discharging it through the flash bulb. The components are selected to maximise the current during the discharge. In other words, they are designed to output as much power as possible. Any kind of failure can only reduce the power and/or energy from the intended.