jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And of course it requires assuming "unmarried" is not distinct from "widowed" and "divorced", which may or may not hold up.
I build stacks that are highly customized for the target solution and are impractical for general purpose use.

A good general purpose stack is the 6windgate stack. I know nothing about it personally, but I know that a lot of people do use it successfully.
Would it make sense to just blackhole the rlcdn.com domain?

in hosts file:
127.0.0.1 rlcdn.com

Or is there a way for pfsense to filter that traffic maybe?
I think the key insight is that there are whole classes of problems where the answer your brain is likely to come up with by default is just flat out wrong. That way when you encounter them in real life you know to break out the mathematics, or sit down with pen and paper, rather than just blithely assuming the "obvious" answer is the right one. (The article has a long list of real life situations where you can run into this kind of thing in para 2.)

Should we be using this as an interview selection mechanism? No, there are more useful and directly applicable ways to see how good they are at the job (and the article doesn't suggest it as an interview filter). Is the ability to solve brainteasers and puzzle questions useful in itself? No, it's pretty useless (and a lot of it is simply having seen the question before). Is knowing how the brain works and what its failure modes are (a) an worthwhile subject of scientific investigation and (b) potentially helpful at a personal level for avoiding mistakes? Yes and yes.
> "When people say we should raise the minimum wage. I worry about what that does to job creation ... potentially damping demand in the part of the labor spectrum that I’m most worried about."

Bill Gates has been saying this many times and I really, really don't get it.

Of course when the price of a commodity goes up, demand goes down; but if there's a perfect substitute that's free, demand for the non-free alternative should be zero anyway, so its "price" is irrelevant (as long as it's non-free).

Why would anyone hire a human at any cost to do a repetitive and low-added-value job that a robot can do perfectly, without error, without ever arguing or getting tired, etc. AND AT NO MARGINAL COST??

How does "minimum wage" matter in this scenario?

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Humanity has been wanting to not work since the dawn agriculture, 10 000 years ago at the latest. It's finally happening and we're freaking out about it.

What we need to think about is not how to get people employed, it's how to redistribute wealth so that what you earn is not somehow morally related to the job you're holding.

The solution is universal basic income, not "minimum wage".
I think the author wasn't discussing types of individual use cases like hardware or Ubuntu problems, but if Coding On Linux is unfortunately synonymous with such issues I can see how some might be put off.
It's about displaying musical notes that the musicians then follow. Your options are either printing a lot or looking at a tablet.
Did someone actually write that or did it come from a minified output?
While it didn't have Mario, the HP48GX did have an almost perfect clone of Phoenix. If it had been in color, I might have been convinced it was an emulation.
This seems a little cold to me. The fact that there’s an environment at amazon that leads someone to kill themself by jumping off a building doesn’t lead me to think “oh a more reasonable person would’ve left the company.” There’s plenty of other things wrong about the article. This true story was not one of them.
I wonder if there's a correlation between how lit people's environments are and their dark/light mode preference.

I usually prefer light themes, and I keep my computer room pretty well lit and I never use my phone in bed, so I never find light themes to be blinding. The brightness of the screen matches my environment.
For now in the US, you can.

We simply aren't at the point where there are enough renewables on the grid that adding more would ultimately cause more natural gas emissions. Until the renewable profile starts pushing into base load generation (particularly eating into green base loads like hydro and nuclear) then it is pretty much a pure win to add solar and wind. The natural gas peakers ultimately produce less CO2 with renewables than with base load fossil fuels.

However, there is a time where storage becomes the main issue. We aren't there yet. Until we hit that point, deploying as much solar and wind as possible is going to be the fastest, most efficient, and cheapest way to decrease our carbon footprint.
The OP probably meant that.
I really don't think pirate radio would be interesting if it was legal in itself.

Add to that they then might get mainstream advertisers and follow the FCC and syndicate to wide non-localised areas if legal, destroying everything unique about them.
Conversely, if you make some of them train and other not, the variability will include environmental components, namely, who trains.

But then if you take everyone and train them to the max, i.e. Olympic athletes, then heritability comes back into the picture in a big way.
So this is essentially a piece of carbon “cotton candy” that has sponged up some sulphur?
I always have to think about this when people say "buy more at small businesses!"

Most small businesse owners I met were just as shitty as the ones of big businesses, they just weren't as smart as them.
Ah, yes. If superconductors were actual magic and had infinite current and magnetic field capacities our society would look pretty different right now. :)
I interpreted the article quite differently. The author is promoting the idea that tech is central to SF and shouldn’t be just an afterthought that the scriptwriters outsource to someone else who makes up gibberish.
I don't blame Adobe. They tried, but it was the avalanche of negativity (some of it warranted) from all corners of tech that sealed the fate of Flash.

What was and is surprising is that when Flash went away it killed Web-based gaming. Capability wise HTML/JS/CSS can replicate anything that Flash could do.. and yet, the scene is still dead.
The misery of implementing RCS is what pushed the Matrix team into creating Matrix.

We’re now also working on the identity interop points that ekr highlights.
> [If] you have effective sales people you will find that they can and will unintentionally sell vapor that cannot be delivered.

This can happen even if the sales people does not mean to sell vapor.

At least in my experience, they seldom have the domain or program knowledge to pick up on nuances in the client's question, leading them to think they correctly answer "yes our program supports that" while in fact the program does not support exactly that.

As a dev I'm not often involved in sales meetings, but every time I have been in a sales meeting I've averted some form of vapor.

The sad part is that most of the times the client is fine with us not having the exact functionality they ask for, but understandably get upset when they only find out about this post-sale.
I think a lot of this applies to spoken communication, too. For instance, if you can't say it clearly and succinctly, you may be lacking clarity yourself and need to do more reflection before talking about it. Also, I like the perspective of communicating while believing your audience is the important one, not yourself.
Noise cancelling doesn't work with speech that well. It's way better for steady background noise such as on a small plane if you're the pilot or on a large plane if you're a passenger.
Oh, I misunderstood you. "Modern" windows is 64-bit in my mind.
This. I feel like we are being drowned in this open-office dick plans and without complaint, this is the way our future offices will be.

Who the fuck thinks that a stock exchange like environment is good for productivity? May be some people like it, most of us(engineers) don't. Why?, do you ask. I will tell you.

Lot of engineering(programming) work is built on trying to get a focus on the problem. How do I do that? Not by asking around, pulling shirts and generally being a nuisance. Now there are people like this, who would like nothing more than a open office plan, because the answer is only a shirt-pull away. We achieve focus on the problem by concentrating hard, building delicate structures in the mind, controlling certain variables, testing theories all in mind. When somebody pokes at me or laughs hard, this structure comes tumbling down. We can reconstruct it only with some effort and patience, but it is irritating. This irritation builds up over time, becomes chronic stress and makes you an unsavory person.

For managers - Is it not enough for you that you box us in little time slots under the pretense of agile? You have to go all the way and give us a chicken coop to do our work?
There is discussion elsewhere on this site...
Have you seen http://hypothesis.readthedocs.org/en/latest/examples.html#fu... ? It doesn't test very much - mostly just that the API doesn't produce a 500 error - but it's a decent example of how you can generate structured data with some constraints. http://hypothesis.readthedocs.org/en/latest/examples.html#co... is also a decent example where the data is more uniform but requires a bunch of massaging to satisfy the constraints.
I was thinking this guy got them all, but as I just realized, here is something he did not mention: Amsterdam is flat. FLAT.

This is not a surprise, the whole country is flat anyway.

However, this makes such a big difference! In a city with several hills like Paris, cycling can be anything from lazy (going downhill) to utterly exhausting (going uphill).

* * *

There is a corollary to this, because going uphill not only requires more energy, it also makes cycling slower.

In Paris, almost all bus lanes are shared with bicycles. The only bus lanes forbidden to bicycles are the ones that go steeply uphill — because bicycles would be too slow and hold up bus traffic.

* * *

Source: currently living in Paris, I spent about 2 years in Amsterdam.
- Click on the top left icon to see some animations.

UX issues:

- I couldn't exit a box; (is done by pressing the x in the box)
Fact that it supports mathematics so well is quite handy. Question is though, does it allow me to develop my game without people needing to download additional plugins?
brilliant. love the subtleness.
Thats good advice though one part confused me. Are you saying our pro package is too cheap or too expensive?

Right now the main difference between our pro and free accounts is the number of monitors available. With free you can only have 2 whereas with pro there is no limit except that each monitor costs.
This is why I'm hoping for the Matchstick project to work out. Some apps that work with ChromeCast already just work with Matchstick. They recently posted about trying to get supported for DRM requiring apps like NetFlix. There should be more news this week from CES.

Of course, for my to consider this a success, I want to see the software running on more than just their HDMI dongle. People have already compiled it to run on some Chinese dongles with the same CPU, but I'd like to see it also run on some more open platforms like Freescale iMX.6, Allwinner A20, and most especially X86.
I've done like 6 turns and I still get a message about only placing them next to mine for the first turn.
Edit: After recursively chowning the .gem folder in my home directory to my user it worked.

I spent a good amount of time trying to get this to work a few days ago, but had issues with rvm. Thought this post might help, but in a fresh 10.10 install if rvm is used when trying gem install rails I get the following

: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)
Permission denied

It shouldn't be denied though since it's in the home directory. The only way I could get an up to date ruby and rails installed was by removing rvm (rvm implode) and manually installing 1.9.2 and then following the update-alternatives instructions located here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10274200#post102742...

Is anybody else successfully accomplishing it the way this blog suggests? The internet is relatively sparse with up to date instructions for installing rails without problems on Ubuntu, it makes me miss the rolling release model of arch where everything just worked instantly.
Agreed today: but it could be that the wealthy will LEARN to be more controlling. Meg Whitman was a failure: but what if she's backed someone who was a great politician instead. And perhaps this is precisely how much of our politics already works.

I don't fear this as much as some because I know that elites have always held undue influence, and that has been generally a good thing, with some bad apples throughout. Small numbers of people have always had extraordinary sway in societies. It's just that today, with media and technology, the ratios are larger than ever before.

An interesting article on the subject: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/business/26excerpt.html?_r...
If you just mean you took math courses as an undergraduate, then you should not at all feel like an idiot for not understanding what goes on at MO. The site is for "research-level math questions", as their FAQ says. My guess is that even, say, most PhD students tend to understand only the questions in areas of math they are familiar with.
Of course it's a joke. Not a very good one, in my estimation, but I wouldn't term it "very offensive."

(In fact, I'd reserve the phrase "very offensive" for things way nastier than a joke article on the internet.)
Apparently we read two very different articles. I read an article that showcased how the iPad's restrictive OS policies make it impossible to offer users a good, working solution to their problems in this particular area.

"In summary, thank you again for considering Camera Bits as a solutions provider for your mobile photo workflow. We will do our best to address your needs as much as possible with regards to an app for the iPad, but for now we suggest that you plan on using alternate, more open mobile solutions for professional apps."

I don't know where you found "market opportunities on the iPad" and Jobs-on-flash in that.
It's not about "dumbing down" kids at all. How many kids are accessing the internet exclusively via an iphone? It's a lot harder to monitor internet usage on a 3.5in screen that can be held in the hand than it is, say, a 17in monitor in the living room. I'm all for letting kids have internet access. I'm also all for monitoring it. You can't do that effectively with an iphone. Sure, kids should have access to the internet, but they don't need it on every single freaking device under the sun.
How much would a musician pay to advertise their song to 4 million interested listeners? Negative 0.000017 cents sounds like a pretty good price -- better than Adwords anyway.
xearth or it's modern avatar xplanet has been around for quite sometime, and they mostly do other astronomical objects besides earth...
You could always check out moissanite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moissanite

Someone would have to really study the ring to realize it wasn't diamond.

Plus it first came from meteorites which puts it high on the geek scale ;)
Possible interpretation: It's ironic that the same sort of problems Jobs sites for Flash are evident when trying to edit photos on the iPad.

I need to do a comparison of my tc1100 with the iPad for this purpose.
I don't believe you understand how sed is being used here. The sed process doesn't even survive until the beginning of the connection.
I hate to be pedantic, but "Deep Web" is the part of the Web that crawlers can't reach, because it's hidden behind POST requests and JS actions[1], and not nefariously. "Dark Web" is the term they're looking for.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web
Have you considered investing in a few low cost adapters?

Keyboard and mouse are low speed devices that have little to gain from moving to USB-2 or USB-C. I'm sure they will eventually but there is no urgent rush.

Things like KVM switches tend to be low margin and target the lowest common/practical denominator in the marketplace. The manufacturers won't retool on a whim.
I think this is an exaggeration, though, no offense.

De-platforming extremists is not the same as limiting dialogue or public debate.

I think of it like this - the crazy person on the street corner yelling at everyone that the world is going to end for years on end is not taken seriously be anyone. They could be right, sure, but that's not really a conversation worth engaging in.

These sites are full of users who are shouting crazy conspiracy theories and promoting them like crazy. The worst of them are grifting, and lots of them are victims of human psychology and circumstance.

I haven't seen any reasonable take from one of these communities be discarded or ignored. A lot of the issue comes down to how the reasonable ideas are mixed with the toxic ones.

At some point it's just toxic, though. How many lawsuits are required to show the election was legitimate? There have been so many already. How many claims of voter fraud have to be investigated, when each new claim isn't real? How many times does congress need to investigate Hillary's emails?

For the people in these communities it seems as though the only outcome they will except is the one they have predetermined. Along the way they will kill people, commit acts of sedition and treason, send bombs to democratically elected officials, and more.

There is no reason to continue debating with them. The debates on those issues are over. When a petulant child argues with you about the color of the sky, how long do you entertain their claim that it's red, not blue?

Furthermore, there are plenty of outlets for civil discourse all over the internet and other mediums. Why should we be upset when these private companies remove these toxic groups from their platforms? It's not like the platforms want less users. They want a stable country of laws, which the groups on these platforms are trying (intentionally or otherwise) to undermine.

At some point the adults in the room need to say "enough." That's what is happening now.
> IP Fragmentation at routers was removed from the protocol for one.

Everyone that I talked to about this seemed to like the change.
Another way to say this is: "con". But language changed. It's almost as if it's defined by what's spoken, not by what's in a dictionary.
Erroll Garner was a true master at playing piano. When Liberace played "Misty" it was something remarkable, but when Garner plays it that's another experience altogether.

Just watch this performance and be blown away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_tAU3GM9XI
...deliberate edgy-ness...

Strong disagree, from this Westerner. There is ample evidence of both insecurity and pomp anywhere one looks, in USA and in popular Western media.
I agree, it's likely a power law of some kind. My book about GNU Make (http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/gnu-make-unleashed/293...) has sold a healthy 80 copies.
Welcome to philosophy, that is how it's done.

If you want to make universal claims as Rand obviously wanted then you naturally need to take all factors into account. You can't just cherry pick those that seem to support your argument and then skip over the rest.

Well you can but then you are not interested in making philosophical arguments. You are just making claims.

With regards to rationality is good I was responding to that not claiming that, please read the thread.

But let's look at something she did claim.

"Existence exist"

The question obviously is, what is existence. You can't just say well the environment seems to have individuals, therefore individuals are a fundamental property of reality. And then use that as if it's a well defined entity.

You know, the things that let us go about our daily lives. And let's face it that's what most philosophy does, which is what leads to endless pages of borderline unintelligible and almost always completely useless treatises and critiques about 'pure reason' or 'phenomenology' or whatever. But this is not deep thinking or careful thinking... it's just a sneaky attempt to sidestep the facts of existence and hence shirk responsibility for one's decisions.

But that is philosophy whether you like it or not. Philosophy isn't there to let you go by in your daily life.

That is not the job of philosophy, luckily as there would have been no intellectual progress.

You are confusing what could be called life philosophy with philosophy. You wan't simple answers but in philosophy answers only lead to new questions. You want certainty were none exist.

And just to be clear here. Science is disagreeing with Rand, QM, Biology, Neuroscience. Reality is disagreeing with Rand.

Even if we were to take experience of reality for what it is. You try and have some children and you will realize that this egomaniac approach is nothing but an illusion that speaks to a very tiny part of the human mind.

That doesn't mean that you can't make rational decisions but to claim that it's somehow well defined is simply yet another non philosophical, non-sceptic approach.

Your last sentence really says it all. You want a life philosophy, that's all fine and good. Some follow Gods word you follow Rands. But independent rational thinking it is not.
Because very few craftpeople can come up with the initial capital (especially today) and, unlike full manufactures, the local material sellers don't generally do net-30 or net-60.
That's only true in cases of perfect competition, which mainly obtains for commodities. Products with different features are examples of monopolistic competition, because different products are not automatic substitutes for each other.
Please allow umlauts in names. My last name has been truncated because it contains an ß.
I didn't find his arguments that compelling. User management is something you are going to have to do no matter what VCS you are using Fossil doesn't remove that requirement. Last I checked Fossil didn't magically generate custom CSS and project logos so I am still going to have to do all that stuff with fossil. Pretty much every thing on the if I don't use fossil I will have to do this extra stuff is stuff you have to do for fossil as well.

All this while fossil is relatively untested by comparison. If my project needs something more than a wiki then I stuck doing all the setup and config any way so I might as well use a real wiki and ticketing system.
How so? I can carry my laptop to my office and use my laptop instead. When I come home I get paged and my boss wants me to read a document. i wouldn't go back to my office just to open a document, would I? If I work for my dad's deli and I need to help him print a price tag I would be "working" for my dad and using my personal Office would violate the policy - but who would pay for a copy? I am self-employed and I use Office at home for both school, self-employed work and for personal use. Personal use is a very grey area - hence why personal edition has missing features.
Sure, as long as it’s possible to create a circle containing only one contact, the way giving permission to access photos now works on iOS.
As a temporary workaround, you can install a Chrome extension to block all IDNs from being loaded. More details at https://github.com/jiripospisil/chrome-block-idns
'i' will put you in insert mode, which should let most keypresses passthrough
If you can think of a way to bring this together with railsmentors.org, ping me. I'd love to see what we could do.