jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Calling a statement a "falsehood" implies there's some truth that can and should replace it. The statements he lists aren't "falsehoods" or "truths", they are approximations - operating assumptions.

If your operating assumptions are true enough for a given purpose, there's no reason to change them. If they deviate enough from to generate problems, they will need to be replaced ... with other approximations (not with "the truth").

-- This is why apparently simple and "finished" programs alway need "maintenance" - even the most seemingly simple assumption need tweaking as the world's conditions change.
What lunch? Free apps? How is that important?
There must be a few more ideas out there where you take something that already exists, improve it by changing one of the variables, add some charming cofounders, add the YC audience, and net out a successful startup.
2.5 billion barrels is about 300,000,000,000 liters, which is 300,000,000 cubic meters, which is about half a cubic km.

If any significant fraction of that volume is removed, it seems likely to me that there will be cave-ins around the bubble. If those cave-ins are big enough, they could create cracks that would cause more leaks to come out. Alternately they could produce places for oil to go that won't leak out the current hole. Or they could widen the current hole.

Of course long before that point we should have relief wells. But the challenge there is that the wells are hard to put in and the existing leak lends an element of instability. The last thing anyone wants is to have further accidents on the relief wells. But when you're hurrying under difficult circumstances, accidents cannot be ruled out.
A referral fee or affiliate program would definitely be helpful for engaging potential customers outside your reach.

Ideally, you could have "community (or insert geo location) managers" who have the knowledge to sell (or setup) your software for their leagues for a commission.

Other creative and potential affiliates would be trophy sellers, jersey printers, etc..

Just because it would be an affiliate or referral program, does not mean that it would have to be available to anyone.

Good Luck
Do it work if we have existing account on those webapp ?

Ex : My Mindmeister account is expiring in about a month.
Yeah. I think I would personally go for two fields -- first name and last name -- with a hint that 'if unsure, use lastname' so that the rather common(?) 'sort by lastname' would make at least some sense in most cases, and the requirement that at least one of the names must be non-empty.
Down voted for breaking the site. Not that it helps...
The whole “dealer inventory” thing seems so strange as an outsider. Is it specific to the US? Or North America? In Europe (or at least the European countries I’ve been in) and Japan, you go to the dealer, they will have a few showroom and test cars, and then you sit down, spec your car, haggle the price (this is changing in Europe with third parties who will negotiate for you), and then wait for your car to come out of the factory

From time to time there will be a showroom car on sale that matches, especially if you’re near the end of that generation
You can take this a step further and track these instances for retroactive pattern recognition and naming. Sometimes your unconscious reasons can only be named after years of subsequent life experience. Both reasons and names may be unique to you or your cohorts, which is why the all-encompassing term 'procrastination' is less than helpful.
Immunotherapy has been around for decades...
Do you really believe Netflix is giving 30% to Apple?
Let's consider this in the context of engineering, rather than politics.

It's not clear that this is a good rule. If you want to get mass from ground to orbit, the rocket equation means that you want the least quantity of infrastructure mass that will work, maximizing the payload fraction. If you're in charge of safety equipment on an orbital station, you want the most effective things you can cram in to your mass budget.

Life support? Whenever possible, eliminate it in favor of automation. But if you need it, you either want minimal (emergency only) or maximal (resilient against disasters) to the extent of your available space/power/mass.
Americans use DD/MM/YYYY (regardless of delimiter being e.g. / or - or .). We Dutch use MM/DD/YYYY. The latter results in sorting correct on month if its annual data. Over multiple years it breaks. ISO 8601 has my preference, though in MS Office I need to set to Japanese cause my version lacks the setting.

9.00 PM is very clear to mean 21.00 in 24H format. What isn't clear is if 9.00 is 12H or 24H format. 9.00 AM or 9.00 PM is. However if you may reasonably assume the user uses 24H format, it is clear. It always takes up less space to use 24H format, though 12H format is always clear. Except for TZ (timezone), both all time suffers from that.

[EDIT]Oops I messed up, and that's why I dislike these and prefer ISO8601. Although one nice thing about DD/MM/YYYY is that its little endian (which is easy to remember for laymen as going from small to big). Keeping rest of comment as is.[/EDIT]
This was on TV one day, I had no intention of watching anything that day. 2 hours later...I'm sitting there weeping for humanity. Not literally, but I definitely recommend this movie to those interested. I can't make any recommendation to credibility, but I assure you that you won't come away with any positive outlook on fracking.
Having developed HTTP/2, SPDY, and HTTP/1.1 framers, I can tell you that HTTP/1.1 is by far more error prone. Length encoding (i.e. binary format) is a god-send for reducing bugs.

I'm curious what you think about my analysis of the binary vs text argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxQIRl6Qic&feature=player_d...
A more likely problem for rural AOL is the decreasing cost of Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint wifi run on licensed and unlicensed spectrum. Lots of little players out there with Ubiquiti networks (or similar equipment).
Given how varied music is now, I don't think anything recent has been as big as punk, although elements of chip music have certainly slipped into mainstream music by the back door (Ke$ha, Calvin Harris, Robyn, Timbaland).
It means “I would prefer the human race dies off rather than reproduce”. Sure, you can make decisions for your own health and personal reasons. But if you truly decide not to have children because of “global warming” as if the planet gives a fuck (it’s only an issue for humans - the planet will live on for billions of years) then you are saying humans as a species are a cancer that must die off. And I find that totally absurd and illogical.
Nice given the time frame do you plan on further dividing save into save/invest at some point? In other words is the big payout coming only by the total amount saved + interest or by potentially greater returns through something like an index fund?
la inflación escondida. “Shrinkflation”.
> natural state of being, having to work to survive

yes, the natural state of all human beings is to derive value for shareholders. the profit of our masters before all. it's just in our DNA.

to live requires maintenance and upkeep and work. to live together in a society means doing things for one another. but where in that do you derive a natural state in which people produce things so someone else may profit on their work, and keep the greater part of the fruit? people aren't objecting to the notion of necessary labor. they're objecting to being forced - literally, by threat of starving on the streets - by the organization of the society to labor on behalf of others for produce they will never enjoy.
Counterpoint:

http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0898/aug98wha.htm
I just try to fly out of NYC after midnight, less people, virtually no traffic.
I think you need to take what Loeb is saying with a very large grain of salt. There's a fair amount of annoyance and disgust within the astronomical community at his misrepresentation of what other astronomers have or have not been doing, particularly given that he's only been interested in this for a handful of years, versus the decades others have devoted to it.

There's a large degree of self-congratulation and self-promotion in what Loeb is saying, and denigration of what others have been doing. The idea that this field of research is "stifled" because people are "scared" is basically bullshit.
Sure, I do welcome the language getting support however, I can't help but think it may be to do with them being fined by Oracle in that lawsuit costing Google billions.

But who knows, we are not allowed to ask these questions, just like why DRM was allowed into the web standard and W3C kept the votes secret.

I don't like the route we are heading.
o.m.g.

really weird! (btw: the URL is legit https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrkiye_B%C3%BCy%C3%BCk_M...)

I see no captcha, just this:

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That's not accurate. This interview / discussion is essential. The book makes 1984 feel lite-weight.

https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/th...
The military uses a lot of CNG-converted vehicles when civilian vehicles are needed (all the things you think of as a military vehicle is diesel, but there's a lot of little sedans and big vans for people who need to drive off-base for work). The government can get away with this because military bases are pretty much self-contained and you can put as many CNG fueling stations in as you want to. As I recall, though, the range between fill-ups is terrible compared to gasoline and once you got off base there was pretty much nowhere to fuel the things.
> Gimp does all the thing Photoshop does

For most people, yes. Unfortunately Photoshop is pirated, so it isn't being used at face value.

> Blender does all that Maya does I'm sure as well

If you want to build your own stuff, which isn't uncommon at all and if you have a movie budget of 100 million dollars, you might be better off forking Blender. Also, Autodesk's Maya is not a startup and it isn't being used necessarily as a platform, so that's building a straw-man on your part ;-)

> SCADA systems for industrial control?

You mean Eclipse SCADA?

Funny thing is that I'm working on a software system using it right now. My mission is to steer and monitor power plants and nothing on the market was suitable for my needs. Building on top of an open source stack helped tremendously.
In the EU, that's illegal under the Data Privacy Directive.
Why? So that China experience the 'luxury' of endless suburban sprawl and the myriad of problems it brings. Hopefully China can learn from out mistakes, not repeat them
As edmccard said, there are roughly 318 million people in the US. Not all of them are above the age of 18. Let's say adults get $1,500/month plus $500 for each dependent. So a married couple with two kids would get $4,000/month.

If we assume that 24% are under 18, that's roughly 242 million who get $1,500/month (for a total of $363 billion/month) plus the 76 million children that receive $500/month (for a total of $38 billion/month). That's $4.812 trillion/year which exceeds the current annual US budget by a little over $1 trillion.

So it doesn't look like $30 trillion/year. I agree that it seems unrealistic but perhaps the monthly amount can be lowered. Those who want to live better (or in more expensive locations) would still have to hold jobs. It does give others who cannot or do not want to work the opportunity to move to cost effective locations (where housing and utilities are cheap).
In my area at least, I can sub to Netflix, Prime and HBO and still be paying far less than I would for cable. This is saying a lot considering it is on demand content with no commercials. On top of that, if I find Netflix lacking at some point, I can stop the sub for x months and come back later where most cable packages lock you for a year or more.

I have the same concern, but I think ultimately I will be able to subscribe to exactly what I want and still come out cheaper and more convenient than cable will ever be.
I think one of the main disadvantages of IRC is that you cannot have offline messaging; this is basically unacceptable nowadays.
> How do these people have money and especially free time for this?

As opposed to mountain climbing at all? Or any endurance sport? Or commenting on internet forums? Or hobby computing?

Please show us your math on the amount of time and money spent on this versus being a marathon runner or an open-source contributor.

De gustibus non est disputandum.
Thanks for your suggestion. The title and description of the game in Play Store plays a big part in ranking the game against keyword searches. Hence, a lot of Indie developers like me go a little over-the-board in describing the game :)
I just play the internet minigame.
It's cheap and pretty in-depth.
Professionally, only about 4 years, also a year as a sysadmin and a few in the Air Force a while back. That's why the peanuts. I'm not the most amazing programmer ever, but I am pretty good. I also have business sense and the ability to talk convincingly to non-technical people.

These things ultimately mean much more to a company, at least my company, than years at firm. I'm also constantly pushing myself to build more skills, not just programming, but also social skills too. I've noticed the longer I do this, the more people are willing to listen to and value my input. My company hierarchy is very flat for one that does $40 million in revenue. I see my CEO whenever he's in the office, his office is right next to my workspace.

It's a case of, sure, I could go somewhere and get a $X0,000 raise and finally check that six figure salary box, or I work here towards middle / upper management and reach that goal in just a few years and get a $X00,000 raise. I'm comfortable right now, no need to make a decision right now, I don't hit two years here until July anyway. If by then it doesn't look like the vision I have for my career here is really viable, then sure I'll start looking.
Certainly not arguing with any of your points; I'm saying the things that happened could rightly be construed by investors as types of failure (e.g., "Citigroup wrote-off the entire fund") which is one of the reasons the law might apply. I'm talking about perception from a particular perspective, not the ethics.
Interesting. I've observed at a number of telescopes and they all have a big red STOP button that will shut down the telescope immediately. I've only had to use it once. The telescope was poorly designed and it was possible to run it into its hard limit (you could basically run it into the ground). If you do that you have to stop it because the tracking motors will continue to try to drive the telescope into the ground.

The only exception was the Large Binocular Telescope, which is one of the largest telescopes around (even the largest, depending on how you define it). But there a lot more thought was put into the design so you wouldn't be able to run the telescope into the ground even if you tried. (It also helps that they have a dedicated night assistant whose job it is to point the telescope and make sure that the observers don't do anything stupid.)
A good video introduction to Pandas: http://pyvideo.org/video/1745/server-log-analysis-with-panda...
How would you recommend going about doing this? I just went to the Golang source and I'm a little overwhelmed by all there is. Do you think I should read all of it? Are there certain parts I should focus on? Any pointers would be really appreciated! Thanks!
There's strong Supreme Court precedence that establishes, just because a technology is installed in a public location, doesn't mean everything that it can see is therefore public. I believe there were cases both for thermal imaging, as well as surveillance cameras pointed at the front door of a house. Typically the defining factor is the duration and scope of the surveillance. E.g. It's OK to look at someone's front door on your way by, it's not OK to aim a camera at it and record 24/7 for a week.

What we see in practice is, they don't get a warrant, and if the defense is sophisticated enough to determine if a Stingray was used, and they ask the right questions, the prosecution withdraws any direct evidence from the Stringray, but tries to keep all the subsequently discovered evidence.

The interesting case of the fly-over-Stringray is it approximates the fly-over-thermal scanning which is commonplace today, but the analogy shouldn't hold when you cross over from capturing passive emissions to active communication spoofing, e.g. activities which would be illegal under CFAA.
Truth is, only 4 years after supposed fall of communism in Poland communists went back to power by winning democratic parlimentary elections in 1993. Two years later they also won presidential election.
Nice. I mostly use DOSBox for my DOS games and ones that work with Windows 3.1(Civ 2, Sim City 2000, and Solitaire mostly), but it'll be nice to be able to do Window 9x stuff with 3D acceleration without having to break out the old Pentium II box.
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Right, I think that’s what’s going on in my image example.

I think this is a key lesson to people who apply these types of mathematical techniques to the lossy compression of data meant to be experienced by humans. Random noise is not always preferable to non-linear error, i.e. reducing non-linear error is not necessarily the equivalent of improving the perceived quality of the data in question. It can be but the function that determines what “looks good” or what “sounds good” to humans is probably a bit more complex.

This is something I’ve run into with image compression techniques but it applies here too (quantization being a form of compression). E.g. JPEG compresses images in 8x8 blocks because doing the whole image at once would look horrible. Figuring out the redundant information that can be thrown away with the least impact to image quality is still fundamentally an art.
You can't switch it off. Every current mac requires an online reactivation, even ones without an activation lock.

How could activation lock possibly work otherwise? Once wiped, it doesn't know if it's activation locked anymore.
The article does not state the reason for the acceleration but one effect is supposed to be dams. Most dams are (on the northern hemisphere and) away from the equator which means mass (lots and lots of water) is accumulated closer to Earth’s rotational axis. Combined with conservation of angular momentum, this leads to a higher rotational frequency. It is like pulling your arms in while spinning.

This is one effect on the Earth‘s rotation among many, of course.
"Given the cap, that means people can borrow much less. Their ability to buy or afford a home does not improve. Why would that be preferable?"

House prices are a function of interest rates.

As interest rates lower, house prices skyrocket because 'everyone can afford to borrow more' and are pushed into doing so because 'housing is a requirement'.

Ergo - home prices, as a function of income, increase dramatically with low interest rates.

By capping mortgage terms, and keeping rates reasonable (NOT too low) and steady, it means that 1) housing ticket prices are lower 2) rents (i.e. those not benefiting from leverage) are lower, 3) the size of of the real economy being dumped into to unproductive assets is smaller.

"Lastly, you'll make sure that much less capital flows to real estate" - kind of, but not really - you are mixing 'homes' with 'real estate'. Those are different things. When homes get built, there is value added, the 'land part' just economic rent, it's a net neutral exercise. If the demand is there for homes, the homes will get built. The frothiness and excess profits won't be quite as nice, but they will be built because money can be made.

"And you're doing all this, artificially. "

The entire article is about an 'artificial' move by the government to provide economic incentives to promote affordability.

The ECB (de-facto Danish central bank even though they have their own) 'artificially intevenes' on the basis of asset prices.

"Second, we need to consider government policy to deter hyper-concentration"

Yes! And providing home-buying incentives will benefit those with the most capital to leverage, in the biggest cities - and it will 'punish' renters (higher prices) and leave non-urban dwellers in the lurch as their city dwelling peers gain massive personal wealth over their artificial leverage.
Before Maven, there was Ant. Ant is a fancy Makefile written in XML that makes it very very easy to write build scripts that are not reproducible and rely on a particular structure and set of tools on the computer of the person that wrote the build file. At some point people realized the madness and wrote a new build tool that would only use declarative syntax, and would provide reproducible, contained build bliss. And lo and behold Maven came to be.

Later XML came into disfavor, as things do, and thus by association Maven as it uses XML. So they created Gradle, a tool deemed superior by the mere virtue of using a Groovy DSL instead of XML.

Here's my opinion about Gradle :

1 - the syntax is poor. Merely not using XML does not imply that it is fun to write Gradle build files. XML is verbose but very well specified so when you need to write some configuration it is a bit tedious but all in all very easy. On the other end Gradle uses a custom DSL that is poorly documented. Usually the best documentation there is are example files, so it can be very hard to figure out what to do in uncommon cases.

2 - plugins can extend the DSL. That means there is no single document to learn to know how to write Gradle build files, you also need to learn the DSL for the plugins you use. Maven developers went as far as specifying a standard plugin documentation format so that when you need to look for the syntax for a particular plugin you can do so fairly easily. Not so with Gradle, documentation quality is inconsistent and hard to find. The Android plugin seems especially bad in that regard.

3 - it killed the dream of declarative builds. Gradle allows to run Ant files directly and is simply Groovy under the hood so build scripts can quickly become ad hoc messes. Not what I call progress.
Yup. Money is a surprisingly good metric for these things, but it's how you count money that matters. That a power grid can collapse due to a predictable natural event tells us that the accounting we use here is wrong, as it doesn't correctly allocate costs of failure.
Spending millions is how managers make themselves look important and valuable.
To be fair. The author warned us that every body loves to ignore them.