jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If we don't invest enough why are per pupil expenditures highest in poor quality urban districts? Perhaps the "investment" isn't being well-spent--which I believe is Philip's real point in the OP.
I can't speak to the quality of the iPhone version, but the Linux version is absolutely terrible. It's slow and crash-prone (think early flash releases).
What you describe here directly is not typical, IME.

Sure, you can often negotiate over salary and stock options, especially if you wanted a larger comp package you might argue for a couple thousand more shares or something.

I haven't heard of too many (well, ANY, really) successful cases of this direct sliding scale of some kind of 1:X trade of dollars for options.

Also, I would be very afraid of any management team that would even allow you to have 1% equity. The math just doesn't work. If an individual contributor is going to get 1%, what do the founders have? What do the investors have? They'd likely run out of shares to allocate to employees before they even finished hiring.

Without more detail, what you describe here starts to sound a little bit like an incompetent or inexperienced management team, and I'd proceed with caution.
I worked for a medical imaging company last year developing the communication channel for a web portal to allow referring physicians to access study images remotely. The tablet isn't the hurdle, it's the lame network infrastructure and ridiculously slow internet connections. Most the imaging companies have viewers that are nothing more than glorified jpeg viewers. The pain points are accessing the data and how it's stored. Doctors often have extra image studies performed simply because getting the images from previous studies performed at another imaging center is such a hassle.
I have a friend whose "speciality" is wireless in hospitals. The infrastructure is already there.
I have a kneejerk reaction against "there is something, anything at all, wrong with PostgreSQL" posts. I don't think it's because i'm in a cult.

I think it's because, despite real flaws, PostgreSQL is still the best all-round option, and still the thing i would most like to find when i move to a new company. Every post pointing out a flaw with PostgreSQL is potentially ammunition for an energetic but misguided early-stage employee of that company to say "no, let's not use PostgreSQL, let's use ${some_random_database_you_will_regret} instead".

I suppose the root of this is that i basically don't trust other programmers to make good decisions.
PM here. I just double checked and it is working. Mind to try again?
What I'm saying is that today, the comment system creates much too political correct comments. And sometimes maybe lack the intellectual finesse.
Im thinking Apple is not repositioning the Mac Mini to be an Apple TV replacement. It's way too complicated to connect a Mac Mini to a LCD TV and use a wireless mouse and keyboard to navigate when compared to the Cable TV experience. Not many in this post seem to be using a Mac Mini for such purpose (I am) and there is no way the avg PC/Internet user would ever think about doing such as it's too complicated over clicking power button on and channel up and down.
Think of the negative effects. This would promote posting correction-bait.
When I was leaving from Paypal for an issue like yours (they still have 300$ of my money) I investigated on Google Checkout and read a lot of horror stories like yours.

I wish you to solve this and after that I suggest you to switch to Fastspring. They have really excellent customer support, that becomes very valuable when a lot of money are involved.
I've worked with Rails and Django and they are both excellent choices.

As others have said, try some tutorials for each to get a feel.

Django Tutorial: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/

Rails Guides: http://guides.rails.info/getting_started.html

The soon to be released Rails 3 looks excellent, so I would personally use that over Django 1.2.

Also, the Rails community is a bit more organized as everyone uses GitHub, so there are some fantastic and well maintained gems that can help you speed through your development.

Rails Resources:

http://ruby5.envylabs.com/ - Great podcast discussing recent developments in the Ruby/Rails community.

http://ruby-toolbox.com/ - Overview of gems by category. Great to figure out what people are using for pagination or search or whatever.

http://railscasts.com/ - Screencasts covering new gems and Rails features.

http://railsconf.blip.tv - Videos from the latest RailsConf, if you want to get a feel for the community.

Django Resources:

http://djangodose.com/ - Good Django podcasts. There is one for the community stuff, and one for the newest features of Django trunk.

http://djangocon.blip.tv/ - DjangoCon, check it out for the same reasons as RailsConf.
699 USD in GBP = 474.413 (on xe.com at time of writing)

474.413 * 1.175 = 557.435 (for current vat)

So the actual current difference is £91.56 They will put that down to shipping & handling costs, administrative costs of operating in the uk.

The iPad has a difference of £52 for a similar priced item (once you take into account vat).
Hey, it's great that you saw this thread. I started reusing lift about two weeks ago, and it's pretty interesting how much of a behaviour change it can induce.

I'm still not ready however to buy into getting myself a coaching plan since a lot of the plans feel like people motivating you to do something everyday. For things like drawing which is something I started to do recently, I would like some way to have a mentor who could look at what I've drawn and give me advice, and practical examples of how to improve. Someone who could identify my weak points and craft exercises for me to improve on.

The problem I've faced so far though is, none of the coaches seem like that's what they'll do. Maybe they can do it. But it doesn't feel like that's what they want to do. With bios referring more to motivation and accountability I feel like I'll just get a person who gives me a pep message each day. Which is what the coachdotme app has done anyways.

This is my barrier to entry into the paid coaching plans. To sum it up,

1) the current experience doesn't let me feel like I'm personally connected to the coach

2) I don't know if this coach is ready to mentor me the way I'd like to be mentored

3) Kind of like the 1st point, but there's no way the current experience makes me go "omg. What I would do to be mentored by that person". Just as an example, after watching DrawWithJazza and proko on YouTube, if they showed up on coachdotme, I'd be pretty stoked. Instead, the top result for draw is some max person I've never heard of and while I'm sure he's good, I can't get myself to do the leg work to find out.

Just some feedback I hoped you'd be interested in.. Cheers. And good luck with the pivot
Ah right. It only shadows if it's a new scope.
I gave up on "better" but I still use DuckDuckGo (because I don't like the idea of Google). The important thing is being able to type the !bang things to search a particular website (with their own search engine) but I find myself increasingly typing !g
> Currency of my country lost 250% of its value over last 7 years. It's not bitcoin-level volatile, but close to it.

The way I understand volatility, it means wild swings in both directions over short periods. Your country’s currency however has been monotonically weakening. And the citizens have been able to react to that steady decline by storing their wealth in different forms, as you said yourself that you’ve been storing it in USD.

For sure even USD denominated assets have periods of volatility as we saw March last year when the entire world sought to refuge in the safety of US treasury bills or currency. Oil too witnessed some crazy gyrations like negative future pride. But they are in reaction to the extraordinary phase the world was going through then, when the world and hence the business practically shut down. Something which hasn’t happened in at least a generation.

Butcoin prices on the other hand regularly swing 10-15 in a day. Definitely not something you’d call stable compared to any of the world’s current currencies. Perhaps these swings will dampen over time?
You are misplacing the disruption on the nuclear family, when it is actually saying to disrupt the requirement on nuclear families.

This refers to ways our society benefits 2-parent households and makes things harder for single parents. They suggest addressing this by providing more support and community for each other, not by tearing down nuclear families.

As an analogy, installing wheelchair ramps doesn't prevent people from climbing stairs, it just makes building more accessible.
Here’s how to get them out -
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/66844/exportin...
Now all you need is millions of dollars to spend lobbying politicians. Tech isn't the limitation in the tax ecosystem.
This looks like exactly what I need for my small projects. Looking forward to using it. Thanks.
Is this super laggy for anyone else in FireFox?
Key of D is typically black for me. For dorian F-natural is a soft shade of red. The B natural is purple.

F major is red. E-minor is a desert sand color.
Microsoft's own Surface line is meant to be of comparable quality (though reviews/individual experiences may differ in some cases) and certainly of comparable aesthetics at least to Apple machines. Obviously Surface hardware comes at a bit of a premium to most other OEMs.

I'd second the recommendation to look at business hardware over consumer hardware (again, at a cost premium), but beware that isn't universally true. Some of the business lines are "churn-centric". For instance, a lot of companies have big HP or Dell contracts (as two examples) that they lease so many machines per year with quick turnaround "no or few questions asked" replacement strategies. Those companies treat the devices as "disposable", they ship old ones back every year or three and get newer models back. Those "disposable" business lines don't have a huge incentive to build quality/durability if the laptops are going to be replaced in 3-year or less cycles anyway.

You might also explore some of the "prosumer" segments. Some of the OEMs have a "Media Creation" line of one sort or another that often ups build quality. Most OEMs have a "Gaming" segment. Even if you aren't a "gamer" or play many games, sometimes you find good premium options among those lines that go toward build quality/durability. The trouble there is determining model to model whether with that model you are paying a premium for 1) useless bells and whistles like RGB lighting all the things, 2) build quality/durability, or 3) bleeding edge hardware that is the opposite of quality/durable. Manufacturers vary in which of those 3 is their priority for "Gaming" and even within some of those Manufacturers they might have sub-sections that vary the position on that triangular space defined by those three extremes. A heuristic I've used in the past is pulling out the business line pages and "Gaming" pages of an OEM and trying to spot the most similar models that might imply one is just a rebadging of the other, that intersection may indicate the quality/durable sub-line, and then decide between the two based on price difference (surprisingly sometimes it is the "Gaming" line that is still cheaper), and whether or not the other bells and whistles of the "Gaming" line seem amusing enough.
Heck, last year I paid Comcast for the NHL package and it had crappy framerates and very noticeable compression artifacts. I suspect someone at Comcast was trying to save some bandwidth. Other HD channels look fine.

Which is a long way of saying, I don't think streaming video content via a cable modem is all that different from watching content via a cable box.
It is asymmetrical in a way that disadvantages both parties. For every candidate thinking "I hope they give me a job" there as an interviewer thinking "I hope we can hire this guy." For every candidate hoping they don't have to dig too deep into why they left their last job, there's a company hoping nobody asks too many questions about why the last guy quit.
I'm nearly positive most of us can read dates ;)
Arguably baseball television coverage has an entirely different pace to it, and I would suspect that football has a lot more complex camera-work, including multiple cut aways per play.

Based on my understanding of how most video compression works, I bet it effects the bandwidth requirements.
> but I'd also expect some clemency given that the release was clearly in the public interest and revealed many unlawful orders and coverups.

The chain of command issuing the unlawful orders and participating in the coverups is unlikely to agree that revealing those things is in the "public interest".

Which is kind of the fundamental problems that whistleblowers always face (whether or not formal protections are in place) -- the people deciding whether or not to punish them (or whether or not the protections apply) are often the people on whom they are "blowing the whistle", or at least people with shared interest with the targets of the whistleblowing.

This is mitigated when there is involvement of an independent actor in the process, but in the case of military trials that are completely within the military chain of command within the executive branch, that kind of independence is hard to find.
Teachers, to start.
For what its worth, we have been using Cassandra for storing time series for about 2 years now at ~2k writes a sec. I would say every issue was self-induced and Cassandra has been amazingly patient with us. It works amazing with this scenario. We experimented with MongoDB a lot initially (along with riak, hbase, etc) and found about the same thing. Turns out using a database in a way its designed to work turns out in your favor. That said hbase did well too, but it scared our ops team.

All the new changes in 1.2 and 2.0 with cql really make it seem like datastax is focused on being mysql and ignoring the time series use case though which makes me nervous.
That's likely to be someone you do not want to work for...
I wonder if exists other ways, and find a obscure reference to "slim binaries":

(Asked here)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Compilers/comments/2o78hd/exist_a_s...

Also, I wonder how NOT lost the info that already have the AST in the bytecode conversion, I even have the crazy idea to store everything in a sqlite database, but I suspect will be slow (to read later in the VM...)
And then there is "zwei vierzig" or €2,40
> Several of Musk's numbers don't add up.

If they don't, then they will need to be revised before release and we can discuss them at that time.

> No pickup has a bed capacity of 3500 pounds.

Nonsense. Super Duty trucks have payload capacities up to 7,850 lbs. Even a ford F150 with a V6 has a capacity near a ton and they only go up from there. https://www.fordf150blog.com/2019-f-150-towing-and-payload-c...

> How that much weight can deliver 250 to 500 miles of range... sounds like fantasy #2.

This falls into the category of put up or shut up. Tesla has bad track record of hitting deadlines, but a really good track record of hitting their range estimates. If they don't hit 250 miles on the base model, we're sure to hear about it when it's launched.

> Finally, the claim that the bed will extend to the ground to form a useful ramp. Nah. These folks have never lived with a pickup.

If you don't see the value in being able to tilt the truck bed then you've clearly never used a pickup to it's capacity.

I've bought 4 major appliances lately and hauled several tons of lumber, concrete, & gravel. Even without the ramps, Being able to tilt the bed down to unload the truck sounds like a fucking godsend to me. Particularly for loose loads and lumber where it would act a bit like a dump truck.
And wait for the follow up; Cop arrested for stealing bitcoin. Again.
Err, four foot bed.
There have been some comments on here about how career advancement optimization at Google involves hopping between projects, staying long enough to launch, and then moving on.

Whereas doing good work on product maintenance or evolution is much less rewarding.

True or not, it would explain a lot about how Google (as a whole) behaves towards products.
I was chatting with someone about making deep-fake-resistant video. An interesting solution that came up was making artifacts that would be hard to simulate: ex. surround the speaker is a swirling vortex of confetti, where words have a minimal but detectable effects on the air currents.

Video could be 'authenticated' by post facto tracking of particles to validate both continuity and plausible velocity deltas based on generated model of air currents. It wouldn't eliminate the possibility of deepfakes, but would drastically increase cost of production.

Similarly, I predict that cameras will increase in resolution past the point of utility for human vision: tetrapixel camera video would be extremely expensive to produce without leaving tiny artifacts.
> But after the police knocked on the door on the weatherboard home in June, McIvor handed them the key codes to unlock more than $6m worth of various cryptocurrencies.

Why in God's name would he give them the wallet keys? I'd be like, what wallets?
All the production tools for making games/video are cramming ml tools in. It's one of the first places to be swimming in it.

The two minute papers guy made a material predictor to cut down on preview render time. Quixel uses ml for search. Substance and Houdini are gaining tools soon. Blender has used it behind the scenes for its new neblua tool. Mocap & animation are bathed in it. There's probably a lot more I can't recall right now.
Except it "didn't air because we could not obtain sufficient corroborating evidence to meet ABC's editorial standards about her allegations." This should be an article about journalistic integrity, and ensuring we don't accuse people of things without corroborating evidence. Just because more evidence came out after that point, does not mean it was wrong to require more evidence at the time. I cannot see how this is anything other than a good thing.
Here's another idea with a modest upside:

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

(The graph of startup ideas is highly connected.)
Kent Beck invented TDD while programming in Smalltalk, having recalled reading a paper on using TDD with punched tape. I think Rob Pike is confused in his history/assertion.
Don't wait until next year. Start programming now. School is good to learn computer science; school is not needed to learn how to program.

Don't read anything into the 5 lines of code per day. This is a pretty old article and even then, that would only be a reasonable figure if you take a large number of people on a large project and compute an average for everyone. In other words, counting refactoring, fixing bugs, re-writing things, doing administrative work, and so on towards the time elapsed. And even then it would vary so much from one project to the next that you couldn't get a reasonable representative number, though 5 LOC per day would certainly be possible.
Is this sarcasm? The article pretty clearly judges in an extremely opinionated way.

It's a shame it never actually stated the specification of the program. It seems like that would be the kind of thing you would need to know to form a fair opinion.
Michael Moore never made a documentary (or even a "documentary") about eating at McDonald's. He isn't morbidly obese either. http://www.mensfitness.com/life/entertainment/12-extreme-cel...
If SoftBank want to maximize their return then they'd probably do best to list ARM in the US. There's no way they'd get the crazy valuations you seen on NASDAQ on the LSE. It's why so many UK tech companies IPO in New York. They don't seem to get particularly excited about tech in London.
It now can not be found on the first 4 pages..
I'm assuming it's just plain PHP (X-Powered-By:"PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.2") on Ubuntu with Nginx (Server:"nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)").
Quote: "Also, and this is what really floors me - he is able to share his screen with a remote user, and vice versa - it's built into the system. In 2011, we still need to install software on each machine to do this, and there's no universal standard for the action of simply sharing your dang desktop with someone else."

The tragedy of the commons? We learn our kid to share his toys with other kids, yet Olivia (a kid's show feauring a family of pigs) said it best - "Mommy why don't you share your car with granny" - something along the line.

So the technical achievement was done already years ago! Or at least it's establishment.

Since them we are fighting the social problem - access, passwords, protection, process isolation, boxing, etc - all that would've not been needed in early days of computing.

I wish that would've been not needed today, yet as a human I know that we better have it.
What he said is that if the government was behind it it would probably be the christian fundamentalists.
Or it is the hockey stick end.

Guess we will have to find out.
> It's really the idea of being able to run copies of your OWN instances locally that intrigues me though.

No reason you can't already do this.
Couldn't you already do that by just setting up a Eucalyptus cluster? From Wikipedia entry:

"Eucalyptus is a software platform for the implementation of private cloud computing on computer clusters. There is an enterprise edition and an open-source edition. Currently, it exports a user-facing interface that is compatible with the Amazon EC2 and S3 services but the platform is modularized so that it can support a set of different interfaces simultaneously. "
I get that. However, when writing a blog post, it is good practice to consider what questions people will ask when they've finished reading it and answer them in the article. You have to admit, it's a pretty obvious omission.
Yes I understand that. Hence my request for evidence.
That command launches old settings UI.
Having visited museums dedicated to all sorts of artists and authors, Paris shaped the lives of so so so many critical thinkers and producers throughout the last several hundred years. James Baldwin, Picasso, you name it and they probably went and lived there for a while.
There are always at least some constraints on the givers, e.g. there is X amount of money available to be distributed in a given time period. This should not be conflated with conditions that the recipients must first meet. The article is referring to this second type.
That's what i would expect from someone trying to kill the economy - prop it up for longer than normal, making the recessions greater than normal.

I'd compare it to forest fires. They should be frequent and small. Make them less frequent (via suppression), and they get a lot worse and much more dangerous.
... At least until doctors start prescribing onion and garlic for everything, then we'll have to find something else that works.
I was curious, how much computing infrastructure did this required? How many machines were needed (max autoscale peak)? How much bandwitdh did you consume at peak ?
FYI, DEMs are Digital Elevation Maps (for those who might not know)
That's not going to be the new headline as no-one knows what Tor is, but everyone knows when their kids can't play computer games.