jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That analysis is ridiculous. They begin by explaining that "food insecurity" means periodic reduction in quality and variety of food, then several paragraphs later they're accusing "food insecure" people of going hungry in one part of the month because they gorged in another part of the month.

The reduction in quality and variety is the key to the bad health outcomes of diet anyway. When a daily Big Mac is cheaper and more readily available than a variety of healthy and well-prepared foods, health problems ensue.

One of the greatest ideas in the OPs article was the deal the government made with farmers: we give you affordable access to prime real estate in the city, but in exchange you regularly take your better-quality food into poor neighborhoods that otherwise lack access. Obviously it takes more than just showing up with good food to get people to eat it, but it's a start.
Assuming it doesn't go on hold again.
I think you just misunderstood the article. This isn't FUD, mostly because it wasn't an attack on Facebook, not even slightly, and also is entirely true.

I am gay and have noticed exactly what the author is talking about with myself and many others. I don't write anything ever on Facebook (sorry, it bores me to tears, I don't hold Facebook use against anyone though :), but it is completely obvious from my mutual friends, from the fact that my profile says who my boyfriend is, etc, that I am gay.

It is a simple fact that Facebook (and other social networks to a lesser extent), blur together social circles that otherwise never would have blended. For example, both sides of my extended family in totally different areas of the country friend me. These are people who I never bothered to formally come out to (because we aren't in reality that close). Simply accepting their invite is also an act of uncloseting. For someone who actually is in the closet, that degree of uncloseting is possibly very uncomfortable, and hard to know if you are even doing it (is it obvious or not from my mutual friends that I'm gay?). This absolutely is not a kind of thing that happened in the pre-social network world.

But, this also is not, in any way, because of Facebook privacy problems or controls or whatever. It is an inherent property of the kind of very transparent, mixed "all social circles are one social circle" model that Facebook (and other social network sites) have. Maybe other people don't notice this as much because a lot of gay people (especially closeted gay people) were more used to having extremely disjoint social groups which the online world suddenly makes dramatically less disjoint.

Anyway, if you actually read the whole article, the author writes about this as a positive thing, because it makes the closet much harder to choose, since the traditional problem of policing your life to your closet door closed becomes so much harder. The author interprets this in the end as being a social positive since coming out is in a way a political and socially influential act.
I know that it's not the point of the article, but I find it deeply depressing that a post about something called Readability contains the following sentences:

> While Readability does remove ads, that was never its intended purpose. It’s goal from the outset was clear ….

(emphases mine).
It could be mitigated if Facebook offered real privacy controls, mainly keeping our social circles separate from each other like we do in real life. I'd like the option: if a member of network X posts on my wall, members from network Y and Z should not be able to see it.

But that would require real privacy controls and it goes against Facebook's absurd mission statement to open up the entire world (or whatever that embroidery is inside that dopey hoodie).
iplayer irritatingly only has stuff on for 6 days after transmission. BBC 4 does repeat their material pretty regularly. It will say on this pages when it does:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s3vdm

(in fact it looks like it was already repeated on BBC 2 from that page but it will come up again).

Would also highly recommend:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/features/african-rock.sht...

Fascinating stuff on people like Youssou N'Dour (to pick one of many examples) who have gone back to Africa after western success and are now building Africa labels for African artists.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was a direct result of the Senator hearing from his constituents about this issue. Regardless, job well done!
One man's "propaganda" is another man's "truth".

The author writes, "While few American readers object to getting their news from the BBC, partially funded by the British Foreign Office, many find the Qatari-funded satellite network Al Jazeera hopelessly biased." This is funny, and I'm surprised the author did not mention it, because Al Jazeera is actually mostly former members of BBC's Middle-East service. Just because it's the Qatari government bankrolling them doesn't make them any more biased than when the British government was bankrolling them. If the claim is they're biased now, then it is safe to conclude that they were biased earlier.
"currency, which doesn't change over time"

eh? currency then or now? Currency then was on the gold standard so the two didn't fluctuate.
Currency today, they target inflation of 2% / year by design.

re: insane price of collectibles

You are thinking like a salaryman. Think of one of great wealth with a flow of currency more than what one can sensibly spend money on - the market for these coins. The pleasure gained from owning the 20th rolls is not the same as the first. The utility gained less so. How about a rare collection of gold coins from 1850? Now that is something you can talk about over some cognac and cigars with a like minded fellow. An object of beauty, desire and a fantastic store of value for when you want to transport value across to the next generation.
Alternatively, you could park $10 million into a hedge fund and swap spreadsheets around the fireside chat - debating which manager was best defending the onslaught of the fed and its money printing?
Which one is less - shall we say - vulgar?
This sounds like a great idea.

There is a lot of competition, but don't be afraid of that. You probably can undercut in price and at the same time increase commissions to content creators.

I would guess S3 is going to be the cheapest in terms of storage and bandwidth. Lets say you're storing 1TB of video, uploading 50GB/mo with 5TB downloads per month. Then you're looking at around $900/mo in expenses ($800 of that is in bandwidth).
As kemiller said, this is likely about Apple wanting developers to use iOS4's built-in support for regular expressions, which, by the way, gives you the answer to your submission's title. Please edit it accordingly.
Google Latitude on the Android follows the continuous logging model. It's interesting but for very different reasons than Foursquare. Foursquare's appeal to me is more keeping a record of interesting places I go and sharing that with others. Latitude's appeal is, oh, where are my friends right now.
'lines of LOC' sounds to me like a phrase meaning 'lines and lines of frivolous code of which the only value is incrementing the LOC count'.
>that's a scary future for my country.

Don't you mean "a scary past"? There were lots of claims that the real reason Clinton's "justice" department started actually prosecuting Microsoft was that MS wasn't donating enough money to politicians' re-election campaigns. (These claims actually made it into print, since I didn't have an internet connection back then, and I remember reading about it as it was happening.)
Not doing anything makes people feel a lot more like there is an error. At least with an hourglass the program/website has acknowledged the click enough to display an image. Many people probably don't realise though a loading spinner is usually very loosely connected to whether the thing they have clicked on is actually doing anything or not.
He had a rather highly accelerated pubescence which increased the alienation that teenagers often feel from their peers. Combined with an emotional immaturity (this you will note was is not accelerated as it is learnt rather than grown) lead to some serious difficulties for him and his parents.
To be fair to loopt, the market changed between 2005 when they launched and 2009 (ish) when foursquare launched. 5 years ago people weren't nearly as comfortable with the idea of location based social networks. Loopt and the deals that they signed probably had a big hand in making the concept more familiar and paved the way for many of it's competitors. The popularity of twitter might have also had something to do with it.

This probably holds true for a lot of examples of companies that solved the wrong problem. When your competitors can evaluate your progress, it's much easier for them to position themselves according.
Video is private, not really much to see here without it.
Does that mean if I steal a yacht that it's not theft because I wouldn't have bought one anyway? Your logic seems flawed to me.
I'm open & willing to consider this as a possibility. In retrospect, I can think of many situations where I changed course even though I was convinced. But I can also think of many others where I kept pursing things (but not at the risk of losing a client).

The point is I'm stubborn to deliver what the client wants/needs. That's what I'm expecting from these folks.

Regards

Joe
You should read some Daringfireball, or like-minded blogs. Much as common sense isn't all that common, the obvious is also not that obvious.
Expandrive is nice but Transmit 4 does the same for less money and is also a complete and powerful ftp/sftp client
Microsoft's last major revenue making product was ms office.

People want to work for successful companies, Microsoft, despite residual income from previous successes, is no longer successful. Not successful at mobile, not succesful at search, not successful for web development. Occam's razor, people don't want to work for Microsoft.
Despite the ethical discussion as to how to this hacker should have treated the guy using his stolen computer, it seems that as with anything there are some important lessons worth paying attention to.

Interestingly and counter intuitively, the fact that it booted into single user mode and had ssh/vnc installed were the keys to getting his computer back.

I know I'm definitely going to go install some software with this in mind :)
A resubmission of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2029675 only with a working blog post link instead of a broken image hotlink.
On the other hand, IV chaining would make a fantastic backdoor if you were able to brute-force 56-bit keys. Let's see, EFF did that for $250,000 in 1998? That leaves one budget cycle between it being public knowledge and the alleged contract work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker
why doesn't python have anonymous functions (not just lambdas which can only be expressions)?
"Can you point to any projects on which you have expended equally little effort with greater reward? Honestly, $25k a year isn't bad for a niche product that just became a real business (as opposed to a little project started on a lark) this year. You seem to be criticizing him for failing to achieve a goal he didn't have."

$25K is fine for a small project started on a lark. But it's not for a person that is proclaimed as a business deity in the hacker news world (and JoS).

"You might say Photoshop existed for years in its creator's head"

Photoshop has a huge market and makes millions of dollars a year. Within the first 5 years, It was most likely already clear that the market was there (it should be with any business).

Patrick has talent. If I were him, I would have moved into a more profitable market. Especially since, as you say, it doesn't seem to take him any time at all to work on it.
I doubt very much that Southwest will ever allow anyone to sell their tickets anywhere but their own site.
Original FCC release at: http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2010/db1221...
> "set off explosive detectors. Repeatedly."

If I walk back and forth through a metal detector with a belt buckle multiple times, do I become increasingly suspicious each time it beeps?
Azithromycin has been shown to have some antiviral effect though it has not been characterized and the mechanism of action is unknown.

I assume they chose that as a broad spectrum prophylaxis for and opportunistic concurrent infection but perhaps they chose it specifically for this reason.
If you still have it, most 2014+ models can have Android Auto added at the dealer, plus there is a open source diy version you can install also
What about a "Both Respirator"? [1]

In the 1930s polio epidemic there was a shortage of "iron lung" respirators, which were expensive to produce. Edward Both invented a plywood version, which was cheap and easy to produce. A re-purposed car factory then churned them out by the thousand.

Is a negative pressure ventilator relevant for COVID-19 treatment? (Any knowledgeable medicos here who can offer a critique?) If so, couldn't they be churned out by the thousand in a short space of time (ie. days)? My understanding is that the tooling is comparable to that used to produce a kitchen cabinet. They can even be manually operated in the absence of a motor or control system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Both_respirator
He/she was an intern. Typically, interns are neither privy to strategy, nor are they sure of where things are headed.
Ok, but it has an -f behavior that seems to do the right thing. I don't think I would file a request to add flags that aren't needed.

I'm not being "pedantic", I just don't think there is anything to change.
To me the question it raises is - does the rust borrow checker need to be part of the compiler or could it be separated into a standalone component? Is the borrow checker architecture-agnostic?
They prevent the auto updating so they absolutely do something. They do exactly what they say.

Notifications are another matter. And if users didn't get notifications how would they even know when there were updates?

Because updates include security patches it's important to nudge people towards updating.
Not when cryptographic signature verification is built into and enforced through the hardware. See Nouveau. The can't reclock post Maxwell GPUs because their firmware blobs would have to be signed by Nvidia. Think of it as Nvidia holding back the steering wheel to a car.
As others have pointed out, this is a good illustration of why you need accurate data during development. I bet that the data set used during development was dirty with duplicates and way too small. It was faster and more convenient to just code defensive garbage than to be the annoying one nagging to another team about the state of data. So this was written, probably along with a TODO comment, and then forgotten about, and ultimately shipped. I've done this same thing. Not with any real consequences, but still. It's what happens when time is of the essence.

How it remained undetected for so long is really weird though. Surely they must've had a massive amount of complaints about the loading times. I completely stopped playing because of them. How could they not have investigated the root cause, atleast once, in six years?
Dokku is FANTASTIC, thank you so much for your work on it.
There is a cool sort-of PbP-mud hybrid server called AresMush. You would have to code the Pathfinder rules yourself most likely, though it's possible someone has done so. I think Ares is written in Ruby fwiw.
I was ten when I first started learning BASIC so it wasn't until a few years later that I first encountered algebra as a late year lesson in math class. By that time x=x+1 was very much ingrained into my way of thinking so I had to unlearn some of that before I could understand algebraic equations. Wonder how many other kids of that era ended up going through the same process.
Also a great point!

I can’t think of a clean alternative other than coming full-circle back to the “developer advocacy” solution, with its clear problems. Someone smarter than I am probably has it in the palm of their hand, though.
He didn't say, but this article has some background speculation:

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Gorillaz-USB-MIDI-Sequencer-Damo...
The New York Marathon is a contest. Contests are not necessarily lotteries. If there are winners and losers it's definitely a contest. And with Y Combinator there's usually about 30 "winners" and more than 1,000 "losers."
Aren't there a bunch of serious multitrack recording apps already available for the iPad?
i dislike the PR event, but this article is not scatterbrained. it's casting the negative reactions to their interviews as a battle for legitimacy in news media, and it's focusing heavily on the generational shift. he makes some pretty valid points about how younger people respond to mainstream news. whether it's accurate that youtubers will become the new legitimacy is hard to say, and the blogger has a obvious bias on that, but i found a lot of this resonating with me
"It is exciting to be alive, isn’t it?"

It is for those of us who don't rely on the service industry for a living. 10 million jobs lost.

A self driving car is an amazing feat of Human engineering. What would be an even more amazing feat would be what to do with humans thrown under the bus of progress. Capitalism is great for anyone with enough mental agility to stay in the technology power curve, but it's really terrible for everyone else who simply want to live their lives, raise their family and be happy.

What are we going to do with all those humans displace by automation?
The checkin step then becomes kind of redundant, why would a shop want to hide their discounts to those that physically walk into their shop, wouldn't they prefer someone to either enter in or "check in" to get say a 1 or 2km radius of the deals on offer then decide from that.

Without the game aspect I think actually physically checking in at a location loses appeal as it's not needed for the deals.
But making sad people happier imposes on the liberty of happy people to be happier than the sad people.

Something something nanny state.
I also though Common Desktop Environment at first. At least from a 'marketing' perspective, it might be a good idea to not use an acronym that is already in use in the Linux/Unix world.
#HopeandChange (By which I mean, social media and enthusiasm have already played a strong role in a presidential election)

I think it's easy to co-opt these single channel people, you just pick the ones you want to talk to.

Traditional media does this by trading softball treatment for access, if you are granting access on an individual basis you can make sure you get the treatment you want.
The problem is Google are abusing their position once the customization capability is removed.

For example, they were done for using Google Street View cars to slurp WiFi information, so now they just use Android devices to do it for them. Manufacturers have to have this enabled by default if they want Gmail and the Play Store on the device. (EDIT: and even worse, if you agree to that for one device you have to agree to not release any Android devices which do not have those things, thus removing the ability for the market to decide).

When people, rightly, complain about the Facebook app having permission to do way more than it should they seem to be oblivious to the fact Google are doing things which are far worse.
I thought it was more like Razor from PuppetLabs. http://puppetlabs.com/solutions/next-generation-provisioning
Would your impression of the pun be improved if I said that the NYT's motto, on every masthead for over a century now, has been "All The News That's Fit To Print"?
You're right, I meant to type "in the UK" somewhere but it seems I forgot
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I can vouch for every bit of this advice. Well written too.
Maybe it's a well-researched article, but am I the only one that bothers the structure of the website?
I am not able to read it. The text is just in the middle, really big white space left and right. Than there is this big wallpaper on every page. By the way, why so many pages?

Sorry for off-topic.
My statement wasn't polemical. And contrary to the body of literature that likes to tout that "all is literature/language", there are many conceptual schemes that do not comport themselves to linguistic expression, which in turn simply implies that such schemes are not cognized in linguistic terms but meta-linguistic (or non-linguistic) terms. Diagrammatic reasoning is a case in point. Appealing to the cognitive limitations brought on by acculturation isn't a satisfactory refutation. Let there be no doubt: diagrammatic reasoning will figure in AGI.
Those problems are best solved with Engineering best practices and culture, in my opinion. Each tough / innovative problem is probably somewhat unique for your startup, and picking a solution (a front-end framework) before you even know the problem limits your ability to solve it creativily.

Most programmers are good enough that with a good refactoring culture, they can evolve the equivalent of an in-house framework. Although, for some reason, I gather that programmers are scared of in-house "frameworks". I think that attitude is short-sighted since the app you build on top of the framework will end up being more complex than the framework itself.
The idea that there's something in the world they can't control is anathema to their entire existence. If it's there, they will attempt control.
A $450 Seiki 50" 4k display makes an excellent teaching tool. It's so large you can see code from a higher elevation so to speak. Visualizing and "seeing" how a script flows become much easier. You can stand by the display and point to how a function call executes the code where the function is defined and things like that.

This is the stack I would set up with, optimized for ease of use, elegance, and market demand:

Debian sid or Ubuntu

Tiling window manager

Vim

Python flask on the backend

Bootstrap on the front end.

A hacker that is comfortable with Linux and the command line, python, html, css and js can find work anywhere.
LSD isn't effective more than once a week. If you took LSD two days in a row, it simply wouldn't do anything the second day.

http://www.quora.com/Is-there-some-sort-of-refractory-period...

I guess you could take it two, max three times a week.
Somewhat related: One RubyConf, zenspider and tenderlove hacked together Phuby on Phails, an abomination that allowed you to use PHP within Rails. It even translated instance variables from Rails controllers to PHP views.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsWKjS6Vufw
Here's their news release about it:

http://www.ercot.com/news/releases/show/225151

That links to this PDF which describes their emergency procedures:

http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/lists/200198/EEA_OnePager_u...

Basically, there are 3 levels of response:

(1) Reserves below 2,300 MW: get more power, including from other grids.

(2) Reserves below 1,750 MW: interrupt power to industrial customers (who've contractually agreed).

(3) Reserves below 1,375 MW: order transmission companies to reduce demand (i.e. rolling blackouts).

The reserves are shown on their main page (http://www.ercot.com/), and when I've checked today, it has been roughly 3,500-4000 MW. So that sort of sounds promising, but the graphs on the same page (projected capacity and demand) don't look as promising.
Well, I'm the youngest of our group that got it and I'm 50. The older folks all had arm pain for days. We had a lot of grumpy folks on a video call three days later.
Natural gas prices have been absolutely wild the past few days.

https://www.naturalgasintel.com/weekly-natural-gas-prices-so...

If you're not used to their bizarre units of volume the key takaway is this: Quantities of gas that usually sell for ~ $3 were selling for over $300 on Friday/Saturday.