jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Say you put a single type Foo in its own package to ensure that nothing ever — intentionally or unintentionally — touches its unexported (private) fields.

This is not a good reason to move a type to its own package. Packages are for grouping related functionality.
I think the advice will still work, but you'd need to switch from "named" timezones to number-specific one, so for example replace `PST` with `-08:00` and then apply the opposite conversion on the right side (as you and I suggested).
Yes, it does work as long as I don't write too small. But I don't do cursive so I don't know how it would fare.
It's function over form from a DFM standpoint, not utility. Case in point, if they cared about utility, they'd quote torque numbers instead of 0-60 times. Not to mention the laughable sides and glass top.
A week is too long to be out of commission -- most parts for a Ford/GM/Dodge/Toyota, especially stuff that gets damaged are <2 hours away for like 10 years. Tesla's vertical model is a liability for a work scenario.

My dad loves his Honda Ridgeline. He can put his trash in the bed to take to the dump, put the dogs back there if needed, and tow a lawnmower over to some elderly people he helps out. But it is essentially an "El Camino" hack of a Honda minivan with jacked up suspension.

A Tesla work truck would be awesome -- they should sell a cab and shell that a third party can customize.
You don't have to be crazy man. Some people like it some people don't.
I struggle as to how we could regulate massive companies like Facebook and Google from opening up their algorithms in a verifiable way.

Perhaps a better way to attack this is to allow them to continue, but break them up - ie, mandate competition, and admit that monopolies in markets like search and social media (not to mention specific segments of advertising) are as dangerous as monopolies in operating systems or telephone services.
He could have reiterated entrepreneurship within the article, but we get the point.
The articles comment about social justice and a desire to change the world reminds me of a TED talk I watched a while back which is about the differences in "conservative" and "liberal" outlooks and the ways in which individuals in each group measure morality.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.ht...
I think you're forgetting that iOS 4 has a metric ton of additions that were announced at another keynote.

Edit: not that I disagree with you, but it should be noted that the focus of this keynote was hardware in part because the software had already been announced
Google remains the default search engine in iOS 4, but on all the demo phones in the hands-on area for the media, the search engine was set to Bing.

An interesting message! I'm guessing the map app is still using Google?
The first thing that struck me is how white everyone is.

When did Ford racially integrate? Wikipedia's got nothing.
What's wrong with http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/ or http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/ ?
As he explains in the video, phase cancellation doesn't work well when you stick your head into it. The head-related transfer function interacts with it in complex ways, so it's not easy to keep audio fidelity and spatial information at the same time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-related_transfer_function
The AWS issues in the NoVa center are continuing today, our RDS is still not fully accessible.
How many stores can you purchase Windows or Mac software from? That towers over the Android stores. Why should mobile be different?
They were probably more successful than you'd like to acknowledge. And the modern companies do have a fair bit more power.
Its protected somewhat by the ~3000 steps that you need to climb down to reach it (and then climb up, most likely the same day as there is not enough space for a lot of people to stay the night at the bottom).
When did Ring first publish this? Is the kernel and userland published the same version as what are on Ring products?
Is this the same Ivan Krstic that wrote BitFrost for OLPC?

I remember reading that document so many years ago and having my mind blown.

It was a beautiful architecture and a well written document that I learned so much from.
OTOH, the formula E races, there is lot of close-in action, and more overtaking, etc than in formula -1, might be due to the narrower tracks.
Seriously?

How the hell could she think that your email address was hers? I mean, wouldn't she notice that she never got the messages?
Because you're not optimizing for the success of the law firms or their clients, but for the structure and integrity of the court system. That integrity depends heavily on the fact that lawyers are trusted repeat players who have a lot of exposure and are personally on the hook for any problem. (Moreover, because a law license is not a right, the due process requirements and burden of proof for disciplining lawyers is far lower than for imposing criminal penalties on non-lawyer individuals. You don't need a trial, you don't get a jury, there is no "beyond a reasonable doubt." Supervising lawyers can be held liable for the misconduct of their subordinates with little showing of knowledge or intent regarding the misconduct.)
> DNS rent seeking

Domains registrars?
Time to have a collectively funded .ngo TLD?
Longish article, summary:

- Restaurateur tests both Groupon / Living social

- Groupon only phone solicitations, unresolved issues after a month vs. LivingSocial took time for in-person rep visit, excellent merchant service.

- Groupon at 50/50 split, LivingSocial 60/40 in merchant favor

- LivingSocial charges no CC fees, Groupon charges 2.5%

- Non-scientific "LivingSocial customers [have] a little more IQ it seems [than Groupon]."

- Merchant concludes LivingSocial taking more of a Zappos approach to stand out, and is succeeding.
The original article is a somewhat munged copy of an account in Peopleware 2nd ed (I wonder about the plagiarism possibility there).

And said book does have the mustache twirling.
At my first professional job, the director of the company was a pathologist for 20 years. It then occurred to him that his industry could be run more efficiently so he embarked on developing his own pathology system. With no previous software background, he had his wife bootstrap his development of the system for a few years before he was able to implement it for production use. He ended up running his new software company for 12 years before he sold it for millions!

He is a prime example of someone with no software experience moving into the industry. However, I believe it worked wonderfully for him because he didn't shift from his primary industry where he held all of his domain knowledge.

Congrats if you're wanting to shift professions and industries as it is a brave move. I would suggest surrounding yourself with talented and experienced people in the software industry. There should be Ruby on Rails and web meetups in your area where you will be able to network and learn from approachable people.

All the best in your endeavours!
AWS is a bucket of legos, it is up to you to be smart enough to build something.

The option IS there. I know, because I had zero downtime today and am 100% on AWS.
Right, but I am not sure how a POI database has any sense of copyright-ability. Feist v. Rural states that a collection has to have a minimal requirement of creativity.

Foursquare and its venue classifications are probably can be argued for, but strict POIs are probably not.

All in all, I have to say thank you to SimpleGeo though. This is a huge step in the right direction.
These outages are very rough. Clearly a lot of the Internet is building out on AWS, and not using multiple zones correctly in the first place. But AWS can have multi-zone problems too as we see here. Nobody is perfect.

But what people forget is: AWS has a world class team of engineers first fixing the problem, and second making sure it will never happen again. Same with Heroku, EngineYard, etc.

Host stuff on dedicated boxes racked up somewhere and you will not go down with everyone else. But my dedicated boxes on ServerBeach go down for the same reasons: hard drive failure, power outages, hurricanes, etc. And I don't have anyone to help me bring them back up, nor the interest or capacity to build out redundant services myself.

My Heroku apps are down, but I can rest easy knowing that they will bring them back up with out an action on my part.

The cloud might not be perfect but the baseline is already very good and should only get better. All without you changing your business applications. Economy of scale is what the cloud is about.
Cliff Notes: Drinking soda makes you fatter. Also orange juice, cookies, and any other highly processed drinks/foods. Avoid these to lose weight.
I don't see why it's an issue that Object.create is used, as long as attributes are assigned in a consistent order the optimization should still hold, since each assignment (or read) site would be monomorphic with respect to the current map (to use the Self terminology), even if the type isn't a useful indicator.

(If I'm horribly off let me know, I'm using my knowledge of PyPy to try to make some guesses about how precisely V8 applies these techniques).
These people are the real creme of the crop.

One's even wearing an employer's ID on a lanyard from his neck.

SMRT
> How the hell are we going to get them to use longer passwords, and change them every year?

You merely require them to use longer passwords, and require them to change them every year. My university does this. They require a minimum of 8 characters, and they require that we change our password every 3 months or we can't log in.
I work for PPF on OpenCongress and other projects. Just FYI, our Ruby bindings have been rolled into a gem called GovKit, which includes Ruby bindings for other big OpenGov services around the web.

https://github.com/opengovernment/govkit/
I think people use it as a karma kick save. Show mercy.
Is SPSS any good?

I have used R for projects, but quite a few researchers I know use SPSS.
What kind of "talent"? The egregious metadata of Google Books has been brought up in book circles again and again. Fixing that should not require the kind of hiring hoops that programmers go through. Librarian and other specialist degrees existed long before there was ever a Google. Some things Google just doesn't want to be bothered with. (And when it comes to books, ditto for Apple.) [typo edit]
<exception>Surf Kayaks are closed hulls that you sit on with your legs extended: http://www.google.com.au/images?q=surf+kayak </exception>
Great story. Reminds me of

"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it." - Alan Perlis
No, it's like saying "The full YUI suite is overkill for just about everything, you should just use the core or jQuery".

'scrapy startproject' creates a couple nested directories, with maybe seven files. Are you writing a scraper that you're going to run regularly? Does it need to be super robust and maintainable? Or are you writing something that you'll run once, maybe twice?
Note, other MS partner deals that work oh so well:

MS-Yahoo..the current revenue numbers indicate that with MS's help Yahoo will reach a floor of below $200 million within one year from now from a high of several yeas back of $500 million.

How many restarts for winCE now? Is it not he 5th code base restart? Gee Nokia should be right at home than :)
Will that work with the Dropbox clients on my Android phone, my Android tablet, my Windows desktop, my OSX laptop and my Linux server? If not, then it's no use to me.
People also use depth of field / focal blur to aid depth perception. This is a major reason why the brain has issues with fake 3d using separate images, you want to focus on a part of the image, but things get blurry if you don't focus on the screen.
Just out of curiosity, what games portal are you using?
Are there any examples of a kidnapping actually being profitable?

It's almost impossible to pull off something like this. The money has to be transferred. Online? Follow the money trail. Cash? The police will embed tracking devices within the bills. (This is why you should immediately submerge your illicit cash in water. But I learned about that trick years ago, so surely the police would have waterproof equipment by now.)

If you do manage to get cash, then the three golden rules are:

1) Do not deposit more than $5,000 at any one bank.

2) Do not buy a house with cash.

3) Do not buy an expensive car -- law enforcement will notice your expensive Ferrari in front of your otherwise-middle-class house.

And at that point, have fun spending the rest of your life worrying whether someone discovers one of your fake identities, which leads them to your other identities, which connects you to the kidnapping. Not much of a life.
Right on.

Periodically, latest a couple of days ago, there's a post / discussion about whether outsourcing core functionality is the right thing to do. There are valid points on both sides of the issue.

For my part, if I'm going to be up in the middle of the night I'd rather be up working on fixing something rather than up fretting and checking status. But either way things get fixed. The real difference comes in the following days and weeks. When core stuff is in the cloud then you can try to get assurances and such, fwiw. When core stuff is in-house then you spend time, energy and money making sure you can sleep at night.
For strictly secondary authentication, it's much more likely that an admin will lock themselves out through local misconfiguration than an attacker will find the mechanism disabled.

It's also a one-line configuration change.
That might be true.
It is indeed complex if you look at the BNF in the hyper-spec.
(http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_loop...)

If you ignore the hyperspec, however, and get a feel for it by looking at examples and writing code using it, it becomes quite simple. It is very useful when you are translating C or Java code.

(http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/doc/cl/loop.html)

I find it quite readable in comparison to many of common lisp alternatives for iteration. And I kind of disagree that simple things aren't simple.

For example:
(loop for i from 0 below 10 do ...)

Is pretty much the simplest construct that you normally need.
Granted, I would likely just use dotimes in that case... but lets say you are iterating between 5 and 15, dotimes becomes unwieldy, where the for loop is pretty much the same code with the numbers changed.

(loop for i from 5 below 15 do ....)

Now try incrementing by 2

(loop for i from 5 below 15 by 2 do ....)

compare to the similar do* code

(do* ((i 5 (+ i 2)))

((>= i 15))

....)

kind of a toss up to me.

Not that I don't understand your point... in fact, as little as a year ago, I felt that way too... but I have since changed my mind.

My current preference is to use do* if writing a macro that needs iteration, and to use loop when I am doing something similar to a list comprehension or array traversal.
If you want to see more of North Korea from the inside (and from a tourist perspective), I highly recommend the Vice Guide to North Korea: http://www.vbs.tv/newsroom/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-14
That is not true at all as any reading of any place on the Internet will attest. Uncivil comments are not arguments, they are attacks on the social status of the victim. Arguments are usually civil (and signed) so they can be heard (and build social status for the speaker).
I'm a physician also, and I want to offer a counter-point. Handwritten notes are done the way they are for speed, not because it's the best way to present data. For example, in the notes I read the CBC "fishbones" often have little arrows or annotations next to them indicating trend or prior values. They do a very respectable job, but I disagree that emulating them is the best approach moving forward.

Also, our hospital also uses Citrix. It sucks. I cannot think of any reason why this approach would be preferable, from a user's point of view. But then, nobody who buys this stuff actually has to use it, which is the crux of the problem.
I recommend checking out Apache Friends site download XAMPP. That will set up a fully functional web environment (Apache, PHP, MySQL) which will let you play a bit with database. It also comes packaged with PHPMyAdmin, which is great for learning how to create tables and the like.

Also, you'll need to learn SQL. Check out http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp for a good primer on the subject.
So this is what you do when you retire in your late 20's after selling your start-up? :)
Objectivism takes as its metaphysical foundation the existence of reality that is unchanged by anything that an observer might think about it—"A is A," as Aristotle put it, and as Rand often repeated in her own work. Objectivism's epistemology is based on the capacity of the human mind to perceive reality through reason, and the adamant assertion that reason is the only way to perceive reality. In Rand's view, notions of intuition or spiritual insight were hokum.

This sounds an awful lot like the philosophy of the Bayesian conspirators over at lesswrong.com. However, instead of pronouncing intuition to be hokum, they just say that intuition isn't magic. I wonder how Ayn Rand would've been informed by the wealth of knowledge we've gained in the study of the brain and cognition and by computer science? Objectivism would have been quite different. (Not suffused with the false notion of mind as tabula rasa.)

EDIT: An excellent Review. http://lesswrong.com/lw/m1/guardians_of_ayn_rand/#more
I don't see why that would be the case on a hardware level. Unlocking power limit (and maybe voltage) controls would be nice if just to see how far it can be pushed.

Intel had unlocked TDP/TPL on many i7 chips and lower end models had exactly the same performance as higher end models (assuming equal core/thread/cache count) heh
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> One has to wonder if there's a reason.

This particular type of argument keeps coming up in Lisp-related discussions, but I seriously doubt its validity.

Lisp is overrepresented in classic texts on computer science, yes. But that doesn't allow you to jump to the conclusion that, hence, it's the best possible language or even a very good one for all things ever. As far as I'm concerned, cultural heritage (with Lisp having a long academic tradition) and syntactic/semantic transparency are far more likely explanations. SICP, for instance, doesn't employ Scheme because it is an apt language choice for industry projects or general programming but because it's a very slim, non-obtrusive language that virtually disappears behind the concept that's under scrutiny. Watch the lectures: it takes them about 10 minutes to explain all of Scheme's syntax. That's great, because when elucidating CS concepts, syntax doesn't matter at all.

However, being particularly well-suited for explanatory/conceptual purposes does not make Lisp an ideal language for everything. Not even necessarily for many things.
It's amazing how common that is.

"We want top people."

"We want to pay average."
The last years of Johnny Ive were a curse.
Thank you very much, this gave me a little more insight.

> They are looking at equations already known to be inaccurate in some cases

Are there in your opinion better equations for fluid dynamics? Also, do you think it's possible to improve the equations in case a proof for the singularities can be found?

Since you are researching fluid dynamics, what is in your opinion the most interesting development in the field right now, theoretical or practical?
It seems like an illogical position to me.

Doing the correct thing, to solve a problem, involves getting buy in from the stakeholders.

E.g. https://youtu.be/lOTyUfOHgas
Are you using the API key from thecatapi instead of just free 1000 pics which doesn't need API.
Because when I clicked on the link to get API key , then it just says "Sorry, we're upgrading the API for the next couple of hours. Please check back later.
(Sun 17-02-2013)"
Excuse my ignorance but is there a good implementation out there that uses this protocol? Jitsi perhaps?
You could also use unsafePerformIO
And the American government in general killed half a million Iraqis, and imprisons millions of African Americans, and, and, and - yet...

Those facts are completely irrelevant to the conversation about what the government's motives for its handling of COVID-19 are. Most of us restrain ourselves from bringing them up in every discussion of American domestic policy. It's off-topic, it invites a bunch of whataboutism, and it baits nationalistic arguments. It's more on-topic in threads on policing, surveillance, civil rights struggles, islamophobia, etc.
For years, all diagnosed AIDS patients were expected to die within 12 months. It wasn't spread as broadly, and the flu pandemics weren't as deadly, but the general concepts that pandemics can strike hard and fast were definitely within leaders' personal knowledge.
> Well, lets not forget that this whole mess started in China.

Yes, China is a patently dysfunctional society. This is what I can say as person whose life and career depends on it, and who actually lived there.

I'd say the "good" performance of Chinese state looks like that only in comparison to catastrophically bad showing from Western nations.

20 year ago, I would've said that what China did after the monumental screw up at the start, would've been an expected level of response from an upstanding Western nation. Now, the West can not do the same what it could've done 20 years ago easily. That's the only message for that particular point.

Is Chinese society a healthy, functioning society? No, but at least critical parts are still coasting on inertia from the time China had half sane political leadership.

Is the West a healthy, functioning society? Some things there work, but the most important, critical parts are failing in broad daylight, and people don't damn care.
> There was a lot of talk if a curfew is even constitutional.

This is the main reason, imho. And enforcement is a large issue. What are you going to do if Berliners in their usual manner just ignore everything and flock to parks en masse? Roll out the riot police against unarmed, peaceful citizens? Bring in the army? Both would look terrible, and deploying the army to police citizens would arguably be unconstitutional in a major way. Doing so would cause irreparable damage in a country where the laws have been heavily bent by the administration for the last 10 years and trust is dwindling.

And if you cannot enforce a curfew, what good is decreeing it? You'll make a stand, your bluff will be called and you're left with less power.

The major issue, I believe, is that Merkel is just not a leader in any way, shape or form. She's opportunistic, calculating and typically waits until the path is cleared by others to then emerge and claim she was always on the side of the debate that won, she has no vision and despises responsibility, always blaming "the circumstances" for any and all decisions (she coined "alternativlos", literally "without alternative", it's what she considers all her decisions to be - not decisions, but the only way possible). She's the worst kind of politician to have in this situation, because she has no personal authority. And being a terrible public speaker that apparently insists on writing her own speeches doesn't help either. Unfortunately, there's no obvious alternative anywhere in sight.
I'm surprised it was that complicated. I helped a friend out with Zoom last weekend and she had been using the browser exclusively until I pointed out they have an app. She's not very good with computers but zoom is fairly easy to use.

Also reading the EFF article on Zoom I feel like these are great usability features. The issue is if Zoom collects and stores the information.
Even so, three days without casualties doesn't seem enough to me for any country to declare they are out of the woods.
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