jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
+1 to this.

I would be very much in the market for meal replacements like MealSquares or Soylent, but they both have lots of sugar and carbs. I try to follow a paleo diet, I don't always succeed at following it closely, but the most important thing that I try to do is avoid sugar, sugar substitutes, and artificial sweeteners, and second I try to avoid carbs from grains. This pretty much means that I have to buy free range eggs, grass fed beef, grass fed butter, and make my own meals, or I have to eat at restaurants, but buying meal replacements is out of the question. There is nothing out there yet that eliminates sweeteners and carbs.

I know that there are people who want the carbs and the sugar, so here is a suggestion. Why not refactor the current MealSquare into two parts, one that is salty and paleo, and one that is vegan and low fat? That way people who like them as they are now can eat one of each and get the same result, but those of us who are paleo can get the sugar/grain free square separately, and people who are vegan can get the animal free square separately as well.
I like this analogy... puts words around a concern of mine. I'm building a startup around dealing with server configuration problems, but the problems tend to be more "pet" problems than "cattle" problems. In fact, my primary competition is switching from pets to cattle.

So I'm thinking hard about how to best apply my idea to cattle as well as pets, to reach a larger market and take advantage of industry trends.
> They're not profitable because of the existence of fdic insurance.

Even without FDIC insurance a bank with 100% fractional reserve couldn't be profitable (or even operate), unless accounts had negative interest rates, as it couldn't loan money out from deposits to earn revenue.
Very interested. If there is a way for me to buy some early samples for beta testing, I would love to know.
Dart2js was there from the beginning and the project was always well stuffed. It was never an afterthought and some decisions in the Dart language were taken because of the constraints we have when compiling to JavaScript.
As a leftist off of the numberline in Seattle, I can corroborate that thought terminating groupthink is alive and well across the social spectrum.
http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=15672

Magnesium, calcium, potassium, fiber, vitamin C, D, and E. Potassium is a good example, as supplementation is impossible, supplements are limited to 99mg by law. Vitamin E supplements have shown harm in clinical trials.
I would have rules for how I judge documentation, but I see it so rarely that "any documentation at all" is the highest honorific.
Even without a trademark, the npm source has been Artistic License v2 for as long as I can remember, so any forks are obligated to change their name to have the right to forking the source code.
The US has bases all over the world that are used to communicate with manned flights and deep space probes, and presumably these bases also have equipment for tracking everything in orbit. Russia can cover a lot of sky from within their own territory, and they've got ships that are floating tracking stations, but probably not enough to cover the entire sky all of the time. Other countries probably don't either; they most likely share the US bases and don't get the 'track everything' data.

An interesting thought: anything that is orbiting is predictable. You don't have to watch it constantly to know where it is at any given time, you just have to watch it while it passes by and calculate the orbit. So the comprehensive tracking is only necessary for tracking things which are not following consistent orbits: either they've got the ability to shift their orbit, or they're not really orbiting at all but are in powered flight. Manned flights typically shift around until they get where they are going, and I guess if they're secret they may never settle into a stable orbit. Military satellites probably do the same thing, but they'd have a limited fuel capacity to keep moving around, and a satellite is an expensive device to fly for a few days/weeks and let burn up (now that we're not using shuttles to recover them.)
The first sentence of the post is "We see a lot of cap tables at eShares". This kind of implies that he at least works there.
I'm sick and tired of retail outlets anyway, especially video game outlets. They were the only game in town for distribution until digital made every one of them obsolete. I would not shed any tear if all of these places were to die out.
Don't hear as many folks talking about emacs in evil mode. I tried that out for a bit, and I'm not really sure why I didn't stick with it. I used it a few months. I always liked the modal nature of vim and the operator/motion sequences, but I'm a fan of lisp/emacs and remember enjoying how emacs was put together more, from a modification standpoint (I don't remember any of it now)

I'll have to try that out again
I'm amazed to find that no one has mentioned that ScummVM has implemented some of these algorithms for years and they work pretty nice with the classical games.
I think the reason is merely that compile-time metaprogramming hasn't been adopted in any mainstream programming language (yet).

Boo can do cool things like that though:

http://bamboo.github.com/2010/07/11/boo-meta-programming-fac...
This is really awesome...thanks for sharing. I already own Machinarium, but I had to get the rest of these...they've been on my list.
Yeah, it's perfect for a Service. (And the Services menu should really be in the right-click menu.)
On FreeBSD and OSX, you can use ipfw:

sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 50KBytes/s delay 100ms
sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80
sudo ipfw add 2 pipe 1 dst-port 80

But don't forget to disable it!

sudo ipfw delete 1
sudo ipfw delete 2
I've heard that some domestic turkeys cannot fly. For sure the wild turkeys I've seen can. An entire flock getting spooked, taking off, and perching in a big tree is quite an impressive sight and sound...
This cheatsheet was great when I started using vim years ago.

I highly recommend http://vimcasts.org/ It has neat little tutorials that cover a lot of vim's powerful features.
I was just working on a web app for this same thing (pitched.in). I like your execution. Good luck with it.
> I am the founder of LuckyCal.

That made me smile :) That being said, I agree with your sentiment. And in the end, even if it doesn't work out, you never waste time by doing the right thing. I'd rather end up broke and do "the right thing" than to make money with a business I don't believe is making the world a better place. Moreover it seems doing the right thing is more likely to make you money which is kind of nice :)
I'm with you. I'm an Emacs user, which ostensibly has a similar design philosophy (open source, with powerful extensibility from a full-blown programming language), but Emacs Lisp has a lot of baggage and is nowhere near as widely used as JavaScript. I also find the Emacs community disjointed and hard to navigate and participate in. Ultimately, assuming that the underlying design decisions of Atom are reasonable, its success will depend on the community that develops (double meaning intended) around it. It could be great.
I don't know, I'm kind of skeptical of the ability of closed elites from anywhere doing things that are fair. We've seen the last few years how tightly linked elites in European/US societies have been evading tax responsibilities, trampling on constitutions or laws to spy on citizens, protecting those responsible for the 2008 crisis, fabricating evidence for various invasions etc. I just mean to say that temptation is too great - openness is too often a toothless tool, but it helps check those elites when their interests veer wildy away from the common good.

China is weird because it's so closed, and it's often tempting to say that the elites here are doing a pretty good job of doing what's best for the people. Until you read about how much money they are making personally from abusing their positions.
ah, i missed that - i read in the article that the land development and rental was making up the majority of their profitability.
This github repo seems to treat the French legal code as a flat text file. Which is useful, but I'm guessing doesn't do a good job of capturing structural changes to the legal code. Is this fair?

So I'm curious: how do legal scholars and practising lawyers track changes to legal systems over time? Do they use trees, DAGs, or something else? Do they have concepts similar to change dependencies and regressions? What special concepts or techniques does the domain require?

The UK has legislation.gov.uk [1], which seems to treat acts of the UK parliament as some kind of structured objects. Amendments can be accessed, and there is a timeline feature (for example [2]) that shows changes over time. It does have the feeling of being incomplete, though, and lagging behind changes as they happen. So is there some other, canonical, data source that this site tracks? What is it?

Anyone knowledgeable care to comment?

[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/

[2] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/39/section/21?timel...
Also, it is true that Windows Setup would replace old bundled applications with the upgraded versions (otherwise it wouldn't really be an upgrade,) but if you had older applications that didn't come with the new OS (REVERSI.EXE was no longer available in Windows 3.1, there was no CARDFILE.EXE in Windows 95, and so forth) Setup would just leave them alone, and they would run happily on the new OS.

There were some exceptions to this; I remember as a kid upgrading my 486 from Windows 3.1 to 95 for the first time, and being disappointed that Setup replaced Paintbrush and Write with Paint and Wordpad, because I liked Paintbrush better. It actually replaced PBRUSH.EXE and WRITE.EXE with dummy EXE:s that would just launch MSPAINT.EXE and WORDPAD.EXE instead. These dummy files are still in recent Windows versions for compatibility with stuff like ancient apps that create shortcuts to launch Write with their docs.

It was trivial to retrieve PBRUSH.EXE from Windows 3.1 install media, however, and it works fine on Windows 95 as well as every subsequent 32-bit Windows.
Cycling is relatively safe, and especially given that most people in NL have done it since they could barely stand, cycling is like second nature. It's relatively easy to prevent accidents on bicycles - you can stop quickly and such. And if you do fall, falling on your head only happens if you make a bad or unfortunate fall.

(I've had... about three serious bike accidents - fell on my head once (ow), broke my arm (ow), and drove into a rock I didn't see, causing a cut on my arm (pain. And plenty of blood).

But, three accidents, of which only one would've warranted a helmet, none of which happened in the past 15 years, are not nearly enough reason for me to wear a helmet on my bicycle. And that's how everyone else feels, too. Statistics will back me up (tens of millions of bike rides a year, only a handful of fatal head-injuries)
Yea, it would still be at the customer's own risk.
And indeed, Wine can run 16-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Linux. You could say that at this point Linux is more Windows-compatible than Windows itself :)
Comparisons of various neural architectures.

Deep Learning in Spiking Neural Networks:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.08150.pdf
>Companies DO NOT want to bid on labor, so they'll use whatever trick they can to avoid having to do it.

Workers also do not want to work cheaper than they can get, and last I checked, there's over 5 million companies in the US, and plenty of evidence that those companies are competing for labor.

So they do bid on labor. If a company does not match it's competitors, employees move. And a company has every incentive to pay more than competitors, up to the break even point, since it gets them better employees.

Even if a few companies collude, it open the door for a competitor to break ranks and steal employees. This breaking of ranks is prevalent in all sorts of cartels around the world - it's nearly impossible to make companies stick to an agreement when by breaking it they can gain advantage over rivals.

The carnival metaphor makes little sense. Employees and employers are in a market trading goods, nothing more, nothing less.
The German author Karl May wrote Westerns – which ended up being among the world’s most bestselling – without ever having visited the West. Also, while the Lemmy Caution character was created by an actual Anglophone, he is far more better known from the films that the French made about him.
Telsa has cameras in the cabin for all cars now, but have never stated that they are going to enable them for driver monitoring purposes. (But their code has flags like driver_eyes_up and drivers_eye_down, so at least it's on their mind...)
Yeah can also just inspect, delete a few overlays, and then remove the overflow from the body element and your in.
I don’t think it’s a dark pattern, but it makes me much much less likely to buy.
Pointing out the difference in our thinking is great. I appreciate that.

There are a couple problems.

The inequity of wages in Asia to those in "the West" are a temporary artifact that is slowly receding. Wages have been rising as has cost of living.

Location based pay says, I see you reduced your costs and I want to capture your increased profits. Increased efficiency is a normal mechanism for businesses to increase profits but you're an individual and you don't get to do that. More raw: I think I can get away with giving you less.

It reflects a growing problem in our society, that we are pulling up ladders to prosperity by reinforcing natural dynamics to exacerbate them (i.e. bigger slice). Often we're doing so in ways that reduces additive economic outcomes (i.e. smaller pie).

The challenge with location based pay is that this makes the offered salary less competitive and the labor more competitive. This increases the probability of turnover so those costs eat up the gained efficiency. However, the losses are booked in an illegible manner which allows them pay reducer's biases to avoid noticing them.
I know that there are plans to cache even more, but other than that I can basically only recommend to put distinct projects into proper projects (with a module and Project.toml). That will already cache precompiled code for that module, even between sessions. Having things in a script won't have that benefit. For experimenting with struct layouts, I've found that NamedTuples (https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/base/#Core.NamedTuple) are amazing for prototyping, since they can be accessed via A.b just like structs but don't have the limitation of being const global.

The dynamism and flexibility combined with the compilation model is basically what leads down this path of recompilation, unfortunately. Since importing packages may change behaviour/invalidate some compiled method (that's what the SnoopCompile stuff in the article was about), it's nontrivial to just begin caching things left and right. You'd end up with an exponential explosion in the number of methods to cache, wasting huge amounts of disk space. That's not to say that there aren't more things that could be done, just that it's hard to do so.
Lots of people abusing this one as of late. Shocking to see how much of what he covers works (repeatedly, even).
Even if it's legal to sell the data, I would not, because he said or implied he wouldn't. He's not the business owner, so he doesn't own anything.
Well, redeveloping existing areas is of course not as simple as building on unused land. From my limited research using Google Streetview, Mission Street looks like a charming neighborhood with many buildings worth preserving.

What about south of San Francisco? Couldn't you build five story or higher apartment buildings there? Again, using Streetview, it looks like there are many newly built suburbs (or maybe they are just well-kept?) but almost all of them are single homes. Which isn't dense enough to solve the housing shortage. Also quite a number of golf courses and country clubs around. :)
If you have ever built a responsive design, you will not want to use "style" attribute ever.
A fine strategy, but not dominant. Many people get tired of the same thing after a few decades. The question was “how to compete with disney”. The answer is “bother to make something new”.
This is a solution looking for a problem to solve.
There shouldn’t be any “sensitive” issues in a university context. These “universities” look more like re-education centers than educational institutions.

All those “sensitive” issues are plain ideological ideas and some people want those ideas to prevail by suppressing all conversation around them.
Correct. Most companies have "Moonlighting" clauses.

It's a clause that originally meant that you couldn't have a 2nd night job, because you would be exhausted in your primary job, but it also includes having a 2nd job in the same hours.
Also - if you have the power to demand that much payment, you have the power to negotiate a contract which protects you.

At-will employment doesn't apply here.
When I was learning to play the saxophone my instructor had an old copy of the Real Book. The transcriptions of songs by some of the jazz legends would blow my mind. I thought the people being able to transcribe those were geniuses (still do). They had no sophisticated software to help them. It was all done manually by listening to countless hours of recordings over and over again. All those chord changes, harmonies, the extra fast tempo...

That also reminds me of Phil Schapp. He used to run (probably still does) a radio program at Columbia University. Most astonishing encyclopedic knowledge of jazz!! Have a listen sometime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Schaap

Edit: Added Wikipedia link.
I could've sworn it became enforceable later but apparently I've lost all sense of time.
> I understand that as a US citizen I have more freedoms than most people throughout history

Maybe on paper or as long as you are lucky.

In most EU countries such stories of police abuse are way, way less common.

Including things like unwarranted searches, seizing money with no good reason, swatting, aggressive questioning.
Are there Android apps for that?
No investment money was spent funding operations. That's the criteria we're using for this series.
The difference isn't anything to do with you paying (or owning stock in them) but rather intention. If you were paying someone to refill boats with oil, and they unintentionally spilled a bunch (just as BP did), you'd be liable in the same way as BP is now.

Note that BP is in trouble... There will be lawsuits all over the place, and not just from shareholders.
I'm paraphrasing someone, but I can't find the quote right now. Basically:

If a fruit grows in a blight, you don't give credit to the blight.
EarthDesk (http://www.xericdesign.com/earthdesk.php) does this same thing on Mac and Windows.
This talk seems like a whole bunch of 3-D snake oil.
I do agree with you; I was just taking the idea that "the value of attending university is in the connections you make" as assumed by the root of this thread, since I inevitably see that comment be used as a summary of these discussions. That idea implies that, if you don't care for the connections, self-teaching or learning in industry is somehow "good enough." And that thought implies that you could get the same connections, and therefore the same value, by just shacking everyone who would be attending the university together and letting them simmer in their own intellect.

While it's probably true in the marginal case—the 10x increase in tuition to go to an Ivy League school certainly doesn't cause a 10x increase in education, but it may well cause a 10x increase in connectivity—it's false in the general case. To simplify that: some university is good, but more university is not necessarily better. And you could probably get all the learning you wanted from just having your "apartment building" hire lecturers, and establish a good working relationship with professional research institutions (supposing most of the Ph.Ds, displaced, would end up working at Bell-Labs-like places.)
The example in the article is a good example how such thought experiments are sometimes turned into jokes for bored misanthrope/misogynist/latent homosexual men. At first, the situation could be interpreted as an exchange of a years of happy life for sleeping with somebody she considers attractive and would probably sleep with anyway. This problem then is turned into what would be her price if she slept with men for a living.

If this is your understanding of philosophy, I'd say you're misusing philosophy for dealing with personal problems.
EXACTLY! As a big movie fan, I also have that same theory. In fact I have read Robert Rodriguez's "Rebel Without a Crew" (from where the "10-minute Film School" comes from), and I see so many parallels between indie film-making and bootstrapping a company.

http://www.amazon.com/Rebel-without-Crew-23-Year-Old-Filmmak...

I would argue that with a movie you actually do iterate and evolve: That's during the editing process. I believe Scorcese once said that his key job as a director was not during filming per se, but during editing.

Also, a curiosity: Rodriguez is a major geek. He does his own special effects on his own studio in San Antonio.
Here is a collection of supposed attributions for that quotation:

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/what...

It seems rather hard to pin down the original source!
Imagine the repetitive stress injury. My body hurts from just using the wii.
I thought Microsoft was kind of dead too: http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

However, in the past six months they continue to become more surprising, interesting and relevant on many fronts every day. And the pace seems to be accelerating. I might dare say they're the most exciting "big" tech company in 2015...
> you will be asked how long it is – if short, it won't be reasonable to have forgotten it, if long, unreasonable not to have recorded it elsewhere.

Bullocks. Just yesterday they replaced the keypad on a door I've used a hundred times before and I completely blanked on the combination. It was the same 4-digit number it was before but the keypad was different and that was all it took. On the other hand, the passwords for the computers are 14 random characters, and nobody ever wrote them down because a) they were explicitly forbidden to and b) everyone used them so often they didn't need to. Except that half the time anyone would go on vacation for more than a week they would forget and have to beg the backup admins to restore their home directory because the local data was encrypted but the backups weren't.

The idea that it isn't "reasonable" for people to do these things is belied by the fact that they regularly do. And having the police break into your house and turn your life upside down by carting off with half your stuff is exactly the sort of shock that will interfere with your ability to remember.

They aren't calling it unreasonable because it's unreasonable, they're calling it unreasonable because they'd rather put innocent people in prison than let guilty people go. The prosecutor is willing to lie about what is reasonable and the judge is willing to believe the lie. But at that point it doesn't matter what you actually do because facts and logic are no longer in play. They're just making things up. If they don't get you for not providing your encryption key then they'll just make up something else for you to be guilty of.
> Down 6% after hours, for reasons that I don't understand.

Well time to buy some on Friday near market close then before it reaches >$100.
Who is touting a "Singapore of the West" idea?
Heck, my uni's network programming course pointed people to Beej's work.