jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>"I mean, I’m just pointing out that it doesn’t match the definition of a pandemic or epidemic from Wikipedia unless you restrict the population in question to male homosexuals or sub-Saharan"

Since wikipedia seems to be the only bar for your argument. Here's two wikipedia entries where it's clearly stated they are both epidemic and pandemic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_HIV/AIDS

And of course more authoritative sources such as the CDC and WHO have also classified HIV/AIDS as both pandemic and epidemic:

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/3/17-1797_article

https://www.who.int/global_health_histories/seminars/present...
It's also the size of the corrections, doing daily builds probably means you've changed a small piece of functionality and even if stuff breaks it's usually a quick fix, whereas doing them monthly/bimonthly carries a much higher risk of completely breaking stuff and is much harder to fix.
No idea.

But if you had animals with weakened immune systems and eight years or more of testing (since SARS), then it seems you have enough time for some mutations to happen.
Let's say someone vacuums up all the packets going over the wire passively and has some way of breaking TLS. Redundant encryption would be a further obstacle to reading the contents. TLS gets MITM'd in some environments, so it's useful there.
There have been an explosion of API specification formats in the last few years. No clear winner has emerged.

JSON Schema and JSON Hyperschema are JSON-based formats for describing JSON and REST (hypermedia-driven) APIs. The formats make decent sense and can be used to generate docs, validators, client libraries, UIs, and more. http://json-schema.org/

API Blueprint is another emerging format for API description. It's written in Markdown, so it is very human-readable and -writable. It is not yet suitable for hypermedia APIs. Like JSON Schema, its tooling includes validators, client library generators, mock server generators, docs generators, etc. http://apiblueprint.org/

Swagger is a YAML-based format for specifying JSON APIs. It is meant to be created using the Swagger UI, rather than handwritten. It generates pretty docs, client software, etc. but is not suited to describing hypermedia APIs. http://swagger.io

Slate is an API documentation framework/template, designed to generate very handsome documentation pages. Its concern is more documentation than specification, and therefore doesn't concern itself with things like library or mock generation. https://github.com/tripit/slate

WADL is an API description language which describes API interactions in an XML format. It resembles WSDL. Not many people use it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Application_Description_Lan...

Which of these is the best? Good question. I like JSON Hyperschema, but I am writing hypermedia APIs and the other formats here are lacking in their hypermedia support. API Blueprint is a nice format to write in a text editor and is easily read as-is or rendered from Markdown; no separate docs generator is necessary.
All right, since everybody seems to have read the handbook, here's something fresh: Gabe Newell's email [0], taken from today's r/Steam, where he shares his thoughts behind the flat company structure which Valve is so famous for.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/2zxcyy/gabe_newell_re...
What? You are suggesting that everyone should run their own server? And you are suggesting that nobody even ran a real production site on shared hosting?

You could say the exact same thing about VPS servers compared to dedicated hosting and be equally wrong. Please accept that there are different use cases that come with different solutions, of which shared hosting is one.
The ones I miss most frequently are a faster json parser (I use ujson), a faster msgpack parser and a faster database driver. The pure python versions (even on PyPy) don't make the cut :(
This isn't a new service - the cheap/unlimited pricing is what's new.
Barack Obama? Do you mean the most famous of the most brilliant hackers? https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/12/10/president-obama-f...
You're telling me that if the research was just put out there, it like, wouldn't get used? You're obviously a very intelligent person but your extended rationalizations sound silly. Just come out and say it: "we work hard to make a buck off our research".
Go also has a similar syntax (except the colon)
No, it's like you inviting the President to dinner and he sends you a gif.

Or do you consider yourself more important than the president?
Analyzing outlying statistics across all the available variables would be an interesting technique to try to predict other potential rules violations. This could apply to many different types of sporting events.

I wonder if anyone is working on this problem?

Despite a few nit picky issues I have with this particular analysis of the Patriots fumble data it's probably the strongest evidence I've seen so far that there has likely been a persistent rules violation.
How is "The welfare state has created a situation in which many are simply incapable of fending for themselves" not a statement against the welfare state?

In any case, you're derailing the conversation, and my working hypothesis is that you want to talk about your feelings rather than put any interpretable numbers behind it. What is wrong with my analysis enough that it should be considered not "very useful here", which is what you stated. What is your objection?
You describe a paradox.

The cheap laptops and Android devices exist only because the population is manufacturing the devices by hustling 8 hours a day to keep a roof over their heads.
>You can't exactly mass-produce houses

There are certainly companies trying, depending on your definition of "mass produced".
http://www.bluhomes.com/our-process

Doesn't seem much cheaper than conventional housing, but they are built inside, so your framing isn't getting rained on before the house is done.
Again, I'm mystified. Please state your case plainly. Whom, exactly, are you accusing of astroturfing?

(I realize that this not necessarily contributing to NH as such, but I'm genuinely intrigued.)
This is mostly an extract and link to the much more detailed article at http://thisoldcity.com/advocacy/photos-what-snow-tells-us-ab... , last updated 04 February 2014 .

There were 192 HN comments on the original article, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7206637 .
> As I've gotten older, I have found that most people are the same: they preach open and honesty..until it's for a cause that they disagree with. Then, they just want to silence and discredit the opposition.

This is depressingly true. Tolerance of only the ideas that the group agrees with, otherwise it's [insert something dumb here] and it needs to be stopped!
Wikipedia lists 3 resolved cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related...

Texas v. Pennsylvania: dismissed due to lack of standing.

Gohmert v. Pence: dismissed due to lack of standing and jurisdiction.

Tyler Kistner v. Steve Simon: ruled without hearing any real evidence, on the grounds that petitioners should have filed suit earlier.
You had rioting people who lost any upward mobility at exactly the same time the sitting Vice President and Congress were explicitly voting on the certification of the result of the election. They were backed by 150+ Politicians who were going to refuse to certify their results. These rioting people then committed several felonies of much greater legal concern than anything in the BLM protests and subsequent rioting.
it's difficult for the programmer of a parent component to influence the behavior of the child component

You seem to focus only on the few drawbacks of CSS inheritance and to ignore its biggest advantages like you don't have to write declaration for every and each element on the page and rely instead on inheritance for props to cascade properly.

Yeah sometimes undesired consequences occur on elements but it's easy to remedy the situation if you know what are you doing but by moving all the presentation info to your logic layer in development, and then littering the structure/content layer i.e. HTML via style attribute in run time, this is unacceptables and can't be seen as progress for the industry in any way.
I would counter that isinstance() checking is - at least in the general case - an antipattern.

Better to check that the object you've been passed implements the interface you need rather than reasoning about its inheritance chain. Duck typing!
Classical music! :-)
Sigh, yet another almost ready :(

Glad to see stuff progressing though and the update is hugely appreciated.
Full albums by Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails. Try Ghosts I-IV and the Social Network Soundtrack.
Cheers! Nice to know I'm not the only one that thinks it's cool.
I like the idea - if I wasn't bootstrapping my side project I would definitely consider it so I could spend more time on the business side of things.

Side note, any reason the domain isn't hireasquad? The CTA's and content are.
At least 300,000 - but probably more than a million - Armenians were killed.

> There is general agreement that hundreds of thousands of Armenians died when the Ottoman Turks deported them en masse from eastern Anatolia to the Syrian desert and elsewhere in 1915-16. They were killed or died from starvation or disease.
The total number of Armenian dead is disputed. Armenians say 1.5 million died. The Republic of Turkey estimates the total to be 300,000.

> According to the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the death toll was "more than a million".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6045182.stm

So what are you saying? That people were not killed, or that they were not killed as part of a genocide?
This is a good illustration of exactly why this font is useful - you want to focus on typography, so you think you need to see text. Given a mockup that needs comments about the layout, or color, or whatever you'll be looking at the wrong bit. This font lets you can see where the text goes, but you can't spend time worrying about the font, weight, kerning, etc so you'll only be able to give feedback on the bits that need feedback.

Obviously if a design needs comments about the typography the designer wouldn't use this font.
If it is too tiresome to write one more argument:

class window:
@staticmethod
def __init__(min, max):
window.min, window.max = sorted((min, max))

@staticmethod
def __call__(x):
return window.min <= x <= window.max

Or if you are just bored of self:

class window:
@classmethod
def __init__(cls, min, max):
window.min, window.max = sorted((min, max))

@classmethod
def __call__(cls, x):
return window.min <= x <= window.max

But my favorite is:

window = lambda *args: (
lambda (min, max)=sorted(args):
type('', (), dict(min=min,
max=max,
__call__=lambda _, x: min <= x <= max))()
)()
It seems like those with functional programming experience either already understand monads or grasp it quickly. At the same time, those without it have an instinctual eye-glaze when shown Haskell, or a lisp.

Would it be better to use Python or Javascript which more people understand but still has that functional flair? Just an idea. Either way I look forward to reading it!
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One difference between 10.7 and 10.10 is that 10.7 cost money and 10.6 kept working as before. It was considered perfectly normal to stay on the old system and be productive. (The Windows world is still "sane" in that way.)

Now Apple and the internet army of Early Adopters have united and it works like that-

1. iOS 8 is released and you have to update (if you want to receive security updates)

2. If you accidentally enable iCloud Drive or use a new version of iWork, you need the Yosemite Developer Preview (or wait for 10.10.0)

3. Now you are using iOS 8.0 and 10.0.0 and live through six terrible months.

It's a lot harder to be a "slow adopter" nowadays, especially if you live deep in the Apple ecosystem (iCloud, iWork).
I've recently made a transition from full-time work to sparse, part-time freelancing, which I deem successful, but may not be by others' criteria. The parameters of my freelancing are undoubtedly much different from yours, but perhaps my experience is still of use.

Up until May 2014, I was working FT at a small non-profit (government-supported) consulting firm in the medical devices space. At this point I had about a decade of progressive development experience and more than half of that in the medical space.

I wasn't totally happy at that position for various reasons and, for some time, I had been interested in having more time to work on my own projects. Part-time work was what I thought I needed, but no employers were interested in that kind of arrangement.

Also significant is that in April 2014, our first child was born and I knew that I wanted to be an involved parent. So as my son's due date came closer, I investigated freelancing as an option.

Another factor that is important in my case is that due to my previous employment and my family's relatively frugal means of living, we are doing OK financially. We live in a medium-sized city in Canada where living costs are lower tha your bigger tech hubs. I knew that I could go a year or more with almost no income that we'd still be fine. I've come to realize that this is a blessing and a curse at the same time though ;)

To be honest, some things just fell into place for me. One of the clients that I was the lead on at my day job was someone I knew that I could talk to openly and when I told them that I would be leaving, they showed immediate interest in retaining my services.

My employer was fairly shocked at my leaving. I was (and I try to say this as modestly as possible) the most productive and reliable developer there and also the one trusted most with customer relationships. I gave them plenty of notice (6 weeks) and we left on very good terms.

Here's the kicker, my old employer is now my #1 client. I am essentially a subcontractor to them. I make about 1.75x what I did as a FT'er on an hourly basis doing my old job for them, but I have the ability to set my hours, workload, and decide which projects I take on. It's almost funny to me because if they had offered me reduced hours and similarly reduced pay in the past, I probably would have taken it. I charge them a bit less than other clients, because they take the pain of finding new customers out of the equation for me.

All this said, I bill about 50 hours a month. I could bill more (take on more work), but that isn't my objective. The other time I spend working on my startup and I spend an above average amount of time at home, being a dad. This is exactly the arrangement I was looking for and I couldn't be happier with life these days.

This won't last forever. That's why I've got the startup in the works and also I know that, should I ever need, I have a reasonable number of contacts in my city to get another job (and I'm sure my old job would still be available should I choose to return).
Welcome. I'd be happy to help, if I can. Email me if you're interested?
There's a good selection of dedicated hosting providers that provision physical servers in an hour or less. Softlayer has diagnosed and replaced failed hardware in my servers in under an hour a few times. If you take care of your own backups and configuration automation, then the advantage tips back to dedicated servers at small scale.
Thanks, I had no idea that was a link. The color is the same as your logo color, which is tres confusing.
Reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wS5xOZ7Rq8
"There is a huge irony," said SETI Director Jill Tartar, "that a time when we discover so many planets to look at, we don't have the operating funds to listen."

That sounds more unfortunate than ironic. It would be ironic if funding went directly from SETI to the satellite which found the planets.
I'm rather bullish on matters of space exploration, but I'm pretty skeptical about just how profoundly transformational a SETI discovery would be. If there were such a discovery, it would be beset by difficult-to-imagine communication challenges, not the least of which is a years- or decades-long delay between sending a signal and receiving any response.

There have also been some cogent arguments that it might be in the best interests of our own self-preservation to not broadcast our presence, for now, just because we are still technologically primitive. Being loud represents a big wager that anything else within hearing distance is friendly.

I'm mostly disappointed at this announcement because it is part of a trend in dwindling government support for exploration.
We've been developing a web app (http://tusulog.com) to address this "need" in addition to others. Our app allows your public timeline (like Twitter) and groups concept. You can have public, anon and private groups. Private groups are just like FB groups. Even if FB Groups seem to be more than sufficient, we think FB pages have become very cluttered. Furthermore, they couldn't have nailed it (I don't know why): 50m groups for 700m users is not much and humans communicate mostly by group/network basis. In other words, you don't speak to family the same you speak to school friends.

We haven't done any PR/promotion work and I want to ask your comments about how should we compete against the Goliaths?
The environmental argument for more bike friendly cities is one thing but I think that the quality of life argument is even stronger.

One of the things I miss the most from my college days was being able to ride my bike everywhere. I could go for weeks without driving and it was wonderful. Now days I almost never ride my bike anywhere (other than by my house for exercise) because there are just too many cars and careless drivers.

If only more cities were like Copenhagen. When I travelled there I was blown away by how bike friendly the city is. There are some parts of the city that are only accessible by bike and the roads that allow cars have elevated bike lanes, which are much safer than the “share the road” bike lanes we have in the US. The psychology of road rage just disappears with bikes. Once all the metal and glass around you disappears we are much friendlier in traffic and accidents.

Making the world more bike friendly isn’t just good for the environment but good for our well being.
By definition, you would only have to get a few weeks worth of groceries once every few weeks. Do you need to drive alone in your car every single day because you need to get groceries once a month?

> whiteout blizzard

Why the hell are you driving anywhere in a whiteout blizzard? Stay home. You don’t need to go into the office and update the TPS report during a blizzard.

A blizzard happens maybe once every one or two years. You need to drive on a sunny day in May because sometimes a blizzard happens? That makes no sense.

If you live somewhere that whiteout blizzards are a year-round everyday occurrence, maybe consider a dogsled as an alternative to driving.
The emphasis of the scope was the word "comment" and not "Hacker News"; i.e., it's a lot to cram into a comment. Here are a handful of thoughts:

In a nutshell, I think apparel is too cheap, but raising prices isn't the solution because of the bargain-hunting and markdown pricing expectations that consumers have that is moving its way further upmarket every year. Brands are scared to raise a penny on their prices, and are right to be fearful because consumers don't have loyalty. While manufacturers are living on terrible margins, retailers (who get decent margins) have to deal with the ridiculous cost of retail real estate and stock write downs, which means that the only person who really wins is the importer (in cases when the importer exists) and the consumer. The importer can also lose this game if they work on a replenishment basis (double storage cost there if you're following along).

Plenty of other reasons exist. If we use the earlier example of a refrigerator, then things like automation come into the picture. The apparel industry, for the most part, is not really automated. I've seen TV manufacturing facilities, and they are so alarmingly automated it seems fake at first glance. Even then, companies like Sony have lost money every year for decades selling TV because the rest of the business can sustain huge losses so Sony can have their logo staring at you every day of the week in your living room. Apparel businesses don't have that kind of luxury because most are not small hobby businesses of a larger conglomerate.

Then there are lots of political issues such as the United States customs policies. FTA like CAFTA/NAFTA, AGUA, special treaties like the ones with Jordan are all affecting apparel. Do you know a synthetic garment from a country like Sri Lanka (lots of, for example, Nike production happens there, so think about an athletic garment from them) will be imported at a 32% duty rate?

"Fast fashion", which today basically means very cleverly convincing consumers to buy more clothes means the SKUs have gone up for manufacturers, but since nobody really gets paid anymore the margins get shrunk because of a loss of economies of scale right from the start of the value chain until things are put on retail shelves.

Etc. etc.

TL;DR Apparel costs about what it should, if we assume it should be a reasonably low-margin, high-risk business. Comparing it to the lower-margin, higher-risk electronics industry is not an easy comparison because of how different the businesses are.
>We've reached a point where ideas are gaining ground about immutable infrastructure, people are talking more about things with similarities to microkernels called unikernels [1] (and where they might be used [2]).

Not only this. Amoeba, Tanenbaum's research OS is a distributed operating system, meaning that many devices could be used as a single system. This would be incredibly useful in our current age where everyone has a laptop, a smartphone, a tablet, and lots of other devices that need to be synched.
Do you have a link to the story in your first paragraph? I would like to read it in detail.

Sexual orientation and contraception are two very serious issues which I feel greatly underqualified to form global opinions about. The situation in Ireland seems to me like a misunderstanding of the Catholic teachings, given that AFAIK the teachings are meant to be followed in one's personal life because of one's personal faith, and not by forcing them on others by means such as state laws.

The only comment I can make is by following the teachings in my own life and not having sex outside marriage, I don't conceive children* with women whom I abandon later, therefore

- I don't hurt women by making them take contraceptive pills with unknown side effects,

- I don't hurt women by forcing them to carry out a child they do not want,

- I don't hurt children by causing them to grow up without a loving family,

- I don't hurt women by forcing them to go to abortion,

- I don't hurt children by conceiving them and then killing them in abortion before they are born.

Most of the above happened in my family, and I want to avoid the hurt caused by or to my family members in these situations.

* AFAIK no contraception is 100% effective.