jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Rand makes claims based on clearly defined concepts - if you change the definition of the concept or misinterpret that's not her fault. When she says 'man' it is shorthand for an adult human capable of rational thought. If the human in question is not capable of rational thought (infant, retarded person), then most of Rand's theory does not apply. It consists of qualified universal claims, all depending on the nature of the organism (on a case by case basis, but we generalize for convenience).

Meeting an overwhelming foe in war is an ethical emergency where there is no good outcome, just a choice of bad ones. As such, do whatever seems to best protect that which you value most, either fleeing or fighting (or even dieing to save others) could be moral decisions. These are not the problematic parts of Rand's philosophy, the rules themselves don't change - but they are in fact the problematic parts of almost every other philosophy I come across: ie. the unhelpful focus on emergencies and exceptions, rendering the 'answers' irrelevant to everyday life. See Rand's essay 'The Ethics of Emergencies' for more on this.

You say the concept of the individual is wrong but just as morality only has meaning to the living, this very discussion only has meaning if it involves conscious, self-aware individuals, so there's literally no point entertaining any idea to the contrary (even though I'd like to point out that molecules still exist as unique entities even though they're made up of quarks).

Also it's irrelevant whether there is a hardwired survival instinct in place or not - as I said the whole thing rests on a conditional premise, a choice. Look at what Rand's saying like this:

Do you, lifeform, wish to live? If so then [insert Objectivism here]
Making fun of your own culture is very different than making fun of a different culture.
Huh. Diabetes is not what I expected. I looked at the discussion section;

>Accumulated epidemiologic evidence generated from this meta-analysis suggests that egg consumption is not associated with an increased risk of overall CVD, IHD, stroke, or mortality. However, compared with those who never consume eggs, those who eat 1 egg per day or more are 42% more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Among diabetic patients, frequent egg consumers (ie, ≥ 1 egg/d) are 69% more likely to have CVD comorbidity.

>In the current meta-analysis, we observed a positive association between egg consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes. Although the findings were inconsistent, some animal studies suggested that high cholesterol feeding increased fasting plasma glucose concentrations or induced hyperinsulinemia and impaired glucose tolerance (61–63). Studies have also suggested that elevated serum cholesterol might be associated with an increased islet cholesterol content and directly induce β cell dysfunction by reducing glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (64, 65). In addition, studies have indicated that dietary cholesterol might be associated with chronic, low-grade inflammation (66, 67), which is a mechanism underlying the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Moreover, our results on egg consumption and risk of diabetes are supported by some other human studies (38–40, 68) that do not meet our inclusion criteria... Of note, the possibility cannot be completely excluded that the observed positive associations between egg consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes are explained by residual confounding from unmeasured factors, because diabetes was the secondary outcome in most included studies. Nevertheless, future studies are warranted.
+1. If I am forced to choose just one "TV subscription" it will be Criterion. A close second will be Mubi. I see Mubi as the millennial's Criterion.
His comments about children were actually expressed in a GNU mailing list, but sure, move those goal posts.
This is The Atlantic gaslighting you.

You might speak English but you just think you understand the word.

The Atlantic knows best. You could never know yourself what gaslight means. If you're using it wrong you're alt-right so listen to The Atlantic.

Watch the movie, it's good. It's on all the pirates sites and pay for view on Amazon I think.

Have fun while learning to be better than the mediocre Atlantic writers.
I have no sympathy for the cowards who murder with drones. They know that what they're doing is wrong and nobody is forcing them to murder.
Ubuntu, debian, armbian etc all have pipelines, build processes to create an image file where the users can install. The processes where one can compile/build/package are already there (signing the image might require more steps with access to keys). Documentation and the tooling for such processes can be improved and made more user friendly.

With the evolving supply chain attacks, US Government advised companies to better understand their software supply chains. With transparent and repeatable builds this goal would be much more simple using the approach documented above.

We can innovate on more ideas for making more transparent software. We can have signed dependencies, pre-built trusted (signed, hashes) dependency chains.
How 'bout "hacker"?
It wasn't just a xkcd reference I think, I think it really was a reference from the fail0verflow presentation where the security of the PS3 was totally dismantled (the device itself, not PSN).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btDiX319P4w @ around 8 minutes in
Just structure your data so the next guy doesn't have to suffer.

Cust.Name

Cust.Cmmt (commit?)

Cust.Comments

Cust.Number

etc.
Someone registering the trademark underneath them, using the trademark for illegal activities, pretty much anything negative.

Some people seem to be alarmed and think that you won't be able to use node/node.js in your domain names, but you just need to get a license. Like with anything else.
Downvotes? Seriously? It's a simple statement of fact.
I still don't see a good justification for keeping the ebs control plane exposed to failure across multiple availability zones in a region. Until that is fixed, I would not depend on AZs for real fault tolerance.
Huh. I've never worked somewhere where people do anything other than grab some food and eat it at their desks. Who has time to actually go out for lunch?

One advantage of the open, trading-floor layout is that you can chat with the people around you, if you want.
Yeah, for the thing with mornings and evenings is that in the evenings i am a total dumb-dumb. in the mornings i am overflowinh with ideas, projects etc. so thereis.serious hain for me when
>Plack/PSGI has been embraced by almost everyone.

In your company or in general?
Because if it's in general, I would be more than happy to see where you get your stats.

> You do Miyagawa a disservice implying he's pumping his own code.

Well, I do think that a not even 2yo spec,a set of modules that are 6~18 months old pushed on a cloud service like that with no back up plan for more "traditional" systems is a way to push its own system. we can agree to disagree on that.
which percentage of providers offer plack with nginx nowadays compared to Apache with FactCGI?
I apologize. I thought you meant productive as in more work (you know more code, more marketing etc..).

Maybe I am abnormal here, but there is nothing in this world I could enjoy doing everyday for most of the day.
Try this at some point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of...
These events have been overrun by non-developers, so it really doesn't say anything about developers: WWDC is a million crappy tech bloggers live blogging about the latest unveiling.

Android simply doesn't have that. The devices are released frequently and uneventfully.

Though note that Google I/O sold out very early (well in the early bird period). And here's the best part: No one who signed up knew they were getting ANY free phone, much less two.

So when someone says "See they had to bribe you to be here", it doesn't really wash given that the bribe wasn't known until you were already there.

Google wants developers developing and testing on the top devices, so they give them out.
It's not about his disdain for the word, it's about maintaining a vocabulary that alienates no one. As it is, even if it's been around for ages from our perspective, there are technophobes out there who have no idea what a tweet is. For their sake, it makes sense for NYT writers to abstain from using a word with less than 100% language penetration.
HTC has done pretty well in the American market, but they also use American OSes (Android, WinMo) on their smartphones.
It seems like another major use for Excel is its ability to allow people type text in tables. That's using a big hammer for a rather small nail.

This fails in Word--it tries to make the table fit onto a printed page--about 6" across. It doesn't work very well in my [old] copy of Dreamweaver.
Dump it in the seam where one tectonic plate dives under another.
> If you look at the Chinese chip industry, then you see that a lot of money comes from the private sector. Huawei, Xiaomi, etc are investing a ton of money in semiconductor companies.

A private sector which got so successful not least because government systematically robbed IP from competitors (Nortel...). Yes, western politics also messed this up, but no these are not "private" sector operations in the same way Tesla is.
Author here. Absolutely. I used to love Turbo Pascal and Delphi when I was younger. If Free Pascal uses GNU LD.BFD or LLVM LLD when it links programs, then all you'd need to do is is configure it to use cosmopolitan.a when linking system call functions like read(), write(), etc. See https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan Another option is if Free Pascal wants to write all the system call support from scratch, then doing that now is going to be a whole lot easier since the Cosmopolitan codebase does a really good job documenting all the magic numbers you'll need. See files like https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/sysv/s... and https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/sysv/c... I've been working on a tiny C11 compiler called chibicc which has most GNU extensions and I managed to get it working as an actually portable executable with an integrated assembler: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/third_party... I also got Antirez's KILO text editor working as an APE binary. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/examples/ki... If we can build a linker too then we can get a freestanding single file toolchain + ide that's able to be a modern version of Turbo C.
By these standards, we don’t understand what *anything* is because if you keep drilling down you encounter some sort of brute fact or an equation we only understand qualitatively.

The author could have picked anything. They could have written “We don’t understand what Chairs are” and it’d be the same article.
What unusual metrics and arguments. What do you mean wages are higher? I took a quick look, and there are indeed laws for minimum wage, but depends on fields, and various criteria (education level, etc), but generally speaking at around 25 usd.

Taxes is a confusing point, because, paying taxes can (should?) distribute wealth. We are after all talking about minimum wage here... General high taxes is something that benefits this group of people the most. You pay comparatively less of income as tax, and you get to spend it on other things than health care, or education (as its mostly handled by tax money).
I wonder which will happen next, IP addresses again or Voyager leaving the solar system again?
PIR, the owner of .org, is a non-profit corporation.
The example of the door dents was particularly relevant for me, because it actually happened. When we built our house in 2000, the front door got a lot of dings in it. We mentioned it to the builder, and they sent over a new door but never installed it. We stored it against a wall in the garage. 19 years later and it's still in the garage. The only time it's moved is when it fell over and put a dent in the car. Not sure what conclusions you can draw from that.
It only takes housing off the market if those employees would have otherwise commuted or not accepted the job offers.
He was referencing my statement above, not the bet.
Carl Hiaasen's YA books are good. They cover topics like ecology, bullies, strange swamp dwellers, and abusive parents who may or may not be in jail.

http://www.carlhiaasen.com/young-readers.shtml
Presumably it needs a loop around it, so it's not Turing-complete by itself?
Ok now do Twitter. And Facebook. And Gmail. And the US Postal Service.
You didn’t answer - what do you think they brought them for?
The irony is that there companies are setting the conditions to incite violence far greater than anything they think they're helping to tamp down.
Red... Hat...
Maybe, but I've had my fill of listening to people hold forth on the urban form when they've lived their entire existence in the suburbs.
Oops, I should have written more clearly. I know I could still learn programming. And once I finish the planned work within my niche, that's my next plan.

I've got about 1-2 years of known profitable work. Right now that actually offers a far higher return than learning development. But eventually I'll largely max out the potential of my business, or get bored.

At that point, I want to learn programming. Right now, it's not a constraint in my business. I know enough to manage my site and to learn new bits as needed. I've gone through K&R (for orientation to programming, not to learn C, though I did the exercises) and Udacity's intro to python class.

It was here on Hacker News that I both found out about those resources, and gained confidence that I'd be capable of learning given time and commitment.

The business will be a local maximum, but it's also largely passive once built. My main focus at present has been freedom of time and place, and building a reserve of surplus income, since business has inherent instability.
Github ignores that rule when they emit such domain names. One might make the point that Firefox and others who in turn reject such domain names are not being lenient in what they accept, but since domain names on the edge of acceptability often are a security issue, I think that a strict interpretation of the standard is the safe choice to make here.
In the UK the Average GP (family doctor) is on £120k most Ceng Engineers would be lucky to make half that and would have a Finaly Salary pension these days
$1500 fully loaded per month? That's barely minimum wage / working at McDonalds level pay in the states. In the states, just the cost for health insurance for a family of 4 is going to run $1500+ per month.

Your 0-50k-250k-750k-1.2m-1.8m-2m+ progression sounds like a great starting point for analysis. If that's a 3 - 4 person founding team, assuming these are top notch employees that could earn $100k/yr on the open market, that's at least $150k fully loaded per employee, 12 person-years before break-even, that's $1.8m for payroll, taxes, and benefits. Throw in another $500k for company expenses at least.

Now, to some extent (ignoring the legal/tax issues) you can ask the founding team to contribute that $1.8m out of their own pocket in the form of foregone salary/benefits and say it's a bootstrapped company with "no outside investment" but in reality it's just the team absorbing that $2m+ of required startup capital.
that means no water too ?
You don't redig for more fiber unless you really screwed up the initial dig. Always leave lots of room in the tubes to blow more glass down later.
You should be able to achieve that with this tool paired with postgres foreign data wrappers!
Daily Telegraph is on it's last legs. It's going to die soon (thank god). Surprised to see articles posted here from it. Most of the reddit UK sites don't bother with them.
You should probably consider OpenRESTy.
The highlight doesn't vanish, the clipboard contents do, because that's global and it gets written on highlight.
You’re kidding right? Reddit is not being used exclusively for porn. Why would communities like r/politics or r/WSB leave because pornography was banned?
>Didn't the intelligence community warn of a likely pandemic with sars and swine and...

Yes, and MERS as well, and these warnings were listened to. Actions were taken. Experts deployed. Testing enacted. A whole machine of pandemic expertise, sitting dormant, shuddered to life, and pinched off the supply of fresh hosts for the viruses.

This time, not so much.
No problem not here to attack. Hopefully something I shared helped!
Space Shuttle thermal tiles "misconduct" heat well, to put a positive spin on it.
You guys should check out "Le Mans: Racing is Everything (2017)" on Amazon prime.

In it, Nissan has a driver that was a gamer, and converted him to a professional driver!
But my concern is, are these kinds of measures actually necessitated? The entire argument for doing them appears to be that China did them; in fact, I'm not sure I've seen anyone make an argument, rather than just silently assuming "extreme social distancing" must mean Wuhan-style authoritarian control. You say "Asia and Africa", but before 2020, is there any precedent at all for controlling a pandemic by mandatory universal lockdown of its healthy citizens?

In other words, what are the chances that we look back in a decade, and realize that we inflicted a month of trauma on the country because we assumed authoritarian China must have a good reason for it?
How to grow vegetables and fruit in the garden.
Very interesting, I'm impressed with what you've made so far.

I'm sceptical that people will want to watch an AI deliver news, but it's becoming more popular.

Just search "Reddit AMA" on Youtube, you'll find 100's of channels that have Text to Speech videos of Reddit content.

Good luck with the development of this!
I'm not the right person to ask. I'm not an expert. What I know is that I don't want to stay stuck in my house for the next few months, but I also want life to be normal when I do get out, and not turned into a "nobody can shake hands or kiss" movie.

I'm also not in favour of vague policies but can you really blame politicians in this case? It's easy to make predictions but nobody really knows what things will be like three weeks from now. What's the point of saying things will return to normal in three weeks if it's not grounded in anything?
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ack and ack :)
Yes, I did read your entire comment. I'm not disagreeing with your points, or trying to dismiss them, I'm saying that the way you lead into them detracts from them, and is uncivil.
I can understand why you might want that, but I'm sorry, that's insane from the other side. While this is by no means the only reason this can't work, it is enough: Telling you directly why we passed is an invitation to get into a very heated argument about how that's not true and how it was misunderstood and how unfair the whole thing is. And there's still the legal reasons, and a number of other human reasons; I could go on for a while on how bad an idea this is. It can't happen this way.
Several people have asked for additional details. We just posted a quick follow-on:

[UPDATE] A central theme of the recent AWS issues has been the Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service. We use EBS at Twilio but only for non-critical and non-latency sensitive tasks. We've been a slow adopter of EBS for core parts of our persistence infrastructure because it doesn't satisfy the "unit-of-failure is a single host principle." If EBS were to experience a problem, all dependent service could also experience failures. Instead, we've focuses on utilizing the ephemeral disks present on each EC2 host for persistence. If an ephemeral disk fails, that failure is scoped to that host. We are planning a follow-on post describing how we doing RAID0 stripping across ephemeral disks to improve I/O performance.
So this is patent infringing code? Awful.

import scala.collection.mutable.LinkedList

class ExpiringHashTable[K, V] {

case class Elem(key: K, var value: V, var expires: Long)

private val BUCKETS = 10
private val store = new Array[LinkedList[Elem]](BUCKETS)
for(i <- 0 until BUCKETS) store(i) = new LinkedList[Elem]

def put(key: K, value: V, expires: Long): Unit = {
val b = bucket(key)
store(b).find(_.key == key) match {
case Some(x) => {
x.value = value
x.expires = expires
}
case None => {
store(b) = new LinkedList(Elem(key, value, expires), store(b))
}
}
}

def get(key: K): Option[V] = {
val now = System.currentTimeMillis
var result: Option[V] = None

// BUG: This doesn't handle the first element in the list being expired
var prev: LinkedList[Elem] = null
var i = store(bucket(key))
while (i.next != i) {
if (i.elem.expires < now) {
prev.next = i.next
} else if (i.elem.key == key) {
result = Some(i.elem.value)
}
prev = i
i = i.next
}
result
}

private def bucket(key: K) = key.hashCode % BUCKETS

}

Ya, there's a bug. Too busy ATM to think about the clean way to fix it.
I don't get the impression this was posted for its "hotness," but rather for its nostalgia. Well, partially nostalgia and some HN readers may have never seen an 8086 before in their lives; so in that way, it's a history lesson, too.
What's the deal? That's not the original URL. This is:

http://cloudhead.io/2011/04/18/why-osx-doesnt-cut-it/

Did that site get the author's permission to post it elsewhere?
Totally agree. I thought it wasn't listed anywhere until I looked at the comments here. It would probably improve conversions a lot if there was a simple "Pricing" tab at the top.
So, essentially, incompetence mixed with blackmail. Can't really blame technology for that.

(edit: I think there's a big part of the story we're missing here. Seriously, what company that claims to be a "new and promising internet business" outsources its engineering?)
Well, in fairness, it's relatively difficult to do today: first of all, most neural architectures don't fit on mobile, because most of the research is either more academic than production-focused, or because people are chasing the best possible accuracy as opposed to accuracy under constraints. There's still great applicable research, and in particular the SqueezeNet, QuickNet and MobileNets papers are great in that respect.

Then there are some issues with just the tooling. TensorFlow is great, and works great on mobile, but it was a bit hard to get it working. The whole team there is doing an awesome job documenting and improving everything though! It's just early and not enough users have built apps with it to get the kind of production-readiness you get out of non-Machine Learning components.
That is what the 3% is for! It’s the point of the fees! The whole reason for everything is fraud and points

By the way fraud at current levels are covered by like a few of 0.25% IIRC

I imagine that whatever app isn’t using 3D secure like it should be, cuz then the bank/card processor is liable in fraud cases. But this is far from a new problem in principle.