jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
South Korea has virtually no new active cases daily, only 100 deaths after 4 months of exposure and hasn't brought in any laws even close the authoritarian stuff that is going on elsewhere across the planet in the name of covid-19/sars-cov-2

Buyer beware. Undoing laws and measures is a lot harder than enacting them in a "crisis".

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin
Poorly designed studies can lead to expensive and unnecessary followup studies.
There are effective bans on advertising for certain products, e.g. cigarettes, in large parts of the globe.
If you want to watch a great documentary about tea growing and making check out All in This Tea.

http://www.netflix.ca/WiMovie/All-in-This-Tea/70095114

http://www.lesblank.com/more/TeaFilm.html
I find it strange that the Sequoia presentation doesn't talk about energy prices and their effect on the economy. After all, the price of oil went triple digits in 2008.

Historically, there is a strong correlation between spikes in oil prices and recessions. In 2005 these guys were even wondering why a recession hadn't shown up yet - guess they spoke too soon: http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2005/el20...
... which is why you frequently hear BDD called "Agile Acceptance Testing"
Related:

Malcolm Gladwell, Annals of Business, "The Sure Thing," The New Yorker, January 18, 2010, p. 24 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/18/100118fa_fact_...

Paywall. Apologies.
This is a response to just your first question:

1. They need to be passionate about your idea.
2. They need to be able to connect with you on a personal level.
3. They need to have the right skill sets for your project.

This is the order I put it in because of a few reasons. First, passion/determination is what drives startups in the first place. Without passion, everything else is half assed, so you want someone who believes in your product and/or your idea. Startups co-founders or the early team members of the founding team is like a marriage. You will be spending ALOT of time with them so make sure you guys can get along. I say skills last because in all honestly, anyone can code. If you're looking at the same range of experience, they will all most likely be able to do what you need them to do.

It's the other factors that you don't see on paper that you want to look for. Look for passionate people and devs you can get along with in the long run. Hope it helps.
The thing that really makes it plausible is, and I think every sysadmin has felt this, the feeling you get when you're in a server room. Spend enough time isolated in there, and I bet you every sysadmin will start to daydream about how something catastrophic could happen outside and he wouldn't even know.
sorry ... what i meant is why would someone spend their own hard earned money for a political office? and if you loose the election then dont you feel guilty that that money could have done some good to society if donated to right organization...?
No.. the switch to traditional format option was added after the site were live for 2 or 3 weeks. (At least on Jalopnik) It is the only reason I went back to reading Jalopnik.
Which would imply that their backend was compromised, not just DNS.
High-end jewellery still serves that function for many who don't trust the banks, want to diversify from currency for some longer term store of wealth, or want to discreetly move some wealth across borders.
Just because you are different, or "more individualized", doesn't mean it's good. You don't see cancer patients with unusual tumor called "individualized". Same here.

"Individualization" can mean that the person is not adjusted to the surrounding people because of some defect in brain's response to other people, for example.
Easily: look outside, decide the world is still a fucked-up place, stay inside. "Normal" social interactions with other people will drag you into society, and you sure don't want that, avoid that too.
Start thinking about how to make more advanced tools/frameworks/architectures/whatever-it-is-you-do that allow you to think more and code less.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend spending a year learning to type, but I would definitely recommend writing documentation as a process that will improve your code. Writing proper specifications, proposals, documentation, etc highlights problems amazingly well. I would argue that is what makes you a better coder, more than actually writing code, because explaining how your code works is the best way to see how your code could be improved.
I suspect that is because tech people tend to be smart.
Those kinds of fields require human interaction or flexibility or, more often, both that is incredibly hard to automate. For an entertaining fictional explanation, see Heinlein's Door Into Summer where the inventor of the robots explains why housework is harder to teach a robot than, for example, bricklaying. (I don't know of as short and clear nonfiction example.)
Well, rites are important to us as social beings, and we make them elaborate and heavy with tradition so they feel more important. We've always had them, regardless of religion. There's always a need to mark the occasions of births, adulthood, partnership and death.

Add a bit of capitalist profit-hunger, and you end up with companies doing everything they can to maximize the money people spend on the rites, by manipulating the cultural expectations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_Payments_Service

since that went live I've managed to send most payments in about 15 minutes.

If your bank is on this list you should be fine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_Payments_Service#Partici...
See Griggs Vs Duke Power. The courts essentially made less expensive means, eg testing, illegal in an attempt at "fairness".
It's on "page 6" of that link. I was confused a bit at first too.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/start.html?pg=6
line drawings are "not something we've evolved to be able to understand," he said, but rather, people in all cultures—and even babies and monkeys—can understand a simple line drawing.

the metaphor is often more understandable than the real thing.

Finally a possible explanation as for why Mickey Mouse cartoons are "better" than realistic 3D animation movies.
I've never, ever, understood these things. In what way am I helped as a developer by looking at a picture with some high-level namespaces?
They aren't able to converse about anything other than work. People should be more interesting than this. If there's nothing new to talk about ever then you need to do some activity together or spend more time reading or whatnot. I don't think anyone in my life could explain what I do better than 'codes some Internet stuff and data'... because I rarely talk about work. If people want to hear about your work, they will ask you and beg to hear more. Otherwise they really don't care.
Does anyone have any recommendations of basic circuit emulation software that could be used to tinker with ideas like this without destroying actual hardware?

In the UK schools used to have software called 'crocodile clips' which could show things like the current flowing through each junction, but it's too basic for larger projects like this.
Regular masks it is possible to ramp up production.

N95 masks, it is not easily possible to ramp up production in a short time frame.

This article explains it well:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/16/8149292...
> Every country turns authoritarian when they need people to shelter in place or need to force factories to retool to build war equipment or medical essentials.

Those who survive this pandemic will look back and wish it was true. Right now, neither the US nor the EU are authoritarian enough. There should have been lockdowns in place a week ago, actually enforced by the military. I'm surprised to find myself believing this, but at this point I think that, were a few of the mass gatherings in defiance of social distancing met with batons, and were one of two cases of breaking quarantine met with a bullet, the madness would stop and countries in the West would have a much better chance of containing the virus.
I think Rockstar truly took that attention to detail to the next level with Red Dead Redemption 2. Everything is taken into account, down to the animal behaviour. You can even spot birds! https://www.audubon.org/news/birding-its-1899-inside-blockbu...
I will try to answer you on keybase, hopefully it will be easier to discuss details.
Flux.jl seems to be the flagship project.
Nowadays, the ideas/execution dichotomy seems to be repeated more or less blindly whenever ideas are discussed. (I do hear you and what you say above though - not blaming you for this, just responding with what arises in me. I'm not saying the following to devalue execution - just to devalue the dichotomy.)

I suppose that this is/was originally a well founded defense against, for instance, people being overprotective about their business ideas to a degree that it was undermining actually getting the implementation done.

To me this seems to mask the fact that not all ideas are made equal. There may be a mountain of user research behind one idea, and another may be just a spark of "wouldn't it be cool if..."

As long as we're working with information, all we're ever doing is in one sense or another dealing with ideas. If we only respect the work of those who deal with the business game or with the bits & bolts, we will keep ending up with poor user/client experiences. Understanding the ideas inside the head of the user often is the difference between a functional product and a brilliantly enjoyable one.
>suggesting that car accidents will kill more people this year than this virus.

That’s not what he said though. He was suggesting that car accidents will kill more SpaceX employees this year than the virus.

That doesn’t seem very far fetched, it’s not like SpaceX employs many super old people.
> I didn’t embed the video directly to avoid any tracking from Google and complications with the DSGVO.

I appreciate this and I wish this behaviour was more popular.

I especially like how it increases awareness of the problem.
> I’m struggling to parse if there’s any unique offerings compared to statuspage.io. Is there anything I’m missing?

statuspage.io relies on third-party services for monitoring, while Hexadecimal provides monitoring in-house. That way you don't have to juggle between two services.

> I’m especially focused on the UI for the posting of a status page update

Status updates (both automatic and manual) is a feature I'll be shipping next. With manual updates, you'll be able to post them either via a Web UI or a Slack bot.
I figured they would learn by getting called out like this. And since the post was anonymous, it doesn't really hurt them anyway. Free learning experience.
Some areas desperately in need of trees -- the Sahel in particular -- are marked "suitable". The fact that breadfruit represents a substantially less grass-and-shrub-like paradigm than traditional agriculture makes the environmental impact of said agriculture potentially smaller.
If I were the sixth person at a five-person startup I'd be forever worried that I was just on the wrong side of the get-rich-if-it-succeeds line.
I don't see this concerted agenda to remove white men from positions of power.

Then you haven't been paying attention to the whole picture. I suggest you read more about this issue and these players' business moves.

Today the answer is about 70%. So yeah, we are trending away from 100%.

You don't see a concerted agenda here yet you proved my point. And I've yet another gut feeling that it was never 100%. 100% sounds way too radical, maybe around 99%; hence _minority_.

Companies with female leadership tend to outperform the market.

I never claimed otherwise. I can read prejudice in your words. But I'm probably imagining things.

You're claiming that Sundar was chosen for his skin color with no evidence other than speculation.

No, I'm claiming Sundar was chosen because of his success with Chrome, his background (as in his professional and educational experience) _and_ his ethnicity.

In fact, this latter one not only for one reason but for _two_ reasons: because he belongs to a minority group (which from a PR perspective would look like "see? no more white men! Larry and Sergey are gone!") _and_ because, from a business perspective, it makes sense to pick him to help Google break into and establish itself in the indian market. It's actually a genius move.

Chrome is one of the most important products for Google.

I've never said otherwise. Have you read about Sundar's involvement with it from the start? Yet again, I suggest you read about it. It's just one search engine query away.

Who else was passed up for his job?

I have no clue. But I'm sure there were other people, but they weren't as fit for Google's business strategy.

How are you so sure?

All models are wrong but some are less wrong than others.

Ah, yes, and, finally, the constant barrage of negative news about this issue will most likely help Jeff leave.
I'll join the chorus. If you're not going to need it don't do it but if you will need and you don't do it you're going to pay dearly. "Software Engineering" is about being able to tell the difference vs. just throwing something together.
Will that automatically archive them?

And besides, many sites that are necessary for doing business think luke+priceline@somewhere.com is an invalid email address. (And all of Priceline's competitors agree, and Kayak/Hipmunk are meta-search engines so don't solve the problem.)

That said, Priceline does allow you to unsubscribe from their marketing and only receive relevant emails, which is probably the ideal place to attack this problem.
It should be straightforward to put HN behind an SSL proxy (nginx, apache, stunnel, what-have-you) if the application constructs URLs properly. HN seems to, but in some applications that's a big "if".

I'd be happy to test and supply an nginx 0.8 configuration if that would help.
This partially in response to "You are a stupid person for using comic sans."
Dave Airlie, a Red Hat engineer, is basically the guy when it comes to pushing progress in Linux's graphics stack. Shuttleworth declaring which way Linux development should go doesn't do shit for the community if he doesn't hire developers to see it through.
We have worked quite a bit on battery life and will continue to. Right now you can use the WakeMate for 2 solid nights and then you will need to recharge.

The issue with battery estimation occurs when you do not fully charge the unit (as we indicated to him) and we are currently working on improving the estimation even further.
It's also well known among diabetics. Managing carbs has been an essential part of treating diabetes since the 90s.

It's also a good strategy for preventing diabetes...
Hmm: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1237941/comicsanscriminal.png
You can hijack it in unprotected WiFi easily (e.g. firesheep), but even if it's protected, an attacker can use ARP poisoning to route all traffic to the attacker, and thus steal the sessions (and firesheep should still work in this case).
The SCOTUS decision on API Fair Use is the correct one. Students of intellectual property law and computer programs will find the briefing for the Supreme Court fascinating. I find it hard to see how the Circuit Panel that overturned the original pro-Google decision to Oracle's favor in the light of the arguments and evidence provided. The briefing for the Cert, particularly the amici, is worth reading. Oracle tried to move the argument into the public square by encouraging "experts" to write damning op-ed articles for news outlets and for the semi-technical press about the evils that Google did. Often their articles misplayed a shallow understanding of the issues and history of the Oracle/Google dispute.

The SCOTUS decision cuts through the cruft and reaches the right finding in this case. It shows that the Supremes can can pay attention and do the right thing.
I don't know enough about biology or ML to know if what I'm posting below is totally wrong, but here goes.

"Backprop" == "Feedback" of a non-linear dynamical system. Feedback is mathematical description of the behavior of systems, not a literal one.

I don't know of BNNs are incapable of backprop anymore than an RLC filter is incapable of "feedback" when analyzing the ODE of the latter tells you that there's a feedback path (which is what, physically? The return path for charge?)

So what makes BNN incapable of feedback? Are they mechanically and electrically insulated from eachother? How do they share information, and what is the return path?

Other than that I wish more unification was done on ML algorithms and dynamical systems, just in general. There's too much crossover to ignore.
I'd say OP is wrong. The Uber UX is localized into many languages. It probably takes them quite an effort to make any UI change, especially ones that require localization.

Also, the change I'm proposing changes the fee structure as well. I'm sure they do deep analysis any time they change the fee structure. It would probably take a ton of effort to add what I suggest.

I think they should do it, but it probably doesn't come up often enough to be worth it.
Interesting bit of Javascript. Fun.

In the code that handles the long form of ls, I'd suggest ensuring spaces between "file perms" and "file names": Safari gloms them together.

Not sure why "sh" is needed to "run" things, since items are encoded as objects: Why not for...in and if not found "command not found"?
Sorry, I don't think that's a fair or constructive comparison.
Unless Uber fixes this, it seems like a way to get some money if you have a disability.

1) Train or buy a service dog for your disability.

2) Request an Uber with your service dog, record what happens when the driver shows up. Assuming Uber doesn't fix this, many drivers will probably deny service.

3) Repeat a couple dozen times.

4) Contact a lawyer

5) Profit?
Years ago I was making a pitch to USV... the startup I was pitching was publishing related, and out of the blue one of the partners (Brad) asked me what order I read my Economist in? I paused to think and answered that I read front to back and skipped sections if they didn’t look interesting. Then I asked him what order he read it in. He said back to front. The conversation moved on without the chance for me to ask why. Maybe the reason was writing quality.
One thing I especially like about The Economist is that they consistantly explain who or what something is. It seems stupid to write: HSBC, a bank... I know it’s a bank, but some might not, and in the many cases where I don’t know a person, a company, technology or idea it’s extremely useful.
Windows 10 is obviously consumer focused. Consumers don't care about containers
I wonder if they could publish dollar cost of that job before and after the optimization, as provided by GCP billing. I know it could be a bit unfair (some costs may be static, regardless of job size, etc.) but it would improve decision making for others if discussions of public cloud usage optimizations also include the cost.
I'm being a little pedantic, but this is a little misleading:

> After the Roman Empire fell, its knowledge, writings, and customs were somewhat preserved in Western Europe, but their real preservation and translation occurred in the Byzantine Empire

This is, of course, because the 'Byzantine' Empire was the Roman Empire, and continued to operate as such for almost a millennia after its loss of territories in the West, some of which it regained and lost again during that time.

> and Islamic world.

Many, many texts were lost and destroyed during the very violent Muslim conquests. It wasn't until much later that mostly ex-Roman and ex-Persian subjects began reviving learning from what had survived.

> hen in the 15th century the lifestyle, innovations, and preserved writings from these places and others as far as China gained traction in Europe again.

An important factor in this was the threatened, and then eventual, destruction of the Roman capital, Constantinople. Learned scholars fled as refugees to the west, bringing their books with them. Without the Turks destroying what was left of the Roman Empire, there might have been no Renaissance.
> more than willing to turn on our own

This "it's so simple!" nonsense is an exemplification of that.

By reducing everyone (even good programmers) to the lowest common denominator, talent is far more commoditized and pluggable. You can throw away Programmer A because Programmer B is "as good as it can get for
What would be a valid alternative?
Uh, most of those people don't have stocks in the first place.
Hmmm... basically just setting off blasting caps and model rockets with enough uumph to trip the artillery radars.
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Okay, really though, what information did they have access to that wasn't publicly available already? It's one thing to trade on the knowledge of a bill or piece of legislation that you're voting on, especially if you're a deciding vote, but unless I'm misunderstanding that didn't happen here. It doesn't seem like they had any information that wasn't public knowledge at that point. The whole economy was just slow to react to this. I've been paying attention to coronavirus news and honestly would have sold around the time they did had I had any exposure at the time. I get that it's easy to be mad about and makes a good headline, but I just don't see it. Maybe I'm just out of the loop though.