jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They should really compare industry to industry to see if the pay with benefits are similar.

For example, with all these new regulations on the financial industry, how are you going to attract financial professionals to government service to enforce these regulations. If they're making 5 figures in government while their classmates are making 6 or 7 figures in the private sector, would it be really surprising if we can't find enough smart and savvy financial cops?
Put down the shovel.
Man that's a nice idea. I wish we would have had it ourselves during the process.
Used car price drops lag new car sales, since used cars cascade through the market for years.
Added 2012 to the title. Thanks for the call out.
If the people really want to overthrow the government, some jacked up defenses around capitol buildings won't stop anything imho, it just means the resistance will bring heavier weapons to match.
Reminds me of when BP made their logo a green and yellow flower and rebranded as "Beyond Petroleum". It's like yeahhhhhh, sure, is that really gonna fool people?
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1347244300527013889:
"Resecuring the Capitol's IT infrastructure should probably involve shredding every device, cable and thumb-drive, tearing open every light-socket and power-outlet, and even then, it will be hard to fully trust the building and its systems."
I find https://leaddev.com/ has some good content, unsure if there's an associated Slack/Discord server for it.
No right is absolute, because there are areas where exercising one right might infringe on another right.

Everyone has a right to their life, which is one of the most sacrosanct rights, but in self-defence you might still rightfully kill someone else. Those intersections of rights are always a fine line to walk on and you have to be careful so it is not abused. Just putting one right above the other can never be the solution.

Also freedom of speech has its limitations. Defamation is one case where I guess most people can get behind.

I think one could also make the case here, where there is a real danger that democracy can be lost.
I agree. Honestly I don't grasp the value in such stories except the typical clickbaiting via emotional content.

Putting statements like the one in the article out there as fast as possible can be classified mostly as self preservation, that in itself is natural.

While I do believe that there are people among them that actually finally got a wakeup call and regret their actions, I do not think there is any reason to accept the signaling of regret of an individual person that participated in this as genuine.
To what end? Certainly the Capitol police leadership wasn't part of some conspiracy to overthrow the government- letting a few hundred protestors in wouldn't accomplish much.

So you are saying that the Capitol police succeeded in creating a honeypot that was meant to embarrass Trump?
I don't buy it. We're talking here about people who have literally never lived in America since they were too young to even remember. They have lived in another country, paid taxes in that other country, and probably have a passport for that other country. If anything happens to them there would likely be an expectation that their adopted country would look after them, not the US.
Colin, excellent! BTW, how should we file bugs if/when we find them?
Google Groups link to the usenet discussion in question, in case anyone is interested:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.security.unix/browse_thr...
This topic has beaten to death, I will point you to this resource since it is an excellent exposition of both GNU/Linux's and FreeBSD's strengths: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
ASK YC: Are there any recommend sites that provide results of A/B tests and maybe show some best practices. There are some good fundamentals here but I'd like to see some concepts backed up by data.
Well hey, cut them a little slack. They shouldn't have to account for the computer security diaspora.
[self-promote]: We at Brightbox have had FreeBSD 8.1+ support for a few weeks now: http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/posts/freebsd-cloud
I've built both Firefox and Chrome extensions and would recommend starting with Chrome. Firefox currently has a larger market, but developing extensions in Chrome is MUCH easier and I would recommend that.

But it depends on what your business is. Maybe people in your target market use Firefox more often and if so that may be a better choice.
This is my feeling as well. I just don't want a Windows 8 machine. Its clear it was a transition OS full of compromise, half cooked ideas, and a "lets just ship" mentality, which MS had to embrace considering it was practically a non-player in the mobile space in 2012.

I'm hoping 10 comes out with a more refined understanding of modern OS expectations, especially when your OS is both a desktop and mobile OS. I find it amusing that 8 came out with this large install size when SSDs were becoming the norm. I guess Redmond can't move fast enough to avoid this outcome. They saw 1TB drives being the norm in 2009-2010-ish when they started this project and couldn't pivot fast enough to stop it. Now things like the sxs folder being 20gb is the norm. Or still defaulting to a 1996-like "make your swap file twice 2x your RAM size" mentality. I have 16gb of RAM. I sure as hell don't need a 32gb swap file.

The only reason I have a swap file is because DirectX seems to expect one for many games, so I have a token 512mb one just for gaming. No other application expects one. MS really needs to contemporize with Win10. There's just way too much legacy cruft in 7 and 8. Win8 on that sexy Surface hardware is like driving your Ferarri on a dirt road.
I would assume that one of the pens would not be included then. Because it's specifically spelled out (and shown) as being included in the Surface 3 Pro.
also: http://todomvc.com/examples/react/#/
Looking at free MOOCs only is indeed cherry-picking data. Instead, one interesting example is remedial math at San Jose State University: a class students paid for and needed for college, implemented by Udacity. It went so poorly that the experiment was stopped [1]. The pass rates and test scores were so low that the university couldn't, in conscience, continue.

There were some implementation problems, which have been addressed in a summer 2014 implementation [2]. It's worth noting that SJSU let 40% of students drop the summer course, which really increased the pass rate!

[1] http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23688069/mooc-mashup-san-jose-...
[2] http://www.informationweek.com/software/mooc-math-students-b...?
And that the private beta has an NDA.
It looks expensive when compared to OVH. But really everything is super expensive when compared to OVH. I mean, if you are paying more than $ 200 for cloud hosting, better just get a dedicated server at OVH.
The comparison gets closer with Softlayer or other top tier dedicated hosting providers. On the other hand, AWS bandwidth is just expensive.
our incredible journey
Also, the title on the front page is different from the title in the comments. I don't think I've seen this before, but maybe I'm just not very observant.

edit: They're the same now. Confused.
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molten salt reactors (the kind in the comment at the top of this thread) are at atmospheric pressure, and are designed with a drain plug which isolates the (very hot) materials from the neutron source, after which they cool down happily on their own in a separate but similarly shielded compartment.

release of materials is one of the most unlikely outcomes ever.
>Skype: Contact customer services. You’ll need to know 5 contacts from your contacts list, the month you created your account, and your signup email address.

Why do I get the feeling asking Skype to cancel your account immediately puts you into a special watchlist?
There are several reasons why Y combinator is unlikely to kill hollywood.

The Author touches on part of the problem. To make a good movie you need:

1) an excellent script (if it reads like shit, its going to look worse, if the pitch is "its like X but...." its a fail)

2) a significant amount of captial ($1million)

3) quality actors

4) ridiculously good organisation skills (you'll be organising 40+ people hundreds and thousands of pounds worth of equipment for around 40 days (or a lot more))

that's just first part. You then need to wrangle all the footage, and massage it into a cohesive and flowing narrative, something most "film" buffs fail cataclysmically ally at. (why do you think most youtube videos are only 3 minutes top?)

Once you've spent three years of your life doing that, you then need to get your movie seen. That means persuading people who think you are worse than dogshit to watch a movie that they really couldn't care about, much less actually pay you for.

This will take you the next 3-6 years. It also costs a lot.
>Bundleware toolbars for IE that fake search engine choice make pretty money, malware that steals money - too. Not a reason to enter this business.

Paul Graham disagrees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059806
The addition of uranium or plutonium is unnecessary for operation of a LFTR, rather it is being sold as an extra advantage that a LFTR can safely consume the waste already created at PWR's. Consuming PWR waste in a LFTR is a better option than burying it in the desert (at least it is to some).
You can self-review. That's how people solve the problem.
They do for crypto-to-crypto trades :)
> kind of still old-school Internet in a time when the web was going in another direction very quickly

Oh, they had great marketing. Some of it was even true.

Too bad they became that other direction.
That's a choice you can make. I have relatives that I would be cutting off if I do that.
It's unpopular because it's naive. Nobody has the ability to prove everything to themselves and everyone else from first principles. Everyone takes shortcuts by repeating things they were told by others, thus "lying" is occasionally the 5-year old type of lying where someone just makes something up on the spot and tries to avoid looking guilty, but these are not the meaningful or common types of lies. In reality "lies" refer to the personal threshold someone has for edges in a sort of transitive PageRank over the graph of all claims made by all people.

A good way to see this is by looking at what news organisations call "fact checks". Almost always, these are simply repeating the claims of some random academics or government institutions, which are taken to be true by default. A lot of people really do assign a very high prior to "member of the establishment saying something makes it true", but a whole lot of other people do not. If the latter go and dig in and discover the underlying claim seems false, and start saying so, then the news orgs will claim it's "disinformation" and the others will say it's the "lying media" and yet nobody is literally making things up maliciously, even if a claim is objectively true or false.
Think of Musk as the Trump of eco-terrorists and it starts to make sense.

But seriously, it's just price momentum. The best reason to buy a stock, to your average schlub, is because the price goes up.
coup is a bit much. this happens from time to time at the state level, protesters push their way into chambers. they should have just been arrested, the police dropped the ball.
anti-overtime, interesting!

> We also have an “anti-overtime” rate: past twenty hours a week, people can continue to work at an hourly rate of 50 percent. This allows us to have a high hourly rate for the highest leverage work and also allows people to work more per week if they wish.
> Investigations into the voter fraud and election tampering allegations in favor of Biden have resulted in 61 failed lawsuits in state courts on the basis of “no evidence.”

That’s not actually true. While some may have been dismissed based on insufficiency of presented or proffered evidence to support the legal claim, most were either voluntarily dismissed or dismissed for legal threshold issues (failure to state a claim, lack of standing, unreasonable delay in filing [laches]) which come before considering evidence.
These people don’t listen to facts. They argue that the election results should be in favor of trump and that it was stolen and fraudulent. At the same time they insist that all of the Republican wins are perfectly valid. There’s no logic or evidence behind their beliefs that is grounded in reality. You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into. Especially not with something as emotionally lifeless as a spreadsheet. That won’t change anyone’s mind who has been primed by their conspiracy bubbles and outrage machines
Sadly yes, because people kept giving is platform power. Funny how they keep calling Trump the god emperor, when it's really Big Tech and Big Media. Just look at the comments on this post. No one is complaining about censorship; they're all claiming it should have been done sooner!

I bet no one one here has looked at one alternative news source for the past four year and eats everything CNN/MSNBC/FOX/NPR feeds them.

This is how the freedom to speak fails. I hope the big take away is that people start moving further and further away from these big platforms, and take their friends with them.
I already go to one of the best Universities in my country (Austria). Of course there is the ETH Zurich, which is one of the best universities of the world, but switzerland is too expensive, I don't want to move and I also don't know if I really want the pain of hard learning.. Getting more knowledge in CS is nice, I just enjoy programming and my goal is to get in the level of a (project) manager one time.

PS: Thanks for your help, I really appreciate that
I drive a normal FWD car during winter weather almost nobody will go out in. I drove it cross-country through the worst snowstorm the midwest experienced in the last 10 years where I couldn't see more than 10ft in front of me.

All that said, I would have been much safer in a truck.
Swift if you're gonna live in the iOS/OSX ecosystem. I've been writing Swift everyday for the last 4 months and I'm loving it. The compiler and toolchain are still buggy. But this is clearly the future of programming languages.

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I think Go is very interesting. One thing that I like about Go is something for which it is often criticized, which is the ability to create a binary that holds all dependencies. Some people are critical of these "fat binaries", but I have lost countless hours dealing with dependency issues, in various languages, and dependency issues are my least favorite kind of computer problem, so any language (and/or eco-system) that gives me an easy way to solve dependency problems is interesting. Likewise, when I work in Clojure I often go with the "uberjar" option to deploy, which often means the only outside dependency is the JVM itself. But Go can go further, as there is no need for some VM, like the JVM.
I don't think this is reasonable. They have their online coins insured, so if they lose them, they can reimburse you.

This is a serious, professionally-run company backed by a lot of VCs we all recognize, plus banks and the NYSE. And regulated. They also have an overall good track record for a small company (all such companies have some growing pains).

They have everything to gain by honesty and everything to lose by committing fraud, including prison (and dishonesty is the only reason they would become insolvent).

The whole situation could not be more unlike Gox, and it is not reasonable to judge them by that standard.
I get that, but I had the same reaction as simias. I, and I assume simias as well, is not concerned with the advocacy, but the lack of examples. I read the introduction and thought "Oh, cool! I'll get to see lots of use-cases showing how things behave in various circumstances." But I mostly saw the same hand-wavy arguments I see elsewhere.

I think the better reaction to simias and my point is that this is clearly a work in progress. I assume that in the future, it will actually contain the use-cases I thought it would.
I think that study is testing the opposite what what this suit provides -- it's not testing protection of the wearer, but testing whether or not the mask protects others:

The median-fit factor of the homemade masks was one-half that of the surgical masks. Both masks significantly reduced the number of microorganisms expelled by volunteers, although the surgical mask was 3 times more effective in blocking transmission than the homemade mask.
@jennyyang did you make your UVC setup yet? Here is what I wound up with over the weekend https://twitter.com/choser/status/1241933729536200709?s=21
I also found the system a bit hazardous and am treating it with more respect now. It seems pretty powerful even at 13W. I was sterilizing my masks for 2 hours, now am just doing one minute per side.
I linked to a demo but I'd love to get people to upload and get your thoughts/feedback and feature requests!

It all started as a way to help people from subreddits like malefashionadvice, livingspace, tinyhomes etc identify where they got stuff from and the story behind it when they post photos!

Took me a few days to create, build and get stood up but what else we supposed to do in lockdown? :D
A local authority is able to tell people to do as it says. It is even more efficient at this than a central one, as it usually tries harder to obtain a consensus (people willing to be involved are, nobody has to remain a mere cog) because it cannot coerce as efficiently as a central gov (for various reasons, one being that transforming locals into guards of other locals is difficult, another that it is more easy to escape from a little group...).

The common goal is to survive and to pursue the quest for happiness, I doubt it is better set by a central government.

As for the approach (the way to tackle the problem), having groups choosing various ways is a way to discover what works or not, and which new challenges are raised by each approach. When everybody everywhere applies the same approach, everything may break simultaneously if it is not the perfect approach (perfect approaches are pretty rare), and progress towards new solutions is slow.
It must have been a lot slower fighting in leather, chainmail or plate armor than in this ultra light modern equipment.

Take a look at people fighting and doing various exercises in full plate armor on youtube. They're surprisingly fast and mobile.

Also there are HEMA groups that train and compete in group combat and various weapon combinations.
To clarify: chemical processes that "unboil eggs" have been around for a long time [1]. The invention here is a technique that does it faster with applications in the pharma industry.

[1] http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/raven6b/graphics/raven06b/...
> I think Penny Arcade was a good example, though they're currently not ad supported.

More information behind this: Penny Arcade ran a Kickstarter to remove ads on their site which was incredibly successful (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pennyarcade/penny-arcad...)

This method wouldn't work for normal developers because a) Penny Arcade has a massive fanbase and b) Penny Arcade makes most of their money off of merchandise.

Although, would a Patreon for a developer work? It would be a hard sell, though.
It's also easy for me to ignore ads on the web. I am always baffled by those commenters on HN who claim they would rather pay for content rather than seeing ads or those that seem to have a deep aversion for ads. For me, ads are so easy to ignore that those point of views are hard to understand.
Just for interest: why isn't this hacker news? What would you prefer to see on HN?
A possible reason why "virtualized == toy" is that the virtualized system simulates certain specific hardware. The OS provides drivers for that hardware. But it hasn't been validated on the real hardware.

We don't know whether that is the case here. If the authors get a real box that has the same peripherals as the VirtualBox, and bring the OS up on that, then this "toy" argument can no longer be made, in any case.
As someone with 8x3TB Seagate's I feel your pain. My new build will only use 4TB+ Seagate's or HGST (But they are pricey).
Not only that, it doesn't break anything at all. Referer is a completely optional header, and all this does is introduce a <meta> tag for controlling that. I hope more browsers pick this up soon!

And also let me enforce my own setting.
> a Webkit/Blink dominated monoculture is bad

Gecko exists.

Furthermore, having many browsers using Webkit, Blink, and Gecko isn't "bad," and calling it a "monoculture" is a weasel word attempting to link it to the problem of IE's dominance in the 2000s. The problem with the 2000s IE monoculture wasn't just that it was a monoculture, it was that it was closed source, stagnant, and mostly single-platform. Webkit, Blink, and Gecko aren't.
This problem has been understood and resolved by a number of thinkers. The Buddha, lots of buddhist masters, then we also have people like Eckhart Tolle who clearly realise it.

The problem is that consciousness is goes beyond conventional logic and descriptions. Interestingly, if it could be grasped by conventional logic it would lose the characteristics of consciousness.

A similar (possibly related) question is why anything exists at all (including why even the concept of something existing exists!)

Unfortunately, having no intuitive insight, I cannot lay claim to an answer, but then notably other thinkers seem to agree that consciousness lies beyond what can be directly explained anyway.

There is an odd branch of logic which allows contradictory statements, possibly such a tool could be used to formally
analyse some of the properties of consciousness.
I would almost imagine gloves like this would be a requirement for precise control. The Kinect had seemingly pretty decent limb sensing from the few minutes I played with it (it was able to accurately model the bones in my fingers moving). However, it had an advantage in that it was a few feet away, viewing you straight-on.

This device will be looking nearly straight down instead, and seems to me that your limbs & fingers will often occlude what is behind them. I doubt the twin cameras used to sense depth would be far enough apart to always see your fingers behind your other arm, for example.
For that we also have different signs. There is a completely different sign for no stopping, with its own, seperate times.
Those who have heard of URLs might also have heard of link rot.
As the article says, Mojolicious was funded in part by a grant from The Perl Foundation.

If I remember correctly, the vote for it was almost unanimous. (I'm on the grant committee.)
Good for you alnayyir. I also doubt in 1867 "buy[ing] more...technology" was a concern. Sign of a good Snopes target.
That's exactly what the paper that the linked press release is about looks into.

In an energy-only market, the intention is that the possibility of very high spot prices when energy supply is short is supposed to create an incentive to build expensive, robust plant that can meet the demand in such a situation. If you can stay online during the disaster, you can make a profit that makes up for having overspecced your plant for the remainder of the time. It can even make sense to have a quick-starting plant with a high short-run-marginal-cost that almost never runs at all - only starting up when supply is constrained or demand is very high, to take advantage of the high prices - a "peaker" plant.

The paper is positing that this didn't work because the risks of investing in such a business plan were too high.
If your complaint is that a very conservative manufacturing industry doesn't have 1:1 analogues with software development then I guess it's valid.

Giving organizations stuff you haven't 100% nailed down yet expecting them to come back with stuff they want changed in order to buy is pretty par for the course in the firearms industry. That's as close to a public beta as you're gonna get.