jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Someone stated elsewhere in negating the possibility of a different type of vehicle providing supplies that said vehicle was incapable of achieving the shuttle's orbit.

Could the shuttle change orbit downward to meet up with a vehicle that itself was otherwise incapable of reaching the shuttle's particular orbit, or is that just as hard of a change? I'll have to fire up KSP, but would it be possible to meet a supply vehicle and use less fuel than an ISS rendezvous?
The non-FOSS part is the part that bothers me the most. Maybe bothers is too strong a word. It's just hard for me to get into a text editor without knowing that the community could pick it up and run with it, if the originator dropped it.

Not sure if that's an unfounded fear, but I don't want to invest time customizing a platform and writing plugins when it could close shop in a second. I suppose I could say that about a lot of things I do customize, but it's hard when the FOSS text editor world is so rich.
Dev here. :)

They spawn at a fixed rate, but at random floors, with 50% spawning at the bottom floor.

I agree it would be more interesting if there were patterns, distributions, more popular floors etc. Haven't gotten around to implementing it. There's a small unused bit of code here intended for this:
https://github.com/magwo/elevatorsaga/blob/master/challenges...
True ... not so good for efficiency and you'd need a bigger smoothing capacitor. (I'm assuming since this is all discrete, there's no need for a fully regulated power supply).
JFK is at the end of a long subway line, with the Air Train between the subway and the airport. Coming from most parts of Manhattan, I would budget 90 minutes to get there via the subway and 45 minutes by taxi.

The subway to JFK is cheaper, but most people who live in Manhattan and can afford to fly semi-regularly are going to spring for a taxi.
As a student, I visited the High Field Laboratory in Dresden (Germany). They have one of the stongest magnets in the world, I think it was 80-100 Tesla, and supposedly stronger than a similar one in Los Alamos (although the one in Dresden could only be powered up once, and would vaporize immediately). The whole setup was surrounded by ~3m thick concrete walls.

And right next to the magnetic coil, behind a small blast shield, was an old PC... an early 90s beige box looking like a 486 or early pentium, controlling some measurement equipment.

We asked how that worked, and whether there are any problems with "EMP" with the hardware or the hard disk. The answer was, no, the PC works fine. But you have to be extremely careful not to leave any screws or screwdrivers around, because "above xxx T/m field gradient, iron starts to fly", as evidenced by lots of scratches on the concrete.
Well, you could just use a solenoid to actuate and make lots of metal contacts. Or you could use some sort of iron filing injection system that litters iron everyone in the computer.

The problem then is false positives. Only 1 mistake and kablooie.
It doesn't make sense that a language that compiles to C can't support nested functions, just because C doesn't.

All the transpiler has to do is invent a globally unique name for each function, for instance. Of course they might not have implemented it yet, but there shouldn't be any firm reason why it can't be done.
Basically virtual escorting as a service (not all escorting is sex, some of it is just companionship). For now there's no sex involved but with how easy it is to connect people nearby you could easily see this type of service expand in markets where it's legal.

I could see nude selfies being sent too down the road (again a different service, not exactly this one).
It's difficult to think of things you could watch that would only occur during a raid. The examples given: ethernet and wi-fi, both go down much more often than you would like to think. Usually it's only for microseconds, but if you have a program that happens to check right then, there goes your encryption keys.

A tweak to the code would be to make sure that the sensor stays in the fail state for a particular duration. Even a few seconds would get rid of a lot of the false positives.
Is this a joke? There have to easier ways than physically dropping a string into a rotor.

They are radio controlled. A handful of parts from radioshack, or even just an injection-capable wifi dongle, and they will drop from the sky without you leaving the ground.
Checkout http://bootlaw.com/ Bootlaw. They're in London and hold an event every month, which is free. They also give you free pizza + beer.

The guys behind it run the London branch of the large law firm Winston and Strawn, and deal with a lot of startups (I think)!
I guess the article is optimistic in that sense. If you can engineer fiber that's 74% of c, or better yet, bore one of your mirror holes directly through the center of the earth, between nyc and shanghai, or something even crazier, you can make a lot of money.
Fun corollary to this, having an empty element in your $PATH (for example, "/foo::/bar") is the same as having '.' in your $PATH, at least under bash.

This will usually happen when a login script puts the value of a variable in your $PATH without actually checking whether that variable has any contents.
Indeed. Penelope Trunk writes about this: http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/06/11/do-you-belong-in-ny... and http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/08/10/im-moving-out-of-ne... . If you want to live in New York City, you're effectively shortening your personal "runway" to use Paul Graham's term.
I disagree with many replies thus far.

Take advantage of stuff that already exists outside your building. Don't try to make the office "fun" prematurely, there are lots of places your team can walk to in 5 minutes. Similarly, fancy conference rooms are a waste when nice hotel cafes are way slicker and you can eat/drink like a king at every meeting for years compared to the cost of setting up your own conf room.

For chairs, I like the Ikea Markus for about $100, which I find just as good as an Aeron.

You need whiteboards, but NEVER buy them new. I buy the huge ones for about $20 a piece from office furniture repo stores. You'll also get desks, cabinets, etc there for 10% of their normal price.

Give good people the ability to work in comfort with enough space to themselves under relatively quiet conditions, and you'll get good results. Buy second hand and don't try to build everything into your little home -- take advantage of the city around you.

Edit: and lots of blank wall space, which allows people to brainstorm and create their own productivity systems with post-its and masking tape.
Other than smaller bandwidth on each call, what advantages does JSON provide over XML?
It's funny to think that some of the physicists who've left academia to join these companies might end up being paid a fortune to work on the exact same problems that they used to be paid a pittance to work on!
I'm a big fan of Friday Night Waltz (http://www.fridaynightwaltz.com/), which is cheap, fun, social, and darn good exercise too.
Thanks, that worked.

Step 1 should be upper right, not upper left.
a senior developer with 5 years of experience will be paid the same rate as a senior developer with 10 years because companies don't want unhappy employees and people with the same titles will be upset they are not paid the same rate

Really? People are all too stupid to understand the value of experience or skill? Personal experience says this is nonsense.

and allow many companies to legally collude and pay similar rates

Have you looked at any news about how horribly ineffective OPEC is? There are too many countries with too much capacity outside the cartel, countries in the cartel cheat on their quotas, ... .

Cartels are not as effective as you think they are.

For the individual, not having public salary works great because you really do have negotiating power.

Say what? The companies already know how much they're paying everyone else. The only one who doesn't know is you.

If my next company knows that all other companies in the industry are paying 20% less for my position, why would they pay me more?

Because you can make a convincing argument that you're worth 20% more.

I've never understood why smart people want to willingly give the more powerful in this world even more tools that will work against them.

The powerful already have those tools. This is about giving those same tools to the less powerful as well.
I'm sorry, I don't quite get what you're trying to say. Are you saying that using/taking drugs is a prerequisite for talking about drugs (and drug use in general)?

If so: That's total nonsense and an unbelievably unscientific attitude.
The API seems extremely limited. It seems you can find product info based on barcode or something, but there doesn't seem any way to submit products using an API. Of course with scraping one could "fake" and API, but that kind of sucks ...
I agree with this. My employer provides free lunch three days per week and I find myself wishing it was every day. Going out and finding lunch on my own is a huge hassle and takes a long time. I'm happy to quickly pop down to the cafeteria, grab a bite, and head right back to work. Win win.
Ironic this kind of equality is destroyed as modern society in dismantles traditional marriages in the name of equality.
As a counterpoint: Most people I know go to Amazon 100% for the prices. Often they will actually visit a brick-and-mortar store first to browse in person (page through a book at a bookstore, even try on shoes at a shoe store), and only then order on Amazon, once they've decided what they want. Amazon adds nothing here in convenience or service. The most convenient option would be to just buy the item you already physically have in your hands, which means you'd get it today, and not have to deal with UPS missed-delivery bullshit. But Amazon gets the sale because they win on price. Or at least used to!
"there's nothing inherently wrong with a 500 line method if that's what the problem calls for"

Yeah, "if", but that's rarely the case :) Care to show me an open-source example of a function 500 lines long where you don't think one could find proper seams to split the code along? Ideally in https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception-go/blob/master/main.g...
Bitcoin! At least that's what they tell me at /r/bitcoin.
I think the dynamic at your company (where you're a direct report to the CEO) is a totally different animal than your standard corporate dev job. When you're working at a place that employs 1000+ people, these types of conversations are much less likely to go in the direction of the employee.
SHORTTAG NETENABL IMMEDNET

WHTDOES ITEVN MEAN

Reminds me of PHP's T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
> any way to see this once I have reached my 10 articles per month limit?

Yes, by purchasing a subscription or waiting until next month.

Sidenote: Does asking for instructions to bypass DRM (however weak) on copyrighted material put anyone that responds in the position of committing contributory copyright infringement? Secondary liability is a real thing in the US at least.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link."
send me one please: hn [at] kurai.in
I find it quite baffling too. It seems that a majority of people trapped in these situations lack the strength to reject them and make decisions for themselves, rather than blindly follow cultural obligations.

Since the OP lives in Spain and is a Spanish resident, it's a rather reasonable guess that she's managed to to mitigate her circumstance to one that's manageable (by putting distance between her family and herself), so kudos to her, and yet she still struggles with a rejection of the invite which is quite sad.

Disclaimer: I'm a (semi?) immigrant who's lived in India for most of his life (before coming to Canada, which was heavily dissuaded by a lot of my maternal family) so I have a sense of what it's like to reject the cultural oppression that the OP seems to face.
Welcome to HN, where the comments are bullshit and politeness doesn't matter.
whoa, why can't they make a video with a person calmly speaking and not interrupt him with music?
With all respect, you're way, way oversimplifying things in an intellectually dishonest way. I work with folks who worked with Jobs and he was a major, active, creative contributor. His role wasn't, as you say, to be handed products defined and designed by other people and figure out how to sell them. Yes, he was a brilliant marketer. But I don't see why people work backwards from that and say he was only a brilliant marketer. What a strange kind of illogic!
It destroys savings of people, they work for nothing. Most people in the world need savings that they can be used if they have some health issue, or lose their job. But as their savings lose value all the time, they become slaves to their own savings. I had the same thing happening to me before I started using Bitcoin as my savings account. Now I am able to offer every expensive cancer treatment to my girlfriend (TIL therapy) if her cancer doesn’t respond to her treatment (she’s in stage 4 :( )
>I don't see what's astonishing about it and I'm scratching my head asking the same question. If the answer is that you handle disconnections and reconnections the same way that the HTTP protocol does it, then what's the purpose of HTML over web sockets?

The purpose is in the things explained well in TFA: single source of truth, no replicated state, simpler development, and so on...

Who said the purpose would/had to be in handing "the server caught fire" scenarios?
The point is that you would realize much sooner, since it's real theft, not copying.
You can misuse everything. As you mentioned: "all the numbers are tracked, plotted and planned on, yet nothing seems to work." Sounds like there's a plan but no execution / follow up. That's not a problem with either analytics or user feedback.
It's not just that. If you made a million or two on Upwork, it makes you stand out making further deals easier. These 5% are money well invested, not just spent.
People seem to be very bad with subjective averages. Just like 80% of men on OkCupid were rated by women to be below average.
Come to think of it, do institutional stakeholders have an incentive to reduce these costs when they can value-add with lower tranasction fees within their platform for unified wallets on their platform?
89% of horse riders afraid to ride autonomous horses
>We aren't talking protected class here, we're talking private companies picking and choosing who to do business with via non-discriminatory means.

These are discriminatory means, they just aren't ones we have universally decided are wrong to deny services based upon. What happens when we start denying services to those arrested regardless of conviction? Won't this have disparate impact on certain protected classes?
I can agree with you, but still think there's a problem. The fact is nobody who wrote the constitution thought we'd get to a point where there was such a dominant private speech player.

So yeah, it made sense at the time, since government was the big player historically, but we're looking at a different situation now.
There is no bright line between Facebook and Bob’s Forum.
The significant difference is I (assume) no one depended on your forum for earning a significant part of their income. Once you set yourself as a place where you want people come and earn money, then banning them, and thus depriving them of something of real monetary value, takes on and entire different set of nuances.
Because taken to the extreme it's eventually not "you" competing, it's your equipment.

Imagine some kind of glove that grips for you, or shoes with glue on the bottom. Or... there's no real limit here. Might as well just wear a hover belt and float to the top :)

At some point you have to say "this is enough tech". So the question is, what is that point?
You want a component library like Tailwind UI: https://tailwindui.com/

You're right though that a lot of people who jump straight to tailwind probably don't realize that its low level might be too low for their needs. A higher level component library like bootstrap, tailwind ui, chakra, etc. is a better start in many cases.
> Would you consider it to be more dangerous than riding a bike?

Yes it is more dangerous, for the simple fact that falling on your back and slamming the back of your head on concrete is a very real and considerable danger, and its effects can be extremely severe. Skating helmets are shaped differently from bike helmets because of this one thing. It's not a common occurrence (I see people falling forward and injuring their knee or hip ~100x as often), but can be deadly.

For casual, daily commuting I wouldn't say it's more dangerous on average. I've had plenty of minor accidents while I was learning (I'd say first 12 months), mostly scraps and bruises, once a twisted ankle. If I compare it to how I was learning to cycle as a kid, it's a very similar experience ;)

The hardest part will come from learning to manage your front/back balance in addition to left/right. It's always safer to keep your weight forward, it will also keep you more stable at higher speeds.

Overall the longboarding community is extremely serious and conscious wrt safety, unlike some street skateboarders nobody will ever point a finger at you for casually wearing a helmet and/or pads, and if you'd ever try anything remotely related to freeride/downhill/sliding without adequate protection, you're likely to have your board taken away until you suit up. I believe natural selection had something to do with that.

> I'm always amazed by how skaters are able to stop or "hit the breaks" where there are none.

Where you see no brakes, I've counted 5 different methods to control your speed, all of them have their uses ;) In the order you'd learn/need them: bail, footbrake, carve, slide, airbrake, bail (again). Simply stepping off the board is most effective at sidewalk speeds, all you need is reflex and balance; you'd also learn to fall. At 20+kmh, footbraking (dragging your foot on the ground) becomes necessary as bails can hurt. Down a mild hill, carving (slaloming) will help you keep your speed down, without touching the ground (and grinding down your sole, foot burns are a thing lol).

At 30+, you almost certainly are going to need a helmet, it's also when sliding starts being effective (never EVER slide without a helmet). Airbraking is simply the opposite of tucking - instead of curling down to make your body shape more aerodynamic, you stand up and spread your arms, it can be the difference between going 30 or 60 down a hill. Lastly, if you need to crash safely at 40+, you learn how to ride out your speed on your gloves, pads, leather, etc.

Bonus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amb-BpA4RRI
This part at the end -- particularly the last graf -- caught my eye: "With all of our identifying information getting sliced, diced, and sold, by everyone from credit card companies to Facebook, is there really such a thing as the anonymous Web anymore? Consider this demonstration from the late ’90s by Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Latanya Sweeney. She took three commonly available data points: sex (male), ZIP code (02138), and date of birth (July 31, 1945). Those seemingly anonymous attributes could have described lots of people, right? Actually, no. She proved they could belong to just one person: former governor William Weld. She tells me that 87 percent of Americans can now be identified with just these three data points."
I think the book market says your instinct is wrong:

http://productsearch.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.aspx?...

23 books - about 18 of which look to be entirely about jQuery, many of them very recent (this year or new editions this year), and at all levels.
Of course, only those with a programming skillset have any chance in hell in realizing the benefit. The marketeers, the doctors, and the mac artist would care less. All they want is a shiny UI with their inefficient workflow.

I suspect Usability designers would probably only care about easy to learn interface over the hard to remember but extremely efficient keyboard commands.

Emacs is a perfect example of this. Extremely efficient and very good at what it do, but it requires a lot of learning for the user. However, the benefit will paid off for the learning curve thousand of times over.
I'll add two cents: as someone very new to JavaScript, I like the idea of a rapid introduction to the language and then straight into jQuery (which I would expect to use more than "raw" JS for the near future anyhow).

Also, putting the book on GitHub was genius. There are already 13 forks, and the author has been very quick to respond to issues posted there. (Full disclosure - one of the forks is mine. I can't contribute to the jQuery part, but I tried to help out with the installer script when the author mentioned it was a bit wonky.) Releasing a book in this way allows people to add value (if they can), and it's great to see an innovative use of GitHub. (There may be lots of other books available there, but it's new to me if so.)
Check out http://roomcu.slinkset.com/ - all these users were part of a friendfeed room I used to run.

-- The best idea I can think of is this group blog I just setup: http://hackerbra.in (hackerbrain.com) and somehow populate it with the best hacker blog posts. It might have to be like Hacker Monthly, with someone spending time grabbing the best posts from a given set of blogs, and ask permission each time to cross post.
Googling madly ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPRS_Core_Network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switching_subsystem

... OK, makes some sense now.

Their recommendations make sense. It's actually nice of them to recommend using WiFi where available (though you'd hope people would be smart enough to figure that out on their own.)

Looking at it from a bottleneck/financial perspective I wonder where the constraints are that cause them to want/need to limit data usage. If it's just the UE<->NodeB (Uu) bandwidth, then the femtocell addresses that and maybe they could prorate the data coming through it, if it's farther up the string then it's understandable.
Need log-scale on the y-axis. Hard to see some of the other teams.
hey, tried to find your contact info, so going to briefly write here:

a) Would love to put together an HN equivalent of couchsurfing

b) @andreshb and I are thinking of spending a while in SF, so curious to talk more about the sofas :)

j@jasonlbaptiste.com
So the government apologises to someone on the back of a campaign and you become offended because you're not getting the same respect?
(Nothing in this post is untrue)
Gamers are notoriously rowdy. You will need good moderation tools. Make it easy to delegate administrative tasks to volunteers or paid helpers so you don't become a bottleneck.
In this case, I think it's probably more innocent than corporate interests influencing the news or anything else people are likely to suspect. As a vegetarian, people like to argue with me about my food choices — not meat industry employees, but just people in general. There are a lot of folks who take "Meat is good" as an a priori fact and assume vegans are doing some sort of twisting to make it look like their diet is workable. I'm sure someone read the intro, got to that part and said, "Ha! I knew they were playing a trick on me!" — and then got straight to writing an article about the real truth they'd uncovered.