jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Access does have a "Convert To SQL Server" button (though they never got the web stuff going)
MacroVoices #255 with Mike Green discussed another regulatory threat not mentioned in the Bridgewater post. Governments don't have to ban BTC outright. They have other tools for making it wildly unattractive to hold. I can't remember the details but they discussed a scenario where the US government classifies BTC as a commodity and requires K-1 style taxation. That would mean that you would have to pay taxes on any gains in BTC even if you haven't sold your shares.
"Boston Dynamics' Spot Robot Now has an Arm" may be a better title? My initial thought was that they'd strapped an assault rifle to him.`
Obviously my comment wasn't at all substantive (and thus richly deserves the downvotes it has received!), and clearly my opinion on this piece of writing isn't a popular one either, but surely it's hard to argue that...

"In fact I assume that better ones will come along and displace this one because that is the way the evolution of everything works—i.e., new ways of doing things and new things always have and always will replace old ways of doing things and old things."

...is not exactly vintage writing!
Presumably the fact that you're not allowed to drive around an give away the remaining doses like this is calculated to make doctors be more careful about when the open batches.

After all, vaccination is not an emergency treatment, so it should be easy to avoid the situation in the article.

If the rules were changed to allow for this, you can easily imagine that some less ethical doctors would decide to break seals just before closing the clinic, and then vaccinating their family and friends because "it would be a shame to waste it".
Dyson : Air Products :: Beats : Audio Products

Pretty much every Dyson product I've used, from the public bathroom air "blades" to the vacuums, seem like a gimmicky, inferior products with a premium price tag. None of them do their intended job better than older, cheaper products in their category. I know James Dyson is regarded as a genius engineer, but the consumer product company bearing his name seems to be 99% marketing.
They couldn't do that. If they didn't actually have any crypto, in the event of a large scale increase in price combined with a large scale cash out, Paypal would have to eat the difference from buy to sell price. They would lose their shirt. At minimum, Paypal is buying some percentage of the crypto sales in actual crypto to act as a hedge. However, it is more likely they are closer to 1 to 1 backing since they probably believe that there will be large upward movements in the future and they believe they can make money on both the spreads and the actual bitcoin (assuming they ever care to sell it).
Buy / bribe miners to have a constant 50% attack even if they lose billions / tens of billions of dollars.

Bitcoin mining should soon be seen as national security threat for countries that have the most bitcoins, that's why having so much hashing power in China is dangerous.
"Senior WHO official dodges questions about Taiwan’s WHO membership; praises China": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlCYFh8U2xM

Japan's deputy prime minister calls the WHO the "Chinese Health Organization": https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/29/commentary/w...

> are we saying that the international group that entered china were some how in league with the CCP?

There may be reason to expect that they or their superiors are ... biased.
I just learned that the Freiburg and Paris 1975 solo concerts, recorded days before and after Köln, respectively, feature pre-composed melodies a lot more. I wonder if that was because Köln was recorded by ECM? (Part II of Freiburg is a 30 minute expanded version of a melody from Survivors Suite, in Paris Part II starts with In Your Quiet Place and then keeps returning to the same Survivors Suite melody.)

Both available here: http://tela.sugarmegs.org/
It’s probably a good idea to disable ANC when you don’t really need it, and being in a meeting seems like one of those times. The iOS app lets you set the extra button to control the ANC level to make it easy to adjust. I’d only use ANC at times when it’s really needed, like on a plane.
That significantly complicates the grammar, as now nested function calls require context from their parent to form an AST node. S-exps are the literal representation of the AST which allows for easily modifying and inspecting code, for example through macros. It's not so much "the first element is significant", it's more like "this is the convention of what a function looks like so you can pass it around and modify it as a single list".
The holes have been pointed out to you repeatedly including my own effort here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26120826

Smith makes his case. He is the father of modern economics whether or not you subscribe to his beliefs or not. The question of equity specifically is addressed in the passage:

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.

That makes measurement unambiguous and shows the failure of your multiple assertions otherwise.

The values you propose of "accuracy", "efficiency", "dignity", and political vs. economic concerns (Smith clearly combines the terms) are equally if not far more arbitrary and poorly supported by empirical evidence.

I'm not going to spoon-feed him to you, though the curation of passages posted above would be an excellent starting point for one actually capable of benefiting from exposure.
Third time if you include the bizarre Ayaan Hirsi Ali hit piece too.

I guess it's a product of actual-journalism not paying the bills.
If you could do the math, there are millions of Americans whose ancestors accomplished so much over so many generations, both before and after income taxes were first levied, that if one year's worth of collected income taxes would have been invested wisely right there on Wall Street as early as possible there would be no income taxes necessary at all by now.
in the late 90's there was whistle, that partnered with isp's and delivered pretty much this - router, email, web host, storage space, calendar, firewall, and easy to configure with an isp.
Wordpress.com?
Shark tank throwback :p
How does this idea differ from "a web forum" (or like, reddit/HN ;P)?
Tele-presence has a long way to go, and the network infrastructure too, but it will obviously, eventually, get to the point where it's indistinguishable from being in the same room, minus the physical contact. But to your point, it's not even a given that would help much.

Even with that, you still suffer mostly from time zones. You're just not going to collaborate the same ways with someone on the other side of the planet. That just means barriers to entry and more opportunity for those brave enough to try and ultimately get a system that works for them.

I think there's a remote-work bias which isn't fully born out from the evidence. It helps if you can somehow start with perfectly trustworthy peers, because I think a large part of hiring local is keeping tabs and keeping control. If you already know people who happen to be remote, versus trying to hire someone you've never met before remotely, the former can work perfectly fine, the later is [currently] nearly impossible.

There's probably legal and tax issues to deal with too, but I'm going to hand wave assume they do not negate the potential benefits and could just as easily work out in favor of the foreign independent contractor vs. local salaried employee.
~~~What does this give me over a €30 SCSI PCIe controller?~~~

Meh, forget that, I was thinking "SCSI" but had the prices for Firewire PCIe controllers in mind. Seems, a SCSI controller costs >€250 these days.

P.S. How does one 'strikethrough' here?
Last I heard it's at 3.2 Million.
I don't think it is possible to discourage federal contracts being awarded to the benefit of a particular state. If a state is home to a company with the expertise to complete a project the contract can't just be awarded to a another state that doesn't.

The best we could do is change the way contract funding is performed. Cost-plus pricing without an upper bound is a huge issue. This type of contract encourages bidders to bid low on cost and make up for it with project extensions.

Of course cost-plus is preferred by bidders as they can guarantee a minimum of profit since cost is already covered. However, fixed price contracts are better from the perspective of the government spending. The spend is known up front. It is up to the bidders to determine if they can make a profit or not.

Ideally the government shouldn't care if the bidder is making a profit. It is their duty to spend public funds frugally. Cost-plus makes it impossible to reign in contract spending without terminating the contract.
That was not my experience with Scouting as a youth. My troop was around 30 kids. It was one 90 minute meeting a week, one weekend campout a month, an annual food drive, and an every-other-month selling consessions at the church bingo game as a fundraiser for about 2 hours.

Pretty much everything else can be done at summer camp (1 week a summer) or maybe a merit badge fair on a Saturday once a year.

Sure, you might have to keep a log for a month of your chores, or do a home improvement project for the Family Life merit badge, but it never felt like a time sink as a kid, and didn't occupy all my afternoons. I essentially never had "homework" from Scouts.

Maybe some troops are really gung-ho, but there are plenty of troops that aren't. Troops are not allowed to set requirements that aren't in the Scout Handbook, if they are, there's the district, the council, and ultimately the national office that can put a stop to it or revoke the unit's charter.
Any one person isn't going to have all that many people attempt to stab them with a knife. At best you might get someone who has talked to a number of people who were trained in some technique and have been in knife fights.
Eisenhower was pretty bald.
Why force her out?

Why don’t you go somewhere where prices are cheaper and make a nice community there?
We have three kids and we sleep trained them. (Not a pediatrician, standard disclaimer.) This article calls it an ‘extreme’ practice.

Sleep training appears to be standard for all the parents I know, in the U.S. and otherwise. I think it's more likely that the author of the article has extreme views on parenting that they're tying to impose on others.
Just a 21st century Brewster Buffalo.
Have you never seen regular court documents that are redacted or even sealed to protect confidential information? That clause is basically saying the tribunal has the power to do that.
He's referring to their standard for embedding hooks for DRM into web pages, the so-called "Encrypted Media Extensions":

https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/
Try the monthly who's hiring thread.
If you want to go to America this is useful advice: http://blog.sendtoinc.com/2013/12/11/silicon-valley-internsh...
Okay... sniffed accidentally then ( putting them in the wrong directory, not using fs permissions properly etc )

I would say that you should consider malicious sniffing too
It does not bring any value.

The people I know concerned by their privacy use µBlock/adblock in combination with proxy/TOR. Plus, using a privacy-concerned search engine does not address that concern after the user clicks on a search result. Most website in this world use Google Analytics. If someone has an aversion to Google, GA should be more of a concern than Google Search.

I wonder: what would it take to disrupt Search? In other words, what set of features would make people stop using Google Search? The experience would have to be fundamentally different. Perhaps privacy could be part of the equation but not only. Something like Vurb in my opinion is a good candidate. It displays the results in such a way that one does not necessarily have to click away.
Timely! We're adding a Sonic Pi track to our monthly CoderDojo (http://www.coderdojohenry.com/) to help kids learn programming concepts while synthesizing music. The graphical desktop app is quite good and is not dependent on Raspberry Pi making it easy for anyone to download and use.
He is probably a relatively inexperienced programmer. But who cares? The main accomplishment / item on display here is the identification of a vulnerability in a high-value target (supposedly - I haven't verified it), not the PoC.
I've had more luck negotiating with a monthly payment in mind. I know what my trade is worth, how much I can put down (easier if you can just answer zero), and what I what to pay for the car. After my first visit where I learn exactly what car I want; the rates for the captive finance company (which are usually the best).

I can do the math to figure out monthly payment for the price I what is at that point. Then I just negotiate using that number, if they bump up the trade allowance or reduce the price of the car it really doesn't matter. I precompute a few numbers to know where we are (e.g., Invoice, Invoice + 3%); but also know the cost of a $1 worth of financing so that I know how much they're charging me during a back and forth.
Like it?
http://123d.circuits.io/
Interesting, but you need to have the correct appear below the try another link (so it doesn't move when correct fades away).

And please filter for icons.
Actually UDP and TCP are the prototypical examples of a reliable versus an unreliable protocol.

Being familiar with protocol design is important no matter what type of programming one is doing, the ideas of ACKs, NACKs, and flow control pop up all over the place!
One thing I always find interesting about these kinds of problems is that most DBs don't describe how they're implemented. It's easy to use the wrong tool, and then once you learn how e.g. Mongo is implemented, it's obvious, "oh, that's why things are slow".

I'd love to see http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/, but for every DB technology.
If friction is low, it seems like a decent deal to me. Finding clients and setting up contracts takes up a lot of time, and if (big if) Google can streamline that for these things, that would easily be worth 20%.
or you fat finger "cat mews"
Bing map is way inferior to google maps, otherwise apple would have switched a long time ago.

The major companies making maps are TeleAtlas, Navteq, and Google. TeleAtlas is owned by TomTom, Navteq is owned by Nokia. Navteq is used by Google, Microsoft and Mapquest. If Apple ever wanted to switch to another map provider, it wouldn't need a middleman like Microsoft.

Sure but it's just using google maps API with a fancy UI.

If so, then I reckon that's temporary, given that Apple bought companies like Placebase, Poly9, and Siri.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/07/14/apple_acquires...

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/01/apple_purchase...

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/28/apple_acquires...
I'm sorry! I've updated the link to the RubyGem. I'm also working on a tutorial for intended usage, I'll post it when it's done.
File attachments are present. They have updated Haystack, the photos infrastructure, to handle general file attachments.

I don't remember hearing if you can add some one to an existing conversation. But I clearly remember that they said that it was possible to remove some one from a conversation. Therefore, I assume, that they would have also thought of adding a person.
It is also true that many founders and early key hires negotiate for acceleration upon change of control. I advise our companies to be very careful about agreeing to acceleration upon change of control. I’ve seen these provisions become very painful and difficult to deal with in sale transactions in the past.

The first startup I worked at had an "acceleration upon change of control" clause in the employee stock option plan. Then when we went for our Series A funding, the investors (not USV) insisted that everyone agree to drop that clause as a condition of investment (2 founders and 2 employees at the time). Their reasoning was that such a clause would make us a much less desirable acquisition target if people would be able to leave immediately after said acquisition. We all understood the reasoning and agreed to drop the clause but it was somewhat disappointing and would have been better if the clause were never there in the first place.
Have you seen how poorly non-Microsoft browsers are supported by Microsoft's web tools?

Exchange is a pain. Hotmail, on its last (last I saw - no longer use it) big change took months (many) for the Firefox version to arrive at a comparable feature set as the IE version. If you are not running Windows, you will face an even worse browser compatibility. For a long time, any ASP.NET application built with the GUI tools on Visual Studio was pretty much guaranteed not to work properly on anything but IE.

No. I don't think the reaction of the call center worker is surprising in any measure. He could know non-Microsoft browsers were not supported and inferred the thing being from Google meant it would not be compatible.

BTW, would it be compatible with Firefox on Linux?
Mission City cafe, 2221 The Alameda. It's in Santa Clara, just outside S.J. Nice vibe, lots of students, open late.

The main library at 150 East San Fernando is awesome. Good coffee in the bottom, ample (private if you want) space in the eight floors. Open late cause it's shared with San Jose State.
Cool idea. However, though the individual letters are all roughly legible, the text there is not readable at all. The lines are quite long and the line spacing is quite short, so your eye'll have a lot of difficulty moving line to line successfully.
Heads up in case you can't see it in your browser: it's a Java applet.
I'm in favor of 6-month cliffs. Frankly, one-year is company friendly. But since everyone is used to it, no one particular employee can change it.

If you have been working for me for 6 months and I haven't fired you, then you must have produced something useful. It doesn't take me 6 months to know who is not performing.
Every software will be obsoleted eventually. Software will evolve into another piece. But it is long time to go.

Full Standard implemented by vendors takes exceptional long time. It is very frustrating. Developers have to deal with numerous compatibility issues. So it is too early to say either Silverlight or Flash is dead.

Even if there is a mature JavaScript library and framework that comparable to existing Silverlight and Flash. It still takes long time to change. Companies and developers investing heavily on one technology will not adapt new technology very soon, considering that large base of existing software, human talents relies on that technology.
Neat! How is the data presented? How big is the file?
The meaning of life is to make the most meaning out of it.

And everyone derives meaning or utility from it in different ways. Everyone is like their own program in the system (just like the "The Matrix").

Winners in life tend to be naturally stubborn existentialists though.

One of my most favorite movie scenes of all time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaJPNrf1DPY
I think I've experienced different meanings and different influences at different points in my life. Right now it would have to be meaninglessness and struggle, which possibly makes me some sort of stoic existentialist, the idea of which I don't like very much.

things do not stand much looking into -- character in a Joseph Conrad novel
Weird; I had the opposite experience when I played it for a few minutes on my friend's iPhone 4. The graphics were strangely inferior on the iPhone compared to my Nexus One. This surprised me, because I thought it was mostly an iPhone game and that Rovio viewed Android as just a secondary market.

Is your Android device not quite top of the line? I read recently that Rovio felt that they'd aimed a bit high with their required specs, and that they would focus on increasing performance on mid-range devices in the near future.
I remain really skeptical.

If you believe this, then doing a fifteen-minute writing exercise at the start of a fifteen week course in which you "write about your values" rather than a different fifteen-minute writing exercise where you "write about other peoples values" leads you to understand introductory physics significantly better at the end, if you're a woman, or understand introductory physics significantly worse, if you're a man.

I could start speculating on mechanisms for this, but I think it's better to wait until the same effect has been replicated in a different place and a different time (and let's hope that none of those future test subjects have read this article or else they'll know what's up).

On the other hand, if one were to repeat this experiment one would have to wonder whether it's ethical to force male students to do a writing exercise if you have reason to believe that it will hinder their ability to learn physics.

Update: My alternative hypothesis is that all the competent male students who showed up for a Physics class and were given a silly "write about your values" exercise got so offended by such a frou-frou exercise in what was supposed to be a physics class that they dropped out and enrolled in something else.
I believe:

1) I determine my future through my actions and choices.
2) Kindness is the greatest gift we can give each other.
3) Be quick to forgive and slow to forget.
4) Love, Life and Freedom are worth fighting for.

As for how I go about life:

Don't complain, just do what needs to be done and don't take unnecessary shit from anybody. Always help others and treat them with the respect they deserve. Always aim for happiness and don't spend too much time on the sad parts of life.

Sorry if this sounds too -I don't know the word-, but it works for me and I'm generally happier than everyone around me.
Materialism, Existentialism, Empiricism, Cynicism, and a good dose of Socratic questioning : I don't think - or even want - we should stick strictly to one school of thought. Depending on the matter, the moment and the mood, one or other philosophy will fit you better.

I read lots of philosophy. In fact I mostly read philosophy, even those I don't agree with, because it provokes thought.

Reading philosophy cured me of Determinism long ago :)
it would be doing high schoolers a disservice to teach them anything else

That seems like a shortsighted thing to say. Subjects are introduced in abstract ways that provide a basis for further exploration. How do you teach abstract basics in Java? Just to write hello world you need to understand functions, namespaces, classes, constructors, static functions, compilation, file organization, arrays, and thats just what pops off the top of my head. Kids won't actually learn these things early on, and will rely on templates and copy and paste work that gets them the A without actually learning anything. That would teach them them that programming is too complicated to properly understand, which is certainly a disservice.

You can teach the concepts of Java in Scheme, and you can do it incrementally. You can also show that Java is only one way to write code, and that it is specialized for the types of environments it is used in. This would provide a more sound basis for understanding whatever comes after Java, which is important because Java is not going to be the dominent programming language in 50 years.
Their campaign to try to equate internet access with a human right is unfortunate.

It takes whats a very sensible overall idea that almost everybody agrees with (increasing the unhindered flow of information) and immediately makes it sound bad or controversial to a large and influential part of the technical community.