jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The only way how to square this growing complexity of ethnic mixtures with a rigid racial system is something like "one drop rule" akin to the old South.

Not really. Even White racists had better solutions to that problem better tuned to dealing a complex system of admixture of multiple races (cf, apartheid South África); the “one drop rule” was White racists solution for the narrow circumstance of dividing the world into two categories, White and Nigger, and maximizing the latter in order to maximize the exploitation possible by those who were in the former category. Even strictly hereditary systems by White racists were often more complex and not much like the one-drop rule except that they involved some rule.

I mean, lots of other possibilities open up once you realize that the “races” are effectively ethnic (shared cultural experience) groups shaped by historical categorization based on assumptions of heredity, rather than biological facts with a necessary connection to heredity that can only be defined in strictly hereditary terms. Especially if you get beyond systems created explictly by and for White racial oppression, but, again, even the categorizationn
system in apartheid, for all the ill use the categories it produced were put to, reflected that understanding to a much greater degree than the one-drop rule, which also made categorization, while largely rigid, potentially, though rarely, fluid.)
Another acquisition, but how about Android?
I do not see that a space makes much of a difference.

Plenty of linguists would admit 'login' as a verb. There is very little difficulty in accepting that 'to log in' and 'to login' mean the same thing.

In this case "in" does not function as a preposition, it is part of the verb. The evidence for this is immediately apparent when we consider that "to log" and "to log in" really are two different activities. We do not mean that we record anything when we login to a machine, what we are doing is obtaining access to it by means of an exchange of previously established authenticating information - and while this step may involve making a record of our login, it need not for the basic sense of that action to remain intact.

Also, we have no trouble with a multi-word verbs in English, if you don't believe me, try googling 'phrasal verbs'. This article is either a gag, or really is just an example prescriptavist nonsense which attempts in futility to combat the last 50 years of linguistic consensus.
orly? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/viii
Even if it behaves like no other verb in the language doesn't mean it's not a verb. Look at "go."
When you have a family and lots of outside obligations, you lose the ability to take risk and gain large rewards in favor of increased stability. It's not a matter of one being better than the other. These people work extremely hard and contribute in ways that they find meaningful. Nobody should be criticized for being dedicated.
This is correct. It would definitely take years. Think about that there is only one hole in this well. It is much smaller than wells in places like Texas and Middle East which are drilled via many holes for a few years.
It's okay. You can say it. You have a man-crush on Mike Rowe.

Don't worry, so do I.
I don't think Americans really need to do anything personally. I think the primary issue is the lack of public transportation here in America. We need leadership on this from the top so that we can catch up to the rest of the world. You can go anywhere in Europe in hours on a train. I know America is big but we are still (perhaps) the richest country in the world and we can implement a quality public transportation system. It would even help the economy by providing jobs, just like all of the infrastructure projects of the new deal did.

Besides public transportation though, just working on our infrastructure would help with fuel saving. Sitting in traffic all day doesn't help MPG. Hell, sometimes I wish I had an SUV for some of the roads here in Pittsburgh, with the potholes its like I am driving through in Iraq. Also, my beef isn't really with all SUVs. I mean the Traverse gets what 33/mpg? I am talking about the people who drive Escalades to and from work and don't haul anyone around.
Any recommendations on affordable ones? I love my cats but you are spot on about the smell, I currently use the plug in air fresheners when I have company but take them out as soon as they leave.
"It is laughable to think that a business could be better at most things that the government now does."

I can't imagine what experience you've had to believe this. I've been in the work force for 20 years and for the most part, the shittiest businesses I've seen have been magnitudes more competent than what I've seen of government.
Exactly. Electric vehicles is a tactic that works within a strategy of fewer cars. A strategy more vehicles, even if electric, will eventually result in more total waste.

A strategy of fewer vehicles works, all the better with a tactic of converting to electric.

Want to lower emissions? One easy, cheap way is to convert car lanes to bike lanes or simply remove them. Lots of other government subsidies worth removing too, especially to fossil fuel extraction.
Others in thread have mentioned this, but if you want to get a feel for Machiavelli the Prince is not the right place. Discourses on Livy is much more like his actual view. Here is why:

The first existence of the Prince is supposedly from 1513, while NM was still alive. However, the first printed version (which had to be approved by his arch rivals, the Medici's) wasnt available until 1532, 5 years after he died. Because of Italian politics at the time, NM was tortured by Medici family in 1513 (same year the first manuscript appeared...) because supposedly he was a political rival. Yet NM dedicated the Prince "To the Magnificent Lorenzo Di Piero De’ Medici". So was he a rival or not? Why would you release a manuscript like this which was surely scandalous when your political rivals already suspected you of being politically dangerous? Additionally, if this is your view of the world, why make it public? why not keep it hidden? Did the Medici release it merely to smear him as a purveyor of evil? Was he just sucking up to the Medici by honoring Lorenzo?

If you are the Medici, why would you allow a book like this to be printed? They certainly could bring it off the presses if they wanted.

In Chapter 1 of the Prince, NM tells us he is talking about Princes, not republics, and mentions he has written about republics elsewhere. His Discourses on Livy was not released until 1517 (unless there were earlier copies of that too, which is possible). So the original manuscript must have been edited to some degree from the (Medici) edition we read today.

If you have followed my line of thinking carefully, one would have to scrub NM from any mentions of being an evil teacher, encouraging dark traits, etc.

From wikipedia, final chapter of the Prince: "Pope Leo X was pope at the time the book was written and a member of the de Medici family. This chapter directly appeals to the Medici to use what has been summarized in order to conquer Italy using Italian armies, following the advice in the book. Gilbert (1938:222–30) showed that including such exhortation was not unusual in the genre of books full of advice for princes. But it is unusual that the Medici family's position of Papal power is openly named as something that should be used as a personal power base, as a tool of secular politics. Indeed, one example is the Borgia family's "recent" and controversial attempts to use church power in secular politics, often brutally executed. This continues a controversial theme throughout the book."

I have two theories:
1) NM tricked Medici into publishing the text.
2) Medici wanted to slander NM.

My guess is 2. Medici were not stupid. They were tyrants, but not stupid. Read Discourses to learn about NM.
I fondly remember watching this video a few years ago, so thank you for posting it. As a two wheel enthusiast myself who hasn't had a chance to explore much of the world, I've been actually wanting to try and see if I could do something similar myself once things hopefully go back to normal.
That's an unwarranted assumption.

Phones, games, apps, and social media are, quite literally, engineered to be addictive.

Addiction is powerful. There are plenty of cases of star athletes ending up as homeless junkies, and this isn't because they lacked the ability to engage in higher-effort, healthy hobbies.

Especially for the generation of kids raised on (and often by) smartphones and tablets. Breaking those addictions can open up a universe of new possibilities, and provide much more positive outlets for all of the energy previously invested in games or social media.
Cycling on roadways with motor traffic is not for everyone...
> Add a mult command to memcached

You problem setup seems to assume that your interviewee is compeltely unfamiliar with memcached. So how do you expect someone to be able to answer this question if you haven't told them how to add commands to memcached?

[UPDATE] Ah, I see you actually want them to go hack on the memcached code base. That is not at all clear from the problem description. The language of the problem setup is pretty elementary. I think anyone who is actually capable of doing this task would find the description pretty condescending.
Oh boy...

That a a horrible idea. Simply printing money with nothing to remove it again is a horrible fiscal policy you end up with run away inflation as each dollar you print lowers the value of each dollar. The value of money ends up decreasing faster than pay rates and you hurt the poor more as the rich will just pull their financial assets out into more stable economies the middle and lower class will loose.

You see national level taxes aren't there to fund the federal government in a modern economy. they are mean to remove excess cash from the economy. The government funds it self by borrowing and the printing money to pay it back with interest. This what bonds and like assets are. Why barrow rather than just print and pay, it about having good credit and showing the rest of the world dollar is stable by pay off our debt.
The custom chip technique is the same technique tom7 used to create an SNES emulator in an NES cartridge.
Username checks out... ;-)

Thanks.
Interesting that theft went Clojure. I know them as Django devs.
> i'm pretty sure that half of these features don't work.

That's just bashing. It's one thing to actually use something and criticize, its another to not even use the language and assume things.

> Such as the famous "autofree" where everyone doubted it could work and the solution now was.... to drop in boehm-gc.

Autofree is still part of Vlang. Also, many other languages have multiple methods of memory management. Which many argue is a good thing. Take for example, Nim, which has several (see below). Yet, I have never seen anybody at HN lose their minds over it and bash Nim about it.

Nim has: gc:refc, gc:markAndSweep, gc:boehm, gc:go, gc:arc, etc...

So exactly why can't Vlang have both AutoFree and GC? Yeah, the correct answer is that it should not be a problem. And as a newer developing language, they should be allowed to experiment to find what works best, as the other languages before it.
The EFF was fairly happy with the FCC's Title II proposal back in 2015:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/huge-win-open-internet...

In 2018 Markey and others proposed simply overturning Pai/Trump's overtuning of Title II.

I don't know precisely what you're referring to ... the closest I could find was the EFF's objections to the FCC proposals from 2011 which had things like "vague QoS and general network operation carve outs":

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/pt-ii-eff-evaluates-fc...

The EFF seemed much happier with the FCC proposals 4 years later.

What am I missing?
It's still digital dollars being spent. It's also a great way to get in bed with those guys. My strategies in business is always about "Bread and Circus". Give your customers something they need, even if need be for free, to get the real value you will eventually want. It lets you get in bed much more easily. It's like buying a girl a drink at the bar. She will still need to like you, but it's a lot easier to start talking to her + get her in bed by breaking the ice buying a drink.
Amazon.

- Amazon EC2 instances for web servers

- Amazon Elastic Load Balancers in front of the web servers, also handling SSL termination

- Amazon RDS for MySQL databases on the back end, with automatic failover to a hot spare and zero-downtime full database backups

I reserve EC2 and RDS instances on an annual basis, otherwise the expense would outweigh the benefits for me.

For offsite backups, I run a TonidoPlug in my house. Under a buck a month in electricity usage, runs Ubuntu linux, cron runs the backup scripts each night.
The link for the top of the page including the map is : http://aschmann.net/AmEng/ . For some reason the original post linked to the Southern US region, most of the way down the page.
I don't think it's necessary for you to post personal attacks or personalize the issue. I think Greenwald's response today makes it amply clear why a reasonable person would want more of the chat logs, or at least some full commentary by Wired on the chat logs. To wit: Lamo has made various public statements about what Manning supposedly said, in those logs. Wired has refused to substantiate those statements by posting relevant excerpts, or to comment on why they refuse. This objection, which is obviously not mine alone and has nothing to do with gaming this system or nerd message boards and is in fact a serious issue, also has nothing to do with any protection of privacy or embarrassing content that might also be present in those chat logs.

You might think it's not interesting to demand that the substantive issues raised by Wired's very selective posting of those logs be resolved. That doesn't make it so, and neither do personal attacks. Please note that I've refrained from attacking you.
Can you cite where you got this?

I imagine it'd be very easy to get ejected from the back seat of a car in a rollover/accident.

Do you ever sit in the middle back seat?
that's the fun part, silly!
I have this theory that AOL warez/hacking/prog scene is the root of many startups that exist today. It's how I first learned to code by making punters. I had made the first punter for AOL 4.0, only to have my hard drive crash the day of release. This heavily demotivated me fyi.

A few buddies of mine got started here. I've also read Zuck used to mess around in the scene. Aol was my first foray into the internet at the age of ten or so (maybe younger?). My screen name was JediForce3 (Yup, i was a true geek). I think it was Aol 2.5?

Anyone else here used to mess around with AOL back in the day? Steve Case used to get a lot of crap, but I always respected him + looked up to him as the founder of AOL.
> [Blue Jeans Cable] identified a cable that had sub-par signal characteristics, and without looking at the actual effects it had on network performance made the premature conclusion that it was.

From the fine article:

"[Our customer is] dealing with network performance issues at a small company, and has come to suspect that bad patch cords, made by an electrician, account for some of the problems he's seeing."

Looks like the customer who sent them the cable had already done the troubleshooting required to determine that the cable was probably bad.

Also, you should probably read: http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/channel-certified-eth... Each part in an Ethernet network has well-specified tolerances for a reason. If one part of that network causes far too much signal degradation then all sections of the network that flow through that part can fail to function.
I've read Allen's book, but it was many years ago. I'll read it again soon.

There's more I'd like to say, but I'd like to get something done tonight. :-D
> if I could only use 1 piece of software forever, it’s probably Excel

“And thus we see that people with prolonged exposure to nonfree software need special help.” *Commits sin against the Church of Emacs with proprietary DuckDuckGo JavaScript*

Emacs has ~10 spreadsheet modes, including one for free-form calculation and one for reading Excel files (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SpreadSheet).
I think the multiplication should be here:

buffer = realloc(buffer, bufsize * sizeof(char));

This makes the code symmetric wrt. the malloc() call. And better allows the code to be rewritten when moving to e.g. a wide-character type.
We self-impose HIPAA complaint protocols despite not being a covered entity. The answer to the question: "Is customer data protected by HIPAA?" is essentially the same.

1. Any data that can be considered PHI (survey data, medical data, genetic data) is stored under HIPAA complaint guidelines.
2. Yes, we are HIPAA complaint.
A little bit of both actually - as our user base grows we create a network effect that will spur new statistical associations. We can apply those new findings to new and existing users by updating their report accordingly.

You can imagine that even if you took the test once and had (for the sake of simplicity) 1 insight being reported back, you could revisit your profile in 2 years when we have tested 10,000 users and may have 4 new insights that have been added to your report as a result of the new discoveries we've made!

TLDR; there are associations reported now, and new ones that will be reported as we grow our user base and data
For the jmp instruction, both source and destination are the rip register. That other thing is an immediate value. Really jmp is just mov or add, with the rip register. Like so:

movq somelabel, %rip
addq somelabel-%rip, %rip

mov rip, _somelabel
add rip, _somelabel-rip
> I'm puzzled

You shouldn't be puzzled that your baseless claims are challenged. You've provided nothing to back your claim. Your unfounded claims contribute nothing.

> Very sad to see how discussion is becoming impossible

You aren't offering discussion. You're only offering innuendo. You plainly don't understand the regulations Ofcom administers or the process of those regulations.
Why are using Zetta Hosting Solutions LLC out of Bulgaria?

I'm a pretty rigorous Catholic, but they have a vanishingly small Christian and even Jewish population to my knowledge.

The Catholic Church was heavily penetrated by both Soviet and Chinese intelligence after World War II. Likely before as well.

Sorry I respect what you're doing, but just want myself and others to do the due diligence up front.

Best of luck otherwise.
It’s not a delusion of grandeur, it’s the reality of how technology works. A single program can easily be used by millions of people.

An improvement to the Linux kernel scheduler that could reduce the power consumption of every android phone and the majority of servers in the world by 0.01% has a bigger impact than building an entire offshore wind farm.

Let that sink in. It’s hard to fathom how leveraged changes are to the software run all over the world. This is not delusions of grandeur, this is just the reality of so much of the world running on the same software.
I'd almost prefer to see this behavior than the handful of people I've encountered who do this same exact manual math in ..... Word.
>Eh, this isn't isolated to the gas industry. The whole premise of CISPA is the sharing of intelligence in a bidirectional manner. Hell, Intelligence Sharing is part of the name!

I remember the news about CISPA making it sound like it was only about bidirectional data sharing with corporate targets of foreign advanced persistent threats. I'm guessing that was wildly optimistic?
Lyft's normal line price is frequently (slightly) cheaper for my wife and I than Muni. Of course, during heavy demand times or for longer rides, muni wins, and I certainly would not want it to go away!

I think long term something like robot driven 6-rider lyft-line style vans is probably the future of public transit (hopefully) :)
I place myself in the first category. I am going to have to start committing my code samples to github, because 90% of what I write is proprietary and of no use to anyone but my clients and when not bound by NDA, the code would be a waste of other developers' time and would be on github just to be on github, since I and my employer have our own repos. Whenever I'm interviewing I end up pulling code from larger projects and coding a fake context around it to create a sample. I'd love to be more active in the OSS community but I have frameworks to learn, a 10 hour a day job and a wife and kids. No new job for me.
Fascinating stuff, however, as a clojure user, I just don't care yet. JS UI frameworks are made of dev ease of use, not speed. I'm glad this stuff exists, I just hope that useable frameworks are the next phase in the development of clojurescript.
0.6% market share

4714 out of 850712 cars

http://www.cncda.org/secure/GetFile.aspx?ID=2583

For comparison, Toyota is #1: 157,035
Being a PHP dev since the early 00's it's great to see the language moving forward with features and performance and seemingly less hate towards it from the developer community at large. For a while there seemed to be a "PHP-shaming" thing going around. If you did PHP you were sort of in an untouchable uncool class.
Pre-pandemic, you could get flown out for onsites for the higher positions, so they sort of already were doing that.

And if I save them millions within the time box of an interview, they'll probably hire me anyway.

But I can invoice my time even though I'm not invoicing every detail of it.
Lowering the contrast of text helps people with dyslexia (between 7.5% - 17.5% of users) to read the content more easily: https://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2012/text-customization/r11

High contrast text can appear blurred for them while reading.
Is there any research that proves this?
> FPGA tooling is in the dark ages compared to modern software development environments.

Dear god is it ever. My fiancee, bless her, got me a Spartan 6 for Christmas one year. I never got around to using it because I couldn't find a download for the single, outdated version of (I think) Arduino Software it claimed it 100% required.
Do you guys have an ETA on horizontal scaling? I think that's the only feature I saw missing from Digital Ocean App Platform.
Good advice regarding `lang` and a11y aside, I think people are starting to kinda miss the point of the brutalist format. The format is meant to prioritize pragmatism and functional form instead of being statements in and of themselves (in fact it's meant to be a pushback against earlier styles that prioritized form over function). The original has a great effect because the usage of expletives gels well with the tone of its message ("wake up, you're doing it wrong!").

Here, the substance of the article is primarily about subtle incremental improvements, and it's quite clear that the expletives are being used to draw more effect to content that would be quite a bit more "boring" otherwise (though don't get me wrong, the advice is generally good)

To be fair, one could argue that appropriating a style in a way that is counter to its original intent is itself a form of art. But by the third or fourth me-too, it feels cliche and watered down to me IMHO.
Honestly: I think it’s cogent to have an idea of what the world ought be like, and yet act in other ways to further your own goals.

If it’s a prisoner’s dilemma, you might believe cooperation is the best way, and yet defect if you’re playing the game.

Thiel’s choice would be between: Living out his libertarian beliefs in practice v. Taking opportunities in a big state world and making money.

On the other end of some spectrum might be a radical minded idealist who wants the system to collapse but in practice still chooses to buy a laptop and goes to college.

I’d venture many people have dreamy beliefs about politics that they nevertheless don’t pursue unilaterally.