jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I just went through the whole incorporation process for the second time. I used the same guys we used before and they gave us a good deal, agreed to defer the fees, etc. The first time around we just asked other startups who they used and what their experience was like. We asked them questions like how much their incorporation docs cost and how fast they responded to emails (lawyers have a bad habit of taking days to respond to emails).

If you're planning to raise money, it's also wise to ask your potential investors if they have any favorite firms that they like to work with. Working with firms they know and trust can speed the fund-raising process up a lot.

I'm pretty sure I've never had a beer with my lawyers. I know I've never asked them for introductions. I've got a lot of other people around me for that. What's important to me is getting good legal advice when I need it and clean legal docs that aren't going to cause problems later on. I'll take intros from guys who aren't billing me $500/hr.
Warren Buffett's corrupt Moody's credit rating business is at the heart of the financial crisis. Funny he didn't mention that.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/economy-watch/2010/05/credi...
Sunshine (2007) Danny Boyle, Alex Garland.
Most of the "answer" has come from the group selling
and/or using the machine

If they honestly believed those 'answers', they wouldn't have sold or used those machines. These answers are just intended to cover their asses, so they can have it both ways: sell the machines as safe on the one hand; publicly claim they 'have some reservations' on the other hand. The only thing that matters is: who certified the machines and what methods did they use. If the machines are certified for regular use on humans, why is that.

It's a wonder we are still allowed to use Nuclear Magnetic Resonance imaging, renamed Magnetic Resonance Imaging to get rid of the scary 'nuclear'. Now any notion of 'radiation' is again being ostracized. Everyone just repeats some thing they think they understood, without actually knowing anything of what is actually involved. If you feel X-rays are that scary, stop flying.
Does anyone know what this is? Does anyone have any more info on where the colors come from?
The claim that IE is legit hinges on the diffs causing a valid bug in IE's optimization code (e.g. deadcode inside deadcode prevents the latter being optimized out), versus foul play in the engine (a hard-coded case for this benchmark).

Can you find any variation on the benchmark code that still allows IE to optimize it, or does it only optimize the exact form of the code used in the benchmark suite?
I use the varidesk, I think it was $250 when I bought it. The quality definitely justifies the price, but I didn't find it too expensive to begin with especially since it was a write-off.
Not entirely sure any of these can be attributed to Ballmer but Microsoft has been entirely successful in the enterprise.

Active Directory (copied, but marketed better than Novell), Group Policies, Visual Studio (arguably the best IDE available today), Sql Server, .NET, Azure.

And trust me, I am no fan of Ballmer. I think this announcement is the best thing to happen to Microsoft in a LONG time.
"it’s wasted on the crappiest generation of just spoiled idiots that don’t care, because this is what people are like now"

Louis CK sums it up better than I could ever articulate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk&feature=player_d...
Looks quite nice, but do you really need a loading indicator for an image of your logo that's a single colour?
You do not understand what I've written. No where did I mention absolute price. I am talking strictly about resources used per capita. Let me emphasize that:

PER CAPITA

You write:

"Acquiring land for any project is going to be harder and pricier. "

Yes, obviously. Of course the land is pricier in the big urban cities. This has nothing to do with what I wrote.

The resources used PER CAPITA in suburbs will be greater than the resources used PER CAPITA in a dense urban core, other things being equal. This is a simple matter of space and resource use. Resources will tend to be more heavily used in a dense urban core, therefore society gains more benefit from that those resources, assuming the point of the resource is to be used.

Compare the use of fuel in the city, and fuel in suburbs. Much fuel in the suburb is spent on automobiles, which are well known to be inefficient. In a city you will have mass transit, which offers a more efficient use of fuel, per capita.

You write:

"In an urban environment, sure fuel costs per person drop drastically, but when other costs are taken into account, I remain unconvinced it is so much cheaper."

Nowhere did I say the city was cheaper than the suburbs. I suggest the opposite - the suburbs are cheaper than the cities. And I suggest the reason why - it is because the suburbs are subsidized to a greater extent than the cities.

There is a large literature on this subject in the field of urban planning.
Can promises guarantee that condition with only library code? or do you still have to have try/catch in the application code, and if so where?

Also, do any of the promises libraries solve the backtrace problem, and if so how do they do it?
Agreed. Double edged: as the new entrant network effects of incumbent(s) can be the wall you hit. Can also be your moat if you innovate the space into a new, different direction.
Android has been a mostly positive thing for linux, but it could be much more if so google desired. Google had the influence and power position to force many important drivers to become blob-free or open source (GPU, VPU, GSM modems, wifi, bluetooth), but it looks like they just didn't care.
Those are awesome tips. I didn't even think of using "user_version" for storing a migration version. I'm definitely stealing that trick.
1) Add shortcuts to the Desktop [1] (since 95)

2) Win+R Run dialog [2] (since 95)

3) Pin to the Taskbar [3] (since Vista)

4) Windows key and type [4] (since Vista)

5) PowerToys Run (new; optional addon from GitHub Microsoft/PowerToys; mentioned in article), and similar tools from third party vendors

[1] So many Installers since '95 still do this by default. I've seen so many Windows users that that's how they launch everything, from a super cluttered Desktop that constantly rearrange. It's partly why I turn off the Desktop entirely, as I personally don't have an interest in managing that cluttered mess.

[2] Not something I'd recommend today, but a lot of people have ingrained muscle memory going all the way back to '95. It has an interesting search heuristic and you don't always need to type a full path. Plus it has autocomplete when you do need to type a full path.

[3] I keep a lot of important things pinned. Pins are also great because they give you automatic global shortcuts for free. Win+{N} where N is between 1 and 9 (inc.) and is the number of the pin in taskbar order.

[4] Searches all installed apps, enter to launch. Arrow keys to navigate if multiple suggestions. Quick, fast, convenient.

Microsoft said when building Windows 8 most of their telemetry showed "no one" actually used the Start Menu to launch apps and people either fell into bucket [1] or bucket [3 + 4] (me), with a few stodgy outliers in the bucket [1 + 2] camp. The full screen Start Menu acts the way most Desktop-heavy users work (hiding all Windows until they could see the Desktop to launch their next app, whether by one of the Minimize All Windows shortcuts or the actual Win+D Desktop shortcut), and helped bring down the amount of auto-installed clutter for those of us in the [3 + 4] camp that didn't want to manage the Desktop as it has been since '95.

As a fun lesson in telemetry, because Vista and 7's telemetry for app launching "mechanism" was opt-in, apparently the people that actually used the Start Menu as a Menu mostly failed to ever opt-in. The vocal anger of that very crowd at Windows 8 is a large part of why Windows 10 moved to a more opt-out telemetry model to avoid the sorts of assumptions that happened in Windows 8. (The irony shouldn't be lost that many of the same people that hated Windows 8 for ignoring their use cases are the same that hate telemetry in general. It shouldn't be that shocking that Microsoft doesn't cater to your use cases if they can't gather telemetry to know that you exist. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
And will you get a call trace when you do that?
I’m glad you enjoyed it! When you have time, check out one of his BOLTR (bored of lame tool reviews) videos for more of the same. He’s a piece of work.
Here is a screenshot that I uploaded a while ago on Wikimedia Commons, showing a terminal session on Linux running edbrowse rendering the http://edbrowse.org/ website: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edbrowse_screenshot....
If you trusted a company that started out trading Magic: the Gathering cards with a significant amount of your money, you probably need the lesson you are going to learn from this.
Hm, this is odd. I'm also on 10.6.4... and I include the fonts inside, so that shouldn't be a problem... Hrm.

EDIT: Are you using US default stuff? There's a known issue involving foreign keyboard settings... I wonder if it's similar.
I'm not sure where your skepticism is coming from, but I can assure you that I would have saved countless hours had I begun with a more current version of Rubygems and Ruby.
Have they tried the iWork suite for iPad? There is also Quickoffice HD which allows you to edit Office documents and it works pretty well.
On Google docs viewer:

http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~r...
Or consider using newLisp (newLisp.org) -- easy to use and it has a very nice IDE. It's FREE too.
Dear Jeff Bezos and Amazon:
Take note of how it's done by real men. By your actions WRT Orwell and Wikileaks, you've shown that you aren't worthy to shine the shoes of a real information-bearer, and you aren't fit to host my cloud nodes either.
Sincerely,
Marsh Ray
iWork tends to fail in interesting ways. (They have an iMac as their big desktop computer and I tried to convince them to use iWork at first but pretty quickly had to resort to installing Office.) My parents need perfect fidelity all the time. People tend to send strange documents around and they have to be able to open them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_caste
I wonder how difficult it would be to federate gitlab or gogs. Set up something like OAuth so you can log into anyone's gitlab (provided they have to set to public) and be able to fork/clone/branch to your "home" instance of it. Have an interface akin to github but have it pull in data from other gitlab instances you linked/subscribed to. You could also run some sort of public opt-in indexing service for discoverability of new projects, but the code would be hosted on your own instance.

I'd much prefer that over github, as my account sits idle there, while my gitlab gets plenty of use. I suppose it's something I should look into.
Not if Apple has anything to say about it.
It sound like what Google Wave was trying to do, but Facebook might actually succeed at.
If one can program a computer, chances are that it would be foolish not to try to sell the result, if only to augment one's "luck surface".

A $30 a month EC2 instance can host thousands of users, depending on the service proposed. If a service has "any sort of value", chances are that some money will get out of it, maybe much more than was invested.
Thanks very much for the reply. Topix has an analysis at http://blog.topix.com/2008/01/anonymous-comments-by-the-numb... of the effects of allowing "anonymous" (no registration, but still with an alias) comments. The results were the percent of abuse didn't change either way since trolls and the like have lots of free time to grab a public email account, but no-registration greatly increased the amount of contribution, and possibly the quality since professionals with limited time and high quality contributions are perhaps less likely to deal with the rigamarole of registration.

Topix does still have a lot of bad comments, but it's more the nature of a small town political board and so attracts a lot of gossip and low IQ people.

I think a better design is HN/Reddit where one has to register but email (with confirmation if presented) is optional in the registration and all registering does is validate the user with a captcha and group their posts so they can be found and maintained (edited/deleted) by the user. I think that topix would be well served in fact to make the slight adjustment to switch to hn/reddit style.

Of course both reddit and HN are notable for having virtually no noticeable spam and being relatively free from abuse especially compared to boards with registration like yahoo news discussions.

Reddit HN and topix all do have a comment feedback mechanism though so that may provide social feedback regarding appropriate comments. These mechanisms do have a weakness though in that they are often used to punish unpopular points of view even when reasonably presented.

OK, so that's on the topic of the social effects of registration methods. I also want to talk about the value and tech implementation of anonymity on such a site but I'll start that in a new comment so as to segregate these.
At the office where the papers grow she takes a break
Drinks another coffee and she finds it hard to stay awake
It's just another day
It's just another day
It's just another day
Haven't used IDEA/scala plugin in a few weeks, but i did have to mess with heap and other config options per:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438408

http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/snapimpact/IDEA_9CE_Tip

http://leshazlewood.com/2007/08/01/intellij-idea-on-mac-os-x...
Thank you! I'm looking on the internet for help/books also.
It’s pretty fundamental to investment / mutual funds. Vanguard, Blackrock, etc. None of them are the beneficial owners of Tesla, but all of them are coordinating the activities of millions of investors they represent.
By way of example some states have discounted rates / special rates for cotton gins. Here is one. https://www.epelectric.com/files/html/Rates/TX_Tariff_Schedu...

Such things are complicated to figure out fully, the subsidized power might not be subsidized directly by the power generators / power distributors. In some cases two bills are generated for the duration of the power subsidy so the subsidized part only sees the subsidized rate.
There's lots of segments for battery chemistries to be used, so they just need to beat out smaller segments to establish commercial viability.

EV batteries also aren't a monoculture. They are even mixing battery types in EV packs to achieve different range/cost aspects.

If there's room for Sodium Ion, LFP, and the various cobalt/nickel chemistries, if there's air, sea, and long-haul modes plus grid storage, home battery storage, plus all the mobile and tools, there's plenty of segments.
i feel like you’ve made a point here that, if you phrased a little differently, would’ve been an interesting addition to the conversation.
I didn’t say it removed agency from Democrats. It removes agency from immigrants because it treats them as reactionary pawns that don’t have any power in making decisions about their own lives and simply follow the whims of the Democratic Party.
My first thought was where the hell I'd put my ladder, and then how I'd fit a sofa on there. What even is this thing
You usually can but than there are the moments where you can't. Like that 1.3 parking spots the SUV took (https://i.imgur.com/RGxHHkF.jpg) because...well nobody knows because it should actually fit but the driver couldn't park it in despite the x amount of cameras and assistants or maybe just didn't want to because he/she needed more space to get out of it in the end (actual reason presented to me once). Parking with one wheel on the street/bike lane is quite common too. However probably not because of the same reasons as the street should be wide enough to get out so maybe there are just not enough parking sensors in there. Or that SUV in a narrow city road-fun: driving with too much distance to the right side so everybody coming from the front has to wait for the city tank to pass them because somehow SUV drivers don't have a good feeling about how wide it really is.

Well yeah...they might be a thing that fits well in the US but they as sure as hell don't belong in Europe.
Honestly this could be a brilliant strategy to destroy competition if I didn't think they were so inept.
I am absolutely shocked about this finding. The amount of money on microtransactions Rockstar lost because of this single issue must be gigantic.
The amount of people that got turned off by the loading times over the years is massive.
It's mind boggling.
I feel the pain. Unfortunately I gave up trying to get Firefox to understand/use super or hyper as command keys. Mostly however I get by fine with caps lock set as control with the exception of VSCode with the Vim plug-in overriding ctrl-c/ctrl-v and breaking copy/paste. Of course VSCode doesn't support super/hyper instead of control key on Linux.
I guess that means that overview is for kernel developers. Those directory names are meaningless to me as an user...

FWIW, I'm actually asking out of a real need. I have two powerpc boxes (no, not ppc64le) here, which we use for testing big-endian compatibility. But last I checked, LLVM supported neither 32-bit PowerPC nor big-endian PowerPC.

Actually... I guess the real argument is that the kernel directory names aren't sufficient. Because they specify architecture families, not architectures.

[And, funnily enough, LLVM does actually seem to support 32-bit BE PowerPC. Now I'm really confused.]
1. Maybe give Kubuntu a try. Have not used Gnome in many years now, but when I did, lag was a given.

2. Have you setup full disk encryption? Unless tweaked (thanks to Cloudflare kernel patches) dm-crypt will cause short system freezes.

3. Firefox is still an unfortunate story on Linux. Still no hardware acceleration enabled by default (and just in the last year, I think, made toggleable universally in about:config)
I wonder if there is anyway society can progress faster? Right now we're waiting for boomers to die out because they can't cope with Facebook. Will the kids born 10 years ago have to wait for my generation to die out because we think all fakes on YouTube are real?
Is it not reasonable to throw this back at the CPU makers? If you want to bring out a new cpu architecture, port all the compilers to it before you start selling it.
That’s actually trivial using unsigned arithmetic and two’s complement representation for signed integers, its also equally efficient[1]. Unsigned arithmetic is fully defined in c, including checking for overflow.

[1] gcc for example generates optimal code when doing checked addition: https://godbolt.org/z/9jnesx
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access / on this server.
That's not all that new, though.
It's true, that did make the news, but it was more of a footnote. Nobody really cared until December.
I don't think "morality" is equivalent to "processor".
I'm just beginning my road down the path of learning Lisp. My plan for learning is:

1. Read the Practical Common Lisp chapters which introduce Lisp features.

2. Write a web application using Common Lisp (Hunchentoot/Postmodern). After all, the only way to learn a language is to use a language.

3. Re-read Practical Common Lisp and/or other Lisp books.

I realize that I won't remember 90% of the material read in Practical Common Lisp in Step 1. However, I'm hoping that I can get an overview of the features available in the language to help design a better web application. Knowing some names of features like CLOS, cons cells, plists, alists (and others that I haven't gotten to yet) will just make it easier for me to search for help when I run into problems.

If anyone has any references to good materials for the following:

- Learning Common Lisp

- Creating CL applications using Hunchentoot and/or Postmodern

- Quality Common Lisp API specs

- Any other tips for an aspiring Lisper

I'd be grateful for any additional information that might help me along the way.
My guess is the lack of adequate revenues that lead to real profits. Last I read, Facebook was breaking even. As they grow toward a billion users, I imagine those costs will rise. This is fine if ad revenues can keep up, but last I checked their average CTR was less than half a percent.

Facebook is odd in that it improves on a previous solution (communication tools: mail, phone, cellphones), but doesn't charge for the utility it brings.
The idea that authoritarianism requires competent enforcers is false. The Gestapo, the NKVD, the Stasi, the SD were all full of losers who were the mall cops and malcontents of their day. What they did have in common were a lust for power.
Piece of hardware yes. Terminal yes.

Computer: no.
Its on Github, in a private repository. When I'm finished, I plan to make the repository public (which is probably going to be embarrassing).
So yeah, about that distributed DNS idea...
Wish I could undo my upvote. The seizure is still subject to court proceedings. FUD.
You mention integrating 'Scalable Content Generation' with AR towards the end... what kind of content could you generate?

It seems like AR is different than BCC in that one of the selling points of BCC is the content other people have generated. (eg 'bingo cards with US presidents on them') But AR seems much more like a service that doesn't have any built in content.

Or are you just talking about outsourcing the creating of blog posts and link-bait info-graphics that will drive up your page rank?
I think Blogger Bob is the TSA? But the DHS is the ones that were behind the seizure of "torrent" domains, without any kind of court ruling or trial.

I wish we had access to the proposed legislation.

I find the idea of the white house writing secret legislation to be very troubling.
Time limited software is a key to good demo versions for in house enterprise-ware.
I think the secretaries part is dying off, but with regard to that: Instead of "taking them to lunch", try "treating them like people". Talk to them. Treat them as an equal -- certainly in terms of courtesy. Treat their requests with respect and respond in a timely and useful fashion.

What secretaries are left often serve fairly high powered people. And those people (usually) don't keep idiots around and in control of their affairs.

Finally, if you are doing it to "get ahead", forget it. Per the previous paragraph, they aren't idiots. And they don't like manipulation any more than the rest of us.
Considering that 100Mbit/s is 12.5MByte/s, the speeds you're seeing aren't horribly distant from your "up to" speed.

[For reference's sake, 8MByte/s is 64Mbit/s and 9MByte/s is 72Mbit/s
If changing CSS requires changing the markup, you are doing it wrong. Look into approaches like BEM, and demo sites like CSS Zen Garden.
University of Central Lancashire (not).
And after I just spent several hours of headaches rebasing and wrangling git subtree and attempting to git rebase -i branch -s subtree --rebase-merges --allow-unrelated-histories (which doesn't work)...

Request: Is it possible to import only one subdirectory of another Git repository as a subtree (excluding unit tests and build scripts and such)?
Seize the means of registration. Seriously, why on earth are the domain registries of the world not in the hands of the people? This stuff is far to important to be under the control of cooperations.
Talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnniEPtNs-4