jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
re 4) - this is what Tesla does a lot :(

In Model3 you can move front passenger seat forward and up (to clean up in the back) all the way to the point when it pushes on sun visor and cracks the mirror in it. Just by using handles intended to move the seat, no manual pressure or anything, there are no limitation on how far it goes and it's strong enough..
Tesla service centers blame owners for that and charge full replacement cost for the visor :\
What would be a better design?
If all your taxes are just wages then you just fill out a two page form (1040). Literally just copy a couple of numbers from your w2 and you’re good. The problem is if you have non-salary sources of income (eg stock, non-employee compensation, etc) then things can rapidly become very complicated.
But in automotive terms a 'wear item' is something that a reasonable person could expect to replace or maintain, and is accessible through normal tools in a repair shop that works on multiple makes of vehicles. Such as tires, brake pads, brake rotors, belts, hoses.
Seems like some people actively want to be oppressed, and what better to accomplish it than to delete your comment because unfriendly people are downvoting it?
My reading of this is that the problem is less with the data and more with the placing of a tracker on a person or their property because the fourth amendment says you have a right to be secure in those things.
What does "the future hopefully is much bigger" mean for a calculator application? Competition with Wolfram Alpha? Unless you're doing something on that scale, I can't imagine what you mean.
We have enough mobility in this country that large scale mistreatment would be met with mass exodus and ultimate failure of the employer

This is only true when the economy is booming as it is right now. No one was saying this in 2009.
That's the problem though -- there is not equality is possibilities. Analysis [1] of a study from the Pew Research Center on economic mobility [2] found that you are 10x more likely to be in the top 20% if you're born there than if you're born in the bottom 20%. Someone born in the top 20% who doesn't go to college is still 2.5x more likely to have an income in the top 20% as an adult than someone from the bottom 20% who does go to college.

Moreover, it's worsened because life is more expensive in subtle ways as you move down the income bracket. [3] Even municipal fines -- as emphasized by John Oliver recently -- contribute to the problem.

[1] http://mattbruenig.com/2013/06/13/whats-more-important-a-col...
[2] http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/00...
[3] http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2014/12/linda_tira...
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjpmT5noto
I don't get the reference, if that is one.

If you're trying to point out that the Earth is finite, although you are correct, the scale is... large. Everything that decays via alpha decay ultimately makes helium.

Not to mention that a) worse comes to worse, we can always make our own, and b) it's literally >20% of the universe's (baryonic) mass.

The question is whether it's economic to use, not if it will run out.
I am in charge of a high volume, medium sized deis setup, and have been actively using deis since 0.2.0, but I don't have that kind of setup for my personal blog. It's overkill. Heroku is easier and allows me to get one with development, so I use Heroku.

It's not so much a "meh, I'd rather do git push heroku now than learn to setup elastic beanstalk/opsworks+docker/ec2+deis" than it is a "I just want to develop a quick idea without wasting time on ops".
sends a tarball to nsapao@nsa.gov, would be better if it circularly routed the data from A to A
"I have a 2PM with 'Goatse.cx', I don't remember this, let me just click the info link. URGHWTF."
I modded it back up
The extent to which visiting amazon.com is like walking into a shop is the extent to which Amazon puts up a facade to make it feel like that. That we're exchanging messages is not just what's happening behind the scenes, it's the essential truth of how communication happens on the net.

If I were visiting your shop, it's totally reasonable for you to check to make sure I'm not stealing anything. But I can't steal anything of yours by sending you messages! (Setting aside the possibility of me hacking your server, but that's not what you're sending me javascript to check on.) Hopefully this expresses more clearly why I don't think the shop analogy holds water.

If "sending messages" is too primitive of an abstraction, we can imagine exchanging letters in the mail, or buying a newspaper, or something like that.

(BTW, I'm sorry for the unconstructive sister comment here - I definitely don't condone it.)
There was no "red scare". Joe McCarthy was simply holding Communists accountable for their beliefs.
First, that's irrelevant to the discussion here, which is China's digital currency. The citizens of China are not going to be given the chance to vote for any such thing.

Second, even if what you say comes to pass, so what? If I'm into crypto because of independence from governments, how does what you're suggesting make me any more interested in using that currency?
"It's 99.99% significant, if we assume the 10% case that we haven't fucked up somewhere."
Next step is to get some undergrads to do the work for you... [0]

[0] https://cat.pdx.edu/
I don't think the general public is anywhere close to understanding the full value of being able to control discourse on large platforms like this. We will likely continue to see a trend towards tighter control of speech as political activists realize that they can have greater impact by silencing their opposition on social media than they can by protesting in their local city center.
May just be me, but none of the links actually lead to the relevant airbnb listing. They all revert to area search.
This is really cool, but not legal esp if flying for money.
You cannot let anything get out of visual range and within regular air traffic.
You might come across as indifferent to others but I choose to interpret your post as an straightforward reminder that for most of us resume pips don't mean shit. A degree's nice, internships are cute, but with or without them you've got to hustle to make it.

Ten years ago I was intermittently working in the trades between bouts of pizza delivery and crashing unemployed on a friend's couch. I get paid mostly to write open source plugins for web CMS's these days. Occasionally I consult if the project's interesting. I've got a decent house and an incredible wife. My change of fortune is utterly unremarkable. No luck involved, just 10 years of hustling, looking for the next angle, working on my skills and networking.
A really bad idea?
It is a really good idea for communities that don't have significant market share but still want an SO style forum. For example there is an OSQA backed forum for Esperanto speakers.
Full-length duals have already been done, though. I don't think that is the killer application of this tech.
WalterBright is right.

How about eliminating taxpayer funding for schools altogether? We spend $68B on the DoE.

That is ~$900 per child in the US, according to http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp.

Then, entrepreneurs will be motivated to build schools because they can earn a profit based on enrollment. As with all private enterprises, they will be forced to compete on quality of service.

These schools will also be judged on the performance and caliber of their eventual alumni classes.

I am willing to wager that at least 30% of this board went to a private college. Why do we need the government running our schools, as well? To standardize a curriculum?

Electronics companies use the Underwriters's Lab to certify their products. I'm sure schools can have something similar.
Works in Chrome 7 (current stable) too.
1) Many of the students probably received the test from their peers and did not know that it had come from a private test bank. I seriously doubt 200 people independently and individually broke into the same test bank, unless it was actually open to students, in which case it was as much fair game as the rest of the Internet. There are plenty of universities that keep student-accessible test banks and records of old exams (including the two I've attended), so many students probably assumed it was from that type of source.

1.5) Also note that the concept of a "test bank" that is supposedly inaccessible to students is not entirely common knowledge. We don't know how easily accessible and/or clearly warned this information was.

2) I already said that the students were wrong not to mention that they'd seen the test.
The higher numbers re: valuations I've seen and heard are just under $10M (recent YC startup). Potentially rumors of $20M (Instagram, but was apparently untrue). Not sure which startups are seeing the $30-50M range that Fred Wilson mentions. Clearly, he sees a lot of deal flow, but you'd assume the major tech blogs would cover these startups.
Your "real name" (all names are real)
I’m a fan of the “inter linear” system (actually the Loeb editions that have one page in Latin or Greek and the other page in English. Forbidden in high school of course).

I attended a high school that taught Greek and Latin (required) as living languages: written and spoken usage right from the beginning no different from French (also required).

The nice thing about them being active languages rather than fossilized ones is that various teachers (even a couple of English teachers and even one history teacher iirc) would just use them as a language in a class, school assembly etc. Of course I never heard a student do so!

I recognize now that I understand the classics we read far more deeply than I would have in translation. Whether that understanding is important, of course, depends on the reader. It is important to me.
The many topics about Rust are annoying too. The activists and fanboys turn the discussions tiresome.
It’s not as bad as you imagine.

Here are some of my experiences regarding swapping to unreal:

- the c++ gameplay framework is very friendly. It’s GC, with good high level wrappers that provide stuff like options, maps, classes (ie. Reflection).

- The unreal discord c++ channel is full of people who will actually answer your questions, it’s brilliant.

- Every high level blueprint function is a c++ function. I cannot express how powerful it is to be able to step into the source of like “MoveToPoint” or “Whatever” and see exactly how it was implemented in c++.

- You should use blueprints. It’s like python glue for machine learning; write in c++, but when you need to twiddle an animation curve, or lay out a state machine, it’s pretty good. If you’re working with an art team, they can actually make gameplay changes. It’s very productive.

- Plug-ins are a first party construct; you should use plugins to build reusable content. They’re not quite as good as the unity package manager, but it’s rock solid foundational stuff.

- The compile times are not often an issue; I use the incremental unity builds (it’s a source file aggregation thing, why they called it unity I have no idea) and it takes like what 15 seconds to build a plug-in? Launching the editor is slow 30 seconds?) though.

It’s not all good; it has bugs. Sometimes the editor just goes into crazy mode and needs a restart. When you mess up, it crashes with a segfault.

C++ is just less productive; but I’m using the unreal for rider EAP and it’s pretty good.

So… I miss c#; but overall I would rate my experience as pretty good, and since my experience with DOTS in unity has been, shall we say, 100% negative…

Give it a try. :)
Coding challenges in general, if they’re part of the hiring process, need to be much more accommodating yes. Even if they reassure you they’re evaluating “how you think” etc, this kind of thing is an anxiety amplifier for many (including me).

I haven’t interviewed on site with a coding challenge for nearly a decade, but last time I did I literally brought my own laptop and asked permission to use it (which was always declined). If I were interviewing today I’d literally walk out if that request wasn’t at least considered, and probably even still if it was declined without a really good explanation.
Feeding the chickens dyes can make the yolk any color you want, they used to do it as a demo for chicken feed sales by making the yolks all different colors.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy), it only seems to be banned if you're doing it as a country.

>What makes it worse is that money is pumped into it like a ponzi scheme (first investors cash, last investors are left with the bubble), which should be illegal in itself.

IANAL, but part of what makes a ponzi scheme illegal is that there's deception involved (ie. you're taking money for investors and saying that you'll use it to invest in the business, but really you're paying out yourself/other investors). There's nothing illegal about starting a crappy business, paying yourself and/or others (either through salaries or selling your shares), as long you're transparent about it and go through the proper channels (eg. board approval).
I would do a little further investigation. 1080p on Netflix is like 5MB/s. If you have a router that can give you real time feedback or maybe glasswire, that's probably how I would measure it.

Also make sure nothing else is consuming your total upstream bandwidth. With asymmetrical bandwidth, TCP acknowledgements that get choked out or buffered will limit your downstream bandwidth too.
did you finally got accepted in the company? curious..
The amount (and cost!) of maintenance to get a car to last 15 years is going to vary significantly based on how much it is driven
Out of thin air:

> I forget how much time they gave for it. Let’s say three hours, counting the time to explain the problem.
Thanks! Here's an annotated list of all those (plus chris_wot's and a couple others):

Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17280239 - June 2018 (47 comments)

Re: Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12179222 - July 2016 (67 comments)

Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166585 - July 2016 (294 comments)

Thoughts on Uber’s List of Postgres Limitations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12216680 - Aug 2016 (103 comments)

A PostgreSQL response to Uber [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14222721 - April 2017 (82 comments)

Why we lost Uber as a user - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12201353 - Aug 2016 (285 comments)

Uber's Move Away from PostgreSQL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12223216 - Aug 2016 (15 comments)
But it's also pretty obviously just a convolution, so not exactly a big unknown. It's super neat, and it makes sense that it would be in the eye, but at the end of the day the interesting processing is done in the brain.
From http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/12/browse-for-good-cause.htm... :

10 tabs = 1 tree planted

10 tabs = 1 book published and donated

25 tabs = 1 vaccination treatment provided

100 tabs = 1 square foot of shelter built

200 tabs = 1 person's clean water for a year
The ram additional prices are linear with the next tier linode, so if you want more ram you are better of just buying the next tier and getting bandwidth/harddrive space for free.

This applies to all their extra pricing (other than ips and backups).

I'm upset with the outages but I'm more likely to move my freemont server back to dallas than switch hosts.
That's a completely different point. You were originally talking about trusting them to delete content or brick a device, now it's about profit maximisation. How are they going to maximise profit by bricking my Kindle or deleting books I've bought from them given that in most cases that would be the last action in our relationship?

Before I judge them on this I'm keen to hear their take on it. At the moment we have anecdotal evidence from someone who has an interest. If for instance Amazon had discovered the content violated certain laws that would be reasonable I'd suggest.

But you talk about it as if this is routine which is clearly a long way from the truth. I repeat, they're in the business of selling books. How many books will they sell if they keep deleting them?

Besides, if you're that bothered you can back up everything you own. If they delete the item then convert it to a different format and restore it. Yes it's work but so is Linux and you seem to think that's a reasonable effort to put into protecting yourself from this sort of thing.
I don't even necessarily agree, but Carlin's delivery of that line is priceless, I can hear it my head. RIP George.
This is pretty significant. The accelerating expansion of the universe is still a surprising result. This completely independent method of measuring that acceleration has come up with the same figures, which bolsters the claim substantially (though the original evidence was very strong, this makes it far, far stronger).
I wouldn't mind if I could dump all my DVDs into a box, send it to someone and have them stream them to me when I want, to any device I want.
Stack overflow has probably been the best Q&A site around, content-wise, user-experience wise and probably every other criteria a user would care about. Good work !
Cox and Stepstone's Objective-C was pretty primitive. NeXT added a lot. Protocols, Categories, etc are from NeXT.
Scientists aren't rich, but the ones I've worked with (quite a few) all made considerably more than 75K.

Other than postdocs (which is a temporary state), when do scientists make under 75K? Any tenure track prof at a decent/big university or private industry PhD researcher makes than that, no?
So Zediva is pursuing the redbox strategy, except by streaming instead of physical rental.
GNU emacs can show bitmap images. I'm on the latest version 24.x and just tried it out, so I'm not sure when it was added.
You've clearly not experienced Marathi pride, then?

Some companies here have quite the reputation for being Maharashtrian strongholds where only locals are valued and promoted. And these aren't your tiny software shops; I'm talking machine-so-huge-you're-just-a-tiny-cog type companies.
Link fixed, thanks!
What's up with the date on this article `Monday, Mar. 10, 2014`
> If they were competent then they would know that no serious threats will be discussed in world of Warcraft or over yahoo messenger.

No, that would be a sign that they were incompetent, because secretly communicating groups do use unusual chats, such as graphical children's chat applets, in-game communications, shoutboxes and such. Why wouldn't they?
Going back to the barcoding of trees, how would you do it? I assume you'd use some sort of SNP identification or specific DNA primers, but then you've just got a bunch of DNA in a tube.

The typical way of visualizing DNA is using an electrophoresis gel - most of the components are cheap/easy to obtain (agarose, electrodes, power supply, buffer), but how would you visualize your gel? Typical ethidium bromide stains are probably out of the question, given that ethidium bromide is so carcinogenic - most people probably don't have access to ethidium bromide. Maybe use a safer stain? (googling seems to point to invitrogen's SYBR Safe DNA stain as a possibility).

Then again, you could just use a UV spec to measure concentration, but how many people have a UV spec?

Looking forward to your results! In the future I think it would be nice to have open source enzyme starters (kind of like brewers/bakers yeast starter kits?) so that people could just grow+purify their own enzymes. (after the open source centrifuge that is =P )
They left out the main reason it's offensive: What do you mean the scales recently tipped in my favor? I'm just barely above average now, and I was previously at 49% or lower? What if I thought I was in, say, the top 25%?
According to the article linked in the first paragraph (in Turkish) they are required to pay taxes for the ads of Turkish companies YouTube shows to its Turkish visitors.

EDIT: It is stated in the original article as well:

> As a consequence of YouTube’s popularity despite the ban,
the video portal has been attracting advertisement from
Turkish companies, a development that triggered the tax
probe that Transportation Minister Yildirim was referring to.
It refers to sections of the man pages. They are organized like this:

1. General Commands

2. System Calls

3. Subroutines

4. Special Files

5. File Formats

6. Games

7. Macros and Conventions

8. Maintenence Commands
The talk was interesting, and I thought you sounded fine. Although Monica sounded slightly more polished, her contribution was also much more buzzwordy (and more vacuous) than yours.
You can also show fake ID at a competing telco sales point and tell them you want to move the number in Sweden. Happened to me that depending on which provider the call was coming from, sometimes it would reach me and sometimes not.
is this safe? modern cars are designed to absorb impact and not transfer it to passengers. this sounds like it is a rigid metal car like a vw beetle
I interpreted OP to be referring to a different elephant, in another, oddly-shaped, room.

..but your feat of childish defensiveness applies either way.
The question is not how innovative or useful Stadia is but how reliable Google is. If all Google produced was boring useless garbage, no one would care that they shut it down.
Some Dodge Rams and Ford pickups in Finland. They barely fit in parking lots and are ridiculously huge and polluting.
In Colorado, there's still some veneration of Buffalo Bill, whose claim to fame was killing buffalo with such efficiency that only the pelts were harvested from the rotting corpses blanketing the plains.
Happy the GPU which will have to render that in the next Gran Turismo.
Yes. But it could be less mainstream.
They're going to be forced to accept that and allow it anyway if Linux gets big enough.
"comes with more responsibility and less choice"

As everything in life - YOU are the one limiting yourself. If you feel pressure from society to do or avoid some decisions, then you shouldn't be in that position in the first place. Only strongest successful people can remain their autonomy despite investors and fame.

Look what people from Uber do. Steve Jobs, E-harmony folks or even GoDaddy owner. We disagree with their decisions and even sometimes boycot their companies - but they often remain unwilling to change.
What about http://tryghost.org? How is this going to be any different?
Gotta love queensland. The state that made it illegal to go have coffee with two friends without a police permit.
Very true, the fist thing I wanted to look for - "how did my favourite high-fat, low-carb diet rate in this study? Oops, how are the results of any use then ..."
Sorry, I meant Angry Mac Bastards. It's a podcast based on yelling. Normally I know better than to throw around obscure acronyms like that.
As a bit of a though exercise, I just invented the 4LW 'protocol' for remembering the IP addresses of seized sites: http://blog.rabidgremlin.com.nyud.net/2010/11/28/4-little-wo... :)
This is weird to me too, because I dont request permission for the history. I will look it up.
It was certainly my experience that learning Latin in high school helped me learn English better for all of the above reasons, plus so much of English is from French, a Romance language. Heck, just knowing a word is probably Anglo-Saxon in derivation because it's not Latinate has been useful.
When you install the extension it warns you that it needs access to "Your browsing history". I can understand why it needs your HN data, but why your browsing history? (or is that message simply misleading)
Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu
Seems like they decided to release it on a Friday so the outrage is minimized. But why did the Biden administration bother to release the report at all?
Ah I see. Yes I’d agree with that.
I'm curious too.

The un-shortened URL is https://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/graph.php?r=year&z=xlar...