jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That a bit different a situation. The municipality would have a contract with a private company to provide public transportation services. Like with any such contracts, the recipient would have to abide by all specified regulations and also would have to hit performance milestones in order to get paid and/or renewed.
I think it was an old hippie thing, arguments from being closer to nature (rather than merely less harmful) were powerful back then. Today? The comparisons between wild and domestic crops are broadly circulated in the press and memes, premium mock meats are pushed by companies purporting to be high tech operations, there's no way you'd be spearing wild tofu swimming up the river because it doesn't exist.
"Some countries" = maybe 10-15 microstates and tax havens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax#Around_the_world

> US did not have one for half of its existence and when one was created it was tiny.

The US also didn't have highways, a public healthcare system, public education, etc. for a large chunk of its existence. When all you needed was a homestead and a rifle... you didn't need much to finance the government.
Any way to get it running in a virtual machine without having a real hard drive to put it on?
At least sales hiring seems to be as broken as engineer hiring...
Good question. My department just switched to Slack for our chats and I really don't see what the big deal is. It's great, but I don't see why it stands out.
The buttons are to assist with repeat purchases that we All make and that are a hassle for most of us. Detergent, toilet paper, razors, etc. It's not a matter of whether we buy these things - we all do - it's How. And for a lot of us the How is still inconvenient. This is not the perfect solution but that's the problem it seems to want to solve. It IS a problem of Remembering to purchase. How do we make it easier for people to purchase those core items they frequently run out of?

The only "junkie" vibe I got from this was the k-cups.
> Is asking such questions (smoking pot, questions about your social life) in a job interview legal in the US?

I suppose you can ask any question you like in a job interview.

It isn't that certain questions are illegal; it's that there are certain bases on which employers may not discriminate - so called protected classes of individuals[1]. If you ask someone a question about whether they are married or pregnant, you might create the perception that you are discriminating on those bases. Not delving into those areas in interviews is merely a prudent HR policy to avoid the appearance of impropriety; actually discriminating on those grounds, however, is illegal.

Job interviews are not the same as security clearance checks (which some govt/govt contractor jobs require). I don't know what if anything is "out of bounds" in the context of those...

[1]: http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/index.cfm

EDIT: For a bit more information on the types of questions you might run into during a clearance check, here's a PDF of the form you fill out, SF86[2]. I don't know how closely they hew to this in the in-person interviews but I've heard anecdotally that the investigators primarily clarify and confirm responses you gave on the clearance form. Note that it is 127 pages long. The first 60 or so pages are basic information about you, your relatives, your marital status, people who know you well, education, personal military history and employment. Here are some of the more interesting sections along with the page number they start on:

- Foreign Contacts (p62)

- Foreign Activities (p66)

- Foreign Business, Professional Activities, and Foreign Government Contacts (p75)

- Foreign Travel (p83)

- Psychological and Emotional Health (p87)

- Police Record (p89)

- Illegal Use of Drugs and Drug Activity (p96)

- Use of Alcohol (p103)

- Financial Record (p109)

- Use of Information Technology Systems (p116)

- Association Record (p119) features the question: "Are you now or have you EVER been a member of an organization dedicated to terrorism, either with an awareness of the organization's dedication to that end, or which the specific intent to further such activities?" along with a form which you can helpfully use to provide the name and street address of the organization as well as any contributions you made:

[2]: http://www.opm.gov/Forms/pdf_fill/SF86.pdf
I agree, it's a somewhat silly argument. 2 points.

First I dislike the JSF. If there was any actual R&D, it's all seekrit and classified, in spite of China already having obtained the plans. (50 terrabytes worth of data, perhaps not enough to recreate the thing.) The JSF is its own trillion dollar expense, and didn't help with Iraq, Afghanistan, or Syria.

Second, and in the spirit of the letter, R&D is one of the best things we can spend money on.

It's an old argument, but the lives and property saved by carbon monoxide detectors alone are probably worth nasa's budget.

For a more recent example, consider all the Soylent discussion last year. Research into space exploration has to pin down exactly what nutrition is required, making products like Soylent better, with the added improving food aid - literally saving starving children like in the letter. This aid doesn't need to come from the government, any aid organization could take advantage of the knowledge.

Finally, and a little closer to home, NASA has one of the very few research computer labs. If you want to argue that pair programming is effective or not, you're pretty much going to have to rely on nasa research. Even for google, it is too expensive to try to understand what programming practices actually produce good software.

Government funded research proving feasibility does pretty great things. There is 0% chance google would have a self driving car without the years spent on the darpa grand challenge. By showing it's possible the government opens up new markets for anyone to exploit.

When you look at algorithms like bandit, you see the trade off of exploration vs exploitation. I think it's very hard for any company to do much exploration. They need to make money - developing new technologies is a big honking cost center. At least some resources need to be consistently allocated to exploration.
I don't see how this is exceptionally surprising. You rewrote an application from one of the slowest scripted languages out there to a new, fast systems level programming language.

Maybe it just underscores the slowness of Ruby.
I agree that vim scripting is crap but hjkl for navigation is just so addictive
I suspect that particular one has the highest "conversion" rate.
Some non-UK programming do show adverts, yes, but that is for different reasons - largely so that the British license fee isn't being seen to subsidise commercial content for other countries. But conversely, the BBC World Service does not including advertisements.

I would think the best examples of a conflicts of interest is where particular articles detail unethical behaviour or any content in the public domain that an advertiser would prefer not to be included or made easily accessible.

Obviously, its not to say that it will happen but just that it could. And it is naive at best to think that a separate sales team solves the problems of commercial bias or influence.

Wikipedia is the single largest body of freely available knowledge in the history of mankind. It must remain so and the best way to do that is to continue accepting donations. I see no reason to change.
I always think that for a space like backup and sharing of data/files a startup always had much chance of success than GDrive or other biggies.

Reasons -

1. Its important to iterate extremely fast and keep on improving your solution which a big company like Google cant really do any more.

2. This space does not require integration with other consumer apps offered by big companies like emails/calendars/social-network. Therefore there isnt much to win for big companies to win by focusing enough on competing in the space. Its more of a distraction really.

3. Backups of data is very important feature for which people are willing to pay. Hence consumer is also very demanding. Must easier for a startup to keep on listening to
consumer than a big corporate.

Another similar startup which is doing extremely well in similar space compared to biggies is http://www.druva.com/
It's also more difficult, and drastically more expensive than BitTorrent.
Annoyed me, too. Feel free to discover the tiny 'x' in upper right corner. Closed once, Jimmy's pitch will stay away thanks to cookies.
Paying bills and online banking have ~25% difference between the lowest and highest income. These are time-saving but you're essentially paying off money you already spent.

The bigger disproportion is in spending money online; 30% for buying products and ~35% for travel reservations. I bet buying products has a bigger disproportion if the price approaches the $1000 mark.

The lowest difference is in research ~20%. This narrower difference is likely because people are saving time, but also trying to save money. People in the lower income are likely using a greater proportion of store fliers as they're not intending on spending money online.

Anecdotally I've noticed people with lower incomes tend to be more distrustful of using credit/debit cards online.
'adnore' could be a good name for an ad-blocker.

(maybe)
The fear might be that many Wikipedia contributors believe that advertisements are wrong and evil. Introducing ads might cause serious upheaval among contributors and corresponding public relations problems. (Think: Digg.)
FWIW, Netflix gives you 10 years. Despite the fact that I left a few weeks ago, I still have about six years left to exercise them.
You can see this in the video, even. The front wheels of the truck are rolling backwards as it's being pulled.

Anyway, the bit about who's being pulled first also interests me; anyone else wondering about the difference of static vs dynamic friction of rubber on pavement?
Good luck doing that at scale though. You can mix things up to some degree (and probably should) but if you need thousands of drives you're going to end up with lots from the same batch.
Author here. I wrote both the language server and Muon compiler [1] from scratch. The language server reuses the compiler code, for parsing and type checking. I'm not sure which grammar you're referring to? The VS Code extension [2] does contain a grammar, but it's only used for syntax highlighting.

[1] https://github.com/nickmqb/muon/tree/master/compiler
[2] https://github.com/nickmqb/vscode-muon
It can go pretty wrong - look at a picture of a gun one time and IG will start shoving gun pictures down your throat, it's horribly non-forgiving and can't be tuned by the end user easily. You learn pretty quick to never look even once at something you don't want a whole lot of that same thing force-fed to you - on the other hand, start looking at huskies and you'll get tons of puppers filling your explore. :)
Worth a read, particularly the comments:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-Lovecraftian-horror/answer/Dim...
Maybe, but keep in mind FreePascal/Lazarus has generally been supporting at least three of the platforms natively for several years. Complier, visual design, everything as expected from a delphi-like product. One of my FPC projects includes a desktop client with one window using multiple size controls and everything re-sizes near perfectly (know how to use panel controls). Recompiled on Linux and behavior was almost identical and no compile errors, according to expected behavior of a multi-platform toolchain. Funny enough, the client calls into a Golang rest backend I wrote. Nice, efficient solution that is easy to add additional devs to when needed.
$500 ~ $1k for a JTAG flash. I'm sure they have plenty of other drives that come in and they price at $1k but that take days longer than expected, so it probably all balances itself out eventually.
This may have been true in the early years, but my understanding is that DARPA has played a large role in funding the development of RISC architecture. [1]

[1] https://riscv.org/2018/07/ieee-spectrum-article-darpa-plans-...
> Pediatric oncology.

That job must be nightmarish for anyone who isn’t a full-blown sociopath. I’m not a particularly empathetic person and I couldn’t start that job let alone stay in it for years.

Edit: > One of the attractions of pediatrics is, surprisingly enough…

This is the opposite of surprising. I imagine one of the appeals of pediatrics is significantly fewer of your patients die. That’s why pediatric oncology is particularly striking, it’s dealing with high numbers of deaths in a cohort where they are otherwise quite rare.
Most academic discoveries come from the same kind of hand-me-down process as practical inventions. Newton's tutor was the one who encouraged him toward studying proto-calculus. He even wrote down the fundamental theorem of calculus himself once but not realizing its importance never publicized it.
Do you realize that 0 donations go to Firefox development?

Firefox development is done by Mozilla Corporation (that doesn't accept any donations, AFAIK). A part of their earnings are given to their owner, Mozilla Foundation, that you are suggested to donate to, and it may not be a bad idea, but it does not finance Firefox development in any way.
Would you blame the intern if they ruined the production DB after being given write access?

I wouldn't. I'd blame senior technical leadership for putting processes into place that allow failures like that. Most especially, the CEO.
You could also say the same about Russia making the UK basically their poison playing ground. You would think much more would be done when a whole city needs to be shut down due to the spread of the poison between people.

Money is money, people are fickle minded and will look beyond incredibly awful things if need be. It's a helluva drug.
Hey Author ;-)

If I can find the wherewithal to switch my native shell to one of these shell improvements such as yours I will. I think the productivity gains could be really nice. Of late, I've been forcing myself to learn idomatic bash for my shell scripting duties, though.

Perhaps a feature to think about would be to be able to transpile to idomatic bash so that people could script in your shell but ship portable bash. Then once more and more devs adopt your shell it could replace bash.
While ECS means you're using a "data driven" approach, you can have a "data driven" approach without having to use ECS.

It's all about having configuration data separate to the logic. And use this data to setup and build the game elements.

Here's a couple of videos I created:

How to start with Data Driven Development in Godot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG__fXSp74c

What I can do with it in my game, One Way Dungeon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZwKahZ3cU
Financed vs lease are two different things. If you leased the car, then you don't own it, simple as that. If you took out a loan and bought the car, you do own it. There's a lien on it, sure, but that doesn't convey ownership unless you default and the car is repossessed.
> Saying this make no justice to the fact that it's Saudi Sunni Arab Muslims, practicing, or not who suffer the most under the regime.

Considering KSA’s funding of terrorists, I would say Iraqis, Syrians, Afghanis and especially Yemenis suffer an order of magnitude more than Saudi citizens. The millions of Philipino, Malaysian, Indian and Pakistani slaves in Saudi Arabia aren’t exactly thriving either.
A buyback of company shares with company funds drives up the price of all the shares including those of the executives and board members making the decision.
Like I said:

> bury your head in the sand if you want

Great chat, as always. :)
Here's the guy telling everyone they're using heroin wrong and the fact that it destroys their life is their problem.

No, guy. The concensus is growing around social media being really fucking toxic.
I ended up rescuing & then adopting a German Shepherd 18 months ago, without having planned such a thing. These days I don't even bother to read the the scarevertising from burglar alarm suppliers that turns up in the mailbox every month or two. I don't want to barricade myself into my own home or have some corporation constantly surveilling it for me. While it's far from an exact analogy, I actually feel quite a bit safer with an active deterrent than I did previously.
More accurately, these photons then excite electrons to a higher valence band and when those electrons fall back they give off a tiny electric current.

(Either that, or another photon! see: http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/141pip/how_do_mi... )
>surely it's obvious that photons can be converted to electrons, given that's what a photodiode does and that's how digital cameras work?

This is a common misconception. Both of those use light to facilitate electron excitation, but neither of them actually convert photons into electrons. The electrons are already there.
People are going to be confused by this, because the definition of "random" used by mathematicians and that used by programmers is different.

"Random" to mathematicians means the outcome of a probability experiment. If you flip a two-headed coin or roll a one-sided die, and record the results, the results are "random" - random within the set of possible outcomes, according to the function that generates them. So you dutifully record "heads", "heads", "heads" and "1", "1", "1" for your results. It's random!

"Random" for mathematicians inherently means "predictable". There's a known probability distribution.

The word "random" for programmers means something very different. It inherently means "unpredictable". The probability distribution must be flat across the space of possible outcomes. If we are operating in a base-10 system, the chance of any of the next digits occurring must be exactly 1/10.

My prediction is most of the discussion here will be people talking past each other, using different definitions of the word "random".
Objective C is a strict superset of C, and garbage collection is optional (I'm not even sure that GC is enabled on iOS).
Yes, but hemp was used in industry to make rope, not smoked. Easy to make sensationalist remarks; a little responsible research takes time and trouble.
Generally cash is treated as more valuable than sweat equity in all investment cases. For example, people who invest cash typically get preferred stock which has higher seniority in the situation where a company gets liquidated, sold for a modest amount, etc.

The real question though is what 30K of equity means also. Assuming it's common stock, common stock is often valued at less per share than invested money, which means higher number of shares (for the same valuation), but folks will sometimes talk about it with the preferred share pricing in mind.

I suggest you read up more on how investing and stock setups (capitalization tables) are done, and it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to spend $1K on a startup lawyer for advice to understand what you're negotiating if/when you're negotiating.
It is actually worse than Google maps. It isn't meant to be used to find local businesses. The game plays on the narcisism of its users and is more about getting users to look at the page than it is about getting businesses to buy in. There are hundreds of business info scrapers out there pointing to your business. Each business would need to ask themselves if putting money in to one would give them enough of a benefit.

And it appears that a lot of them are saying "NO".

The idea of having a "Mayor" of your business who has no real business-level relationship with you would turn me off from it if I still had a Brick and Mortar storefront.
19 is too close to one end (20) so probably people feel its less random when the range is 1 to 20.

Also, 9 is divisible by 3, so maybe it feels less random.
Nice. This is one of those things that once you see it you wonder how it got to be 2010 without anybody having done it yet.

Here are a few of my initial observations:

- Why justify the notes? It's common to use spacing as an informal way of indicating timing, so if you auto-justify everything you make that impossible.

- Are Chords on the way?

- Are you planning to write an importer for the 12 zillion existing tabs in ASCII format? I imagine most of them are parseable.
Like simonsquiff pointed out, it's not the resolution per se, but things you can resolve on one screen you can't on the other.

I guess I would have to hold it very close to my face to be able to read most of the NYT home, but there must be people who can read it at a distance.
The box on Kickstarter does not indicate data is stored with stripe, it looks like it is stored with Kickstarter.

As others have indicated, this is one more place that my CC# is stored. I have more trust in Amazon's security than in Kickstarter's, although from what I have gathered reading this thread it sounds like the data is stored in Stripe, which I have a tendency to trust based on name recognition.

If the page is to be presented as is though, with no other information, I am not going to store my CC# with yet another .com that hasn't been around that long.
What titles did you try?
Choice Quote:
"Men dominate just two of the 15 job categories projected to grow the most over the next decade: janitor and computer engineer"
Google doesn't have to 'opt out' people everytime they make a change to their website.

The phrase 'opt in' is getting mangled way beyond its original meaning of "don't share my data unless I say so."
How could a reaction to an aesthetic change be anything but emotional?
> I don't know Illinois law well, but there are good reasons why most corporations are Delaware (with a few in Nevada and a couple other states), including tax and governance issues.

CA works really hard to ensure that there are no tax advantages to incorporating elsewhere. If you do biz in CA, you pay CA taxes on that biz (and possibly some other biz - CA wants money).

In fact, CA even has a minimum fee ($5-800 IIRC) for doing biz here even if you don't make money.
"You can't make people happy against their will" would be the smoother translation.
From what I understand, most smart phones have a baseband processor, separate from the application processor.

The FCC should allow application hacking eg. Android, but still restrict the baseband processor code as designed.
According to this blog entry:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/art-of-homepage.html

this is a 24 hour promotion to let people know about their background feature. Either way, it stinks.
Wow, by that reckoning I'd have 23 siblings!
An alternate method I've used is building an antenna on the computer side if you can't build it on the router side. You can get wireless adapters which are in the from of a usb thumb stick. Coupled with an extension cord to connect to a PC, you can put the entire adapter at the focal point of a large dish.
This feels unethical to me.

I've just seen a VNC session on a machine running some PLC software (I've flagged it). There could be god knows what running open VNC sessions in here, and it feels unethical to expose this in an easy-to-exploit way without making a best-efforts attempt to contact the operator.

I've seen a few VNC desktops that now have Paint open (or similar) with messages informing people that they have an open VNC server, but altruism is unlikely to be the norm.

It's a cool idea and it's really well done, but I do wish it was anonymised - no display of the host or port the VNC server is running on, just the screen. (I realise this might be useless in some cases where the screenshot lists the server's FQDN.)
With all that "default user and password is this and that"
You can specify an interval as start/duration, start/end, or duration/end.

So you could specify a negative offset as a duration and the end time.

P2H/2021-02-26T13:30Z is two hours prior or T11:30Z on the same date.