jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
An additional penalty for confessing was having to take a 4 hour ethics course.
Don't try operating this commercially in the US or Canada. Drones aren't exempt from FAA rules just because they resemble RC aircraft. (In fact, the rules are more stringent since drones are still new and have failure modes that traditional aircraft don't) Pretty much the only cases where the regs don't essentially ban UAVs are small-scale hobbyist projects and academic research.

See:

http://cryptome.org/faa021307.htm

http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/standards/general-reca...
I think dbslayer would be perfect for this. Mysql is super easy to set up on a vps (there are lots of scripts to set up the whole server on sites like lowendbox or vpsbible) and then with dbslayer you get json and clustering if you want it so you can scale smoothly. It works great with node and there's already a module for it on Github @:

https://github.com/Guille/node.dbslayer.js/
> Though usually omitted from public sources about H-bombs, including all of the sources I managed to find this morning with a bit of Googling, I remember hearing somewhere, years ago, that there is an extra component between the primary and the secondary that slows down hard X-rays to soft X-rays, because in the form of hard X-rays they would otherwise just go through the secondary without significantly interacting with it.

Could this component be a fogbank (http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/11/what-fogbanks-co...) just discussed on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1928233)?
A medical device would also have to be safe for its operators.
I agree, it's great to hear two experienced and varying perspectives.

I found the argument on location, and varying perspectives on where growth will be in the future around the web.

I enjoyed Fred Wilson's perspective on the developing markets in the New York City. Maybe there are some great advantages to New York that might be missed in Silicon Valley. Great ideas come from knowing external markets whether business, social, personal, global, etc., and NYC is a good place to be in the middle of a lot of external markets.
For me, the most interesting thing about this post is the embedded "zoom.it" graphics, which allow for amazingly smooth zooming -- without Flash or other plug-ins. Very cool.
I honestly do not get the point of this page.

None of the time differences in all the test cases are significant at all. Concerning yourself with this is premature optimization of the highest level especially in a language like Python. One should definitely be more concerned about writing clearer and more idiomatic code.
Oops, left out a word in the title. The woes of manually coping text...
I encounter this every 6-12 months when I go back to an old project that is 'working' and want to add something/update something and it all just looks foreign to me.

The worst thing is that I have often gone through a lot of effort around making it easy to set up and deploy (docker and whatnot) but even that I have forgotten about. (I came across a docker file in an old project and couldn't get it to work properly until I noticed that there was a docker compose file lying around that I had missed)

How do you keep track of documentation? I guess for a project a README in the git's root is a good start, but what about more complex systems stuff that does not live in a git project? For example, I had to manually edit a bunch of config files on my Proxmox setup to get docker and some other things to work properly. Where would I document such manual steps? I am thinking a text file somewhere in cloud storage but then of course I'd need to remember that...
Gitlab has some good stuff about this in their handbook. You have to be really intentional about this kind of informal meeting that otherwise happens naturally in an in-person situation.

https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/informal...
Some modern LEDs are also binned parts, as are CPUs.
What % of Chinese citizens do you think are investing in foreign property?
Just to throw more products at the wall, I've been using Bookstack[0] for the same sort of documentation.

Besides being relatively lightweight and simple to setup, out-of-the-box draw.io integration is nice. Makes diagramming networks and other things dead simple. And I know "dead simple" means I'm infinitely more likely to actually do it.

[0] https://www.bookstackapp.com/
This looks pretty cool; Bookmarked.
I make a lot more than 100K, I have unlimited vacation, unlimited sick leave. Only 12 weeks of FMLA, so there's that. And healthcare isn't free anywhere in the world, just financed differently. I pay for my insurance from my paycheck, but the paycheck is so much larger that it works out fine. My deductible is zero, out-of-pocket maximum is zero, so it's not effectively much different than 'free' healthcare.

I am well aware of how much Europeans hate America. It's readily apparent on HN.
I only just got this set up, but you can point the automatic backups to your SD card on Android. I guess some cloud sync app could pick it up from there or internal storage.
One group kept track of their lost islands for 10,000 years.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-sea-rise-...
I think you are mistaking politeness for 'sweetness'. You can be perfectly polite and at the same time perfectly clear. Politeness in a conversation is the art of being clear without being offensive to the other person.

In your example, someone advocating racism can be countered by stating clearly and simply the historical, anthropological and economical reasons why racism is wrong.

Politeness implies reasoning. An internet discussion is not war, it is a conversation. Whenever you leave politeness aside, you have lost. Always. (Obviously, this is my way of seeing it).

In your example, any pro-racist argument is by itself both impolite (because it insults persons straightaway) and wrong (for many reasons). It is a no-no in any case. If you fall on the same side of the wall (by being impolite) you are placing yourself at the same level and your "reason" is lost to the reader.

You can say: "racism and eugenics have lead mankind to the Nazi extermination camps" and being polite.

To repeat myself: politeness is not lack of clarity. It is just the way to properly oppose wrong ideas without harming people defending them. At the same time, it protects your argument.
The question is whether that person would suffer from that same problem anyway, due to some other cause. This is where statistical significance comes in.
Totally different requirements. Some countries' fast food apps are for mobile ordering and delivery, some are a giant collection of coupons, and some are only for nutritional information. And some are just for promotional activities (only used for various promotional calendars.) After seeing all the different APKs I tried out a few for different countries out of curiosity and at least for Burger King they were entirely different applications with completely different use cases. To cram them all into one global app would be an enormous mess.
Yeah, it's useful. The thing is that other OO frameworks tended to go nuts with inheritance, building deep hierarchies.
"Even if it is technically a democracy, most nations are run by and for the benefit of the elites that control the institutions of power"

Democracy by itself is almost meaningless. Individual rights, including strong property rights, even when there is no democracy at all (such as in Hong Kong for most of British rule) produces more freedom and economic well being than decades of democracy without them.

I really liked this piece. Although not sure about the whole thing about Americans traveling less than other people do. Most people in geographically large countries do less foreign travel than people in tiny countries, but they aren't necessarily traveling less.
Do you think they may have run into legal issues with Apple once news of this project started to spread?
Indeed. I've become quite enamoured of late with the automatic reference counting in the Boost C++ library as a happy medium between GC and manual reference counting. Of course, ObjC has no static allocation, so that can't be done here.
Well these are World stats, not Palo Alto stats. Windows dominating shouln't be a surprise really.
At this point my dream development PC is anything that doesn't have the company mandated McAfee virus scanner and LANDesk spyware/inventory management software. Although it would be nice to have the fastest harddrives, quickest processors, and most capacious memory, there are other things that prevent it from being useful. It's a shame that my relatively new "workstation-class" computer at work with 8 cores and 12GB RAM feels more sluggish than my three year old dual core PC at home.
Job security is/is not a myth. It depends on the company. However what it all comes down to is when the money runs out, you are out. If you are a mission-critical contractor or a mission-critical employee you have more job security than a non-mission-critical contractor/employee. If people feel that you truly overcharge to hell and your services are not worth it, there you go, no job security.

What is better about employee? You have a regular paycheck. Economy is shitty? You still get it, or get fired. Economy is booming? Still get it. Didn't make a sale this month? Still get it. Contractor is not so consistent.
For those of you in the Valley, you can find the book that started me on this project at the Santa Clara library. It's the first edition of "Microprocessor System Design Fundamentals" by Kenneth J. Breeding.

It's not a great book, but it's one of very few publications (apart from the databooks) that explain the 6809 architecture.
There's plenty of forums and design contests. http://www.drawar.com/crits/design is an ok place to start. I'm sure there's more.

It's going to come down to practice, like everything else.
>"Friend" (the noun) has become "friend" (the verb). Hence, his usage is correct.

My comment was about the disparity between the title and the substance of the article, not about usage. Sorry for the confusion. But since you've got me typing again, one thing about the substance. Card is right to say historians have little to worry about, but the old hand-written letters, especially when written by the likes of Henry James, have always been more than grist for the historian's mill. They became in some cases a genuine art form. I think that is one of the things lost in the transition to electronic communication: a peculiar kind of intimate art form. Other art forms have risen to take their place: the art of the blog, the art of the 140-character witticism, but not, as far as I can tell, the art of the email--at least not if you discount the humorous trolls. It was surprising to me that Card, as a novelist, didn't address that.
I enjoyed reading the post, and agree with it. It would be nice to read a follow-up post on balancing life -- does being a winner mean not having a family, watching a movie with friends etc?
Don't join Silicon Valley. Your skills are more valued and paid for in Finance. Real hard cash not worthless options that may have value in the future.

EDIT: also do not "commoditize" yourself by becoming a web developer or an iPhone/Android developer either. Do the difficult technical stuff, aim for the "non-low-hanging-fruit" and you will make tons of money, esp. in Finance.
"I really wish that articles like this would give more context for all the numbers that inevitably get thrown around.
> China Huaneng Group Corp.’s 845-megawatt power plant
What percent of the city's electricity is that?"

Humanity uses about 17 terawatts of generated power (electricity plus transportation plus …), about 15 from fossil fuels, of which coal generates more GHG that all but the dirtiest oil and the leakiest NG facilities. That plant is probably used about 80% of the time, so it represents about 675/17,000,000 of humanity's power use and something like twice that much of our GHG generation.

We think we can generate about 500GT CO2e of GHG net before reaching 3°C warming (but that involves a lot of guesses), which is a level that seems civilization-destablizing to many observers (wild, but necessary guesses). Coal creates about 1kg per kWh, so convert from 675MW … 60sec60min24h365d675,000kW = 21,286,800,000,000 kg/yr, or ~21GT/yr, or 4% of that budget.
> use something like pen & paper

Stainless steel and stamp/engraver
You might be surprised researching the current product offerings. Google "server rack battery". I am off grid with a 5.1kwh server rack lithium phosphate battery. Basically it's all I need. $2200 shipped with accessories, built in BMS with temp sensor and high grade terminals, bluetooth plus RS-485/CANBUS.
Yes, basically. And it's certainly not in Uber's interest to help them understand.
So Uber is a Dutch tulip.
Rommel, you magnificent bastard!
Angry much?

You lost me with the "code isn't a good that spoils" line. It is a great phrase, but perhaps you could re-explain?
I first encountered it in 1991, I think. Probably on the Monochrome BBS.
I wonder: is this bad news or good news for Windows Phone?
Was that more than his total shareholder return over the past 13 years?
Yeoman is:

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I've never used it yet, whenever I embark on a new simple html website, I forgot yeoman exists, and later on I'm sad that I again didn't use it. I'll keep the tab open now :)

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> I'd go with "foundational parts of the human experience"

But not necessarily professions. The notion of "professional artist" is fairly recent. Most of the great artists, pre-20th century, had day jobs: from Chaucer (diplomat, astronomer) to Lewis Carroll (Mathematician).

And, if anything, I'd think that art not being a profession only made their art better. I mean, how much can someone who all he does is write all day can possibly have to say?

Take Asimov, for example. I wonder how interesting his science fiction would have turned out had he not been, first and foremost, an actual scientist?
They imply in the article though that they have seen secret documents, on which the story is based.
screenshot appears to be C++ code (might be wrong on this though, as I've never written any C++, and only use C occasionally)
I can't think of one either, but they could have easily just posted their name with the job app. Since they didn't, they must have had a reason. So the question becomes if you trust their hypothetical reasoning--they do know more about their company than you.
True, but using actual ascenders is so much quicker and easier than doing it with prusik knots.
clickable: http://www.magicalmofo.com
Is there for every commonly used frequentist estimation method a bayesian prior that gives the same answer?
The results and presentation of an art piece I did in NYC earlier in the year. Used mechanical turk to estimate charitable donations for guilty feelings.

I resubmitted this because I posted the wrong URL earlier.
You can save your spiteful single clicks. That post sinks its own ship plenty well.
It is where it lives in man. man write returns write(1) an application that sends a message to another user. man 2 write returns write(2) the system call mentioned above(or at least it does on Ubuntu).
The Unix manual is divided into sections (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page#Manual_sections). Section 2 is for system calls. Specifying the section number allows you to disambiguate which section of the manual you want to look in if a man page exists in multiple sections (e.g., "man 1 write" vs. "man 2 write").
It's the "man" section. According to "man man", 2 is the section for system calls. Often you'll have manpages for the same name under different sections, for example sync(1) is a command while sync(2) a system call (which, unsurprisingly, the sync command uses).
It's the man page section number. I believe this dates back to when the man(uals) were actually printed out. You'd go to section 2 to find X to disambiguate from a different Y.

http://www.december.com/unix/ref/mansec.html
http://ye.gg/pivot
I've always been of the opinion that overpaying CEOs and top level management has little or no benefit, despite it being the accepted norm, so its good to see evidence of that in some data. :)
Yeah, the market apparently supports them never making a profit so they have no incentive to squeeze people off the train. However, they do need a margin somewhere, and buying planes aint free.
Funny that you ask this. I recall reading about this a while ago although I can't find what I was reading. Apparently this is called "ego suicide." Killing your original self and letting the personality you created takeover your entire being.
And my copy of Linux Mint still uses the shutter-click-motor winding sound for screen shots... Since the photos get dropped in the Pictures folder, it is one of the few ways I know it happened, unlike the copy of Ubuntu I am running on another box that shows the Save As interface.

So we developers keep adding the comfort noises, as well.

At least Mint didn't use the AOL's "File's done" announcement :)
But surely the Shenzhen guys selling $20 box fans at Walmart could get $25 for them if they had 25 cent clips for filters?
Of course, ~every GA alternative is going to be a paid service.

My meta-recommendation is actually to opt for zoho's "one" suite, which gives you basically everything they offer for $30/mo/full-time employee: https://www.zoho.com/one/pricing/
Thanks for the link. Insane to see that some of them even got cheaper in 2020.
What a disaster.

I would suppose that as a public policy matter, in such a situation if all rules are going to go out the window to fix it / sort out who pays now, when you have to assign losses you would first squeeze the people who didn't "actually" incur costs that they have to pay?

I would guess -- the power producers who although were promised $9000 / MWh, didn't actually incur that much to produce the power (subject to verification)? Claw back any payments to them first?

Rather than stick the bill to the customers who were "unwittingly" participating in this whole scheme involuntarily (yet were somewhat informed and just underestimated the risks)? Or spread the cost to other retail sellers of electricity who may have been behaving correctly and now are the only ones standing left to pay the bills?
We have recourse against platform employees who snoop user data for personal reasons, and even share it with their friends or political organizations? Literally thought that was a perk of their jobs.

Someone should tell reddit/google/facebook/amazon as that will blow things up pretty badly.

Wait until they are subject to normal privacy regulations that require the companies to list the names of people who have accessed their user data.
Not having a stable phone number seems impractical in general. (e.g. You can’t set up 2FA for Apple or Google accounts without a phone number.)

More practical is porting a regular number to a SIP service so that you can receive important things via app. (2FA short codes typically don’t work with numbers that are assigned to SIP providers, but work fine you you port over a number from a regular carrier.)
The don’t collect this data. How could they monetize it?
No. For each item on HN I pull the referenced page, parse the HTML and extract the text between "<title>" and "</title>". I compare those, as well as comparing the domain names. I don't parse the title from the HN submission, but from the page that has been referenced from the submission.

Is that clearer?
With $100k of debt, I'd consider a marriage a "luxury" that could wait.
Fun fact: this has been posted to Hacker News before, when it first came out. I think most would agree this is a great example of why re-posting should be allowed.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1091104
No need to be melancholy. That glorifies killing. Do you have the same sad feelings for the Paris gunmen that were killed? There's no fundamental difference between them. Remember of course what the purpose of the allies in WWII was - "to preserve our way of life" or so we won't "all be speaking German". It's not clear that tens of millions had to be be killed for that aim - only to end up with more tens of millions killed by the communist states that became successful as a result.
They are afraid of being hit with a lawsuit on multitouch. since apple is suing everyone with two fingers.
https://brokencomcastinternet.wordpress.com/
> Why the hell would they release that Chinese informant info? That's crazy. That's nuts. That's against their own frigging goal of more openness in the world. They want publicity, and don't have a sense of judgment.

I agree completely with this sentiment. Anyone who argues with this statement might wonder to themselves whether it would be ok for someone to release documents implicating the person who leaked this trove to WikiLeaks - because it's the same thing - documents about an informant.
Take a look at this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_qE1iAmjFg

This is Paul Irish giving a breakdown of interesting bits about jQuery. He talks about this technique roughly 50 minutes in.
It's a little disingenuous for Franz to claim any credit for Nichimen. Nichimen N-Graphics was the spinoff of the Symbolics S-Graphics system, written in ZetaLisp. Symbolics ceased new development and there were customers for the graphics system, so it needed to be ported to a Lisp environment that would run on available hardware.

Franz Allegro CL is a further development of Maclisp, developed during Project MAC at MIT. ZetaLisp was also a direct development of Maclisp. I'm guessing this shared ancestry helped in the software porting and made Franz the natural choice for the N-Graphics. But the press release just blows a lot of smoke about the speed and scalability of Franz.
and there are many downsides to EC2, dependence on a third party to a greater degree, shitty disk IO, instances go down more frequently than real servers, inflexibility with hardware (no SSDs), etc, etc.

There are co-lo provides that have data centers in different places.