jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The vaccine policies are important, but not relevant to her case - she already had Covid, and a vaccine would not help her in any way

There've been reports that people suffering from long-COVID have seen improvements after getting the vaccine.
> It is also quite a good tool for Ukrainians.

For those who already know Ukrainian at least at A2-B2 levels[0], here are more free resources for further Ukrainian learning.[1]

> ~50% of people speak Russian. I know many Ukrainians who don't even speak Ukrainian.

Learn more about Ukrainian language history & its usage.[2]

P.S.: “You can learn a foreign language in six years, and you have to learn your own all your life.” © Francois Voltaire.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_R...

[1] https://speakukraine.net/ (bookmark it!)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_language
too many of these no?

here's evenbettermotherfuckingwebsite from 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23202336
"what I assume would be any conversations".

Except it doesn't say that at all.
I guess I would ask why Y Combinator doesn't provide office space. Our company went through one of these so-called 'clones' and really appreciated the office space. It made the mentoring and collaboration much easier.
It's illegal only if it was intentional. A mistakenly sent DMCA request is okay, as long as the sender follows up with a disregard notice.
You should know that Dr. Blair is basically the world expert in healthy habits and physical activity. He is cited in medical journals over 2000 times every year. This is not explanationless science, but science backed by 20 years of rigorous research.
or this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk
You're kidding me with the analogies. Seriously?

"Google" is not a person/individual. I'd definitely place _why, brad fitzpatrick, and zed shaw as POSSIBLE equals to einstein and tesla, but that would still be a stretch...
That's a fair point.

While I am not as concerned about big tech's data siloing as some, I can see why it's worrying.

Unfortunately, not only is GA the best totally free analytics solution that any marketeer will know how to use, many ad blockers nuke ALL analytics scripts, even if they have nothing to do with google.
Under Android, if apps want to be respectful, they can.
For example, the Discord Android will fall back to system file-pickers if you block storage permissions. Since there's no incentive to be privacy respecting, very few other apps I've used let you do this.
I think there is a wirelrss revolution around the corner being held up by patents, closed chipsets, and closed firmwares.

Look at what was necessary in this papet, thr IoT device pretends to be an access point to bypass all the layers in the stack that would filter out thr packet.

In this case they found a hack to workaround chipset/firmware limitations, but what other innovations havent happened due to inaccesible wireless physical layers?
Thanks, I forgot that was the case, I looked it up and you're right. I use merv 14 in my home and it eliminates smoke from forest fires, but not allergens, I'm going to get a hepa filter next time.
It’s the same principle, but in the US I expect a “heat pump” to run well in both directions where an “air conditioner” might not have a reversing valve at all, or won’t really defrost the outside coils in cold weather.
Is it not usual for an intern to get access to the repository and production databases like a new employee would?
Have you connected a phone number or set up 2FA?
You asked a 15 word question which shows that you don't know the basics of what's going on. The answer you want requires pages of response, because you haven't even given me a scaffold upon which to start. Do you want to start with the start of education policies in the US? The post-war baby boom changes like "New Math" and "Back to Basics"? We have a federal system, so there are over 50 different systems (including territories), to say nothing of local school boards.

There's the increasing desire to run schools as a business, rather than as a public good. There's the increasing push for removing union protections. I think it's funded partially by a way for for-profit companies to make money off of all of the education dollars, hid behind the religion of free market.

That said, none of these are new factors. It's all a difference in weighting factors over the last century or two. One of those reweightings is Bill Gates, whose foundations funded nearly $250 million towards Common Core. That buys a lot of influence if done right.

It's not worth my time to educate you when you don't know the basics and would rather ask unanswerable questions than research it yourself.
I have a use for this. I'll be evaluating it. Anyone know of any similar projects?
A friend of mine wrote a mouse-driven spreadsheet in a single line of BBC BASIC. Tokenised, it was less than 254 characters. No load or save capability, but full formulas and cell references, and demand-driven recalculation.

I should find, reformat, annotate, and re-implement it. If only I had the time. One day.
I did lots of programming in Java between 1995 and 2004 when the language had no generics. I did lots of programming in C++ prior to 1995 when it barely had generics. Now I do a fair amount of programming in Go and I don't really miss generics.
That's something they are already presumably doing (it's what "fair usage" equates to), and isn't the problem.

The problem is making the marketing claim that this is "unlimited" when it's not. Call it "almost unlimited" or something similar and you're fine.
To be sure everything that we know works together we use things like npm-shrinkwrap files. We don't like it because it makes the git changelogs a lot bigger and almost unreadable if you want to compare a pull request.
This, or if you are evil and know that your competitor has a stupidly-designed build process that depends on GitHub being available - by DDoSing GitHub itself you'll make your competition unable to work.
I'm not saying that this is feasible to build a company around this scheme (but it seems to be occasionally, with Red Hat being prime example). I'm just saying it's possible to sell GPL code written by others.
I don't think adding features helps much, it just continues to raise the barrier to entry; C++ needs a means of "banning" "unsafe" techniques; e.g. an option you can turn on that causes C-style casts or pointer arithmetic to be a compiler error.
I would be OK with it, especially if the alternative were living next to a beast like the old Navajo Generating Station in Page, Arizona. It was creepy to watch the emissions coming out of the smokestacks while it was still running. It felt like watching the planet burn.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Generating_Station
Note that it specifically talks about the US, e.g. Finland develops its deep geological repository [0] just fine, while other countries (Russia and France) focus on fuel recycling.

Also this is why it's important to invest into development of breeder reactors. Not only they improve uranium utilization and may allow for thorium to be used as a nuclear fuel, but also they can "burn" the nastiest parts of nuclear waste [1]. Unfortunately, AFAIK only Russia currently seriously invests into this branch of nuclear reactors (see BN [2] and BREST [3]).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Waste_reductio...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-800_reactor

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREST_(reactor)
The picture shows that the brand is changing to "Potato Head". The figures are still "Mr." and "Mrs." Potato Head.

See the labels in the bottom-left corner of the two boxes.
What about those who's wealth he denied with those anti-competitive practices - in the end don't they deserve the credit for the good deeds done with that money, not Bill?

It's similarly irritating when known tax-avoiders become philanthropists - that was societies money anyway, you don't get kudos for being the one who decides where it's spent regardless of where you decide.
This is the first 'F# For Fun and Profit' article I've read, I was very impressed with how the author (Scott Wlaschin?) breaks the subject of monoids down so clearly, something tells me that the author will be helping me out a lot in the coming months.
Step 3--enter your address? You mean "confirm your address," right? (I don't have a way to test.)
And I put $1500 - $3000 into my VW diesel 3 times over a 7 year period. Every car is different, even if well maintained. They said their Mercedes is reliable.

An American car is probably better for a poor person than any German car. Sure, you may have to repair it more often, but parts and labour are a lot cheaper. Even if it costs more in total, for poor people a large number of small bills are often easier to deal with than a single large bill.
skinnycoders.com, uptightcoders.com and uglycoders.com are taken.

fatcoders.com, pleasantcoders.com and handsomecoders.com are free.

You know what to do.
Amazing. I was hoping you could print your own, it looks like he is just selling them already printed from Shapeways:

http://www.shapeways.com/shops/theojansen
https://twitter.com/zedshaw/status/64050059276337152
I liked this better when it was called WDDX.
Besides being a fun side project and having a chance to play with lexical parsing - does this have any point?

Converting programming languages really doesn't serve any purpose whatsoever - this can't be used as a learning tool (a rubyist wanting to learn php) nor should this output ever be trusted in a production environment as you are going to count on the converted code being as efficient as your original code.

If you want to code in PHP, use PHP - if you want to code in Ruby, use Ruby - this just seems silly.
So you're saying that by NOT giving people an easy notification system HN avoids dealing with some of the folks who might be more tempted to ruin it, right?

That makes sense ... I guess. I'm not convinced that it's a good approach to avoiding the bad guys, but it's easy.
I think the statement themartorana is probably contextually inaccurate.

That being said, there are plenty of stories coming out about how companies are evaluating Go and seeing performance increases in mission critical application; as opposed to stories of people ripping out pieces of Go and replacing it with something more optimal for their situation.
Background information for anyone not aware, Thierry Legault is a guy that has built a reputation around getting amazing images of various spacecraft in orbit around the Earth. Here's one that he took during last Friday's eclipse:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150322.html

All of which is to say he's one of the foremost civilian experts at imaging satellites from the ground.
Sorry - bad mood.
Is it?

Sure, you might not understand all the intricacies of each, but I think the basic idea should be understandable when expressed in any of those languages. But I'm biased, I was exposed to Prolog in college and I learned Lisp and Haskell on my own (to an extent) so it's really difficult for me to judge what is and isn't readable.

But if you can read: foo.map(function (d) { return d+1; }), you should be able to read (map foo (+1)) imho.
Well the Misty project did try

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_%28satellite%29
The font color is unreadable on ubuntu/chrome.
It's not so much that Apache writes projects in Java, as that companies with Java projects find that Apache is a good place to give them to.
I'm not sure either, but I believe the orbit of pretty much all satellites is known. You can't conceal a rocket launch, so people know when objects go up and look for them, and comparing to deep space objects you don't need a very powerful telescope to resolve one (but presumably you need good tracking). What's going to be hard is to know the exact purpose of the satellite (so the enemy can't assess you capabilities).
Are you OK with your kid taking a copter blade to the face for the team? Wait, I mean, for Amazon?
To make the claim that this is a bad thing, one must argue that Microsoft's stock would be worth more today if Microsoft had not been aggressive about search.

How a company shows gains and losses is also very subjective. The numbers could turn around and show strong profits around the time that bing reaches 45% market share (which will be soon).
What "legal nightmare" do you imagine could be visited upon them?
I am not a game developer but I believe its an issue of legacy, tooling, libraries, tutorials, documentation and tradition. As late as 2002 I was still seeing C vs C++ speed arguments in gamedev forums.
That flat out fails on my iPad. Just a blank screen.
Mobile browser usage share is another one worth looking at:

http://business2press.com/2009/03/02/apple-iphone-holds-66-p...
That's an awfully charitable attitude toward Wired, who has stonewalled without comment any inquiry regarding the logs since they got them.

Considering the amount of public pressure the US Government has exerted in prior restraint of the press and punishing those in their employ who might read Wikileaks, it seems reasonable to conclude that Wired is withholding them either under government duress or is saving them up for a different story (like a book or a post-conviction victory lap). In other words, power and/or money, not public benefit.
Ugh. Just learn LaTeX and write once.
According to Wikipedia, the Tazo subsidiary has about 50 employees.
High frequency trading is a real problem and a challenge
'lisp in a box' ran out of the box, pardon the cliche , for me
For Rubyist's unfamiliar with Clojure, here is a link to a welcoming talk by Stuart Halloway at RubyConf 2009:

http://rubyconf2009.confreaks.com/21-nov-2009-10-25-clojure-...
The problem is the balance of power begins so overwhelmingly on the side of the employer. If an employer doesn't want its employees to unionize it's extraordinarily difficult for them to do so.
You have unions to thank for this thing called 'The Weekend'. Pure evil right there. Let's not get out of hand.
Finally, a good use for Arizona.
As they say, hindsight is 20/20.

It might be relatively easy post-hoc to trace a problem that has already occurred back to a relatively small set of causes, and then ask why these were overlooked - after all, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

But when the system itself is so complex that any of a thousand other factors might have gone wrong instead, you're really comparing a thousand ounces of prevention to a pound of cure. You can get really caught up in all of the plausible contingencies, which grow disproportionately with complexity.

If you were to audit that oil rig inch-by-inch, you might have found dozens of things which could have led to a problem of near the same impact as the current leak. And you might have even focused on fixing all of them. But you can't presume that some other factor that you didn't notice (or couldn't have noticed given the finite nature of your knowledge) wouldn't have triggered a slightly different failure, and you can spend an enormous amount of time fixing things that would not have caused a failure.

Adams makes a good point - the best way to ensure the reliability of a system is to understand the functioning of the system as a whole, and beyond a certain scale of complexity, this is extremely difficult and often impossible.
Who brings bad union practices to light? Commerce exposes this sort of stuff. The more commerce is used, as opposed to invisible, internal mechanisms, the less unions have to do. Not all unions are bad, but not everything they do acts to increase transparency.
This article talks about gridlock but somehow fails to address throughput, which is supposed to be the upside over the conventional 4-way stop.

http://nextstl.com/2013/10/mythbusters-tackles-four-way-stop...
Do you wear a helmet when you walk somewhere? If not, why not?

If you've decided that the risk of head injury when you walk somewhere is so little that you'll take the risk and not wear the helmet, you've made the exact same decision as the cyclists. In the Netherlands, because they have a sensible traffic system, the risk has been reduced so far that many, many people make that same decision that you do when you walk without wearing a helmet.
Perforation would most likely increase the chance of tearing very significantly.
I bought a good used Nexus 4 this week and installed Firefox OS 2.2, works really nice. I love it. This will be my main Phone for the next year(s).
Well this could be interesting if it's more than hype to sell more paper.

Karpelès having quite a trail of fraud and misconduct, I'm curious to learn the results of the Magic The Gathering Online Exchange investigation.

For those who don't know yet about the past of Karpelès, he started his career when over a disagreement with his employer he moved some of the company's clients' data over to his own servers, redirected a company domain towards one of his then resigned from the company.
When the company confronted him, he refused to give back what he took and offered to buy the domain he stole, so the company went to court with Karpelès admitting he did it to the police but telling a different story on his blog [1]. With Karpelès not appearing at the audience because he had left the country he got sentenced in 2010 to 1 year of prison and 45 000€ in damage [2].

This is only part of a trail of lies, deception and fraud from Karpalès for his personal profit that has started to surface, we know have a blog he made in 2006 where he confessed of getting caught for a youth error of doing bad things with online payment systems for 2 years[3] or how he used lies to get money for a job he didn't do[4].

Of course that doesn't mean he did stole the coins, that's why I want to know about the investigation.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20070630213730/http://www.magica...

[2]: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1238981-img-20140720...

[3]: http://web.archive.org/web/20140302234940/http://blog.magica...

[4]: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/exclusive-tibanne-co-ltd-sen...
CircleCI (https://circleci.com/jobs) - fulltime, SF or REMOTE, international OK, VISA-transfers OK

More than anything, we try to make CircleCI a great place to work.

You might love it too if you like:
- working with great people who you can learn from
- to work on developer tools
- building a product that customers love, and pay for
- working with Clojure and ClojureScript (for developer roles)
- transparent cultures (we're inspired a lot by Valve and similar companies) [1]
- to work remotely, or to have your own private office in SF [2]

We're hiring lots of roles, esp in product management, design, and support engineers.

[1] http://blog.circleci.com/kindness-is-underrated/
[2] http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-weak/

Check out https://circleci.com/jobs for details.
There should probably be specific goals set for various time frames. Use these goals to help measure the growth of the startup. It's a good starting point instead of guessing probably.
I dunno how they were calculated, but the education vs. military spending numbers you quote are really out of whack.

For education vs. military (dod + homeland security), I see the following from different sources:

[1] reports 45.4 billion vs. 660.6 billion
[2] reports ~100 billion vs. ~700 billion
[3] reports 157 billion vs. 895 billion
[4] reports 89.4 billion vs. 544.5 billion

Your source is clearly an outlier.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_United_States_federal_budg...

[2] http://www.federalbudget.com/

[3] http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/budget_pie_gs.php?span=u...

[4] http://www.usaspending.gov/explore?carryfilters=on
My point is that the Clojure one mentioned in the comment I was replying to does include *.jar.
He said something to the effect of "chloroquine shows promise. The FDA has approved for it to be prescribed." The first statement is debatable (for now), while the second is completely false. (full quote below)

Can we agree that it's not great to be giving out incomplete or incorrect information on such a prominent stage?

"It's shown very encouraging -- very, very encouraging early results...Normally the FDA would take a long time to approve something like that, and it's -- it was approved very, very quickly and it's now approved, by prescription."

However, the FDA after the briefing issued a statement saying it had not approved the drug for use against Covid-19 and is still studying its effectiveness against the disease.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/africa/chloroquine-trump-nige...
was it an overdose that killed this poor guy or another interaction?
Your scepticism would be more intelligent if there weren't also South Korea and Taiwan. Basically all countries that made any real effort at suppression seem to be doing comparably well ATM, no? And I think both of them may rank higher in Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index than Italy, so probably brutal censorship is not the only reason they appear to be doing better.
Graphics hasn't been kernel mode since the Vista days FYI. It's now in userspace.
Even in Windows they have to workaround some stupid bugs from the OEM or ODM side.
> The tougher part is perhaps not technical, but human. Facebook will have to build out an enterprise sales and support team that is culturally and operationally very different from running an ad-supported social network. Google, also a primarily ad-supported company, suffered from this “identity crisis” and is still trying to catch up to AWS and Azure, despite offering what many believe is a superior technical product.

Who on earth believes that GCP is in the same universe as even Azure, let alone AWS?
Interestingly there is a trial to use a high dose of vitamin C to treat COVID-19 ARDS: https://youtu.be/bt-BzEve46Y?t=2107
Well let's talk about gamma correction - originally created because B/W Tv tubes were not linear, rather than doing the linear->tube conversion in each TV (which typically had ~10 tubes in them - think 10 transistors) they did the conversion in the Tv studio for ALL the TV receivers and just standardized the non-linearity of the TV screen tube's response.

We kept that same gamma when we switched to digital color spaces (and MPEG compression) - it's why noiry dark movies (think of Blade Runner with people in dark spaces smoking) - because of gamma correction there are few digital codes available at the dark corner of the digital color cubes and the result tends to be blocky simply because the color space simply can't represent those colors .... all because of a technical choice made in the late 30s to reduce the cost of Tvs
I was wondering the same. It's really hard to quote Trump because of the way he talks, but I looked up a transcript of the press conference in question:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres...

The quote (heavily pruned, but you can look it up in the link to verify I didn't change the meaning) is:

> Now, a drug called chloroquine ... is a common malaria drug. It is also a drug used for strong arthritis... in a somewhat different form ... But the nice part is, it’s been around for a long time, ... it’s not going to kill anybody.

> When you go with a brand-new drug, you don’t know that that’s going to happen. ... But this has been used in different forms — very powerful drug ... And it’s shown very encouraging — very, very encouraging early results. And we’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately. [The FDA has] gone through the approval process; it’s been approved. ... So we’re going to be able to make that drug available by prescription or states.

There is more, and it's similar in tone. So I don't think he said "Please go take the following drug without advice from your doctor" but he did say that it was powerful, safe, and already approved by the FDA. So I think it's fair to say that he was incautious in talking about a potentially dangerous, experimental treatment.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/25/the-regulation-moat/