jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The asymmetry of the extra-legal moral obligations is somewhat odd to me, though. I can accept that extra-legal moral obligations exist, but why not on all sides?

When we discuss things on the corporate side, most people seem to be of the opinion that the law is all that matters: if a retailer can find a tax loophole that lets them book all their profits in Bermuda, even though they actually did business in and used the resources of the United States, then well, good for them. But if a person dares waste the retailer's time, even though what the person is doing is every bit as legal as those tax games, suddenly that's a moral issue we should worry about.

If a company goes out of its way to uphold ethical standards above and beyond what the law requires, I do try to do the same when dealing with them. But for companies that only go by the letter of the law and play hardball, I don't feel I have any obligation beyond the letter of the law either.
Apparently identical earlier submission, with comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2011707
Awesome. This should help me find my way around Redwood City
I had been programming for years before I got to college. I'm "self-taught", but until I got to college, I hadn't learned any of the academic aspects of programming. Learning how to analyze code, in addition to how to write it, was one way in which formal education really helped. Read about complexity analysis, for example.
I need new studded tires for my bike, now I know where to look. Thanks for that.
Earlier submission, with discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003692
This feels like a poorly researched article - did the author even leave the Google Maps website to write it?

China is facing a huge problem of domestic migration away from the poorer country-side and inland/western regions to the more developed coastal cities like Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen. The numbers are estimated at around 243 million additional city-dwelling residents in the next 15 years [1].

China already has a troubled system of individual registration (Hukou) to limit this migration, however people are still migrating even though the destination cities do not offer them healthcare, education or any worker protection due to their lack of a local registration permit.

China has to make some big bets on how to best provide enough extra capacity to absorb this huge migration of people. Any western country that has successfully managed the domestic migration of 240m residents into their cities without planning or capacity problems should step forward and offer some practical advice.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_in_China
I just pushed a patch for the line locking. Collaborating should be much better now.
Thank you! One more reason to use Clojure...
A particularly problematic aspect of this system is that, in close elections, it provides little incentive to the elected representative to do a particularly good job once they get there. If the pol won with 51% of the vote, then perhaps if they work their arse off they could get to 55%, and if they do jack they might only get to 45%.
The real violation is that you just drag-dropped your whole iphone backup to a script

Yeah, I guess. I just did a quick strings on the backup files, and you could extract a fair bit of info, but it didn't seem like there was much in there that was truly juicy.
Flagged. Please keep gossip off HN.
There's a premium product?! I didn't see it mentioned anywhere on the site.
I have a lot of older relatives who have email addresses like "_army_mom57_lol@hotmail.com" or other such addresses. "Do I type Terri?

Assuming your older relative is named Terri, you might, which is why I said "real names".
I haven't heard anything about grammar in the videos. People are expected to absorb the grammar magically somehow?
Check out the HTML5 LocalFileSystem APIs. They aren't widely available yet (Chrome 9+, behind a flag) but they are exactly what you want for this kind of thing. http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/file/filesystem/
Couldn't you just draw the red line in drawRect of a UINavigationBar category? Then it'd appear in every navigation bar of your app, in the UINavigationBar, and not lost in some other hierarchy anywhere else.
Clipboard managers, such as the one that ships with Windows 10, allow applications such as password managers to mark something to not be stored in the clipboard history. KeePass supports this functionality as an example.

Really though autotype is the safer option.
In the "Avoid Transformations on Indexed Fields" part, I fail to understand how the example can work if you're applying the timezone computation on the right-hand side.

I'm not familiar with MS SQL (I've only worked with MySQL / PostgreSQL), can someone explain me how it works?
Cloud Print is how I print from my Chromebook right? Do they have a replacement? I use this service daily.
That's relatively annoying. I just got a new HP printer that uses cloud print, and I was enjoying using it to make printing from anywhere/my phone easier. Oh well.
Musk has actually said outright he was inspired by that film.
Well, I relied on that heavily and there's no other solution.
What a great perspective!
In a very slow migration process off as many Google properties as possible, including Gmail- and Fastmail is where I've landed for email. Will be using it with a custom domain to permanently avoid any kind of "lock in".

I have a free-tier protonmail account for any instance where I think a higher level of privacy is necessary (or any email/registration that I just want to separate into its own special zone).

But for regular standard daily email, Fastmail seems to be the sweet spot for me.

Once you've had an email address for so, so long, you realize how "locked-in" you become. I once had a hotmail address as a main email, and I closed it too early, without migrating some online accounts that still used it. As a result, I completely lost access to those accounts because the companies involved said that I had to use that no-longer-existing account to confirm account deletion (or email change). I'm avoiding that mistake this time around.
Those arguments are not property rights. Referring to them as property rights is an intentionally misleading exaggeration. I can't think of how this isn't "biased to bend the truth". Surely not all statements do this, but a lot do. I never made the generalization that the word "necessarily" implies.

I also never made the generalization that anyone making a partisan point would never criticise their own team. But the post in question, and many posts like it, define an all-or-nothing, good-vs-evil struggle that leaves no room for that nuance, and hinders an empathetic discourse with anyone on the "evil" team. It's not limited to any specific flavor of partisan, and the polarization this engenders has had some significant consequences.

To me, your argument kinda feels like a #NotAllMen or "You are racist for pointing out I benefit from and perpetuate racism." I am challenging a specific type of discourse, and you are inventing generalized, absolute extrapolations to declare untrue. Exaggerating to make your opponents position seem untenable doesn't change minds, it entrenches existing positions.
Which likely means the printer isn't allowed to punch a hole outbound to a cloud service.
http://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue/2009/05/07/115945-mexico-s-w...

Depends on what industry you work in. A Cache may look more like a giant pile of weapons as opposed to some memory in a computer.
In 5, its two swipes from the top, then tap the name of the WiFi network or the word WiFi (under the signal icon)

Seems pretty good to me.

In 4.4 I swipe down once then press and hold the icon.
> but let's be honest, it is a failure as a business.

Obviously not true, but I can see how some might think this if their main comparators are companies that get to $1trn valuations in 30 years. Not every company can or should be a FAANG.
Sorry, I think I wasn't being clear.

If his actions are coming up short, thats very important. In fact, thats what we should be discussing. Thats where we should be pressuring him to do better. So we are, in fact, in agreement that the President's actions should be under the closest scrutiny and open to criticism that he should take into account.

The point of the article however is that the President (whoever it may be) is also called upon to do two things:

1) Seemingly react with the same emotions as the American people.

2) Take part in various ceremonial activities.

Especially with respect to the first (and to some degree with the second, though this can be debated more easily) this is absurd. Just because people are angry with something, why should the President show the same anger. At times, it may be strategically sound to do so, but at times it would be a bad idea.

This, I think, is the main idea of the article. Note that I have not mentioned any specific President or any specific disaster or event. This is a general point. If you take issue with Obama's actions, thats all well and good, but its not what the article was getting at (at least in my reading).

Edit: Minor edit for clarity.
I was referring to "Even today most of our famous colleges are named after drug families"
Here's a shot from the 3GS:

http://images.apple.com/iphone/features/images/retina-resolu... (pixel-doubled)

http://i.imgur.com/j2yAN.jpg (normal size for the curious)

And the same from the 4, with actual size pixels:

http://images.apple.com/iphone/features/images/retina-resolu...

And here's another screenshot, of Mail this time:

http://images.apple.com/iphone/features/images/retina-galler...
There are few career paths where one can "cash out."
In a move that isn't at all shocking, the NY Times reporter didn't have much interest in talking with me or any of the other Cheezburger Network developers when she was in our office a few weeks ago.

If anyone is curious about the technical side of what we do and how we do it, I'll gladly answer questions here.

Also, we're looking for software developers. We're in Seattle, and have a strong bias for local talent, but we have a bunch of remote deveopers. Of the dozen or so companies I've worked for, Cheezburger is hands down the best. Srsly. Email martin@cheezburger.com if you're interested.
You should also check out Posterous.
If you have nothing useful to add to the conversation, please continue to ignore these topics. I can only assume you believe that the DPI controls in OS X and Windows are actually useful, and to that I would say: have you ever actually tried to use them?
Hmm unsure if that’s correct. I burned 8.12 us gallons yesterday where temperature outside was 28 deg Fahrenheit max and 25 deg min. This includes hot water used for bathing/showering, washing clothes, dishes etc. are you implying In UK Argus is achieved @ .812 gallons. I question that level of hone efficiency, although don't dispute there can be some homes that are quite efficient. I know that for example in Germany boiler rooms tend to be immaculate, neat rooms, not the typical dark basements.

Even in Europe, in places like Germany roughly half of the country's 40 million homes are heated with natural gas, a quarter with oil and almost 14 percent with district heating. District heating in Germany is mainly powered by natural gas and coal, while waste and renewable energies contribute a smaller share.*

So 10 million German households use Oil for heating spaces and water vs approximately 5.5 million in US.

* from https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/heating-40-millio...
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If anyone's interested in a somewhat out-of-the-box version of what's described above, using a Consul server/cluster to hold this information should give you basically everything ntucker listed. It's pretty trivial to setup and configuring it to store its data on an encrypted partition is also pretty simple. It's got ACLs and can support TLS connections as well. It's also got a bunch of features that the above system doesn't have, like being distributed (redundancy isn't the same thing as consensus) and datacenter-aware (I'd prefer to have different secrets per-datacenter, when possible).

We've been using it to store our application secrets for some time and had no complaints.
For me it is rather that this style doesn't encourage my own thinking. The idea is kind of the opposite, that is that simple writing should free mental capacity, but in my case it just puts my mind in a relaxed state where it can only consume information, while more sophisticated style kindles creativity and interaction with what's written rather than pure consumption
Sometimes you don't know for sure but a feature will help you find out.

That said, it should be recognized that there is a 'cost' to a feature aside from dev. - they can get in the way of other features.
Agreed, maybe something like a modern RSS with better support for private or paid content.
I didn't change anything about this reply.
It does not matter. Like for Crimea, even if Ukraine does not accept the Russians will have the territory and they will keep it.

So maybe there won't be a formal peace treaty but at some point fighting will stop and both sides will hang on to what they have.
The youtube-dl homepage has returned to the listings as has thepiratebay. However they still aren't indexing thepiratebay or youtube-dl.org's contents so you can't search within the sites you only get the homepage. The complaint the other day was about the indexes too, so its only partially fixed.
You seem to be equating nonbinary and transgender. I’m quite aware of the state of play on transgender bathroom bills and sports inclusion, but I’m really genuinely unaware of any legislation that would prevent nonbinary people from participating in things like marriage (we’re taking about legislation aren’t we? Not discrimination in general?)
He got me there for a moment. Pete Carter also says that Stonebraker wrote lyrics for "Beat It".
The obsession with helmets in many countries is born of an idea that violence on the roads is inevitable. It's a bit like responding to knife or gun crime by saying everyone should wear kevlar vests, problem solved! Rather than insisting that knives and guns are not used in public spaces.

Some people have real problems grasping this. Cars are seen as inherently dangerous, pedestrians and everyone else should (ideally) stay off the roads, and nobody should challenge our "right" to drive where and when we like. But driving is still a choice, albeit coerced since there are so few alternatives, and that choice has profound implications for others. Why should I wear protective clothing because you choose to drive a vehicle which puts me in danger? In the Netherlands, to respond to your point, they have largely eliminated motoring-related danger for cyclists.

If anyone is interested in the development of Dutch cycling infrastructure, this is an excellent video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o (How the Dutch got their cycle paths, 6m 29s)

David Hembrow has an informative blog about all things cycling in Holland:

http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/
It doesn't matter whether $7.25 is hyperbole. What matters is whether or not 479 hours is hyperbole.

Let's see. IRL, I own around ten t-shirts, and they seem to wear out in 2-4 years, so let's say around 100 wearings. I'll stretch that out to 730 wearings, because I'm "wearing it until it disintegrates".

I'll hope to buy a shirt on odd-numbered years, and new pants on even-numbered years. I won't buy any other cloth goods.

If I work 40 hour weeks, I have 2080 hours of labour in a year.

Suppose I am equally economically valuable to a spinner, such that I can trade one hour of my productivity for one hour of theirs.

If I need a new 479-hour garment every year, then I need to allocate nearly a quarter of my life to buying clothes, even though I wear clothes until they disintegrate, and only own one shirt and one pair of pants. That is fantastically expensive.
housing has rocketed out of proportion around the Western world whilst other goods have become basically irrelevant.

Only if you want to live where everybody else wants to live. I mean if I really wanted to I could sell my small flat in town and buy a nice enough house for less than 20% of what I got for my flat. The only problem is that the house would be in the middle of nowhere and I don't want to live in the middle of nowhere.
But really, who did win? And what is M31-V1? And what does any of this have to do with determining who's right, which really does matter, e.g. climate change?
This seems to be a trend. I recently almost purchased another item on Amazon that was well-reviewed, until I checked the 1-star reviews, which mentioned a rebate for a 5-star review.

IMO, Amazon should just silently penalize those reviews. Let the manufacturer waste their money.
Here is an article that references several studies but a search including 'loneliness and health' will bring up dozens of studies.

https://www.brainandlife.org/articles/how-loneliness-affects...
wow 230€ to change the keyboard layout
As a former opiate addict myself, I don't think that's true at all. Moving the choices of addiction from the simple parts of the brain to the higher parts is the whole game. If at any time while I was an addict, you had told me "I'll give you a week's supply, but after that, you can never use again", i'd have made that deal every time, even if I knew it would be enforced.

The problem of addiction is the problem of inter-temporal choice, and a broken discount function. Most addicts don't want to keep using in the executive part of their brain. They know it's self destructive, but they keep doing it anyway, because the next hit is always, in a very local sense, rational. The ability to bind your own hands is the way out.
Yes, I was aiming for hunker down. Thanks.
I suspect that you are correct. Thank you for the perspective.
It really hurts their welfare since their skeletal systems were not designed to handle the additional weight and means they cannot really stand on their own. The chickens will also develop lesions/burns from laying in ammonia-soaked grounds, increasing risk of infection and causing unnecessary suffering.[0]

[0] https://www.aspca.org/sites/default/files/chix_white_paper_n...
what's the total running time? ms/sec/minutes/hours? is it heavy IO bound?
If you prefer quantity over quality then probably not. Ever wondered how thousands of chickens can survive in one room. Well this chickens are probably not organic because you need to use something that illnesses dońt spread. And personally I think a chicken that canˋt walk normally is a problem.
You really pulled out all of the stops on this one. Excellent job.
I'd be willing to bet you haven't looked very hard. Sure the Apple keyboards look nice but the feel and responsiveness of the keys are far from the best.
So the point is that 10% more money always makes you a certain amount happier.

People trot this out and say "look, once you have a certain amount of money you don't get happier by having more!"

Why should dollars buy happiness the same way they buy gumballs? It doesn't make any sense.

The first gallon of water you have every day is pretty freaking valuable. The 1000th gallon of water you have every day is just about worthless unless you're a farmer.

In engineering we use log-log charts to look at how systems respond to a HUGE range of inputs from the very, very slow to the very, very fast. Like filters. You want to know how it looks from 1Hz to 1GHz in a useful way. This is generally done with a Bode plot which is log on both x and y. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bode_plot

If your plot covers several orders of magnitude (and income is many orders of magnitude) then the most informative way to understand it is by compressing it via logarithm. Here's a good example only on the Y since the company is growing X% per year.

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/naomirobbins/files/2012/01/li...
Fluid mounting things to scan them is something that photographers have been doing for a while. The higher-end Epson flatbed scanners (which is really a low-end film scanner) have fluid mount options [0] while fluid mounting for drum scans [1] (high-end film scanners) is the norm unless you get a flexframe model from Hasselblad which doesn't use glass (so no need for a fluid). Plus wet mounting your scans helps with the Newton rings issue.

[0] http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/interactive/Epson%20V750/pa...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCHS5yiF4Mc
Anything important enough to do well can instead be done badly.

Education policy in the West, but until the late 20th century, was oriented towards exterminated the use of minority languages. Consequently, there wasn't much experience until recently with policies to regenerate linguistic communities after oppression.

Mandating some minimal classroom instruction for non-mother-tongue speakers is exactly the kind of ineffective policies that people like Joshua Fishman criticize. More efforts these days is going into mother tongue preschools and "nests".
> So a $30,000 car (or less if bought used) when you make $120k is living outside your means?

Yes!

> If you have no debt and you have the ability to buy the car cash or pay it off within 1-2 years, how exactly is this bad- especially since you'd enjoy it?

Enjoyment does not enter into whether or not it is rational to put a substantial portion of your wealth in a depreciating asset such as a car.

> Sure, the boring thing to do would be to put all the money in savings...

But then you wouldn't be buying foodstamps five years down the line.

> but if you think a 30k is outside your means, then you're probably so cheap you don't take vacations

Being cheap and being smart with money are not the same thing, and using words like 'cheap' to target a person indicate that you are not approaching the subject rationally but would rather attack a person that has an opinion different from yours using a negative term than to bring a solid counterargument. Pity.
Writing Powershell scripts which automate Windows applications and OS tasks might have some potential since many small businesses don't have that capability in-house.
Surely that's extremely common. If you have every toy you could want, what's left to do?

Surely that's why several millionaires go up, go to excess, lose it all etc.
It's interesting reading the email exchange between Greenwald and Poulsen. To me it looks like Glenn trying bullying trial lawyer tactics: "you have to admit there's something disturbing about all of this" etc. That approach isn't going to work well with Kevin.
Interesting viewpoint. Corporation managers never seize to amaze me.

The shell scripts written by my *nix mentor were anything but boring or unimportant. The guy had x consoles running, monitoring x^2 servers etc...
Catalan at source is probably as different to Spanish as French or Italian are. But probably, centuries of stronger influence have induced more similarities: most people in Catalonia are bilingual.

Especially for those who don't speak either:

Spanish: "Hay muchas cosas", "Tenemos una vez"
French: "Il y a beaucoup des choses", "Nous avons une fois"
Catalan: "N'hi ha moltes coses", "Tenim una vegada"
Italian: "Ci sono molte cose", "Abbiamo una volta"

I think it's a quite representative example of the kind of differences & similarities.
Actually, the biggest lenders are index funds.