skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole scurvy related set of anecdotes are quite coloured by language bias. German folklore contains a different set of anecdotes regarding scurvy, with the solution based on sauerkraut iso citrus fruits.

Totally unrelated, but I have seen the same thing in mathematics. The same theorem being named to different mathematicians depending on the language in which you learn the theorem (French or English or Russian)
Probably, yes. Though they could do it directly with central bank money (instead of `traditional' quantitative easing). `Helicopter money' is actually seriously discussed amongst economists.
Yes, or course there'd be some level of consistency, but nothing we'd recognise as the industrial level of consistency we're used to today. The specific characteristics of the local flour will change from harvest to harvest, and plausibly through the season as well depending on storage conditions. The sourdough is a living organism with "temperament", and ambient factors like temperature and air moisture (which obviously change from day to day) affects the outcome as well.
I think something that drove it home for me is an actual written test script at my first part time job (before university). I was testing a tool called Internet Call Manager (if you used dialup and received a call while on the internet, this software would pop up a notification on your screen and allow you to decide whether to ignore the call or to take it).

Basically it was a table with the left hand columns being the instructions to perform, in point form, and the definitions of the expected/correct behavior, and the right hand columns being checkboxes and blank spaces to write in, indicating whether the software performed correctly.

It was super clear and to the point, and it was just a document that could be easily updated (and was, I believe I later made some modifications to the script when new versions of the software came out, but it was so long ago that maybe someone else was the one to do it).

Maybe you could write one of those up and he'd get a better idea for what his job was, and you could run through it with him a few times. After he gets the hang of it, I think it will have some value outside of just testing the code: he may come to understand how changes in one part of the code bring up issues in unexpected places (and get an intuitive grasp for, say, code reuse); he will be a true expert on the product (I've always noticed that QA people are often better versed in software than the assigned Product Manager, come demo time); and perhaps he'll start to grasp at a more physical level what your work actually entails, and it'll help give him context for software development as a process.

--

"The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures....
Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. […] The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be." - Fred Brooks

Let him learn some of the magic behind the poetry :) To your whole idea (biz/product guy getting hands dirty with product work), hear hear, bravo, etc.
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Please do not make your own fancy scrollbars with JavaScript. I already have a scrollbar in my browser, I most certainly do not need yours!
There's really no need to reinvent the wheel here: https://pytest.org/latest/parametrize.html
Yes, you'd have to hide your income. And that's harder than getting it misclassified in a more complex system.
Really? In Denmark all ovens have temperature settings, except for older gas ovens, which are quite rare (though gas stoves are fairly popular still)

So I'm guessing you are mostly using gas ovens in France?
I was just thinking of creating a bot that will update the list(s) and push the changes back on GitHub every day.

But first, I definitely have to see if it's against GitHub's terms of service.
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You know what, I'm starting to think we should make use of that US Supreme Court decision and the ISDS trade rules. Activists incorporating companies in the fields they are interested in, using them as platforms to sue the government for lack of a fair market (for example, starting a renewable energy company and suing over the subsidies given to the fossil fuel industries). Perhaps that'd be an effective way to get these deals rejected or renegotiated (and that includes the existing deals containing ISDS, such as NAFTA).
> You don't think the incoherence of the following posts
> proves the flaggers correct?

I lack certainty, but I think the post I vouched for is still a useful addition to the conversation. Generally, I try to flag (and recently, unflag) individual posts rather than expected user behavior.

That said, I probably wouldn't have tried to recover it if I'd read the Weimerica comment first. The later posts have some oblique insights. I can why one might downvote them (I didn't), but (unless I missed something) they don't seem flagworthy.

> are you saying happy thanks giving to me (not a mod) or dang (a mod)?

I was saying Happy Thanksgiving to the moderator Dan Gackle, since Monday is the Thanksgiving holiday in Canada. I hoped this was clear since he's the author of the grandparent comment, but I suppose other Dan's can share the goodwill!
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I find the "fsck" command to be vulgar because it reminds me of "fucking". I prefer the term "making love".

I also find the "cp" command to be a trigger word, for the abuse I suffered as a child.

Everybody should be made to use the "cat" command to copy files. Cats are warm and fuzzy and everybody likes cats.
We keep trying to make a world that is completely fair but as long as we have freedom it won't be. I think it's more important to have freedom because it drives progress.

People don't want a chance at a ride, they want a ride. And that desire is the fuel that drives us.
Most of Microsoft's MSDN web site falls over with the same problem as well.
Slavery also falls under this category. People in desperate enough straits might choose it, since it guarantees them food and lodgings, yet most people have a problem with the concept.

Offering jobs at less than the minimum wage is also exactly this too - people accepting those jobs are in a better position than if the jobs weren't available, yet many modern free societies have minimum wages.

Selling drugs to addicts falls under this category too, since if they didn't have the drugs easily available, they might do something worse to get them, and clearly they're chosing to buy them so they must be better off having them.
Genuine question: has there been any study that actually measured the "levels" of neurotransmitters in the brain and correlated them with the subjects' behavior? Has there been any study that actually demonstrates what the normal levels of these chemicals are in adults and children, and what the normal range is, and what environmental and nutritional factors can influence them? I ask because I constantly hear the "chemical imbalance" explanation for behavioural issues and prescribing these drugs, but I have not ever found a paper that actually provides scientific evidence for this explanation.
Not quite. Native languages are still spoken in Canada. Cantonese is a big thing in Vancouver/Richmond/Surrey.
that is in fact a very interesting list, although I guess this page[0] is a bit more useful, as it contains "what was invented by whom".

Personally I've always been fascinated by Spurius Carvilius Ruga[1], who invented the single letter "G" for the latin alphabet :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_creators_of_writing_sy...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurius_Carvilius_Ruga
For single files RCS is very very good and simple. A DVCS is good when there are multiple files that are related, and changes happen across them. This project should have been a single tacit.scss somewhere, and in that case, RCS is better than using a DVCS, IMO.

I use RCS for example for my Org-mode files, which are a bunch of independent files. Each of them have their own history in their own ,v files. Thus, the changes to my CV does not affect the history of, e.g., my lecture notes.
> I ask because I constantly hear the "chemical imbalance" explanation for behavioural issues and prescribing these drugs,

EDIT: can I check: are you hearing that from doctors doing the prescribing?
9 seconds planned for th rescue, 5 actual minutes, that must have felt like a very, very long time.

- Is it possible to invent radio-based, directional weapons able to kill through walls? e.g. X-rays or microwave?

- I'm surprised the federal agent asks for permission to kill the criminal. As long as there is a hostage, isn't the self-defense considered a default?
A lot of tlds don't provide zone files unless you are a registrar. They would probably not be happy if someone put those out to the pubic. For com and the likes they would probably not care as much.

The best public list of domains I have found is the Project Sonar DNS (ANY) scans. I don't know how they do it, but their scans are pretty complete, at least for.dk domains, which are the ones I use.

https://scans.io/study/sonar.fdns
Hi HN!

I'm the one NYT quoted in this article.

The creepy thing about this is that it does this while ignoring the user's location privacy settings and even if users are using a VPN or roaming (ie. data hits the Internet in user's home country instead of in China).

There are more details about how I tested this at the Hong Kong/China border on my blog: https://www.larrysalibra.com/how-apple-censors-news-in-china...
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Why should sovereignty mean that you can disregard the rights of foreigners any more than owning a home should result in a right to take a guest's wallet at gunpoint? Whether or not either of these situations is morally desirable, I don't see how they would be sustainable, as in, why would everybody else put up with you?

To take your example, if my country nationalizes an oil field found and owned by your country's citizens (assuming that my country originally tricked them into searching for oil by promising it'd be theirs to some extent or other when they find it - otherwise why would they search for it in the first place?), why would your country stop at "tarnishing my country's reputation" when it could apply force, ranging from economic sanctions to an actual war?
This guy is brilliant! I want to do this.
The FBI is a lot more careful about killing people than the US police, although there are concerns about their internal review processes of agent-involved shootings.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/us/in-150-shootings-the-fb...
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Peter Norman's actions (as well as those of John Carlos and Tommie Smith) were even more impressive in light of the racist undercurrents in both white and black culture at the time.

The three basically took a stand against both the white majority establishment AND a strong trend in contemporary black counter-culture that opposed race equality and integration.

The picture of them carrying him to his grave honestly brought a tear to my eye.
A great hero from Australia.
Unfortunately, as part of the application you are compelled to sign forms promising that you won't make "significant" parts of the zone file publicly available in any way (at least this was my experience when applying to Verisign for .com and .net zone file access).
Should we avoid criticizing brutal dictatorships because they are an improvement over anarchy?

With 25 thousand facing water shutoffs, PETA offered help for up to ten people - technically an improvement on the status quo. But they also inserted their own agenda, diverting attention from Detroit's poverty and unemployment issues to the ethics of using animal products. This is definitely a worse outcome for the remaining 25k - 10 Detroit residents. It's fair to consider PETA's hijacking of the issue as a cost imposed on those affected by it.
> Peter Norman is absent from this statue.

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/10/12/part_2_john_carl...

"...Pete, I have a concern, man. What’s this about you don’t want to have your statue there? What, are you backing away from me? Are you ashamed of us?" And he laughed, and he said, "No, John." He said—you know, the deep thing is, he said, "Man, I didn’t do what you guys did." He said, "But I was there in heart and soul to support what you did. I feel it’s only fair that you guys go on and have your statues built there, and I would like to have a blank spot there and have a commemorative plaque stating that I was in that spot. But anyone that comes thereafter from around the world and going to San Jose State that support the movement, what you guys had in ’68, they could stand in my spot and take the picture."
Whoa what a guy!
It's irrational because it's not about being right but about getting it your way. So even if you are right about ex. the rules should be simpler from the perspective the general taxpayer, then someones special interest might trump that.

The ability to navigate in the complexity is a good thing for those who can afford the financial advisor.

And because there is not one truth because there are not one interest it become impossible to look at it from a rational perspective.
> There's no point saying that bandaids can stop people bleeding and people who don't want to use them are bad, if you don't address why there are flesh wounds everywhere you look.

Yet poverty is improving globally ( http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/17/aid-trade-red... ). Given that, no one should be faulted for doing what they can to help locally.

> Are bandaids better than nothing? They are. But there are still people trying to fix the flesh wounds. Does the author support them, or not?

It doesn't matter. The author presented an idea that is important in its own right. I don't think there's any moral authority anyone can draw upon to say that he or she needs to do more. Anyone who thinks there is is proving the author's point.
Browser scrollbars sucks tho.
The power this gives corporations to sue governments over even the slightest inconvenience caused to them by regulation is absolutely disgusting. Corporate lawyers have already used previous trade agreements to set some seriously despicable precedents.

There are tons of deplorable examples of what they've done already and it will only get worse if the T.P.P. passes. Some seriously tragic outcomes that have already been caused by Investor-State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) are recapped here: http://www.isdscorporateattacks.org/
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Totally agree. Though the "[t]hen you failed at being specific" may be a tad harsh for my taste :)

Can iterate on the test spec/script, like anything else... and at the beginning the doc may even prove to be a great tool for contrasting baseline context between different people/roles/backgrounds.
Nice find. Is everything in there blocked by Easylist?
Some of this stuff is hard to measure.

Anything that doesn't cross the blood brain barrier is never going to get many samples due to the invasive procedures needed.

And for more normal blood based measurements, the protocols for measuring change over time requires a number of blood samples taken over time. The more accurate you want to be the more invasive you must become.

All the research I have read uses proxy measures, for example using PET scan and MRI techniques to measure brain activity and trying to infer the neurotransmitters based on glandular activity in the brain.
It's really going to be interesting when EV drivers start getting charged per mile. We'll have to figure out something to make up for the missing gasoline yeah revenues. And it is probably already becoming substantial in California.
You're quoting a troll as reference

Christopher Barry is most certainly not a troll.

As shown in the LKML and Debian debates, the systemd infestation
was firmly opposed by nearly everyone outside the 'vested interest'
RedHat filter bubble. And still is.

Some high profile names would be Eric S. Raymond
or Patrick Volkerding (creator of Slackware).

Debian has been forked over this; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devuan

That is not him saying that people should stop developing. It's him saying stop this behaviour.

It's him finally calling Kay Sievers out for being
incompetent and an asshole. Which was long overdue.

Sadly it's by far too late and will very likely not
change a thing about systemd's "break and extinguish" strategy.

Systemd will continue to break other peoples projects in
its effort to replace every mature service implementation
with a hacked up systemd imitation.

At least until, hopefully, the major distros finally
acknowledge their mistake and roll this disaster back.
Liquidity actually means that the middle men get less..
Yeah I know, it was more the kind of point you need to take with this. It is similar in spirit to "the customer is always right" -- of course that's too harsh, but it gets the point across. :)
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Well endowed smart kid is not wrecked by drugs? Common entertainment drugs in general are not disastrous for mentally healthy well off people. As per rats -

http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/

I have nothing to say about drugs, but neither does Steve's anecdote.
the fact that calling sorted(b) where b is a reversed object affects the following comparison "sorted(b) == sorted(b)" is wierding me out..

Ref: http://pastebin.com/VQs9GSzp
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There are still a lot of those yes, but not only, we also have oven with exact temperature control. The thing with ovens is that whether you do or do not have this control, you just keep an eye on what you are cooking and get it out when it is cooked like you want it (judging with eyes, smell, and sometimes a knife for instance to get a feel of the internal texture of what you cook). So it really is okay to only know if your oven is somewhat hot, hot, or really hot.
I'm sympathetic to this cause, but that introduction contains a lot of waffle. If the author is reading this, you can summarise the key driving forces for change as...

1. Cannot rely on infinite economic growth on a planet with finite resources.

2. A better balance between human life and the rest of life on the planet relies on allowing nature to regrow without competing with human development.

You don't need to have all the answers up front, the solution is going to evolve naturally once we agree on what why it's desirable to change and get the discussions going.
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The New York Times is a company. Should "the people", through their elected representatives, decide what the Times can and can't print?
Truth be told, I totally agree with your sentiment - if the test spec is unclear to the guy executing it, something needs to be changed... just reflective of the direction I've been trying to take my attitudes and my language; I even have a git alias "an", short for annotate, which performs the "blame" command :D ("git-blame - Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file")
Human "resources". My background is in engineering; a resource is something you use up, discard and get a new one.
It's quite slow to download from that site, I guess there are a lot of HN readers consuming their bandwidth :)
It's generally agreed upon that Germany started the war with Russia and that they lost because of the resources their Eastern front required.
Better than SSD but much slower than DDR memory. You could use the flash memory as cache and access it within the page fault handler at block level. That would make sense because the flash latency is much larger than the overhead of a page fault. So why access it at "bit-level" like they pretend?

(actually that would be word-level, because DDR doesn't allow bit-level access...)
Give uTest a try, you can participate in crowd-sourced test cycles and gain both experience and money.

And they have really cool resources over here:
https://university.utest.com
Browser scroll bars are perfectly fine. This is a solved problem. It doesn't need to be re-solved in a thousand different ways.
As would I. I missed my late teens and early twenties while sitting in a haze of pot smoke, and while I did have some interesting experiences, the time would have been far better spent learning to deal with life in healthier ways. Ten years on, and I'm still dealing with the aftermath of those poor decisions.
Ask HN: Where can I find event resources for Valley/SF?
I am going to visit for two weeks in March and I would like to make the most out of it. I am interested in going to networking events and try to promote my startup/meet people I can pitch it to etc.

Any tips?
The global trend is, that governments in all nations loose more and more of their former power and (partially) dump it to international corporations which hold the real power in their hands.

There is an older documentation, that is still valid with the name "The Corporation" which shows, how corporations have used the US constitution and decades of lobbying and court cases to gain more and more power. So today, the corporations are difficult to held liable for things they do (in many cases they come away with small fees that don't even cover the harm they caused), but enjoy many of the rights which where meant for real citizen.

This documentation comes to the conclusion, that many corporations behave like psychopaths, because when a corporation has to decide, (for example) to keep the environment clean or make more profits, the corporation rule is, to go for the money and forget about the rest.

Anybody should watch this. Either on DVD, or I also spotted it on worlds favorite video site.

With international treaties like that, the power of international corporations is hardened and it gets more and more difficult to reverse this global trend. With all their lawyers and lobbyists, the corporations are bound to win over the democracies -- what dictators did not manage to.

This trend is undermining democracies and human rights, because corporations are not democratic and have only one rule to obey: The profit rule.

So finally, we are all governed by money and nothing else.
The most productive teams were mostly bought and consolidated by rich firms, that is until a new generation of disruptive small startups that take the chance of not wanting to be bought out by the big firms, will take things to a different level again.
This pattern has always been there and always will be, business as usual.
It also doesn't appear that the firms are constant year over year. It just takes the top 5% and labels those the frontier firms.

So with just the info in the article i don't think it supports any particular conclusion without more information.
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Sovereignty means having the power to make or change any law.

And our elected leaders should have that power so that bad laws can be fixed.

Imagine if, in pre-civil-war America a lot of British investors had invested in cotton plantations whose profitability depended on slavery. Should Lincoln have said "gee, I guess my hands are tied, banning slavery would be bad for our foreign investors" and done nothing?

You might argue that in the past we had bad laws, but we don't have bad laws any more and all our laws are perfect. But the fact we still employ legislators rather implies we think we might need some legislating done.
I always run into trouble in Python with closures and assignment. E.g.,

def f():
x = 0
def g():
x += 1
g()
f()