skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflamable is the standard word in spanish for that. Means something that can go "in flames". A similar case is "Orange", that lost its first letter in English, italian and french, Spanish keeps the original form: "Naranja" for both fruit and colour. Similar as the "Norange" that was the original word used in English and French.

I can see only advantages in using the same word again.
You're making a distinction between practical thinking and thinking for thinking's sake.

There's a difference between arguing and critical thinking. I've often found myself in discussions with graduate students in humanities subjects where the main arguments end up being, "have you read <name>? <name> says <argument related to a given argument>." Pretty soon, it's opinions built on opinions built on opinions, and the shoutiest voice wins.

In science, eventually we can actually test whether something is factually true. At least in history, there is some ground truth as well, but often it's still more vague than we'd like it to be.

I think more technical degrees scientific/technical fields end up forcing a more practical approach to critical thinking. Who cares if something makes sense in the context of some random ivory tower theory? The better question is: does it help me enjoy and appreciate life more completely?

I absolutely believe history can teach critical thinking as well as a technical field, but I think technical fields teach it by default. If I say something wrong about biochemistry, nature itself will beat me to a bloody pulp. In the humanities, another human has to do it, and may not be standing on very firm ground when they do.

Non-engineering fields when taught poorly also more prone to suffer from regurgitate-to-pass syndrome. You can get by in a lot of badly taught classes by reciting the book if you're not forced to apply your knowledge. Most engineering classes by default force application, which also naturally reinforces critical thinking in the "why isn't this working" steps.

That said, I love history, I love art, all of these things enrich my life and help me understand how people work, interact and are motivated. These things also help put life in perspective and figure out what's really important.
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d) feeding farm animals antibiotics to promote growth/weight gain.
>You want to demand higher wages? Great. Yet more jobs go overseas

The jobs that can go overseas are pushed overseas regardless.

The jobs that can't be pushed overseas? Turns out fighting for higher wages works well, as the fight for 15 can testify to.

>You want to protect against cheap imports (created by cheap workers) with tariffs? Well, you just made everything everyone buys from overseas more expensive

When that's offset by rising wages, which, in the absence of underpriced competition it will - the people at the bottom end aren't bothered. They're happy, in fact.

Besides, what eats up most people's paychecks these days? Not plastic crap from China - student loan repayments and rent/mortgage payment to keep a roof over your head.

>The world is a much more complicated place than it was in the 1920s.

Yet some things never change.
Ah yes, but now we have nukes, and look at everyone trying to put that genie back in the bottle. Wait till one day when one goes off, humanity will change in the blink of an eye. It is always wise to consider how technology changes things for in does in fact change things, and not always for the better.
Well, how many new domains are you visiting each day? There are countless ways of blocking domains in some "one-click" fashion, whenever you visit one that you don't like. So you can still get what you want without using ad-block.
I've been prototyping a .NET Core port. JonSkeet.MiscUtil source code is fine for Core, but for the BitTorrent code we need to change the HttpWebRequest objects to HttpClient and rewrite the Begin/End/IAsyncResult/callback-style to async/await.
These principles apply to ALL business emails.

Short, actionable, respectful emails with precisely the context needed (and nothing more) is what you need. I have received personal replies from CEOs of major publicly traded companies, with some Google-fu and a quick email.
I'm not sure that actually matters in the current conversation. The quote, even from a satirical play, demonstrates that this was a common enough sentiment in ancient Greece to be worth lampooning. That's nearly as relevant as if Socrates had in fact uttered the quote in earnest.
ininflamable is also the common word in spanish.
Lenovo didn't write superfish, and I'm quite sure that they didn't test it.
"Bar philosophy"? Baloney. Philosophy has its own ideological perspective(s).
Either automate them (or otherwise redesign them to need a minimum of work: there's no need for hot-water sellers today, for example); or do without (possible for domestic servants, not for garbagemen); or pay lavishly enough that these jobs are tempting even if you've got a basic income already. A world with UBI isn't a world without money and stock markets, after all...
I don't think everyone or many people cares, but some people might. It's such a simple effort ($10.69 + $5/mo for Gapps) it's silly to not do it.
There's presuming to know, and there's observing interactions over time and coming to see a consistency in behavior.

I've both worked at and of course used service industries. I've seen both sides of the counter, so to speak, and have seen different behaviors and attitudes from both staff and customers.

I've had a server run out from behind the counter to give me a huge hug (her last day, we'd had a good rapport, and I'd left something for her earlier). Still remember that, some 20 years on.

I've been kissed full on the lips by a bartender (quite unexpectely I might add).

I've shared talk and jokes with clerks and owners at several grocery stores, and had ongoing interactions on that same basis. The responses seem genuine. Same sex and I quite presume no sexual anticipiation. Simply being human.

Another store employee had commented on my unusual shopping bag (same store, other area), and over the course of two years, I carried a geographical nickname. Brought a smile to my face.

I've also had surly or indifferent service, or noncommittal "fine, you, thanks" interactions. People are ... distinctly human.

Sure, knowing precisely what's going on inside a person's head is difficult. But we're all sitting in our Plato's caves watching the shadows pass on the wall, and eventually we can make reasoned inferences. Particularly if the source of those shadows confirms the impressions. Being not overly wedded to a specific interpretation helps.
I did what you are considering for the reasons you mention. I sorely miss the freedom of being self-employed. My employer is extremely flexible, but nevertheless, I almost never have time for my personal projects. I'm far less efficient when I'm a FTE because the expectation is that I will bill hours, not work efficiently. I'm strongly considering a move back to self-employment, warts and all. If not that, then maybe a position with a small company.
I live Norway, mostly work for Norwegian clients. My rate is $120 and I bill around 800-1000 hours annually. I spend around 200 hours annually for sales and networking and the rest is research, where I do crazy thing like deploying Microsoft SQL Server on a iSCSI target from a FreeBSD ZFS SSD SAN. It is hard to sell that though.

My expertise is infrastructure, Linux, Java and SQL. But I usually build web applications for my clients. Most of my sales has happened through networking where friends or earlier colleagues has recommended me. It's much harder to go to "regular" companies because I'm just a guy who is not employed. Freelancers are almost non-existent here in Norway and those who are freelancers are usually considered to be unable to get a real job.

I love the freedom, the daily variation where I either talk to clients, do accounting or coding. I also love that if the weather is nice outside I can shut off my computer and go out and enjoy the sun. Another plus is that I usually get to choose what technology stack I will be working with. Which really makes me happy as I can usually focus on solving problems for the client and not spending time looking for documentation that is either badly written or not existing at all. When I solve something quickly, my clients also get extra happy!

What I do miss is more social interaction with other people. I spend a lot of alone, solving technical challenges alone and so on. I would love to have some one to do technical discussions with more often.
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The simple explanation is that Semantic Versioning is not at all the only way to do versioning, it is just one standard amongst others. Of course semver is progress in the sense that it has a specification that means you can assign meaning to the versions, but hey, so does the proposed versioning scheme for GTK. It is just not semver.

I think it is interesting to think about what the versioning scheme says about the development model and methodology of the project:

Linux currently uses even-odd versioning, but regardless tries to never break APIs or ABIs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Version_numbering
After much debate, Linux switched from a model where the major number never changed, which is kinda inline with semver. But since this seemed increasingly silly, to have a 3 there forever, they decided to just throw this overboard and start incrementing the version number more often. (This discussion was much more interesting in reality, read LKML for details).

Android uses an interesting brand-version and actually-useful-version scheme (API level)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history
This very much reflects how versioning and releasing a new version has become a PR event. It is really funny how this distinction is even reflected in code.

And then of course there are the funky oddballs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
This asymptotically more precise number is suitable for a project that has the idea that it is approaching perfection without changing much. Not sure if every TeX user out there would agree, but it indeed says something about the author =).

There are plenty others, and of course it can be confusing if you think that semver is the only game in town. Perhaps the ideas expressed in the semver spec simple does not suit everyone.
The article starts out noting that talk therapy combats depression. It contrasts this with the fact that prozac and other SSRIs also combat depression.

SSRI's being chemicals added to the human brain, are "physical." But somehow, talk therapy is "non-physical".

That's where the article lost me.

Isn't two people talking a physical activity? There are two physical people, sound waves moving between them, neurons firing in their brains. It's even observable by outsiders.
> I can still remember reading many blogs in 2009/2010 by hobbyist who just wanted to spread their experience with the hobby or craft. Most had no advertising. Those that did had the small, occasional unobtrusive banner ad. All of the links to follow were to other blogs by those who proved to the writer that their blogs were topical and without cruft.

You make it sound like every hobby website wasn't out to make money. What you're describing are the exceptions, not the rule. And they weren't as numerous as your comment indicates. An RC airplane website/forum had ads or deals with companies selling planes, marijuana websites (anyone remember overgrow.com back in 2001?) had deals with seedbanks and marijuana supply companies. Very rare was the hobby website that operated without sponsorship or some form of money generation mechanic. Not to mention, hosting back then was much more expensive. Today it's cheaper than dirt but that wasn't always the case.
Android was, iirc, a completely clean-room implementation of Java's standard library, sans one method of one class that was coded the same way because it was obvious to code it that way (hence why oracle lost in the first place).

If you can do better than millions of dollars worth of Oracle lawyers, you are indeed a most impressive specimen.
https://xkcd.com/1170/
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Thank you for saying that violence can happen to anyone. In Australia, we have a very sexist attitude toward violence. The media (and our own minister for sexism) only ever talk about male perpetrators and female victims.

This article mentions twice that the majority of victims are women(about 2/3), but it purposely ignores violence against men.

My wife said to me the other day, "today's society is more sexist than we've ever seen, isn't it". Unfortunately, I couldn't agree more.

Violence against anyone should be condemned, regardless of the gender of the perpetrator and the gender of the victim.

I like HN because it is less sexist than most information sources, however, the price of non-sexism is eternal vigilance. This article raises a tragic issue In an unnecessarily sexist way. My wife is right yet again.
This is fascinating. Although your AI algorithm might be faster if you could somehow sort inputs, starting with the most promising, and discarding the least promising, once an effectiveness threshold has been reached. Not knowing Calculords that well, I don't know if this is possible or not.

Also the line

>At this point, it was clear I had two options:

>Armed with a trivial example and an inept grasp of the tools available to me, I could write a snarky Medium post about how terrible JavaScript is

>WebWorkers

Having been on both the receiving, and a few times sending, end of such posts (although not on medium, and not about js, for sending) I understand, empathise, and cannot help but laugh. Steve Yegge at his best couldn't have phrased that better.
The first picture has been taken in Paris (Shakespeare and Company).
Applies equally to all forms of communication. I pay a conscious effort to put the most important point in the excerpt.

"Hi $name, interested in grabbing coffee? Bla bla bla I met you bla bla, bla bla talk about bla bla."
The former has 46 words/348 characters; the latter 20 words/176 characters. That's more than twice the tokens, twice the disk space, twice the cognitive load.
The platform doesn't block you by location, just discourages.
He's talking about expected value in the probability sense.

EV = payout * probability

So for cash:

EV = 150k (or whatever your salary is) * 100% (it's guaranteed)

For equity it might be:

EV = 1M * 10% = 100k
> I don't know of anyone who is asking for more interactiveness for most of the web

I don't know of anyone, besides programmers, who doesn't like the current interactive-web-app web more than the decade-ago full-page-load web. They don't like ads and popups and things being slow either, but they love Gmail and AirBnB and Facebook and on and on. We should solve the problems without throwing away all the good stuff.
No mention of "coercion" at your link.
You can make your @company.com email forward to your personal gmail, you know.

Like Michael, I find it convenient, when receiving a lot of email from people I don't know well, to have the domain name of their company right in their email address. For example, if I later remember something I want to tell them or someone to connect them to, having their email address autocomplete is nice.
Rumpus: Haskell livecoding playground for room-scale VR [video]
>You want to demand higher wages? Great. Yet more jobs go overseas

> The jobs that can go overseas are pushed overseas regardless.

No. For every increase in the minimum wage, some incremental amount of jobs get pushed overseas.

What is true, though, is that those jobs were pretty crummy jobs. You can make a case that we didn't want them anyway. And if we had better jobs to replace them with, I think I'd agree. We don't, though, at least not at the moment.

> >You want to protect against cheap imports (created by cheap workers) with tariffs? Well, you just made everything everyone buys from overseas more expensive

> When that's offset by rising wages, the people at the bottom end aren't bothered. They're happy, in fact.

That's probably true. It probably hurts the middle class, though. Hurting the middle class to help the bottom isn't really the trade-off we want. We want the pain to go more to the upper- or upper-middle class.
This is unfortunate for infrastructure but is why we're able to use GPS to measure plate tectonic motions. The geologic consequences of (relative) plate motions are also unfortunate for infrastructure, as well...

Out of curiosity, I just checked to see where the fastest velocity on earth relative to a no-net-rotation reference frame is. Using data from the Global Strain Rate Map[0] (I think this is the study, I was emailed the dataset by the first author a couple of years ago), the maximum velocity is on the Philippine Sea Plate immediately east of Taiwan, clocking in at 471 mm/yr. So any undersea points measured in lat/lon (i.e. WGS84) will be inaccurate at almost half a meter per year (or 0.000005 degrees).

[0]: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014GC005407/full
> alcohol

Alcohol has an effect on the brain, which then results in effects on consciousness. It might seem like a pedantic difference, but we don't really have a solid grasp on how the brain results in consciousness, so I would imagine that investigating alcohol>consciousness has so many confounding variables involved is so complicated that we might not benefit from it.

Of course I'm certainly not under the impression that my college psych 101 class makes me any sort of expert, and I might be being far too pessimistic.
That's weird, the company was founded in late 2011 and the Blackphone only started being developed in 2013 or so.
That was either edited in or I missed it - but in either case I see it as "The code is law and the participants use a work-based consensus system to decide which code is run"
> And the real joke is Japanese and Korean web developers make 1/2 or 1/3rd of what Yahoo guys make.

What does that have to do at all with the number of kilobytes for the homepage?
> It’s not the existence of this inner voice he finds mysterious. “The phenomenon to explain,” he said, “is why the brain, as a machine, insists it has this property that is nonphysical.”

There are plenty of real, non-physical things. Evolution is real, and non-physical, you can describe it using mathematical formulas. Math decides how the real world happens.

Think about, oh, say, a road. What's the difference between a road and a random patch of asphalt? Collect the differences in your mind and those are the definition of a road. That something is a road and not just a patch of asphalt has real consequences for the world around us.

There is the world of ideas. Things held in the mind, in the consciousness of people have real-world effects on the physical world around us.

Ideas can have properties, all of these properties are themselves non-physical. You can compare ideas to each other.

One could place on a continuum things that are wholly physical, and things that are wholly non-physical. Road properties and evolution closer to the physical, story themes and potential political platforms closer to the non-physical. The non-physical would seem to be infinite, whereas the physical would be finite. So many, many, many more things in existence are non-physical than physical.

If consciousness itself were something on the same order as an idea, then it would lose none of its potency. People who argue this think they are arguing over reality, but are only debating semantics.
Ask HN: Do you have to write lots of complex code before you can simplify it?
Ugh.

I have to write so much complex code to make whatever I am building work, then I have to go through a challenging phase of simplifying it down to the minimum working code.

When I look at the minimum working code that is the result of this process I think "why the heck couldn't I have written that simple code in the first place - it would have taken me 25 minutes instead of 8 hours".

Blah. I'm sure some genius programmers out there only ever write the minimum code in the first place.
remember what happened when Snapchat had Bob Marley filter?
You speak of the principle of charity [0]. Something that has long vanished on many internet forums, where people are quick to take the most absurd and least likely interpretation of a statement and argue against it. Especially when being pedantic about certain word phrasing or word choices (to which the OP would often respond with "You know what I meant.")

My best friend is Australian, the idioms are often nonsensical or require a bit of thinking due to being a variant of an idiom I'm familiar with. e.g "a roo loose in the top paddock"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Go’s march to low-latency GC
Purely Functional Configuration Management with Nix and NixOS (2014)
> Pointing to gaffes like the one that grounded McClintock a decade ago, Republicans now warn of serious constitutional consequences that could occur if Democrats ban suspects on the no-fly list from purchasing guns.

The right to travel has long been recognized as a fundamental right in the United States, but they don't seem to have a problem with that being stomped upon by the no-fly list as currently implemented.

Why aren't they trying to fix the no-fly list?
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. A huge % of highly successful startups were started more or less just like this.

How awful do you think the original Facebook PHP codebase was? Or Google's original hacked together web crawler.
It should be noted that reactivity control in military and commercial PWRs is fundamentally different. That said it's hard to understand how the SL1 operator managed to yank the rod so far out of the core. The procedure was to withdraw each rod 4 inches and attach it to the crdm, which in itself is a little mind blowing to me. The rod was withdrawn 26 inches and prompt criticality was achieved at 23 inches or so. The rod weighed 86 pounds. Even if it was stuck it's hard to imagine yanking something that heavy that far to unstick it.