skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the way, the old man does give a cooking tutorial in the Great Plateau, but you have to seek him out for it. Cooking is encouraged there as a way to deal with the cold to access one of the shrines. You can either cook hot peppers to make something to keep you warm or you can find a special recipe in a cabin; if you make the recipe for the old man (determining in the process the unknown third ingredient), he'll give you a warm doublet which will prevent the cold from damaging you.
First of all, the very idea of a "front page of the Internet" is just silly. The Internet doesn't work like that - it's not a magazine.

Furthermore, nothing is being "drowned out". People who want meaty, insightful discussion about events will find it, and people who want to engage in internal-reddit-drama will find that.

If there's a problem, it's the ratio of people who want meaty, insightful discussion on important events, to people who prefer to engage in meta navel-gazing / internal-reddit-drama / etc. And honestly, I have no idea how to change that.
This is great to show how smart you are, but what will a beginner who wants to use this resource think when they read your comment? People have to start somewhere.
Wear a Helmet While Driving a Car
I've operated on-prem and colo physical data centers. I've also been part of larger companies where someone else deploys baremetal on my behalf. I've been running infrastructure on top of AWS off-and-on since 2008. I've done a live migration of one of the largest Internet sites from AWS to baremetal in data centers. I feel pretty good about keeping our infrastructure in AWS for the foreseeable future.
I also read it the way you do. But interestingly, there is what appears to be an Oxford _semicolon_ between items (2) and (3). The inclusion of an Oxford delimiter in one list and its exclusion in another list would seem inconsistent. If anything, the second list is the one that does not need the extra punctuation because the items of that second list are also delimited by newlines and the enumeration. Very weird indeed.
I always tell non-tech people that if you have an idea, and expect a developer to code it for equity, you NEED to bring purchase orders to the table first.

[0] Obviously there are exceptions for instance if you have deep industry experience and contacts(with buying authority) but these people usually also have the money to pay a developer to implement their idea.
The press release is not dead — it's just useless for most companies
This is Hacker news comments. Workers are just suckers who haven't figured out how to suckle from the VC teat.
Hit-by-a-bus insurance, basically.
I have never fully understood the insistence that employers should be allowed to demand unpaid work from their employees.

Surely if your business is only viable with coerced labour then it isn't a viable business?

Or maybe if you need employees help to run it without pay them then they can be given a share of the business so they can benefit from the future returns that their efforts provide?
Darpa plan would reinvent not-so-clever machine learning systems
I think it is a matter of definition of "small" and "enormous". If you have a small thing, easily comprehensible, but big enough for it to be a complete piece of work. Then probably you also have separate task for it, and the change you introduce doesn't break the build. So it the end it's just a perfect candidate for pull request.

But note the comment above mentioned a commit for variable change. Or a commit for adding some comment sentence. Nano commits they are.

Sure, tasks should be small, easy to get, easy to review. But there must be a balance. Going to extreme, both ways, doesn't do any good.
This has just been increasing over the years. They are quickly reaching their 'Digg moment' and users are seeking a non-extreme alternative. Unfortunately the early alt-reddits caught all the fph and /b/ teir posters reddit pushed out early (looking at you Voat) and have a terrible reputation thanks in part to being more free. Its a bit of a catch-22, and a HUGE opprotunity for the right players to move in.
i.e. learning styles may still be bullshit, but they can get you to self-reflect on how you learn.
I think this is the most cogent synthesis of these issues that I've read.

https://newleftreview.org/II/87/wolfgang-streeck-how-will-ca...
The title of this HN post, like nearly every headline I've seen for this lawsuit, is misleading. The headlines makes it seem as if the company forgot an Oxford comma and is now losing millions as a result of having made a typographical error.

This is not the case. There is a statute that does not have a comma where one might be, and the litigants fought over whether the lack of a comma toward the end of a list ought to be read in light of the Oxford comma convention or not.

And it's actually more complicated, as the last item in the list is (potentially) compound, which makes it difficult to tell whether the "and" is to be attached to the final element alone, or to be a binding of the final element and previous elements.

Not that this its uncommon for articles to have misleading headlines, but I've been surprised at the extent to which nearly every article (save this one [1], by the ever-precise law professors at the Volokh Conspiracy) have misrepresented the case (or misunderstood it?) to make it seem like a company's typo led to a million dollar loss.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
Using that philosophy, then anyone riding a bicycle, even if they aren't going at high-speed on road, should wear a helmet "just in case" there is an accident to protect their skull?

Speed only makes a difference if your head hits something whilst moving at that speed. Or you can just fall off at a walking pace, and the acceleration between the top of your head to the ground is enough to kill you. Happened to a guy on the local trail a few years ago, as happens elsewhere as well.
This is not really a bug but a wontfix (seemingly). Firefox has its own toolkit so it should be easier than writing a whole slew of JS to fix that bug (a.k.a. add this feature).
It's kind of amazing that we even write laws this way anymore. There isn't much to gain from freely allowing legislators to use the English language to dictate our system of rules. I'm sure there are much clearer templates that everyone should follow.
Are wheels optimal for locomotion?
French advertising giant pulls out of Google and YouTube
I would argue that A/B testing is close to it's end for 99% of it's current business applications. Right now there is a very limitied range of AI products that aim to replace A/B testing, but that will change soon enough.
As stated by meddlepal above: "My great fear for this game is the developer dies and we lose an amazing piece of tech with him."
"Blockchain" is basically just the process of doing a long math problem with distributed computing and showing your work.

Bitcoin does not rely on new breakthroughs in any science. The thing that's revolutionary about it is the idea of a people's currency, not the technologies used. The technologies that make that possible are all quite old.

Bitcoin's "blockchain" is not even the most efficient way to solve a given problem. It is intentionally inefficient by a variable factor (difficulty) to provide economic stability.

After Bitcoin's rise, a lot of people in banking wanted to believe that there is some magic element of Bitcoin that makes it technologically better than what they offer, because that would mean they could use that technology to create their own Bitcoin. But there isn't. People use it precisely because it allows them to store and exchange wealth outside of banks and nation states. The tech is irrelevant.
Right, but I'd argue that doing that is also something that could be construed as harassing your coworkers. Perhaps not in the common usage sense, but certainly in the "spitting on someone is assault and grabbing a coworkers ass is sexual harassment" sense.

I wouldn't consider letting out a fart anymore inappropriate than excusing oneself to go to the bathroom, but doing either in a way that you know will disrupt and cause coworkers discomfort is inappropriate and harassing, not because of the act itself, but because of how you handle it.
>This hate is being directed at anyone who appears to be doing better than they are of late: women, minorities, Jews, middle and upper class liberals attending private liberal arts schools, anyone with a non-STEM degree... You get the picture.

This perception depends highly on the media you read. Anyhow, identity politics for some but not all groups instead of "e pluribus unum" will lead only to more division and conflict.
There should be an "or" before the word "packing" if "packing for shipment or distribution" is a single phrase (rather than two alternatives). The Oxford Comma debate is a sideshow. It's all about where you find the "or", which indicates the last choice.
This is interesting. Does this also carry over into startup-culture? In the US, many startups have normalized the consumption of alcohol to an alarming degree (in-office happy-hours, kegerators, beer-Fridays, etc.).

What does it look like in the UK? Are there equivalents (aside from the traditional round-at-the-pub-after-work, that is)?
> This is a terrible strawman and it really discredits the rest of the argument you're making.

Uh.. did you even read the article we're commenting on? I'm speaking directly to its main thesis. If you're making a claim about it being a straw man, take it up with the author.

> I'm a millennial and I don't know anyone like you're describing.

And I'm a millennial too and I know plenty of people like the one I'm describing.

> Every time you hear "labor shortage" you need to add "at the offered salary/wage"--they need to offer more money.

It's not that simple. Many of the industries experiencing labor shortages are labor intensive and there are limits to the amount they can increase wages and remain economically viable.

> Why do you think people would rather work a minimum wage job than take your advice? You offer literally no explanation and just make claims without any evidence. You are speaking from opinion, not fact.

Frankly, Millennials aren't as money-motivated as previous generations were. They choose to accept the stigma of staying at home with their parents or working low wage service jobs over the life of a blue-collar worker. I don't even really fault them for it; money ain't everything. But they have to lie in the bed they make for themselves. They can't both live a bohemian lifestyle free from responsibility and have all the trappings of life that hard work provides.
How does it compare to mozjpeg?
Couldn't they just have looked up the intended meaning of the law? I mean laws or not made by just writing down the law in its final form, there are designs, discussions, and drafts. Wouldn't it be likely that there are documents showing the intended meaning more clearly, for example by listing the exceptions as bullet points? In my opinion that would provide a way better argument to settle the issue one way or another than appealing to grammar rules and style guides.
Ribbon diagrams of proteins in #golang
I wish we could have the IMDB/RT ratings directly in Netflix and a page with all the movies sorted by those ratings.

There are articles on Internet like "top 100 Netflix movies of the month" but it's almost always for the US Netflix.
Am I the only one annoyed by the name? "Bit" isn't very useful or specific, yet it takes up a pretty big parking space.
> my guess is that it's not the customer that loses

It's quite possible that neither the customer nor the restaurant lose.

Anyway, a computer can also make recommendations. And it's just not a contest if the choice is between a web-page taking orders in my phone or waiting in line behind people that just stay on the cashier and can't decide what to order.
The headline does not suggest or imply that lack of a comma in a document the company itself drafted is the basis for the overtime liability--only that the company may suffer the consequences.
Yes, but that's similar to worrying about running out of whales in the second half of the 1800's.
> consistent reads do not need a living master

It's wrong. If you're fine with stale reads then you don't a living master, but if you want to have a guarantee that the read value is up-to-date then the living master is necessary.

Etcd has a bug related to this - https://github.com/coreos/etcd/issues/741
The problem as I understand it is that the "rating space" is multidimensional (a piece can be funny with great plot but bad writing compensated for by a great lead and awesome special effects although the set design was inconsistent) but all of this has to be projected into a 1-dimensional system.

And the rub is that not everybody uses the same projection, which means the utility of one person's rating for another unknown their projection system (the weight they give to each sub-component of the overall rating) is completely unknown.
The 7 Questions You’ll Be Asked at a UX Design Interview
Beartooth Pass in northern Wyoming is intense as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTdrGQiE5EM

https://www.nps.gov/features/yell/slidefile/history/1946_199...
The retro NES console that Nintendo released in November still cannot be bought in stores. Around the holidays, it was impossible to buy the DS, a system that is around 7 years old.

Nintendo is a billion dollar company. They've been around a long time. They could produce adequate supply if they wanted. It's seems pretty clear that they are not interested in satiating demand.
> You also need a back-end system so the kitchen knows what to prepare.

It's been a long time since the order was shouted from the cashier to the cooks at a McD. Most burger franchises have a back-end system that collects up all the orders from the register, prioritizes them, and displays them on a screen to be made.
Not being a native english speaker, I'm probably wrong, but it seems clear to me that were the sense of this sentence to be "...storing, distribution of (...), or packing for shipment", "distributing" would have been used rather than distribution.

The homeoteleuton would have been ruined by using storage and preservation, hence it must contain meaning.
> The "interesting" thing about capitalism is that it kills millions of people every year and people defending it don't need to say that this isn't real capitalism.

Actually, defenders of capitalism, when confronted with problems attributed to it, frequently argue that the problems are "the State" or "crony capitalism", and that the problems would not exist with "real capitalism".

Of course, both the State and cronyism are features of the system for which the name "capitalism" was coined by its critics, but that doesn't stop the defenders of capitalism for saying that those are separate and opposed things to "real capitalism".

> And it made it common to die, kill and fight wars for money and resources.

That was common long before capitalism.
Yes, law should be written like code. A "tree of nested assertions" or whatever you call it.

Law is code. The hardware is masses of people.
Given the Jevons Paradox, we can predict that the lower energy use will translate to higher demand for IoT technologies, thus increasing the world energy requirements for these devices.
Indeed! The current trend is to compress still images as single-frame movies, e.g. webp.
This is why I think style guides that disallow parenthetical comments are ridiculous. If Ayn Rand was really the author's mother, I think it would make far more sense to say:

"To my mother (Ayn Rand), and God."

If it looks a little ridiculous, it's because it makes more sense this way:

"To Ayn Rand (my mother), and God."

In my honest opinion, most style guides are dogmatic to the point of stupidity. The first time I saw a non-scientific style-guide I spent a week ruminating on why people hated clear meaning so much.

I have a similar question about endnotes. Why? If you want to share a single comment, why not use a footnote? Why make the reader flip to the back of your book to read a 4 word sentence?
In a sane world there are no special interest group exemptions from overtime pay. What the hell.
Forget about the Wii already?
Towards a lip reading computer
I work in healthcare integration. I have interfaced with EPIC and Cerner and pretty much all the other main EHR platforms and seen my clients struggle with their IT.

You sir are absolutely spot on.

As for single-payer, well yes it does make a huge difference on the billing side which is often the biggest IT/tech user of an hospital. My canadian clients still have to worry about billing but they only have 1 insurance carrier to deal with and they know precisely how much everything will earn them upfront. Everyone else (tourists, out of region people, folks who let their healthcare ID lapse) pays cash at basically the same rates, thank you.

Fun fact, the oldest healthcare products like Meditech started from Billing and grew from there, it shows throughout the software still (and not just because they're written in MUMPS / InterSystems Caché). In Meditech results don't actually need a patient ID to be accepted (via electronic messaging/HL7), they need an account number so they can be billed on the right invoice. Nope the software will not figure out from the Order ID which account it goes to... Downstream systems are expected to keep those account numbers around and up to date, a patient might have 2-4 of them at the same time.
No one is demanding unpaid work. The question is whether they are owed 1.5x their salary or just their salary.

Overtime rules say that if you work overtime (and the definition of overtime varies by state), they have to pay you 1.5x your salary. In this case, they were only paying their regular salary.

No one was working for free.
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The problem isn't that there doesn't exist a sentence that maps onto only the meaning that Ayn Rand is your mother, it's that there exists a sentence which one could reasonably arrive at that maps on to both the meaning where Ayn Rand is your mother and the meaning where she's not.
What do you use for the encryption?
I don't understand how the first sentence is at all ambiguous. It actually makes more sense to me than the second.
You don't need UBI to apply for jobs while still working for your current employer.
Seconded. Masters in ASE, written my own vortex lattice code from scratch.

"Wings generate lift by changing the velocity of the flow around them" seems general and correct but the why part is pretty tricky without notions of continuity and conservation laws. And vorticity helps a lot, too.
Non-targeted ads creap you out? When google shows me ads for diebtic test strips, hair dye and kitty litter i rest assured that Google isnt tracking me, that they know so little about my habits that they think those appropriate ads. (Then i get angry with my adblocking tech and set about making sure i never see any kitty litter ads ever again.)
Amy Schumer's comedy special bombed so hard they're changing their ranking system? Total failure.
"Resist" might not be the operative term here. Advertising is the whole purpose for developing these devices and placing them in people's homes.

Edit: And though it's obvious I'll say it: at Google advertising means data gathering.
The engine is the foundation upon which the content runs...but engines in and of themselves aren't content. In the case of most game engines, the two are well-separated.

In the case of Dwarf Fortress, I imagine the content and the engine are heavily coupled - if not one and the same. Separating the two will be an enormous task for Tarn, who likely has other priorities in DF development and is uninterested in the inevitable bikeshedding that will result should he open the whole project open up to others.

He's a mathematician, not a software engineer or project manager.

> You gotta respect people's desire to control their baby, doesn't mean it's unproductive, though.

While I agree, you'll probably find that his notions of "unproductive" will be wildly different than yours.
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It can't be addressed quickly. Takes months to make more. Seems like having enough when folks are buying makes more sense, than a little free press and then maybe they'll still be interested in buying in a few months.
> the company that bankrolled SCO in their lawsuit

"In early 2003, Microsoft started paying SCO what eventually grew to $16.6 million for a Unix license, according to regulatory filings. Only longtime Unix fan Sun Microsystems previously paid close to that, with a $9.3 million license deal."

http://www.zdnet.com/article/fact-and-fiction-in-the-microso...

Microsoft statement: "Microsoft does have a deal with SCO that has been widely reported. We paid SCO for licensing rights to ensure IT interoperability for UNIX migration technology, currently in use in Microsoft Utilities for UNIX-based Applications."

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2006/10/09/a-new-microso...

Microsoft SCO conspiracy theory quashed (again)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/11/sco_microsoft_black_...
>> The US government has basically declared "HTTPS/TLS Interception Considered Harmful".

> No, they haven't.

The original report headline from US-CERT: "HTTPS Interception Weakens TLS Security"

That seems pretty unambiguous, regardless of your personal feelings regarding CERT or whether it speaks for the broader US government.
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not for me. I rarely watch movies twice, even those I really enjoy. A better metric for me would be "am I glad I watched this movie"
Omid reloaded: scalable and highly-available transaction processing
Online Discussion Forums Don't Work. Will Threaded Video Replace Them?
I'm not suggesting we should forget about SCO and antitrust violations of previous decades, but I would posit that this constitutes "compelling evidence" that MS has changed: https://github.com/microsoft/
Doesn't seem to work on iOS. I'll give it a shot on my laptop in a few minutes.
How do you enforce such commits messages? People makes mistakes, or forget stuff. But when you have a pull request, all intermediate commits are already pushed to central repository. They already are public. You can't change them anymore. Pre-commit hook?
It's not possible; human desires are infinite for all practical purposes and physical matter is inherently scarce. Have a great house? A car? A plane? Great... now, how about a spaceship?
>If someone isn't sure how they feel about a movie, why is it a benefit to have them spew their half-formed thoughts into a like/dislike rating?

That's pretty harsh.

I've watched plenty of movies that I enjoyed and would give a thumbs up but aren't sure whether it should be a 3 or 4 star movie. There's movies I love but consider too flawed to give 5 stars. And I find little difference between 1 and 2 stars other than the level of regret for wasting my time.

Overall I rarely bother rating things on Netflix because it just doesn't feel worth it. So they get nothing out of me, whereas with a thumbs up or down I am more likely to chime in.
After almost 5 years I finally cancelled my Netflix subscription. I just realized I was watching more movies / shows on Amazon, Youtube, or any of the other paid ones more than Netflix. I used to enjoy it a lot more back then.
There are two types of people this world: those who use oxford commas, those who don't and those who should.
Looks like a cool product I could use for my (very low traffic) site. But I am extremely leery of adding third-party scripts to my pages. I am sure Centi is made by fine, upstanding people but what happens when they get bought out by spammers? Even if they don't inject things into my pages, what happens to the data they have collected?

In the end I decided to do away with analytics altogether and just analyze my logs once in a while.