skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The word dharma means one's duty according to their place in their cosmic order. Assigning it to sacred teachings of anyone is not correct. There is a word _dhammam_ in pali lang that is from around the area buddha lived, which has different meaning from dharma, is used to refer budhha's teachings.
You would if you want to surveil them.
I believe almost all of these 'sacred' terms have totally pedestrian etymological roots.

Bible = book.
Koran = recitation.
Dharma = decree or custom.
Karma = fate.
Christ = anointed.

Another interesting semi-related one I remember about the Bible: the "Virgin" Mary was translated from the Hebrew "almah", which just means a young unmarried woman (not necessarily a virgin in the way we define it).
There are no sovereign companies. For instance, the NY financial regulations matter so much across the world because a large portion of the financial world’s business is headquartered there. But more so, governments set legal standards. If those standards are not met then products/services are outlawed. I’m pretty sure the EU could simply ban browsing to IPs associated with FB, as an example. I think the largest companies of the world want to believe they operate in some atmosphere above any individual government. But that’s not the case. They operate under the jurisdiction of at least all of the worlds largest governments, contemporaneously.
The two major problems with DAFs stem from the fact that they are designed to give advantages to donors immediately but not require any further interaction.

Problem - the organization most benefited by DAFs seem not to be charities, but Vanguard/Fidelty/etc that take management fees for the DAF for the next 10 years. Just running a ballpark with 4% interest and a 1 percent total management fee, putting 500k into a DAF makes the manager about 70k, and grows the fund about 170k. Not bad, but the benefit goes almost entirely to the fund manager.

Problem - Giving to organizations is deferred to a later point in time, leading to grander visions. Theoretically, this should result in charities in the future receiving large checks, which is good. One problem with this, however, is that as numbers being donated get larger, it seems that charitable giving becomes more 'results' or 'mission' oriented. People give big chunks to bigger picture, systemic problems like curing cancer, fighting climate change, etc. These are good things. But the charities working on day-to-day problems get marginalized. My argument is certainly not that we should look for structural fixes to problems like pandemics, homelessness, or institutional racism. But a society that only gives to research universities to look for cures for pediatric cancer, and doesn't also help fund something like St. Jude, is a society with deep problems.

DAFs have significant advantages and good things. But perhaps we have, as an American society, gone the wrong way to give incentives to high-net-worth individuals to give mainly to big causes, and not to day-to-day problems.
I've been telling people for a while that this year might be their last chance to see an Iridium flare. Just today I had a predicted daytime flare but it did not show up. Seems like maybe the chance has already gone.

You can still see other satellites and the ISS, but the Iridium flares were special. I'm glad I showed my wife a good one last year.
But people are taking this a step too far here. Just because Brooks says something doen't mean the opposite is true.
I feel like this is a long-winded way of saying what Linus already has famously said:

"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."

The author refactors some code to revolve around a "DashboardStat" and explains it came from "thinking about how the code is derived from the design." Personally, I think it came from putting the data & its structure first.
Most PHP is actually the opposite... Many PHP scripts, especially those from decades ago, are a mix of HTML, database calls, and business logic all in the same file.
Method:

The stimulation intervention included weekly home visits by trained community health workers, who encouraged and instructed mothers on how to play and interact with their children. For the nutrition intervention, health workers distributed weekly nutritional supplements to homes, as well as additional cornmeal and skimmed milk powder to discourage sharing of the supplement with other family members.

Result:

Most notably, children who received stimulation achieved 0.6 more years of schooling, or 5.6 percent more schooling, than participating children who did not receive stimulation, and were nearly three times as likely to have had some college-level education.
Note that the CHM survey has a place to express interest in further developing Eudora.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/eudora-poll1
If you read (and believe) Yanis Varoufakis' book "Adults in the Room", he's a part of the group of assholes who was determined to bend Greece to their will, mainly that "austerity will work!", never mind the economic squeeze means hungry, homeless people and the rise of suicides.

Currently I love how the EU is making the British Brexit team look like a bunch of clowns, but the EU is no saintly organization, the way they couldn't let go of austerity politics made a lot of people suffer, and has indeed lead to the rise of populism as well (the right wing in France, Germany, and populism in Italy).
I'd be very interested in seeing your thoughts on Roku :)
Can you explain what you mean by "pretty much all the modern web development is basically PHP-like"?

I'm not necessarily disagreeing. I just don't really get what you mean by that.
I know a large number of YC companies, and only a minority fit that description.

Being charismatic isn't entirely unrelated to one's ability to lead a company. You don't have to be slick, but projecting enough charm that people don't wander off while you're talking helps with hiring and sales.

You can learn to be acceptably charismatic if you put some effort into it. If Bill Gates and Jan Koum did it, you can too.
Yes, AgentForwarding is a bad idea... but thanks to ProxyCommand (and now the simpler) ProxyJump, I haven't needed to use it in years.
"This is exactly what i am saying - it is economically suboptimal. They will be there until they are profitable."

No, you believe they're economically suboptimal, and you're making up excuses why reality disagrees with your theory.

"But problem not in the land price itself, but also waiting for 3 years until you will be able to start new construction, this delay will increase actual price of this piece of land up to 30%."

Proof of work required. You're going to have to prove that three years is a typical delay; that this results in the stated 30% price increases; and that this is the actual reason that your hypothetical auto-repair shops aren't all apartment complexes.

There's a simpler explanation: just as commercial rents are higher than residential rents, commercial uses of land are typically far more valuable than apartment buildings. If a redevelopment doesn't pay landowners a significant multiple of their current (commercial) revenue, they're not going to do it. Most apartment projects can't come close.
In the current implementation / use cases we're focused on, your collateral, which is held in a smart contract, would become eligible for seizure by the lender.
To be fair even the title says "may" in it. The context is that eyeball planets we're not actively considered, and climate considerations are a weaker rejection criterion for habitability. There is also a secondary result which is that systemwide habitability zones may be extended in the case of tidally locked planet by generating a geographically fixed planet-scale habitability zone. These are interesting results, even if they don't take into account the full range of factors contributing to habitability, it's just a message saying don't count them out on this one factor that naively might be considered exclusionary due to unfamiliarity.

Btw tidal locking can cause tectonic activity, as in the case of the Jovian moons.
One of my favorite books. Highly recommend
My Fidelity DAF is the linchpin of my family's giving strategy -- I don't know how we could achieve what we want to achieve without it.

The plan has been simple: put 5% of our monthly income into mutual funds through the DAF until it hits 100k, then start additionally supporting charitable organizations from the annual interest forever, without ever donating the principle.

I view the impact of this account as probably my lasting legacy on Earth and enjoy the idea of passing it's stewardship on to my children.

So it troubles me to read that this giving strategy is somehow contentious. And I don't yet understand whether what I'm doing is somehow abusing the original intent of the vehicle, or why it would upset people that we give in this way.
It's an android device with access to the play store, that mans kindle, epub, pdf, cbr, browsing, reading pocket articles, etc etc. It also have an HDMI and can be used as monitor.

check it out the youtube videos, the device is expensive but amazing, nothing comes close.
It’s our knowledge of chemistry at work. I think
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_bioche... is pretty disenchanting.
Your melatonin (master hormone) and steroid levels are being affected, you are just innured - don't really notice a difference.

Similarly, studies have shown that those who think they've completely adapted to noise at night in high traffic areas, say, are actually being harmed.

Remember, these effects are comparable to jet-lag and spread out over weeks, they aren't simply immediate effects.
I agree with the general sentiment, but suggest exercising caution: Every problem can be solved by an additional layer of abstraction, except the problem of too many layers of abstraction!
That is exactly what a Redux action returns. It's a representation of a diff against the current state. At some point though, that diff has to be applied in some form, either atomically (as currently) or through mutation. Actions trigger the reducer that applies the diff to the store.

Basically, I'm not certain exactly what you're getting at.
But here there is other choices and Bing is two characters less so less friction. I think it is very bad policy to penalize someone that creates a better product.

I see no inherent advantage for Google over say MS. Google search is just a lot better and why no more Excited or Alta Vista, etc.
Seems like a large donation wouldn't be deductable due to AMT? Particularly when there are high state taxes.
An Open Letter to Someone Contemplating a PhD and Parenting
These kinds of shenanigans have been happening a lot on a small PoW chain called Amoveo. It’s been interesting to follow it since the founder is very honest and forthcoming about its difficulties, in contrast to most other blockchains.
It's funny how in most corporate/commercial code past 2005 or 2010, you'll rarely ever see profanity in comments. I've never put profanity, or even any jokes, in comments. I really try to keep my professional code professional.

Even on my own OSS projects I tend not to do that anymore.
Opioid crisis not uniquely American; Nigeria faces catastrophic addiction levels
Please read what you just wrote and consider the implications of your statements.

First: "The English phrase "no-go area" was the term used in the original Swedish conversation, so I don't know what your point is about bringing in a different Swedish term."

...followed by:

"Instead, you use a term with no nuance - a strategy which I only see associated used in the xenophobic press."

I used a term from the original video, quoted it to indicate it is a general term (as many such terms are, e.g. 'free trade zone' does not imply you do not need to pay, the 'fire brigade' does not start fires nor do they only extinguish them, 'rednecks' can have many colours in their necks and elsewhere, etc).

I tried to make clear to an unwilling reader that the term 'no-go zone' is one which is used for an area where public services like police, fire brigade, ambulance, mail and delivery are hindered by threats of violence. I do suspect you know this term is used this way even though, taken literally, it does mean something else. As I suspected you wanted to use this fact to denounce the actual content of the message I explained that in Sweden, for just those reasons, the term 'utsatt område' is used in preference over 'no-go zone' given the loaded meaning of the latter term.

Your reply just goes off on another tangent involving "xenophobic press" and "xenophobic viewpoint[s]", a story about "dog whistles", somehow you also mention islam and then conclude that "That appears to be what you do, based on my reading of your comment history".

Or it might be that I just pointed out Sweden has problems which need solving before trying to point the finger at that scary big Russian bear or other external factors...

Had you been arguing from a right-wing conspiratorial standpoint I would have suggested to take off your tin foil hat.
I think this more answers the question "when can you raise an A" than "when should you raise an A".

Series A and later are really helpful in growing quickly. You should raise a series A when it will give you a lot of growth per dilution -- that is, when you have a clear plan for how the money will help you grow quickly, and some evidence that your plan will actually work.
Egypt’s new solar power plant set to launch training for scientists
Here are some books I listened to on Audible in the last year and a half, listing those that I enjoyed the most. Each of these books changed me in some ways, I never thought how much fun it is to listen to biographies and how many lessons there are.

0. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

1. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

2. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

3. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

4. Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

5. What Got You Here Won't Get You There

6. The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connection, and Courage

7. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

8. The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over

9. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

10. Pre-Suasion: Channeling Attention for Change

11. Thinking, Fast and Slow

12. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

13. Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life

14. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

15. Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

16. Sapiens

17. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

18. If you like space: Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery

19. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

20. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

21. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

22. The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
I also try to stress this principle. Data and its structure is the most important part, and bring accurate and explicit, lets the author communicate their design better than mountains of doc.

Or inversely: if the data presented are complex and convoluted, you will need mountains of docs to try explain its design.
>was quite a hassle to reset 2FA on all the websites after my phone was replaced in warranty repair

Next time print out all the QR codes and save them in a secure place. Now you can easily add them to a new device, although you need to be more careful to make sure they're fully removed from an old device before you get rid of it.
UX vs. UI
Please don't quote portions of the article with no added commentary or insight.

We're all capable of reading and recognizing well-written portions of the posted content.
Also don't forget he failed many times at starting a car company before finally succeeding.
That's odd. I've always found frog leg to taste more like buffalo wings than like chicken
> i don't understand all this animosity toward PHP

Most PHP code is terrible. That's not really PHPs fault - it's capable of producing very nice programs with beautiful behavior.

As a language, it suffers a bit from being older and it was internally very inconsistent for a long time. For a long while, it's package management and practices were way behind the curve. Many people who program in PHP learned it as a first language, hacked together programs in it, and probably used hack together libraries and tooling.

PHP can be used with grace, but most people don't have that experience with it.
I'm guessing they had to go through the code pretty carefully to make sure they could. I'm seeing embedded PNG, zlib, qt3 and other libraries buried down in there.

It's also interesting they have completely separate windows and mac code bases.
The SJW Attack Survival Guide.

http://www.the-niceguy.com/contributors/SurvivalGuide.html

Ask Roberto Rosario why.
Sure, naming a cryptocurrency protocol "Bible" would be confusing at first. But if it was meant to be the Bible of protocols or the one protocol to use, I would understand the gist of its name.
Using AI with customer behavior data to predict NPS
I mistyped.

> A gay person would have to result in their siblings having 2x as many children

Should have been:

> A gay person would have to result in their siblings having 2x as many additional children

Here's the math:

An individual's children have 50% of their genes. Their nieces and nephews share 25% of their genes. Therefore, if the hypothesis is that homosexuality evolved to promote the production of nieces and nephews at the expense of producing direct offspring, this adaptation would need to result in at least two nieces/nephews for each offspring that the homosexual individual would have produced directly.

So, if we assume a stable population where each couple produces 2 offspring, a gay person would be giving up producing 2 of their own children. In order for this strategy to break even, it would have to result in their siblings producing 4 offspring, in addition to the offspring that they would have had anyway.

Possible, but not likely.

On top of the math just being heavily stacked against this being an explanation, there are other reasons why it is unlikely:

1. If this were a successful strategy, you would expect to see a much higher prevalence of gay people than we currently do (<5% of the population).

2. There are already adults who take on this hypothetical role of assistant to the breeders: grandmothers. And they avoid the fertility tradeoff because they are evolved to stop being fertile at a certain point in their lives.
Letterspacing and kerning are not the same thing (as explained on the page you linked to).
What in the world are you talking about? MS owns Windows the dominate desktop platform. Huge advantage. Yet Google won because their browser and search is so much better.

We in Earth would we penalize someone for creating a superior product?
In what ways? From an ethical perspective, books like Orwell's famous 1984 are good reads that can help reflecting on privacy and its implications on societal and individual levels, helping decide on whether or not to participate in produciton of software that is antagonistic to data privacy. Also, Aprender a rezar na era da técnica of Tavares is a contemporary novel that can be useful in a similar vein. So also the Anarchist Banker of Pessoa. Maybe also the A Caverna of Saramago. All these books depict the clash of morality and modernity in some ways, and us as programmers are of a profession that is central to the change of times; thus, our perception of ethics is of immense importance to the furthering of the world.

P.S.: also, given many of us publish open source stuff and write blogs etc., reading some literature will always help regardless of whether the contents are relevant or not. I observe from various past threads and this one that the crowd here really likes sci-fi novels and self-help stuff, and also biographies to some extent; but the rest of literature is not as popular. Certainly many lack the time, but reading a 200-300 page novel in a week or two should still be possible even with a very tight schedule (hint: less driving and more public transport helps, if available).
In a history of music class I took, they casually suggested that all instruments closest to the sound and expressiveness of a human voice were among the most popular (see saxophones and guitars with tremolo). This seems to be yet another example of that.
There's something I don't understand about Smart Contracts.

Normal contracts are written by lawyers. They are reviewed by both parties' lawyer. Sometimes, after the contracts are signed, the lawyers disagree what a particular provision or clause means.

At which point, they either negotiate or sue. In which case, a human judge weighs up the case and decides.

How do disagreements work with smart contracts?

I assume some contracts will be buggy - mostly because programmers are just as fallible as lawyers. So how are disagreements resolved in an equitable way?
Please tell me you use it with Wine on a BeBox! :)
Rohingya camps brace for wave of babies conceived of rape
Automate Git bisect
I feel like for queries that are hard to understand at a glance, a picture is worth a thousand words. For the majority of people, myself included, writing helpful, high quality comments is really hard.

Instead, for a CTE, I would rather add a sample of initial data, and how they are transformed by the first two or so iterations of the loop.
The experience of fixing a bug somewhere in a Ball of Mud is profoundly different than fixing it in better factored code.
You might not care, millions of Oracle customers, me included do.

The only database that tops Oracle in this regard is Microsoft SQL Server.

PL/SQL is so bad that the beloved PostgreSQL copied it.

Many of us prefer living in the Xerox PARC world, not AT&T.

If I miss playing around with awk, sed, perl, sqlplus, troff, tex, graphviz, ... I know where to find them.

All software has bugs, I just found out more in PostgreSQL than Oracle or SQL Server together, specially in EF bindings.
It’s got a little bit of tech, but I can’t recommend “The Soul of a New Machine” (Tracy Kidder) highly enough.
Also to note that 2005 is the year "Perl Best Practices" (the book) was published. That was a big turning point (at least for me) in how to write much more maintainable Perl code.
Are you trying to argue that google products are not profitable?
> Standard disclaimer: When reading software design advice, always imagine the examples given are 10x longer. Overengineering is bad. But, if you’re not sure whether applying a technique to your code would be overengineering, error on the side of doing it. Abstract early.

Please, please, please absolutely disregard this advice. More errors, pain and suffering come from early abstraction and poor understanding then not enough abstraction.

Build simple, extend as needed. It's a 'frggin stats page where a developer forgot to remove a call. It could of been written much cleaner initially, but breaking it into a bunch of classes at the initial stage is fruitless abstraction.
It's been reported that Bezos uses a two pizza rule for meetings.
Three times as likely to get college level education is amazing, children and parents really are the future.
Trademark ≠ copyright. My reading is: (1) CHM now owns the code, and CHM is licensing it under a BSD license. (2) CHM now owns the trademarks, and is not licensing them.