skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get $5 shared webhosting anywhere and use php. Or apt-get the php Apache module and be ready.

The barrier to entry is very very low (for better or worse), and if you're careful and avoid most of the crazy, you can make really fast , low overhead, lightly dynamic pages. Of course, it also gives you more than enough rope to get yourself into a lot of trouble, and I have feelings about the modern trend of obfuscating things with frameworks and autoloads, but lots of people think they're great.
You have tested nothing.

Supposing there are only two alternatives and that the elimination of the one vindicates the other is at best intellectual laziness and at worst disingenuous.

One could posit you shouldn't be able to read poetry in the first place, so the rest becomes moot. And I would probably bet there are likely many more alternatives that someone more intelligent and more erudite than I could conceive.

First, you erred in thinking there only two poles in this argument. Then you erred by ascribing me to either one of them.

You, of course, are always free from this point forward (I wouldn't propose that you revisit all your former post as that would be an undue burden), but you are, of course, free from this point forward to prefix your further posts with: 'this post is hereby released under the terms of the CC0', or something equivalent.

Be the change you want to see in the world.
Interesting, I've generally had the exact opposite occur for me, though it depends on narrator and context.

I typically listen while driving. Anything past 1.25x was an illusion of productivity trap. I could hear the words and understand the concepts, but there wasn't any time to digest what I'd heard.
Where does hookah play into this? I seriously want to know as I’ve never smoked cigarettes or have a nicotine dependence.
It's quite annoying that the source code editor doesn't display the edit cursor - makes editing text exceedingly difficult.

Any chance you could add display of that cursor back in?
Sure. But I'm not sure debugging is the CS counterpart/equivalent to logo and style guide creation.
Re-reading is actually not a good way to commit things to memory. It can be enjoyable, no doubt there, but for learning - such as focusing on non-fiction it uses more time than a good focused reading session over the first pass.

Re-read for enjoyment!

For learning/memory - You have to learn to encode what you want to learn into something you can remember. Some people use a "places" trick - where they remember a familiar house/place or commute to work and they can place things along this imaginary route for recollection. The idea is that we humans remember through images and association by evolutionary survival traits. You have to encode / chunk what you want to learn, you have to recall it and work on saving this to long-term memory by recollecting it at intervals that may be hours on day one, multiple hours day 2 and randomly as time goes on.

For the most part, re-read because you enjoy it, but don't convince yourself its the optimal way to improve your memory of what you have read :)
Cuomo's polling numbers are up today but even last week he was 40 points ahead.

She hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell of winning this primary.
> The next section allows for selling/transferring that copy

Not quite, it says:

> only as part of the lease, sale, or other transfer of all rights in the program

Aka you can sell your copy, but only if you also sell your right to use it which means you must give them the original, or the original must not function any longer.

You cannot sell said copies unless you have either the permission of the copyright holder (aka you're the record label) or you're giving away all of your copies, and your ability to create more, and your ability to use the work in any way (which is effectively what means by 'transfer of all rights').

Since the torrent is not by an authorized reseller / copyright holder, they are in fact not transferring a license, which is what makes it illegal.

Furthermore, "owning a license" to the work does not give you permission to download additional copies. It only allows you to create archival copies from your existing copy you have the license to. Since you do not have the license to the source of the piece you're downloading, you cannot download it.

Again, just because the uploader has the same bits you do doesn't mean you have a license to their bits.
No I can't. You're probably right and it's a complete coincidence this is happening the day before the primary.
Your argument only makes sense if you think immigrants, lgbtq and women are not every day people.
That must be an odd definition of "lunch", given that Apple tends to capture roughly 80% of Smartphone profits, Huawei about 6%, and Xiaomi even less than that.
Indeed, but you left your point unstated.

What if homosexuality is a naturally occurring trait that arises more frequently in the presence of environmental pollutants (say endocrine disruptors or whatever causes allergies)?

This is not implausible; in fact I’d be surprised if it weren’t probable (that enviromental pollutants affect human brain development and therefore sexuality)

What are the consequences or the course of action -if any - that should be taken?
PHP 7.0+ is better than Ruby imo. I enjoy it more at least.
It's got type hinting, is more explicit, maps, filters, lambdas, easy setup/transferability, and more.

Also, Laravel is miles better than Rails.

I think any of the little dynamic programming langs like Ruby, Node, Php, Python are more about the builder than the tool
OWASP DevSlop Season 1 Episode 2 (S01E02)
The US social safety net is drastically better today than it was in the recent past (eg 1980 or 1990). It's now comparable to the OECD median. I know this is an unpopular statement, because for decades it has been a common attack point to go after the US on this front. However the US is spending a lot more per capita on its welfare policies, inflation adjusted, than it was a few decades ago. Particularly since the mid to late 1990s there has been a very large jump and it has had equally large, tangible results. It's important to point out the positive results, so that progress isn't rolled back.

Poverty and homelessness are both near all-time lows (homelessness is at all-time lows). Homelessness is an area where the US has made very big strides in the last two decades, and it's not talked about enough. The poverty rate is down to 12.3% and has been declining since the great recession ended, accelerating the last few years. There are only two short periods of time in modern US history where the poverty rate was much lower (the peak of the late 1990s boom, and for about three years in the 1970s).

In the last ~25 years the US has also reduced by about 50% the number of people that aren't covered by healthcare (currently 8.8% of people), mostly thanks to the ACA and Medicaid expansion. We're spending over $600 billion per year on free healthcare for the bottom quarter of people. In 2005, 42 million people (14% of the population) were covered by Medicaid, today that's 66.8 million (20.5% of the population). Cynics will claim that's a negative, it's not, it's an improvement in the US social safety net courtesy of expanding who is covered by Medicaid. CHIP and SS disability have further broadened free healthcare coverage in that time frame as well.
Very interesting and informative video.

But it is a bit of a bait and switch, making a weird transition toward the very end into an advert for brilliant.org.

That fact doesn't negate the well-done informational portion, and brilliant.org sounds like a cool offering, but what a yucky tactic for such a high-ground video.
Yeah, far too often, prosecutors try to cut a name for themselves by vigorously prosecuting, rather than by vigorously refusing to prosecute, so this is a refreshing turn.

From a systems point of view, I'm uncomfortable with the idea of electing prosecutors for this reason -- it might be better if they were appointed and held to basic broad metrics like violent crime rates and quality of life changes versus costs of incarceration. In fact, it might be better if there was less media attention placed on prosecutors in general, as this is often a stepping stone to other types of political office. I'd even go so far as to ban them from higher office for a period of time after their term is up. It just seems like the pursuit of justice is the last thing you want to politicize, and if it wasn't politicized, but there was an emphasis on efficiency, we would never have spent so much money on low level crimes in the first place.
I just picked up audiobooks with a lot of skepticism a few months back. I was surprised to find they are actually very useful!

I live in Bangalore where a 2-3 hr daily commute is quite normal and audiobooks are very easy to adapt to.

Similar to reading, I feel audiobooks have the same issues related to adoption ... whatsapp, facebook, HN, disturbance from people and email. These distractors are pretty much eliminated while driving .. so the car is really a good place to listen!

I finished Skin in Game, Option-B, Growth Mindset so far and actually quite happy with the results. I must confess, the level of distractions in today's world is unfathomable and my resilience is quite sad.
Yes. But it increases cost variables. Virtually all the Wells in the gulf of guinea are horizontal.
Does anyone know how these things actually learn? I saw something in the article like "data passes over the network and creates reinforcement" but how well does this work, and how?
Scribe is the Facebook-internal Kafka equivalent. LogDevice is the storage layer used by Scribe.

Scribe isn’t the only place where LogDevice is used though — Facebook has documented using it for TAO as well (as part of the secondary indices)
can anyone ELI5 what's the impact of this research?
The methods may be different (using a search engine instead of a card catalog), and the locales might have changed (using an online data store at your desk instead of going to a Library), but one thing that hasn't changed is that lots of information doesn't exist in structured form.
> Most of the rules in GDPR apply only to personally-identifiable information that is not strictly required for business operations.

I'm sure there are some provisions intended to help out smaller entities. But the compliance cost is the cost of understanding the legislation so you can comply with it. You still have to pay it even if it turns out not to apply at all -- because you can't know that until you go through all of it first.
Peter Thiel on the PC culture in 1996
Be right, from a different point of view.
John Maynard Keynes, the Economist, wrote a lot for those that are interested:

https://cas2.umkc.edu/economics/people/facultypages/kregel/c...
>I think PHP is interchangeable with PHP, ROR, and node (i.e. give me a line in any of them, and there's a one-liner in the other to do the same thing)

This is one of the stupidest things I have ever read here on HN. Besides that, the only that is interchangeable with PHP is a piece of..sh..eh..excrement.
>I'm sorry, I didn't intend to offend.

None taken.

>From what I understand, the price of 90% of what you buy in a grocery store is not the real cost to produce and delivery that item to the grocery store.

>That price is heavily influenced by what the market value is of the commodity, which at the moment is mostly driven by industrial farming operations.

>Industrial farming relies on their massive scale to make a profit, [...]

>Non-industrial farming operations (local farmers, family famers, etc...) rely on multiple sources of income, resources, and commodities to break even. Typically, one of the partners of the farm has a full or part time job to cover OPEX, and any profits made from farming is used for CAPEX. At the end of the day, the farmer has to decided to either compete with the industrial farmers and unrealistic market values, or they bypass that and sell straight to consumers.

I don't get what you're saying. Large farms have larger economies of scale, so they can out-compete smaller farms on commodities. This is basic economics. How is this increased efficiency intrinsically bad? Why should consumers pay more for food that's produced by inefficient small scale operations?

You say that the price you pay doesn't represent the "real cost", but obviously it does, otherwise the farm will go out of business operating at a loss. The only other explanation is externalities, but you haven't really explained what negative externalities big farms are producing that small farms aren't.

>[...] and they also rely on predictable growing conditions to obtain those results, which is also a tangential problem.

Is there a reason why industrial farms are more reliant on predictable growing conditions than a smaller farm? If anything large farms can weather shocks better than small operations because they have better expertise to mitigate the negative effects and bigger bankroll to avoid bankruptcy.

>Another issue, is that for everyone else who doesn't live near farmers, they are accustomed to market values that are not reflective of the real cost to produce those goods.

disagree. in the same way that living next to a GM plant doesn't accustom me to the the real cost in producing a car.

>As of right now, the market value is reflective of industrial operations that use both scale and subsidies to produce cheap food.

scale: as I said earlier, I don't see anything intrinsically wrong with economies of scale associated with large scale operations. If anything, they're a net benefit to society because they have higher efficiency.

subsidies: this mainly hinges on whether large scale operations get more subsidies (relative to size) compared to small scale operations. I haven't done any research on this so I won't comment either way.
And unfortunately for users, it’s wildly profitable.
I agree (and have advised friends to make money on PredictIt soaking up the liquidity from people emotionally investing in her chances).

However, that's often not the point. If you are progressive (conservative) there is a strong incentive to challenge incumbents on your own side because any impact you have on the ideas discussed is likely to work in your favor; and indeed it's possible the incumbent agrees with you on those issues but just wants political cover to acquiesce. So I'm not really troubled if Cuomo happens to discover a more progressive streak or makes some concessions even though he's going to pulverize her come polling day.

I think it would be accurate to say that Nixon has run an unusually strong campaign and done an unusually good job of calling attention to real issues, even knowing she has no chance of winning and isn't a serious candidate by that standard.

[Note: I am not a resident of NY State and can't legally vote in the state I live in.]
Not sure how it's incompatible with your stats. If the degree is useless then you would expect MBA holders to have no advantage over non-MBA holders in founding companies. Not that MBA holders wouldn't sometimes be successful. You're missing a data point showing that MBA holders are more likely to succeed at founding startups, which I have yet to see anywhere.

Realistically, an MBA can be helpful to a startup founder if that founder lacks basic business acumen from prior education or experience (basic accounting, financial planning, marketing, etc.). It can also be a hindrance because MBA coursework tends to trivialize many of the core skills needed to be successful at starting a company in favor of the higher-level thinking and planning needed for large corporations (you won't learn how to make your first sale, for example, or how to hire your first employee, setup a billing system, etc.).
Having the possibility of using a cheap hosting service like hostgator (for instance) is one of the biggest advantages of using something mainstream like php.
CRUD is literally what node.js is built for - lightweight APIs that then have to do some slow operation async against a store - which they overlap requests across with an event-driven model
Congrats Ahmed!
be ready to what though? make another exploitable website on the internet that will inevitably join a botnet?
In my branch of physics, the best Chinese papers are beginning to make leading contributions to their subfields.

As it turns out, if you make a well-funded and sustained effort at something, you can get good at it.

As an example, within my specialty: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0431-5
RoR changed the entire scene with convention over configuration and a total commitment to developer productivity. It's still top of the line in that regard. There's nothing out there that will get you from concept to market faster with a polished product.

Even as a giant fan of Elixir, Rails still has a firm place in the "choose for a new project" bucket.
Totally breezed over that paragraph; you’re right, my concern was unecessary
half a decade ago

Did you mean half a century?
Just adding some further thoughts to this having had more time to think more about it.

I think my objection to the use of the term "Protestant Work Ethic" as a pejorative is that it can evoke bigotry on multiple fronts.

Most simply, it can be bigoted towards practicing/identifying Protestants.

More broadly, it can be bigoted towards "ordinary hard-working people" like my parents (who, I must point out, are in no sense conservative/right-wing in their politics or social values).

But it can be equally bigoted towards non-Protestants and/or people other than white Europeans/Westerners, by implying that a solid work ethic is uniquely identifiable with Protestants and white Europeans/Westerners, which of course is demonstrably untrue and insulting to people of other cultures/backgrounds.

I now understand that the root commenter was invoking the term as a byword for pointless busywork, as distinct from work that has meaningful outcomes.

But as I said in my parent comment, I'm not convinced that this is an accurate characterisation. At least I'm yet to see evidence for that.

I'm also curious about what people have in mind when they suggest that it shouldn't be considered necessary or important for most people to be working productively (i.e., for the actual betterment of society), in a world that seems to have limitless problems to be solved.

But I guess that's the beginning of a discussion about how we gauge the usefulness of the work people do.
I use espeak to listen to text without having to rely on another human for reading it.

I find it's just another tool for getting information, one that's replaced skimming since it's less mental effort and higher retention. A lot of text doesn't need anything more to be understood, some I listen to multiple times, some I slow down to understand better, some I have to read to see in context of diagrams/maths/code and some I need to go through with pen and paper (or keyboard and computer).

An unexpected benefit for my own writing is that it highlights spelling errors and odd grammar much better than anything.

In general literary writing, like the article, is perfectly suited for listening to rather than reading. And at my current listening speed of ~750 wpm it frees up a lot of time.
What leverage do they use for lobbying, if campaign contributions are off the tables?
I'm scared about a Saudi collapse. I can imagine that regime, which is already very radical, becoming much more so if the profits from extraction run out.
Right... More scientists and researchers making less than minimum wage is surely the answer
Every action or inaction with any social context is a political action. Who gets to decide what “neutral” even is, anyway? Of course this has ramifications for our democracy, along with every single other piece of media you’ve ever consumed.

I want my search engine to make me smarter and better informed and not baby me with only the content I already know or believe. In that respect, I don’t want censorship. But I also don’t want it to try and feed me just any old information that happens to be sitting around.
what is the US government's responsibility here? There are very good arguments that government funding of science has actually been a problem, starting with the big picture:

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/saving-science
That's outright bribery. Lobbying usually implies that it's legal.
Peer-to-peer cloud gaming on machines located in your neighborhood
Totally. A poor narrator can ruin the finest author's work. There are some narrators that are superb at characterisation and voicing and can pull you into a story completely. Then there are a lot in the middle and some that make a terrible job of it - yet never seem to fail to get repeat job offers.

Sadly I find Audible heavily over represent the poorest readers and quit my subscription over it years ago.

Author and narrator are equally important when I'm deciding whether to buy. The best narrators have me seeking out what they've narrated and see if there's anything else that appeals.
TwoSigma Analyzes Time-Series of New York Hall of Science Usage
Chef Ego Officer driven Development
Personally, I can say 1997
US has a huge surveillance (both govt and private) problem, but censorship? Can you give some examples?
the only logic flaw here is...if php is slightly better than ruby and whatever you think, then why not already use the languages slightly or more better than php? many languages that are miles better
This Algorithm Makes Its Own Video Games
i mean that's true across the board. A large portion of bad startups are just meaningless cargo culting, etc.
well, given that this article in particular is saying that increased inflammation signaling is associated with male traits, it'd be better suited for arguing that straight males (and possibly homosexual women) are the diseased ones. Not that that's any better.
That depends on the MBA program, and on the electives each student takes. Some focus heavily on innovation and entrepreneurship. There's a lot of variation.

https://www.scu.edu/bulletin/graduate/leavey-school-of-busin...
This. The rollback they're doing is something we of Hispanic descent call consuelo-de-bobo. They're still going to elide www so what's the point?
If I would have to decide between PHP and Node on who changed the status-quo the most back in the day of introduction, I'd rather say it was PHP.
NoClassDefFoundError? But it’s right there!

Although in this case the cause was very different, it reminds me of an old "trap for young players" with loading shared libraries dynamically --- the library itself can exist and be readable and executable, and yet attempting to load it fails with a "file not found" error. This happens when one of its dependencies, directly or indirectly, is missing.
The carrier liquid might be the same thing as theater haze, but theater haze doesn't contain nicotine (which has known health risks even without combustion products), doesn't contain flavorings that are only tested for food use (and the example of "popcorn lung" from diacetyl shows that inhaling flavorings directly is not the same as using them in food), and is inhaled in much lower concentrations. E-cigs are safer than smoking, but to call them "harmless" is a strong claim that requires evidence.
Yet, another thing that's wrong with Europe these days.
Short of launching a forensic investigation, subpoenaing records, and carefully watching you, how would the IRS know your net worth?
cured of an STD (syphilis, I believe)

I don't think syphilis affects the brain until the tertiary stage; at that point it can't be stopped by antibiotics.