skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The automobile manufacturers were very successful in improving quality and efficiency via robotics, and were also encouraged to do so by enormous drags from labor unions. Warehouses have also increased automation, but clearly they can improve more. Beyond the warehouse, I'm eager to see their deployment in retail stores and fast-food. Consumers will benefit from efficiencies, and the unhappy workers will be free to find jobs more to their liking.
Investors become owners. Since when do owners have no say in when they sell their property?
Both are intended for controlled distribution.

I expect my doctor and the testing center to control the dissemination of my protected healthcare information.

The production company and the TV station expect its viewers to contol the dissemination of their artistic works.

Is one expectation less reasonable than the other?
They don't do anything with it, judging by the photos of rectifiers mounted on the wall without any heat exchange or recycling equipment to be seen. It's unlikely that there's much heat to recycle though. If there was, those same photos would show significant heat sinks to help dissipate the energy away from the rectifiers.

We don't bother recycling any heat from roadside transformers or larger substations either, and they carry a great deal more energy than the rectifiers powering 7 - 10 lift motors.
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It's not at all true that all investors end up with control. In fact, in the large, most investors don't.

Neither here nor there, though, because it was a buyer's side investor that scotched this deal.
farm workers have the UFW but being a farm worker remains one of the most intensely miserable jobs in the US, with constant rule-breaking by the employers, and a lot of unrepresented workers.

I don't think it is fair to blame the large number of unrepresented workers on the union itself. I'm sure the UFW wants to increase their membership past the paltry ~5,000 it has.
This is only an obvious improvement if you share certain ideas with the committer: ideas about equality and how grammatical gender relates to it. Those ideas are by no means universal; why should dissent be shocking?
That's interesting to hear. I'm a system administrator and would like to learn web development. I was planning on starting with Rails. I know the basics of HTML and CSS and am pretty experienced with SQL. Do you have a route of learning you recommend?
"The user switches on their computer and types their name"?
It's a really beautiful little town in a gorgeous setting and this was a really shocking tragedy that shows how easily disasters can happen in an increasing scale industrial world.
At one point in the video he seemed to be looking at the camera, saying perhaps, thanks for being an awesome dad.

BTW, I think the reason why there's so much talk about entertainment in the comments is because people feel guilty for pursuing simple pleasure when you have pursued something so noble by comparison. What they don't know is how much satisfaction you must have derived from this project. You have achieved something not many of us have, something noble and satisfying. There should be a website for noble stories like yours, but I'm afraid there wouldn't be enough content ;)

Thank you for sharing your inspiring story.
Interesting. I'll take a closer look at it.
The Heineken Sub chills your beer for optimal enjoyment
For die-hard lager drinkers the mild temperature of a refrigerator just wont cut it. These beer connoisseurs need their tasty treat ice-cold and Heineken aims to deliver the optimal temperature experience with their new product. The Heineken Sub is a mini-keg chiller that keeps your beer at a perfect 35.6º F. If astronauts drank beer in outer space, this is the futuristic object they would pour from. The Sub is made specifically to fit a beer canister called a Torp, which slides tightly inside an air-locked anodized aluminum cooling cylinder. One Torp holds eight beers with 15-days of freshness after opening.
From about 2002/2003, yes, but by then the operators were messing the manufacturers around. Nokia's golden era was approximately 96-2002 before this and the S60 mess really bit.

Vodafone went as far as commissioning handsets directly from co-operative manufacturers and this changed the game completely as the message was heard that unless you play their game you aren't getting sold.

Only the deal Apple got from AT&T remotely affected this status quo. Android was originally designed for precisely the kind of operator customisation we're complaining about, as is Firefox OS, but it's only thanks to Apple (and I loathe the way iOS has gone) that we have any choice about this stuff at all. The fact it took them to stir things up is justifiably embarrassing to the telecoms industry.
Is testing the mother before birth so much better than simply vaccinating the baby, especially since blood transfer from other people is not completely out of the question anyway?

If you wait a week, that's a week-long window for infection. It's small, certainly, but what's the gain? Is there any advantage to waiting?
browsing headlines is easy brain food - it is mind's sugar. No substance, just pure energy we crave. Even worse - it stealing the time we would use for deep thoughts. The devastation effect on human society will be recognized only decades later I afraid.
Yup. This page has a host of endlessly fascinating examples: http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/sgtheirl.html, plus Jane Austen has so many that they had to refactor her into her own page: http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/austhlis.html.

Henry Fielding: "Every Body fell a laughing, as how could they help it."

Thackeray: "A person can't help their birth." (spoken by Becky Sharp, the main character, with reference to her own social climbing)

George Eliot: "I shouldn't like to punish anyone, even if they'd done me wrong."

Lewis Carroll: "'Whoever lives there,' thought Alice, 'it'll never do to come upon them this size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!'"

I don't see how anyone could read such examples of singular "they" and not immediately be relieved of any objection they may have been entertaining. The extraordinary thing is how modern it sounds, even when the rest of the language is archaic:

"Every one Sacrifices a Cow or more, according to their different Degrees of Wealth or Devotion" (Dr. Johnson)

"Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves." (King James Bible)

Sometimes the formulation seems deliberately mischievous:

C. S. Lewis: "She kept her head and kicked her shoes off, as everybody ought to do who falls into deep water in their clothes."

Doris Lessing: "And how easy the way a man or woman would come in here, glance around, find smiles and pleasant looks waiting for them, then wave and sit down by themselves."

E.B. White: "But somebody taught you, didn’t they?”

That last one (from Charlotte's Web) is delicious because White put the White in Strunk and White and knew full well when a writer should break his own rules.
I find it perfectly reasonable. Apple broke the law, and is now required to pay for a monitor to make sure they comply. For a business as big as Apple, you don't select a garden-variety lawyer, you pick the best you can--and the best are expensive. The top bankruptcy lawyer in the country has offices down the street from mine--his hourly rate starts at $1200. One of the top immigration lawyers in the country also has offices nearby, three of their partners have hourly billing rates in excess of $1000/hour.

This is, in practice, no different from Google, et. al., paying through the nose to acquire top tech/programming talent.
So my argument for her or him, he or she, rather than they, is that her or him, he or she, in documentation humanizes the documentation. It piques my interest. There is an active person here.

It's not boring, dead trees, produced for some deadline documentation, Sally is doing something with this code! Bob needs to stop sending data!

He or she are far better to see in code comments for the same reason it's fun to encounter latin, or star trek quotes, or even curses.

They doesn't have that effect on me. They tells me the documentation was done grudgingly, likely by a prig. It is likely formally correct and will still say nothing, or be completely obtuse and thick.
Umm...because without the vaccine 10 people would die, and with it only one dies. Not really rocket science...
Trust Without Passwords: security need not deter users
Since you know the division in collatz-next is always exact you can change / for quot or a bit-shift-right. That should improve it somewhat. You should also typehint with ^long the arguments to your functions. Further than that I would probably compile the code and then use a decompiler to check for boxing. But I can't say I've done much math intensive programming in clojure.
Funny : "miss a","mr.a" and "jimmy"
His rejection and trivialization of the issue IS what people are upset about. Not the actual rejection. If he had rejected the commit, on grounds of procedure but offered a better neutral wording, or at least some way to improve the wording via another pr, then I don't believe anyone would have been upset. Instead he choose to make the gender inclusion matter trivial which is pretty close to just being plain divisive.
Ask HN: what do you hate about Goodreads and how it can be better?
if you use anything better, please mention it too and what you like about it
I think you could have waited until the book was actually available in some form (either e-book or paperback) before posting it to HN.
Libuv: Revert "doc: Removed use of gendered pronouns"
The best developers I know have contacts all over town. They occasionally go along to meetups and user-groups on things they are interested in, not in a cynical way, and just enjoy chatting to like-minded folk.

Interesting. Seeing it laid that way, one could easily see that as selection bias. The good developers you know have contacts all over town. The good developers you don't know don't have contact all over town and so you don't know and can't compare them to the developers you know.

Not that this an argument against socializing, just the opposite.
How about asking people how they would feel if curtains were made illegal?
that's fine, its a public key :)
If you want to humanize the documentation, introduce actual characters. "Here's Bob. Bob wants to update his widgets." Don't pretend that stereo instructions can be made to read like Elmore Leonard stories simply by changing pronouns.

At the point where you start synthesizing vibrant life stories out of gendered pronouns with "the user" as antecedent, you might consider instead just conceding the argument.
In the last couple months I've tested elementary, pinguy, and the mint 16 MATE RC. I think I'm actually going to stick with it because it's the only one of those three that supports seamless multi-monitor/single setup (like recognizing the hdmi output immediately without changing a setting), proper suspend/hibernation, and probably some other hiccups in others that I've forgotten.

Very happy with Mint.

FYI: These were my first experiences with linux so they were also beginner-friendly.
Yeah, Phil Zimmerman's article mostly addresses intercepting vulnerable transmissions over a wire or through the air waves.

Not so much about breaking encryption, and attacking a static target.

I think Phil Zimmerman's assumption (at least, withing the context of this article) is that if you're attacking an sample of encrypted information, that act alone comes with the implicit understanding that you're probably acting against the interests of the person who locked the information away in the first place. Whether that person or group of people are worthy of the attack is its own judgement call.
Because there's nothing law enforcement can do when you give cash to someone who scams you.
'they' and 'zie' are both awesome. One of those tends to garner no strange looks too.
Oops. yes, you're right.
> I’ve got a file of counterarguments to my own theory

Thank you for having scientific integrity. Falsifiability for the win.
Yep, installing Rails and setting up a development environment is the biggest hurdle for a newcomer. I wrote a stand-alone article that provides in-depth instructions for Mac, Ubuntu, and Windows. As a standalone article, it is easier for me to update (than if I were to include it in the book), plus it is available for free for everyone who needs it.

http://railsapps.github.io/installing-rails.html
Solid-state rectifiers typically have a forward voltage drop of about 1 V. A 25 kW load at 250 V would draw 100 A. The rectifier power would be 1 V × 100 A = 100 W, for an efficiency of 99.6%. Bulk power rectification is quite efficient.
Not "well-defined" is the proper terminology.
Sequence points are an interesting topic on their own.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/4176333
Flagging.

Seriously, this is getting tiring. Actually seeing these issues happen is one thing: it's real, it's happening, it's life and our community, etc... Now having to bear with every blogger jumping the band wagon for the same copypasta of "Dear community of <%= @LANGUAGE %>, I love you, but you screwed up about <%= @ISSUE %>, now we need to do better"? I'm done with it.

As for all the name-calling on both sides of the argument, this is ridiculous. Fine, we're moving away from a "male-dominated culture" by becoming an "idiots-from-all-genders-dominated culture". Today, I'm ashamed to call myself a member of this community.
There are a few missing commas in the bullet points, as well as some unnecessary commas in other locations. That does not instill confidence in a book that promises to teach grammar.
Any competitor with the clout the "punish" Apple, getting them to fold, already pays as much or more than Apple for their own team.
British Special Branch said they wanted an informant on every street.

The BBC had political vetting. http://www.cambridgeclarion.org/press_cuttings/mi5.bbc.page9...

Special Branch spied on an elected member of parliament http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/true_spies/2378459.stm

Unions in the 70s had extensive networks of police informants and undercover officers and agents provocateurs. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2002/12/spie-d10.html

That union scrutiny activity turned into black listing, meaning many workers were denied jobs. A secret McCarthy-esque activity. This black listing was so severe it lead to laws being brought in around data protection. Those laws originally only covered computer systems. Because the black lists were run on index cards the laws were changed to cover more forms of data retention. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02xcn7d

Abuses of surveillance are common, and long lasting.
Yes, I'm sure Paul Graham cares so much about VC negativity that he personally killed this commentary. Also, close your blinds, I think there are black helicopters circling...
Author of Children's book poses nude
I just started experimenting with PGP this week and I was amazed at how easy it was. This page was all I needed to get started
http://serverfault.com/questions/489140/what-is-a-good-solut...
It's a start. It costs you very little. Do it!

Posting on hacker news an starting a flame war might cost a lot though.
The very first comment shows the policy was adhered to. https://github.com/joyent/libuv/commit/804d40ee14dc0f82c482d...
an AC/DC power supply at best like 70-80% efficient DC-DC converters are upwards of 98% efficient.

So you loose 10% in the UPS/PDU Scenario (AC - DC (Float on Batteries) AC) then another 20-25% in the power supply. Meaning to generate 100w inside the PC you need 137.5w input, plus whatever distribution losses you have.

If you use HVDC supply with rack based DC-DC Converters. So AC-DC (90% efficient) and DC-DC (98% efficient) You can generate 100w with only 112.2w input. Figure that's for the the whole rack, verses per chassis power supply conversion for the AC model. You can do one 3.3v one 5v and one 12v power supply per rack. You're also saving a huge amount of heat too, heat that you dont need to cycle out thru additional A/C Hardware.
I understand what you're saying but I am referring to people I've worked with.

I'm not saying that there is no bias in that observation or that a certain kind of networking will somehow turn into you an amazing developer. Maybe people who make themselves part of a community will learn (or learn about) useful skills from their friends/peers. Maybe some people like sharing and talking about their skills and creations. Maybe people who only interact with their immediate colleagues in their current place of work are prone to developing bad habits.

Maybe this is not the typical case but all I know is that the best people I have worked with have maintained a group of friends/peers/colleagues in the software industry outside the walls of their place of work.
If you've already upgraded before, keep doing it this way:

$ sudo sed -i 's/raring/saucy/' /etc/apt/sources.list

$ sudo sed -i 's/olivia/petra/' /etc/apt/sources.list

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

$ sudo shutdown -r now

More from here:
https://gist.github.com/hgomez/7074150
Because it's very reasonable and not a problem.
Facebook & Twitter, it's the new TV.
I was simply stating one example of what is often considered a rushed vaccine, again due to exposure levels for infants. Using your logic, it seems we could vaccinate all babies on day one with every single vaccine available, even for diseases that are rarely found in the country, as the is some small chance a one day old could have exposure.

The gain comes when the safety of vaccinations comes up into question. The CDC doesn't advocate giving every available vaccine on day one, in a single massive cocktail form, for this very reason. This would be the cheapest and most efficient way to vaccinate (all at once, one shot for all vaccines), but obviously that is not how it is done due to safety of the newborn.
The way I learned that in C a long time ago was "post increment" was "post statement increment".
> No, I am not equating government and society. I am questioning the simplistic view that a person can exist today and succeed independent of the society they grew up in.

Then we are in complete agreement on that. I was pretty sure you didn't equate them, but asked because snitko made it seem like you did. I assumed he just read that into what you wrote, but better to check.

> What do you mean government is a foreign body on society? Society is made of people, and people usually make up governments.

Governments are generally not there to benefit society, but to impose the will of those in power on it. You can, of course, cite many philosophical speculations that it isn't so, but the reality doesn't support those speculations. Almost all good any government has done for the people who are not in power was fought for by those not in power, or is simply a preemptive scheme to calm down the masses.
That's an abuse of the flag button. You flag a story that is off-topic for the site, or that is spam, or that deliberately trolls the site. But flags are not downvotes. I can safely count on the fact that dozens of stories I won't like will hit this site every day. I don't flag them.

You should hit the "unflag" button now. Or don't, but then don't complain when, after gratifying this bad habit of yours for a few more months, you lose the flag button.
Here's my article about getting started with Rails on Nitrous.io:

http://railsapps.github.io/rubyonrails-nitrous-io.html

Nitrous.io is a great way for any beginner to get started, especially for those using Windows.
These are wonderful. I can not believe that some of these were automatically generated.
I dunno. He said that the pull request was trivial, which could have been meant in the sense that the change is trivial - a one-word change to a code comment that does not affect the program's operation. Commit history space is a somewhat scarce resource, and I can see the point in rejecting the commit on the grounds that it doesn't really change enough to be worth a commit. For example, did the commit fix all instances of masculine pronouns or just one? Was it intended to fix the whole problem, or just to "make a point"? I can see why the committer might not have seen much value in the PR. I don't think that he deserves to be totally excoriated for his rejection of the PR just yet, as it would be good to hear his side of the story first.

Comment threads are rarely conducive to positive discussion, especially once people start tweeting about them, and I think a lot of assumptions were made on the basis of fairly scant evidence. I'm enough of an optimist to believe that the committer didn't meant to suggest that open source is a white male only thing, and if we're concerned about that view becoming widespread then we might want to be cautious about suggesting that as his motive.
Totally agree. As productivity continually improves, I see no way to move forward without a basic income. And this is coming from a person with libertarian-leaning ideals.
I see no problem with it. It's a word I've used my whole life...
Cool idea. I look forward to checking it out.
Doge: such gem, amaze, so ruby, wow
Laying on guilt like that in the checkout process really turns some people off though.
This is similar to the logic people use with the War on Drugs. As soon as there are enough dead Mexicans and gangsters in the street, eventually they HAVE to lift prohibition, right?

The government can remain irrational for longer than we can remain alive.
But a lot of us notice. A lot of us notice that it's usually 'he'. And a lot of us notice that that's not for us.
The Two Rules on How to Pitch Angel Investors
What is the difference? I do not see "well-defined" in the "Terms, definitions, and symbols" part of the standard.
It's this kind of bitchy, behind-the-scenes, handbags-at-ten-paces crap that I hate. Long on surmise, short on evidence, and it's not going to help.

I'm sure it matters to you, but I wish you'd take it somewhere else.
Imagine a polyglot project where some major .Net libraries are already in use, but ongoing development or integration was done in Scala.

I'm not saying it's a good idea, but there's a use case there.
>Would the argument be the same if a private firm was charging the government at the same rate? Or would we be here with pitchforks demanding answers?

Have you looked at attorneys' fees for this kind of work? $1,000/hr is not unreasonable whatsoever. My friend isn't even a partner in an IntProp firm (just a five year associate) and he is billed out at $650-700/hr for the most basic of tasks.
I believe proving identity can only be done using a private key.
exactly. This is precisely to spec; and I got the answer of 60 immediately on looking at the code.
Knowing how exactly sequence points work might be an advanced topic, but I am not sure I'd hire a junior C/C++ programmer if he has not heard of sequence points. If somebody has, then he clearly won't do something like this code. I am not 100% sure in how they work either (haven't programmed C for 4 years), so I just avoid these kind of unnecessary complications in the code, if not for myself, then for the guy who comes after me, and who, if he has a bad day, may inadvertently cause some trouble.

Really, that's one of the reason why Java still works well at big companies. The code is usually so verbose and 'un-smart' that it's quite hard for programmers with minority complex to obfuscate it when they're trying to prove that they're smart. It's a shame however that if the language is primitive then you can always create a big framework to obfuscate stuff. :)
By my logic, we'd end up doing something completely sensible that helps protect infants from disease? How terrible.

Your reasoning seems to boil down to anti-vaccination people thinking it's worse, and this is some small concession to them. Which is essentially saying, it's rushed because I say it's rushed.
Google seems to have really lost the plot lately, forcing their policies and updates down our throats.