skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's distribution.

Sounds like you want an effective political system to oversee that distribution. Me too.
It's actually not obvious. All elements in the solar system are older than the sun. But water is not an element, it is a molecule: two hydrogens, one oxygen. So it's not a given that the water in our solar system became water before the stellar collapse that resulted in our sun. I could also conceive of the water and oxygen combining during that collapse.
How is OSX a closed system in this particular case? You can easily compile bash, with patches, and replace the system binary -- using the same code that's used to build those Debian/Redhat/whatever binary. Its all the same gnu code.

What about all those EOLed distros that don't see most security updates? Being "Open" is a non-issue here.
It seems like from the definition of viscosity and the estimate of glass viscosity provided we should easily be able to observe some glass flow over the course of 10^12 years or so.
My first job (when I was 16) was as a software developer for a start-up in London. I was asked, panicked and said £25k. He seemed totally okay with it.

I guess it depends on the company/person employing you, along with how persuasive you can be :).
While the content may not be better, I find the non-commercial, state-funded stations to have better online solutions.

Their content is after all licensed for everyone to use as they see fit (it belongs to the people), and thus their main limitation is what technology can do, and not what the license permits them to.

We have the same situation in Norway with NRK, which has a fantastic web-offering, not to mention native apps for Android and iOS. It's at the point where you don't need a TV to watch (their) TV-content.

None of the commercial counterparts are ready to offer that, at least not with an experience at the same level of quality.
Working with Excel spreadsheets in general is a mess. There really isn't a single library that does everything well and if you want of be able to get all the information like formatting, formulas, etc... the only really complete solution is to use pywin32 and com which requires Excel and isn't particularly fast or easy either.
> All elements in the solar systems (except those being formed in the sun's core) are older than the sun, probably the result of the explosion of some much older stars.

Don't forget those trace amounts of elements produced by our pathetic attempts at creating a fusion reactor on Earth! And all the material created by natural fission decay of fissile materials in the Earth's crust and elsewhere...

The "probably" is unnecessary. Until the sun explodes and expels the core of "new material" that it's created by fusion inside of it, ALL the non-hydrogen material in the solar system can be said to have resulted from the explosion of some much older star.

And given that our Sun is (thankfully) still in the hydrogen-burning phase of the main sequence, even if it did explode all we'd get for it is Helium.
No. This has been discussed ad nauseam already. Vimscript offers a limited API to some functionality of Vim. Emacs is written in Elisp, and thus, everything is accessible and changeable in Elisp. What is more, Emacs and Elisp were designed from the ground up with malleability in mind.
The alternative would be that most of the water around now would have formed during or after the stellar collapse that resulted in our solar system.
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I just checked one of my email providers and I get the following results:

- Hostname: mail.example.com

- StartTLS: supported

- Certificates: www.spamfirewall.at -Certificate does not match hostname

Certificate chain:
www.spamfirewall.at
337 days remaining 2048 bit sha1WithRSAEncryption
Root certificate unknown

- Perfect Forward Security: unsupported

- DANE: Missing

I use a SSL certificate for my domain example.com. Is there something I have to do to fix that or is this only something the provider needs to take care of?
This assumes that the admin is administering their systems by running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade manually, rather than some automated process.
Can I get a massage while getting driven somewhere
I'm not interested in proving it or disproving it, but rather just pointing out that Christianity keeps disproving itself, particularly when it comes to interpreting something like Genesis as anything but an ancient fable.

Using science to try to validate a creation myth thousands of years removed from its intended cultural and political context seems kind of absurd - and a lot of Christians would agree with me anyway, so it's not even that irreligious a point of view.

I would argue this is neither good science nor good religion. Both should accept that the map is not the destination, and that although some models are momentarily useful, none are necessarily true. Genesis is a beautiful story which had a point and a purpose in its time and place but it didn't happen. We know it didn't happen because the evidence against its account is overwhelming (unless you reinterpret the account, but then there's no possible way the original Hebrews meant for the story to take into consideration fundamental truths about geology and astronomy which they had no concept of at the time.)

That said though, I wish there could be a thread about these sorts of things without the incessant drive-by downvoting. Or at least without the censorship of the downvote mechanism.
This is fantastic - I am going to start testing it now. I write a fair amount of VB macros, and would much prefer to be able to use Python.

And, if they could create a plugin that allowed Libre Office to do the same, they could solve one of the last remaining major interoperability issues with LO and Excel: the inability to run VB macros in LO. That would be huge.
I found your comment an interesting read, and I want to think about it some more. However this one part struck me as why I wanted to comment earlier, " assume that you upset the status quo at your peril ", this is the exact opposite strategy to "disrupt everything" that comes from silicon valley, so I think there is a bit of a sw/manufacturing ideology gap. I suspect neither side is 100% wrong, more disruption chances could success in manufacturing, some software should take a more conservative
stance off the bat, but I think where your speaking from, we don't hear enough about.
This is pretty much the definitive answer as far as I'm concerned:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
It gathers tons of data. "Players in less well-covered areas can also suggest that landmarks of interest to them should become new game portals by snapping a geotagged photo with their smartphone." http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628936.200-why-googl... "Through this process, Google is collecting vast amounts of pedestrian data, average walking speed, routes taken, pictures, and even Wi-Fi hotspots available." http://www.applieddatalabs.com/content/hidden-side-ingress Look at Niantic's previous game, Field Trip: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nianticpro...
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You put this well, and I agree with it. I also go further.

I don't like looking at ads when I'm there to not look at ads, i.e. I'm there to read a web page. I simply do not like being sold at. When I need something, I go to where I can get it - be that Amazon, the corner shop or the cinema. If I need something and feel I don't know enough to make an informed purchasing decision, I do research. Be that Reddit, https://www.avforums.com/ or something else.

Online ads are like ads on TV (I haven't watched TV in over 10 years), or people who call me on the phone. They're trying to engage me on their terms. With obvious exceptions (family and close friends) I don't pander to that. There's nothing even remotely compelling there.
I downvoted you because religious discussions are classic internet flamewar topics. We'd like to avoid those.
How much can a sysadmin save my startup?
Since you're fresh out of school, and don't have a work experience to create value...

Calculate your cost of living and use that to determine what you need to not only survive, but thrive enough that you're able to be productive at work. A good boss does not want an employee who is stressed because they cannot make ends meet at home.

You can probably find some good personal income/financial tools online to help you determine what your salary should be given your costs.

While it's common, the tactic of asking an employee what they think they "deserve" is a rather aggressive (IMHO) negotiating technique. Keep that in mind when dealing with management/ownership in the future.
Then what would happen if someone compromised the fix?
What automated process for Debian administration is unaware of debconf?

This is a honest question. How could an automated Debian administration process not be aware of and interact on some level with debconf?
Pitch has a viscosity of 3x10^10 P. That's still way less than glass, which (according to this article) is 10^20 P.
Please stop using ads, which is a sneaky and dishonest way to get at your end users' money. It's a lie that with ads you give your content for free:

1. The advertisers who pay you get their money from us, added to the prices of the things we buy. There is no free lunch.

2. The overhead cost of advertising is huge and we pay for that too.

3. We pay the opportunity cost of a product that cannot put users first because you live or die by giving advertisers what they want (and what we want indirectly and secondarily). This includes both the cost of lost privacy as well as business, editorial and design decisions that optimize for advertising revenue. As has been said, you are using us as products more than treating us as your paying customers. Let me restate to be extra clear: WE are the paying customer, but we don't look like that to your finance department.

4. We pay the social costs. Democracy and the free market assume people make voting and purchasing decisions based on facts and reason. Advertising undermines democracy[1] and the free market[2]. Advertising is predominantly about manipulation and deceit. I believe this is the most expensive cost of content that relies on advertising revenue.

Added together, we readers are paying a lot more for "free" Verge content than if we could just straight up pay you for straight-up ad-free articles. And even we non-readers are paying because of the social costs, and all the link-bait that spams the web because of the perverse incentives of advertising.

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[This is a condensed version of a more detailed case with reference links that I made here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773]

[1] Do you really need a link for this one? We all know that money decides who gets to run in an election, plays a big part in who wins, and has a tremendous influence on what legislation they introduce, support or fight.

[2] http://www.chaosisgood.com/2013/03/how-advertising-undermine...
I'm not sure ops time is even the one to worry about. Most things I've learned I've learned the hard way. So a server going berserk isn't fun, but it's not like I just wasted either time or money on it. I learned something. I better understand my execution environment.

Downtime, on the other hand, is just lost revenue opportunity.
It's the ultimate in vulnerabilities. Remote code execution over the network, potentially as root.
xlsx: https://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.org/
powerpoint: http://python-pptx.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
word: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/docx/0.2.4
Here is a demonstration of micropsi from this year's AGI 2014 conference - the video isn't that great but Joscha gives a great talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1RXbYMTz7Y
With respect, you not having time is your fault not your employers or any prospective employers.

If you want time set that as your expectation with an employer, negotiate it if you are moving between employers. Most employers are reasonably flexible in the technology world, but of course there are exceptions and some business fields outside tech aren't so amenable so YMMV there. If you can't find an employer willing to work with you, but you are as good as you say, freelance. Hell you can work 2-3 months, take of a couple of months off or get a longer term gig where you work 20-30 hrs a week. Many people have already pointed this out to you.

Employment or freelancing is a contract (even if not written), so If you set expectations up front or negotiate in good faith with an existing employer, you likely can have your cake and eat some of it too. But don't expect anyone to read your mind, you have to be up front.
Same with Ubuntu, which I run on my servers. It was patched by the time I had SSH'd in.
The explanation is rather simple: glassmaking techniques were too primitive to achieve a uniform thickness. It wasn't just "a bit in the middle;" this was addressed pretty extensively beyond the quote someone already gave you.
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You have to give your location, otherwise any number you're given is meaningless.. Making 60k/yr as a junior developer in NYC is not the same as 60k/yr in Montreal or Louisiana.
Yeah, that's kind of a must-have feature.
Even if I wouldn't want to support Vox Media after the recent controversy, there are sites that simply won't work unless you disable (or at least manually fine-tune) your filters.
Oh, yeah, they have mobile apps as well, but frankly, the content they produce is rarely good enough to bother to even install it.

Besides, nowadays you can get a DVB-T stick the size of a flash drive for less than 10€, so watching without a TV isn't exactly hard even without mobile apps.
Go off the cost of living: decent enough apartment, cost of food, clothing, leisure items, cell phone/Internet service, one vacation for the year, any books/study materials/courses you'd want to pay for yourself. Sum all that up, add 15% on top to give yourself room in case you're forced to negotiate, and throw that number over the fence.

If they try to push you down lower, this isn't the place for you: your cost of living is what it is, and forcing you to work for less than that is simply unfair. Keep looking for a better place.
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dude i understand italian but not sicilian, so in your case it's much harder

source: watch Gomorrah movie
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My thoughts exactly. Eve, Ingress, Dwarf Fortress, Diplomacy. All games I'd prefer to experience through surreal long-form journalism and retelling rather than through actual play.
Is an ethical hacking certification worth earning?
I'm just a little envious.

I tend to go to bed between 22:00 and 22:30. I get up at around 6:30. Unfortunately this doesn't feel like it's getting me enough sleep; I'm still very drowsy in the morning and don't feel as refreshed as I could. I also need a nap in the afternoon. And on Sundays, I could sleep all day long if nothing or nobody woke me up... sleep deprivation?

And yeah, I will totally feel like a zombie if I go to bed any later than I usually do.
My active hostility towards ads are because they suck. Facebook has all the information they want on me but their most agressive offer is for a bottom-of-the-trash dating site.

There is an obvious reason for this too - for most items you don't need to advertise for it if it is much better than the competition, as people will share their stories. So most ads are for a product that stinks.
CEO's have the ability and, moreover, responsibility to set the tone of how people approach work as well as life. Implying that employees should be so dedicated that they're firing off commits on their death bed is, um, ridiculous. That's not even considering this is AIRBNB. I love their product, but c'mon...people aren't growing up deeply impassioned by the injustice of how inconvenient it is to rent out one of their rooms.

You want dedicated employees. Not lunatics. And you certainly shouldn't do things that encourage people to be lunatics.

Would you demand that your employees egregiously break the law for your company? Now THAT is dedication, right? No, you wouldn't (god I hope not), because that's not ethical.
Off topic but was your Louisiana mention random or are there lots/quite some developer jobs?
You've seen drones fly. Now watch them dance
I think "AAA for X" makes more sense than "Uber for X"

"AAA for Massage" is very meaningful - I just book "a massage", I don't care from whom as long as they are qualified, and this company makes sure someone good shows up.

Its a new idea because these services are not usually commoditized, in the way a tow-truck or an oil change is. This company is betting that for enough buyers, massages are actually a commodity service versus a personal service requiring a lot of trust.

Services with existing brands will not like it, but new businesses without a customer base will probably love it. I think it has legs.
As someone who survived a couple of bullets to the head over thirty years ago (one penetrating the skull and causing moderate optical cortical brain dameage) I can corroborate this...
So if time to form a drop is linear in viscosity (I have no idea if it is or not, but it seems like a plausible guess) then it would take longer than the present age of the universe for glass to form a single drop. In those circumstances, saying "glass doesn't flow" seems like a pretty darn good approximation to the truth.
Just playing lots of Pontifex [1] ;)

(ok, and a physics degree, but that's less relevant)

[1] http://www.chroniclogic.com/pontifex.htm
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That was a surprisingly simple and easy-to-follow write-up. I will have to try some captcha-breaking for myself soon.
The problem is that they would shift the content anyway. No reason to appeal to geeks when you can just write empty crap that gets ten times the pageview.
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No one on HN is defending discrimination against people with Arab sounding names. If they did I'd probably ask similar questions, particularly if this viewpoint seemed common among intelligent people.

There is only one other case where people on HN will defend such discrimination - when the person being discriminated against is from Haiti or India. I do tend to ask the exact same question in that case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6856315

Interestingly, I did get a rather surprising response - the nation state is more important than humanity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5533155#up_5533791

As for society "accepting" some statistical fact, I can very easily recognize principles to explain that view - the normative premise is basically individual rights (if no individual has been discriminated against due to their gender, nothing is wrong). I don't think that normative premise is unreasonable, so I don't mind attributing it to people who seem to be implicitly using it. The normative conclusion logically follows from that premise plus an empirical point. I'm fully capable of reproducing the reasoning.

I simply cannot cook up a logical chain in favor of discrimination by hacker school except by using uncharitable normative premises (e.g., "black people are the master race and deserve special treatment" or "sins of the great great grandfather shall be repaid by the son and anyone who looks like him"). I don't think anyone defending hacker school's discriminatory practices will actually endorse these normative premises, so I'm curious what normative premises the defenders do use in their reasoning.

I ask the same questions because I'm attempting to be charitable. When a viewpoint is widespread among intelligent people I go to great efforts to try to understand it - this is the "Chesterton's Fence" principle. Given the complete vacuousness of the responses I receive, I am already leaning towards the view that most defenders of such practices are simply being emotional and tribal.

Now you can call me a bigot if you want. But that's very confusing - in the one case where I do make racially biased decisions (sex) my decisions are almost exactly the same as those of hacker school scholarships (4/9 African, 1/9 White, over the past year). (Note that I live in a country which is approximately 99% Asian.) I truly do not understand how you draw this conclusion.
Ask HN: Using Twitter to market a SaaS product
I've built a software tool, for personal use. My tool automates a certain procedure that's time-consuming, unpleasant and error-prone. During last year, I came to face this 'pain' 4-5 times, and the tool came handy every time. I now consider transforming my tool to a modest web-based SaaS.

For the last 10 days, I've been monitoring a live search on Twitter. My search catches 2-3 new tweets / day, from users complaining about the exact same 'pain' as they're facing it. (That's only from one set of search keywords, with high specificity / no false positives). Some of the tweeting accounts seem to be influential, and their rants produce 'Me, too' responses, or retweets.

Questions:
(1) Could I use the Twitter search result counts to draw inferences about my market size?
(2) Once I've launched, can I engage in (real, non-automated) conversations with each one of these tweeterers, and introduce my product? Or that would be spam?

Additional information:
a. My product is not specific to any single niche, such as 'developers'.
b. It'll probably be pay-per-use, as opposed to subscription-based: I believe most users would only need it occasionally.
c. This would be my first SaaS venture.

Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read.
Not sure if I see an actual use case for this since we live in a world that has Pandas, but I'm impressed.
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I agree. The big idea behind Uber is to optimize capacity utilization. That's also the reason why it's a race between those taxi apps to get global scale first.

Unlike cars, maids and masseuses don't waste 90% of their time doing nothing and there's also not going to be a population reduction by matching supply and demand for these verticals a little bit better for iphone users.
So could you do UDFs with this?
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https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/

Google makes no bones about continually recording your location history, and they certainly don't need Ingress for that. They use the location history for predicatively estimating your trips, etc.
i guess it depends if it came before or after the formation of our moon. If the mars-ish sized planet wacking into us theory is true, probably not much if it came before and just re-condensed after the collision.
I was hoping the title would refer to, you know, our tacit "God": our unrelenting faith in gratification through material consumption; essentially unbounded and ever-accelerating growth; and the idea that we can safely ignore any non-human impact this pursuit of "happiness" may have (or for that matter, to future human generations).
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This depends, I would recommend checking out Glassdoor for the position you are applying.

Review the average salary, multiply that salary by 1.2 (increasing that salary by 20%), and that is what you should tell your employer.

Why 20% you ask? Well, Glassdoor has data from several years prior, meaning the average will be lower than the current average. For example, I was offered 40% more than the Glassdoor average for the same position.
In negotiation, always, always ask the other party to name a figure first. Then you add 15% to that figure as your counter-offer for a salary.
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