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I guess not enough of HN has watched Mad Men.

Windows is much slower on such a low spec device than ChromeOS. And if you install anything on your Windows device, god help your loading times.

It's been around for a long time. Freakonomics did a podcast on it in 2010 (http://freakonomics.com/podcast/freakonomics-radio-how-much-...).

The closest thing to what you're talking about is the Labor Force Participation Rate (https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000).

They literally tell you.

Border wall: https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-trumps-border-and-sanctuary-c...

One of dozens of articles on the refugee EO: https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/trump-begins-his-unco...

How do people still not get this? The First Amendment is a limitation on the government of the United States. Period. It does not apply to other countries. It does not apply to private entities within the United States. It does not apply to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit or any other social media.

“When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think . . . ” he didn’t finish his sentence. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”

|> Implying that Asian CEOs can't be part of civic society.

That's 9.6 kilometers for you metric folk. Someone has suggested a March breakup for the Ice block. That is the time of the Minimum Ice Extent. I would love to know what the projections are for how long it will take for this iceberg to melt. Imagine what adventures it will have traveling around the world with albatross, turtles and whales for company.

This was very fun. I finished all the levels and I also discovered the secret ones. :O

Yes I am. This is my personal account, but I use it to automatically post to Hacker News. I was playing around with BigQuery one day and found the Hacker News dataset [1]. From my experience with the Reddit submissions dataset [2], I knew that I could compose this query,

SELECT AVG(score) AS avg_score, COUNT(* ) AS num, REGEXP_EXTRACT(url, r'//([^/]*)/') AS domain FROM [fh-bigquery:hackernews.full_201510] WHERE score IS NOT NULL AND url <> '' GROUP BY domain HAVING num > 10 ORDER BY avg_score DESC

which returns a list of domains with more than ten submissions sorted by average score. This turns out to be a list of some of the most successful tech blogs on the internet, as well as various YCombinator related materials. Out of the domains with over 100 submissions, daemonology.net has the 9th highest average score per submission. I manually visited all the domains with more than about 30 submissions, found the appropriate xml feeds, and saved them. I added a few websites like eff.org whose messages I think everyone should read anyways.

Then I jumped into python and started trying to figure out how to post to Hacker News. It was a little more complicated than I anticipated [3], but an open source HN app for Android helped me figure it out.

I set up a cron job on my $5 Digital Ocean that runs the script every few minutes (pseudocode):

If you can reach http://news.ycombinator.com, Check all feeds for new entries, Post a new entry to hn, Sleep for an hour before posting another

[1] https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/bigquery-public-da...

[2] The only difference on Reddit is the subreddit system.

[3] After you send a POST request to send to the login screen, Hacker News gives you a url with a unique "fnid" parameter, and you send another POST request to another url with the appropriate "fnid".

Sometimes a law is detrimental to human good. In such cases we should break it.

By YC startup standards again, Reddit isn't a very successful company. The amount of early investment that went into it has certainly paid off, but monetization is a seriously hard problem for them.

rsync for normal people turns out to be a pretty big deal

My bad, didn't see Steven himself posting it! Not sure why he used a different title than the one he chose for his own publication.

Vermont does already have the largest proportion of population of sovereign citizens in the nation. He may have picked it for that reason.

j and k behavior may vary depending on your config.

The article's point is very well-made. During my two-year-long stint as a philosophy major at Berkeley, at least two courses spent absurd lengths of time on the vagary specificities of Descartes' cogito which, while important, could have easily been a place to at least peer into other traditions' basic arguments over the existence of a soul, like Avicenna's Flying Man or the concepts of Gautama Buddha. The fact that these myriad connections between genetically unrelated traditions are never drawn is the real travesty. American philosophy would be much more creative if it wove non-European traditions into its historical tapestry.

hey, whatever works

Their sovereign wealth fund is currently sitting at $700M. The Aramco IPO will hardly be the only contributor on the way to $2T.

I've found that if you ever want to contact a company, find the appropriate person and email them. Collectively owned company emails are terrible because they often don't have a single point of responsibility.

They obviously meant photons

I was hoping you were a Reddit bot who's been farming /r/todayilearned for the last year.

That's n choose 2...

At its core, the viewer works by just averaging the JPEG stack at varying offsets as described in this student project: https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs194-26/fa14/upload/files/p...

I haven't looked into how they make everything efficient, but the source code for their flash viewer is here http://lightfield.stanford.edu/aperture.html

I agree that competition forces people to improve, and that's why a top female prize is a good idea. Awards for women in chess -> more women competing -> more competition in women's chess -> better chess players overall.

He'll have more students (and therefore more total impact) at a large public school.

Also, maybe the goal is to change the expectation that research universities lack good teachers? Public colleges educate many times more students than private ones, let alone small liberal arts schools.

Did any of us choose our parents? Parents are the purest luck anyone has.