jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have been told that it might be a cultural thing by someone who has studied in the UK and the US. US = overplay amount of work done, UK = under play it.
Its quite hard to give an unambiguous answer because its quite a vast subject with many niches in it and what some people consider a trend, others might not.

Node.js, has got a lot of press at least here on HN as well as other places. Obviously HTML5/CSS3 and associated technologies now being implemented in the browsers. Javascript is still going very strong, i think it'd be fair to say if you dont know JS well then you're at a significant disadvantage, even with the likes of JQuery that makes it easier. NoSQL is also an already vast area worth research that is continually growing.

Game mechanics, location aware sites, scaling issues and as always API availability come up often.

I've probably missed a few things that others will suggest, but i wouldnt worry about it too much, once you hang around for a while in the communities over the internet you'll notice the trends for yourself.
As in OS X users are less tolerant of badly designed GUIs?
Conservatives who deny that C02 is bad, simply don't like the solution, which they fear being more government...

http://today.duke.edu/2014/11/solutionaversion
I could easily see 40 people who live in Toronto not wanting to pull up and move to the San Francisco Bay Area.

That said, the posting does read a bit like the partners were tired of doing all the work of running a company and wanted someone else to be the 'boss' for a while. I can understand that feeling as well.
> powerful, efficient workflows

An addendum to my prior post, I suspect a lot of folks here won't be aware of something: in various professional positions heavily dependent on Photoshop use (e.g. pro photo editing / retouching), it's common practice to have speed tests in the interview process. This part of the interview shows that 1) you know the available tools and know how to use them well for job-typical tasks and 2) you are utterly fluent in the UI, keyboard shortcuts, etc. for the task. Not all pros need this kind of workflow efficiency, but those who do are scary fast at what they do.

A fair bit of Photoshop's design over the years has been influenced by the needs of these kinds of high-skill, high-efficiency workflows.
There's also Prone https://github.com/magnars/prone
"Give us a king to judge us" :) It is an old problem [0]

[0] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%208&...
I started with the list from this question [0] and then wrote a one-off script to convert it to the form linked above.

http://stackoverflow.com/q/10414957/1216976
You seem to be confused. There is no reason to believe the police will charge you based on an anonymous comment from a user of this app. If they did, I am sure he would be called to the witness stand if you decided to contest the charge. But honestly I cannot see this happening at all.

I really don't understand what you are so riled up about considering in another thread not five minutes ago you claimed that the police never charge anyone based on traffic violations reported by other citizens. As I recall, you had this on good authority from your friend in the NYPD.
I wanted to say the same thing as soon as I saw the article. You can look at religions as memes or viruses that propagate from person to person.
It doesn't really matter, the patent they used to sue Desire2Learn got invalidated last year as part of the legal battle and a couple of weeks ago Blackboard announced they were abandoning their appeal:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/blackboard-drops-appe...
I've really enjoyed Ctrl+a and Ctrl+e recently to move between the beginning and end of the command prompt - it's really a lot more useful than I initially thought.
I use mine to keep track of tech links mostly. I do refer back when I need to find something I know I've bookmarked, especially if I can't remember how to Google for it.
IANAL but this isn't as clear as that. A contractor can't come in and take out the new bathroom he installed because you didn't pay him, and I'm guessing similar protections apply to repossessing a website.
Very few of them are likely to have launched the app prior to getting in the car as well. So even with the voice entry of the license plate (how accurate is that going to be) you'll still have to get the app open, then pay attention to whatever prompts it gives you before submitting to make sure you are reporting the right license plate. This seems like a horrible app and very distracting.
More money for Maciej. More features for Pinboard. More happiness for us early birds who got in at a sub $2 price :)
I was in the same group as you guys but lately I've started using Instapaper's Kindle export feature to read long articles (NYT, etc) on my Kindle. It's a really good experience. Try it out.
The mental clarity you mention is interesting. Did you by any chance do stuff during that stretch that would give a more objective mental performance -- meaning, was there a quantitative way for you to evaluate your 'mental clarity'?

I ask because I've water-fasted for two days on several occasions, and I've always broken because the mental handicap was just too much, and I've had work to do.[1] In particular, I've found that writing code and writing research papers is almost impossible on day 2.

However, I've wondered if either a) pushing through it, or b) keto-adapting beforehand might prevent the mental slowness. I know a superstar scientist who claims that he thinks better in ketosis, so presumably the mechanism for pushing through it would be to get to the point of keto-adaptation.

[1] Well, that's kind of a copout. I could always do it while on vacation or something. So mental handicap + willpower.
What's considered a budget host in 2015 when I can get a digital ocean server to do with as I please for 60$ / year
It's not stupidity. He wanted to kill other humans within the confines of the law so he embraced war and went to fight any chance he got.
This is a false assumption by a german blogger (I forgot exactly which blog it was). It was mind boggling how many flaws where in his posts. Also you can turn off acceptable ads or just use Adblock Edge fork.
Bullshit.

Where is the code of conduct when the torturers of Abu ghraib went scott free.

Where is the code of conduct when the people who engineered a war and tore apart two countries went scott free

Where is the code of conduct when the current President orders remote drone strikes against countries when there has been no declaration of war.

No matter how you spin it, this is 'not the armed forces code of conduct'

For you to allege it is, is to dis-honor the men and women who serve in the us military.
The bmw z1 is the only production car with sliding doors btw http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_Z1 it did not meet US safety regulations ...
The first one (Voxels) uses three.js: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js
Hmm... more specialized fora will have the more concentrated focus of intentionally-informed people who've gathered explicitly to discuss a topic. Too much off-topic noise will get you shunned, because people come there for the signal (Reddit, though I love it, is noise incarnate). With far fewer threads, people maintain a discussion rather than post and run. In far smaller communities, with active posters within Dunbar's number[0], will call you out on your shit or for bailing whenever you get shut down.

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[0] Dunbar's number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
@niico

I started the same journey a few years ago, and looked at every approach under the Sun. The only one that made sense for me was value investing.

Since figuring that out, I never looked back. Remember "trading" is not the answer. "Investing" is.

To start off, here are the books I would recommend:
1. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
2. F Wall Street by Joe Ponzio (Get a taster here: http://www.fwallstreet.com/article/25-calculating-the-value-...)
3. Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham

Feel free to shoot me an email if you have any questions. Email is in my profile.
I like your post, but I'll just say that nobody I know personally would care about displaying traditional roles, sexuality, and violence. When people get pissed I think what they're mostly pissed about is the ridiculous caricaturization that occurs. For instance, a movie with tons of ass-kicking makes you feel excited. Realistic portrayals of violence usually makes you feel sick and horrible. Similarly with sex and gender roles. Much could be said on the topic, but my feeling is that too much of the caricature-fiction produces similar effects as eating too much candy. It's fine in small quantities, but not something to organize your diet around.

In fact, I'd be interested to see who's getting upset about realistic portrayals of anything. Even with the caveats about what would count as a 'realistic portrayal' I think you'd be left with a tiny minority of weirdos and chronic pains-in-the-asses.
The signatures are available but they are distributed through the same channel as the binaries. If the one was modified it stands to reason that the other has been too.
Yes, 'universal within the defined scope'. Everything within that service.

Microsoft Windows doesn't have a backdoor to data on your android phone, but its backdoor is still universal within the scope of your your Windows installation'. Do you have a more appropriate term he could've used? I'm not familiar with one offhand, if you know one I'd appreciate you sharing it.
Nice piece, but selling to enterprise customers and selling to the government only tangentially overlap. While most of the advice is transportable, the number one rule of selling to any government -- federal, state, or local -- is get on the approved vendor list. Getting on GSA is fundamental; getting on as many state-level purchasing schedules as possible is the next step. Unfortunately, this almost certainly means you'll end up giving a chunk of revenue to companies whose sole business model is "we're a GSA-certified vendor" and who will handle the regulatory runarounds for you. But the rewards are significant -- schedule vendors are often exempt from RFP requirements, so you can skip the usual pain point of writing RFQ responses and bidding for business, and get right to the selling.
Would Tesla even exist today without government subsidies? Nope.

What makes you so sure? Obviously the cars would be more expensive, but then again so would their competitors'.
I like the bit about reacting to sign-ups from boeing.com emails, I wonder if anyone out there is curating a "whale list" that gives the domains you should care about.
Hit me up if you are interested in that! Email in profile
For another surprise, try assigning those empty objects to variables before adding. By itself,

{}+{}

doesn't mean what you might think it means.
Thanks Patrick, you always write great and actionable content.
Translation:

"0" == 0
false == false
It's not a net loss for startups - the ones past series B can easily price their options. The earlier stage ones will be cut out, that's true. To be honest, any effort to raise wages will cause that effect, and it's no reason to oppose better pay for engineers.

On the other hand, an immigrant, once settled, will accumulate wealth and eventually become a startup founder herself, without as much need for investment. That would be a boon for the earliest stage part of the ecosystem.
I switched my personal website to a Raspberry Pi 4 in my basement a while ago, with cloudflare caching and roll-your-own DDNS - I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how easy the whole thing was to do (although my requirements are far from exotic).
Programming is really about persistence, focus and dedication. I'm not naturally very intelligent but I am extremely stubborn so I simply keep trying, keep reading, keep googling until I solve the problem.
Does there exist a de-platform proof way of hosting something on the internet?

Even if you host your own server on your own premises they could forbid you from using the location, shut off your electricity, etc.

Is it possible to host a website entirely on bittorrent? I suppose there's also IPFS but I'm not entirely familiar.

Maybe once solar is cheap enough you could launch some sort of array of powered drones into the sky that follow the sun that send files to people via P2P - solar mesh network if you will.
Surely it'd be trivial to increase the user's speed to Netflix servers if they've visited Fast.com in the last three minutes or similar?
The point is that there are no power to stop Bitcoin unless human extinction.
You might relate with the following article titled:

“Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts
Why I Quit a $500K Job at Amazon to Work for Myself“

https://danielvassallo.com/only-intrinsic-motivation-lasts/
If you work in security, this resonates so much. No one really cares about security except to check a box or pay lip service to it. That's why so called security products ship without logging and clients don't want to make the smallest effort to enable you to improve their security. It's why companies that sell security products invest more in marketing than the product. The industry is full of conmen and marketeers. Information security can be great though if you find someone that really cares.
This line galled me too as it showed a serious misunderstanding of the principles of libre software. There's a reason we say Free as in Free Speech, not Free Beer! Why would I ever want to make my workflow dependant on a third party blob whose internals are obscure from me?
This is great. As a new (1 year) coder starting out at 39 years old, this sounds very similar to the path I envision for myself. Thanks for the inspiration!
Actually, the Lego group might have been in a great position to create a multiplayer computer game. They have been running games on their website for years, and even had a massively multiplayer game for a bit. The failure of their own multiplayer game was due to poor management, and not listening to user feedback. Also, they were pretty greedy with their pricing model. It was more expensive than other games at the time.
I now exclusively use Firefox on MacOS. I refuse to use Chrome in any way now.
Get into education. Fund education if you can. Fund http://thewalterhive.com if you can.
Definitely has an air of trick-questionness about it (which I'm not a big fan of) - I think that it could be better rephrased as either:

"When would you use string as opposed to String?" or "Why do you think that the corelib int Convert.ToInt32(double value) method has this name and return type?"

These are more open; allow the candidate to explain that there's little practical difference between string and System.String; that it comes down to coding style; that there are aliases for int to System.Int32, which are probably VC++ showing through a bit (both the fixed size integer types and the underlying problem that made them necessary/useful); that it helps non-.NET consumers know what "int" means etc etc.

IMO it's still not a great interview question though (once you verify that the developer knows the basics) - I think that a lot of devs wouldn't know the ins and outs of this, simply because they'll hardly ever need to appreciate the difference (ie put it in your coding standards that they need to use one and they can forget that the other exists almost entirely).
Awesome idea! Just a suggestion to the developer (if reading this), would be good to also have a list of what is okay to use on what breed/group (such as advocate for pastoral breeds).
well, you're supposed to validate user input before passing it to the function.

I'm not sure this can be considered a bug.
If you're seriously telling me you instantly spot the bug (if that were real perl, i don't know perl) without having seen the talk before, then congratulations, nobody else did, please start auditing perl software.

I've fixed that bug in code as far back as 2000. There've been discussions on that anti-pattern on PerlMonks for at least a decade.
Note that there is more to BuzzFeed than listicles (listicles are about 26% of all BuzzFeed articles), although they are certainly the most notable part of BuzzFeed content. In fact, the "The [X]" listicle prefix construction has died off.

I wrote a blog post this week about the subject: http://minimaxir.com/2015/01/linkbait/

(HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8893448)
That's not what 'spaghetti code' means.
Fyi Amazon will ship televisions to Australia for about $130. Usually it still ends up cheaper than buying domestically.
Personally, I hope that this doesn't get added to addons.mozilla.org. Their arbitrary human-control editor policy would be the best thing to cause stagnation of innovative plugins such as this. If the author goes the self-hosted route, automatic updates are still achievable (and can even occur faster.)

+1 for not having this in AMO!
One pattern is to use your own crate-level Error type and then Result::map_err to bubble up other error types into your own thing. Example:

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

This makes error handling a little more verbose but you can use some quick and dirty macros for that.
I've come across several such ES instances that are 100% exposed to the world without even trying, and ES is by no means the first tool to have this problem. People are never going to stop doing this. Making it annoyingly difficult within ES just weakens them such that some other "wow it's so easy" search product will be better positioned to eat their lunch.
> Deepfakes is just a scary new word for what people would call "CGI" or "VFX".

"Ryzen 3950x" is just a scary new word for "z80" or "6502".

Deepfakes don't provide any fundamentally new capability, but they do reduce the cost and time required to create a convincing fake video by multiple orders of magnitude. That completely changes the threat model, from "our propaganda rival occasionally releases a fake video that we have to debunk" to "our propaganda rival is producing thousands of fake videos every day and we can't even keep track of them".
The New York Post has actually been one of the most consistent places for breaking Epstein news. Most major news outlets have employees implicated with Epstein and have reported (or not) accordingly.

It's quite telling when the corruption and scandal is so large that only "fringe" outlets are able to report on in. Also cf. with Ronan Farrow and Weinstein.
"You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics." This was true for a few years, until it wasn't.
> And in this day and age, with modern cars being quite unserviceable, I don't know many (whether poor or not) that fix their own cars, except for very basic things (changing oils, and so on. Not many tools needed for those).

Well, you just met one. Aside from pulling the engine, which would need a hoist I don't own, or body work (I've never been much good with sheet metal), there isn't a job I can't do on my car, which is a 2012 hybrid. Diagnostics are a USB dongle instead of a stethoscope now, and tweaks are likewise software-based, but here on HN of all places, this should not be surprising. Bearings are still bearings, tires are still tires, and the whole thing is held together with clips and screws and glue just like every other car in the history of cars. It's hardly rocket science.
To a point. Electrical tape doesn't do anything for a cable that is pulled 1/8" out of the brick and ruined internally (what has ultimately killed my 'zebra' taped up magsafe chargers).
12000 miles a year at 13mpg and 2.5$ gas is $2308 per year. With a 5 year ownership time you are saving only [$11500-charging electricity costs]. So mid range $57000 AWD becomes $45500. Still pricey for most people.

I'd rather them come out with totally utilitarian bare bones truck but with the range and basic capabilities for $25K or so. THAT would be a game changer in the SUV/Truck space.
dang: thank you for choosing the other thread over this one. (I felt compelled to comment on both threads due to the clickbaity, potentially incendiary nature of this thread's headline, which doesn't do justice to the speech.)
My point was that machines mastered tic-tac-toe 50 years ago and mastered Go just last year. Making a statistical model to predict a small subset of three body problems isn't very impressive at all, kinda like tic-tac-toe. It is a bit interesting that it works, but not much more than that. Adding another body, or adding starting velocities to these three bodies, would make the problem a lot less tractable, so it is very unlikely the same techniques will work there.
Hah, everybody was screaming yesterday at work cause of the Lakers (we are in crunch mode). I could care less :)
All I can do is offer hypotheses.

I suspect it's death by a thousand cuts. Some broad categories: 1) What happens to kids before they ever reach school age, and the environment they experience when they are not in school. 2) Though teacher quality is only part of the equation, teachers compete to transfer out of the poorest districts. 3) Lower expectations from school leadership, parents, and community -- possibly inadvertent due to not even knowing what high expectations look like.

My kids are in a public school system that's believed to be of very high quality. Parents bid blindly on houses to get their kids into this district. We probably have one of the highest percentages of parents with advanced degrees in the country. The "lucky" kids start kindergarten knowing how to read, are coached in math at home, may be learning more than one language, taking music lessons, eating right, playing outside, etc. Parents have time to volunteer at school, which is not just an added supply of labor, but also helps reinforce the kind of learning atmosphere that educated parents value.
I grew up relatively poor (Appalachia 1980s/90s).

What made the difference for me were two things.

1) Parents that were role models. My mother didn't earn much money, but she had a tremendous work ethic (she grew up on a farm), and was a very disciplined person in terms of morality. She was always present in my life, and was quite firm and consistent in terms of discipline (if you did something wrong, you were punished; and you listened or else). My father was an entrepreneur, very creative, very intelligent, high ingenuity, exposed me to a lot of amazing experiences growing up (traveling, ideas, technology, etc). Neither parent drank, had drug problems, or had ever been arrested. I had a consistent, safe home environment, where being smart was encouraged, independence and success were outcomes to strive for.

2) A tremendous public education system, with high quality teachers across the board. Almost all of which were older women interestingly, most were very firm, attentive, and persistent. The school itself might have had several hundred students, but from K through 5, I had one male teacher out of maybe 15 or 20, and only one younger female teacher.

The kids that did the worst in school, almost universally had very bad home lives. They were not only extra poor, but they had terrible parents (or absentee parents); abusive, alcoholic, non-working, etc types.
Care to elaborate on why you feel they cannot correct the data? I am having trouble understanding.
At least in this case the money is moving from the council back to the central government. If you think making this point is useless, consider these two councils:

"In one case, Islington Council not only issued a parking ticket to itself, but then pursued itself at the Parking Adjudicator and then asked for costs against itself. "

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/consumer_affairs/arti...

And

"SOLICITORS working for Aberdeen City Council have been told the authority will be able to go ahead with legal action against itself over the closure of a city homeless hostel."

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1577294