jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As codehalo pointed out, there's no magnetic pattern that represents coins on your hard drive. There is a magnetic pattern that represents your private key for your wallet (if you store it there), which possession of you might equate to possession of the coins to since without it they can't be used.

Still, access isn't really possession is it. I can lend my house key to a friend but they don't possess my house. The deed is what really declares me the owner. In the case of your coins, it's the consensus of the blockchain.
Almost every single tool in the k8s ecosystem is a simple statically linked go-based executable. Core stuff like kubectl, helm, etc. Read any k8s guide and step 1 is usually "go download all theses exes from github releases" (or more in vogue now, install a global NPM package that has the executable in its bin dir).
Tangentially related: there's a guy in Poland running a blog about personal finance (i.e. some advice how to save money on your bills, or how to start investing in stocks, etc.) Some time ago he self-published a book, promoted it through social media, and of course through his blog. Later he made a blog post about how much money he made on that book. Believe it or not, but in 3.5 years, on the limited Polish market (the book was in Polish, so no more than 40 million people speaking the language worldwide) he grossed $2M in revenue, over $1M after-tax profit for about 90k copies sold.

For those of you who speak Polish (or are willing to go with Google Translate) here's the link:

https://jakoszczedzacpieniadze.pl/ile-zarobila-ksiazka-finan...

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=pl&tl=en&u=htt...
I love it guys, please take my money!
Most of the places I've seen this go bad were because one side was incentivized to not care about the other.

If product has PM or financial incentives that reward without regard to technical debt...

If engineering has PM or financial incentives that reward without regard to user experience...

If you want people to cooperate, set up shared, team-based incentives!
How far do we take this? What percentage of Macbook users use the tilde key? How many users open the terminal? What percentage of users use multiple desktops?

The reason Excel remains the dominant spreadsheet software is because it has dozens of features that other spreadsheet applications don't have. Each one of those features is only used by a small portion of the user base but if you add up the users which use at least one of these features it starts representing a significant chunk of users. Each of those feature independently isn't worth implementing in competing platforms because "Google sheets should not be designing their app around the needs of 1% of users", but the culmination of all of those features add up to a platform Google Sheets just cannot compete with.
I agree, with my proven addictive personality (i'm a smoker!), I'm terrified of morphine (and less pure versions), I have been in situations where the big bad H or opium was offered but have always refused not because I was really afraid of harm or of legality but because I was afraid that I would like it too much. I've long held to the morbid fact that as soon as I get my cancer/heart-failure/other terminal diagnosis, then I'll be starting Opium use with gusto!
> Actually you don't want to ever use exception driven development. The use of the as operator is a simple metadata check. Throwing exceptions in .Net is expensive.

it doesn't matter, it's throwing an exception when the caller code is broken. That's ok, it's an error.
Japanese! The Hiragana and Katakana is the easy part too! Kanji broke me. Send an email to sherman.boyd at armored.io and I'll make you a gift of "Remembering the Hiragana","Remembering the Katakana" and "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig.
PR.

Fast food chains have high turnover. People are always leaving, so even if McDonalds was slowly contracting, they'd be hiring new people at a high rate.

This press release does create a sense of optimism about the economy which might be justified. The economy looks pretty good from my position, but could look pretty lousy to somebody who's unemployed.

My feeling is that people have been getting pessimistic because of $4 gas and the talk about the federal deficit. I see a lot of evidence that companies of various sorts are moving forward with initiatives all over the place so I'm a believer in the recovery.
Cool, I'd be interested in hearing how you got on. We're currently 15 hours in (or 2 pizzas and 1 indian meal if you use those units).
sorry I have only a little value to add... but Toscanini's is some of the best ice cream you can get in Boston.
Any mass market product will have to compromise in some way in order to be affordable for the masses. Good engineers and designers find ways to compromise that don't make the products suck.

I have to admit, though, "faithful reproduction" sounds like a great platform for Republicans in 2012.
That's a good point, and I wasn't aware of this discussion, which gives your comment more useful context. I think there are a lot more examples than pg hints at, they just happen to be less common in tech...which someone else theorized could be because money is so easy to come by in technology and less so in other fields. People don't have to bootstrap as often in tech, so fewer big success stories started out by bootstrapping.

I think maybe it's a hard thing to figure out because there are so few Googles, Amazons, and Apples in the world. If you only have a few extreme outliers to look at as your data, your conclusions might be completely wrong, even though they fit the data perfectly.
Ludum Dare!! 48 hour game compo!!! wwwwwoooo!
http://www.ludumdare.com/
The numbers themselves:

Java 213
C 19
Python 16
C++ 12
JavaScript 10
C# 9
Perl 9
Scala 9
PHP 7

I think the crucial statistic would be that there's >10 times more Java projects than the next-most-popular language.
There's also an app to cut-paste files. It's their way of getting users to adopt their design decisions, make it the most practical option by not supporting alternatives. Pretty effective.
I know a joke similar to that.

Q. How do you keep goats from escaping their enclosure?

A. Rinse goat meat well, rub lime juice over it (from 1/2 whole lime), place meat in a bowl, then add salt, black pepper, Scotch bonnet, thyme, allspice, curry powder, scallions, onion and garlic. Leave to marinate for at least 2 hours in the refrigerator, longer would be ideal. Heat the oil in a skillet until it is very hot, and saute the meat until golden brown. Then add the marinade, tomatoes and coconut milk, if using, and simmer for approximately 3 more minutes. Add water, reduce heat and allow to simmer for 2 to 3 hours stirring occasionally until meat is tender.
Because no one has any business knowing what content you're accessing. That should be a secret between yourself and the website you're on.
Why not do it as HTML/CSS then? The design only has to be done once and the translations could be imported via XMl or PHP includes or something. That would allow for a bit of a fluid layout and give you a web version automatically as well. The only problem I see is that if you translate to say, Chinese, I'm guessing you'll send up with a lot fewer characters and trying to fit it in the same design might not look very good.
A very nice introduction - There is a also a lot of interesting material on these topics in the academic literature. Here's a couple of nice examples:

(1) M. Newman's publications contain a wealth of ideas and insights into these topics:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/pubs.html

Also, much credit goes to Barabasi who made many contributions to this field and did much to popularize it (along with Watts and Strogatz)

http://www.barabasilab.com/pubs-revart.php

For the future, there are many interesting possibilities in the study of dynamical processes on networks (e.g. reaction-diffusion / message passing / synchronization) - for a high level treatment see this excellent review:

Critical phenomena in Complex Networks
http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0010
Forth claimed to be 5 times faster than BASIC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace

Everyone went to assembly if they wanted speed. I think Forth requires more thinking than BASIC (at least, of a mathematically flexible kind).
But... but... but... Eric Raymond said, "If I were an Apple marketing guy, I’d be asking “How the hell can I compete against the EVO 4G with this?”.
First I'll speak of property in general, not just intellectual property.

Property is for the benefit of its owner. Roughly speaking, you own something if you produce it yourself or acquire it in rightful trade from its previous owner.

Society is a group of individuals. Any individual who does not "tolerate" other people owning property is behaving very rudely.

I won't bore you with my views on intellectual property specifically, but I'll just say that I think people can manage it contractually.
Looking forward zed!
"fair insurance", "There should be not one penny left ", "Lottery pleasure is empty"... You are stating a lot of opinions but not many facts. Also, why isn't it "fair" for insurance companies to turn a profit while it's fine for other types of businesses?
Perhaps a more cogent axiom is to reason ethically rather than aim to maintain politeness. That has the added effect of distilling whether the audience is someone that can be reasoned with and large subset of polite etiquette is encapsulated within the constraint of ethical reasoning. If that was followed it would help maintain a decent signal to noise ratio as well.
Slightly off-topic, but if you're in quarantine and wondering how to play wondorous games of Magic, say no more:

https://cockatrice.github.io/

http://xmage.de/

(the latter is way more buggy but has actual rule enforcement, the first is very polished but you have to do everything by hand as though it were a physical board game)
There were 6 patients in that group. No mention of how they were selected. Some patients dropped out of the treatment group because they died or went to the ICU. These could affect the numbers significantly.
I did hear that, but sometimes is nice do do things from the UI, especially when testing new services.
Hi, are you / will you be hiring for Full-time Software Development Internships or Co-ops? I'm a grad student at Northeastern University Boston and will be graduating in May 2021, and I'm looking for Summer/Fall internships at the moment.
Thanks!
Out of interest, how did the startup pan out?
I couldn't agree more that this editor's fate is deserved and that this is an "apology" only in the traditional meaning of that word (an attempted defense and not a mea culpa), and a poor one at that. I also have been critical of her unbelievably tone-deaf approach to the subject of handling the complaint of an innocent person whom she had wronged (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1870300).

Yet, at some level, I do feel sorry for this person in a sense that I can best describe through an anecdote.

I once had to fire one of my employees (an attorney) who had been with me no more than a few weeks and who produced atrociously bad work when measured by the standards that apply to legal work in the startup area (which must technically meet high standards or else). This employee was a very nice person but, as I saw her work in various contexts, I realized that she was basically in way over her head. The details are not important, except to note the following: as I was explaining the reasons for having to fire her, she had this astonished look in her eyes, as if, all through her schooling and prior work experiences, no one had ever been straight with her about her shortcomings. In essence, she truly didn't have what it took ever to be good in this field (I did not put it to her that bluntly, of course). As I talked with her and tried to encourage her in any way I could about her future, I was literally grieved to realize that this young lady had essentially been coddled all the way through the school system in a way that left her to hit a cold wall of reality only after having likely wasted all kinds of time and money in pursuing a career for which she was not at all suited. This was one of the saddest encounters I have ever had. Though I was the one who had been short-changed in the relationship, and hurt financially owing to incompetent work, I could not help but feel profoundly sorry for that young lady.

I would say that this editor too is a sadly misplaced person for her chosen field and that this whole episode has essentially exposed that fact in a very public way. There is something quite tragic in all this, even as it is hard to sympathize either with her position taken in this fiasco or with her clumsy (and unwise) attempts to defend the indefensible. Above all, this must have been a severe embarrassment and humiliation for this editor, whether or not deserved, and at a human level I am truly sorry for her.
You didn't get downvoted for mentioning gender. You got downvoted for strawmans.
I frequently get friend requests from fake profiles on Facebook (sometimes as many as 2-3 per week). They always list themselves as having gone to my high school (which is why I am positive they are fake, since I went to a tiny high school), and they always are attractive-looking women. I do not list my sex on Facebook, but it is possible that the bot recognizes my first name as male and therefore friends me with a female profile, and that there are other spam profiles which are male, but I am almost certain this is not the case since I see in my news feed whenever one of my high school friends falls for the spammer, and they are again always female profiles. So I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of spam profiles on Facebook are of females.

The most widespread method of stopping spam in any form is to use flags to train an machine learning algorithm that picks out particular patterns in spam. These algorithms don't have political agendas, they just pick out common characteristics of spam. It is therefore entirely unsurprising that any such spam detector would learn to only flag women, and therefore to be expected that a bug in that algorithm which generated false positives would affect only women's profiles.

The reason you are downvoted is not because you are trying to highlight women's issues (I got 50+ karma for calling out another comment as sexist against women a few weeks ago), but because you were quick to imply a sexist motive for behavior that most any hacker would have immediately recognized as a natural consequence of how poorly-performing spam-detectors behave.
A related thought experiment: if programmers were to work for free, would non-programmers think up of lots of clever things for them to build?
I agree with all you've said except that you should never ever do A it all depends on the situation.

A fight doesn't last all that long when it gets to punches. Chances are if he throws the first punch and connect, it will be over. If the fight is unavoidable and will happen for sure (the other is really just there looking for a fight, you're getting mugged, you can't flee etc.), you better get your opponent out of condition asap and get away.
Othman Laraki.
Advisor

Othman Laraki is a well known microangel (investments of $100 or less) and advisor to a number of incubators (e.g. BecauseCombinator) and marquee startups such as AirTensil (the AirBnB for people who own utensils), KitchenMine (a startup which builds custom kitchens within Minecraft), and the Like a Boss SNL video.
European carriers charge each other to receive SMS as well, they just don't customarily pass it on to the consumer. The mobile network "Three" used to have a program where they'd pass on the money received to consumers, and it became a scam, popular in Italy, to send yourself hundreds of SMS (from "free SMS" websites) to get free money.
Information point : I got an E-2 for my software startup in 1999, investing $100k for 100%. I've been renewing ever since, and (post angel round), I'm now at 72%. Of course, renewal require that the business passes various other tests.

The E-2 visa is really a two-stage thing : The company needs approval, and then the individuals get their E-2s on the back of the company.

FWIW, I've done all the legal work for myself.
I'd like to move my family off of WhatsApp due to these concerns. I've used Signal before, but I am not a big fan of it. I often have to re-register my devices to sign in, syncing takes a long time, and conversations do not persist across devices. I am perfectly happy using a paid service. Does anyone here think Discord or Slack would be a suitable replacement?
She’s setting up a scene for a play. Just from those couple line I’m writting whole thing off as same neocon Russian witch hunt we saw in recent years.

Obscure company? Ain’t that some bullshit.
I think the internet was much better when most of my family and friends didn't know how to use it.

But yeah, I know it's basically a necessity now, and I understand that services need to cater to as many people as possible. I just wanted to be a cranky old nerd for a bit :-)
This is pretty cool.

One thing I noticed is that Cmd-Clicking a variable only shows where it was defined. I think it would be pretty useful if you could also see the places it was changed.
Looking for people actually doing this, and I stumbled up this interesting article:

https://samy.pl/magspoof/

It's crazy, if your electro magnet is strong enough, you don't even need a tin foil wrapped credit card to put in the machine!
There's at least two M1 optimisations targeting Apple's software stack:

1. Fast uncontended atomics. Speeds up reference counting which is used heavily by Objective-C code base (and Swift). Increase is massive comparing to Intel.

2. Guaranteed instruction ordering mode. Allows for faster Arm code to be produced by Rosetta when emulating x86. Without it emulation overhead would be much bigger (similar to what Microsoft is experiencing).
There's no reason why it would need to take more than a few minutes.

It's not going to happen, but not due to time constraints.
Is this a joke? Sounds like some bureaucratic decision where you'd create a committee to come up with New Coke. Most people aren't going to care.
>That article isn't trying to remain impartial at all.

I have not seen one single article on this trial that hasn't been very heavily biased in favour of Ellen Pao. Not one.

I'm not surprised this isn't the case yet again. The media are calling this institutional misogyny regardless of the facts or the judgement by the jury. If she wins, it's institutional misogyny, if she loses it's institutional misogyny.

At this stage I'm convinced that tech journalism is the lowest form of journalism available today.
Wrong, preserving Net Neutrality was very important but it's just not the whole solution and no one ever said it was... It's called taking the first step.

The next step is stopping the TWC/Comcast merger.
This isn't surprising. Dartium has always been a nifty project, but you'll never get all the major players to agree on a radical change like this. It was always destined to be a "second VM" like VBScript.

asm.js illustrated the right political approach -- build something that degrades nicely now, then get the vendors to optimize it.
It's absolutely shocking that you're able to easily understand a literal hello world example in a language in the dominant paradigm, but not able to easily understand a significantly more complex example in a language from a different paradigm that you haven't taken the time to learn. Absolutely shocking.
Like so often on HN when this comes up, you fail to even get the basic facts right. Such as which CEO was "kicked out". And it certainly wasn't for far less
Imagine a woman who is addicted to alcohol and drugs; who has had a string of abusive partners (who abused her and her children); and who has had several children permanently removed by the state because she was abusive and she failed to protect the children from her abusive partners.

Now imagine that she tells you she intends to get pregnant as soon as she can, but this time it'll be different, and she'll look after the child.

There are some groups who'd want to support the woman to avoid pregnancy until she's got some stability in place, but who would also support her if she has a child.

There are some groups who'd want to try to incentivise her not to have a child, maybe by paying her to have implantable birth control.

And there are some extremist groups who think she's simply an unfit mother who should never have a child, and so they pay for her to be sterilised. This is eugenics.

Inside the Ethics Committee had a programme about an incentive programme in the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b01l7wyv

It's a heartbreaking situation for these women, who are repeatedly traumatised by having their children taken away from them.
Honest question - does there need to be a value-based case for trading something? Does the SEC have a mandate for stopping purely speculative trades?
It's also notable that CO2 sensors utterly suck, none of the consumer ones do absolute measurement, they assume a baseline and calibrate their output to that.
Just google the tickers. These are penny stocks (or rather _way below a penny_) pump and dump scams.
Integration by itself is not anticompetitive.

Going back to the Microsoft example, Microsoft got into trouble, not because they were bundling a web browser with an OS (which would be stupid to not have), but because they were forbidding OEMs to include any other browser on pain of revoking their agreements. That is anticompetitive.

If Apple were forbidding the installation of WhatsApp because it competes with iMessage, that would be the most direct equivalent to what Microsoft was sanctioned for.

Anticompetitive behavior is a legal term with a specific definition, it does not apply to software that decreases a competitor's potential marketshare only by way of doing something a competitor could be doing on their own.