jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I had kind of figured he wasn't American, but also misunderstood what he meant by "take it off the table". He's since updated it saying he meant to pay market rates, which is absolutely correct. I think you just need to pay enough to take the worry of being able to pay cost of living for the summer off the table.
I'd be surprised if they did. Doesn't seem like it fits their Silverlight strategy. With that said, I wasn't at Mix and Tom was.
Move to the town of a school of your choice. Most schools allow you to pay and enroll in a class as a non-matriculated student. Enroll in classes in the area that you would like to study. Meet the professors. Work with them. Impress them with your intelligence and diligence. Talk to them about getting admitted. This might require multiple tries.
If you go to the source article that TC referenced, Dorsey is actually quoted. Poor job on TC's part.

http://demiandashton.org/news/demi-moore-and-ashton-kutcher-...
works fine for me. You need to enable quicktime to run on the site though. it does not by default now.
Preach, Freddy, preach.

I need Freddy to start the central 'normal person' party (in the US) so that my wife and I can join. I, and I'm sure many others strongly believe we're just seeing a natural swing in extreme views (left and right), which if suppressed, will only prolong the pain of embarrassment that is being human today. It doesn't help that these views make good 'circus' views. The pendulum will swing back to sanity... eventually.

"We didn't start the fire" - Billy Joel 1989 (apparently the internet we know and love/hate today started in 1983 [1], but I think the goofiness of the ref still works)

1. https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtm....
No. If they let you out on bail, or decide to book and release you, then the time limit is different.
Except there point in the Constitution that says otherwise.
I believe that’ll continue like this at least till Dalai Lama’s death.

Then, there would be the whole issue of the next Dalai Lama. Just like Panchem Lama, there will be two successors - one picked by the Chinese and the other legitimate one.

What happens next is anyone’s guess....
> How is sunsetting Answers related to mismanagement?

Considering that oath is an ad company and Answers is among the top results for many Google searches and most of the Answer traffic probably is read only this is weird.

Answers users give an intent what they are up to, which allows targeting ads based on that topic. Having mostly readily traffic means that infrastructure can be efficient ...

So yeah, manageqment didn't handle the position well.
"There's a 100% chance of some sort of conflict between the US and China over Taiwan [etc]"

Yes, it's happening all the time along with several other conflicts. However it is not WWIII as envisaged by OP or me.

WW3 is what I and anyone else aged around 50+ worried about in the '50-'90s and it was a sort of W Europe + US n that vs the USSR and that and would involve tactical nukes to start with and then go strategic or vice versa (without the versa.)

The sort of conflict that might spring up between the US and another nation in a major way over something is a bit undefined at the moment. It might involve the USMC and a carrier group or whatever or something else. Perhaps we could get PotUS to play Top Trumps vs Pooh Bear. I don't know but I am fairly sure that nuclear is still off the table.

I think you might be right about space: willy waving with minimal personal danger sounds about right.
Yes, I did. It's not there.
See, the comment above you is how the reader of that article was supposed to react, while you are the irregular one asking questions.

The article simply lies. Finding illegal content on a giant service like Pornhub is actually less likely because of the automated moderation and content identification systems that already have most of the unwanted content in their databases. In comparison, some small sites or forums might still have something uploaded a decade ago, and do nothing about it until someone complains. Also, if you think that a company of that scale doesn't have behind-the-scenes agreements with law enforcement (in addition to whatever legal obligations they have in native jurisdiction), you don't understand how internet works today, and who is the global policeman in it.

Any serious internet user knows that stories of common people finding “loads of child porn” somewhere are obvious fantasies. Heck, even some other content that teens shared on CD-Rs 15 years ago is nowhere to be found today. But the article is clear about the type of people it addresses, and it's not actual internet users.
Would it be better to deprecate the world plagiarism and fork it into the words cheating and reputation stealing? To me, that would ultimately be more accurate, because it better encapsulates the harm involved.
Very fair point, since "free puppy" misses the "free as in freedom" aspect. I think it works better than than "free as in beer", which captures part of the CapEx dimension but none of the OpEx dimension.
Content is king..
Not to disagree with the broader point about the integrity of world records, but I thought this perspective was interesting:

> I don’t want a five-set final at the Australian Open thinking “Shit, I wonder if this result would be different if Thiem and Djokovic could swap tennis rackets? If only my guy had a different sponsor”.

A similar dynamic already exists in many team sports, where the elites can sign all the stars and smaller teams have to try and win with better drafting, coaching, player development, etc. And in these cases, fans often seem to love watching a less-privileged team overcome those challenges to win (see Leicester City or small college basketball teams like Oral Roberts as examples.)
Which is what I demonstrated the parent poster did.
> I recommend you read their FAQ

Could you provide a concrete link please? There's a bewildering array of officials looking websites with zero information. And a widely shared white paper (among others linked from Wikipedia) that Josh claims isn't the whitepaper he originally wrote. It's hard to know what's what.
Don't give em ideas!

Seriously though, I wonder if the reason is that the creators speak English as a second language.
It's spacetime curvature. This is an important distinction, because although you can zero out the spatial component of your 4-vector you can't also zero out the time component.

Apparently you can think of the gravitational force as arising from time gradients [1]. Time flows slower closer to the planet, so if your arm is pointing towards the planet then your arm is advancing slightly slower in a particular way and this creates a situation where your arm wants to pull away from you; an apparent force.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKxQTvqcpSg
I just had a conversation about this last friday with a coworker. We both basically came to the conclusion that the only e-books that work are prose-oriented, not learning-oriented.

With your average novel, you only read from beginning to end, and you only read words. With a textbook, you not only read words, but you read diagrams and figures. You also skip around...you follow footnotes, references, and you also might follow a curricula that was not defined by the author. You will often refer to two or three different hotspots while studying a single chapter...for example, while working on practice problems, you will flip back and forth between the practice problems, the chapter intro, the context for that problem, and possibly a chapter recap.

This user-adoption gap is not one of the underlying medium, but rather of the user interface. Flipping pages one at a time is not sufficient.
Yes, they work in crews and travel to different states. They have to eat, and stay in hotels for days or weeks.
Then they (Microsoft) should deliver an update that disables this functionality, within the the next three hours.

Then re-enable it when the fix is in.
I don't think the author understands why/how Cloud business works.

Software is just part of it. It is a logistics problem fundamentally. And Amazon is not only a software shop, it is also the most advanced logistics company in US, both physically and virtually, and those two go hand-in-hand.

So no, I don't think FB can get into Cloud business anytime soon, and I also doubt they have that much of the cash to actually expand the business, it is going to be huge investment, globally. The market right now is not going to be forgiving to new comers.

Disclaimer: ex-AWS employee
Very few people know what the second world is!

Hint: or was.
It was only 12 years later when Neil Gaiman wrote:

"The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel."

-"Neverwhere" (1996)
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I remember in the late 90s (I think) articles about how MS just didn't get enterprise and would never break in.
There is no plan to do that, but as time goes on, the bar gets higher and higher.

We are not changing the language in backwards-incompatible ways.
Technically nobody is because it forces you to share your contacts' data.

Technicality aside no, the issue is that it forces you to use it.
Why on earth would number of languages have anything to do with it. That doesn’t make sense. Parochial number of languages doesn’t capture the idea of understanding multiple paradigms, low level / high level, type system considerations.

A person might have zero experience except Node.js yet still show high mastery of functional programming, mixed OOP, design patterns, compilers, etc.

Setting any threshold on languages just sets up a meaningless metric.
This is sadly just another day at the office for Georgia election officials. Not really comparable to what's going on in the Capitol (the AJC didn't even have mention of it on their webpage last I checked)
Yes, but there are also situations that demand certainty and accuracy in estimates. One must appease them by looking as though you are trying.
It needs to be made clear that the path of
progress is littered with hurt feelings, and
that the importance of our feelings is
significantly dwarfed by the collective
good of science and democracy.

This is a false dichotomy.

The human race is not a zero-sum game with "feelings" on one side and "progress" on the other!

Don't lose sight of why we're making all of this progress in the first place.

We are not building more highways and inventing more computers just for the heck of it. We are -- or should be -- doing it to improve the happiness of ourselves and those who come after us.

Y'know, happiness? One of those pesky feelings you mentioned?
These are the same people and ideologies that made up the white supremacist dominionist militia movements in the 80s that were only treated as a threat after the OKC bombing and have been purposefully allowed free rein under Trump. This aint cause of fucking "cancel culture"
That should be an option for everyone to decide.

Just an example. Right now if two websites want to use https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.mi... they'll download it twice because of "privacy". That's nonsense and I'd turn off that misfeature if I could.
I'm all good about the single binary for installation and I understand the concept better now for achieving the same level of documentation in any project.
Maybe the problem is more an unequal distribution of "freeness" of speech across the society; grouped as the ruling political class, the opposition political class, and the distribution of thought in the populace.

The ruling class says whatever it wants with belief that there can never be any negative results for any action they take (max "freeness"),

the opposition can't talk about anything in a substantive way because all they do is react to the inane and random political grenades thrown by the ruling party (very constrained "freeness" really. Being forced to respond to propaganda-maximizing controversy after propaganda-effectiveness-maximizing controversy is a record that sucks to play and is definitely forced onto the air more than everyone wants -- and the targets of the propaganda blame the wrong people for why they have to keep listening to it ... )

the people are left with no meaningful political voice (0 freeness of speech) because there's virtually 0 correlation between anything being talked about in the political dances and anything that is actually sufficiently practical to talk about as to be worth the cognitive attention required to talk about it ... You can't have free political speech when there are no political engagements worth talking about ...

The "team sport" that is the current political landscape is not at all a fun or useful game -- some amount of fun and usefulness is gonna need to be found and introduced to the process of defining government to help move out of this ...
A great many of the people involved were not alive as adults in the 70s and 80s.
That advice only works with people with little experience.

For us folks on our late 20s, that have 7+ years of experience, compensation matters.
If you already been into few good startups, or build from scratch successful products in a larger company, you have very little to learn into joining yet another startup.

Also, if you are good you probably have a lot of choices out there.
It is not a startup vs. big corp binary choice.
A lot of mid-size companies also offer flexible work conditions with good pay.

My advice:
1. Learn what your value as an engineer is in the market.
2. If the startup is underpaying you, tell them what the difference is, and make sure you negotiate a good equity for it.
3. Place it in writing that your salary will go to full market value once the company gets the next round of funding.

At the end is your decision on what you are itching for. Just remember, most stock options go nowhere.
It's more humane if it's conscious because to make an animal unconscious you have to hurt it. I'd rather simply kill it instead of hurt it first, and then kill it.

A captive bolt does not always work on the first try, and it doesn't always fully stun either.

You can't just increase the power of the bolt or you get brain matter mixed into the meat, raising the risk of mad cow disease. So you have to carefully tune it to "enough to stun, not enough to kill". It doesn't always work.

With Kosher slaughter on the other hand making sure the animal dies very fast is important otherwise the meat is not kosher and can't be sold.
Better yet, let's have politics decide all economic questions. Then there'll be no gaming of anything.
Put your email in your profile so people can contact you. Next, check my profile and contact me.

I'm highly skeptical of a 'business type' with no friends, but I'll always entertain what you have to say.

Also, the next Mark Zuckerberg no longer needs an Eduardo Saverin, he can get a server for free from Google, Amazon, or spend $5 a month on a dreamhost account.

You also say that you need a business model, yet reference Zuckerberg. Facebook is the prototypical VC funded company with no business model, until a few hundred million into VC. Yes, Facebook finally found one, and is now profitable.
LinkedIn is also VC funded.
Yup, I'm 20 right now, so that was when I was 8 years old. I imagine everyone under the age of 25 frequenting this site is unlikely to remember / know about the magazine.

Still cool to see a piece of history come back through!
From 2006: http://panela.blog-city.com/python_at_google_greg_stein__sdf...
More recently: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/923225/does-google-use-py... (includes a quote from Alex Martelli)

The trick is that Python is a bit like special sauce. If your business is booming because of it's use, you are wary of expressing it as much, because it allows you to get so much more done so much more quickly than your competitors. If they find out, then they may have a chance to catch up.

It always blew me away seeing startups using JSP, .NET, etc., when starting out. Get it done first, then make it fast (if you need to).
>The law prohibiting discrimination against persons by reason of their religion is defined to include directly passing over someone because of their beliefs.

Actually I would guess the author supports religious discrimination, although he doesn't make a clear statement either away. If the discriminator is a private citizen, then a freedom to discriminate follows directly from the basic freedoms he lists, particularly freedom of association.

He evaded this issue by only giving examples of public discrimination (by public schools, courts, and government employers).
You don't have to keep living in the US.
It's largely called SARS-CoV-2 because, surprise, it's in the coronavirus family that causes SARS. Yes, it is a respiratory disease, but what we've learned in the last year is that the worst respiratory effects from this disease aren't from it infecting pneumocytes (that's how it spreads) but from the emboli that it creates which then block the vasculature of the lungs.

I'd suggest this lecture by Dr. Seheult of MedCram which dates back to around the time we started discoverying the concerning underlying pathologies of the disease process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlUFibXtDxQ

This is also one of the possible explanations for the appearances of rash-like lesions in the extremities of younger populations who are otherwise asymptomatic: Capillary vasculature becoming blocked by the formation of emboli creating a redness in the skin is another feature of a disease that is primarily vascular in nature. Not to mention the increased risk of stroke.

The correct answer is that it's "kind of both" but that the damaging effects from SARS-CoV-2 are less a consequence of destruction of lung cells, as was originally thought, and more a function of blocking the vasculature that carry away oxygen.
HN votes by how "truthy" something sounds - things can get really random the further the subject is from software/tech. Confirmation bias is a bitch.
I'm maybe misunderstanding this. They took shoes from nike, and modified them in various ways, then resold them. Nike sued because they left a nike logo visible. Isn't the right of first supposed to guarantee their right to resell these shoes?
I still use it occasionally. For one specific thing - tagging large files for batch delete.
No -

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696799/functions/ge...

but no 'getopt_long' (AFAICT).

OpenBSD, just as one example of a true unix-derived system, added it's own getopt_long only in 3.3 release which was 2003, ~17 years after the 1st posix in 1988. This article mentions getopt_long originating ~1990, after 1st posix standard.

http://man.openbsd.org/getopt_long
In Windows, you can do

dir /s graph.db

to find any occurrence of graph.db in any subdirectory|

The linux equivalent seems to be

tree -f | grep -i graph\.db

However, this seems to be taking approximately forever

Edit - 20 minutes later, still not done, is this an O(N^2) operation?
Edit - 35 minutes later, the wrong regex... have to do it again

tree -f | grep graph.db
The systems which did that, TOPS-20 and VMS, lost out to Unix, which didn't.
Actually, I just remembered something along the same lines from a few months ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI06lujiD7E
Don't use URL shorteners here. That link points to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%27s_room#Ramachandran_and_...
demo would be better if it were a horizontal bar shape instead of a circle.
> You don't change people's minds by releasing 2.8 million pages of documentation, you change it by repeating your slogan over and over and over.

Welcome to my quotes file. Do you want a name on that in case I use it sometime?
Can you recommend a good analysis of the Iraq leak?
Wikileaks leaking such documents makes it possible for the actual media to make fresh and truthful presentations with their data (thus maybe repeating your slogan again and again).
BBYOpen, Best Buy's API team, found some other interesting uses for the $99 Android tablet... :)

http://bbyopen.com/2010/11/maylong-android-tablet-more-versa...
Very cool proof of concept. The advances in web-front technologies are all so very exciting.
> Ask me anything.

Congratulations on all the successes. You guys are doing something way cool. One question - when did you know Dropbox was a winner? And if the answer is "right away," then when did you really know Dropbox was a winner?

Any specific events stand out to you?
Different pilot, but an impressive story as well:

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/sr-71_break-up.htm
I see it just fine in 7.0.517.44.
Consequentialism encompasses all value systems that incorporate consequences to any degree at all. So your "applying judgement according to reality and a measurable standard of value" system is actually consequentialist.
This article is correct, mathematically, from what I can tell. However, the author seems to not understand the meaning of skill.

Apparently to the author a skilled player is one who knows and plays all the odds correctly whereas an unskilled player plays randomly, or sub-optimally. If all players are equally knowledgeable of all the probabilities involved, then the game is a game of luck.

A true game of skill is one in which there is no luck factor. No matter the relative skills of the players, the most skilled player will win. For example, boxing is a game of skill. Poker is not. Two grand masters of poker playing against each other, the result will be determined by the cards. They might as well play Candy Land instead.
If Singapore is anything like downtown San Francisco, they may save paint and tax dollars by indicating where you can make a U-turn rather than where you can't. It could also be a way of reducing sign clutter, which is an eyesore and safety issue in the US.
Yep, changed :)
We value honesty and telling the truth. And when people do, we express outrage.

Unemployed people also have limited resources and cannot apply for every job. Isn't it better to know you won't be considered instead of wasting your time trying to get through invisible filters?

Employers employ all sorts of arbitrary mechanisms to narrow their choices. And so do you, most likely, when you make your economic decisions.
Should come in handy for WWDC next week. /not going to WWDC
From the article: "There are about 5.5 people looking for work for every job available, according to the latest data from the Labor Department. "

That's not much. Oh, and OUCH!
In the early 2000's I was still speaking to Theo, and I don't believe that during that time period he ever did systemic fuzz testing on OpenBSD. SPIKE wasn't even released until 2002.

Also: while we use fuzzers to probe for specific kinds of crypto flaws, the kind of fuzzing being done then (and for the most part today) does not identify crypto flaws.

We are, let's be clear, talking about a project that appears to have managed to ship IPSEC code that didn't verify packet authenticators for something like a year.
I don't get the bad angle. Remote kill-switches would be very useful for corporate devices.

A problem would arise if Intel could also surreptitiously do firmware changes via this mechanism. On the positive side, however, companies could push updates automagically.

As long as a customer knows what he's buying and can disable the feature, it's a great addition for people or companies needing extra security.