jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Nice review - I made the mistake of reading the 1 star reviews for the same book. Incredibly irritating. A book with goofy elephants, jelly stains and a ludic Socratic exposition is not everyone's cup of tea - I get that. But the fact that this book is read, reissued and somewhat relevant more than 30 yrs after its original writing deserves some consideration.

I think the most striking thing about this book is that it does not in any way require you to turn on the computer. It is a good exercise in this regard. I first read this a few years back and immediately thought that if I had to teach someone from scratch about programming I would use this first...
tl;dr - TC declares GMail dead before Facebook does anything besides hint at a possible product.

Same douchenozzle declared how Twitter killed RSS about a year ago.

http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/05/05/rest-in-peace-rss/
The photo appears on the register (downloaded from our server each time you check out) in front of the cashier. The photo on the phone is just for aesthetics.
Upvoted. I see your point.

Question for you: Is there any way it could be different, given the constraints the education system faces, such as limited time, untalented teachers, and the human need to quantify?
Cool - I hit Subway all the time. Is it up to the individual franchisee to buy the reader/subscribe to the program, or can/will Subway Corp. force it on them?
The world is bullshit.

And you certainly did your part in helping the world that direction.

You were willing to undersell yourself in allowing people to pass off your work and knowledge and skills as your own, and then you wonder why everyone around you seems to be so amazingly stupid. They're stupid because you provided them absolutely no incentive not to be. You made ignorance cheap, and as a result, it is precisely what you got.

There must've been some incentive for you, I presume. It probably wasn't the money, because you already said your fee was small. It wasn't the desire to wise these people up, because there was nothing for them to do once you were done. Why did you do this? I certainly hope it wasn't just for the sake of walking around smug amongst the uneducated masses, because then you are damning a monster you helped create.
Netflix is available on Roku, GoogleTV, and the Boxee Box which all run Linux kernels. Lack of DRM is the problem. I believe the interface is authored on top of Qt and DRM is handled by special hardware in these devices.
This is a bit of a silly statement, as it's grossly misleading. Firstly, in the very strictest sense it isn't true, given that defects in operating systems and processors and single event upsets due to cosmic rays can introduce some degree of randomness into computer processing. Secondly though, even ignoring all of that, it's not helpful. It's a bit like telling a chemist "remember, the chemicals will always do exactly what you tell them to." Well, sure, that's true in the abstract, but the full complexity of the entire process is greater than any human mind can cope with, so it's necessary to use models and techniques that bring that complexity down to human scale. The same goes for the full breadth of the complexity of programming significant pieces of software today.

The computer will do exactly what you tell it to, but your brain is not capable of determining exactly what the computer will do (it'll process billions of instructions a second, if you tried to fully map out the operations of a computer in complete detail you wouldn't get even a fraction of a second done in your lifetime). Which is why we have to use abstractions, models, and various techniques to render that complexity manageable by human minds.
It's a fallacy that all wealth is controlled and not created
If it expands the market, it's worth doing.

Keep in mind that people invested in BaseCamp will probably not find it easier to use at first, and unless it's a knockoff, it will always feel like it is missing features for many of those people.

I think it is more of matter of target market than anything else, and web entrepreneurs and programmers will be a harder market to penetrate than general small business.
Quite interesting. Thank you.
Well, but he can't even deduct the salaries of his cook, nanny, and gardener! You heartless fiend!
I find myself wondering if this is getting upvoted by Haskell contrarians who aren't actually reading the article and noticing that it not about Haskell "being too mathematical", but not being out-of-the-box suitable as a really convenient ring theory explorer.

I love how you, in the same sentence, managed to put in doubt credibility of the upvoters and downplay the issue in hand.

To answer your question: yes, I actually read the article. Why I upvoted it? Haskell's way of wrapping integer literals with implicit `fromInteger` seems to be a clever hack that alleviates some pain when dealing with basic arithmetics, but I always wondered what kind of unexpected problems it may cause. I got an answer in this article.
I don't think Microsoft will let that happen. In Poland such initiatives ended with Gates or Ballmer making a visit, shaking hands with few officials and jointly announcing renewed bond.
"Why do the woes of the hard-working doctor demand more sympathy than the woes of the hard working carpenter?"

If that's what you drew from the article; you've missed the point entirely. The point Adams is making is that a doctor making $250,000 per year has a lot more in common with the $40,000 per year carpenter than he does with the truly rich.

This isn't about having sympathy for the doctor OR the carpenter; it's about understanding that both of them will be significantly hurt by higher taxes. Since no one is talking about increasing taxes on the carpenter, it's fair to question whether we've set the bar of "rich" far too low--or if two categories even make sense.
If evidence in Wikileaks favor was leaked to Wikileaks the conflict of interest would call into question the validity of the evidence. It would be better if it were provided to a 3rd party with no stake in the outcome.
Am I the only one who thinks "gang rape" is a little extreme here? Granted, I'm on the low end of the "majority" but I find the perspective all sorts of wrong.

My family was left penniless just paying the healthcare bill for our first daughter, and even then I would never compare a broken system to gang rape. I'm not saying we should discount the woes of middle-class America, but I think it's irresponsible to act as though the poor don't have it worse — and even more irresponsible to imply that the poor and the rich are somehow in collusion to "rape" the middle class.

His initial point is a good one, but it strays really far.
Bill Gates is probably getting onto a plane for Russia about now, to make Putin an "philanthropic" offer he can't refuse. That's usually how it goes.
Apple prepares their moves well in advance, like a positional chess player. Can you really not see a future in which, for example, there's a display on a MBP trackpad?

And it's not "suddenly". You toggle a checkbox. For about five minutes, you get scrolling backwards. Your brain adapts, and then you move on with your life. Seriously, this is a total non-issue, regardless of whatever "different mental mode" nonsense you toss out. You are literally griping about a five minute period of confusion, and I'm guessing have spent years avoiding it.
My mistake, the fact that they have the ability to jump over distances is even cooler. Nice touch.
Having been to Vancouver and living in Europe[1], I have to agree that public transport can work very very well. My uncle, for example, lives in a small country town in Germany and it is serviced by a very regular train with which you can pretty much go anywhere (obviously the distant destinations require you to go to the closest city and transfer from there, but any local towns and villages are quickly and easily reached).

[1] Sadly, in Ireland, public transport is not so great. I have family in mainland Europe though and public transport is (generally) quite good there.
IMHO - CAFE laws "encouraged" the move to Trucks and SUVs as they were categorized differently and, as such regulated differently.

No, I don't have a link at hand. Sorry.
I use this. It is very sweet.
Personally, I believe they're trolling.
Are you serious ? Because you can't possibly think that asking SourceForge to "please stop making money" in order to please a handful of users will actually work.
On the other hand, think of all the companies Microsoft used to compete with that are basically gone.
"Our new organization, which is centered on functions and engineering areas, is right for the opportunities and challenges ahead."

I don't see customers in there. Perhaps being organized with an internal focus is part of their problem?

"We have more than 1 billion users and earn a great profit for our shareholders."

Depends on how you define profit. Shareholders who have been around since he took over have not seen a good return on their investment.
Thank God. (Speaking as an ex-Microsoftie).

Hopefully MS will lose the "we need to put Windows on everything, including embedded systems" attitude. Windows is a horrible bloated mess barely capable of successfully running on a tablet PC, much less smaller things. (And if you've ever had to /build/ Windows . . . OMG. OMFG).

There are core bits of Windows that are great; the I/O system is incredibly well done. Then then are core pieces of Windows which are incredibly shitty -- in fact, there are registry entries that /nobody knows what they do/. No one has had the gumption to clean that stuff up. But until they do, folks like Apple (who seem to have a good handle on their technology /and/ consumer design) will continue to be fierce competitors.

If they pick the wrong CEO, this could go south pretty quickly. They're going to need someone tough, who has a good horse sense about consumers and can't be snowed by engineering management trying to cover up mistakes.

BillG isn't coming back, but they need someone like him.
This might be a new variant of: You can tell how old a national lab is by what they study in the "physics" division.
Watched one video, and the recipes are good and the video production values are really high, and yet the views are really low. I have no great advice on how to fix that, all the ingredients (ha) seem to be there. I guess having watched a bunch of other food videos it seems like the gimmicks come first and the basics come second? Like babish with the TV food reproduction and emmy with the vintage MRE's. In the great war with the search machines there are few winners.
It’s a “Rapid application development” tool, targeting developers who create internal apps.
Fine motor skills are, afaik, controlled by different networks than gross motor skills. They develop at different times in the brains. I don't think they can be that directly compared. Besides, I do like to take a break if I'm typing or writing a lot :)
You could, except that they stopped the hobbiest program sadly.
hmm I didn't mean to come off that way. Obviously I'm not gonna change someone's opinion about something this significant in a single online comment. I'm just genuinely sad that they have that fear. I'm glad that I don't, and tried to present an alternative perspective on a complex issue.
I immediately tripped on the autocomplete issue. Still, a super neat thing.
I wonder how that applies when you purchase something from an Apple Store, since that means they're both.

I remember seeing a page on the Apple website listing info for extended warranties in EU member countries, which I assume this specific defect in the 2011 Macbooks is covered by.
Couple anecdotes.

A) Myself. I've had many experiences with such substances, and I used to suffer from that dread (without the anxiety). Generally happened at night as well. I would say that I'm pretty much not worried about death anymore. I don't really think about it anymore because it just doesn't seem relevant. It's hard to explain without babbling, but the way I think about the world and living has definitely been warped to the positive / accepting because of my experiences and my ensuing reflections about them.

B) My friend was (is?) suffering from panic attacks, and she had no problem with it when we did it together one time. She had a wonderful time, and said during it that she couldn't even understand how she could have one, like it was outside the realm of possibility.

Just anecdotes though. I don't think that everyone should do it, and I think it should be done with caution. I certainly didn't use caution when I started, and for a lot of people that wouldn't be a good idea.

Few more notes if you choose to try it:

0) Research.

1) Do it with people you trust, in a setting you feel comfortable, whether it be outdoors or in.

2) Don't do very much for your first time. I did too much (not shrooms) my first time and it was the most intense psychological experience of my life. It's pretty easy to dose shrooms though.

3) You might end up confronting your anxiety. I certainly have before. It always worked well for me. Mind you, it's not necessarily the most comfortable thing, but after I came to terms with whatever was bothering me, I felt much more peaceful and enjoyed the rest of the experience.

This is where good friends are key - it's wonderul being able to talk with people you completely trust in an entirely weird and different and empathetic setting. Judgment always seemed to just.. Disappear.
Are you serious? Isn't the GTI still faster?
if there is a bubble and it persists then the valuations you propose are more likely and would be provided by the same investors participating in the bubble today. so, not sure of your logic here. maybe if you proposed a metric for actual cash generation you'd be on to something, but there's nothing to suggest that actual cash generation will be the driver of the valuations.
While I think your intent and support is admirable I have doubts about the effectiveness and morals of AA.
Couldn't agree more about how much fun the TDI's are to drive! Simply a blast on tight, curvy roads.

Your note about the Tiguan makes me sad. I'm moving back to the US next week and was seriously thinking about getting a Tiguan (and hoping for a diesel). I'll add the Sportwagen TDI to my list.
I owned a 2009 Golf TDI and loved every minute of it. The car was simply a blast to drive. In the 18 months I drove the Golf I didn't have any issues with high-torque. In fact, the turbo lag guaranteed you wouldn't slam into the car in front of you unless your foot was firmly planted for multiple seconds.

The fantastic fuel economy was the icing on the cake.
I think you just misread his comment - his point was anti-sexist.
Sago, I hope you've heard of Alcor cryonics? It's not guaranteed, but it's better than 0 probability.
Couldn't not agree with more. The report is wrong, the author did't familiar with China at all.
I wrote an article [1] about this back in 2010 when Apple got into the chipmaking business with their A4 - there was a lot of confusion on the internet about RISC vs CISC and not much clarity on how the playing field has changed since the early days.

1: https://neosmart.net/blog/2010/the-arm-the-ppc-the-x86-and-t...
I should have put news as an example. How do youv erify information generally?
Oh come on now - don't pretend that comment was some neutral statement of fact. It was a clear implication of moral failure in your opponent's argument. And it's not really persuasive to then double down on a false dilemma (is my out-group evil, or just stupid?).
> Granted, most webapps probably don't have enough users to trigger them too often

It isn't purely a matter of number of users. You can have a billion users, but if your access pattern is embarrassingly isolated you are still probably okay. (And sharding is going to work great to boot.)
Nor does it contain the word "horrifying", but I'd say the event described therein is both....
So if it's owned by a single company you can't list it as a skill? Huh?
>> And one side piece of advice - your blog posts, open source contributions, speaking engagements.... those all are commendable. But mean little when it comes to hiring you.

This may very well be true. But I will say, as someone looking to break into the industry, this is very surprising to me. I guess I should focus on acing the technical interview?
Didn't it change a lot in the last couple of years?

A few years ago I felt that I can speak freely, and in the worst case I wasn't upvoted.

Nowdays I feel much more like I need to choose my words very carefully.
My experience with interviewers is that they all believe that their pet question is "a surprisingly good filter". Considering that there is rarely a data-driven approach to recruiting, usually this statement has a heavy confirmation bias.

Usually when you add data to the mix, you'll find that most questions are not significantly correlated with candidate success/failure once you condition on "ability to write any code at all".
Security is relevant on server code and copy protection mechanisms, however modern game development is composed by multiple skillets, that join efforts across middleware like Unreal.

So I am with you that Rust has a very uphill battle for adoption in any game console devkit.
Yes, pure sarcasm. Quite a catastrophe there. And a cautionary tale for what happens when denialists get their way.
It's not on the NYT to help him, he's already managing fine on his own, it's on the NYT to not try to punish him by breaking the anonymity that's allowed him to both continue his job and practice his free speech without affecting that.
Visual inherently opens the product up to non-developers, which is where a lot of the commercial opportunity lies.
Can we spend a minute for paying respect a license?
How it is called?
50 mil light years is a reference of distance (distance light travels in a year) where as 30 years old is a reference of time and age. two very different things.
"bringing together all your communication into a single pipeline"

Wasn't this by getting everyone to switch to Wave instead of email/GTalk? Facebook seems to have a more realistic approach here.
Before CSS became popular, tables where used heavily, not just to show data, but also to layout page. As people started to use CSS for layout tables become the enemy.

Tables became bad, and CSS became good. So much that some people where using divs to show data for a while just because they hated tables so much.
I don't understand... you're saying Google Wave wasn't Google Wave? Google Wave is actually a product that brings communications together, but Google Wave wasn't Google Wave, Google Wave was just a technology preview?

How exactly did you find out about Google Wave and how it differs so much from Google Wave?
Thank you. More specifically, what I meant was: can anyone speculate on what will be announced?
True, which is why it would be insane to accept a cliff as an employee.
I think he means it's OK to use tables from a purely technical point of view, but from a social perspective you're probably better keeping this opinion private. The current approved attitude among designers is that HTML tables are evil, so by agreeing you gain social standing. If you adopt the technically arguable but socially inappropriate stance that there's a time and place for tables, you'll be treated similarly to a C programmer who defends 'goto': at best a relic, at worst a moron.

Nod and smile, then get back to work. Improve your toolset by learning how it's done in Haskell (Erlang, Lua, R, other up and coming language) on the side, but don't be worried about using the language you know to get the job done. Understand the potential advantages of CSS, but don't worry too much about a perfectly workable solution. Just realize that you'll be mocked for it in certain circles. But better to be mocked with a site that's up and running than to still be debating whether quotes should always be used even if not required by the spec.
Also agreed. The whole notion of cliff vesting never made sense to me, and the OP doesn't really explain it.

The reason for the one year cliff is to protect the company and its shareholders (including the employees) from a bad hire which gets a huge grant of stock or options but proves to be a mistake right away.

One year doesn't at all strike me as "right away." Even as few as 3 months seems a stretch, for a startup.

A cliff vest allows the company to move the bad hire out of the company without any dilution.*

Perhaps I'm missing something, since, with no cliff, isn't the amount of dilution proportional to the number of months of employment?
Intelligence and merit are not the same thing. Elon Musk, Steve Jobs etc did not succeed because they are extremely intelligent.

Almost all successful people are somewhat intelligent coupled with a lot of luck/street-smart/hard work/underhandedness etc. These are what constitute "merit" in a businessman.

So your friend is partly right. But certainly you couldn't just replace Musk with someone of the same intelligence, that is not what determines success at that level.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26250762
The simple truth is that dealing with young babies is way easier when they're in the same bed. When they cry, you can comfort them immediately, if you need to breastfeed, it takes about 5 seconds to get started. And they sell these nifty little divider things if you're paranoid about rolling over and crushing them, although as the article says this only appears to be a problem in practice if the parents are morbidly obese and/or on drugs/alcohol.
On the contrary: choose contentious terms appropriately.

> you're really good at talking about the patriarchy without talking about the patriarchy

I’m not sure I read this comment in the same tone as the author seems to have. Calling something what it is is an important part of addressing it. Even if you might not persuade everyone. Whitewashing conflict just makes it less clear what your position is.
Not only in the UK... in Germany, REWE (just an example) has eight (!) own brands for food (plus some others for non-food), some "niche", some general (https://www.rewe.de/marken/):

- "ja!" is the cheapest of the bunch, with very simple design (until quite recently the packaging was mostly white with blue and red print, no colour photos or other fancy design elements)

- "REWE Beste Wahl" ("Best Choice") is the "classier" own brand, with nicer design

- "REWE Regional" for regional products

- "REWE Bio" for organic foods

- "REWE Feine Welt" ("Delicious World") for own-brand delicacies

- "REWE to go" for "convenience" products

- "REWE frei von" ("free of") for lactose- and gluten-free products

- "Wilhelm Brandenburg" for meat products
None of the apps I've seen use AR. As far as I know, they are 100% gyro & compass based. These tend to need to be calibrated. G-maps has a built in calibration tool, I believe there is a calibration option in the android dev tools, and there are several apps that claim to calibrate as well.

I've been meaning to dive into ARCore, and on my list was a constellation based compass & gyro calibration app.
I have heard the opposite: that the higher price of name brand goods means more profit for everyone. It would be good to know what the truth is.