jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> If you have enough $$ to buy a passport then you are probably not using HN or a jr developer

Facts not in evidence. OP in no way implied they were poor, or of limited means.
PG&E had its share of dubious practices; I'm not sure they should be examples to imitate.
Where is spam in the post that shows this picture? Nowhere.

What does this tell us about spam detection algorithms?

How does your startup handle user rights?

Why are you writing about freedom of assembly here? No relation to censorship.
Yes, I meant Snow Leopard. Sorry. I have experienced many problems since Yosemite and am a long time OSX user. Maybe because I use my computer extensively every day in the same ways, it is more obvious to me than a casual user, but there are definitely new (and bad) issues with Yosemite, wfiw.
book recommendation: "Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life" Barry Oshry
http://books.google.at/books/about/Seeing_Systems.html?id=wt...
and read read the sections "pinball" & "manager of the heart" now http://books.google.at/books?id=wtK9aFmM9zgC&pg=PA3&source=g...
For UK users, the UK tax authority, HMRC, has made a small but temporary concession relating to the collection of two pieces of information that identify a customer's location:

"UK micro-businesses that are below the current UK VAT registration threshold, and who register for the VAT Mini One Stop Shop (MOSS) may, until 30 June 2015, base their 'customer location' VAT taxation and accounting decisions on information provided to them by their payment service provider. This means the business need not require further information to be supplied by the customer."

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-supplying-dig...
This doesn't even take into account that women often aren't given great professional employment and are strongly encouraged to marry out of the workforce by their early 30s.
Clever whippersnapper, I am.
It blows my mind that I can turn on my phone, go to some mapping app and get more accurate and frequent position updates than a commercial airplane. It's just absurd.
> While what you say is true, many countries will not allow a company to hire a foreigner if you can fill the same position with a citizen.

Actually, I am very curious to know for my own instruction which countries in the world do that for highly skilled people, ie. holds a BS/Masters and a job offer from the company.

Can you provide examples?
I love that Amazon lists the PC version as coming out for “Windows 7/XP.” So telling! I don’t think there’s really an analogy to make. Vista was a failure beyond comparison.
Here's my favorite variation of this joke:

http://itanimulli.com/

(read it backwards)
Original Page: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

While it may seem humorous, buying a domain name of someone else's trademark (registered or unregistered) with the intention of creating confusion is cybersquatting. The registrant probably knows this as they are hiding behind Whois privacy.
For a moment I had hope.
This awesomeness unexpectedly sucked away half my afternoon. Not really sure whether to be upset about it our not. :)

Only thing is that the key counting doesn't seem to be consistent. :\ Using the command history seems to really, really screw with the counts. I thought it counted up all the characters in the submitted command, but this doesn't seem to be the case. I submitted an 18 for the "Sort and add attributes" challenge, then realized that the text for the new key is longer than that. :\

I'm not really clear on what "counts" as a keypress (shift key? colon for commands? Paste commands? Esc?) and I haven't been able to get any of my "scores" to match up with the count in my head.

All that aside, this is a barrel of fun, and I'm sure these kinks will get worked out.
Hmm...

$ whois emacs2.com
No match for "EMACS2.COM".

I think I know what a nice alias for vim.org will be soon...
Plantly (Brooklyn) is hiring an engineer. We've nailed remote-working down to a science, and also have a great studio to hang/stay at when if you're around. Help us with our deployment stack, balance agility and security. We love Ruby & Python, mighty curious about Scala and Erlang.

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I feel like I just got Rick-rolled.
> No Facebook or email. Long distance calling was expensive... Sundays were the days to call family and friends, because rates were cheaper.

I remember as a kid being told by my father to go play somewhere else, because I was bothering my mother who was on the phone long distance.

Even when I went to college in 1999, I remember it being an issue since not everyone's cell plan featured long distance included, but everyone came with a cell phone that had a number local to their hometown. People would end up racking up long distance charges on their cell phones just to call a friend in the next building over.

Thought: mobile data charges are the next generation's "long distance" (or are at least headed that way).
I just implemented a proper cache for unmatched socks this morning! I just got a dresser and dedicated one drawer to socks embedded in a plastic hexagon matrix, with an area on one side for unmatched socks awaiting the re-appearance of their mate on some future laundry day.

It is a slow process but it is very low energy.
> They are working with what they have, which comes from governments and governmental health agencies.

Their problem is not that their data is bad. Their problem is that they are acting like a political entity when they are supposed to be an impartial, data driven, scientific organization. For example, the WHO railed against common sense risk mitigation strategies such as travel restrictions (i.e. isolate China) early on with COVID when they were precisely what was needed to reduce risk. They did so for political or monetary reasons (closing borders harms economies). Xi latched on to this and used it as justification to keep borders open. Unsurprisingly, COVID subsequently spread rapidly between China and countries that had maintained open borders with China.

It is not the WHO's job to consider the economic ramifications of their policy suggestions: that is the job of politicians. It is their job to put forward suggestions for how to limit the spread of disease regardless of the impact to economies or governments.
The crossword puzzle also remains pretty good, with only a smattering of social justice themed clues once every few days.
The thing is, noise cancelling is a very simple physical process. If it "miss" you will ear it. So there is no invisible danger, it cannot be not perceptible, either it cancel, or it add to the noise. The worst that ANC can do is add noise to the noise. Plus, most ANC focus on low frequency sound since they are the easiest one to cancel.
Smartphones in the 21st century have become surveillance devices for unaccountable corporations, and governments by extension. It's cathartic to see that capability being put into the common individual's hands.
Thank you. I believe you are right. I was merely trying to identify the people in my story concisely and accurately. With a helicopter hovering 300 feet overhead. In the dark.

To me its the nut of the homeless problem bias. I did not cry 'WOLF'. I said 'Chiropractor' and the rest is inference and in this case I believe mistaken judgement but I would be curious to know what others think.
This is what I reacted to:

> I know people who could be firmly in the middle class, but instead live paycheck to paycheck or worse due to very poor financial decisions

This is middle class person that spends all the money on useless things. But, I don't see how it is relevant example of poor person, they have good income.
Oh, I see "Get The 6 Playbooks For Creating Viral Products (PDF)" which requires an email.
Do you have any thoughts on Panda3D? Like pyogre it's a C++ framework with Pythonic bindings on top.

I think the most fantastic thing about Pygame is the huge library of open games on its website. I wish these 3D framework sites had that.
Anyone able to switch to front camera? Meekrat - you can. I prefer that so I can sign to camera while others watch.
Although the cost to create antimatter is very high, our government is actually working on creating antimatter munitions. (I've worked on creating a portable antimatter trap, which was funded by the U.S. government.)
http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&...
You are right, I intended to make each puzzle page viral, so players could challenge each other. But I am now having issues to bring that challenge back to the game (instead as a Twitter/Facebook message). Maybe Game Center is the only way to go : (
PS. Problems->More->Random, for random problems.
Some of you here must meditate.

What is the form of meditation you practice? Can you elaborate a little so the novice could benefit?
Why people are so frightend of storing the salt & hash of the user password? May be I am mistaken but if the salt is unique for each hash it is almost imposible to recover the original password. Of course you must use a well proven encription library but it is trivial. Am I missing something?
Found a bug - Genghis Khan -> Jin Dynasty (1115-1234)
Tried to find the answer -- chose "Show me the answer" - Kara-Khitan Khanate.

Tried it and it doesn't connect -- did wikipedia change it in the meantime?
I wish more tech companies encouraged (or even mandated) a day or two out of the year as 'hack day projects'. This is similar to Google's 20% projects but significantly compressed in time. Companies would benefit tremendously from actually sparking innovated ideas in this manner instead of using traditonal "suggestion box" type proposals that go nowhere since those tend to be all talk but no show. Instead what it currently promotes is for its developers to start their own side projects outside of work that lead to them leaving to work on their own business/startup.
But you have 0 chance of getting back more then what you spent, unlike an investment (the reward is always worth less then what you spent, if you think about it as an investment).
I haven't tried it yet but you can use clojurescript functions from javascript. The more common direction of interop (from using js from clojurescript) is quite nice and it looks like the opposite is also quite nice.

Best writeup about that I've seen so far is here: http://lukevanderhart.com/2011/09/30/using-javascript-and-cl... (in the exporting section)

I'm not sure if there are any implications I'm not aware of that would make it less useful to use core.async from js land.
I think they missed the easiest way, getting each person's ID as they exited the building.
To those who downvoted, was I wrong? He straight up ignored it.
And miss an opportunity to protest the #plandemic? It’s like you don’t get Q at all...
Because pricing on stuff like that is negotiable and they don't want people to have a starting point.
I'm not familiar with how YNAB ingests transaction data, but I seem to remember when I looked at it last that at least some transactions have to be logged manually.

If you used Simple pretty much exclusively you wouldn't have to manually enter any transactions, although you might occasionally have to categorize things.

The obvious exception would be cash transactions, which I don't believe Simple ever tracked in any detail.
Oh, so you’re one of the people downvote brigading me. Thanks, now I have your user ID and a comment that I can send the mods as evidence that people were downvoting unrelated comments of mine because they got mad about the thread last night. Thanks for making my case easier to prove!
The free codecs might not necessarily be designed or optimized for the platform you're working on. Porting an open-source player for your particular situation might cost more in developer time than simply licensing Bink. Bink's developers are also going to be more conscious of the technical limitations of a game console that you might be running into (eg: hard thread/socket/resource limits) compared to a more general-purpose codec.

This becomes a more notable tradeoff for a studio looking to get funding for a particular milestone from a publisher. Your technical leads (and content creators) likely also cut their teeth on games that integrated it, so it has existing operational momentum too.
One thing to keep in mind is a lot of engineers don't want to work in management and/or don't have management aspirations. Steve Wozniak is a pretty good example.

Personally, I work as a chem/materials engineer if I were to move into a management position I'd have to give up doing technical work and step into a more administrative role and that is something that does not really appeal to me.

I think similar thing for politics, there doesn't tend to be many scientist or engineers running for government because that sort of thing isn't very appealing to people like me.
While as a reckless fast driver I totally understand where this is coming from let me also tell you the other side of it.

Road system is as socialist system as it can get. The road that you think is paid for is being used by different people for different reasons. Highway 1 in particular is very dangerous if you drive recklessly. I would rather prefer that minivan with 5 kids to home reach safely than to let me pass. The first time I drove it in my 20 year old Camry, I was scared less. Today I cross it with breeze in my jeep.

> You could have further refinements along the lines of once a month the road is restricted to people with "very competent" licenses, indicating that they intend to drive high-performance vehicles at high speed.

None of your ideas are bad, USA is a very large country and I think it should be possible to build private roads with the kind of system you discuss. Since the heart of innovation has not done so, something tells me that the economics will not work out.

* I am an off roader and the kind of market you describe exists for off roaders. Instead of "competence" it is about vehicle's capability. Entire USA is full of back country and off roads which are open to different kind of vehicles and there is a super large community of people driving on them all the time. I think such a market for high performance fast cars does not exist.
I was writing for a slightly different audience but yes agree that Julie is a much better writer than me. :)
His implication is that it was drafted by lobbyists, because "how else would a Senator hear about Bitcoin?" My point was that staff are very knowledgeable about these things, so I wouldn't assume it was lobbyists.
I thought this was a SaaS for dentistry (somehow) and I was going to be excited since it's been a while since I've gone to the dentist.
It's extra work that a lot of developers aren't going to do. "Works in Chrome, closes ticket". Can't even get developers to use css prefixes properly.

Hence why I called Dartium bullying. It's an attempt to reinvent the web with Google in control. asm.js is just an attempt to make existing vm optimizations a little bit better (and again, others disagree that they are needed).
I'm quite skeptical of Ethereum's ability to meaningfully contribute to these matters. An enormous amount of trustlessness is already possible in Bitcoin, but people just do not bother using it: They believe they can trust their counterparties (or they wouldn't transact!) and implementing trustless systems is substantially harder to do and harder to monetize (no central point to seek rents from). Witness Ethereum itself: Instead of targeted improvements to Bitcoin it's proposed as a whole new currency to be funded by eager speculators before it even exists.

It is my experience that the limitations of trustlessness in the Bitcoin ecosystem have arisen almost exclusively from a lack of interest or knoweldge and not from any missing technological capability.
As the designer who worked on the main interface for Sublime Text 2, it does irk me that it looks so similar. They had carte blanche to create a wonderful new interface and they mostly just copied Sublime Text. The go-to anything menu looks especially similar. https://t.co/5YxVbZcVcK
I didn't keep my funds in Mt. Gox, due to the risks involved.

It's hard for me to judge from my position whether others who did used bad judgement or simply were unlucky while taking a calculated risk.
Ordering and cashflow matters. If someone is just above being able to pay rent/mortgage+food+commuting+heating, and they get a pay cut, what happens?
No mention of supported platforms, but the documentation refers to keyboard shortcuts like "cmd-shift-P". This isn't Mac-only, is it?
They may not store messages within the Whatsapp system, but facebook is a data mining company first and foremost and an advertising company second.

I think it would be short-sighted to assume they aren't storing your messages somewhere.
User privacy and legal matters will always be a controversial topic on the internet. Bitcoin for example challenged the government strongly early on, but now things have regulated themselves.
What is a "Goldman Sachs instrument?"
A manual implementation or refcounting system could easily expose the same issue.
Yes, unless giving shit makes you happy you shouldn't give any.
F# syntax is so much better than C# for functional programming - and arguably for object programming too. However, it is sufficiently different that you really need to jump in with both feet. Don't assume it will be easy because you know C#. However, once you start to grok the syntax, you begin to see how the language features elegantly tie together, and the language design decisions make perfect sense. Unfortunately, you just have to take it on faith that this moment will occur... you can't see it unless you put in the time to learn it.

There is a whole series on C# to F#: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/porting-to-csharp-in...
A lot of this was good, reminding us that the world of 1995 when Delphi was first released was quite different from now. But the idea that "The video games industry was in its early days" in 1995 is a bit of a weird assertion. So the 8-bit and 16-bit eras didn't count?
When was the first edition? I feel like I remember using it in the early 90s ... maybe 1991? The mods have put the dates "1994-2020" in the title, but I feel like I remember it from earlier than that.

Edit:

OK, on 2003/07/06 15:11:16 the wayback machine captured Version 1.5.5 (13-Jan-1999). At the end it says:

Copyright © 1995, 1996

Hmm.
You don't necessarily lose the stack trace. Typically the left side of an either is an Exception (or an error ADT that wraps one). When you want to handle the left case, you can log out the full trace as you would without Either.

The Monad instance for Either means that chaining them together with flatMap has a short-circuiting effect and the first failure will stop the rest of the chain from being evaluated. I find this actually makes it easier to know where your errors are happening, and also allows you to centralise your error handling logic.
Retail might never sell, I doubt commercial institutions Vanguard for example would not sell for idealistic reasons.
When it comes to what school you went to, you can tell LinkedIn whatever you want. Just make sure you silently set it back to something true once you get that job offer and look confused when your recruiter thinks you went to school in Boston.
I've often wondered if 80% of everything isn't still on the road. Depending on one's source, 70% of Harley-Davidson motorcycles are still on the road. Not only does Harley go back over 100 years, they made some real shit over the years (hello, 70s AMC Harleys). But if 70% of those are still running, I have no problem believing 80% of just about any make of vehicle are still going.
No reliable message delivery, does not help define distributed systems because it can be broken down into a more fundamental elements that are required to guarantee that reliability.

Shared memory works well for me because in my mind shared memory means concurrent processes and memory have a common clock and are connected to the same power supply. This avoids confusion around how one handles some parts running while other parts are not.

Since we are attempting to define distributed systems not "concurrent processing", concurrent processing can be used in the definition and memory safety can be assumed. We can say that shared memory represents a known global state between concurrent processes because that problem is solved by the common clock and the tools that concurrent processes use to synchronize.
I was all in for Firefox but I had to stop sucking it. Browser it's just inferior compared to Chrome or other Chromium browsers. As a web developer I can't have my browser crashing, slowing my work down and having an inferior developer mode which only feature I find useful are the rulers.

This, specially after I found out that the directors at the company kept getting their wages increased was the nail in the coffin.

I just can't stand knowing these people are getting rewarded for such a shitty job, even worse now knowing that they have small teams (obviously not able to deliver the products we expect them to) and worse of all forcing these people to overwork.

Google is not a saint, but neither is Mozilla. I'll just stick to the browser that better fullfil my needs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Tesla will actively throw you under the bus to defend themselves.

"His vehicle had warned him about having hands on the steering wheel" (... fourteen minutes prior to the accident).

Leave aside the fact that if you have an accident in your Tesla you will need to go to court to subpoena telemetry data. But they'll happily publish your telemetry data without your (explicit, I know, I know, TOS) agreement if they think they're being painted in a bad light.

And if you disclose information about the vehicle, they'll happily force push neutered/old firmware to your vehicle to hide or prevent such activities, lock you from future upgrades, and disable ethernet and OBD ports in your vehicle.

Or a Douglas Adamsesque approach to right-to-repair, where there's a website with parts you can "order" (except everything down to the most commodity bolt says "Call Tesla" and they will tell you its unavailable to order via the website), that's if you know what parts you need, a process which required making an appointment with Tesla to look at the service manual, several months out, which required a fee, had a time limit, and put you in a room where you were not allowed a computer, phone or camera, just a notepad and pencil), all the while touting their "corporate commitment to transparency" as they pulled out of NHTSB testing.

Is this your idea of responsibility?
Is that only when defining a custom tag, or when using it as well? All the examples seems to be of nesting when defining a custom tag. If it supports it when using the tag, how do you get access to the nested content?
The "whole problem" doesn't mean "every problem". It means taking a step back and seeing what the user is really trying to accomplish, and everything that is needed for that problem to be solved - as opposed to myopically seeing just one aspect of that problem. Some extreme examples of whole solutions: Edison establishing a power generator and power line infrastructure, not just a light bulb (Musk's Tesla is doing similar now); Birdseye establishing freezers in supermarkets, not just selling frozen fish. Sometimes, you'll focus on one specific user problem, which can even mean removing features. BTW: I'm taking the term from Crossing the Chasm (Geoffrey Moore).

Of course, what you say is true about continuous loads, and also battery drainage for bursty loads. It's not a solution to every usage pattern, and as the article mentions, it's around 10 years away.

I love changing problems to see unexpected ways of solving them - even if it does take years to realise the vision.
Are you really suggesting that Apple products are superior in every case? Are you going to tell me that Safari is superior to either Firefox or Chrome?
True. But when you see how much fun they have at the end of the video, you may also want, one day, to belong to that "I've been acquired/I IPOed" group.