jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For me, it's not even that. I've never had a boss tell me what it'll take. I've always been asked, even though I've repeatedly told them I'm horrible at estimates. Thought sometimes they'll suggest a timeframe, hopefully.

When I tell them that they were too optimistic, their usual reply is that I need to get back to them as soon as anything changes for the worse. Otherwise, truck along and do it.

If I say 'nope, 4 weeks' right off the bat, there's usually a step where they consider if it'll be worth it in that time (or possibly longer) and they tell me when to ditch it and move on, if it's really going to be that long.

And it happens sometimes, even on projects that I really wanted to do.

The opposite happens, too, though. Sometimes they think it'll take longer than I think, and I tell them in that situation, too.
BASIC on a Spectravideo 328. My second computer was an Amiga 500, and programming assembly on it was just amazing fun, especially learning to control the custom chips.
Age 8. Using my dad's PC (Compaq Transportable), I got my start typing in BASIC programs found in the back of Enter magazine. From age 11-14, HyperCard/HyperTalk (Macintosh SE) was my favorite/only environment for writing programs (called "stacks"). Then high-school happened, and I discovered girls and sports. I didn't really get back into programming again until college.
One heuristic that can be used in a situation like this (Greenwald vs Wired) is to measure the amount of psychological trickery leaking from each side's statement.

One classic trick is to get righteously indignant. People act that way to persuade others (emotionally, not logically) that they are right. It's a classic trick of psychological manipulation.

The Wired guys have level 10 indignation, while Glenn has about a level 1.
Especially considering there are a lot of worse things to write scripts in than some ghetto lisp. Most people would consider Emacs lisp a bit on the ghetto side, but it's still quite effective. I'm not a big Lisp fan but I'll take a ghetto lisp over a number of other ghetto languages any day.
I searched my number(s), no hits.
I did a +/- a few numbers, and there is a hit. The message is though: "Oh no — pwned!"

The only information exposed to me is that the person with that number, has a FB profile. If I am to trust FB (which I don't - for nothing) is that FB has this person's number and lost it. I place no reliance to anything that FB states. For all I know that person is a WhatsApp user and the FB branch 'stole' the number and added that to their FB account (yes, I know this is not how data works, but this is how FB works).

(semi-rant follows - apologies)

There is a mention of 2FA/MFA in another comment. I wouldn't be surprised if FB already has a 'super profile', where all data by FB-WA-IG are merged. I believe that would be a nightmare to do, but hey, FB is good at nightmares.

Edit: I feel this is a semi "Ashley Madison" moment. People who have a 'secret' FB profile may get busted by their BFs/GFs.
I disagree. As Michael Bolton said, "Why should I change? He's the one who sucks!"

Kilo, mega, and other prefixes predate computer storage, and SI is beautiful because it is consistent. The computer industry decided to use standard prefixes with non-standard (base-2) quantities. Now let's cut our losses and return to consistency with everything else.
I think she missed the better point: are we at a critical time in Earth's history focusing too many smart people on getting to space than first saving our home planet from some unknown 'new look'. We're on the clock on one problem.

Not a popular opinion among rocket surgeons but you know what they say about hindsight.
Great thread. Looks like HN has decently chewed on this topic before. Thanks for sharing!
Networking is also a binary world, yet nobody is using binary prefixes.

Storage manufacturers have been using decimal prefixes for decades, you should probably get over it at this point.
> Why force those people to work when automation will make it completely unnecessary?

Perhaps it will. It hasn't made it completely unnecessary yet, though. Somebody who can't work? I'm all for helping them. Someone who won't? Let them mooch off of someone that is not the taxpayer.
Duh, well, there is that. I got so wrapped around the axle on the unnecessary shortening that I completely missed the symbol typo on a stock I've traded probably at least monthly (and probably view daily) for the last fifteen years.
The continuity argument is a strong one, but it is weakened - in my mind - by assuming sufficient time to colonize anywhere else, while trying to survive on our current lifeboat. I don't doubt the intent, but I think the timelines do not match, in that we will exhaust resources here (both fundamental and good-will) way before any second colony becomes viable.
> Matrix ecosystem has one reference client/server with really good features but hardware requirements that place it out of ordinary folks' reach.

Define ordinary folks, please. Matrix isn't really that resource intensive for a small homeserver between family and friends.
Exactly same experience, from San Fran to Singapore and in between. Never really realised how good we have it, such a good point
Wow, that cosmopolitan C library is absolutely awesome. The ABI specialization is extremely interesting. Never seen anything like that before. I thought compilers did that. I don't understand why they couldn't properly optimize memcpy.

I wonder how it handles system calls. Let me check the source...

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/build/...

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/build/...

> void OpSyscall(struct Machine *, uint32_t);

Pretty interesting... Need some time to figure out how it works.

The system call entry points:

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/sysv/s...

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/sysv/s...

It uses a jump slot technique which is interesting:

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/sysv/m...

System call numbers:

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/sysv/c...

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/sysv/s...

Looks like it packs the system call numbers of all operating systems into a single constant.

For some reason there are some dedicated implementations of Linux system calls using inline assembly rather than the entry point:

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/master/libc/linux

More related files:

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/calls/...

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/calls/...

Also funny how it calls Linux "GNU/Systemd"!
For one, this issue seems to be one which he is personally taking on himself. Part of it seems to be his identity as a gay man. He also takes pains to frame the issue with regards to a faith which is deeply personal to him.

I don't know that he is necessarily trying to use this as a rhetorical cudgel, to beat the conclusion into the minds of those who support discriminatory legislation. This letter/editorial seems to be framed as Tim, with the support of Apple, raising a rallying flag or even just joining in the rally of businesses who are against this legislation.
Can't reply to your comment williamcotton, but what you suggest doesn't change the nature of the practice, just its practical focus.
Yeah, that's ridiculous as written. However, I suspect the real issue was along the lines of it being a cheap fat plastic boxy affair with no SSD, rather than a slim metal MacBook or Ultrabook-like laptop - which, of course, Dell also sells.
The idea of "select things with the mouse, perform operations with keys under your left hand" goes back to Doug Engelbart's NLS system. The Xerox folks will undoubtedly have known about this work.

From 1968...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs
Why is Google mentioned in the headline? They have nothing to do with this story. Might as well list all of the schools this guy attended in the headline as well.
Really ? this is the technical blog from the developers of a porn website (no porn in that page anyhow of course).. so actually your firewall is doing a good job.

We may chose another name for the technical blog. I think if you try http://pornark.posterous.com/ajax-indexing-with-django posterous should redirect you to the same address so.. can't solve it right now :( sorry
#WORKSFORME #WONTFIX
For Clojure there's a plugin(albeit a very big plugin) over IntelliJ IDEA, called Cursive that I've heard a lot of nice things about: https://cursiveclojure.com/
Wow, Thanks you for this paste!

I'll look into that and maybe provide some additional fonts on a per OS/Browser basis to download. The main problem is that it's impossible to have a static CSS snippet AND provide different files per User-Agent (a javascript solution might help). So until I've found a solution to this, you are absolutely right, these optimizations will get lost on local use!

For reference: I'm currently using the following User-Agents for fetching the font file urls from Google's CSS: http://pastebin.com/5SZ1Q6kj
Would learning Monads really come before learning Category Theory in Haskell?
Ad hom arguments aren't mental illnesses. They're logically fallacious, which matters a great deal in ritualized forensic arguments but not so much in informal or general argumentation, where the attributes (particularly: credibility and authority) of particular stakeholders can often be very relevant.
Look at how Groupon is driving most of their traffic right now...250x250 AdWords ads.

If you could show me how Local Search could exist outside of search, then you might have an argument, but right now, I just don't see it.
No, Google is an advertising company, pure and simple. Virtually all of their products are a means to aggregate an audience that they can sell to advertisers. Search is just another way that they do this.

Groupon could definitely end up being bigger than Google.
People like the author of this post try to abuse my attention, and that is not OK with me.

What does 'abuse my attention' mean to you? Is it unsolicited (spam) email, or just any form of marketing/promotion in general? This is an important point to address for startup founders who often rely on obtaining and nurturing attention relationships with their users.
Even if you want a chance of a big exit, it makes more financial sense to just put 20% of your salary into angel investments every year.

Sure there are other factors at play such as lifestyle, corporate culture, etc. But when it comes down to hard money startups can't compete with investment banks.
What are we supposed to take away from this article? The journalist didn't get this dude Chet to state one single actual substantiated thing about anything at all.

Man, I'm sick of watching professional journalists write articles about computers full of quotes like "We've found people attacking from Kuala Lumpur. Here's the attack pattern."
By handwaving and hyperbole Google is the web and Groupon is real life, and since Real Life > The Web, hence Groupon > Google.

By actual revenue? Google is AdWords.
43. Well then.

I find that a lot of the questions are things that I can do, I just have to think about it, where other people can do it automatically. For example, telling someone's emotions from looking at their face: all people look pretty much the same to me; I can barely tell two different faces apart, much less one face in different moods, unless I think about it.
how do you avoid redundancy, meaning seeing the same news items on both HN and Twitter?
Scored 27, should I be worried? I remember doing this test before but my score must have lowered, since I have changed the answers to some questions with time
It's true that certain top-down structures are great at coordination and increasing efficiency for small changes, but at the same time are creativity killers (because ideas need to go past a few layers, because most new things are not beneficial from the first second thus can be "optimized" by elimination).

Or putting things in a different way - we need "noise" to get further of a local optimum, so we can explore more distant (and perhaps: better) optima.
Exactly this. Unless you find a smart way of making money out of your scientific software.
There's no such thing as a single "selling point" for Nim. Or rather there are many such points: depending on what programming you do you'll appreciate different language features. Making a list of many (not all of course) powerful language features is - I think - the right approach to the problem here.

It would probably be better if you explained what kind of problems you're dealing with in your work: we could then look at Nim features and tell you if there's something that would make your life easier and your work more enjoyable.
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I really like the note about few people leaving because of their bosses. My experiences with all companies, excepting one, has been that the person i reported to was hard-working, intelligent, well-meaning, skilled and all-around a great person; who was however constrained by decisions and outright mistakes of people above them, who sometimes manage to be so separated from the humans in their companies that i struggled to still consider them humans at all. (I'm talking outright abuse of people inside AND outside the company, as well as rampant and violent irrationality.)
I'm pretty sure that was removed, the case insensitivity.
"where thousands of Jews were killed."

Would be more appropriate and reflective to say "where thousands of people/inmates were killed.". There were many victims in this camp, why is one group held above the rest? I don't think there is even evidence to suggest any particular group was in the majority; considering figures for actual victims varies wildly from 150K to 300K.

In my opinion this sort of emotive journalism is very dangerous, and seems to perpetuate quite widely.
Albeit ill-gotten gains, if this lands in Wikileaks’ hands it’ll be fascinating.
A tolerant society should tolerate everything but intolerance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
That just means that you can't max out all your circuits at the same time. I'm pretty sure that's considered normal.

If instead of FIR panels you use a heat pump (isn't that the main point of electrical heating), would you still need 32A? And if you're cooking and baking with 10 kW, would you still need heating at the same time? And a 7 kW heat pump water heater should give you ~10 liters per minute of hot shower water.

Seems like any automatic system that could make sure not all high-draw consumers get turned on at the same time would be enough. It does mean that if someone is taking a shower while two people are vacuuming with all the lights on and the kitchen is cooking up a feast, you wouldn't be getting any additional heat or electric car charging, for the hour or so that such high demand can last, but that doesn't seem to be a serious problem (especially as this would only affect older houses).

And you said it's required for new construction, so I assume they'd be putting in 3-phase for those.

The main power lines for the whole street could be a problem, so yes, this may require some new construction. Might as well put down FTTH while at it.

Additionally, if houses add solar, it should reduce typical demand on the grid, as a lot of the current wouldn't have to flow all the way from some substation but would be supplied either within each house or from neighbors.
That I did not know. I just know no one was using the term online before trump started calling the BLM protestors antifa. (However, there was a single tweet with an #antifa hashtag 2 days before trump used the terminology. I figured he saw the tweet and it inspired Trump to pick up the term, but now I do not know given the historical back stop.)
Dems imported millions of immigrants whose communities always vote left. Its like an escape hatch in a democracy to win elections
My point still stands. Anyone surprised by violence from Trump supporters have not been paying attention for the last four years. All the warning signs have been there. You've got documented evidence of Trump and his followers setting small fires for four years and half the country shouting "HEY WE'VE GOT A FIRE!" suddenly people are surprised that the building is burning down around them? Mistakes were made, the President and supporters everyone has been warning about do the thing everyone has been warning about and try to stage a coup. Oops!
There are such gems on YouTube these days. In retrocomputing for example, I enjoy watching a number of shows including 8-bit guy, Retro Man Cave, Retro Recipes (by a real Star Wars actor), This Does Not Compute (I have a feeling the guy is on HN!), and of course CuriousMarc.
Unrelated to the article itself, but I have an ongoing issue with Workshape that I'm wondering if anyone else has.

I've currently got a 97 "match" with a position there, but I still get "There are currently no matches for your desired role". Does anyone else have this? Am I doing something wrong?
I have had a similar experience failing a really great investor, and I am sorry to hear that your opportunity is not working out. I see from your profile that you are a serial entrepreneur, so I doubt that you need to hear from me that there will be other opportunities in the future.

What I can tell you is that it is important to be as honest and forthright when the rocket crashes as you can. You may never work with that investor again. That doesn't mean that nothing has to come out of that relationship. It is important to keep your reputation, especially with regards to someone with a high profile. It is equally important to keep your reputation and relationship with your coworkers and employees. When my first startup went under, there was a lot of anger between me and my partner, who had left college to work with me. But we worked through it and fourteen years later I was a groomsman at his wedding. So, realize that things are going to suck and there is going to be anger, but if you stay straight with them, they will hate the failure instead of hating you. And you can share that hatred for the failure with them, if you don't internalize the failure as being a part of you. It's hard to do that, but it's necessary to some extent to keep following your dreams.

There are roles other than founder which VCs need in their quiver. Failed founders are one of the best places for VCs to find technical knowledge, which can be important for them in vetting other opportunities. Since they have already worked with you, they have a good idea of how much you know and how much you don't. And they have seen failure before, and won't hold it against you unless you do something untoward when things come apart.

Failure sucks, and failing a great opportunity sucks more. But I hope that you really don't regret taking the opportunity, even if it led to a failure. One thing is to ask yourself, if you didn't know if it would result in failure or success, would you take the opportunity again? If you would, then you don't truly regret taking that chance.

If you do realize that your venture is failing, it is good to switch to 'failure management mode'. I did this about a year too late, and it cost me dearly (I still had a forlorn hope, I didn't take salary the last year to save on expenses, ended up living in my car, girl left me, lots of fun). Maybe for you, failure management may mean salvaging relationships, your love for what you do, and hope for the future. All that emotional stuff is the hardest part of what we do, and managing that for both you and your people is a very important part of winding down a failed venture.
GitHub: putting the "centralised" back into "DVCS".
Xi Jinping's authoritarian bent is frequently reported on in the press, from even further restricting the actions of the National People's Congress to ordering the strictest crackdowns on the Internet in Chinese history.

Also, your objection isn't very convincing coming from an account created just to post that comment.
Because we're Americans, and we've been subjected to a several decade long PR campaign so that instead of thinking the obvious, which is that the government assistance program is precisely for this kind of situation, and the author of the story, having paid into the system for years, should of course use the temporary help to get back on her feet, we are trained to believe that those benefits are for "bad" people or "other" people and we don't want to be one of them and they are so shameful and vile that even being associated with that group temporarily will rub off and taint you.
Yellow on purple, how has anyone actually completed this article? The next article should be about the cost of eye strain.
I have no data like that for any of my runs unless I go out and do it myself. And I'm working with aircraft that are already done and flying.
One thing I do is use VLC and it's ability to speed up content without altering pitch.

I wish there was a more fluent way to control the playback speed (Fn Key and Mouse Scroll) but otherwise it works well.

Really handy for podcasts that while interesting tend to be a bit slow.

EDIT: Just checked new version, you can display the speed bar by showing status bar, clicking it and then hovering cursor and using scroll wheel, missed that before.
That's WordPress for you ;)
Erm, aside from the fact that they seem to be in pretty good financial footing these days - given how easy it is to export your data from Evernote, I don't see why you would be hesitating. Just export and save once in a while.

My only beef with Evernote really is the relatively ugly web UI.

[Disclosures: I have no relationship with Evernote aside from the two premium subscriptions I pay for]
Take a close look at the type of response that a guy asking for donations to a reputable charity received before you post this to reddit. Reddit is very fickle and has as many readers from places like 4chan as it does reddit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/enffi/redeeming_...

Congrats on the happy healthy family and baby on the way, I wish you the best of luck.
My head just exploded, that explains everything! The collapse of the electron wave function is a symptom of something causing the electron to stop behaving as a multidimensional particle and begin behaving as a single dimensional particle. woah.
Kinda curious how you thought this was going to go down :)
Please email me at geuis.teses@gmail.com. Bit easier to handle questions there.
This is an insulting question. The intern's age does not matter. What are his or her skills, and how much would you pay an adult to do the same thing?