jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
then they are stealing money from universities... essentially the scientist is agreeing to work pay free for the university by attending it. What do you think the money for the university is used for?
They were competing with their partners, that was always going to end poorly. It could only ever be an experiment.
money transfer with BTC is almost comical right now. Fees are incredibly high if you want to get confirmations anytime soon. The average transaction fee is $26 right now. Try buying groceries or clothes with those kinds of fees. Bitcoin has become a good way to store and move money when you have a lot of it, but terrible for an everyday use case. You're better off using something like Nano or a stablecoin.
I'd say that not talking about context switches is weird.

Sometimes I'm jumping between 3 different projects and having talks with 2 people about $new_project within day
and it feels like at least 1/3 of the day is wasted on context switch.
avoiding verbing and adjectiving nouns. Try not to verb nouns or to adjective them. So do not: critique style guides

I am not sure what to make of the section on Americanisms, which is quite scathing regarding its usage. I have grown 'overly' fond of some of them.

The Guardian/Observer style guide is more forgiving.
https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-a
It's true.

Out of the box and just installed onto a site the data is garbage.

It provides more value to Google than it does the owner of a site.
I always wondered what it is that makes some products enjoy customers with very high brand loyalty and others not so much.

Microsoft sits at the opposite side of the spectrum with most of it's clients being highly critical of it, and passionately angry at nonsense, except in the case of XBox, other gaming consoles also seem to enjoy very high brand loyalty; I also see it with GNOME.
Notifying banks will likely be required by their payment processor, not by the GDPR, those are two separate processes.
Working from home, I drink about four coffees through the morning and early afternoon, plus one later in the day once the others have worn off, if I feel like it.

I drink half-caff double shots (sounds odd but I want a decent amount of flavor but not too much caffeine), making macchiato first thing in the morning, americano later.

People laugh at how I’m always carrying a coffee when I’m working. I tell them I’m just keeping my caffeine at the perfect level, which is true.
MySQL isn't a general solution to problems of scale, because you don't know what problems you're going to have until you have them. So for example if your scaling problem is ACID compliant database updates - say you're the next fintech - then I was under the impression that MySQL would be the last database you'd want to be using. Have I missed something?
He's leaving it running and supporting it a little, but not spending much time on development, probably even less than he planned now that he's a cofounder at a startup instead of just an employee somewhere.

From http://paulstamatiou.com/exploring-san-francisco-silicon-val... :

>Skribit is a niche product that serves a small market well and it is with that in mind that development will continue, but in a part-time manner. Some changes will be taking place around the site to focus more heavily on converting users to paid Pro accounts (and pay off our convertible note) rather than building out certain community features that require much upkeep; making Skribit more of a tool than a destination. Ultimately, I need to land a paying job and focus on paying off my out-of-state tuition, which is still a six figure number.
Facebook bots? I wish I could read Russian, the memes are probably worth reading.

You could probably hire a facebook bot 'like' network to 'report' a photo. You'd have to message the right people.

Wrote an article about how I tried fighting ISIS using twitter bots:https://medium.com/@datarade/my-failed-attempt-at-fighting-i...
The phenomena outlined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion would seem to instantly belie the claim in your first sentence.
The bad state of enterprise software has been obvious for decades. The fact that it has persisted in being bad despite everyone knowing it should tell you that there are reasons why it remains bad.

Those reasons have also been widely known for many years. They boil down that enterprise software companies optimize for their ability to sell to decision makers who never actually use the software. See https://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/msg001... for a detailed description. See http://futureofwork.glider.com/why-enterprise-software-sucks... for verification that this is not simply an isolated disgruntled developer's opinion.
If they were black, they'd be called rioters.
We're wrapped up for recruiting for summer 2021 internships, but will be back in the fall to recruit for summer 2022!
It didn't start with scientists. It started with tinkerers (who prefer to be called "inventors", though I'm unable to find anything else that they've invented). It wasn't really an "experiment" in that it wasn't testing a well-defined hypothesis. It really was just a guess.

For some reason it attracted the attention of Harold White, a genuine scientist who NASA employs to do nutjob work. It never produces anything. It looks for all the world as if NASA likes having a pet mad scientist they can trot out to say, "Look, we're taking your stupid ideas seriously, now leave us alone." He couldn't figure out why pumping vast amounts of energy into a thing produced a tiny effect he couldn't otherwise account for, though "it made something hot that you didn't measure" seems a pretty obvious answer. Entropy is squirrely, and we all knew that.

It did attract White more hype, so I guess you're right on that score. And as the sibling post notes, it's not all that money, and it comes out of NASA's PR budget. It then attracted more money and that's the money (and time) that really feels wasted. No problem got fixed. It was just an expensive version of the "Is it possible that dark matter is made of the socks that disappear from my washing machine?" type questions that plague scientific Q&As.
Looks interesting but has anyone managed to find pricing anywhere?
By that point though, you're dropping actual useful website features. What if I want a consistent style across my pages? What if I like restyling the whole website & I don't want to manually edit dozens of HTML files to do that? What if I think a header bar or a "recent posts" section would be nice?

I'm not saying it's bad to design a website in plain HTML, but it is critically limiting, and I wouldn't recommend it over a simple generator setup. If you're really opposed to using a fully-featured SSG, it'd be pretty simple to write a shell script that uses mustache(5) [1] to plug html articles into a template. That's almost as simple and clean as plain html, but it's a real step up when it comes to what it lets you do.

[1]: https://mustache.github.io/mustache.5.html
Discussion happening here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26726269
Guess I'll switch to teaching COBOL in my undergrad courses!

Interestingly, there is a AI startup that focuses on dev tools for COBOL: https://www.phasechange.ai/
The Quanta write up is a bit more neutral on this announcement. There is a computational result that was not included in the theoretical value used to bench the test against. Once reviewed, this difference may yet go back to oblivion.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/muon-g-2-experiment-at-fermil...
Clearly the friction is much lower today. I'm certainly not arguing that Netflix is effectively just the same thing as VCR rentals. But, as someone who watched TV not only pre-VCR but pre-cable, being able to go from having to watch whatever was being broadcast right this minute to be able to time-shift/rent/buy was certainly a much bigger change for me than on-demand streaming is. Especially if Netflix' DVD rental business weren't being allowed to decay, I'd be pretty happy just watching movies that way and maybe go back to timeshifting with a TiVo.
Right at this moment I'm using NetBeans 7 and RubyMine (which is basically IntelliJ for Rails) simultaneously; RubyMine for Rails and NetBeans for PHP.

They're running on a 2 year old macbook upgraded to 5gb ram and a 7200rpm drive. Both are nice and snappy and more than good.
They seem to have missed the opportunity for a great pun here.
That's terrorism, and thats dealt with by law enforcement. This is a group trying to manipulate the existing system to their whim, and that's a more insidious problem to deal with.
We want to create a service that allows us to ship items on behalf of vendors who just upload artwork. Similar to CafePress. I've been trying to find out if Stripe's "special case transfer" could possibly be used for this but am not having much luck.

(i.e. Accepting a $30 charge for a customer and doing two transfers using source_transaction, one for $10 to Vendor 1 and one for $20 to Vendor 2)

I know that it would be compliant if we setup a Stripe account for each vendor and created the charge directly with their Stripe account but we want to be able to have customers checkout with items from multiple vendors.
The argument typically isn't that we should treat drug use as a health problem. That would have quite some odd effects on the medical field, if that were true.

Drug addiction should be treated as a health issue. I'd actually go as far as saying "uncontrolled" should be added to that statement. I'm pretty pretty damn addicted to coffee, but don't think I need to go see counseling about it. Treating everything like it's black and white is what got us into this mess.
Replying a bit late, so hopefully you see this.

That's not so much a bug but a known issue. The flag that you set at the command line to enable SeaBIOS is held in RAM. Which means if you lose power, that goes back to default.

To get around this, you need to disable the write-protect screw inside the device. Take a look at https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-f... for instructions on how to do this, and where the screw is.

After that, you can modify the firmware, and update the setting in NVRAM. Take a look at the Arch Chromebook wiki for the commands to use to do what you want. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chrome_OS_devices#Boot_...
Rust doesn't support anywhere near the number of platforms OpenBSD does, and has portions written under the Apache 2 license, which has terms that the OpenBSD team disagree with. So the chances of any Rust code ending up in OpenBSD anytime soon are slim to none.
> Almost all software shops are not unionized. Jobs move overseas because companies are not expected to act as beneficial actors in other countries, they know they do not have to respect basic human rights or pay a fair market value wage for labor.

Jobs move over seas because it allows companies to produce something for less money. Period. Unions have the opposite effect of making production cost less money.

>Almost all software shops are not unionized. Jobs move overseas because companies are not expected to act as beneficial actors in other countries, they know they do not have to respect basic human rights or pay a fair market value wage for labor.

>The corporation freely signed a contract with the union to follow certain stipulations. There is no bullying on either side.

How many companies do you imagine "freely" signed a contract with unions without the threat of walk-outs hanging over their heads. This is the definition of bullying.

> You have a mischaracterization of unions of simply existing to force money out of companies, when their purpose has been explicitly stated many times.

I am very clear what unions do in practice, not theory.
other than the x86 instruction set there are some SOCs that embeds a hwrng directly, the one I used is Freescale iMX6 that has a FIPS-certified hwrng, which is very handy.
Using capitalism to define what is peak human technology or not seems silly to me.

Humanity is historically bad at allocating their scarce resources. Faster horses and all that.
It appears in the table of commands at the bottom of the screen by default, doesn't it?
I don't understand the issue at stake here.

> "if you were root you could just replace the on-disk kernel with a backdoored one and reboot."

Isn't this a vital necessity? You want to be able to update the kernel to a new version, don't you? Preventing root from being able to do vital system maintenance sounds to me like the opposite of what you want.

If an attacker has become root, the system is compromised. As far as I know, security should focus on preventing an intruder from getting root access. Once the intruder gets root access, isn't it kinda pointless to worry about the kernel?
I can’t find the link so sorry no source. However I did see the acquisition that it was the Texas regulator who was responsible for artificially pushing the price of power up. So not really a free market
The Vi bindings in IntelliJ-based IDEs are pretty damn good in my experience. Certainly I feel a lot happier { and }'ing my way around, and having my `ce` and `gg` and `C`, in Rider.
Not that different. The art world is also kind of scammy. Most people wouldn't want to put money in to it.
Yeah, this bag looks pretty neat. Most bar bags swing a bit and don't work well with my wife's cantilever brakes.

But, the price tag is a bit much. I can get a handmade bag from any of a number of boutique bike bag producers for the same or less. Or, I can buy a small camera bag, rivet on a KlickFix and call it good enough for <$80.
> Once again the HN community completely missing the point

> I'll throw you guys a little bone.

Just leave this out. You're part of the the community you're lumping here.
Mindset by Carol Dweck. It teaches you how to continue being bright, namely by adopting an attitude of growth and self-improvement.
"Again, none of what I have described is an exaggeration"

But it could well be a selective presentation of the evidence in order to make your case.

There's a reason journalists are at least supposed to attempt to show the other side: so the reader doesn't get snowed, and the writer can keep some small measure of objectivity. Since that hasn't happened here, one should assume this portrayal is not accurate.
Someone choosing to respond by labeling a contradiction as "dangerous" does not mean there is no proper response, and certainly doesn't (to me) literally showcase the hollowness of an argument. I genuinely don't understand this reasoning, which to me seems like a massive leap.
Alternatively, call a god damn lawyer and have them deal with this. This is no time for amateur hour crowdsourced solutions.
I agree with the idea of having a space where we aren't constantly culture warring, but you have to bear in mind that if you ban political speech then you still inherently permit status quo political speech. And the status quo here is California liberalism.
Current C is not 72's C, not even ANSI C.
Loom's style of exploration (and that of aws shuttle mentioned below) can be quite effective. Coyote is the equivalent library in the .NET world (formerly known as P#) and comes with a bunch of exploration "schedulers" (from random exploration to probabilistic and even an experimental reinforcement learning based one). They released an animation rich video today (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26718273). Worth watching even if you're using Rust as Loom and aws shuttle are conceptually similar.
This is HN, "don't read TFA" is rule #2.
Bad for the environment though, there is cost arbitrage happening due to lack of regulation
Nah, the tags themselves is what he was getting at. Not saying I agree or disagree with him, but that's the value.
What method are you using to conclude that two stories on two different sites are about the same topic? That's always been a feature of certain sites that captured my interest, but it seems like so much can go wrong. Achieving decent accuracy must be very difficult. Have you written about this anywhere?
adobe is pushing themselves

http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2010/12/flash-player-for-...
What a dumb question -- what makes the two mutually exclusive? I've been programming since I was 9. Here's the paper from the research I worked on my freshman year, which wouldn't have been possible if I hadn't gone to college.

http://v3vee.org/papers/ipdps10.pdf
I'll pay more with far less onerous terms. Seriously. I'll happily sponsor grammar aid work too. Get in touch: http://gruschow.org
They're going to have to cap it at some point, because it will become prohibitive. At 500,000 users it would be $500 to sign up.
Looking at the dates, this bug was fixed in under a month. Did the buggy code really get released to production environments that fast? A priori unlikely IMO, which means this "vulnerability" is instead just the normal development process at work. I'm sure we've all committed code with mindbogglingly dumb bugs at one point or another.
I got a pit in stomach reading that....Microsoft just can't win. I'm sure they have business motives for this, but it really seems like a damned if you do, damned if you don't.

They release a free plugin for Firefox, which'll help address the major issue surrounding HTML5, and the question we ask is if they've gone too far? Or why is it Windows 7 only? Really?!
That's not necessarily true. Advertising helps sell products, and getting the idea of Chrome OS into people's minds will lead to more people buying it. And through Google's professed indirect and obscure schemes leads to more internet usage and advertising exposure, leaving more revenue for Google to give them to children. It might seem strange, but it seems that much of what Google does seems to follow such logic.

This video was part of the Chrome Demolition Lab http://www.google.com/chromeos/demolab/ and the four colors on the bottom strip are labeled "Learn", "Apply", "Recycle" (the green one) and "Legal". Recycle says "Electronic waste is piling up globally at a rate of 40 million tons a year. That's the same weight as 5 loaded buses every minute. Enter your zip code to locate electronic device recycling centers in your area"
"The US produces 8% of the world's electronic waste per year (8% = 3.2 Million tons)"
"Americans only recycle 13.7% of their electronic waste, leaving 2.9 million tons per year"
"That's a big pile of electronic waste. So far this year 038,992,672 (increments by one every second)"
The legal tab says "Google does not now, nor has it ever, endorsed or encouraged in any fashion, the hazing of or harming of electronic devices for entertainment purposes, anger management or stress relief. The demolitions and tests are performed using prototype notebooks. Chat interaction and user data are not being recorded. Do not try this at home. Please Recycle."
See Topgrading[1]: "Simply put, topgrading is the practice of packing the team with A players and clearing out the C players," Smart writes. "'A players' is defined as the top 10 percent of talent available at all salary levels--best of class. With this radical definition, you are not a topgrader until your team consists of all A players. Period."

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Topgrading-Leading-Companies-Coaching-...
Not anytime soon, sounds like too much hard work for my current lifestyle. It's a free idea for others.
When Instant was under development, we had an office pool for "How long will it be before Instant is rolled back, and why?", and two of the most popular answers were "2 days - user revolt" and "1 month - global search outage". Of course, anyone who voted there has egg on their face now because it was a successful launch with relatively few problems, which is mostly a credit to the teams involved and the hard work they put in to foresee problems and fix them before launch. But things looked very, very different when the product was still iterating, the UI wasn't worked out, and there was significant doubt that it would be physically possible to do it.

It's very easy to look at a product in hindsight and say "Duh, that's obvious, of course it's a good idea, why didn't anyone do it sooner?" It's much harder to take a random idea that's been batted around a few times and say definitively "This is a good idea that we can and must do."
With what justification? Google has made numerous innovations in terms of search. Think Instant, Goggles, and their shiny new (painfully unusable) implementation of Image Search. Plus they've got a bunch of micro-innovations--the AROUND operator, for example, and the reading level filters.
And Travelocity is owned by Sabre, which in turn was created by American. A little bit of history there.
So what is the hack that keeps us from constantly taking our luxuries for granted? Just as with the traffic situation, how often do we find ourselves complaining about having to do the laundry or the dishes or vacuuming or even heating up something for dinner -- all fairly small and easy tasks thanks to the help of technology, which took much more time and labor in a previous generation?

Yes, it's true that the complaining pushes us to find ways to make our lives even easier. But in the meantime, why are we unable to sustain our enjoyment for what we've got? If we could just change our thinking on this and begin to appreciate the amazing place we've reached on a more regular basis, imagine how much happier we'd all be. But what's the hack to do that?
"The fact that you unnecessarily called Schneiers current occupation as 'sad', imo, tends to support this rationalisation."

Let me give you the perspective of someone who is outside the security business but knows a good deal about PR and the media and how it operates. And selling books (one that I was doing was mentioned on the front page of the WSJ - all from PR that I organized on my own).

Schneier has certainly transformed himself and it's all about his image and selling books with his new found fame. I know it when I see it. Because as he just said in a way "it's what I would do if I wanted to..."

So in other words he has an axe to grind in getting mentioned in the media. Period. That doesn't mean what he is saying isn't correct in some fashion of course. But it does give credence to the statement "Another sad indicator of the level Schneier is playing at today". That level is publicity for Schneier. So to repeat myself, exactly what I'd be doing if I was him.
It is plain wrong to make a standard easier for machine-parsing at the expense of humans who are typing it in.

It is far worse to sacrifice consistency of the mental model behind the language for the sake of not typing two extra characters.

Core XML is much easier to read than modern HTML, because you can read it without knowing the context of what you're looking at and without memorizing tons of exceptions. It's easier to parse for the same reason.

Also, the savings on avoiding " /" are offset by the need to needlessly close some of the HTML5 tags.

The only really stupid things in XML I remember is the need to do checked="checked" and people using namespace prefixes on every tag. It's pretty obvious how to fix the former. The latter is entirely avoidable if you have a fully working parser.
Offense seems way easier and cheaper than defense. (I'd like to say similar things about US military operations.)
Many (or most) of the great technology companies have technical founders that benefit tremendously from a successful exist. Equating "business guys" with "the man" who get all the benefit and engineers as the poor labor is misguided and ignores basic facts.

Every technology startup that blows up have people with engineering backgrounds in positions of senior management. Across levels of seniority, engineers often make as much or more money as their non-technical counterparts. If you want to stay at the individual contributor level as an engineer that is, of course, totally fine, but you should compare yourself to other IC's in the organization without technical skills. I think you will find yourself to be very well positioned financially.