jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Unless and until there's a fundamental philosophy change at Apple, I don't see them being successful in the enterprise market. I'm in education, and we're a fairly flexible-yet-enterprise-y place, and we've constantly been burnt by Apple's lack of exposed forward planning (even when we spend literally millions of dollars with them annually).

I'll believe Apple is seriously interested in the enterprise market when there's a docking port on the MacBook. Either that, or they'll hoodwink everyone into doing what we were told before: buy a laptop and a desktop for people, and sync between the two.
I'll start forwarding you all my recruiter emails! :)
If depositors didn't have mandated insurance, they would have magically had the time and inclination to learn about credit default swaps and see the dangers in the system that many people who do that for a living were unaware of?
I understand that discussing racism is a social minefield but, as a liberal and global citizen, stories like this disturb me. Couple this event with Spike Lee's blatantly racist and poorly worded rant against gentrification, and I question how much progress we have really made in this country. Also, the term 'non-oppressed population' makes me want to vomit.

Jake Dobkin's piece on gentrification is a great read for anyone interested: http://gothamist.com/2013/09/23/ask_a_native_new_yorker_how_...
Yeah, but that wouldn't be the movie. Obviously it could focus on them and have many, many narrow misses, but we all know it would still have the Hollywood ending.
The implicit corollaries to this are a) that anyone who wasn't capable of recognizing the exchange as poorly run (eg anyone who isn't a programmer and can't see past the friendly corporate graphics on the landing page) deserves to lose whatever funds they were stupid enough to trust to that institution, and b) if the (alleged) 6% of all extant BTC that went missing turns up in hands of some unknown actor later, well that's nobody's business.
As someone who lived very close to a Walmart-centered ecosystem for several years, including working there, I'll also add that while it isn't Gucci, there's nothing really wrong with the stuff Walmart sells, from a poor person's practical point of view. It's just regular, everyday useful stuff.
Yep! Spot on! I just got a response from him today. Looks bleak though...
And that material is what?
It does seem to serve no good purpose when we are talking across each other. For example I clearly and immediately modified my original post to state there was a risk of error because I was using the wrong curve (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22645793).

And "I am a bloody genius [...] by plotting a bunch of points in a log scale" - I actually used the words 'admittedly trite' about what I did.

Whatever. This gets us nowhere. Your profile says you have a background in physics and logic/automated reasoning. I'm just a general purpose back-end dev.
We're facing something that may kill more people than WW2, let's concentrate on that. Can we work together to do something useful? Thoughts?
Good idea! We can bind that additionally to the Control + Space keyboard shortcut.
I have been wondering: Isn't this (likely) downturn a chance? Don't we need to rebuild our economies anyway given climate change? Maybe it is a good thing that airlines are going away because you shouldn't be able to fly from Paris to New York for 400€. It seems that we now have a chance to build something new so instead of rescuing these companies we should let them shrink and support former employees to transition to less carbon intensive sectors.
The Chinese have apparently quit testing, so naturally it seems they have it 'under control' since they report zero new cases (detected).

And the live-animal markets have produced disease before, every year in fact for decades, and not been 'cleaned up' so far. I have little confidence in any of that happening.

I have no problem with the Chinese as people, but their current government is not to be admired.
I am of opposite opinion. Being a strange unprecedented political lifeform, the EU might be further defined in some of its instituions after this crisis. After the collapse of the USSR and German reunification they defined one piece, after the 2008 crisis some other piece, and so on.. maybe the EU can only be shaped crisis after crisis, being so particular a political entity. Look for example at how they are now discussing the Eurobond issue (means: moving a bit toward fiscal integration).

It seems IMHO that such a historically new process cannot proceed linearly but only via sudden accelerations determined by the occurrence of crises (and talking about crises, I guess that in the next decades there will be enough of those)

Or maybe not.
>This is already shining where the US testing capacity has gone from basically zero to the highest in the world (>40k per day) in a matter of 2 weeks.

Do you have any sources/links for this? I've struggled to find credible info.
Yeah, you guys are both making the mistake of thinking that we're talking about yet-another-tech-job.

For yet-another-dev-job or yet-another-QA-job or yet-another-design-job at a cool-sounding company that nobody thinks is going to change their lives, you're right. It's a sellers market for talent. The prospective employer should be the one going to extreme lengths to hire people.

Some people aren't looking for yet-another-job. They have a laser focus on one or two companies that they want to work for --- and not only that, but they know exactly what role they want in those companies. They (gasp) aren't even necessarily looking at the job reqs. They're walking up to 37s and saying "I could really kick ass helping you with your interfaces, here's why, let's get talking."

So, two things:

(1) Fried is saying, you want to run your company in such a way that you're getting exposed to those kinds of people. Which means, you're running a very tight ship with a small number of people so that any ANY hire is going to end up having a dramatic role in the company. You can't be Google and expect people to build mini-sites to get an interchangeable-product dev role.

(2) As a potential employee, you want to consider whether you want to spend your career bouncing from job-req job to job-req job. This isn't touchy-feely startup-y 37signals-y talk here; the entire book "What Color Is Your Parachute" has "get jobs this way" as its theme. Pick a company you think will be awesome, and then sell yourself to that company. You'll be happier than trying to fit yourself into one of the "available" jobs in the industry.
You might find similar articles searching for "sharpen your saw" - that's the phrase the Pragmatic Programmer uses.

Awk has a pretty high utility : time-to-learn ratio. It helps that the language is so small.
For example, why is it okay for entertainers, actors and politicians to pursue fame, while programmers must toil in selfless obscurity? Are we supposed to be martyrs?

I think it is because we all realize programming will never be sexy enough to gain any recognition from the public, so acting like we don't care about recognition is the next best thing in terms of preserving our egos.
RTFA: it largely isn't expected to work.

See whether you can find any example in the wild of a "sin tax" that actually reduces consumption of what it targets.
Another reason is that the freight companies own a vast majority of the rail tracks in the US which means freight trains get priority over passenger trains..
Unfortunately there's a large, politically-influential group of Cuban exiles in Florida. In pretty much every recent presidential election cycle, Florida has been a crucial swing state that could go to either side, so neither party has wanted to upset that group by normalizing relations with Cuba. From a political standpoint there's a lot to lose and nothing to gain from it, unfortunately.
You kids don't know how good you have it. Why back in my day...
It seems to me as though people aren't reading the whole post.

Brian loves Emacs (and Vim), and will continue to use them for developing in Clojure.

Right now much of the Clojure user base is rather avant-garde, but if we want newcomers to the language, it needs to be easier to get into.

Setting up a development environment can be a pain in the ass for the experienced user; imagine the impossible hell it could be for the newbie.

I think that's his point: it's a little more complex than "emacs is hard".
I probably didn't include this (and I should have) because it's my least favorite of his hiring ideas. Being able to write intelligibly is critical and mandatory. Being able to write well is great. But there are other things that are equally great.
Wow, it's down to 5% for us. Just 6 months ago it was 10% or so. Revenue from IE6 is just under 5% as well.
Oh, and the Western "chumps" got "nothing". Is that the story line you are selling here?
This does not do much to clarify.

Which person in Chinese history has had the most influence on your perspective of the "Chinese way"?
They aren't recommitting anything. They got their IP stolen and their logo is still being used, and apparently they can't even say anything about it.
> May be had Apple created their own MVNO this problem could be solved.

I think the only reason they haven't is because they don't want the customer service headache that running & supporting a network generates.

Bad signals, stolen phones, billing etc. Urgh.
is that a geodesic dome
Depends upon the person, I suppose. The time saved is used either is being more productive at work, or having more time for personal life.

Either way, 30-60 minutes are not wasted, every day from your life.
"Everyone agrees"? :)
A great idea. You get to see votes only after voting, which eliminates social proof inertia and gives an incentive to vote. As long as you can't revoke votes (a la reddit), this would work beautifully.
i'm shopping for a new laptop to put this on. i'm looking for something maybe like the samsung series 9. ideally, i'd like it to be as slim as that, but have a 15" screen. anyway, looking for laptop HW recommendations from others here. i've run ubuntu on a number of thinkpads before, but i want to buy a new laptop to replace my MBP.
I agree to a point. All of my regular-use apps (Eclipse, Xcode, Textmate, Chrome, Terminal, Echofon) all start up really quickly. I don't really ever find myself sitting around waiting for things on it.
Well drat, that'll make it harder to compete with them in future.

sincerely,
a potential competitor
I, too, think you're taking it down the slippery slope.

I think the person who should be CEO should (ideally) be the a) the person who brings the most to the table (in terms of that business) and b) the person who can inspire the team (and embody the vision). Often, these are the same people and then the decision is easy. Sometimes, you'll have a very technical company (Tech needed) with a consumer facing product (Inspiration needed). Then it gets harder. But I would never sit down with anyone and say "you bring more to the table but i deserve more." The bringing more to the table indicates the kind of position you should be in the company.

I'm also not saying that the non-CEO person is going to get zero - far from it. But if someone is going to get miffed over something that small that early, I think that's a pretty serious red flag for us not being able to work together.

Part of the difficulty here is that I think we have very different pictures of what we expect a CEO to be. Early on, it's not like you're going to have 15 different c level execs. If you have a tech business, guess what, you have a tech CEO (and probably no CTO). If you have a marketing business, you probably need a marketing CEO.

I've been both several times - and I definitely understand both positions now. If I joined a company, and wasn't CEO, i would absolutely understand why they were getting more than me (and I would hope they would understand the reverse).
> The problem with vote counts is that two downvotes can start a cascade of reflex downvotes.

So? As you said, this is usually corrected. And, if points don't matter as so many people want to suggest, where is the harm in having some indicator of a posts quality. Please note indicator does not mean points.

I've been suggesting for some time now that high quality posts should be marked in some manner. No, rising to the top of the page is not a good manner, as it only affects parent posts.

Downvoted posts already get this treatment, even under the current system.

In fact, without some sort of quality indicator, points are useless.

Finally, their is a lot of discussion about how lack of points force people to read and research. That's all well and good, but I'm smart enough to know that I can't research everything, and their is value in knowing what the community thinks of a topic. It helps to steer me in the right direction.

Basically...

If you aren't going to use points to highlight good comments, then having points is useless, and they only serve those who think karma is worth anything.
It's not sizzling. It's more like grasping at straws. Not that I'm on Oracle's side, but by my armchair lawyering, Oracle's going to pound them.
To the degree that people believe it exists, it's real. I've met some people I would consider 'brogrammers', they ran a Bitcoin-based startup no one will have ever heard of, and they definitely fit the template. They're out there.
This is what true creation of value is like. The regentrification of old abandoned places. These streets have a lot of appeal and make a beautiful livable town. What I like in particular is these places were built in the days when things were built for walkability.

I wish him well, because his success will lead to more of these.
Chinese companies will push to internationalise their products as the domestic internet market becomes saturated
Sure, but the Chinese government has far more sophisticated ways of taking down sites so their own citizens can't access them, and they're not afraid to use them - even against big name sites. And in fact they often do, to help local companies providing the same offerings to prosper.

The current DDoS attack just strikes me as too crude a method when they have so many other options available.

If you were going to argue that it's just a retaliation towards GitHub for hosting these projects, then once again there are others sites the government is far more concerned about and they could use DDoS to bring them down with far less publicity than what the GitHub DDoS is generating.

It just doesn't seem to make sense from either the method being used or the motivation behind the attacks.
Yes, this is mentioned in the paper, right next to where they talk about the correlation.

The most telling part, though, is where they take some of the lower-25% from cubicle farm/open office spaces and put them in private office spaces. Guess what happens?
I think the hive-mind tendency would be mitigated by the fact that in a typical MOOC the students don't know each other, so that sort of coordination is difficult.
> But my suspicion is

The principle of charity would ask you to suspend that suspicion in the absence of clear evidence for it (in which case it would be more than a suspicion).
No, you just go to a bank that maintains 100% fractional reserves (if you don't wan't to take on additional risk)

No degree required.
It's more like a web server that runs an alarm clock. The Chumby has the computing power of web servers 10 years ago.
Can you let us know your paypal account where ppl can send money or any other way to send money to you?
I asked William Gibson if I could help with the fact that following 87 people is more than he can take in (http://twitter.com/#!/artvankilmer/status/9127501972381696).

Just wanted to extend that offer to everyone here as well. I too have the overload problem and am passionate about the value of Twitter, which is why I'm building something that will help. Happy to share & discuss further: http://slipstre.am/
William Gibson is an insightful observer of social trends and a fantastic writer, but I was a little disappointed to see that politically he is a pretty standard liberal transnational elitist.
I'm not sure I understand the impetus for articles like this. It's the same as the articles arguing why Taiwan's education system is better than the US' or arguing that Canada's healthcare system is better.

Certainly it is valuable and important to understand foreign policy systems and lessons can be learned from these observations. But it is equally important to remember that they are foreign systems. I am yet to be presented with an example of a foreign system that would directly transport to the US and be equally successful.

The US has problems in healthcare, in education and possibly in its economic systems, but non of it is a result (at least in my opinion) of picking the wrong policy system. Largely the policy systems countries choose are based on the demographic, values, economic values, etc. Germany's economic systems work for Germany because they are build for Germany.

I recognize that this article is not directly making the argument that the US should convert to a German style trade and employment system, but it implied multiple times. I would appreciate articles like this much more if they focused more on exploring the system for itself and less time comparing it to the system in the US.

Having said all that, Germany's co-determination system, as described in the article, is an interesting concept. I guess the down side would be a fear of causing separation between the interests of labor leaders and labor workers.
This appears to be not a bond security having an aftermarket but a simple loan, with no expectation of profit. Would that still need to be registered?
"Like any online community that cares to combat spammers, we code our user-submitted links so that Google ignores them for the purposes of calculating page rank (specifically, we attach “rel=nofollow” to anchor tags). Somebody trying to gin up their Page Rank by encouraging complaints on Get Satisfaction would be sorely disappointed."

Uhm.. their links ARE dofollow. Do a quick CTRL+U and then search for "home" and "contact". They both clearly say "Hey, Google, come check me out. The water's fine."

http://getsatisfaction.com/decormyeyescom

EDIT: I see that their reviews are nofollowed, but most of the linkjuice has already been passed by the site in these sidebar links. Additional boost isn't supplied by negative reviews, no, but it is in businesses best interest to submit here so that they can get that linkjuice push.
AFAIR some ppl already have played around with that dot-notation. But I must admit that I just tried Parenscript some three years ago and was completely pissed off because it didn't have return values for everything. I want my code to be portable. Didn't touch any of those other translators.
This was covered in a WSJ article yesterday.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870400870457563...
"Over the long run, sharp traders getting out in front of these forced portfolio changes have poached at least 0.38 percentage point of annual return away from Russell 2000 index funds, estimates a new study in the Journal of Empirical Finance."
The tech is nice, but the art is incredible. Click the "Show Options" button and you will see the 8-bit palette animating in the lower right. The changes in the palette are the only thing causing the animation of the image. Instead of a series of images, there is just a single image and a function to modify the palette each frame. The artist picked pixels that not only look good, but also are coordinated with the palette and their neighbors to produce the animation.
Well, if you want to type in all caps for some reason, then caps lock on iPad keyboard seems much more usable than hitting shift, hitting key, hitting shift again, repeat repeat. Especially if you might be using the keyboard one handed.
Hope you success :)
I think Instafall has much more features. Also native mobile apps for Android and iOS are on the way.
Err.. thanks for the downvotes? An explanation would be useful?

The GP said: Maybe you mean consumerist?

The parent comment said: It's South Korea, not North Korea.

They are plainly mistaking "consumerist" for "communist" - perhaps by misreading, perhaps not.

North Korea is the "communist" half of Korea. I quote communist because their political system meets no possible definition of communism I know of, and they themselves claim to have outgrown it:

"Kimilsungism is an original idea that cannot be explained within the frameworks of Marxism–Leninism. The ideas of Juche which constitutes the quintessence of Kimilsungism is an idea newly discovered in the history of mankind." Kim Jong-il went further, stating that Marxism–Leninism had become obsolete and needed to be replaced by Kimilsungism;[1].

They do argue that Juche is a type of socialism, which I guess could be construed as true by stretching the definition of socialism and ignoring the reality of how North Korea is run.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche#Kimilsungism.E2.80.93Kim...
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Completely agree with curiously.

Kim Dae Jung really brings shame to Nobel Peace prize and the term human rights with his COMPLETE silence on the human rights abuses in NK. The operating motto of all 'liberals' and 'human rights advocates' is about trying to get rid of the human rights abuses that are so rampant in NK.
And yet you really cannot find much criticisms from him criticizing NK. WHY? Does he owe something to NK?
In my experience, it's very easy to shoot yourself in the foot with Angular, performance-wise. But this is most often due to poor understanding of how the underlying update model works (people abusing deep watches would be a prime example).

Of course, the generally poor documentation does not help newcomers...
> to say nothing of the hours it would take to build them.

FWIW, nowadays (for a few years?) macports has binary packages, so that is not as big an issue as it used to be, i.e. installing ImageMagick would take hours, now it just usually gets all of the packages and dependencies as binaries.

I think used space is not a huge problem either (I have 130 packages and it uses 1GB), the real issue is that it's anti-intuitive that macports does not remove inactive stuff and does not autoclean, so you end up with a lot of wasted space for stuff you had no interest in keeping.
They wanted to show they were such l33t hackers that they could even hack down trees?
I like to be able to inject a 'filesystem' object into code for testing, so as not to have to use a real filesystem. This doesn't look like it supports that, which is a shame.

My other tactic is to create a temp directory at the start of a test and do _everything_ within it, then clean it up at the end.

Any other ideas on how to write testable code which uses this filesystem API?
Using servers paid for by whats app without compensating them is stealing.
I don't care whether bitcoin goes up or down tomorrow; I only care whether it goes up or down between the time I buy the bitcoin and the time I send it to someone. That is: bitcoin is a medium of exchange, not a store of value.
Agreed, this feels like arguing for the abolishment of Big-O notation, because it doesn't address constant factors.

This is, of course, true. But largely not the point of the notation or the law? If anything, it seems that the lessons need further underlining so that their actual uses are understood.
Cool! FYI there is something wrong with the fadeIn/fadeOut of the header (try editing the doc name and moving the mouse). Looks like whatever event you are listening to may need an extra conditional.