jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Is it because they might be overqualified, so any company that happens to do haskell (which I can imagine aren't many) are intimidated?

I mean how many people here, currently working in language X, would want to hire someone that is better than they are? I mean rationally it makes sense - bette for the company, learning opportunities, etc, but emotionally it would seriously piss me off if someone came swooping in and basically made me obsolete and look stupid. (I'm not saying the author of the article would do so, I'm just speaking in general and thinking up hypothetical scenarios)
> worth

There's other things in the world than money. Even if that is your philosophy, consider that learning obscure functional languages might make you a better programmer across the board.
Are people aware of similar gamified approaches to learn web dev/programming concepts? This game definitely helped me grok flexbox
As far as I know, Facebook has possibly the biggest Haskell deployment in form of one of their anti abuse tool.
They've had 0 technology for a millennium, so more properly they would be a revolutionary integral domain.
Sorry, but this argument about the single-cycle implementation is complete BS.

Any logic designer, who is not completely incompetent, when seeing the expression

(a / 2) + (b / 2) + (a & b & 1);

will notice that this is a 1-cycle operation, because it is just an ordinary single addition.

In hardware the divisions are made just by connecting the bits of the operands in the right places. Likewise, the "& 1" is done by connecting the LSB's of the operands to a single AND gate and the resulting bit is connected to the carry of the adder, so no extra hardware devices beyond a single adder are needed. This is really absolutely trivial for any logic designer.

The questions at any hiring interview, even for beginners, would be much more complex than how to implement this expression.

It is absolutely certain that such a patent should have never been granted, because both the formula and its implementation are obvious for any professional in the field.
you and I and most of our peers know that the polls weren't wrong

I mean, sure, if you don't think pollsters have any responsibility for due diligence. The polls were an accurate representation of what people were willing to admit to planning and doing, but a lot of people weren't willing to say they were voting for Trump. Popular culture and media spent months telling those people they were isolated deplorables who had no chance, but in the voting booth nobody can shame you. Asking people over the phone whether they were going to vote for Trump was like asking them if they liked being spanked in bed.
> Laravel and Drupal 7+ frankly ruined PHP for me.

You don't have to use either. It's like saying something like "Britney Spears ruined music for me".

Just go with Symfony and be done with it.
Who could’ve predicted that this might happen when the pandemic got under control? Just kidding, I’m sure many people predicted it (and made a lot of money).
Wait a minute. I thought there was a simple non-existence proof something along the lines of: Given the square, you'll need to cut pieces with the outer arc(s) of the circle. When you cut any length of convex arc, you also create a piece with and equal length of concave arc which will then require that much more convex arc to fill in the end. In other words, the circle requires a certain amount of arc length, and every time to create a piece to fit that you add a requirement for an equal amount of arc somewhere else.

I suppose this could be resolved by some kind of fractal, but that's going to have an infinitely long perimeter.
Interesting article, I didn’t know all common colds were once deadly epidemics but it seems logical thinking about it. I wonder if the rna vaccines brought out for covid will be applied to more and more viruses. Seems like a path towards eradication of all viral diseases.
Been using it for a while ! Really easy to get going and does everything I need.
No, adding should to Kernel fixes nothing. Your definition of the omg method returns the result of the comparison, thus it is no longer a void context. So the return value of omg is the return value of the comparison.

In your RSpec specs, if you only have one "==" expectation and it is the last one of the block, you will not get a warning.

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Not exactly, that's only true on average across all taxpayers. An individual could still pay in less than they got out. This donation is a way for the guy to make sure he has repaid his share.
"Everyone tosses the dice. Everyone has regrets. Don't beat yourself up about it."

Yes, life is always a dice roll. The difference is that one of the two bets has a much higher positive expectation. Done intelligently, neither choice will leave you destitute, but entrepreneurship could leave you rich.

I don't beat myself up over past choices that I can't change -- but I try to make my point forcefully to people who are about to go down the same blind alleys that I already know well.
The article also talks about having an office with better decorations than one's house! Now they'll never get asked to the school dance!
Yeah, rspec looks confusing as fuck. Here's how we do it in Perl:

is $got, $expected, 'is got eq expected?';
ok $foo, 'foo is true';
like $some_string, qr/foo bar/, 'some string contains foo bar';
cmp_ok $got, '<', $expected, 'got is less than expected';

No need to learn some new language. It's just Perl. (The only confusing part is whether it's $got, $expected or $expected, $got. But I guess that part is arbitrary, like calling "ok" "ok" instead of n"is_the_first_argument_some_sort_of_true_value".)
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Okay, this is only true if you live in a warm and dry climate and don't have a lead foot.

> However, I don't see a real reason for FWD electric cars other than those being retrofit models.

FWD cars are far more stable than RWD. This is important when driving in the rain as it helps lessen the likelihood of hydroplaning. Non-performance cars aren't just FWD because it's cheaper than RWD to make, but because they're safer.

And if you live in a climate with a lot of snow, you'll definitely want AWD.

> However, I don't see a real reason for FWD electric cars other than those being retrofit models.

As I said, safety. Yes, the traction control in an EV works amazing, arguably better than an ICE, but even better is a drivetrain setup that reduces the need for it entirely.
Never seeing A is IMO a bit of a red flag.

A+C is probably the most common where I'm at (enterprise SaaS), though its usually with management's knowledge/understanding. We wind up rushing something out to meet the client's direct need to hit their deadline, then figure out generalisation afterwards (which admittedly does drag out and has its own issues).

As a genuine question, is this approach abnormal or bad?

I'm on the technical management side of the whole thing - am I screwing my staff by encouraging this?

We want to shorten that generalisation process but that (internal) pressure to just close it out seems like the lesser of two evils when compared to the sorts of pressure that clients paying significant $$$ apply
yes. That is the point.
True. NOYB is basically the one doing all of the dirty work.

I donate to NOYB because they are actually the ones making sure this stuff is enforced.

There are great articles on the Financial Times about GDPR, tech regulation, emerging technologies, etc., that are on the spot. I remember one stating that all of the regulatory agencies for data protection in all of the respective EU countries were understaffed. It gave a great visual.
> But sometimes misinformation can develop even around ideas that have some truth to them

So many words and FUD in continued denial that there is more to science than “gold standard” double-blind randomised controlled trials. Bayesian statistics can inform hypotheses at any level of evidence, and zero-cost interventions like “wear a mask” and “take Vitamin D” require just a tiny bit of evidence. And even without any evidence they’re still better than the reverse (“don’t wear a mask”, “don’t take Vitamin D”) which are also without evidence.

In a novel crisis, you have to act without firm evidence (I cal this “executive ability”). Most Western governments and medical organisations failed to do that, so now they’re continuing to gaslight the public to conceal their failure.
It seems clear that in this case the co-pilot's actions were voluntary, but what if a co-pilot were to have a medical emergency while (s)he's alone in the cockpit? Would the pilot be able to re-enter?

This seems like a huge risk that wasn't considered when the new strengthened cockpit doors were installed.
One! That's important!

The first officer shut the captain out who tried to break the door until the end.
I don't think we know enough at this point to be sure of that at all (and we don't even know if it's murder/suicide.) Also I don't think you are correct about the Egyptair flight - that was more of a sudden dive, whereas on the Silkair flight the perpetrator intentionally disconnected the flight data and cockpit voice recorders.

Just because the governments of the countries involved didn't like the outcome of the investigations (far more so in the case of the Egyptair flight) doesn't mean it was covered up by the perpetrators, this was clearly for political/religious reasons - the failure mode suggested by the Egyptian investigators was totally unsupported by evidence.
>why the plane allows a pilot to take a fatal action

The plane is acting on sensor information, hardware and software, which might be flawed. That is why the pilots always need to be able to do a manual override.

Take for instance the Air France 447 crash: the first problem was freezing of pitot tubes to measure airspeed. That alone would have messed up auto-pilot. Then, the not very experienced co-pilot flying the plane also reacted wrong, and then the plane came down; the captain did not start to correct things in time.

http://www.bea.aero/en/enquetes/flight.af.447/rapport.final....
I am astonished how many hn readers do follow this theorie, even it is much too early and too many open questions are left. Hackersheeps?
Try this:

Run the company normally, but on each week, have a 90 minute confirmed-user webinar.

45-60 minutes discussing what you did in the week and then have and then:

For the next 30-45 minutes, you list the problems you've faced and the actions you've decided on taking. This won't work for every problem, but for where your own internal solutions are not based on expertise, you allow the community to vote/share on solving that problem.

Doing this company-building would be fun/okay normally, but would be amazing as a remote business (on the web, employees/founders spread across the world).

Mixing the entrepreneur community with the remote community (although there is tons of overlap already) will attract thousands of views of the experiment over the years.
Minor correction, the term of a patent is 20 years from the date of filing in most countries. The amount of time you can exercise your rights during this term is dependent on how quickly the patent office approves your application (if you get stuck on a backlog, the term length may change). Still not a century, but it is quite long.
I can't speak for Harvard, but MIT for example insures that all students who come from families making < 75K attend tuition free.

http://web.mit.edu/facts/tuition.html
When did he make unverifiable claims? When did he profit from his claims?

It's a nice straw man, but not what I suggested at all.
I've never been to a supermarket where the eggs weren't refrigerated. They're usually right next to the milk.
Your comment makes me think that writing primary documentation should always be the job of developers, with time dedicated for the task, and technical writers can do the polishing and categorization that will likely be necessary for it to be published. Being the only one responsible for documentation while not being a developer must be a nightmare.
Well, to question your premise - Why is universal home ownership desirable or necessary?
Something does not add up about the advice. Specially given that Eastern authorities encourage the use of makes by the general public. Which part of the World is better handling this pandemic?
In a statically-typed language you’d just get a compile error. The compiler knows the types of the values in the map and whether or not the (+) operation is valid for them. You’d likely need a little more code than what’s in the GP post, something restricting the values in your map to types that implement “addable” or whatever the terminology is for your language.

In a dynamically-typed language you’d get some kind of runtime error.

Just think of (+) like any other function and what would happen in your language if you call a function with types that the function doesn’t support.
I would assume this discussion is centered on coastal American cities, where Airbnbs routinely cost well over your monthly cost per night, plus cleaning fees etc. I don’t know where you are or what average rental price is in your area, but you won’t find any American units anywhere near that price.

My rental (traditional lease) cost is ~10x yours and I am considered to have a screaming good deal.
I compile operating systems on a 2010 ThinkPad.

It's not fantastic for today's standards, but it's not terrible either.
Fair enough in this case, and an even better reason for such a list. It could also point out cases where the takedowns were legitimate, but were bitched about. The fact that this case was fair (well, fair because legal action was threatened, otherwise I think it'd be somewhat ridiculous), the point still stands that it would be good to have some "case law" on the app store policies. Since the regulation is subjective, it would be useful to see how it's interpretted.
Set your margins the way you like them:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Design the page for you, not for the ads.
Fiddling around with mochiweb a bit... Other than that, Apache.
Married with 2 kids. Hypocrisy.
It's beautiful hardware and beautiful software. I'll take functionality any day though.

This is the divide. I have two geeky friends. One is OCD and well dressed. He likes things to work smoothly and look good. He is very happy with his iPhone and is excited to upgrade. My other friend is like me, he loves to hack and is a fan of Google's services.

Google needs to put Matias Duarte to work. Gallery3D is beautiful, there's no reason those GUI elements couldn't be more standard/accessible to the avg dev.
Noone designs mobile phones or appliances in their free time.
(Posted in response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1414193, which is a really on-the-money comment.)
The third clause was removed in 1999, although apparently some software is still using the 4-clause form.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses
In all seriousness how feasible is it to run a hot air gun over the TPM chip and remove it before even you first boot the computer? Would the computer boot? And if it does, would it just go with "Oh, I thought I came equipped with a TPM chip. I don't seem to have one. Oh well, let's carry on anyway"?
Another way to look at this would be 'doing stuff that matters' or 'doing what only I can do' or maybe 'doing stuff no one told me to do'

I think the biggest difference is that the garbage man is doing what he is told to do whereas the famous people are doing the stuff no one told them to do. They broke out of the mold and got famous.
Agreed on all points. US domestic policy does not encourage fiscal responsibility at a personal level and subsidizes a lot of functionally useless activity.
That's true of nuanced views in general.
I don't own a MBA, but I have owned a lot of Dell laptop's over the past decade (including some of their higher-end XPS laptops). I don't know how good the MBA build-quality is, but if it's even slightly better-than-average, then this Dell is in no way a "competitor."

I swore off buying Dell laptops after the last XPS I bought burnt through two separate motherboards (it's still warm to the touch when idling). Previous Dell laptops had an array of different issues: hinges that became brittle and broke, fans that stopped working, etc. Their hardware just seems ridiculously error prone, which explains why they're able to price themselves so competitively.
I used the Intel open source drivers (http://intellinuxgraphics.org/), that's not the culprit.
It may be accurate but you still have to question whether the comparisons were useful. We all know that you don't boot the machine to type a document, power it down, and then boot it again to work on your finance spreadsheet. Including boot times in benchmarks that are otherwise only based on typing speed is just silly.
The last paragraph of what you said tells me you already figured out what I was expressing in the post.

There are myriad reasons people may be poor. Some are circumstantial and should be considered with compassion, some are banal and essentially due to character flaws (such as silly spending).

I too live below my means (my income to rent ratio is ~220x, per NYC-style measurement) and will be leaving the country for an extended trip come Jan 7. I can only do this because I was aggressively saving my money and have very low expenses.
My netbook running Puppy Linux 4.3 boots from power button to connected wifi ready to go in less than ten seconds. It feels just about instant, although I've never timed it. I've used that exact same disc on machines as old as a K6 that I can't imagine trying to run XP on... and it still runs pretty darn well.
> They do what they do because they believe that Apple’s App Store is unfair to consumers since it has no trial service or refund policy.

BS. They do this because they don't want to bother with paying a couple of bucks for an app. Plenty of apps are cracked, which actually offer a free version for testing.
It's even factually wrong. Refund is possible…
+1 to this. It's a case of necessary and sufficient conditions. You have to "do stuff" to be famous, but that's not enough, not by a long shot. Most famous people are famous because they work hard at being famous.

Here's the formula for getting famous:

1) Do stuff

2) Relentlessly promote what you did in step 1

3) Repeat step 2

A more coherent response: http://peachshake.com/2010/12/26/acquiring-fame/
Outside of some specific items I'm seeing grocery stores well stocked and quickly restocking (my visibility is not perfect here).

The real concern would be if the outbreak were to suddenly sideline huge amounts of truck drivers / pilots / etc.

But many 'non essential' or 'seeing less demand' warehouses are shutting down / not busy, and that frees up a lot to focus on other things. Also truck drivers are now allowed to exceed their usual maximum driving hours ... and they are moving fast traffic wise.

As far as truck drivers and etc I'm seeing warehouses isolate drivers where previously the driver was not isolated. They're providing them an isolated room and etc to limit contact between delivery point personnel or warehouses.

Logistics in the US is strange, surprisingly low tech sometimes, but also very flexible industry. Outside still fairly flexible as well.
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Something that happened to me. I left a 1-star review for a merchant that took 3 months to ship and it stayed up. I left a 1 star review for a completely unresponsive merchant that took Amazon a month to FBA for some reason (stock/non-commingled?) and it was removed with the reason "fulfilled by Amazon, we take responsibility for this experience", but Amazon did credit me back while the seller continued to ignore contact.

I've had sellers also threaten me over reviews while they ship counterfeit product, but that's a whole other can of worms
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I guess I watched the back to basics c++ series on move semantics and its not really all that bad. I did struggle with it beforehand though. I've never worked in C++ tbh. I does take the 2 hours but you have it when you're done. https://youtu.be/St0MNEU5b0o
This government is run by people that believe mega corporations should pay no tax[1], under the impression that the mega corporations are better suited to fulfill the needs of society.

Will this philosophy survive a pandemic?

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/these-91-fortune-500-compani...
> Or why expose this interface {} feature and allow people to use it in a statically typed language?

`interface{}` isn't anything special, or something akin to `void*`. Interfaces are a core part of the language, and `interface{}` is just the literal form for an "interface with no methods", which happens to match anything since all types can fulfill an empty method set. It's no different than using this `Something` for exmaple:

type Something interface {
}
Is there any chance we'll be able to pay using Bitcoins or PayPal (preferably both)?

I don't have a credit card, so can't try it.
agree with the above...went through some eval on SC a few months back. We didn't go with SC, not for the lack of the demo link (swear the demo link wasn't there then :)), but I recall being a bit off put about it as well

...seems there has been a lot of development since though, some updated demos would really be nice.