jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If they sold all of that together with your name I could see that as a problem. I didn't see that in the case of California, but follow-on Vice articles report

> The data sold varies from state to state, but it typically includes a citizen's name and address. In others, it can also include their nine-digit ZIP code, date of birth, phone number, and email address

If a state were to sell all of those things that would indeed be odd.
It doesn't relate to it at all. The issues around linking to problematic object files mentioned in that article will apply to Rust as well, but that's unrelated to the subject of this article, it's a property of the linker you're using and the toolchain used to compile whatever C dependencies you have
A simple fix for this would be the sender to be required to show where they obtained your personal data from:

"We have obtained your personal data from the following company / database".
> My Verizon iPhone has both a public IPv4 address and a public IPv6 address.

How are you able to tell with IPv4? You cannot run ifconfig on an iPhone, so how are you determining that?
Off topic - The type looks so bad on this site using Chrome Beta on Ubuntu 13.10. Is there anything I can do to help render fonts better?
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Does anyone know of a similar article for the Google Cloud infrastructure?
wow, that's amazing, if it came couple months ago I might still be a PC person :)
I mean, I've been using reddit since before all the people who escaped digg joined. There's just not really a good alternative. The main thing is to quit all the default subreddits and only join the specialty subreddits you're interested in, it's not that bad. A lot depends on how the subreddits are moderated. A good mod team goes a long way.
It is more or less what you observed: http://builtwith.com/gatesnotes.com
Where’s the logical fallacy? More people natively speak Chinese than any other language in the world. If you want to maximize the exposure of your ideas, it’s only logical to render them in Chinese. It’s the same reason I prefer to distribute applications over the web.

FYI: English has ~1100 million total speakers but only 318 millon native speakers, while Chinese has 918 million native speakers. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/100-most-spoken-languages/
How was this survey conducted? Surveymonkey, or manually collecting responses via threads?
I think you're really overselling the difficulty of switching languages at that time, it wasn't even that big of a deal pre-google, much less pre-SO.

That said, SO was indeed a complete game changer in terms of the rapidity with which one could get solid information.
An "off the shelf" windows home server, or custom box? Off the shelf typically has no video card, no? My HP doesn't anyways.
Why David Brooks should not be employed by the New York Times, episode 978.
This is a cool idea (assuming it works)

I think that the 'What does docuharvest do' section of your video was way too long! Just give 3 examples then show the cluttered bit :) And go a bit less technical. Instead of "You often want to have the data held within the documents in a more useful form" how about "All the data is spread across a ton of different formats. Word, powerpoint, pdf.. it's hard to keep track of!"

Again "typical docuharvest workflow" makes this sound BORING and ENTERPRISE! This could be a great tool for anyone to use, don't relegate it to the cubicles!! :) tell me what it does like "Let's see how you can save time with docuharvest" or "Let me show you how easy it is to make all your documents searchable" or whatever point you're trying to get across :)

'workflow' is not fun :) Or even friendly!

Hope this helps.
Thanks for the kind words. Indeed, I put a lot into the "first visit experience", and hopefully it's a reasonable first stab for this Tufte-reading programmer. :-)

As for competition:

(a) Nonconsumption (as the 37signals guys like to say). There's millions of people that have a directory of document type NNN that want to get some aspect of those documents into another form, but either (a) they don't have resources to get it done, or (b) the job/process isn't large enough for them to bother their IT folks with. If we can nail the UI, we should be able to capture some large chunk of this.

(b) The relative waste of resources spent on non-core work related to extracting data from documents in medium-sized, usually internal software projects. These folks don't like spending the up-front money to license software to get the job done, and they don't like having to understand the minutiae of the processing involved; i.e. "I want text/images/form data/three number from the second page of each of these 10K documents, and I don't want to blow a week on figuring that out."

(c) Manual entry. Organizations with very large document processing workflows currently spend millions shipping documents to "overseas" keying shops (almost all in south Asia). We have some things in the pipeline that might obsolete that practice, driving down error rates along with cost. Solutions for these customers would likely require a private installation or similar, so that's down the road a bit.
It's confirmed, it was Etacts. I will post a follow-up as soon as I manage to make the site run smoothly.
Perhaps he means why use $.each over native javascript equivalent.
Jump on IRC and you tend to get quick support. But you can't expect them to perform server administration on your behalf. Prgmr is targetted at your technical crowd, who are low maintanance, and thats why they are cheap.

If you need high-availability, you can buy 2x prgmr nodes at different locations, for the same cost as most other VPS providers, and you'll get MUCH better reliability that linode or such.. But perhaps you should clarify that it was your fault in your post.. I don't recall ever seeing any long outages..

Also, Prgmr likely runs monitoring software to identify when servers go offline, in which case, they may be able to respond to true outages sometimes the moment they happen.
Paypal might be OK from a seller's perspective, but it's pretty abysmal from a customer's perspective.

A couple months ago I was in a financial pinch and one of my bank accounts was overdrawn, while another one had funds in it. I printed a shipping label using Paypal, making sure to use the correct account. When I printed a second shipping label, I assumed it would use the most-recently-used account (the last 4 digits differed by only one number), but it instead defaulted to the overdrawn account.

Only a few minutes later, I noticed this and immediately called Paypal. They said that it was too late to cancel or assign a new source for the payment, even though I told them the payment would be rejected by my bank. I deposited from my other bank account to my Paypal account enough money to cover the charge, and they still couldn't cancel the debit to my overdrawn account. A few days later, I received an email message:

Your bank has declined the funds transfer because your account did not have sufficient funds available. We will automatically re-attempt this transfer in 3 business days. Please fund your bank account immediately to ensure this transaction can be completed.

What?! I already had enough money in my Paypal account to cover the charge, but they instead chose to recharge the same account in 3 days? I called them again as soon as I received this email, but they said they could not change this transaction, that it was their policy and that the process could not be altered. Three days later, lo and behold, it was declined again, and they finally took the money from my Paypal account. Meanwhile, my bank charged me $70 for the two declined charges, all for an under-$4 shipping label.

I will be avoiding Paypal in the future. That kind of inflexibility, poor service, and bad policy combines for an awful customer experience.
So, if he agreed with the decision not to give the drugs, why were they recommended in the first place?

Also, I don't think regulating someone's blood/sugar levels can be equated to altering the course of their puberty and shrinking their testicles. The damage could be untold and irreversible.

I don't share your faith in the medical system, and it's infallability (although many do a great job under difficult circumstances), and I'm definitely not alone there. Many respected cellular biologists are claiming that the medical profession has got it wrong in relation to treatment of many conditions.
Yeah, I've struggled with the "job" terminology quite a bit, having used "run", "batch", and "task" in prior iterations. (Whoa, think I'm a backend dev or something? ;-)

I'll mull over the "Harvest" idea. Seems like a good way to provide a verb for people to use to reference the site/process, e.g. "I'll just harvest these docs" :: "I googled and didn't find anything".
Arduino Uno!
Very interesting.

Here is a nice synopsis of a case studied in the Influencer book about the Carter Center helping to rid Guinea worm infections in several African countries:
http://www.joshhunt.com/mail215.htm

I have problem accepting your conclusion from your blog:To make the long-term consequences of failing at your goal immediate, you need a bright and painful line.

I think it more complex than that, which you alluded to earlier. I am constantly trying to be a better me. Losing money would not be an incentive to me if milestones were not met as you recommended.

The book, "Change or Die", talks about Dick Cheney needing a yearly heart bypass and then finally getting $6M/invested in chefs/fitness trainers/doctors/retrofitted planes to change himself (basically to exercise 1 hour a day). This is even before his recent massive weight loss.

It also talks about, people with fatal diseases that refuse to take their daily meds as required. Why? I mean it is fatal. They will die.

Taking the pill every day made them realize they were dying. Forgetting to do so, made them have a happier less depressing day. I guess quality versus quantity. In this case if the pill was somehow better integrated, so they would not notice it much and reflect so much, they might consistently take it.

I also liked this synopsis of take aways from this MS project manager about the Influencer. the Power to Change Anything:
http://sourcesofinsight.com/2009/06/09/influencer-the-power-...

Also, you may have already seen this, Sendhil Mullainathan's, "THE IRONY OF POVERTY" http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge263.html in which he talks one such problem diarrhea causing infant deaths and how to successfully change the mental model of the parents to save infant lives.

I have not yet read PG's essay.The Wikipedia article was a nice read. Thanks!

PS There are some interesting books on how train and change behaviors in animals since I think in end we more like animals than we care to admit.
haha, thanks chris :)
Then why did she explain to herself that she condemned the "mob" who was outraged by Hickman's murder?

The outrage of the mob was what she was studying to write her fiction. She is detailing the characteristics and behaviours which she wants to portray - violence/murder was not going to be a part of her story, so she didn't write about it.

She'd presumably feel the same contempt not only towards those people who expressed outrage at Hickman's murder, but at similar outrage expressed against any murder.

She's not alluding to other murders, but to lesser 'crimes' that provoke a more hypocritical mass-response. Here the public response to Hickman wasn't hypocritical (except for his wife-murdering cellmate), but there were other things she didn't like about it. Let's note that most murders actually don't provoke a mass outrage - people are just quietly glad when the murderer is caught/sentenced. Mind you, Rand's early years probably weren't that far removed from the groutesque spectacle of public executions in front of actual mobs, which I suspect most people now find despicable.

And that "unhealthy mass-relishment" is more worthy of contempt and reproach than Hickman's own crime?

Again you are forgetting this is a private diary for planning fiction, not an newspaper editorial on a public affair. 'Worthy' has got nothing to do with it. Murders happen all the time. Many books are written about them already. It's not like this would be the first murder ever and that was Rand's response to it. This was a murder case with a difference, and Rand wanted to explore that difference. The question is not 'what is just and fair in this story,' but 'what is interesting in this story?'
thanks - for a 23 and a 19 year old, we think it's decent for our first year online. we should be able to triple that in year 2.
Once ever. For some books.
If you never merge, but only use "git pull --rebase", you will have a straight line history and thus lose all of the "distributed" nature of the history. That's fine, but limiting. Any system that allows distributed development has to deal with parallel work that gets merged in stages. Otherwise you are no better than diff/patch (FWIW, rebase merges before rebasing, so it is also vulnerable to this problem, rebasing just A, then rebasing B is NOT the same as rebasing A + B).

See: http://pastebin.com/SxmwpFkY
We started working on this idea on Friday Night, and its been an awesome experience!
We appreciate any feedback about the site, the idea and our pitch deck ( http://www.slideshare.net/DFectuoso1/shoutatweet2 ).

We are presenting at 6:30ish, so any feedback is awesome!
Go here and read the books listed in the roadmap
http://javascriptissexy.com/how-to-learn-javascript-properly...
I wonder if my site can help you. It is intended as a online tutor designed for programmers preparing for job interviews but I think you'd find the find the practice problems, in-depth tutorials and the video lectures (coming soon) helpful once you get a bit of programming experience.

If you happen to try it out, I can answer any programming questions you may have, give you tips, feedback, etc.

Check it out at:

http://blueberrytree.ws
it's the most active thread on the page yadingus
> Would really love to get this working on my site

Whilst this isn’t my extension, the underlying generation of the EPUB is using a fork of my Nodepub library.

If you are using Node on your site, or are familiar enough with it to code a small wrapper around the library, then you should be able to create ebooks of your site user’s fiction pretty easily from your own codebase without needing an extension.

It’s at https://github.com/kcartlidge/nodepub and is also on NPM under the name Nodepub.

Note that it is EPUB 2, not 3. So you get modern ebooks including images and metadata, but the main omission is Javascript support embedded in the books; it isn’t something I want to encourage given the security issues endemic in tech.
No Objective-C on the list.

LLVM is open source project sponsored by Apple, but I'm not sure about Foundation framework (a standard library with containers, concurrency functions and networking).
> certain kinds of governments create certain kinds of administrative cultures

Not exact.

- Yes, you are right in that police is SUBsystem of government, so if government changes it will become strong factor causing changes of all subordinated organizations, but exists one huge nuance.

- Nuance is that ALL government subordinated organizations are by definition large - it is non-sense, to create small government organizations.

And ALL large organizations are very conservative in their administrative cultures.

And near ALL government organizations of post-soviet states are in fact, soviet government organizations, just subordinated to new government.

This is so huge strong factor, that governments change their habits to better fit in system.

I know only two exceptions at the moment: after revolution 2003, Georgia THREE times fired all police and recreated it from zero, before achieve adequate habits; Greece and Georgia after step into financial crisis, made first for few DECADES audit of their pension funds and found near 50% of dead souls, so half of their pension funds where plundered, and after that they very fast implemented new regulations and created new pension systems.

In Eastern Europe, things better, because after disintegration of USSR, they was extremely dependent from EU donations, and EU commission used the situation for 100%, to destroy old government organizations there and to rebuild new from zero.

In Baltic countries happened even more - they after become independent, declared that 1946-1991 where occupation, and all laws issued by occupation forces are now annulled (all returned to before 1946), and all people, who live there and have not relatives lived there before 1946, declared occupants or successors of occupants (and they become non-citizens, with limited rights).
And then they conducted elections with only "old" citizens participated, and fired all officials who where not "old" citizens.

There was some smell on these, but mostly EU close eyes, because these measures was effective, and because they conducted huge works on REintegrate people declared occupants into new society (after law checks, and learn national language, and pass exams, they got passports).

In ALL post-soviet states except Baltic and Georgia, just saved old system.

Ukraine is new exception, for many reasons, the most important being Russian invasion (which started in 2014), and Ukraine being a nation after about 2008.
You can order a filet for a fairly predictable price, it will take a fairly predictable amount of time, and it will fairly predictably make you happy.

Software, by and large, does not make people happy or do what they want nearly as reliably as steak does, and so if I were them I would be much more finicky about paying people to make it for me than I am about paying people to make me steak.

And especially, software made to order has even lower mean and even higher variance than most of the software that people use. And you don't know what you're getting until you get it, at which point the incompetent software vendor is demanding some ridiculously exorbitant sum for something it turned out you didn't want anyway.

You personally may not suck at programming, but the majority of programmers do, and so people are very justifiably unwilling to cough up the dough programmers demand.
You can play around with the API here - http://nparashuram.com/trialtool/index.html#example=/ttd/fir...
Just surprising that your account is so old but you've never commented on a story until today... And then you comment 4+ times! I wasn't suggesting your account was fake-- just that you might be helping out a friend a little too aggressively. Apologies if I'm wrong.
Except in this metaphor no one has wikipedia ;)
> Brave Search is built on top of a completely independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks.

https://brave.com/brave-search-beta/
Wrong link my mistake, US has high usage of desktop/laptop but in most other parts of the world smartphone is primary device. https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mob...
It's not about "half the country hates it", though. Plenty of projects have widespread support, but are only backed by one party (or no party). It's clearly a bug, as it causes undue preference for the status-quo above and beyond the popular will (and the common good).
I would want the surgeon of 12 years, on the proviso that I imagine (having no idea) that a surgeon by then would be some sort of senior surgeon. If they are still a surgeon-under-supervision (or whatever the surgeon's equivalent is) I would take my chances with the 3 year rookie. There's obviously something going on that the veteran still has 3 year status despite being 12 years on the tools.

I'm sorry you think this is a strawman, but I'm just addressing the scenario you originally posed.

I still can't see what you think would be fairer - the labour market is always going to be subject to demand and supply dynamics. I believe a fair minimum wage should be established (and seriously enforced) for every job, but if employers want to pay above that to attract what they perceive is a better quality of applicant I don't have a problem.

Where it gets admittedly weird is comparing two otherwise equal employees, fully remote - why the company cares where they live is a mystery for them to answer, but considering that wages aren't really a zero sum game, isn't this a case of some employees earning more as much as it is of some earning less (being that all these jobs are above minimum wage, so the question of what a SWE, for example is "worth" is even more at the mercy of the market)?
You can write Scala like a better Java. When I started writing scala, I didn't use any of the functional features, I basically wrote Java with closures.

Slowly my code has taken a more functional, idiomatic Scala feel to it, but I think it's possible to write approachable Scala code if that is one of your design goals.
what? the UI really wasn't very good at all on it. The old school iPod UI was superior

The Nomad Jukebox was great for the tactile-feedback buttons and it's durability. It was a tank.
Hoppity Hop is basically the Fogbugz for-loop question + no brainer file parsing

Why not give me a real world use case, with a code base to work off of? Put up a codebase on github, provide a set of user stories and requirements to satisfy (ie, "add a real time search using this data set and code base which works cross-browser and degrades in IE"), and ask me to add it, thus basically mirroring a normal development process.

As someone who has had to interview programmers before, that would tell me infinitely more than their ability to re-iterate the word "Hoppity" on the command line.
(* Standard ML of New Jersey v110.72 [built: Sun May 16 15:16:12 2010] *)
- 5;
val it = 5 : int

(* Objective Caml version 3.11.2 *)
# 5;;
- : int = 5

// D programming language
void main(string[] args){
writefln(typeid(typeof(5)));
}
// Output: int

// C# 4.0
var n = 5; // int

// Go programming language
var n = 5 // int

// Welcome to Scala version 2.7.7final (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM, Java 1.6.0_20).
scala> 5;
res0: Int = 5

// C++
#include <iostream>
#include <typeinfo>

int main(){
cout << typeid(5).name() << endl;
return 0;
}
// Output: i

I see...
I love the NeXT desktop...takes me back.
At least 20% of people can block Facebook JS embeds.
In the case of iOS it's more like 0.01%.\