jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's quite funny isn't it - GS has this reputation for brutally insisting their employees working like this whilst Tech companies very quietly and passively set up conditions where people can work like this. If you think "Who has designed their company so that I work there 24/7 with no break" it's not Goldman, it's Google.
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I don’t understand - don’t people already have home offices for at least doing their bills and things?
yes, but postgress doesn't have the problem that it fails if you have more than 100MB in all records, in total.
The amount of rent paid per employee has been driven down over the decades as the square foot space dedicated per employee has driven down. Give employees those savings and it would amount to converting an already used space (a closet) in your home to some pale representation of what you had in the office. Certainly would not justify adding on to the employee’s house, and not everyone has spare space they bought or rent that they magically don’t need for personal use anymore.
I don’t know if Willis would have succeeded today. I can’t think of any similar “every man” casting today. Maybe the new Jurassic Park guy? But I would say he’s much better looking than Willis.
To keep the illusion of having a work-life balance. Another possibly is to not store your belongings in your office. So you go to your stor.. ehrm home to change and water your plants.
Knife and Chef: http://www.opscode.com/chef
It would only encourage PG to spam. :p (I think the idea behind this is that the site converts them to PG's amazon affiliate account, so he's making the referral bonuses.)
Wow - another gymnast on HN - that's awesome. It is definitely important to select meaningful goals, especially if you get caught up in competing with others. My main point was that for dreams to come true, you've really got to approach your life much differently than most people.
Some much better DIY bike chains: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/diy_bicycle_tire_ch...

These could probably be improved further by ditching the zip ties for something reusable like velcro.
You read too much into my words. What does not thrill me is realizing I was wrong.
dude I tunnel into their cali DC and work over ssh from Dunedin, New Zealand and it's fine. That's a distance of 11,500km. Latency may not be your biggest problem
My guess, as mentioned, is that some phrase on the site triggered some automated process that locked the account.

Is it related to orientation or do just the words "phone sex" trigger something? I have no idea how PayPal works internally.
Again, I don't think there is any evidence for these claims; they are bald assertions evidently made with an ulterior motive, which is what makes this all unjust. It would never have occurred to Kant or Marx that anything like the genocides and purges of the 20th century were even possible. They were, if you like, naïve. It was better times. It was by slow degrees that these things did become possible. The savagery of the First World War, and the sick character of the Tsarist regime, are together quite enough to explain the blood-curdling aspects of the Bolshevik regime, and its Stalinist development. Any number of 'ideologies' could have filled the vacuum; in Russia, Marxism was the least likely given what it seems to say, but so it was.

The suggestion that Kant has blood on his hands in this connection is so completely outrageous and evil -- it puts one in mind of LaRouchites putting everything down to Aristotle and Bertrand Russell and the change in attunement of instruments. This is nonsense which serves to disable the listener's sense of reality. Once one is willing to blame Kant for Russian barbarism, one will stop at nothing. But the truth is, the same holds for Marx, who held to an entirely conventional moral system, basically that of Aristotle.
At that level of generality, a lot of things are political since one of the definitions of politics, according to Merriam-Webster [1] is: "the total complex of relations between people living in society". Does this now mean that if I hang out with a friend, this may, under this very broad definition, be considered political? Is your suggestion then that me asking my friend to hang out is in some way an incitement to violence?

I feel like these sorts of categorizations based on broad definitions of terms almost never arrive at anything substantive. Categories are generally always fuzzy on the boundaries and using strict definitions to demarcate them is a complicated process (see, for example, the Judicial System).

Also I find this opinion preposterous because the incitement to violence in this instance has nothing to do with "political discussions about what the state should do". The President certainly did not have a political discussions with his supporters about what the state should do - rather, people in a state voted to decide who should lead, according to rules that ostensibly most of the citizens agree with, which the losing party then tried to contest by trying to wield violence themselves.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/politics
My big problem with command line (as it is commonly implemented) involves learning curves. If you're using a GUI word processor/text editor and you don't know how to, I dunno, auto-indent, you open the menu bar and browse around until you find something that says "auto-indent". If you're using Vim, you...google for <vim autoindent> and try to find a result that actually answers your question and isn't a barely-related comment or a comprehensive list with your answer buried somewhere on screen 12.

Essentially, a GUI allows you to explore the options available to you in a fairly consequence-free manner. Most command lines offer no obvious, intuitive way to do that, and actively punish you for experimenting without being sure of your actions.

(Raised on CLI from the age of 7, BTW, and it took me years to accept GUIs. I've come to believe that they both have their place, but a well-designed GUI is clearly superior for casual day-to-day use. CLI is a useful tool, but a specialized one.)
I like Alan Kay's quote the best:
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

I think I will get back to that
It can certainly do so if Congress passes laws to give it that power, as long as it isn't unconstitutional. And that constitutionality can also be changed through amendments. Similarly within states, the power given to the state can be modified over time. I'm not sure that the states are the "canonical" model as much as the principle that America tries to provide locality of decision making as much as possible, so that people can live how they want based on their own local values, culture, etc.
Thank you Chris for your advice and support! The partnership you and Luke have is an inspiration for Ross and I.
All in all I'm not sure I believe in karma, but I do believe you should take the high road here. Simply reporting them doesn't fix it. But telling your competitor and reporting it as a PCI compliance issue from your company (because you do indeed have exposed credit card numbers in your possession) would be the route I would take.

Tell them and let them know you're prudently reporting it for your own sake.
it's not a case of threatening anyone.

they just pay them to include the additional primes in the public key system. users are still more or less secure. not just whatsapp. pretty much all the public key systems use it. it's still effectively 1024 bit plus keys for everyone but the nsa and ghcq.

latest snowdon leaks include everything you need for confirmation now you know what to look for.
After a big year in 2014 with the Facebook acquisition of Oculus Rift, virtual reality will hit some headwinds.

Agree, but I think that Augmented Reality will really breakout in 2015. VR and AR are complements, and the press from Oculus and VR over the last year really helps people understand AR. Because of the potential practical applications, I think AR will become more widely adopted and help to spread AR/VR adoption.
Try compiling with -d:release instead of --opt:speed.
Didn't PCI-DSS 3.0 go into effect January 1, 2014?

Edit: The new questionnaires went into effect today. The previous year's were still applicable through last year.
Also, there are concerns with Alaskan towns only reasonably reachable by boat, which means the coast guard can legally prohibit any marijuana from entering the island under national law. Considering Hawaii leans pretty far left in most elections, they might legalize soon, and that's when you get really weird things happening with border control vs. state law. I'm not sure there are a lot of direct flights from marijuana-legal states to Hawaii.
thanks for this article! a very interesting one!
didn't know Google Chrome is using Qt GUI framework...

i'm a LAMP web application developer. i know some C++, although never used it in any real-world project, and i strongly agree with the author... if a day comes and i'll need really good performance from my application, think there's only one true solution and it's writing C++ code.
I have to say the spirit of this fake_contacts app is very appealing. Why stop at defending your data, when you can attack?
I wouldn't pay for a browser, they all track me, or try to, and experiment on me, and extract personally identifiable information which I am told is "anonymized" but you'd have to be a complete moron to believe that.

I'm already paying with all the data Mozilla and Google extract from me. In fact, they should pay me. I haven't asked for or wanted any of the new browser features which have appeared since, say, 2001. They all serve somebody else, not me.
> I'm actually scared that she's either so incompetent and didn't realize what's happening in her prisons. Or that she didn't care.

They weren't her prisons.

The Secretary of California's Department of Correction and Rehabilitation is responsible for prisons.

Attorney generals and district attorneys aren't going to know about a secret program in another department.

Would you know if another department at your employer had a secret project? This is doubly so for an illegal program like involuntary sterilization.
> I'm not because without extensions that now you think they should be standard browser features actually existing you may not even have imagined about those features in the first place.

I agree. I'm not saying we shouldn't have extensions. The entire ecosystem should be healthy, varied and with a low barrier to entry. I'm saying some extensions turned out to be so incredibly important that they really ought to be installed by default for every user. The only thing that stops uBlock Origin from being a browser feature is the fact it is an extension.

I installed uBlock Origin not only in my own browsers but also in the browsers of every single computer I have ever used. Sometimes people even comment on how much nicer the whole web browsing experience has become and they can't explain why when I ask them. People also seem to magically become immune to malware since malicious ads are no longer being shown and malware domains are being blocked.

When an extension has such an immensely positive impact on your users, browser developers need to recognize that fact and integrate it into the browser. At the very least they should ship the extension with the default browser package.
I’ve been hearing this argument for over 10 years now about nsa, idf, china and now the kgb. The truth is internal audits are quite effective at catching these. If nsa could just place a plant why did they spend so much effort to tap into companies’ inter-dc fibers?
You don't lose open apps, files, tabs, etc., so your work is not interrupted.

I've not perceived any time difference between cold boot and wake from hibernation, on a decently fast SSD.
this guy makes a lot of unsubstantiated assumptions about how kgb works
To be honest I hate the style of Google+.
> ...platform directly under the bridge so there shouldn't have been any sideways force.

No net sideways force. Any +X force on the left wall will have a -X force on the right wall. If there's a tension T in the ropes across the top they'll be pulling the walls inward with a force of T causing a torque of T*height.
>would not make any financial sense.

Yeah, that's what people often miss. We're not prepared for this, and don't build for it, because it almost never happens.

And it'll be 70F on Sunday.
I meant series, I tought serie was the singular. But as pointed out by this issue : https://github.com/ukarroum/ykarroum-blog/issues/1, it's not.
In the case of film, unlike music, most deals for distribution at least resemble fairness to the creators.

So you can strike that off this list of problems.
Personally, I stick to bootstrap + customizations which does the job most of the time. Because I work on internal tools most of the time, so it's all kept simple. So I am not really your target audience :) but if I was considering such a service, I would be keen to known how you do it before starting.
> I know security people at Apple. I do not believe for a heartbeat that they would cooperate with NSA on a backdoor

So you're absolutely sure that there is no developer (in the position) at Apple that would take a discrete paper bag of $$$ to make just a tiny error by hitting ctrl-v twice?
The "who we are" link on that page answers your questions.
Only command that didn't work for me and wasn't listed here is cmd-k to clear the screen. Maybe most people don't use that, though.
There's something to be said for being prolific. I have 180 songs on Soundcloud, and on average someone new hears something I wrote every hour. Some of them even like what they hear!
Landlords are now dealing with tenants who haven't paid rent in a year with no end in sight as to when they can evict them. It's certainly understandable if this has caused landlords to prefer to wait until there is recourse for non-paying tenants.
It's a one-byte modification if you want just to remove the check for mixed genders upon marriage. If you want to implement as proper game feature - as a selectable option - then you need to do a bunch more things; you need to model the conditions in which that same-sex marriage would be permitted (even if it'd be enabled in the game as such, there would be character-faith-related conditions), you need to model how every other character would treat that marriage (a bunch of conditional modifiers depending on the attributes of that other character), you need to decide how it interacts with polygamy if someone has spouses of both genders; you need to adjust for any impacts on the many inheritance models (after all, the main gameplay purpose of marriage as opposed to just lovers is the effect on inheritance); you need to adjust any events and event text (and translations) where it does not make sense any more; you'd likely need to change the treatment of bastards if one is born in a woman-woman marriage and you need to treat edge cases such as regency if both spouses are pregnant (from other partners) at the same time; etc, etc.

It's far more than a one-byte modification.
There are Chinese restaurants everywhere in the US. So obviously the US is becoming Chinese then? Using your arguments? Or perhaps the US is becoming English since everybody is using mobile phones with an arm designed CPU? Or perhaps Mexican because of all the Mexican restaurants in the US? Or Italian? The US sure loves eating pizza? Using your arguments I could make all of those claims.
Follow it up with 2 minutes of Ouija board questions! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15nNY7uofNw
The author built the NUKEMAP site [0], which is very popular around here.

[0] https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
I've always praised Taiwan for the number of industries and tech names in the country per capita (oops, did I say Country? Yes!). It's about the same size as the Netherlands.
Simply put, in a country where US$3000 is a decent annual wage, a company founder can hire more than one person to work with them on the kind of revenue they'd need to eat and pay rent in Silicon Valley.

On the other hand, it's still quite possible for a Philippines-based startup to generate most of its revenues from wealthier countries.

Silicon Valley is a mecca for entrepreneurs looking for funding to form fast-growing, high-risk companies, and startups that need elite developers to solve challenging technical problems. On the other hand, if you're looking to start a relatively low risk, medium-return business you're less likely to get investment in the Valley and less likely to run out of cash before you start making money in the Philippines.
I think this was outlined in the first Freakonomics book.

I am constantly fascinated that most recruiters are doing such poor jobs -- examples include bad matching (oh you got java on your CV, do you want this web designer job, it mentions javascript) -- as this is a role that can be eliminated, I would think they would really try to add value, to avoid being replaced by a website.
You are right, V8 does not have an interpreter. However, I think it is fairly accurately desribed as a JIT, because it compiles methods to native code when needed, i.e., before the first invocation/execution of any specific piece of code.

Other approaches, like JVM, are more accurately described as "dynamic compilation" sub-systems of the virtual machine.

At least that's my understanding of things, and I used to lump everything in that area into the "JIT" category, until (quite recently, actually) someone brought this small but important distinction to my attention. I don't see how one could make an argument not classifying V8 as a JIT compilation virtual machine, though...
I've personally only done it a couple of times, and I have received letters in response both times. The general impression I get here is that email is just as good as letters for contacting politicians.
I'm not an App Engine apologist, although I'm seriously evaluating it for my current project. That said, could you please clarify the following points:

1. "You're supposed to handle exceptions from the datastore? Really?" — Are you saying you don't handle exceptions when your regular relational database throws them? I've seen Sybase and MySQL blow up with depressing regularity, and have had to write exception-recovery code for them.

2. "No https with a domain?" — What stops you from making https://<your-app>.appspot.com the handler for forms which read sensitive information? You can submit the form with XHR, have the server send back a structured response (perhaps as JSON), and deal with it with JavaScript on the client. I admit that it's annoying (you need different form submit targets in development and production), but it shouldn't be a deal-breaker unless you need your entire site to use SSL.

(If you do need your entire site to use SSL, then the appspot domain limitation obviously sucks. If that's the case though, then you're probably doing something with finance, and the datastore's transaction semantics probably cannot work for you at all.)
Unfortunately no, there's no other way at the moment. Apple is aware of the issues this causes a lot of people, but so far I've not heard of any upcoming solutions to this the situation. (Filing more radars complaining about this can't hurt, though, as bug reports act as votes.)
I can't be the only one who uses the iPad's orientation lock button frequently... The very impractical decision to transform it to a mute button is enough of a frustration that it will be a good while before I can convince myself to upgrade to an otherwise compelling release.
I'm almost positive that this is a joke.
The thing I like about node.js is that you can now pretty much write your entire web app in JS, both front end and back end. This really helps with the context switches that happens in larger projects. With mongoDB, you can pretty much use JSON throughout the application stack.
This brand of toaster is better than the others because it is 10 times harder to make toast than the other brands. It is 10 times harder for an evil person to come into my house and make toast.
Just build IHaskell or use the docker container. Kronos is by the author of IHaskell and if I recall also had a repo for a node-webkit wrapper around IHaskell or IPython which this appears to be the continuation of.

To add: Building and installing IHaskell (on Mac at least) is a bit of a hassle if you just want to get up and running. You need XQuartz, cairo for the Diagrams module, gcc, a non-distribution ipython (recommended), and of course a sane cabal environment. If you know what you're doing, that's a few minutes in shell commands, making sure you're in a sandbox, etc. If you're new to all of this, have fun figuring out why your build keeps exiting because of some weird ABI breakage in an upstream Haskell package, or setting the right library paths so that GCC can do its job, or finally getting everything to build after GHC takes a week off in the Bahamas only to find that the kernel dies immediately... (https://github.com/gibiansky/IHaskell/issues/287 now fixed, don't worry!)

Despite that, it's a great tool and without it I don't think I would have been as motivated to work through the stack of Haskell learning materials I've got piling up.

Edit: Based on the author's comment above (PieSquared) Kronos is deprecated with IPython 2, so it must be what I was thinking of regarding the older repo.
> "I do not have any real data to back up that statement. But I'm pretty sure about it."

If you have no evidence to back up a statement you pulled out of thin air, then do not comment! There are PLENTY of web design firms and iOS shops in the US.