jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not sure that 'melting pot' is taught anymore. What I've seen over the past couple of decades is 'cultural stew' where the emphasis is on each ingredient keeping most of its integrity with some exchange of attributes (flavors) over time. It's a nice concept but every cook knows while incredible combinations are possible, not every combination of ingredients makes for a good dish.
quite interested. thank you!
Also, plenty of employees in car dealerships and finance companies in the US sell access to credit reports (i.e. they make a new credit report search on demand, not a previously stolen one). Just go to any of the darkweb markets and you'll find them there, with a lot of glowing "reviews".

If the money is there, and it can be done anonymously, people will keep doing it.
Invert the waveform of the copy-written music, then sync the music to the video, mix both audio streams causing the copy-written music to be effectively removed.
> The first estate was clergy (aka, "those who prey")

It was originally "those who pray", though "prey" may also be appropriate.
True. But it would have been much harder if they had to define a syntax for the entire document.

I imagine they thought that the path DSL is simple enough to parse (and I seem to vaguely recall PostScript has something similar), while the overhead of representing path nodes as XML elements would be too high.
I agree, HTML is fine (still a bit too verbose IMO, in particular having to repeat the tag to close it always felt useless and very noisy).

But HTML is a markup language, the problem is that for some insane reason a big chunk of the industry at some point decided that XML was a reasonable serialization format. That's where it went really wrong IMO.
For those who can't wait, there's https://www.jooq.org/translate
Cigarettes are probably the worst exported products/trend from USA (starting from WWII), more than fast-foods in my opinion (not sure which has the worst impact on population health)
I would think that adding a dose of sentiment analysis to their algorithm wouldn't be that hard. You could have a database of positive/negative terms and use it to score web pages for positive/negative content. It might not be very accurate but it seems like it could at least be used to make sure that sites with lots of negative link parents don't make it to the top of the page.
I suppose they get too much email to make it worth emailing them about it? Or?
I still think Ruby is a little too "expressive" to be taken seriously is scientific circles. In my view, DSLs are not a positive feature in academic work, because everybody's D is different from the next guy's. This is why the linga franca of almost all algorithms papers is, in fact, pseudocode. Python is sufficiently structured that it practically reads like pseudocode.
Ideal dating pool seems to be around age 32.

I don't know how to optimize a function with an integral in R yet (unsurprising, just installed it 20 minutes ago), therefore I can't give a better answer. Now I want to learn R.
N.B. Use asterisks in place of underscores and you'll get actual italics, like this.
I think you've answered your own question: beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

That said, I think Ruby is beautiful for a few reasons, but they mostly stem from the fact that Ruby strikes the perfect balance between Lisp and Other Languages: it's taken just enough of the good parts of Lisp and grafted them onto a more 'usual' language. Maybe 'grafted' is too harsh, it's Lisp _from the perspective of the rest of the world_. It's taking Lisp's ideas through a slightly different lens.

Whatever, I'm almost rambling. You get the idea. Some people think Java is beautiful, too...
Rats jumping off the sinking ship.
"They relax. This one is difficult for most people, but successful individuals understand the importance of creating a few minutes of peace before jumping in. "It helps you better approach the issues at hand," Taylor says. Taking a moment to stretch and breathe will help you make better decisions during this chaotic time of day."

In general, I've done the best when I start my day by reading the newspaper - not software industry news, but the local dead-tree paper - over breakfast in a cafe, before I go to work.

Lately I haven't been doing so well. I attribute this to where I presently live; there is only one place where I can walk to where I could read the paper over breakfast. Rather than going there every single day, some days I stay at home with the intention of getting right to work. Quite commonly the days that I stay home are quite unproductive.

Being self-employed, I do a lot better if I get out of the house.
About the Mars question, consider the fact that the Andromeda galaxy, although faint in the sky, takes up 5 times more room in our night sky than the moon does. It's really huge.

Mars in comparison is minuscule in our night sky. It's just a tiny blob of light.
Panic is one of the best-known Mac-only software developing companies that are out there, well connected in the blogosphere, been around for quite some time and their products generally loved by their users.

It is a matter of opinion if that makes them special or not.

I guess their Panic report hasn't been upvoted just for being from Panic but also because we have here another critical voice of Apple and the Appstore processes from a company that for sure doesn't just like doing Apple-bashing.
I certainly remember Hubble taking pictures of the moon. A quick google found http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/hubble_moon....
It's well known that anyone a bit into SV and its surroundings is aware of this "meme" and founders are often placing bets whether they will include it in their acquisition-of-product-PR or not.
It's weird given that there are real civilization level threats: climate change, hostile unintelligent self-replicating human-hosted biological threats (diseases), nuclear war, and so on.

"How do we prevent AI destroying us?" is not as useful a question as "how do we prevent us destroying us?"
From my perspective as an employer the pay is primarily a function of scarcity. Location-based pay would make perfect sense for roles where supply is abundant and location is irrelevant. Example: simple data entry jobs of the kind you can outsource to Upwork. When looking for senior software engineers the supply is very limited relative to demand, and as a startup [0] we don't have the luxury to discriminate based on location other than timezone (though we're somewhat flexible there, too). Hence, we'll pay the right candidate the right salary, regardless of whether they're physically located in the Bay Area or in rural Vietnam. Because if we don't, someone else will.

[0] Yes, we're hiring - https://spacelift.io/careers.html
It’s substantially more complicated than that smallpox samples keep turning up in the US [1][2]. Who knows how many samples were lost in the chaos of the fall of the Soviet Union. Smallpox was in every country on earth until relatively recently simply destroying samples isn’t enough. Hanging onto them in case we need a new vaccine is absolutely prudent.

https://www.wired.com/2014/07/cdc-found-pox/
https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/blog/scab-story
What incentive would the NYT (or similar media outlets) have to NOT imply that Hacker News is supportive home to white supremacists, racists, fascists, right-wing extremists, and rampant sexism? (outside of whether they find HN the right interesting target or not)

There are no standards or penalties for using logical fallacies in media writing.

As a journalist, all you need to do is craft your wording to imply a connection to be able to smear your target (or to make a nice click-worthy article with hot-takes). Here's a few different tactics that you can use:

-does your target have at least 1 or 2 members of its community who have said something outside the norms of the present?

-is there anybody who is within 2-3 degrees of relationship between the leadership at the site that sometimes say things outside the norms of the present?

-are there members of the community who are part of another community that doesn't have sufficient equal representation along identity lines? (i.e. this is a tech community, tech underrepresents some minorities, therefore, this site is racist)

-does the racial/gender makeup of the community not align with the broader US population?
If we 3X the minimum teacher pay, we'd attract a whole new class of highly effective teachers.

That would solve the aforementioned issue, because people will move to BFE for the money.

Specialized and advanced subjects can be taught easier and cheaper. Their students are capable of learning virtually, giving them access to the best teachers in a subject area, and at as fast a speed as they can go.

What Public schools need to focus on are the lowest common denominators, your arithmetic to liberal arts, so that students are prepared for a more-self-guided education in specialized/advanced subjects. I'd argue people with experience in industry wouldn't even be valuable at this level, as their experience no longer generally prepares the students for further education.
There are lots of good reasons not to outsource to a third world country, but not many reasons to hire a remote American over a remote Canadian if a company already has a presence in Canada.
Definitely. We can spend ~$50 per child per week, and have subsidized after school care. Some parents can get it for next to nothing. The kids have a school full of activities, a gym, a playground, and friends, which is better than they’d get at home for a more expensive sitter.
Thermals are fun. Doing video encoding on my Surface Book (i7-6600U) in a 25–35°C ambient temperature, lying its heat source down on a marble floor speeds it up by 60% within a minute or so. (Remember the Surface Book puts its CPU behind the screen, so it doesn’t transfer much heat through the base. This is in its performance mode, where it can get impressively hot for a 15W CPU, like ow-that-actually-hurts hot. But because that’s not the base, I think they weren’t scared to transfer heat to the body, which is what it sounds like this M1 MacBook Air is avoiding.)
I've really enjoyed using the Simplify Gmail extension when I use Gmail on desktop. Just launched a new v2 that's very nice.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simplify-gmail/pbm...
You should make your website accessible not because the number of users with a screen reader is ever going to be higher than some arbitrary number, but because content should be available to everyone, not just the sighted or those with color vision or those who can navigate with a mouse. The precise threshold at which "don't be a dick" comes into play is up to you, but I would not like to be on the wrong side of that line.

/college roommate was legally blind; husband's grandparents met in a high school for the blind
I think that misunderstands the article (a forgivable offense: it is very long).

tl;dr: AGI is possible, but we're going about it all wrong and won't create it until we philosophically understand it.
Certainly very few people from the EU are.
So how should women and kids deal with Dr Dong? Would it make sense to metaphorically pull Dr Dong out and offer some friendly advice about changing their name, one with a better culture fit?
Thanks for sharing, I think the "no hidden discussions" idea is important. I had a few internships in the before times, and I learned the most by pulling up a chair to other engineers / researchers who were already talking about something, and just listening to how they talk through problems. In my remote job I don't really get a chance to eavesdrop on someone's zoom call.

I think there are a lot of "implicit" benefits of being in-person that remote companies need to make more "explicit" to be successful. It sounds like your company has the right idea!
You have the city though, no? I understand it's pandemic conditions now, but when things open back again, it should become fun again?
I wonder how much of the split is going to be down to parents vs singles. As a single person, I have seen more pushing from managers with kids to go remote, singles or DINKs who live in small apartments in cities are more open to a flexible life style. 3-2 weeks, 60%-40% weeks, whatever people end up calling them seem to be quite a good compromise, but i can see many working 5 days in the office.

There are still a lot of people who treat work seen in a higher regard than work complexity. Someone who is proactive and seen to be, pair programming, mentoring, conducting interviews etc. This can all be done remote, but there might be an advantage to going to the office.

As much as I want to believe that people will work together and both approaches can work, office types will most likely cut out remote types if it isn’t easy to get on with work. I have seen this before COVID, I can see it happening again.

When it comes to it, if you pr whole team is remote, would you feel forced into staying at home and vice versa?
Okay, I agree it's not a perfect analogy but the football:golf = programming:law still holds I think.

But I do agree that spectator sports are more winner-takes-all than programming jobs.
I hear you. I mean I think that's everyone's instinct.

The problem on the internet is that we all have a tendency to overestimate the other person's rudeness and underestimate our own, so we all come into these conflicts feeling like the aggrieved one. When both parties feel that way, the discussion can only degenerate.
You may wish to reevaluate your approach to participation at Hacker News.

When I encountered this thread and your insult here, I checked your profile and found many antagonistic and low-value comments over the past few days alone. Your history considerably weakens your position and suggests that I can skip reading your other comments in this thread, and your future comments and posts, without being likely to miss anything curious or interesting.

This does your cause no favors, and will diminish and devalue the weight of your words here at HN over time. Please reconsider your approach going forward.

(I'm not an admin, so you can of course ignore my recommendation if you choose to.)
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The problem for that is in the US, such laws would be unconstitutional under the 4th, 5th and 1st amendments

Just like Australia's Gun Ban is unconstitutional under the 2nd Amendment
check() and handle() have rather different semantics; it's still just error returns, just with a bit of syntax sugar.

It's also just a proposal which received a lot of feedback/criticism, and eventually they decided to go with another try() proposal which ended up being abandoned after criticism. I'm not quite sure what the current status is here.

So nothing is "being added" in Go 2 thus far.
I don't know about Ireland, but in most placed in Europe you can not film people without their knowledge unless it's a public place.
I initially tried just that. Implementing the canvas drawing api turned out to be too slow with the Spidermonkey js engine, which is what I had to use. If I could use a jit version of Spidermonkey or iOS's native Javascript engine it likely would have been fast enough. Apple doesn't let you run jit compilers though, or link to their Javascript engine.

After finding that out I moved to implementing a higher level api. It's similar to the cocos2d-iphone(http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org) framework and, indeed, is a layer on top of cocos2d.
'The more oxidized the tea leaves are, the hotter the water temperature should be when steeping'.

The author assumes his readers do not know that white, green and other teas differ from each other thanks to their processing but assumes they do know the oxidation level of the tea they are about to brew.
Related work: the Rich Ajax Platform, an implementation of Eclipse's SWT using the Qooxdoo Javascript framework.
This is probably the most entertaining book on the subject of computers I have ever read. I recently finished reading it myself and while it revealed very little to me I did not already know, the well thought out explanations of computer fundamentals have shined a whole new light on the subject for me. It should really be the first book anyone interested in computers and programming should read.
I don't see what's so horrible about that. By the time you get to the offer, you have an idea of the current valuation of the company. The price * options = $1000 already tells you if the company can grow 25x, you'll make on the order of $25k.

Or maybe you're just saying who the hell bothers to negotiate over $1000 over 4 years. I guess that's a valid point.
> Theoretical development costs seem like they'd be much lower on platforms where you expect lower error rates.

Then again, that theoretical becomes quite practical when your app that runs on EC2 breaks down because it isn't as scalable as you thought it might be. Google has already thought about the tough questions like "what happens if an entire datacenter goes offline?" and GAE has that designed in.

Developing for failure doesn't make sense when you're operating on a small scale, but it makes a lot of sense when you do need to scale. I'd rather take a bit of a development hit up front when there are few users than take the hit when a site really gains traction.
Sorry if I seem naive but, is this even legal? ...
All banks create money out of thin air when they make loans not just central banks.

And your arithmetic doesn't quite work either at the very least if you assume that money actually gets respect with a certain speed.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevekeen/2015/03/30/the-princip...
Gcloud’s interface is significantly better
Do you have proof that long term average weight requires any other variables?
Unfortunately this sort of level headed, second chance, everybody makes mistakes apathy is not “allowed” in today’s environment when it comes to cancel culture. Especially if there is even a whiff of sexual undertones or male misbehaving.

> In 2017 the New York Times reported that a woman had accused Sacca of touching her face at...
Why would I want to use this over Kiwi with uBlock Origin and whatnot?
Come on. We know that taste perception is very largely influenced by expectation. Every drink orange juice just to find out it's milk? Taste awful until you figure out "oh that's just milk".

If it seems that wine chatter can be explained entirely by the power of suggestion, then Occam's razor suggests that's all there is to it. There's no need to invent magical barely-detectable subtle flavor attributes to fermented grape juice.
Why does nobody discuss Apache Pulsar as a viable alternative?
I don't know what the first part of your comment is talking
about, but I do know from my tiny tiny interactions with him he
scores in top 1% of people for honesty, intelligence, work
ethic, integrity. He does still seem to have a chip on his shoulder, which I find amusing. Anyway no one is perfect, but some people are true gems.

I for one feel very happy to learn that his mind is focused
on the climate problem.

I don't understand it too well, but my only question is: say
we do figure out how to control earth's temperature, what do
we agree to settle on? I'm hoping for a nice 78 degrees. My
wife wants 80. Not sure how we're gonna resolve that.
> You could hope they would police themselves better

A fool's errand, we know that won't happen on the basis of "doing the right thing".

It would have to be structured so that covering up only makes it worse, it is a perfect subject for applying game theory to steer the outcomes.
Interestingly Martin Sustrik, one of the original ZeroMQ authors, expressed regret for having chosen C++ for ZeroMQ.

http://250bpm.com/blog:4
http://250bpm.com/blog:8
Right, there is also Dojo hanging out there for large browser Apps. There is a point in which you can outgrow jQuery due to the size and complexity of an application. Dojo kind of fills that upper end so while it is a smaller segment of the market, there are still other toolkits that hold their share of the market for what they are tailored for. In saying that, there are some newer, complementary projects like backbone that are trying to make large web app development in jQuery less painful, but as of right now Dojo owns that space and it remains to be seen if that will change.
C#, JavaScript, ActionScript, SQL Server, MongoDB, casual games and game development.
Google Hangout, or face time. : )
Very good advice, this should be part of your branding strategy.

And I'd say instead of "XYZ creates and manages..." I'd say a line like this should be a standard link to your login page:

"Create and manage RSS feeds from your facebook streams: [XYZ Login Link]"
Yes, its a good example, although difficult to pin causation/correlation as I'm sure there are many other variables in play. :) I'm not trying to dismiss it, only throw the theory into question.
When you buy software for a fixed price, you've just bought a depreciating asset (relative to upgrades) with no way to adjust spend and fine-tune your ROI based on anticipated or unanticipated changes to your usage.

What I'm trying to say is that your "return" from this product is obviously contingent on how much you use it/what you make with it. If you have 95% confidence that you'll produce enough to net a positive ROI over and above the fixed price, then yeah it's more convenient to buy it once. But especially for a new product like this, I much prefer a subscription model because I have more control over my costs and I can't yet anticipate my true benefit. It's a win-win: software maker gets to push frequent updates and ensure a constantly improving experience, and user gets to check-in frequently and re-consider if they're not getting enough value.
Will this work after the required migration to Facebook API v2+ that is coming on April 30? My understanding of one of the many changes this will drive is it will only be possible for apps to see your friends who also use the app. Apps won't be able to get full friends lists to do this kind of intersection any longer.

Or is there a special relationship exemption for Lyft? Or maybe I misunderstand the FB changes.
I've raised this many times before, but you shall not sue us is emphatically not part of the software license. It's a separate grant of patent rights.
But these are help docs. For people who are not necessarily tech savvy, "browser crash" would likely mean the whole program, not a tab, and that's if it meant anything at all. They'd probably have a good middle ground saying a tab crashes.
Publishing A/Bingo (best ROI ever on that score), being (tongue very much in cheek here) "Internet famous", etc.
This x 1 million.
This is the big lie. In fact it's documented time and time again by experienced interrogators that it's ineffective e.g. http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/an_fbi_interrogator_on_the_...

On the contrary, the only people proposing torture are doing it from a purely emotional standpoint. And what a disgusting and shameful emotional standpoint they are revealing themselves to have.
Hardly.

Would you know how to go about convincing a large number of people to buy 438 pages worth of forum posts for $150? If so, how much time and effort do you think it would take? What do you think your hourly wage would work out to be once you combine that time with the time taken to collect and the data and actually make the book.
An important part of flagging - and it is mentioned in the guidelines - is to avoid commenting that you've flagged the article.

Look at the low quality sub-thread that your comment spawned.