jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What they do now is use my employer's software or one of our competitors.

There's several people already moving in this market, so it would be tricky to enter. One of the big things is going to be integrating with recruiter's databases - that's where most of our time is spent these days. That, and widening our language support.
http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/
In this case, you should dig deeper. If the customer says "give me sort by last name," the actual requirement may be "give me an easy way to find a person by last name." In this case, a general full-text search may be the best solution.
This looks cool but is this free?
You mean the Burst-colomon sort.
How about asking them? All these assumptions have a name: discrimination
Leeds, UK

I am Tom Williams, Lead Engineer at Dubit Limited (we're here: http://dubitplatform.com), and I'm looking for many devs. We'll look at anyone from Uni graduates to people with years of experience, the only prerequisite is you've got to be a passionate coder! You'll get much kudos for community involvement though, even more so if it's on something exceptionally cool. In return we promise to get you a cake for your birthday, and as much scooter action as you can handle.
Why not go to Stanford, learn as much as you can and immerse yourself in the start up culture of the bay area?

If grad school is paid for then going to the bay area is something you ought to do as you can work on a start up and go to school.
The Jury is still out. Groupon is still actively pushing growth strategies which can backfire in big ways.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/10/06/why-groupon...
Heh, I love that we thought of two different but related problems simultaneously!

First yours, since it's much cooler. The minimum curve radius is 3.67 km, or a length difference of 18 mm between the left and right side over the length of one pylon.

Assuming that all sections start as straight tubes, how much sideways force would that apply on the pylon? For that we need to calculate the "flexural stiffness"[1], which for a hollow cylinder is given as:

EI = E pi/4 (D⁴ - d⁴)

Where E is Young's modulus, and D and d are the outer and inner diameter.

Therefore the bending moment[2] M is:

M = EIκ = E pi/4 (D⁴ - d⁴)κ

Where κ is the curvature, equal to 1/r.

Finally, muddling through the equations on the bending moment article (and treating the tube as a 200' beam with a load in the center) yields:

f = M / (100')²/(200') [not sure about this one]

A whopping 300 tonnes•f of lateral force on the pylons! Probably doable, but it means if your tubes are constructed straight your pylons are going to be buttressed at a ~60° angle. Also, note that this only applies to the slip distance (~150m, or three pylons), since the tube sections well within the curve will never move enough to be in a non-curved section of track, so they can be built curved from the beginning.

Also you can vary the curvature smoothly[3], which can substantially reduce the forces involved. For example, if you eased into the curve over 30 pylons and it only moved by 3, the sideways force would be reduced by 10x (since the curvature is always "about right"). Further calculations here are left as an exercise to the interested reader. :D

As for my own objection… Even on the sharpest turns successive pylons will only vary from straight line by 0.15°, so the lateral forces caused by expansion and contraction shouldn't exceed 9 tonnes force. Piddly by comparison.

[1] http://www.explorelifeonearth.org/cursos/CB-18%20simple%20st...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_moment#Example

[3] i.e. the curve doesn't start suddenly, but gradually; this is how actual tracks/roads are laid out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_spiral

TL;DR as long as you ease into the curves (which is good for comfort anyway), it looks totally doable even without motorized rollers.
Using a scheme subset seems like cheating almost. The no syntax, s expression languages allow one to avoid the entire lexing, parsing, ast generation aspect of the endeavor.

Tratt has a blog post that expands on the bit about languages implemented in themselves and the consequences:

http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/the_bootstrapped_compil...
Score one for adblockers. At least that will get rid of some of the most frequently used ones that in the case of google also tie into your real world identity.
27th, 29th, or sometime this week all work for me
29th or 30th works for me. Publican sounds awesome, never been!
I got fed up trying to hire team members quickly. It got me to the point that I am working on a solution to that problem. It is too early to talk about it, but it will kill the spam of irrelevant applications common to normal freelance sites and provide real-time view into availability of talent pool.

I agree on de-emphasizing PHP in general. You want to know what framework that person is comfortable with and why it's their method of choice.

Look for people from C# or Java or Python background. They can write PHP if they have to.
Thanks, I'm struggling to justify adding a/b testing vs all the other things I could do with the same amount of time (e.g. add social proof etc.)

Also it took me a long time to realize I can a/b test amazon conversions by using multiple affiliate ids... ;)
a bit late, but thanks for the response.
Currently homomorphic encryption is extremely limited and/or computationally expensive.

The most efficient approaches let you do only one type of operation, which isn't sufficient for arbitrary code execution. Known approaches that allow general operations are expensive (if they are secure). See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Homomorphic_e...
and that's just counting food costs
> These two perspective are almost irreconcilable.

Not really. There are many aspects of the current welfare state system, and there's no reason that some features couldn't be replaced with a UBI, while some situationally-tested features could be retained. The relative costs and effectiveness of various testing methods aren't all the same -- e.g., the adverse incentives of means-testing aren't present with, say, targeting aid based on medical diagnosis. One could replace means-tested programs with UBI but not other targeted programs. UBI can be conceived as replacing all targeted programs, but it doesn't have to be, and it especially doesn't have to do so all at once.

> If we could have a basic income set at a level above the median benefits for non workers, almost everyone would be better off, but not everyone.

Whether that's true or not depends on how you fund the UBI.
Almost all of marketing today is zero-sum.

Going to disagree there. Marketing and sales can grow a market, not just compete for a limited pool.
Raphters C web framework might interest you. I haven't used it so can't attest, and it's new, probably not as mature as Rails/Python frameworks/etc. But just in case:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2407334

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2436885

http://thechangelog.com/post/4608227295/raphters-a-web-frame...
That's fantastic! I might finally be idly productive in C++ as I am in javascript.

In javascript, I find that you can just write code, while in C++ I feel that I need to plan out every design choice, need to protect against everything. While that's a good thing when writing production code, in certain situations (writing up proof-of-concept projects for example) it's just not what I want. I love that in javascript, half the time I don't need to give a crap - it just works.

Hopefully, as a side-effect of this project, I'll be able to do what I do in C++ as I do in Javascript - although in the long run that probably isn't a good thing. ;)
'this' can't easily be avoided when you get into OO/MVC patterns ala backbone.js, which have become a necessity for me when working on complex javascript apps.

That said, I jumped ship for CoffeeScript and recommend doing so to everyone. Everything tricky about 'this' is resolved quite elegantly.
http://www.revsys.com/officehours/2010/nov/05/

See jacobian's comment here saying "I know of at least one publisher who's decided not to print any more Django books because they decided they can't compete with the docs".

Django comprehensive docs were what convinced me to choose Django over RoR 3 years backs when I had to choose between RoR and Django first.
Thanks, I did not know the book was out of date. I also used it years back and have just used the regular documentation since then.
This morning CNN reported that on April 8 there was a report published by "Mr. Y" saying that America is relying too heavily on its military as the "primary tool for engaging the world," and instead of "pumping more dollars into defense," the report argues we should invest more in education.

The crazy thing is that "Mr. Y" turned out to be 2 senior members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- the Pentagon is recommending to cut its own budget so we can invest more in education -- this is unprecedented.

Here is an excerpt...

"By investing energy, talent, and dollars now in the education and training of young Americans -- the scientists, statesmen, industrialists, farmers, inventors, educators, clergy, artists, service members, and parents, of tomorrow -- we are truly investing in our ability to successfully compete in, and influence, the strategic environment of the future. Our first investment priority, then, is intellectual capital and a sustainable infrastructure of education, health and social services to provide for the continuing development and growth of America's youth."

PDF of the actual report: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/events/docs/A%20National%20Strat...
So do most of the major cities in the world. That's a hell of a confounding variable.
There are some industries that seem to be booming, so I bet they might need to hire (e.g. Instacart, Doordash, Netflix, Zoom), while others are probably hurting (e.g. Yelp, Uber).
Unfortunalty, the only reason I was able to make this work in a day is that it uses two proprietary Apple libraries.

PencilKit — which provides all of the UI for drawing and selecting drawing tools.

ReplayKit - which is designed for games but, I'm using it to just record the whole screen.

There is really not that much code outside of just calling into those frameworks which is what allowed me to make this in such a short time. If these types of libraries exist on Android, I could probably create something, but I'm not super familiar with Android's library ecosystem.
Based on the HIV epidemic back in the 1980s, techniques have been developed to inactivate any pathogen in donated plasma. They can use detergents or heat.

Could something slip by? Sure, but it’s a pretty robust system.
Because renters vote, and create an unfair environment for those people would make them go nuclear not even including cleaving into the tourist dollars of European cities which thrive on luxury goods by a lot. Making people in the tourist industry unhappy.

And for what so poor renters who might not go out and vote for said issues when push comes to shove.
This is what's frustrating about accessing content online. Is it fair game if it's on a web server since the requester cannot determine intent? Legally it doesn't appear so.
Please do this for Japan. It's a bit disconcerting as visitor to have to carry the wrappers for everything you buy around until you can find a trash can. And everything is so highly packaged there.
Yeah. They charge you full rate ($500 IIRC) without an invite.
If Amazon took bitcoin, and I could use it to pay people on Craigslist, and maybe some other little things like that, I would probably just keep a bitcoin account around with a useable balance. If it got low I'd fill it with USD, and if I needed some funds out of it I'd take some USD out. But I don't think I'd need to do a USD conversion for every single little transaction.

Think about if the NYT decided to charge a half a penny to read an article? There's no way for them to collect that right now (it's too small), but bitcoin would work for that, and I sure wouldn't be converting half a cent USD every time I read an article.
I've been working from home for a dozen years and I love it. The past six years have been spent working at night (I'm a night-owl, anyway). I love it. The faux socialization (and interruptions, conflicts, inanity, politics, etc) are too often highly overrated. I'll take my solitude, any day. It may mean that I seldom see the sun and go out in public even less frequently than that, but I'll take that over the regular rat race, any day. Plus, all the people I would work with in my division are spread across the planet, anyway. Even if I worked at the office, I would be twelve hundred miles away from the closest colleague who does what I do.

I find that the reward of more free time (no commute, work when I'm most productive, no hassle about presentation, no noise or inanity, etc) outweighs absolutely everything else. I have turned down far more lucrative offers within and outside of the same company over the years, simply because the benefit of working from home is so extraordinarily appealing to me. A few years ago, I turned down a position that would have involved a 50% increase in salary, because it would have meant going to an office 8-5 five days a week. (And when you figure in commute and getting ready in the morning, it's more like 6am-6pm).

I have occasionally thought that the whole public space thing - were I could be alone, but not - may be appealing. I have always turned it down, however, because all of the people I know have negative connotations to guys in coffee shops or cafes with their laptops and cell phones. They associate a guy at the coffee shop doing work with the guy who stands in public with a cell phone (that probably isn't even on) yelling "buy! sell! buy!" to make himself look important. I'd probably then spend all my time being self-conscious about whether everyone around me is just looking at me like I'm some pretentious asshole, even though I'm just a guy wanting to have some tenuous connection with the rest of the human race while I do my daily thing.
For me, the AT&T discount paid for the annual membership cost. I may have a few invites still available - hit up my profile email.
> hold the view... that programming ability is an inborn trait

I recently wrote someone a recommendation where I argued that programming languages and patterns are readily teachable, but holding a complex model in the mind and communicating it effectively to peers, laymen, or computers (the computer is the ultimate simpleton) is less easily taught.
The FAT is many sectors long, I'm not sure why Windows would re-write the entire thing.

Now, OTOH, you could just mark the areas the FAT uses, and all their aliases as in-use in the bitmap, that'd prevent them from being overwritten (but chkdisk would notice). You could additionally put a file on all those sectors, then chkdisk would pass, but you'd show a fairly large amount used (for your large file).
I use a 17" MBP as my primary computer, but I see it as more of a luxury than a necessity. I'd say to spend your money on a more modest laptop and save the money for your startup.

On a similar note, I think it's crazy to see all of these startups using Apple Cinema displays. Two examples that come to mind are Color and Milk. Don't get me wrong, they're very nice monitors, but waaay overpriced when compared to monitors with the same specs.
I thought that Latex/Beamer was a default amongst certain scientific disciplines?
Ah, yes, you're right, it's 20 TB. I think you can pay them for a dedicated pipe, but I've never looked into it...
> The second problem is that buyers of AMD products demand that Intel would release their software optimized for AMD products as well, which is just nonsensical. First, Intel is not required to do this and have no reason to do so - if this software doesn't work for your hardware, either buy Intel, or use something else.

While Intel isn't REQUIRED to do so, it absolutely is a sensible thing to do. If my customers need something, I want to provide it to them. If my customers want me to add a feature that makes their products run well on competitors' CPUs, then its in my best interest to make that happen, if I can get the other CPU maker to give me the data I need. This makes my direct customer happy, makes me look good for prospective customers, and builds loyalty to my brand. It also makes my customer happy by making THEIR customers happy, which keeps them customers of mine.
Completely agree. I think there should be a way to review and crit public curriculum... I guess I have to wait till my kids are in the class
It can be, I have my server's memorized. One just has to get familiar with IPv6 just like with IPv4.
I was never able to get ipv6 to work when I was on AT&T, couldn't even get addresses assigned. When I got on Cox at my new house it worked out of the box. So some ISPs get it right.
You're technically correct but in practice ever since NAT has been a thing routers have stopped passing on incoming connections to the machines behind it unless specifically - and usually laboriously - configured to do so. This is also why NAT is considered hostile to a peer-to-peer internet, which prompted this very good article:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/

by John Walker, of Autodesk fame.

The router has a public IP and everything behind it has a local one. That you can do NAT in different contexts and that technically you could have NAT without the firewall functionality doesn't change that this is 99.9% of all NAT applications.

A bit more text about this concept:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/176744/why-is-n...
Expect a lot fewer individuals to win against big corporations now that the conservatives got a stranglehold on the courts in the US.
> True! Yet... I keep thinking about `http` (the protocol), or Apache, IRC, and countless other software techs that were just 'given' to (and are maintained by) the world, courtesy of their makers, and/or bodies like IETF work groups, etc.

The difference here is that the social platforms have been developed as a for profit company. Granted, FB has improved some of their underlying technologies, and released them back to the public in the way open source is meant. I do give them credit for that. However, the SDKs and APIs etc are direct work made by the platform. These tools are made specifically for interacting with that platform. They have every right to monetize that work. While some of us (at least I do) believe their method of making that money is super shady/unethical/etc, it is their business model. Other companies like Apache, Redhat, etc also offer us free things to use/play with while monetizing their enterprise/support services. A much more ethical method in my opinion.
Not that it's happening, but would it be a bad thing?
If you are saying you don't think your own resilience is anything to be proud of, I think you are failing to consider those who faced trauma and failed to handle it.

I too know the "what the fuck else am I supposed to do" feeling in response to people saying stuff like "how did you deal with something like that?" or "you're so strong" but I think it does a disservice to yourself to ignore that crumpling under the pressure was a possibility, and one that was avoided if you're still here.
Your site looks nice, but these 2 would drastically increase usability for me
I am surprised you created an account just to say this drivel
> Federal Circuit's ruling would only be precedent in the 9th circuit.

I think it's even narrower than that: the Federal Circuit's ruling on non-patent aspects of the case isn't binding precedent outside of Oracle v. Google. District courts in the Ninth Circuit and the appeals court are free to ignore the Federal Circuit ruling in future cases and look to only rulings from the Ninth Circuit and Supreme Court as binding precedent.
in your SaaS example, that's only true if you're unlucky enough to be the only employer in your market whose devs are demanding a raise. if the devs at all your competitors are demanding raises at about the same time, it's more likely that all the prices go up, unless they are approaching the point where it's cheaper for your customers to just roll their own.
Unions not having an abundance of good will is a pretty sad excuse for bad policy.
You mean it will lead to an organization where Nations are like, United or something along those lines?
Approaching technological and startup issues with different philosophical approaches of successful people in completely different fields could be useful.
Ah nice. Could be useful when looking for something or somebody, f.ex. ppl lost in the woods or similar. How long does it fly on one charge?
SICP isn't as entertaining, but it's a classic. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

Also, The Scheme Programming Language.
http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/
CouchDB requires a different mindset. I'm going to write a lot about it over the months as I use it and go to production with it.

I found that if you just think about CouchDB as as soup and you build views to build indicies that organize your data, then it gets really easy to work with.

I'm designing my WIN ( https://github.com/mathgladiator/win ) framework around node.js and CouchDB.

What I am doing is controlling my design documents via node.js using the fact that v8 will keep a string copy of the function for it's toString().

If you look at line 112 of win.js ( https://github.com/mathgladiator/win/blame/master/lib/win.js ), I define my indexer function to basically serialize a function from node.js into the design document.

I use this in the user system ( https://github.com/mathgladiator/win/blob/master/pages/page.... ) on line 202 to index the user documents by their id so I can use another function ($.get_index) to pull them out by their key.

I'm using this on some internal projects, and I'm getting very good velocity at working with CouchDB. Granted, there is a huge (and now) obvious flaw to my indexer function which I'm going to fix soon, but it works great.
Complex SSH tunnels.

Better 2g fallback.

Touch screen fix, for nexus.

Hosts file editing.
There have already been Playstation Move demos that do exactly this, with superb accuracy and great response times.

(Disclaimer: I work for SCEE, but this is my own opinion)
If you wanted to create a hacker heartland in the Philippines you'd do well to look at what Silicon Valley doesn't provide (easily obtainable visas, bootstrapper-friendly costs of living, wage levels which allow for multiple staff with minimal investment/income). You can't compete with the Valley's concentration of investors, but you have the advantage of not needing anything like the same level of investment to build a basic webapp in the first place.

I think it's feasible to create a tech hub there that is a bit more than offsourcing for multinationals, but you'd be looking at attracting a different class of entrepreneur.
Hence the phrase "Starving Artist"
The country went down this path as soon as the Senate refused to convict Trump.

We are now at the point where we have to block violent fascists from organizing the overthrow of our democracy, and that requires deplatforming. We had a peaceful resolution to this in February of 2020, but the GOP chose this path instead.
In my experience, it's pretty rare for a project of this maturity to continue to get faster and leaner--usually you see more features and bloat bringing performance decreases. Somehow SQLAlchemy has managed to not only add features, but get faster and more efficient (even if these profiles do exaggerate its improvement over time.) It's an excellent project.
I don't think you have that right. I read it as that kind of behavior modification isn't done that often after load time. During load time, all sorts of shenanigans are going on (monkey patching, etc.)