jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Although these days that industry is moving towards sat solvers.
"Anyone can be a biz dev executive because it’s not a real job. It’s kind of like sales but you usually don’t have any kind of quota. You just work on 'deals.' "

Haha. Love this comment. Mostly true - I know, because I work in biz dev and have worked with a few of the biggest companies in the Valley. Looking forward to eventually having an actual job, but have to admit it's a good gig for now.
The title may as well have read, "I'm desperate for readership"
Citation needed.

You and many, many others need to start providing citations for these claims of what "he said." If you heard it, there's probably a citation somewhere about it.
The zillions of unsigned bands wailing on guitars in every bar from Thursday to Sunday suggest that there'd still be plenty of music, even if there was no way to sell recordings.
The two preceding nitpicks were concrete misuses, whereas this one reflects a much greater amount of subjective reasoning.

Not saying that's a bad thing... I just think the distinction is very important. :-)
Madison has two things: a sizeable metro area with diverse employers, and a tech university culture. Ann Arbor only has one of those things, because the "diverse employers" belong to Detroit Metro instead of A2.

Indianapolis does not have a notable tech university culture (I hope I'm not offending Indy people with that), but it's large enough that it's employer base affords opportunities to be selective about jobs. I've never seen anyone recommend Indy as a good place to start a tech career, but I'm agreeing with the original article: it's doable in a city like Indy.

It's not doable in Grand Rapids, I don't think. I know people who live in GR and they're happy and they've put down roots and it seems a lovely place to build a family, but setting up shop in Grand Rapids is unlikely to be your escape from dead-end coding jobs.
I was using inconsolata at 12 but last week I moved to Menlo and I think I have a new favorite.

Menlo it's really similar to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
> If I shop-lift a screwdriver from home depot and then return it a week later is that stealing?

Actually, no. If you intend to return it in the original condition, so they can still sell it, then legally speaking it isn't theft. (It may still be illegal, I don't know.)

Just to clarify, I'm not claiming anything about piracy here.
They seem to be occupying areas open to the public, and not during a Constitutionally mandated transfer of power. Not close to equivalent, as far as that video goes.
Gas, less-lethal bullets, flashbangs. The stuff I've been seeing a few blocks away for most of the summer. All of those things are really good at dispersing crowds.
But the police also rejected offers of federal help:

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-police-reject-federal-hel...

Propaganda war to escape the blame, DC municipality against feds? Something else?
The Pentagon, through a political appointee appointed after Nov 3, blocking neighboring states over sending the national guard towards the capitol during the riots [1].

(edited for better wording)
Has GMO ever been confirmed to have harmed anybody? Confusion between real and imagined threats could be part of the problem. Nuclear accidents will kill you, as in -- dead.
Hardware sales. People will pay for the convenience of a device that works out of the box with minimal setup.

On the software side, integrate tightly with your own subscription services (offsite backups, VPS, etc) to upsell to those who want that, and win over the enthusiast crowd by making it possible to host your own alternatives to those services with a little technical know-how.

Open source most components to appeal to enthusiasts, but keep the secret sauce that makes everything seamless and easy to use "source available" so you don't unintentionally turn your core business into a commodity.

Seems viable to me.
I have a suggestion for HN admins. There could be a thread about Rust superiority pinned to the top of HN where the Rust "brigade" could promote their chosen tool supremacy all day long and in return leave threads about other languages alone. Otherwise almost any thread about C, C++, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript,... is getting quickly derailed from Rust aficionados.
It's not an array trick, it's a definition of arrays.
Then we build services for users to help them use MobileCoin for commerce. The goal is to make a real decentralized payments network.
You don't seem to know the difference between character and culture.
Streamlit for Teams is in private beta, so prices are still negotiated case by case. When it is open to everyone in a few months, the prices will be on the website. And the goal is to make it so that it's affordable for even very small companies.
Yes, but this can happen just as easily with human actors as it can with non-human actors.

I suppose the benefit of a human actor is that you can theoretically fine or jail them if they're found to be malicious or sufficiently incompetent.

However, on the other hand, human actors can explain why they're doing the right thing. Even when they are in fact doing the wrong thing. An AI that is broken incomprehensibly can still be determined to be broken. The human actor causing issues can produce very convincing arguments to avoid termination. Also they can bring in donuts every Thursday to stay on the bottom of the termination list.

[And to be clear. I don't trust the technology at all. I just also don't trust the human system either. A system isn't better because innocent people are oppressed by humans instead of by a computer.]
It’s very odd to me that HN has a problem with premined cryptocurrency, considering equity operates the same way. All startups sell “tokens” (shares) they created out of thin air. Startups also eventually sell them to the public, after having sold them to insiders.
And basically for free, all those old OSes were hundreds or thousands of dollars in the 80s! I did projects in OS/2 1.x and Xenix as well as VMS but not on my own nickel.
off topic but 6 does not pronounce the same as 顺，it pronounce the same as 溜，which has the same meaning. '6' became popular from the phrase '666', which originated from E-Sports to compliment someone who made a good move.
You are remembering correctly.

WHO changed its position on masks as late as June 2020. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200608/who-changes-stance-...

The US government changed its stance by April: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/04/08/why...

In much of the world, people who wore masks were subject to ridicule, especially on social media because of the cynical public health messaging, which seemed to be about preserving stocks of masks for healthcare workers by telling the public that “masks don’t work” (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-...).

The New York Times op-ed above, and efforts from the Czech Republic made discussing public masking more acceptable in the US, and then the rest of the world.
The subject here is a very public figure, as the article amply demonstrates.
Another theoretical explanation: your tinnitus is always there, but you're not normally in extremely quiet places, and the quiet from the ANC lets you notice it better.
> why does anyone take the NYT seriously anymore

Does anyone? I’m not sure credible people do and no one I respect has referenced a Times article for other than crossword, Sunday magazine, fluff stuff.
I've had tinnitus since I was a teenager. It's never bothered me, and I assumed everyone had it. I don't usually notice it while focusing on anything else, and even sometimes use it as a meditation object (paying attention to the oscillations of the sound).

I sometimes wonder how many people have it, but don't notice the existence of it until later into adulthood (because they're not putting much attention on it).
It appears that they work closely with their client law firms on big projects -- presumably they bring the technical expertise, their clients bring the legal expertise.

Examples:

http://logik.com/case_studies/japanese_data_tsunami/

http://logik.com/case_studies/operation_data_rescue/

From the second case study it seems the key factor to overcome legal barriers is not to make any mistakes that anyone will ever notice.
I see the discussion revolving around the ideas of jamming the signal and alternative ways for prisoners to have access to cellphones.

I would prefer to have a discussion about whether it's a good idea to forbid cellphones in jail in the first place...
So the joke is...you're a bigot? Seppuku is not a common part of modern Japanese culture, nor is the death penalty a uniquely Japanese idea.
This feels the same way as hearing that the whole Internet just got shut down.
Because that's how people know that you know what you're talking about. I've seen many factually incorrect, heavily upvoted posts here on HN, and credibility is part of what lets me identify good material. For example, there was a post in the last few weeks about DNS -- I knew that davidu's answer was the one to trust, even though others were more upvoted.
Slightly offtopic, but wasn't that post by an ex-employee as a comment? Not that the technical aspect of it wasn't fantastic, because it was, but I don't think Reddit said anything publically did they?
Is there something like knockouts dependency tracking for backbone? I haven't really got beyond scratching backbones surface (scrolling through the docs), but the abscence of dependency tracking alone would be a big drawback for me.
I'm afraid that the measuring stick is working just fine.

You certainly don't need to be hurt to understand racism, but if you have been hurt you will understand it. And if you haven't, you won't understand it until you acknowledge that your initial perceptions of racism are not founded in experience.

Tim Wise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Wise) is one such person, who is not discriminated or attacked because of his race -- nor does he belong to a race that is frequently attacked or stereotyped negatively, at least not in the US -- and nonetheless has an excellent understanding.

What you've put on display here is well-intentioned talk about transcending labels, or equating "wears top-hats" with "dishonest cheater" as if the difference between the two -- which any simpleton can grasp -- doesn't exist. Your demonstrated understanding of racism has nothing to do with the experiences of real people, which seem to mean less to you than intellectual abstractions.
I guess people (especially smart ones) don't like being told they're wrong by anyone who they consider inferior even if that person is right. By inferior I mean anyone who can't immediately prove that they're superior by listing a bunch of amazing achievements.
On the other hand, I bet that same list of people would say that the credibility of the argument is more important than that of the person making it.

Otherwise, you get either self-serving double standards or fawning hero worship (or both). Neither is strange, but neither is healthy.
As a relatively new C programmer, I have followed the dwm source code while trying to make my own window manager. It has been very helpful.
I think even here, where politeness is one of the stated goals of the community, people will forgive someone for being very direct (but not mean) if they're also insightful. My gut feeling says that if this conversation happened here and both parties were unknown people, Linus' posts would have gotten voted way up, because he's just so right.

But an attitude combined with less than excellent technical insight is, of course, going to get posts downvoted into oblivion. Well, -4, anyway.
Always feel lucky here in Australia you can transfer anyone money via bank transfer for free..
Android since API 9 (2.3) and iOS 7. Would you need more? iOS 6 can be added quite easily.
We don't know this specific scenario, but it's highly likely that the application in question directly reads or writes non-public data on their clients' storefront operations and accounting. In that case, there's very much a sense of lock-in. Shopify does not have an open API where anyone can access data given an OAuth token; it will not let this app use their API unless it complies with their terms. See: https://shopify.dev/concepts/apps#public-apps

In comparison to Apple, phone user : Shopify merchant :: app developer : this SaaS business. If I as a consumer think that Apple policies are too stringent, I can pay money to buy an Android phone. But the cost to me as a merchant of switching from Shopify to a custom site where I can choose who connects over API, once my business is underway and has built a brand identity, is absolutely prohibitive.

App approval processes are app approval processes, plain and simple. And if you make revenue share a precondition of using your APIs, you don't have open APIs.
I know, I got excited when I saw the headline, only to discover it’s yet another equity-only tool
The ad can be seen here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ekg56Ji56o&feature=emb_titl...
> They think that majority of people won't actually verify that and such message will embed a positive impression about that person.

That's pretty accurate, though. 80% of people are too distracted or lack the intellectual rigor to put two and two together, or even care about doing so.
> Plus the direct listing is a giant middle finger to traditional banking and overall establishment, right?

Despite the narrative, Bitcoin isn’t really competing with traditional banking at all. It's additive. It has become another asset for banks to sell to people, collecting relatively high exchange fees in both directions on the trade.

This is more of an indication that Coinbase is now a traditional establishment banking institution. They’re also very centralized, given that they’re on the short list of exchanges and most users prefer to have Coinbase keep their coins instead of withdrawing to the Blockchain (for additional fees, which go to increasingly centralized miners).

Coinbase took the risk by being the first big entrant, but other big banks would be more than happy to sell you Bitcoin (for a fee, naturally) if they didn’t think it posed a large legal risk to the rest of their business. Coinbase has the benefit of not having another banking business, so they can go all-in on it.

Coinbase is the institution now. If crypto buy/sell becomes mainstream and the legal risk becomes smaller over time, other institutions will gladly sell you Bitcoin as part of their product lineup. If history is any indication, this will drive trading fees to $0, destroying Coinbase's current source of profit and unique position in the market. It will be interesting to see what they do to stay relevant as exchange fees dwindle.
Interview with inventor Richard Browning of Gravity Industries - the man forging a new era in human flight
Why? They are not part of the process.
>making union organizers wary that Amazon is trying to keep tabs on who votes

I can understand being wary, but that's all it is, wary.
The C safety / smalltalk speed quote probably was quite funny when it was relevant --some decades ago.

And all the rest of your "language criticism" is all about the IDE. Coincidentally all solved by Xcode 4: better autocomplete, automatic fixes, relevant error descriptions, etc. The main problem was GCC --it just didnt provide the info and interfaces to use for real time, AST guidance of the IDE. In XCode 4 Apple implemented all that stuff leveraging LLVM.

Apart from that, Xcode < 4 was not a bad IDE by any standard. Worse than Eclipse/VS in several ways, yes. Bad is a stretch. It also has excellent profiling tools, and a great GUI editor (Interface Builder) that gets MVC right.

Also: obj-c has had real GC for years by now. And the old scheme, still used in iOS of retain/release in not "barely" but extremely better and easier than C, while maintaining the performance benefits.
I'm having a hard time seeing the justification here. It's not that the cheaters refused to play if they couldn't cheat, it's that when given influence, they prefered to have things be worse for everyone so that they could cheat more freely.

>If you set the business climate up in such a way that only permits fair participation and competition you're probably going to alienate a segment that would favor looser rules.

The converse, that rules which allow profitable unethical behavior (and therefore prefer such unethical behavior, since profit is the measure of success) are going to alienate people who want to play fair, is exactly as well supported by that observation. And all other things being equal, it seems better to alienate the cheaters than the fair players, which in turn argues for stronger regulation.

It just highlights that the people who want to cheat and make such arguments aren't arguing in good faith, they just want to cheat more easily.
I did the same thing when I was roughly 15 or so. What was funny about The Economist subscription at the time was that it asked you your honorific (Mr., Mrs., etc.) and I checked off "Sir." thinking of it as harmless high school mischief.

Little did I know that I inadvertently set off a tracking campaign into whom they resold subscriber data to. I would get all sorts of promotional magazines and other unsolicited mail for "Sir. Zach Aysan" or similar. Still makes me chuckle to this day.
Is he that bad?
Another fun use case is when a customer is charged for their invoice via credit card and then 60 days later, you get a chargeback from the bank. Now you have to unwind the previous invoices and entitlement systems to figure out if you should fight the chargeback, cancel the subscription or some other non-standard process.
I'm about to get downvoted to oblivion but the solution here is don't sell apps on Linux.

People on Linux don't pay for apps. Target a platform like iOS where users are willing to pay for apps. 85% of total app store volume across iOS and Android is from iOS.
That is part of the dynamic. More importantly, though, a narrow decision makes a broad decision easier. If some justices think the code isn't copyrightable, they can increase their voting power by agreeing to set a less sweeping precedent that more justices agree with.
I find that the same issue is made worse when using a service like Instapaper to store content for reading on other devices later. The pull quotes read like an emphasized point, when in fact they're just text I'm about to re-read or have already read. This breaks the flow of reading by pulling me away from the author's intended order and pushes me to some other part of the article.

Removal of pull quotes entirely would be a Quality of Life improvement in such a case.
The best earnings calls are the ones that reveal truths that clearly contradict corporate press releases.

Same goes for SEC filings.
In what way does what you say not apply to cellphones?

I believe I’m better off for that regulation (in telecom) and believe that I would similarly benefit if social media platforms were also regulated as common carriers.

Edit — rate limited, so replying here:

The commonality is obvious:

Passing messages of various formats to users within your network of contacts and maintaining forwarding/access rules for those messages — almost exactly what cellular service has in common.
Tablets are great but are exceeding difficult to work on at the moment.

How so? Something like a Surface seems fine if you need a tablet for work.

I think the peripherals dock would be a decent solution for certain environments (schools, libraries, maybe hospitals, military bases, cruise ships, and such), but relying on public places to have well-kept and generally available peripherals would be folly.
Mailchimp doesn't allow sends to a third party list. I'd think this requires a special wink wink nudge nudge exception.
I always find an interesting contrast with articles like this on getting a CS Ph.D., and my experience in engineering.

I got a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. It was a really interesting four years (and three months) - I loved it. I actually brought my thesis topic with me to grad school from a summer job as an undergrad. I wrote three good papers, spent six weeks turning those papers into a thesis (mostly a matter of doing a nice literature review in the introduction), and I was done. I had a excellent advisor, and we had a great relationship. I was part of a solid research group, and we helped each other. The process seemed very straightforward and linear. Everyone in my department seemed to be roughly the same. We all worked hard, did research and got our degree in 4-5 years. Very few of use would have felt on our own.

I get the feeling that this happy experience is less common in CS. The relationship between grad student and advisor seems more distant, and less helpful. The happy hours we had with the SCS at CMU reinforced that. They had "black fridays" where projects were terminated and grad students left. That "how will I get my committee to sign off" thing was there, unlike in our department.

Is it something about the nature of "research" in CS that leads to this, or is it a cultural thing?
I did respond in channel; I'm not sure what your problem is with that.
I'd still like to know how much piracy is due to friction. The First Friction being the inability to take cash and turn it easily into digital payments.
That's curious because I really have been working hard to get it much better for technical searches, and I often get the opposite report (that it's better for those with integrated SO , less content farms, other zero-click & goodies). I guess it varies by specific type though. In any case, I'd really appreciate specific examples so I can improve!
I think most humans default to disregarding the other end of most relationships unless something urges them to.
This except replace first paragraph with " Believe in Yourself ".
I love the idea this article proposes, basically Waze for airplanes where real time weather data comes from the actual flights themselves and shared via traffic controllers or the planes themselves.
There was no implication that Poles were doing the stealing.
> It's worth pointing out that the list of examples of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" on the wikipedia page of that name [1] contains zero actual successful examples of it working.

Looks like the successful examples were successful enough for everybody to forget about the originals. There is basically no other YP/Kerberos/SMB implementation in use that didn't follow from the MS copy. Netscape was successfully lead to bankruptcy. All the EEE days platform independent dev-tools were successfully lead to bankruptcy. All the EEE days competing office suites were successfully lead to bankruptcy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_trains

it seems the longest US train ever had ~700 containers
Oh yeah he and I still fundamentally disagreed, but it gave me some insight into Oracle’s position.
Fair, apologies.
There are specific rights in this regard.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/can-you-terminate-emplo...

> In a memo released on April 15, the agency evaluated a case where a company maintained a policy that prohibited employees from speaking to the media at any time. The NLRB found this rule to be unlawful and explained: “Employees have a statutory right to speak publically about their complaints or concerns with their terms and conditions of employment, including to the press, without employer authorization.”

> In other words, employees have a right under the National Labor Relations Act generally to discuss their employment – including with the press. Based on the finding that the policy was unlawful, the NLRB also found that the company violated labor law when it terminated two employees pursuant to the policy for speaking to the media about a workplace issue. A more narrowly tailored policy may have passed muster, but the broad media prohibition, in this case, crossed the line.
RO removes most of it. Cannot really be broken down easily, that's part of the problem.