jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Same way a cop who murder's someone in the line of duty doesn't mean the department murdered someone. That part makes sense.

The question(as with cops), is what happened to the people who did violate the rules? It's unlikely they were fired or prosecuted, hopefully they were demoted and lost access to the system.

NSA is loath to fire people(and likely revoke their clearance if it's for cause) with serious classified knowledge since getting a comparable paying job with a revoked clearance and a large gap on your resume would be very hard. The worry is they would simply sell knowledge to a foreign government.
From the article:

It was a puzzle so bewildering that, in the months after his talk, people started dignifying it with capital letters – the Hard Problem of Consciousness – and it’s this: why on earth should all those complicated brain processes feel like anything from the inside? Why aren’t we just brilliant robots, capable of retaining information, of responding to noises and smells and hot saucepans, but dark inside, lacking an inner life? And how does the brain manage it? How could the 1.4kg lump of moist, pinkish-beige tissue inside your skull give rise to something as mysterious as the experience of being that pinkish-beige lump, and the body to which it is attached?
America (and we are not alone) is in a race to the bottom. Just like Coke and Pepsi spend more an more each year on advertising,-- because the other does the same -- doesn’t mean they are making that much more in profits each year. The same can be said for education: Costly perks need to be added because “the other guy is doing it”, and in the end, we just pay more for (mostly) what we had before. Seriously, has basic calculus changed so much in 30 years?
"1) I don't know who the folks at 37 signals are. Please refer to people that are widely known outside of your little bubble, please."

It's a socially acceptable reference given the frequency of SVN articles on HN.
http://www.picnik.com/
I'm really surprised that the author didn't mention the propaganda cartoons that came out of Hollywood during World War II. Pretty much all the great American cartoonists and animation studios produced propaganda films. There's a huge number of Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Popeye, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, etc... cartoons that were made during the war: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bugs+bunny+world...

Also, Dr. Seuss aka Theodor Geisel did a lot of political Cartooning during World War II: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Frame.htm
Spreadsheet is a type of database.
I think it matters whether your business has found product/market fit. Before product/market fit, taking the time to build things in house increases risk--risk that you're wasting your time on a product no one wants. After product/market fit, it reduces risk--risk that your product that people are paying for will have reliability problems.
Yes and no.

I manage a domain through Google Apps, and I've discovered that that domain is on the list.

It's probably me, but I can't figure out what address was used (none of the md5 hashes are matching that are in the fusion table).

Seeing as you've got this for analysis, it'd be nice if you could help me figure out if one of my users was compromised (the domain is the same as the email on my hn profile).

It'd really suck if I have to change my password scheme because of this. :|
I was just thinking that this is reason 10,000 that artists, designers, developers etc need a guild. Getting them all together under a subsidiary would serve the same purpose.

Perhaps a subsidiary of subsidiaries so that as each is fined/sued/shut down, they can go bankrupt without harming the core.

There was a quote in a documentary called Four Horsemen I believe that said "the rich discovered that the poor were honest" and used that against them to contrive an infinitude of ways of ripping them off. For example bankruptcy is just one of many legal tools to a corporation but is a last resort for individuals, so corporate power grows over time disproportionately like a latch that catches profits but lets losses slip through. It would be nice to see some of the same legal avenues readily available to the little guy.
"some of those were killed because of it"
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
All lives are precious, but the scale of the death is important to consider.
Americans seriously need to band together and find a way to punish those responsible for these crimes, not the people who are willing to risk their own lives by disclosing the crimes happened.

Until you do, the legal system is a joke.
I hope that just partly like in Syria, the troops would eventually balk at killing their fellow citizens. However, I admit that such a possibility is less likely for armed forces that are engaging in war remotely.

*: I believe that at some point, the majority of Syrian resistance was formerly the Syrian army.
Definitely check out http://voicebunny.com -- it's amazing how much higher quality anything sounds with a professional voiceover. If you don't care about the specific voice (and just that it's professional-sounding), it's not too expensive and the turnaround is quick. They also have something called bunnycast.com, that turns your blog posts into audio for $19/each.

That being said, it's not exactly cost efficient for long how-to videos.
Really cool project. Not too many people can say that they've built a boat. While I doubt it would be actually safe to get inside this during a Tsunami, this is still a very inspirational project.

Just a guess, but I think if the goal is surviving any kind of storms, tsunamis, or rogue waves, building some kind submersible is probably the most realistic solution that could survive. When the surface of the ocean is choppy, it can be calm just a bit below the water.
Rust looks really great and I would love to switch all of my C development over to Rust but last time I tried to compile it, it took a good hour or two. Has this changed at all?
> When he leaves, what stops the next person from simply reinstating this policy?

You mean how to keep politicians from stealing from their constituents? I have been asking statists for an answer to that question for a long time. Don't hold your breath. It's a flawed system and you just found the core issue that has no solution inside statism. If anyone disagrees with this statement, instead of down-voting please kindly point to an existing example of a State that has solved the problem of corrupt politicians.

Now that you found the core problem of statism, you owe yourself some reading. It's a fun journey. Good luck.
The window seat is key. You don't get people with thimble bladders constantly stepping past you, and you can sort of lean against the wall of the plane as well.

For me, it's usually just a glass or two of red wine at the airport bar before takeoff, and maybe another on the plane. I'm not much of one for taking off my shoes or getting half undressed on the plane.

I also make it a habit to generally not talk to any seatmates or introduce myself. Leads to the possibility of someone thinking it's an open invitation to talk/pester you the entire flight.
Kudos to the person who came up with that title. Those of you who haven't seen the similarly titled movie or read the book are probably baffled, but I assure you, it very nicely sums up the ridiculousness of this particular program of the TSA (a cynic might even go so far as to say it describes the TSA as a whole, but none of us here are cynics, right? Right? Guys...?)
As Heinlein noted in Expanded Universe, this attitude is self-correcting. In fact, you might expect the US to continue moving right as those sub-culture that choose to have (more) children displace the ones that don't.
Madoff fits the model of a sociopath. They are considered incurable. If he is ever released, he will most probably do it again.
> But on the Touch, when you scroll past a certain point nothing is rendered except a 'transparent area' style chequerboard.

It's likely an issue of RAM starving, is your Touch a first or second generation? (they have a quarter of the Desire's RAM, even the third-gen has only half the RAM)
"As a public company they could sell stock"

(Like it says in the OP) Zappos is not a public company, and if the Zappos board had been confident that Zappos could become a public company, they would not have objected to the direction desired by the CEO.
Yeah, sqrt is only for non-negative reals. The question should be worded “what numbers in C have squares equal to minus one?”
I'd like to see that, too. I'm skeptical about this -- especially the part where she burned her identity documents to avoid being linked to a Communist coup that occurred when she was 102. Everyone knows that little old ladies are not to be trifled with, but this is going a little far.
Incentives for researchers in labs are not so clean cut. There is also strong motivation to expose the truth, not only because it’s the right thing to do but also for the reputation earned by being the one to expose the truth.

If there is any sign that the virus was indeed created in a lab I suspect we’ll hear about it in detail sooner or later.
It has nothing to do with instrumenting and everything to do with platform noise.
I don’t think the cruiser is subject to your elevated standards.

This is a classic case of double standards. We want one set of standards god people we agree with and another set of standards for people we disagree with.

To avoid this, we institute a standard across the board for everyone, like them or dislike them.
The board would bother me more.
I want more articles like this.
The whole idea behind Obamacare was that people like you would pay more so that others got coverage on pre existing conditions and HMOs could make a bit more profit.
The main problem with fat clients is that for polyglot architectures (which most large companies that end up building a service mesh evolve into over time) you have to maintain a fat client library for every language. You can get very far leveraging existing tools like gRPC that codegens fatty clients for you but the quality of tooling is very uneven depending on the language of choice. By pushing all of this into the network layer you skip all of that.
Also changed the spectrum and luminance of general illumination. It used to be that gas discharge lamps had the highest luminous efficacy (lm/W) and they had relatively narrow composite Spectra. These days LEDs with broad spectrum phosphors are everywhere.
I've been using the same email address, at my own .org domain for 20 years now.

Changing that would be a proper PITA, and I'd hate to have to do it just because ICANN sold out in such a transparently corrupt way.
And now Chinese WoW farmers can become virtual sheep herding professionals. Great times.
I had a wildly different experience interviewing at netflix.

I met with the *Chief talent officer (had to look up this title from my original schedule with them...) for one of my interviews and she spent half the time telling me why the stock price was so low "We were high on a $300 share price and thought we were gods." Then, the other half telling me her favorite firing stories. I don't know what the purpose of all of this was but it gave me the impression that HR/head of HR needed to demonstrate how important they are in the company.

One of my potential colleagues interviewed me and gave me a fizzbuzz question. I successfully answered it. He then asked me to rewrite it with some restrictions. I did this. Then he asked me to do it one more time. I wasn't familiar with the python syntax for if-else shortcut (e.g., x = 100 if y is True else 0) and so couldn't rewrite it to his liking. This lack of familiarity with this python trick resulted in feedback at the end of the interview that I did not have a deep enough understanding of computer science.

I honestly could tell that the interviewer giving me the fizzbuzz questions wasn't clicking with me personally. That's fine, and I completely respect that it's a valid reason not to hire someone. However, because of this feedback, and the fact that the people at netflix generally liked me, they wanted me to work on some sort of data warehouse management team. I'm not sure why they would offer me a job so wildly different from what I was contacted to apply for, or why the syntax from one language would be considered representative of my knowledge of CS.

Overall, I think the experience of one person at a company is nothing more than an anecdote that can be entertaining, perhaps moderately informative, but it's not a complete picture. There are many stories out there about people interviewing with or working for Netflix. If you are seriously interested in the company, read a lot of those stories, discount all of them as biased, and then see for yourself by talking to them.
imo the tech lead just has to know this stuff, if he is learning on the job, you're going to end up "throwing the first one away" whether you plan to or not (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PlanToThrowOneAway).

I know the answers to 90% of these questions and I am not a frontend specialist, I'm just a guy who had to do frontend for two years because that's the role that was needed. If I were making hiring decisions, I would want a frontend specialist to be better at it than I am. If a sr level candidate isn't breezing through this, something is wrong, or he builds very different applications than I do.
These questions make me angry by being so fucking dumb. No I don't know off the top of my head what splitting on an empty string does and if you give a shit whether I do that tells me all I need to know about whether I want to work for you.
Not true. Alerts are both distracting, causing fragementation of focus and attention, and eventually mentally filtered out. Our brains are wired to ignore stimiuli that are not relevant to our current focus. It's very unwise to expect people to be able to consciously override nature all the time.

I still don't understand how the nurse administering the dose would not have been alarmed that the kid was apparently supposed to swallow almost 40 pills at once. That's the sort of unusual situation you WOULD expect a human to notice right away.
They're calling it "HoloLens".
But quantum uncertainty is not the same as me having free will, because my will does not control the quantum uncertainty. Quantum noise may influence the atoms that control the neurons that control my brain, but that just makes me not a perfectly-determined machine. There's noise at the bottom layer of the machine, but that noise is not the same as me having free will.
It's not defective because you are not the "user" to Stallman. The GPL is about limiting coders freedoms to maximise the freedom of end users (to see code, recompile it, alter the product they purchased).

For Stallman a program/tool is "defective" if it enables programmers to limit end users access to code, .e.g. by enabling proprietary addons to the compiler.
cool we had someone try to shop us something like that but they had to build every query by hand.
Nice job!

Little nit-pick - on the CrocDoc.com homepage you've got a space in "mark up" (crossed out) and then in the line below have it all as one word "markup".

Gramatically both should be "mark-up" with a hyphen - markup is used for actual code description . . .
PHP can run as CGI, original Apache deployments ended up being that way. Then everyone switched to mod_php/fcgi deployments.
It's a distinction without a difference if the court is ordering you to pay money that don't have and can't get.
That's odd, they substituted the (Double) Gloucester and Cheshire cheeses - are they not possible to obtain in the US?

Looks like a tasty recipe. We might try that (although a member of the Household is lactose-intolerant, so I'd better get the lactase capsules ready if we do).

I've always added eggs. Also a bit of Worcester sauce, which is worth trying almost anywhere you get cheese or need a savoury flavour (providing no-one's vegetarian/etc).
Which is for non-payment of debt, which is debtors prison.
I've been watching the videos from 2012, and the professor sprinkles that humor throughout the lectures, and done well in that its not annoying (to me at least).

Update: seems the author talks about Pyret/Racket in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6702563
Have to disagree about place of incorporation. Investors may not care but you should. Delaware should always be your choice. Delaware is very company friendly with laws and procedures that generally make it much easier and cheaper to get things done there (document filings are a prime example). Always, always, incorporate in Delaware.
ESR got people to understand that GPL/BSD/etc apps were real software with real licenses they needed to respect, rather than Public Domain Shit From The Internet. Also: Zed's made a bunch of innovative stuff (I use his mailing list app) that shits all over Fetchmail (which is a single hack for a limited problem).
My understanding is that for S/C-corps you should incorporate in Delaware, for LLCs it's generally better to do it in the state you operate out of.
Great article. I think the importance of starting with a low price point to generate a customer following remains key in this story however. So raise your price but don't expect all customer groups to react like the Qlab ones did!
I tend to to think of apps like Photoshop, Textmate, and Transmit and think "A recurring payment? No way." And yet somehow when I think of 37Signals, it doesn't seem so bad, but I can't put into words why one makes sense and not the other

Simple: 37Signals has server costs on an ongoing basis to maintain a customer - Textmate/Transmit/PS do not. Most consumers understand it's a hosted solution and are ok with paying a recurring payment.

If your solution isn't hosted and it's a onetime download kind of thing then it would only make sense to charge them the one time.
Despite ignoring Feynman's advice, Wolfram seems to have done well enough, at least financially. Whether his sanity has lasted is another question entirely.
What's wrong with wanting to make stuff rather than work around other people's buggy software?
That seems to have the opposite connotation--after all, it is Satan who says that.
FYI I will be publishing an update to this post (hopefully this week) going through in detail the causes of this performance issues.
Jimmy Saville. Harold Shipman. Etc etc.
Lots of people made money too, I mean apart from the Swiss themselves (and the SNB who made a huge loss), someone had the other side of all those trades. And markets are not efficient, clearly not when there is a huge player like a central bank.
Sure, I'm in the process of reworking the game browsing pages and having a weekly (and maybe daily) list of top sellers/top downloaded is something I'm considering.
Process spawning is barely slower than spawning a thread on Linux.
Yep, and its a classic RMS move. This happened before: http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html
"What other people do about these issues I don't know."

Work in a shop that's acquired a lot of Microsoft knowledge. With a very distrusting attitude.

The last major MS ecosystem project I worked on was with a big MS fan, during his college summers he'd worked on Internet Explorer back when it was getting to be much better than Netscape. And turned down a full time offer from them for more of the same to work on his brother's company.

But circa 1997 he was not willing to trust SQL Server as it was then with the company's fate when it was time to move from the superb Access Jet database engine, and I suggested and implemented IBM's DB2 as a 1/2 price alternative to Oracle (biggest issue was no MVCC, but that was OK for a tight knit group of programmers; the sysadmin and DBA job was in turn easier than Oracle's long evolved mess).

Fortunately never had to go back after that, and prior to that I learned Windows 3.0 though NT 3.51 the hard way, back when that wasn't a nightmare. NT 3.51 SP2 or so was when it started going to hell). I made Windows GUIs work by starting with a sample program that worked, and carefully mutating and checking for viability each step. Used SoftICE to debug the hard stuff. Built a stunningly good system using Microsoft's implementation of DCE RPC (the alternative to Sun's haphazard stuff). But as I note the stuff outside of my code kept getting better and better. Oh, did I say in that last job that MS's Visual C++ STL library wasn't thread safe? On a naively multi-threaded system, that I used with 2 CPUs until 2002?

Bleah. You've learned a lot of stuff, but the price sounds like it's too high unless you're going to continue in this ecosystem, and I'm advising all my friends to leave it. Especially with the new CEO, who very possibly has serious damaged its existing QA system without replacing it with something better (rather like one of the causes of the 2nd part of the Vista nightmare).

And, yeah, SQL is GREAT. Just helped a friend with a project using PostgreSQL ... and its doc is great, like IBM's for Windows and UNIX(TM) back then, and Oracle's in the 1994-2001 time frame. Get some books by the greats, like C.J. Date, and you will have oodles of fun.
Mountain View, CA. Full time. SocialTwist Inc. is looking for a Client Services Specialist. More details - http://www.socialtwist.com/careers. Questions? careers (at) socialtwist (dot) com.

You won't be disappointed.
Ah. I sit about 60~80cm away most of the time from my bigger 4K screen (due to the space needed for my Cintiq when I'm drawing). I tried several resolution after your previous comment and found 2048x1152 to have the best balance between real estate and readability at my viewing distance. I should give this a try for few days. Thank you for suggesting to have a look at the resolution!
How is this different from AnySoftKeyboard ? I have been using that for a long time now
Main reason I use whats app is because everyone else I deal with uses whats app, not because it has specific features. I could probably list a different chat app and social networking site for every time I switched a school and when I started to study.
I would have expected to be able to daisy chain 2 dell monitors (wqhd, nothing 4k fancy), but I was unable to. Also, finding a dock with reliable 2 monitor output has not been easy, and at the end I pluged both monitors to the laptop and call it a day. That the laptop has to power up the discrete graphics for running external displays and goes crazy with the fans while you are just browsing is something that exasperates me, but not being a really fan of apple, I'm not blind and see that what they have accomplished with the M1 is an exceptional product, and sooner or later I will ditch my 16 inch for one of those. The only thing is that almost nobody will want to buy an intel macbook and those aren't going to maintain their value like before.
This is precisely the dilemma in a nutshell.

You have a choice but it's a bit like voluntary solitary confinement. Especially during a lockdown.
Can we bring this game show back, and can I talk to the casting associate? I'd prefer to be a millionaire so I could be independently wealthy and do what I want instead of living just to pay bills, but if I could be a thousandaire, hey that is a nice start!

I'm always amazed, despite being well aware of inflation, the cost of things/cash value of prizes in things of yesteryear. When you hear someone bought their house for something like 7,000 dollars or their brand new car for 2,400 dollars my monkey brain just refuses to stop for a second and go "yeah but inflation".

Then there is the rabbit hole of goods that have gotten significantly cheaper over time, or even those that have been volatile at times (such as the spot price of silver and gold).

Way too easy to get lost thinking about stuff like that.
yessir, 8 characters filename plus 3 characters file name extension.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename