jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I know they read Ad Age and those sorts of publications, but what are the more lower-level outlets that I can reach them? Popular blogs that they read, etc?

if you don't know the answer to that yourself (if there is one), you don't really know your niche that well.

outside of straight up cold calling, though, this is the type of thing i'd be going after. blogs and such, to try and find some low-hanging but valuable fruit.
The TN visa is not ideal for devs/hackers as you would have to apply under the guise of "Computer Systems Analyst." Unless your employer is willing to provide you with a job description that explicitly states computer systems analyst and does not mention being a developer/programmer then you should be good for a TN.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_analyst

Graphic designers and mathematicians (including statisticians.. think AI) on the other hand should be fine.
I hate to "met too" but I'm a big fan of it as well! I've built a few of the python examples into their perl equivalents over the last few months. Someday I should throw 'em up on github.
Ouch. I was under the impression that click-to-play was in fact treated as a security boundary, and finding out that it isn't severely downgrades my estimation of how secure Chrome is.

I do see how preventing clickjacking is hard, and you wouldn't want click-to-play as the only line of defense, but I think Chrome should at least make the effort to do so. A working click-to-play security boundary would reduce the number of sites that get to attempt to exploit me with Flash by more than an order of magnitude.
Google could invest the resources to create patches. What Google can't do is get those patches delivered to end-user devices. Given the fact that if Google provided patches they'd never reach users anyway, why should Google bother? And we know that OEMs won't provide updates because they are already refusing to provide the one that has existed for some time now: Android 4.4.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Google employee, and I work on Android security, but I'm not a spokesperson and these are only my own opinions.)
I bet at least some woman would rather grow beards than be tracked.
One would think that there's too much competition and enough maturity among Python web frameworks to see such speed gains.
That's interesting. I used to run a newspaper a couple of years ago and have spent a lot of time thinking about business models for it since.

The main problem with advertising is it monetises engagement, which means that it massively favours controversial or emotional content. How are you going to avoid this? If you have a good journalist writing great journalism, and a hack writing clickbait, how are you going to avoid the hack getting more ad revenue?
If it's truly end to end encryption it can't be MITM. However it could be required to be intercepted ETE in China
Most heat pumps in the US have emergency heating that’s basically the same as electric. I believe even my gas furnace has an electric backup.

It should be the same in Europe and it will work in case the temp drops too low.
Do you hire for non senior positions?
You're deluded if you think San Francisco has the best bread or coffee in the world. I don't even know what to tell you.

Hint: because of astronomical rents in the city, anything you buy for say $X will use lower quality inputs than a comparable thing you buy for $X somewhere else. It's a necessary economic fact. Businesses have to break even, at least, and in the face of high rents they have to skimp elsewhere.

If you want something legit, head north to Portland. The low rents there mean that real artisans can afford to put out quality product while still pricing their wares within market ranges.
I've lived in the SFBA for nearly my whole life and for as long as I can remember SF has been kind of pretentious with food, even before the recent tech boom. My non-tech worker friends who are long time residents are into it, but my tech worker friends who moved here for jobs are not. So I don't think the food thing has anything to do with the tech industry.

The astronomical rent is a different matter, of course...
Cable companies are certainly not just a carrier. They pay all kinds of money in order to put together a package of programming that is popular enough for them to attract a large subscriber base. They do this because that's how they think they can best run their business.

You can assert all you want about how you think the cable company should spend it's money, but you don't get all that much of a say in the matter.
The original attribute for a single image file is 'src'. srcset allows the browser to intelligently select an image (src) from a set of available images.
You're right. The Ink Mobile Framework is trying to solve the app to app communication problem on ios where apps don't work together.[1]

Because it's the pipes between apps, in order to demonstrate it, you need the source applications. Therefore, the suite of 4 apps that work well together. You'll find that most of the apps are barebones, but with ink connecting them together, you're able to do things that you can't currently do (e.g. Get an email attachment, edit the photo, save a copy to your dropbox, and then send it back as a reply.)

We have a number of partners lined up: Evernote, SignEasy, Podio, et al and we're super excited to see them go live.

[1] It's the number 2 reason why people can't get work done on an iPad, behind only the lack of a physical keyboard.
The question is if that entrepreneurial spirit is a result of the welfare state or something else. If it's something else (cultural), we may not be maximizing our entrepreneurial abilities. Risk taking should be encouraged.
Another data source for /dev/random?
I've never read "The Adapted Mind" but the first two are exactly my recommendations. GEB in particular was life-altering for me. I read it twice in high school and several times since. Growing up in a small town, it really opened my eyes to a larger world somehow and initiated a real craving for knowledge. Oddly enough, learning 6502 assembly had the same effect at the same age.
What would you suggest as a solution to this? What should Facebook do?
I had a similar problem with one Comcast system insisting that autopay was active, and another system refusing to charge my card each month while the total due kept rising.
I am new to programming.
This is the thing that is so crazy about the economic suicide and authoritarian lockdowns we are all doing.

Evidence from China and Italy is that they don't actually work. It's been three months, and China still can't let people leave their front door or the virus will return full force, with no expectations that another month or even another year of lockdown will help.

In Italy, with two weeks of lockdown, the exponential growth of new infections hasn't even slowed. Now they are predicting that "just three more weeks" and the exponential growth might start to slightly decline.

Wealth and freedom are declining around the world, but it doesn't even slow the virus' spread.

Meanwhile, places like Korea have no trouble stopping the virus without the authoritarianism.

And yet, all people here call for is ever-more economic destruction, and ever more authoritarian controls, all to no detectable effect. Except, of course, the end of our free and prosperous societies.
That’s just anecdotal data. Two weeks ago, Munich, test on Sunday for a 4 person family, results came back Tuesday. They were not allowed to leave their home until results came back.
Mass surveillance (legal and illegal) already exists in many western democracies. They are just done for purposes other than healthcare.

https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Fr...
I agree, I'd love to see this as a docker container or Makefile where dependencies are automatically pulled in if not present on the host machine.
Your comment speaks to whether someone who enjoys racing an actual car would enjoy the simulation.

But in the context of sports-as-trillion-dollar-entertainment-businesses, what is interesting here is not whether simulated racing is the same as racing IRL for competitors, but the degree to which it is the same for spectators.

Your comment still stands, though!
I don't think this is necessarily contradictory. Masks need to be worn correctly and not be reused. There's a good chance that a lot of people are wearing them incorrectly, and most people aren't going to have a sufficient supply on hand to avoid reuse. As such, they might give some people a false sense of security.

This article gets into some of the potential issues: http://blogs.hcpro.com/osha/2009/05/ask-the-expert-n95-respi...

It at least seems plausible that for the average person masks won't do much good and that it's much more important for health care and public safety workers to have access to them.
In the grand scheme of things, do you realize how niche software development is?

Besides that, why do you think that the current ARM chips aren't already faster than most x86 chips that people use?

Would be nice if Apple opened it up for trivial scripting though.

You can already do that using Shortcuts and various third party apps..

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scriptable/id1405459188
First of all, big shout out to the Open Ventilation Registry crew! The registry will be quite useful.

There's an a small global army of biomedical engineers, ICU doctors, programmers etc. working very hard to have rapidly manufactured ventilators designed, approved, and manufactured. I've seen some of the designs and they're elegant, simple, just work. Yeah, they need fine tuning but that's part of the process.

Humans are insanely awesome when they collaborate.

Hang in there humanity.
I applaud you for staying strong throughout your struggle. However, your exception proves the rule: people who don't have a reason shouldn't be overweight. Or underweight.

Fight the good fight.
I'd love to assume this had something to do with government abuses and overreach that YC couldn't condone, but call me cynical, im not holding my breath.

Also, I wonder if when asian businesses consider starting up something in the US if local news write articles like this. E.g.:

"That there is no mention of the uncertain international politics and U.S.-China relations right now, nor the explosive situation in Hong Kong, or ongoing human rights issues elsewhere in the country, seems a deliberate choice to make this move seem as ordinary as possible. But those things are major questions for anyone looking to do business in [the US], and it’s hard to believe none had any bearing on the decision to abruptly pack up and leave a major enterprise behind."
The questions are the same, whether you think traits are caused mostly by genes or mostly environment. Either way, everything has a cause.
There was once a tradition of public service among the elites; they recognized that their position was good fortune at having been born into a family of means, and that selfishly speaking without a strong civic society their position would be fragile (even setting aside the altruism many of them felt).

This notion was reinforced by the Ivy League system.

Bushes, Kennedys, you can see the tradition of service (even if we may tire of political dynasties).

Selfishly, if you're wealthy and wish your progeny to be the same, it's not a bad idea to make sure the cathedral doesn't collapse around you.
> This is scary that you can be punished for using a system, not hacking but just using it.

This is a revisionist explanation.

> Screenshots of some of their calendars, including their names and details, subsequently made their way outside the company.

They disclosed other people's internal calendars publicly. That's a clear violation of employer policy and not intended employer use.
How do you know reality is not just an illusion?
I tend to agree, and it's also worth pointing out that calendars in O365 work similarly.

We have them configured to be public by default because it makes it much easier to book meetings, particularly when you need to find a slot that works for several people.

With that being said it does assume that you have the common-sense to make appointments that should be private, private. I tend to do this for any personal matters, along with any meetings that involve discussing sensitive work-related matters.

(I also use private appointments to ensure I get a lunch break if a day is looking particularly full of meetings. If I don't eat something at lunchtime I tend to be bad-tempered in the afternoon, which doesn't really help anyone.)

Worth pointing out that we've clearly communicated that calendars are public by default, which hopefully helps people to know they need to make appointments explicitly private if that's what they want.
> Why do so many new languages launch without what I'd consider to be essential functionality for any language; autocomplete, good IDE integration, intellisense, auto refactoring and navigation support?

Because their target audience at launch time is not "end-users", but to create a community to share with the task of language building. And that is a very different kind of project compared to using a language to write applications.

It is not meant to be a functionally complete product, but a demo of what could be the kernel of a really cool product (say, v0.1) -- for purposes of recruiting a team/investment to help carry out that vision and actually ship a useful product (v1.0).
Has it grown proportionally to the labor force addition? Global GDP per capita should be be around $11000. And thats where its trending to for rich countries.
I don't work in a tech hub but in a city with a world-leading university. Having worked for a local consultancy and a startup, I'd say over half of my colleagues have had technical PhDs and it's rare to meet people without at least a Masters. I now work for a remote company and it's probably closer to 65% with over 200 staff, but we are CS research oriented.

I'm currently studying a part-time MSc in CS because not having one is notable here (and being around academic people has inspired me to learn more).
All are in public domain now. Read the one i mentioned as it is shorter read. If you like it then go of the other one.
I hadn't heard this before, also sold by small image sizes. What is the big performance weakness of mscl vs glibc?

Anything beyond binary size vs shared pages?
That's a good idea.

I plan to use this list as a base https://www.reddit.com/r/BLOCK/comments/3ehiy4/distracting_w...
As a new developer, I'd frequent a lot of meetups to build my network. I always made a point to talk the oldest guys in the room as the conversation was always the most interesting. I happen to be a sucker for dot-com bubble war stories.
Command Line tools are powerful beasts (e.g. awk) and they were always central to data preprocessing. But do we need to call it now a data science?
Another example of this double standard is their Health care cloud work, covered by HIPAA, a deal that‘s extremely common in this sector. Also facial recognition tech. While Google is actively limiting its use, Amazon is happily selling it to everyone who‘d have it.

It might have something to do with the fact that most media outlets have a vested interest in weakening Google in the public eye. Other than that, What HN/ars is concerned, Google basically seems worse than the military industrial complex and big oil combined.

They certainly do annoying shit. But in this specific case, cloud print was a product that was in beta for almost a decade. It was very unreliable and didn‘t work correctly half of the time. But of course killing it counts as ADHD. A 10-year old non-enterprise niche product is ancient in tech years.
paint something with chalk on the pavement before their entrance? Harmless and gets attention
AWS bandwidth is a killer though
> I'm one of those people that ended up moving back to China and looking to start a blue ocean project here.

I assume you're fluent in Chinese, that helps a lot. As for angel-funding without connection, it could be a bit tuff. Also sometimes it helps to go through your current Chinese network and to ask whether someone is envolve or know people who involved in PE and VC. Btw, which city are you based?

> What about an early stage in artsy-style
Try to reach https://www.parklu.com/ or similar KOL companies. They should be more familiar with the state of the business. But there've been a lot of media-incubators recently.

>I saw an article coverage of YC China's last demoday (17 Nov)
Do you have a link?

P.S. You can reach me in twitter for more questions https://twitter.com/kidrulit
Getting paid to be drunk. Kudos to the idea!
Why would they need to when the biggest danger factor (cars) is removed as a threat?
Well "starting a business" and being a 1099 earner are conceptually two very different things that only sometimes overlap, though within this thread they are often being used interchangeably (probably because the article this thread is about conflates them in some places).

I know of a few people who are now 1099 earners not because they wanted to "start a business" in the traditional sense but rather because they are working through temporary staffing agencies structured this way to avoid the benefits they would otherwise have to provide when using full-time W2 employees. Celebrating this state of affairs as people being empowered to become their own bosses is very misleading. To be fair to the original article, it does make mention of the fact that this situation is not all roses, but the message is overall somewhat muddled by the title and overall gist.
This is great and all, but it’s yet another Emacs mode for a Software-as-a-service.

Viewed purely as an image manipulation tool, I have real trouble seeing a good reason why this couldn’t be done locally using Cairo. Viewed as an Imgix parameter previewer, I don’t see why you wouldn’t simply use Imgix directly via a web browser.
> The underlying premise is that the FBI is utterly incompetent and unable to investigate a crime of this nature.

No, there's lots of different things that could be happening. The FBI could have said it was North Korea to save face. As @thegrugq (who, by the way, is one of three security researchers who I can find who believes it was North Korea) suggests, the NSA could have investigated, discovered the culprit was DPRK, and then just informed the FBI. The FBI could also be incompetent.

But lets bear in mind that this is the same organization that blackmailed MLK and told him to kill himself, launched the COINTELPRO program, started fires at Waco, spied on Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, John Denver, John Lennon, Jane Fonda, Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, MC5, Lou Costello, Sonny Bono, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, and Mickey Mantle, and three years ago used a chainsaw to break into a house before realizing that it was the wrong house.

So you'll forgive me if I'm skeptical of the organization's claims.

PS. If you have any other 3rd party security researchers who believe the FBI's claims, I'd be happy to add them to my list.
I don't think it matters. Per blockchain.info, the volume of Bitcoin transactions is in gradual decline over the last year and seems stuck at about $50m USD/day, despite many more merchants offering to accept payment. Market cap is fairly steep decline and hash rate has been leveling off.

https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-...
https://blockchain.info/charts/market-cap
https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate

It just struck me that the market cap trend seems to have gone down in very similar fashion tot he price of oil over the last 6 months. If enough people who bought bitcoin did so primarily as a hedge, then you'd expect it to loosely track a basket of popular commodities like oil and gold (the price of which looks quite similar to Bitcoin's market cap over the last year IMHO - http://goldprice.org/). Can't wait for Google to get their automatic statistician tool online - I don't like statistics well enough to want to use R regularly but I would love a tool that I can use to quickly measure the coupling between different datasets.
I've heard serious arguments to the effect that the American insistence on helmets for cyclists deters cycling.
The main benefit of Ruby seems to be the ability to catch method names and treat them as an argument. I bought "Metaprogramming in Ruby", and the author seems delighted that you can do "mycvsrow.columnname". Several other people have confirmed to me that it is really just being able to drop off quotes around what would otherwise be strings in other languages. I don't get it, at all. Maybe it's a knee-jerk reaction to verbose languages like Java. But I fail to see what Ruby offers over a Haskell or F#-like.

I got excited by seeing how passionate and excited people like patio11 were about Rails. But then seeing how Rails prefers insecure defaults and had exploits because they were essentially eval'ing user posted data really hampered my enthusiasm.

Seeing articles like this reinforces the idea that Ruby is cowboy programming, just making stuff up as they go along. Like PHP but with class.
This is not a study, this is a press release based on a study. Always, always, always go to the actual study.

The actual study is http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/12/25/1417508112.abst... and it is paywalled. The main thing that jumps out about it, is that it is not just a dietary intervention; they also injected the mice with antibodies to Neu5Gc, supposedly to reproduce the levels found in the human immune system. Bad things happened only to those mice who were both fed Neu5Gc (at a concentration an order of magnitude higher than humans would encounter) and also gave them these antibodies. While this looks potentially promising, the human immunology would need to be studied, and what the effect size would be for a more typical diet is completely unknown.
Most dynamic languages dont have integers
This guy is my hero. What he says sounds so simple and obvious, but I've learned from experience that doing the simple and obvious stuff can be so hard...
Lead/senior software engineer here. Go/Node but would consider other languages. Mainly backend but I do keep up with the FE world and I have used React for proof of concepts commercially.

Location: London, UK
Remote: Yes or hybrid
Willing to relocate: Potentially
Technologies: GoLang, NodeJS/JavaScript, AWS/GCP, React/Next.js, Docker, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch
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Website(s): https://arai.dev, https://sonurai.com
Linux, please!
Is "The Texas Court of Appeals rules that phone searches after a suspect is arrested violates the 4th Amendment" clearer?

Unfortunately that's too long to fit in the title.
I hope that it doesn't suffer from the same text redering issuies that LT nad Brackets has.
Do I have the math right here? $600 million divided by 100,000 homeowners is $6,000 each on average, over 6 years' time is $1,000 per year overcharge on property taxes.

I'm wondering specifically about the foreclosure rate. Were the foreclosures strictly due to not paying the extra $1K per year? Or were they due to not paying any amount of tax due (including the bulk of it which was not an overcharge). The article doesn't say.

[edit]: now I re-read a bit, the article actually does not state how many total taxpayers were affected, only those that were foreclosed on. There is also one anecdote at the end about how one person was over-taxed $4,000.
I got the four SPF+ port microtic, some eBay 10GB cards for my VM server and my ZFS NAS, and connected one port to each, along with one to the 10GB uplink on the old Nortel switch and one to the 10GB port on the Mac (that one is the only one that was cable ethernet instead of fibre or direct connect).

Works fast and well. The fifth "management" 1GB port goes to my router, 1GB is way faster than my internet anyway.
Shameless plug for https://gigahood.com —- I would run any nearby address through it to see what wired Internet options are offered in those areas.