jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Seems like you are evaluating this completely based on compensation. Here are some possible reasons why you would work at a startup and take a paycut. a) I love the team, I love what they are doing, I love the work that they want me to do... I can't believe they are paying me to do this! b) I can learn so much from this team and experience, and in a couple of years, I'll be ready to do *SOMETHING (ie. start my own company, etc)... I can't believe they are paying me to do this! c) Totally believe in the team and their vision, this is going to be the next facebook, I want to be part of it, my equity can be worth millions, but regardless...I can't believe they are paying me to be part of this! However if your primary objective is to maximize compensation, then you shouldn't take a pay cut to work at a startup.
This is a video that I took during an assault on myself by one of these 7 Canadians. The assault happened October 2010 outside the Lamplighter night-club in Vancouver, BC.

The punch was completely unexpected for me because I was looking into my phone when the guy landed it. The group started insulting me outside the night club just when I was about to leave. After a few minutes of a purely verbal argument, I decided to take my phone and film all of them in case something bad happened. This is when one of them decided to punch me in the face, causing me to lose consciousness and hit my head against concrete with full force. I was then taken to a hospital by ambulance, which I do not remember at all (I lost 2 hours of memory).

The police cannot make any progress until the guy is identified. Please help me find this guy who left me with a concussion, fractured sinus, facial scar, dizziness and constant headaches. Please share this video with your friends living in Vancouver!
It should be noted that this post is over two months old.
Yes, the fact that MongoDB was losing his data was all his fault because he chose MongoDB. Sound logic.
he gave reasonable arguments, assuming one does always want all of those extra features beyond VCS for each new project. for me, most of the projects i start never need to go public, and of those that do, most don't need a full-blown wiki or issue tracking system. README and TODO file are sufficient 99% of the time, esp with no public collabs. so git and github still hit the sweetspot for me in the default case.
Using MongoDB was a mistake to begin with even if he didn't select the wrong branch to use. His project isn't about databases, it's about machine learning. For his requirements, he just needs a simple datastore and it sounds like SQLite would have worked fine.

He procrastinated by trying out cool new software (a classic symptom of a project that is not going properly) and lost a lot of time because of the mistaken manner in which he did it.

He should get back on track by focusing on the real meat of his project and use the simplest bitbucket he can find for it.
Did you add the bold and the underline yourself? If so, you should say so.

Without that, I really can't agree that it was so horribly rude as to justify slamming the guy so publicly.
No project is "about databases" [1]: they about something else, and databases are a tool use to achieve that end.

Besides, whether he was procrastinating or not is irrelevant to his complaint.

[1] ok, some are.
>>I believe most introverts are pretty selfish - worrying what other people think of them

WTF? :-)

Did that come out wrong? Are you a non-native English speaker and don't know the word "selfish"?

That kind of worrying is normal insecurity. If you up the ante with e.g. unusual clothes, non-introvert people wills start worrying like that too. Introverts just start doing it at a lower threshold.
All of which is very nice, but it doesn't solve the actual problem of starting a new currency, which is persuading people that it's worth something.
I thought of that not long after I hit the post button. And you are correct. But basically, there may be free oxygen on Rhea, but no stretch of the imagination is going to turn that into anything like a breathable atmosphere.
"myusername has not listed his skills."

should be:

"myusername has not listed her skills."

or, more neutrally:

"myusername has not listed their skills."

Edit: I wrote this comment because I'm a woman and it can be a bit jarring to see myusername referred to as 'he'. I wasn't commenting on grammar; just trying to express my thought that if a website is going to refer to someone by gender, then it should be done neutrally unless the option to select a gender is provided.
I always feel a number of important metrics are left out, either by accident or on purpose, when people talk about inequality. Most importantly when it comes to wealth itself, by most measures there is a very, very long tail of people with no wealth. 'No wealth' ranges from the most poor, to those living from paycheck to paycheck all the way to those who have as much debt as their assets. Many of these people are fine because, for example, their earnings potential over the next 40 years is good. They are wealthy in things like skills, social connections, etc. and they are certainly not comparable to someone with few skills, bad health and no money. The other issue is the longer term earning potential of top earners. Apart from the fact that companies are bigger and more global and that 'hits' can be bigger (like Kesha selling more records than The Beatles), the average tenure of a CEO has also gotten shorter and is around 5-7 years which usually can be described as the prime of their career, while the average worker can be anywhere in their career including eventually being a CEO one day.
If it is not to block spam, or vandalism, or denial-of-service attacks, then what is the purpose of this new policy?

To your other point, how can one establish a 'reputable account' if it is not even possible to access the site in the first instance.
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What are you bagging your steaks in? Paper bag?

What setting are you using? Cook or Warm?
Just don't get all your news from yandax??
There's a discussion elsewhere in this thread about how they were engaged primarily in climate change related activism.
I'm sorry but this is simply untrue. Every time I have hardware 1-1.5 generations behind (which is not always, I've done it both ways) the OS upgrade makes it somewhere between noticeably slower and painfully slow. I've recently used an identical model side-by-side that was not upgraded and it is vastly snappier. this has nothing to do with waiting for x.0.1 or app updates. In this case we are talking about iOS 7 on 4S, I'm refusing the iOS 8 upgrade for obvious reasons. I've seen others have similar problems in previous iterations whilst my newer hardware was fine.

People are fond of overstating Apple problems and I'm grateful that the opportunity to upgrade exists at all. However it is a fact that it often destroys the performance so the ability to revert seems very reasonable. I also find the extent of the degradation puzzling.
You'd be surprised how much ego can factor into decisions that are about "making more money" or "making the business more productive". Things like saving face, not wanting to look stupid, or wanting to look cool to impress friends is a huge part of business.
Yes, that line sounds more fit for "The Simpsons" than real life.
Was it something like /admin/query.php ?
As a developer who uses AWS, it's complicated, but I agree that Heroku is at 100% fault.

If I were providing a paid service and my dedicated servers went offline due to some reason (let's say the fiber line gets cut by road maintenance crews) - my customers wouldn't care what happened - perhaps some will offer sympathy - but in the end it's my fault, and my responsibility to offer any kind of contingency plan - which generally includes load balancing over multiple datacenters etc. The same view should have been taken here and too much reliance was set on one region (even though Amazon promised it would be safe - this is their fault ;)). In the end, they should take full blame and now learn from their mistakes.
Could reddit pull this off? Their "reddit this" buttons are already everywhere.
Agreed 100%. This is just for inspiration and ideas. I think that the one thing that video game and movie UI gets right every time is the use of color. Blue/green for comfort, yellow for attention, and red for danger.
If you're very interested the US Tax code can be found here: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sup_01_2... </sarcasm> Or save yourself 9814 pages and read this article on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States It's far from excellent, but it does a decent job explaining the system, and as with most Wikipedia articles is a good starting point.
Agreed. Look at the T.J. Maxx breach, in which approximately 94 million credit card numbers were stolen. Despite media claims of billions of dollars in damages, and multiple class action lawsuits, T.J. Maxx didn't pay any huge settlements or face any special penalties.

If T.J. Maxx can get away with it, Sony can too.
For the lazy

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2088469
This is why i love hosting on heroku: they'll work their butt off to get it fixed when its down, and i don't have to lift a finger.
However, EBS has been long known to be a turd, its a pity they relied on it. Plus, if they had a way to bring it back up in a different region (eg the euro AWS infrastructure) at the flick of a switch, that'd make me less nervous...
I was tempted to respond with OSX, but then i remembered that I had to explicitly disable single-user mode (and that the question was about security).

You need to be more specific about security (do you mean external methods of compromising the machine, or some sort of in-person hack)
White goods are washing machines, dish washers, fridges…, while brown goods are the audio/video stuff (TVs, stereo).

Kind of old fashion but based on the typical color of these items (mostly from a couple of decades or more ago: washing machines and fridges are in many colors and A/V stuff is almost always black and/or silver)

According to Wikipedia, it seems to be mostly a UK idiom.
I don't know of any, unless you count RFSes.

If I suggest more ideas I'd probably write a new version rather than update this.
"Is there a relevant metric I'm missing?"

Yes: What the numbers look like if you don't include biotech startups.
My last two contracts were 1 year and 1½ years. There are short term contracts out there, and they usually pay much more per hour, so I'd actually prefer them. Most companies want you for at least 6 months.

It takes getting used to, but at least I don't have that terrible feeling of being afraid to lose my job. Many people are scared into being "loyal", and it really costs them.

Consider how much your average raise as a full time employee is. I'd say most people get 5%/yr if they are lucky.

By going from contract to contract, my salary grows much faster than that. I'd say 30%/yr for the last few years (on average).
Nice work, EFF. Thanks.
> I feel sorry for those who take legal advice from people who are not lawyers.

You've kind of missed the whole point of the article. He's not giving legal advice; he's giving practical advice regarding a situation that at heart has nothing to do with the law.

There are cases where the law really matters, but the kind of bullshit 'lawyering' he's talking about is probably 90% of what certain types of contract lawyers do for a living.

The main thing to be aware of here is you have to know when you're dealing with that other 10% that might in fact be a real, legitimate legal dispute that could in theory go all the way to a trial. [edit: and if you don't realize before you get the call that you're in that situation, then I really do feel sorry for you...]
For those on FreeBSD dummynet was perhaps one of the most useful traffic shapers I've ever used. I had a router built on FreeBSD going strong for more than 3 years on an old pentium 90 that would route traffic like no ones business.
You made the assertion, the burden of proof is on you. I pointed out how your assertion could be wrong.
I wouldn't complain if this was reposted once every six months.

Thanks for the reminder :)
There are multiple ways of solving a problem and sometimes more code isn't the answer. Taking a few days to properly analyse a problem, examine the existing codebase and weigh up various alternatives is vastly superior to going in guns blazing and creating a giant mess in the process.
Around my region, people who yell "pigs" at the cops, haven't stopped to ascertain whether or not the officers they're yelling at are the violent bad ones who overstep. They're just yelling "pigs" because they're wearing the uniform and driving the car.

Noting that I left out extort because that's incredibly rare here, and prosecuted very quickly if it ever does.
Working for a big company maintaining a legacy system can be like this.

You can get by outputting 3 lines of code per week between meetings, filling in tickets, clearing disk space occasionally when the monitoring alerts and doing mandatory upgrades.

Nobody really cares as you are a cost centre but they need to keep people around for support.

There are a lot of people in banks still making reasonable money doing this type of work.
I find this thread kind of confusing, it basically seems to say the culture itself doesn't matter. What matters is that it is strongly held. Which means top down, ritualized and vigorously defended against any attempts at change.
This is most likely related to the Theme that he was using. One drawback of WordPress and WooCommerce is the loosely opinionated ecosystem where each plugin/theme might end up offering different ways to accomplish the same goal. WP definitely needs some time to get used to, sometimes getting used to a new theme is like switching to a different ecommerce platform.
Why not ARM? ARM is now penetrating the consumer development devices (M1), why not mirror that in the servers as well?
> if you read on, Stallman also says he'll flat out refuse to use someone's preferred pronouns if they disagree with his scheme.

This is false: RMS does not refuse to use someone's preferred pronouns (as explained by a trans person who worked with him and who thinks that RMS' proposal is stupid but not transphobic). He just proposes people to use his pronouns, but will use whatever is asked to.
Yes, open plan offices are horrible. No need to reproduce something just as horrible and intrusive when working from home.

I would just turn both microphone and camera off; if somebody wants something they can message me, like a sane person.
My job allows me to go back stage at Glastonbury and track-side visits at the Olympics, front seat views of royal weddings, orchestral pit on last night of the proms, and I have a fairly sedantry job of mostly pushing buttons.

Colleagues have spent days in jungles building bridges to drive cars over them, have got to know people living in random villages from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and share in their culture, have met and quizzed world leaders, have been to Antarctic bases, and have exposed and brought down criminal networks making lives miserable for thousands of people.

I guess you'd define that as "glorious toiling", but I could have 10m in the bank and never have to work again, but get to do very little of that.
You probably don't need 8.5x11". There's no reason to display the (usually blank) margins in an e-reader. 6.5x9" should suffice.

I have an old Kindle 3G that I use for reading papers. Its screen is 4.8" in height, which is just about the default column width of LaTeX (= 8.5" - 3.75" margin = 4.75"), meaning I could comfortably read papers in landscape with only scrolling up & down.

PDF reading was okay. It was rather slow, and you couldn't highlight/markup anything, but the rendering was gorgeous.
Papers We Love is excellent, some great papers. I forked the repo a while ago, was considering hosting one in Dublin. I think here at least the community seems to have a lot of non-CS people who I'd love to hear from too.
"Over Quota
This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later."

Lol, last time i have seen such a message was ten years ago ;-)
Physically speaking.
they've left their django debug on
With the bell peak between Physics and Mathematics right? :P
If we're talking ratio of killer to killed, the ratio is much more horrific for the past century.
> "We have also taken action to ban the community r/donaldtrump given repeated policy violations in recent days regarding the violence at the U.S. Capitol.”

From the post itself. The subreddit was banned for breaking ToS. I'd expect the same on this site if I were to repeatedly call for violence.
Or end up in a situation where your voice is heard choppy on the other end, as voice activation triggers too late. Often also missing short replies. Push To Talk is more reliable.
about the one lane backups, one method that i employ are 3 lane roads, all only lanes and by use of TM:PE, say do not switch lanes for 5 points before intersection, forcing traffic to use all lanes.
Actually there is quite a lot of change going on. German car manufacturers have standardised on the so called delta-qualification-matrix [1] which basically says what kind of tests should be done to before implementing an change (which can be anything from nothing if e.g. the label print of a semiconductor changes up to a full retest of the whole ECU).

But its probably that there is just no alternatives on the market, since Ties Ones have extensive supply chain management with second and third sources for the majority of semiconductors.

1: https://www.zvei.org/en/subjects/mobility/product-process-ch...
Wait what? So you don't have any argument against what I said and now you change the subject?

The same senators and congressmen that objected were interrupted from doing so because of the mob. None of the elected officials did anything illegal by objecting. Did they have anything to back their claims? No, but that's another discussion.

I don't see neither how harassing a senator today has anything to do with the other day events. I don't support that just as I don't support the ones who almost beat Sen. Rand Paul.

Any of this makes me become an apologist. I only stated that a coup wasn't the idea behind the Capitol assault.
Bet you don't lend one another bitcoin though
They were doing something up in the rafters of the basement of my parents house and found a couple beer cans stashed up in there, probably from when the house was built.

The one I recall is "Carling Black Label" and it came in a very simple can. It had been opened with a can opener, the kind that put a triangular hole in the can.
What unpersoning looks like in the 21st century.
If Linux is a Ferrari and the dominant commercial operating system on earth is a lawnmower, there's no metric by which Linux is failing other than grass-cutting.
My wife and I went through the usual western slepo traibit cry out etc, I read an article about sleep cycles before electricity wher people had two sleeps per night, first one after dinner for 4-5 hours then and hour or two away where people had a snack or talked etc then went back to sleep for another few hours, I would liked to have tried that schedule with our kids even as a experiment, the sleep deprivation is horrible, I wonder if we aligned our schedule with our kids would it be better for everyone especially when they are babies
What's the source for the Thiel quote about "we just can't build cool shit anymore"?
Of course I know that. What a strange question.
Apparently these people armed a "Spot" with a paintball gun...

https://spotsrampage.com/
I worry that the danger here is the same danger we had with wireless carriers. They started out selling someone else's product, and at some point they got the idea that they needed generics (carrier branded phones), but it was an attempt to deny brand recognition to their suppliers.

A failed coup attempt.

Rarely is it good to compete with your own vendors. Sometimes it works, but you have to be quick, you have to be brash, and most of all you have to be lucky. The rest of the time you may find yourself having to negotiate with people who remember you tried to stab them in the face.
My pint is that all air forces agree, to a certain extent, that stealth alone is not enough to over come modern air defence. It is even not sufficient to beat other somewhat stealthy fighters. And the F-35 isn't even that stealthy to begin with. The examples are to show that the F-35 is alread now, at the very beginning of its service life, hte real risk of being not as surviveable as thought.
+1 for embed live WebGL
This is not a major problem if you push to all mirrors. E.g. if you're using Bitbucket CI, but also mirror your git repo in github, gitlab (as GP did) then you can just push to everyone and that will automatically trigger bitbucket CI, as well github CI (if you want to switch in the future). Of course, you'll have to maintain each CI manifest separately.
Congratulations, and I am very proud of you!
Great article, and congratulations!

One thing stood out for me though

> On January 1, 2021, I received an email from Repl.it letting me know that I had been selected.

To me this is a huge red flag. To receive a work related email on what is probably the most widely recognized holiday in the world is the sign of a company with terrible work-life balance.

I hope I'm wrong, but I have ignored such a flag in the past and got bitten.
> I do which they would update the main website more

The surprise takeaway for me in this announcement was that a "2.0" complete redesign is apparently not only in the works but around the corner (just not entirely ready yet).
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Lowering rates wouldn't be seen as dishonest if the Fed ever actually raised them. We're at 0% because their algorithm seems to be if (problem) lower() else party().

The response to 2008 wasn't a problem in isolation, but continuing that policy into 2010-2019 was. Rates even started going up slightly a year ago, but then got nipped in the bud to keep the stock bubble rising.

I'm willing to agree that at this current point, these bailouts seem quite prudent. The problem is that after the crisis is over, the hazardous financial and business practices that necessitated the bailouts will never be reigned in, but allowed to continue thus necessitating another bailout in the future.
Can y'all please make a box that turns off all of the TVs in bars and restaurants whenever I walk in? I'd pay a monthly subscription for this. Add to that gyms and other public places, please.

On a more serious note, this is actually a brilliant idea. I've been in places so many times and seen competitors commercials playing and always though it was not in their best interest.
It took me a while to read them all, and I can't upvote the Critical Sharks articles enough. Those things need to be said and Eli Schiff puts them forth very well. I wish this level of culture were more common.