jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Regarding the pot question, they came to my college and gave a group interview and someone asked the pot question and they told a story about a girl who had applied and passed, but they found pot in the last year, even though she passed the polygraph. They figured out she was sauced at a party and smoked, and were unable to let her in. Granted this was 10 years ago, so something might have changed.
Because the those "defenders of the status quo" are RIGHT in this case, even though the idea of an uncontrolled crypto-currency is something that would do society a lot of good right now.

Just not bitcoin.

The travesty of all this is that the bitcoin True Believers - so desperate to make it work - are making such a target of themselves, we now have people trying to ban all crypto-currency[1]. That might be a worthwhile fight if bitcoin actually stood a chance of becoming any sort of competitor to the dollar, but because an idiot guaranteed it would deflate, that goal can never be achieved. Instead of disrupting government-based currencies, locking in deflation made bitcoin dependent[2] on external, stable money.

This is a failure to understand this basic econ, not a "bug". In fact, many bitcoin evangelists try and use deflation as a selling point, placing them only a hair above "intelligent design" on a scale of stupidity.

Listen, I want as much as anybody to see something break the status quo where banksters get to run everything. Do you want to guarantee they keep the dollar? Do you want to scare those banksters into cracking down on not only on bitcoin but future alternatives as well? The fight them.

Or do you want support the larger goal of a non-government currency? If so, you need to realize that they are partly right in this case, and bitcoin needs to be left to die, so we can focus on some new currency that learns from these mistakes, and isn't tied to the dollar.

[1] http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/02/27/1326200/wv-senator-ca...

[2] http://computationallyendowed.com/blog/2013/11/27/bitcoin-de...
Precisely. I understand it like this: if the United States has some $18tn of debt and it has to pay this back in dollars that are more valuable than they were when the debt was issued, that debt load quickly becomes unserviceable. However, if they successfully inflate away some significant percentage of the value of the USD, the nominal debt remains the same but it becomes lighter in real terms.

Pippa Malmgren - correctly, I think - describes this inflating away the value of the currency (and by extension, all outstanding debts) as just another form of default, and one that has been used many times in history. It's just more stealthy than saying "we can't pay, so we won't pay" or something similar[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBU59sY2erA
Guess its time to drop Dropbox, so to speak, and move definitely to UbuntuOne
While it's true that Sony hasn't given a definite promise for when PSN will be back up, I don't think "indefinitely" gives an accurate impression — they're still saying that they're trying to get back online as soon as possible. So there's really nothing new in this article (and it's self-blogspam as well).
It's about market share, not hard core gamers ;)
Sorry; 1977, not 97
Yeah, I still post on TO regularly. Got rid of my reddit account though. Too many memes. I still visit /r/Minecraft a decent amount though.
Assuming this isn't an April Fools joke, it would be interesting to discuss this idea in the context of a growing shut-in culture. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9265817
You forgot Spain. You might want to look at a map of Europe. I think your info is out of date.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail
As somebody born in former USSR, this is why Russia will _never_ have a Silicon Valley. I refuse to ever consider living in (even temporarily), visiting or doing business either in Russia or with a Russian company in the United States (how do I know they won't come after my relatives?). When I got to the United States, I realized that I'd rather sweep the streets in the United States than be wealthy in Russia.

Rule of law (vs. rule by decree), freedom are deeply engrained in American and ersatz-British (UK, but also Canada, Australia, Ireland, etc...) ethos. A pupil on a school yard, when confronted by a teacher screams "it's a free country, you can't make me". People feel entitled (I am using it in a dictionary definition, in the positive sense of the word) to freedom, to human rights.

This isn't the same way in Russia: elders would frequently tell me "the place for people who want freedom is in jail". Philosophy was taught in an entirely different way in university: my parents were surprised when I told them that Plato and Hegel (who taught that real freedom is the right to submit to an absolutist state) were considered fascist by my (American) professors. Their anti-democratic (in the greater sense of the word, which encompasses not just elections but also concepts of minority rights, free speech and the like), anti-freedom theories were taught as being more "advanced" than philosophies of Locke and Kant.

To be fair, there are many abhorrent and brutal ideas in the American ethos as well, but they're token compared to the Russian/Soviet ethos: compare for example, Russian behaviour in Chechnya with US behaviour in Iraq or Israeli behaviour in Palestine. As another example, it's shameful that United States is even publicly debating torture, but in Russia torture isn't an abstract debate about "ticking time-bombs": it's something that you _expect_ to happen to you if you're arrested. I remember a neighbour recounting how, when he was found publicly drunk, the police patrol put him on the trunk of the car and struck his liver and kidneys with a truncheon to teach him a "lesson".

United States, Canada and England are blessed, historically. Russia had been occupied by Mongols, ruled by tyrannical czars (who styled themselves after Mongol Khans and Byzantine Emperors), ruled by the worst tyrant known to man (with an intercession of Nazi Germany rule, during which heavy racist propaganda was further imprinted into the popular ethos). You can't expect this backdrop to produce an environment in which the next Google will be built (there's a reason Sergey Brin didn't stay in Russia to build it!).
I remember when I first heard of twitter, the exact moment. My response was "Oh that's dumb. Why would I care if somebody posts what they ate for lunch? And it's only 140 characters?" Basically, I'm a visionary.

I think Amazon has the right idea. Just launch products and see how they go, what you learn, and if they stick. Very interesting company to watch operate.
> ancient Egypt's history spans more years than the entirety of human history after Christ (so far), but as can be seen in their history, they had plenty of royal family squabbles and foreign invasions in that time. How they retained national cohesion through it all would be an interesting study.

Generally attributed to Egypt's relatively high population density at the time. They grew a lot of grain. They had a lot of people.
I got my current job because I was able to learn a new framework overnight
MemorySanitizer will catch uninitialized variable errors.
wasn't OpenCL a mess even on AMD cards and isnt it almost deprecated?* And Nvidia's OpenGL drivers on windows are way better than AMD's. I dont like Nvidia especially after all the error 43 bullshit, but they are competent. Now ARM is going public, wont that make things even worse?

[0]:https://www.reddit.com/r/realAMD/comments/qujwas/amd_drops_o...
A few issues I have with this blog post:

1. It doesn't show off the unique capabilities of firecracker very well.

2. The comparison not very fair.

2a. The docker-build step (which dominates the runtime) is run without any caching, just by adding 2 lines to your build-push-action, "cache-from: type=gha, cache-to: type=gha,mode=max" you can make it a lot faster.

2b. ~1m20s of the time is just "VM start". GitHub Actions has had a rough time recently, but you should never wait that long to get your CI running in day-to-day operation.

2c. The tests are unrealistically short at 20s which allows the author to get to their 10x faster number.

Let's say the GitHub Action starts in 5 seconds, the GitHub Actions cache reduces the build time to 2 minutes and the tests take 10 minutes to run. Now Firecracker is 20% faster ...

You can also get comparable performance out of https://buildkite.com/ which lets you self-host runners on AWS meaning you're almost guaranteed to get a hot docker cache (running against locally attached SSDs). You can now start running your tests (almost) as fast with much more mature tooling.
If "fine" means "answering a new captcha every time you blink" then yeah, every other website works fine on Tor.
That's exactly what I did before Spotify.

Just torrented the artist and put it in my own device.
The POWER architecture family, since the Apple migration to x86 many years ago, is only relevant for supercomputers and mainframes which is why I didn't include it in the list.
Yes, this is something we looked into but unfortunately where we live there is no Montessori locally (within an hour from what I remember from our search). Thanks for the suggestion though
Open... and wrong. It thinks my address in in a city 60 miles away.
Amazing how fast responses came in. I've signed up for LastPass.com. Thanks everyone!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammary_gland
another vote for Google bookmarking along with YAGBE - Yet Another Google Bookmarks Extension - Chrome extension.
Just went looking for this and couldn't find anything. Pointers?
I read your interview in Founders at Work a few years back, while I was a quant at a Morgan Stanley trading desk. Your story was so inspiring. I look forward to what you come out with next.
I think he thinks you're just using DupDetector as a cute name while you post this stuff.
Prices don't stay still. Street stalls are cheaper but fulfilling breakfast still around $6.

Cheapest bread is heavily subsidized, but I struggle to find inexpensive variety bread in Moscow (and I live here). It's either very plain or very expensive or both. Even a small town near polar circle my wife is from happens to have better bread selection. I end up baking my own, which is awesome.
I like the idea but I still prefer using Github pages for my blog. Not to mention it's free.
In a driving test, you still get to actually drive. A driving theory exam is a better comparison.
All I know is that I want some of that Tech density to spread out to Texas. Texas right now is probably one of (if not THE) top states to start/grow a business in. If you're in SF and you're young (and/or willing) come over to Texas and get rich over the next 10 years, then go live wherever you want with your future partner and kids. ;)
>but I doubt Rust has something like this.

Oh, but it does! There's the cond! macro:

let computed_key = cond!(
(key.len() > self.block_size) { self.zero_pad(self.hash(key).digest) }
(key.len() < self.block_size) { self.zero_pad(key) }
_ { key }
);
> all the different pointers

@ is going to sink into the library and will be deemphasized in the language to help with this. That leaves only ~ (pointers) and & (references).

> closures capturing their environment (variables outside the closure in the scope where the closure is defined)

Right, this is one of the difficult pieces. This is going away as well in favor of Java-like Runnables to make the variable capture easier to understand (with macro sugar to make them just as convenient as closures). The closures that remain will work just like the closures you know from other languages regarding variable capture, and the Rust-specific stuff regarding variable capture will be gone.

> std::Cell

Yeah, this needs to be better documented. Part of the problem is that we haven't totally nailed down what Cell will be used for yet.
I'm an instructor at MakerSquare and regularly conduct technical interviews. I just wanted to add to Harsh's response re: people taking other peoples answers. Completing the admissions challenges that are posted online will only get you an interview. Once on site we only spend a few minutes, 10 at the most, reviewing their solutions to the admissions challenges before we move on to other questions. It is very, very apparent within just a minute if the applicant did not actually write their own solution.
So I need to pay for data on a severely restricted phone? Why would I do that? I understand the allure of a cheap phone but why should it have internet access? I understand if I can get a data plan specifically tailored for this (as in cheap).
> JustDelete.Me is a directory of urls to delete your account from web services. (Yes, I am aware how terrible that description is. If you’ve got a better one, let me know).

How about a variation of "Helping you delete your web accounts"
Writing these kinds of assignments is hard, however. I find it difficult to come up with something that is both wrong enough to be instructive and non-obvious, as well as reasonable enough that someone might have written the code in the first place.

More power to the OP if he's able to write entire, semester-long curricula based on these sorts of assignments.
Duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010997

No comments.
I think he meant it the other way (not clearly expressed).
Rich Hickey (the creator of clojure) sais something about this too. Something like this:

"Only use parentheses when it is absolutely necessary witch makes it a little harder for macro writers but much easier for users."

If i work with CL i really hate that i have to write pairs in parens. In cond or let:
CL:
(let ((a 1)
(b 2)))
Clojure:
(let [a 1
b 2])
I am ignorant on specific time requirements on running crontabs but I always do either 6min or 10min or something which is divisible.

Are there any specific app requirements in running 7min or 17sec?
Incest covers everything from two related adults to, say, an adult and an infant, and beyond.

If I were running a store, I wouldn't want to sell baby rape erotica. I wouldn't want to make money that way. If people want to spank to that stuff, it's not my responsibility to assist in any way.
This is what made me a heavy user of lmgtfy.com in my daily office routine.

That small amount of shame when receiving a lmgtfy-link from me in response to a question greatly helped reducing the amount of stupid questions I get asked.
ICE's charter was to stop music piracy?
Go for it Chris: www.shypbv.com
Am I going to ship my hotel room? It's business travel that's being discussed here.
I have witnessed with my own two eyes an experienced wine aficionado call the grape type, terroir (micro-region) and year of a brown-bagged wine, based on a single tasting. They were off by one year, but otherwise correct. There’s a ton of BS in the wine world, but it’s not all fake.
What you're saying, especially the part about "slightly better organised and attract students that care enough about their education" is talking point rhethoric and not anything substantiated in fact. The schools get a fixed amount of money per student from the state. If you have students with high socio-economic status, you can get away with having fewer teachers per student, as well has having teachers that aren't properly educated. One of the more prominent for-profit charter schools is the "International English School" (IES). They aren't only "English" for marketing purposes (because being an "English" school means you can do more marketing about teaching with "higher discipline"), they are also "English" because that allows them to get away with recruiting more teachers from abroad. This is what for-profit charter schools are about. You can't "optimize" what's essentially a service institution. You can only cut to better your margins. Or cheat, which they do. Not only by having fewer authorized teachers, but also by straight up inveting better grades for students, which is something that helps with marketing (see a pattern here?).
Internal monologues absolutely keep people poor. Failure to effectively negotiate is nearly 100% about internal monologues, particularly once the time has come for negotiation.
There is a delicate balance to be handled here

Firstly, yeah negotiate based on (potential) value delivered. It's the best way for any freelancer to base their pay. But for an employee things get trickier. You see a freelancer is part of the gig economy - if at the upper end but still it's a gig - you negotiate per gig and move on from the bad ones.

But we hate the gig economy with a passion at the bottom end - it's exploitation - and a hundred years ago workers unionised (or sometimes less usefully revolted) in order to stop it.

And asking an employee to negotiate for their own salary at odds with their co-workers is how collective action gets strangled in the crib.

And let's face it, collective action in the US looks like it was strangled in the crib anyway.

So looking at the next ten years we have a real issue over how to pre/re/distribute the wealth the century will hopefully bestow. And solid collective action will be a significant and important part of that.

Grabbing the most value for yourself and to hell with the rest is not going to be the path to utopia.

So, to start with, put unions on the boards of major companies, have them elected by the employee / members - and start seeing questions like "why can't we vote for the other folks on the board"
>Humans are human and therefore fallible and tribal; film at eleven.

However many seem to have missed the news.
> No, I reccomend changing schools as their lunch allowance isn't enough to cover even a full meal at McDonalds

You suggest - please correct me if Im wrong - that a person should change schools because of lunch allowance?

Jesus' feces.Holy shit!
I mean, of course you lift the state. It's just like a database. You have a normalized model containing the state, and the GUI is a view on it. Events from the GUI trigger transactions that update the state and then every element is triggered to update itself based on the new state. That should never trigger a loop of events, because a view updating itself from the model should never trigger transactions on the database.

Many complicated views have their own internal models for things like where they are scrolled, what columns are shown, or what elements of a tree are expanded. But those compound views are written so that, from the outside, they appear exactly the same as any other view.

> I’d love to hear what the functional programming camp has to say about this problem

It's called functional reactive programming.
I think it's pretty blind to teach people that "this is music" rather than "this is how we've done music here and other people over there do it differently." We live in a global civilization now and there's no reason not to reap the benefits or to be exclusionary. Ignoring Indian and Chinese theories today is just sticking your head in the sand and promoting some weird type of conservatism. It'd be like ignoring the non-Western parts of math just because. That's completely irrational.

> Even more so when everybody else (e.g. every other culture) doesn't reciprocate the same, and speaks of its own stuff as THE stuff.

I've never seen this to be true in Indian music discussion. They know Western music too. I can only assume the same is true in China being that America and Europe export so much.
Hi Kenneth, thanks for taking my comment as intended. The rest of the article is much better :-)
Let me tell you about the dragon in my garage.
will keep that in mind. am pretty overwhelmed myself right now, due to the comments coming in. Basically trying to keep the game alive and fixing bugs
Hollywood is almost universally terrible at hacker movies, unfortunately, dating back to when they perverted Frankenstein. I haven't seen Swordfish, but what I've heard doesn't make me optimistic.

Real Genius and Ghostbusters are two pretty good hacker movies. I hear Buckaroo Banzai is in the same ballpark, but I haven't seen the whole thing. I also enjoyed Flight of the Navigator, but it's really more about magic than about hacking.
Very true. Actually, unmentioned here yet is "The Social Network (2010)" which has one of the most realistic scenes of coding I've seen. The problem is that it takes David Fincher and a script by Aaron Sorkin to make someone sitting at a computer both realistic and interesting.
Risk is incredibly frustrating, though. I cannot tell you how many times 18-man armies have been mowed down by lone men
Pirate of Silicon Valley
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=440334862070787846#
It's a really interesting question and I think there's an underserved market there. I wish there was a better, more efficient way for people to meet other people willing to co-found a startup. I finally ended up finding a programmer for my startup through my co-founder's network. He worked with someone who suggested someone. We're working through the planning stages now. For a long time I wasn't sure that we'd ever find someone.

Good luck to you!
Urgh...

I love static typing and the type safety that languages like Haskell provide me. And I think they have practical benefit too. But I would give my right testicle if static typing advocates would stop encouraging the criticism that this is all academic nonsense.
You can program in Python using Kivy [1] to create apps for Android, iOS, and the desktop. I made a simple app and took it through the entire process it is now on the Android app store. You are still using Python so you can focus on programming and not language features, but you get the benefits of programming something your students can show off.

[1] http://kivy.org/docs/gettingstarted/intro.html
>Please don't use that as an insult.

Wasn't intended as an insult. Pretty sure I'm on it myself on the mild side
Unfortunately, if the hardware has a lot of issues the well-integrated experience seems to quickly fall apart. I can't really speak about the desktop side of Apple products but the MacBook line of products seem to be troubled with many hardware related issues for years now.
So did the scientists succeed or fail ?
I couldn't really tell from the article and the paper, albeit I just skimmed it.
Would never sign up or use a service that has such an invasive requirement..I only use my google voice number for any type of public to even dating transaction. Spam and robocall that all you want which I surprising never receive/received many such calls.
Argentina is not small. It's the second largest country (in pop and area?) after Brazil
it is trivial to strip suffixes off of aliased email addresses
I see the point, but if I upload my contract list the non compliance is mine (I didn't ask permission to each one of my contacts) or of Clubhouse (they asked me to do it)?
No, a higher stock price (caused by the demand and transaction volume generated) is valued immediately as compensation.

If your stock goes up, employee morale is high and ppl want to stay the rest of their vesting schedule. If the stock goes down you have to compensate employees with more cash.

Also, acquisitions are made in stock deals
DOT, ADA, etc.
Mutations are random and need high replication rate to statistically find mutations. I don’t think the few hundred people that would volunteer here is anywhere near enough for mutation requirements.
There is plenty of evidence from many cities around the world. Copenhagen is a rather famous example, their turnaround from being very car-centric to being very bike-friendly started in the 70s IIRC, and the transit patterns followed as planned.