jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Probably, those 20 people think the author is making three good points. The actual phrasing of said points is not fantastic; particularly #2 has some grammatical and possibly logical issues. ("The bottom line is: If you are finding yourself admire other people and try to copy how they succeed, then you are at a pace that is NOT reasonable for you.")

However, the ideas stand:
To have a large success, you need to a) be doing something, b) avoid rushing things _too much_ [1], and c) pay attention to how small or insulated your market is. (You can't be "the next Facebook" by writing a landscape company search, even if it's the best ever.)

[1] This is tough to get right -- you need to launch before you're satisfied, but take longer than you really want to. The optimization of time spent really depends on the situation. For instance, if you're rehashing an old idea and selling based on the UI, it's worth going over with members of your target market before you release, to make sure what they _use_ is easy for them to find. But if your idea is new, you need to release ASAP to get market validation while you can still pivot if you're a bit off the mark.
> I didn't intend to imply that there's a problem with our generation (as others have).

And I do thank you for that.

I think what happened was a rapid delineation of responsibility: The red shirted Bovard employees were ushers, and so their job was to ensure that the audience didn't become (for gross lack of a better word due to little sleep on my part) hostile. The program board member's job was to go to Bill Nye, whilst the tech staff backstage went to get chairs, water, food, and the like. Meanwhile the people in the booth were calling DPS (the on campus police force), and 911.

The thing about everyone working that event is that they are all on headset. They were all no doubt following on instructions from their superiors on what was decided to be the best course of action. Whilst it may not have been the most PR friendly response, I can't help but think that having a large swarm of staff all run to Mr. Nye would be nearly as helpful as what (from the best I can tell, both from my experience as a member of the staff (I didn't work the event), and from what I heard from people who did work the event, and audience members as well) actually occurred.

Honestly, I'm having a hard time figuring out why this matters to me so much. On the one hand, I know these people, I work with them regularly, and I can't possibly fathom that they just stood there and did nothing. And indeed everything I've heard from trusted sources has been the exact opposite.

On the other hand, I'm annoyed that this is receiving as much attention as it is, as I don't think Mr. Nye wanted it that way (again, from what I've heard of him after the event), and I think trying to tie this incident to some sort of great failing of our generation is—frankly—ridiculous.

Perhaps the most important thing I'd like to illuminate in this comment would be that there is a far greater number of staff members working any event than the ones that you see, and just because you don't see anyone doing anything doesn't mean that they aren't. Though, yeah, I can imagine it looked bad.
This has nothing to do with Java licensing, it's a piece of javascript to detect whether you have Java installed or not.
I don't know where they get their data but I just checked my teams(FSU) football page and they have a bug in the record (6-4 instead of 7-3). Not too impressed there.
According to Wikipedia, globalization describes the process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of communication, transportation, and trade.

I'd say air travel plays a big part in facilitating that process. A case could be made that because of globalization, airport security was needed in the first place. Back in the thirties, when air travel was reserved for the happy few, airport security wasn't as much of an issue as it is now.
What would you think if you were told an offer was extended and rejected?
staying with Bollywood, I also recommend "Taare Zameen par"
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taare_Zameen_Par
"Yes. We require all of our suppliers to certify in writing that they use conflict few materials. "

That's quite an unfortunate typo!
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No, it's completely illogical from every aspect. Even if the person is going to drive no matter what, and only wants to improve their own experience for least cost, the dollar for transit improves their road experience more than a dollar for more road infrastructure. And even those roads are mostly funded by general funds, not through gas taxes. Gas taxes and user fares fund roughly equivalent amounts of roads and public transit, respectively. And 80% of federal transportation money goes to roads.

The only explanation that's possible is extremely short-sighted and self-defeating selfishness: seeing something that's not for them and instinctively opposing it, without thinking of the bigger picture. It's just childish.
contracts.ruby author here, feel free to ask me any questions.
Your argument is all numerator, no denominator.
Just another day in cryptoland.
I love the nuance and "see both sides of the story" tone of the article. We need more of that.

The first half of my career was in a <$20k, paycheck-to-paychek job. Now I make > 8 times the median US salary, and still feel underpaid.

What I try to convey to people is that I can be grateful and privileged, and feel fairly unpaid at the same time.

For the one side, you need to recognize your privilege. People who say they can't live on incomes >200k should know life could be so much worse.

For the other side, one can still feel underpaid and unfairly treated. If colleagues similar to me jumped companies doubling their income, that's a signal I'm probably underpaid. And the one benefiting from that disparity is not me, but the company taking advantage of it.

Bottom line great read for all of those tech worker making 6 figures and complaining about how crappy their life is.
Get them as chicks and interact with them every day.

If you do, the chickens will actively seek you out to hang out with you.

Thier coop will need regular cleaning and everything will try to eat them so you really need a coop.

I'm not sure rats will be a problem if you keep their food in a metal container. Your biggest urban threat is likely raccoons.

Couple of things to keep in mind. You likely need to get at least 6 chicks to start as most stores will not sell in smaller quantities.

Additionally, you really don't want to end up with more than a single male. To that end DO NOT get a "straight run" of unsexed chicks. If you do, expect a bloodbath.

Straight runs tend to be what is left after the chicks that could be sexed as female have already been removed.
Another day, another collapse of a cryptocurrency.
US and more socialist EU countries may have similar CPIs, but when we get to talking about education, rent, healthcare, transportation, etc the differences can be stark.

Yes, people in US earn more and get taxed less. But they also spend a lot, lot more on necessities via shadowy cost structures like student loans and insurance and >$1,000 ambulance rides.
How many programmers today do not know what what a pointer is, or even if they do, how to use/understand them? I'm sure the number is growing, considering the prevalence of languages where pointers aren't even a consideration.

Now if you don't like the features of this IDE, that's fair. You're free to stick to whatever you're currently using. Given that Tenacious C will be a paid app when it is done, I doubt I'll really be interested, given what I can use for free that gets the job done more than adequately.
This is true, but if the competitor is advertising PCI compliance and is not providing that, their consumers have a right to know that they are not getting what they paid for.
I agree.

This is the same industry that formed a "wage-fixing cartel" against
their own developers and engineers.

I'm sure that they will do anything they think they can get away with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

> The defendants are Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar,
Lucasfilm and eBay, all high-technology companies with a principal place
of business in the San Francisco–Silicon Valley area of California.

Pando had a story about the scope of the fraud:

> "Revealed: Apple and Google's wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more
companies, over one million employees"

> Confidential internal Google and Apple memos, buried within piles of
court dockets and reviewed by PandoDaily, clearly show that what began as
a secret cartel agreement between Apple’s Steve Jobs and Google’s Eric
Schmidt to illegally fix the labor market for hi-tech workers, expanded
within a few years to include companies ranging from Dell, IBM, eBay and
Microsoft, to Comcast, Clear Channel, Dreamworks, and London-based public
relations behemoth WPP. All told, the combined workforces of the
companies involved totals well over a million employees.

https://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage...

There's a lot more coverage: https://pando.com/tag/techtopus/
Right, but it's a pretty scarce section of the venn diagram between

Needs a laptop (since you're not getting a Mini) to use portable

Needs endurance CPU performance (and notices a 15% performance decrease)

Frequently docks laptop during workloads

Can't or doesn't want to pay extra for the MBP
>As for inflation, I’m guessing the exact opposite argument to yours was being made in the 80s.

By definition, inflation is what happens when demand exceeds supply. If the fed keeps flooding the market with cheap credit the expectation is that the money is invested into more production, either by machines or by foreign labor (i.e. in China). Prices stop growing because supply outstrips demand. That's why the fed is failing to create sufficient inflation. Supply side stimulus is causing the opposite effect and at the same time it is leading to an asset bubble.
Only on the summer as the school does not allow eating anything other than what the cafeteria serves in the buildings. The lunch cards are restricted to certain restaurants only.
Now go and have a look where the schools are located. For-profit schools are more often located in areas where education level is higher. Less money spent on educating kids means more profit ina system where each student gets a fixed amount.
Then we, as engineers, have failed in explaining things.

A blockchain is a linked list where each element of the list contains the hash of the previous element. It's basically a degenerate Merkle tree. That is all that it is. It isn't a metaphor. It isn't throwing off the shackles of an overreaching government, nor is it a takeover of our society by militant right-wing conspiracy theorists.

It's a data structure.
The possibility to unify all my communication around common threads makes sense, being able to use it as a replacement for chat & email - as it has properties of both

Hey, I think Facebook just launched a very elegant solution for that. But what would the world come to if we would suddenly start using the same tools as our grandchildren for serious business?
The ability to be anonymous is an important one and should always remain available, but in general day to day usage anonymity is only used by people who don't want to take responsibility for their own actions (or words).

I see no problem with tying my offline identity to my online one.

Besides, if you wanted to disconnect the identities you just create multiple OpenIds for each identity you want to act out.
>I wholeheartedly support the licence fee but it’s a shame that I can’t catch up with TV shows on a business trip to the US or visiting @dannifromdublin in…well…Dublin.

You can of course already do this by using the download facility (which apparently even works on Linux via Adobe Air) which gives you 21 days to view the downloads IIRC.

I'm not going to support a passport as then I'd have to buy an aerial, some coax and a TV license in order to watch a couple of shows every few weeks - which I can justify if required as the BBC get a quite large stipend paid from the exchequer.
When in power it becomes easier to protect what you already have. The point of the power it to gain and retain higher control over ones destiny. Being in power allows a person to keep laws conducive to their interests.
>This article was not written by Web Street. One of our customers found it in a news room. We tested it and found it credible. We now wish to share it with you. We take no responsibility, credit, fee or referral from this article.

They have ads on it and don't provide any credit to whoever actually wrote or originally posted it.
I agree he's not selling it properly, but I would also say it's not actually that different to everything coming back to my email inbox and being remembered by my browser either. For me it's not a problem, perhaps for admins it is, which reminds me of the incessant caterwauling we used to have about "the spam problem" (which was often a mask for the micropayments movement). And people should reach for their gun when they hear people blabbering about ID centralisation, that's a good reaction. And considering there is a happy-go-lucky Belgian linking it to the government in the comments, I'd say they are right in some sense, it will embolden those who want the government to control everything on the Internet.
This seems exceptionally unethical
Your career thanks you.
Is perl5i really a good practice? I got a "PHP API" vibe when watching a talk about it and immediately wrote it off. Am I wrong?
I've been waiting, hoping that others would be using more notebooks than me...

Right now I'm using 2 paper notebooks
an A4 LEUCHTTURM 1917 Master Slim dot grid in Red, I've also done the orange for a while. This is basically my going through making notes in meetings, projects, etc. I've gone as far as cutting old pages out and making mini folios with Washi tape within the notebook for projects that continue over. This is my 4th or 5th of these and while I really like them, I might change to a more desk type longer notebook when I'm through this book. I'm ready to make a change in this.

I also and currently using a Stalogy 365 day planner in grid. I ran out of my A5 notebook, wanted to try a soft cover and planner. This was the best solution on August. So far I like the soft cover, like the paper, don't like the grid, don't like the way the date is set up. Still up in the air if I buy a new planner for 2020.

Then I have an assortment of "pocket notebooks" the Write notebooks version of Field Notes. I want to love these, but I can't make them work for me.

For the pens/pencils,I really enjoy fountain pens. Currently inked:
TWSBI Diamond Mini AL (Gold) 1.1 Stub
nib with Iroshizuku Ku Jaku
TWSBI 580 AL (Rose) 1.1 Stub nib with
Pilot Metropolitan Medium nib with Iroshizuku Ina Ho
Nemosine Singularity Purple Demonstrator.8 Stub nib with Nemosine Moon Crater Black
Karas Kustoma Ink in Purple and Brass with a 2-tone M nib
with Iroshizuku Yu Yake

Then a Rotring 600 .5mm and a Pentel P207 in .7mm
Also what about people who’re wearing a sling or a cast with an automatic, are they not allowed to drive?
In multi-thread benchmarks of raw memory I/O we found a clear performance leader in Ampere’s eMAG, outperforming both AMD’s EPYC and Intel’s XEON CPUs by a factor of 6 or higher

That doesn't sound right. Neither AMD nor Intel get more than a handful of GB/s in basic memory I/O? Any idea what could be wrong?
I don't know that I agree, or at least that's not always the goal. I've found that the more "wheels" already in the framework, the more opinions the framework has, and sometimes I just need something dead simple.

Laravel, for instance, has so many really nice wheels, but it's organization can feel restrictive at times.

web.py, on the other hand, has basically no wheels but I can drop into a project really quick.

Maturity is a spectrum, and sometimes you don't need a wagon when a bike will do.
I need x-much gas to go 100 km... Seems pretty intuitive to me.
A much easier to use tool that works using inotify is incron. It's basically like cron except for inotify events. I have a one-liner that OCRs all of my incoming scans, and it's immensely helpful.
Rate of Change of Frequency protection (ROCOF) in embedded storage and generation systems is what will kill the grid in a massive cascading failure.

ROCOF works well to keep things safe when only a small percentage of the grid demand is met by residential solar/powerwalls.

As soon as any significant proportion is residential solar (and thats already the case in some countries at some times of day) it acts as a cascading failure mechanism. As soon as any failure occurs, embedded generation sees a rapidly decreasing frequency, and rather that increase supply as traditional generators would be instructed to do to stabilise the grid, ROCOF protection requires they cease supply, making the issue far worse.

Within a fraction of a second, all embedded generation will disconnect, likely causing a near total blackout nationwide. Since system frequency that ROCOF measures is nationwide, failures won't be local to one geographic area.

I suspect these rules were made when people thought "consumers feeding energy back into the grid will never be more than 0.1% of the total - we'll always have enough spinning reserve to make up for that". Thats no longer the case, and unless the ROCOF limits are changed, and the majority of home solar/wind/powerwalls get a firmware update, expect a few very large blackouts.
I think its easier to ban him based on political justification than it would be to ban in in a post-presidency. I also think they are less than interested in enduring his antics as a former president considering how much he abuses the court system to get his way.
Trumps free to go to parlor or some other right wing dumpster fire.
Seriously, all these points sound very fancy and I suspect that they bring unequivocal productivity gain to the dev environment but my main beef with FB or any other org is that they push this workflow or other methodologies as universal best practices or even distort reality and claim that mixing content/presentation/logic is the only right way to "separation of concerns" and all what you knew before about this topic is a hoax and big lie.
Yeah, the title seems slanted. It's an interesting question though, that of negligence. If you handle a deadly chemical and manage to kill 15000 people, it's pretty clear that someone didn't consider the possible consequences (or didn't care enough). I'm usually not much for scapegoating, but I think this is one of the cases where it is incumbent upon you to make sure you don't kill people. (And sabotage or not, it's still your responsibility to safeguard the facilities if the potential consequences of a leak are that dire.)
(C) DISQUALIFIED S CORPORATION- For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘disqualified S corporation’ means-- ......
(ii) any other S corporation which is engaged in a professional service business if the principal asset of such business is the reputation and skill of 3 or fewer employees.

This phrasing, quoted from the bill, seems open to lots of interpretation. My business sells advertising on websites I've created. Is the principal asset of my business my personal "reputation and skill" or is the principal asset the websites themselves (which required my skill to build, but are distinct from the skills themselves)?

I'd argue that my business (and others like it, which I'm sure there are many here) doesn't fall under that description since (1) the principal asset is the website, not me personally, and (2) even if my skill is the business's principal asset, my personal reputation certainly is not, and the bill stipulates "reputation and skill", not "reputation or skill".
Ah yes, the sole exception to this security sacrifice is spammers. You have to keep them out, no matter the cost.

Posterous does a good job of keeping them out, I think, because I've never seen a spam post.
He actually had a blog:

http://caderno.josesaramago.org

or, in Spanish:

http://cuaderno.josesaramago.org
Twitter had similar issue in their Text -> Tweet system. People were using softwares to send Text messages and using anybody's phone number as they want. They fixed it by using 4 digit pin and I think Posterous should do the same.
Part of the reason small size keys like this are in common use is that bind (and possibly other name daemons) doesn't allow records larger than 255 characters. DKIM requires one to put the public key in DNS.

Earlier this week I set up DKIM, and initially tried and failed to use a 2048-bit key, because of this issue.
Does anyone have a meaningful productivity comparison between Ruby and Haskell? Ruby is slow but I find it expressive enough. Unless you're doing intensive data processing, I wonder how you would like Ruby.
> If it is a deal breaker for you go away from the deal. That simple.

OK if he talks about why, since this is a discussion site?
edit: oops. Didn't know it was actually a Sweden based company. (minus 1000000000 chars below).

Regarding the 7 days patch, that does look long. Not sure why. It'd be interesting to find out.

By the way, I like your resume. Visually impressive; a pleasant to read. It'd be interesting to see that being a shirt.
Random may not be the right word for it, but I think you're right. Do nothing jobs tend to be snowflake jobs, each one different.

A lot also depends of what you consider "work" or "slack." Is low attention meetings work?

One good strategy might be the 1/10X programmer. Find a team that sucks, be 10X better than average. Work 1/10 as hard. Spend 2 days on 2 hr tasks, etc.
Long blog/rant about programming languages and more, written by a Julia user looking for philosophically sound arguments to why you should try #julialang out.
The last full compiled version was also uploaded to Github https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder/tree/master/bui...

It was really fun, if you didn't know the project imagine like a lite version of Minecraft with realtime JavaScript support https://www.blog.google/technology/area-120/create-3d-games-...
The most painful part is the overtness of the money grubbing from apple, a trillion dollar company. Dongle tax, mandatory touchbar, base storage and memory stuck in 2012, extortion tier upgrade pricing, and the hardware falls apart if you look at it wrong.
Great point. Depressing how such large profile projects can have such insane defaults.
I like some of their design. It's flat but "lit" better than Apple's flat. And unlike past UI guides, Microsoft seems to be actually following it for their own apps.
I know I don't. It's one thing to sprinkle some fun here and there, but I have seen many projects (JS mostly) with so many unicorn emojis everywhere, and a huge logo in it's GitHub readme. It's not that the library name is self explanatory either.Mocha, Jasmine, Karma.. do they _really_ sound like testing frameworks?
But how do you estimate the quality of those publications? Is knowledge about DL exploding, or is it saturating?
“it would eject some very prominent politicians from their platform. Maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing. <crowd cheers>”

I don't know how to read that as anything other than approval of political censorship.

Child abuse, rape, snuff, etc. are already banned, and rightly so. The question here is whether we should ban things that are offensively incorrect.
What would you do if you were me?
I have been using one for the last year as my main coding box, having shedded a monstrous noisy mini-tower, and have never been happier. Most people I mention this to don't realize that you can connect two monitors if you pick up an extra MiniDisplayPort cable. I actually have three after having added a USB video card.