jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why must he? Why can't he build whatever he likes? Who are you to tell Joe what he can and can't do with regards to software development?

This is the problem -- you and others are trying to perpetuate the idea that software must always be "complete" the moment it's put on GitHub. Why must Joe Developer adhere to your rigorous definition of what a software product is?

Joe Developer should be free to tinker, and if he wants to tinker with crypto, crypto experts should let him. Currently they don't, and that's why we don't have any good crypto software.
If you have nothing to hide it doesn't matter.
Many things look similar from a 1000 miles away. At the actual business level, Uber and DoorDash are different in almost every way. This is one advantage that investors close to these companies have, and one reason why it can be so hard to understand any of this just by reading blog posts. DoorDash has a great business, in many ways better than Uber's.
And yet it seems like they have less cycling-related deaths than the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_no_alternative
Javascript isn't Scheme: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/07/18/javascript-isnt...

If Javascript were only an ugly looking scheme...
I'm a high school student in the UK in the process of applying to university courses beginning September this year. I haven't really put much thought into why I'm applying to universities as opposed to doing something else. It just seems like the done thing.

I consider myself fairly knowledgeable when it comes to programming and software design, but if I were to be thrust into a working environment right now I'm sure I'd be woefully unprepared. My thought has always been that these kinds of 'working' skills are what you get at university, but really I have no idea.

Ultimately I quite dislike the world of assignments and exams, and entering into university I assume will just be a continuation of this. Your comment has really made me start considering my choices more carefully. This is probably the first time I've even considered going straight into a job in fact.

Do you have anything to add? Thoughts or advice?

Edit: should clarify that I did realise there were options other than uni but never considered them. Also I realise experience is a key part of 'learning how to work', but even with that in mind I feel like there would be a huge barrier to overcome if I chose to take a job now.
I was also not able to log in for few hours to kraken.com. I would be just informed to try later. I never saw a notification about it. And of course I was not able to cancel my order while the price was dropping.

Every time I try to touch bitcoin I lose money before I even buy them. And when the price starts dropping all the exchanges become a bit shady.
Multiple insiders have pointed out that IT security was basically not existing at Sony, so I doubt that they had a login notifier.

Furthermore, there are a number of ways of logging in which would not trigger such a notifier - e.g. by uploading a "webshell" and going to root from there using su with the password. Or using passwordless sudo or bad SETUID programs (I have seen a couple of systems with passwordless sudo, set up by REPUTABLE companies!).
It would be good to get somehow the latest RFC easily. When I search for SMTP I had to jump through several obsolete RFCs to find the latest one.
That's how we get flamewars. What feels like honest bluntness on the inside seems like trollish flames on the outside—not to everyone, of course, but reliably to someone, who then feels justified not only in reacting but escalating.

The only way out of this, if you want to have an internet forum that doesn't burn (which we do!) is for everyone to practice making their points in a more thoughtful way. Maybe you don't owe that to the closers-of-source-code; but you owe it to the community if commenting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Heh, thanks for the idea!
This will give you an idea http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591309
I played soccer outside on Dec 26 in shorts and a soccer jersey in a balmy 6C here in Toronto. Would not have been possible without the sun shining right on me.
Have you not watched "The Office"? Or seen the "Dilbert"?
Small correction; the article said that you also need to enter a code on the watch to activate it. Assuming that this was set to a sensible and private PIN, stealing the watch won't help much.
It clearly was considered a "horror" in the late 18th and early 19th century - that's why it got banned in places like the UK. Consider William Wilberforce's 1789 "Abolition Speech" in the House of Commons:

http://www.artofmanliness.com/abolition-speech-by-william-wi...
A friend of mine spent some time reading movie scripts for a major film company. He told me the business was so standardized (5 act play) that people would go straight into asking "so what the big change that happens to the character" and such.

It's not surprising given that it's such a big industry. If your wares don't fit, it just gets hard to get in the door. And on the producer side, there's a machine built over the years to create a specific kind of product.
Could you please elaborate on running being damaging?
It might not be for that specific reason but there is a secret security check nonetheless
Pinterest is already deeply demoted.
I'm using Pinterest results as a sign that there is literally nothing else that matches my search.
What I do when am not on your site is my business and not any of your business.
now imagine that is the case for almost every topic you know how to practice in
You can just reload the page to escape that walled garden
What is the definition of "politics"?
I've seen people with certs who are fairly crazy too, and heard comments like "$foo is good in theory, but it's not really possible in practice".

I'm afraid its a large part of the market here, but you're more exposed to the different parts of the market when you're contracting and thus moving around on a semi-regular basis.
I'm torn. A lot of my searches are filled with Quora spam, but I also have found some extremely deep, well written answers on esoteric topics there. (To be fair, I think most of those are discovered in targeted emails they send, not Google searches)
That's most definitely not what I intended. NASA have done things that make me feel proud to be a human being. I was more aiming to highlight the value in having government organizations spearhead research into areas that may not be immediately, clearly profitable. Private industry wouldn't have had much to gain from Apollo...
There are some distinguishing factors between IaaS clouds and VPS: paygo pricing (VM & bandwidth), API, self-service automated provisioning, no term commitments, scale-up/down (CPU, memory), VM imaging/cloning/templating, off instance storage. Some VPS providers like Linode, Slicehost, RimuHosting, etc. do offer a few cloud like features, but I wouldn't put them on the same playing field as EC2. If you don't need the additional flexibility and features of cloud, Linode is an excellent VPS provider.

There is also a big difference between PaaS cloud services like AppEngine, Azure and Heroku which require your application to fit within a particular mold (programming language, packaging, deployment), and IaaS cloud providers which offer you the full flexibility of root access to a dedicated server.
Al Jazeera and BBC World for breaking news. Global Voices for more in-depth articles ( http://globalvoicesonline.org/ ).
Anyone know of any non-US based cloud services with reasonable capacity?
I think HN is #2 after all the individual sources I got in my Google Reader; HN is great to find new sources though.
I was 8 or 9 or so and we were at a point where we were well-off and had a TRS-Model 3 in the house, which was inconceivable at the time.It was a horrendously expensive and beefy machine.

My mother was taking some college courses involving COBOL and Fortran. I jumped on COBOL and helped her with her homework. I later dabbled with BASIC, Pascal, and C like others my age.

This is what sparked me on computers. Before that, I worked on building, listening, and transmitting on radios with my grandfather.

I got started on "UNIX" programming on my Amiga 500 running MINIX (I had at least 3 floppy drives (no hard disk at all), but still did a ton of floppy swapping).
Agreed. There are some apps I miss on Linux (well, maybe just Ableton Live), but I find the experience superior overall too. Certainly this is partly because I'm a very command-line oriented users and Mac and Windows systems just can't compete in that respect, but I also find the gnome UI more efficient and ergonomic.

Laptops can still be a little dodgy though. Support for common desktop hardware is very very good in modern Linuxes but laptops can still require a bit of tweaking. If you want to run Linux on a laptop you need to either do a bit of homework and make sure you buy something that works well or buy a pre-installed machine with support. If a novice friend asked me for advice on switching I'd probably suggest the latter. Nothing takes the shine off a new machine like having to download and compile drivers by hand.
It depends on the definition of lynching.

I have no doubt that anyone released from Guantanamo into the United States would be subject to harassment, if not actual danger. The people in congress arguing vociferously against their release must have reasons, and as far as I can see that's either the belief that everyone in Guantanamo deserves to be there, or the belief that it will result in violence if they come to the US.

And simply put, in this case the expectation of violence is as good as violence itself. That's the goal of terrorism, and it's worked extremely well.
Yup! That's really the intended use, for others to provide links to articles from within their apps. That's what I did for http://ihackernews.com (HN for iPhone/Android).
Thanks a lot for the link, I'll look through it.

I also found the GLL paper at p. 113 [123] of http://ldta.info/2009/ldta2009proceedings.pdf
You can edit comments for an hour after they're posted, but not later.
They got passed classified information and they took it. When you take something that doesn't belong to you in that way, it makes you a thief.

US officials stole classified information from the UN. Chinese officials stole classified information from Google. Let's be honest here: they're all at it.
I think there is a iPad app already....
Absolutely correct. They have a blog post about it where they discuss the tech behind this briefly (with source code).

http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_S...

(I seem to remember this being submitted to HN a few months ago, before they added sound).
Looking at the most popular URLs on ViewText, only HN users know about it.

On another note: "it's" instead of "its" in the <title> description made me scowl.
I have never had more than $2,000 in a bank account at one time. I think that your expectations are slightly skewed. And buying an SSL certificate may be more expensive, but it's still $50/year, a far cry from $1k.
I thought harriers performed vertical takeoff, do they do traditional carrier launches as well?
it's great! haha ) touch me in Skype? vladimir.ignatyev
Actually, security hackers often write scientific papers about bugs :)
It mostly did before V8 was created. A few people ran JS outside the browser using Mozilla's Rhino, but it wasn't very common. Nodejs probably was the first widely adopted platform for non-browser JS, and it was built on V8 after V8 already existed. So I believe historically server-side JS did not drive JS performance.
They are both a problem, people do think human are somehow exceptional. We all agree that we are apes but none of us want to admit when we get horny in public.

But ML, AFAIK, is so simple; its literally a glorified polynomial functions. The only thing it get going for it is the large data set that we can train it on. It cannot "learn" anything from a small data set and extract any information out of it without a human imposing his/her knowledge on it.

For instance, take the concept of an even number. This simple knowledge is so powerful in solving algorithmic problems. But, its very hard to make a machine learn of this concept in general.

I think the problem is really overestimating how "intelligent" human are. We are only as intelligent with respect to our imagination. Its possible that there is an entire class of intelligent outside of our imagination that we cannot fully grasp its intelligent. Similarly, I am only conscious with respect to my own consciousness, but there may be another class of consciousness that is unimaginable to this monkey's brain.
It happened in 1958 (it may have been '56, my memory is poor), and 1920-1. In the case of the Fed, the last central banker to take this approach was Martin in the 1960s ("leaning against the wind")...and his legacy ended up being inflation.

You are basically correct but these factors are essentially structural. For example: is the central bank independent from the govt? How much oversight is there over policy decisions? Etc. In the West, it has been politically impossible to actually do this.

Your understanding of early 1990s Britain is not correct. The UK was forced to raise rates because of the ERM and rising inflation. The govt ran the BoE so it should be quite obvious that they had no desire to slow the economy down but were forced to do so.
Have you seen CTRL Shift Face, the YouTube channel?
Ever heard of school buses?
This made me realize how harmful the focus on "impact" at BigCo's is. You got all these decently talented people, who all can see a variety of paths of how they can help the company, some which uniquely use that persons obsessions, but instead we're asked to cut all those paths short in favor of the one which ahead of time we think will make numbers go up the most for BigCo's core business. No wonder we end up with all these half-assed me-too products.

But yeah, thanks Paul for giving me an excuse to keep noodling with programming language design and implementation. I'm sure there's genius to be found in there one day ;)
>Also note how few of those made any real impact on the people of the time or were noteworthy enough that the average person has heard of them.

Indeed. That's the norm with recessions. It just so happens that the last one, the one we all remember (2008) was...really bad. It will affect people's perceptions for the rest of their lives, much like the Great Depression.
I assume you're just joking around, but to you and the parent comment, I'd be happy to hear any good arguments for avoiding 'useless' cat. Note that I did mentioned 'useless cat' in the article, and there is already a comment thread in this article that contains my opinions on it.
That's a good question. Thinking of the paths I usually see them take though, I think the beam would always be too low. They'd end up both too close to the tower and too close to the ground.
Also apropos here is episode #5 of the Startup podcast, which features a look into Lexicon's naming process. (And a glance at the anxiety induced by having to decide between dozens of choices, which in this case resulted in them going with the somewhat milquetoast "Gimlet Media.")

http://gimletmedia.com/episode/5-how-to-name-your-company/
Initially I thought this would work great for development but then I thought of all the different colors in my IDE. Regardless I think this is an interesting idea to reduce eyestrain when looking at code, even if imperfect.
Doesn't seem to be closed. I just tried and it worked fine (non UK IP).
I'm just curious how many centuries will have to pass before we outgrow the bullshit society where being exposed smoking, drinking (but not harming anybody while drunk) and posing nude can harm you.
Has had 6 commits in the last two years. From the same person. 2.1.0 was released 6 years ago, the latest 2.1.3 release came out two years ago. Releases are available from some random FTP server.

On one hand this could be software that is completely done and requires no more maintenance. On the other hand it could be another random half-baked GNU project with a single champion who has lost interest but is still saddled with a purist/terrible new contributor onboarding experience dooms it to an inevitable grave.

You can be the judge of that.
What's wrong with Qt (and such) ??

(For instance : VLC, Spyder...)
I suspect it's something along these lines, that the OPs salary and title somehow aren't lining up. Either what you describe or the opposite where their salary was higher than their level specified and the offer letter was fudged.

The former is probably a good situation to be in. The latter is less good as even if one gets the promotion to that next level, if you're salary is already in that band you won't see a corresponding pay increase.
There is a huge gulf between "we agreed on these terms given extant circumstances" and "this is a voluntary relationship". The gulf exists because extant circumstances can be inherently coercive.

Sorry to burst your ancap bubble though.
My daughter went to a kindergarten built from joined containers. They called it the "container kindergarten". The new building wasn't ready in time, so they relocated operations to the containers instead. /Anecdote
LISP-like languages have enforced operator precedence due to polish notation e.g. (+ (* a b) (+ c d))
>"But the state’s policies discouraged the development of energy storage projects that could smooth imbalances in supply and demand as more intermittent wind and solar sources join the grid; the deregulated market has made it challenging for battery projects, which are the most responsive and flexible to install."

I read that in the article too but I don't follow their logic. Part of Texas' deregulation is that the wholesale electric price goes up and down depending on supply and demand. There is an enormous difference in day vs night demand and price. If you have a large battery system you can sell high and buy low and make tons of money.
Is it? I find that sleep usually works well enough. I've never once needed to hibernate in the past... well... 7 years?
Everything except the VR seems to work in Chromium (daily build). VR requires hardware acceleration.
...the best way to build an ENDURING franchise is to do right by your customers above all else.

This ignores the fact that Facebook users are not necessarily Facebooks customers, for which Facebook is doing right by aggregating as much personal information as possible about the users.
> As an aside, I'll point out any battle for women in science was lost long before women med students had to put up with their misogynistic counterparts. The issue is about the women who didn't make it to med school in the first place.

Is it that simple?

It's my understanding that most med school admits these days are women.

I've also heard that surgeons are atypical doctors.

If either of those are true, the conclusion is questionable.

Also, medicine isn't all or even most of science.
It should be noted that Audible's content is under DRM.
This is going to seem like both a troll and off-topic - sorry about that - but I've never understood, why do people tolerate a commute like that? Especially a driving commute (as opposed to public transport, where at least you could read or something).
Yes they do. They just don't have flash 10 yet. (Though some with a Nexus One already got Froyo and therefore do have it.)
There is a tension before something breaks or action happens
(spannungsbogen?). So I am glad that this is a major fuckup, with possible commercial backlash.

The previous YouTube ban was a DNS deletion from the Turkish DNSes. This was naturally avoided by people using Google's DNS anyway. Most people I know either use Google's DNS or some other open dns even if somebody set it up for them and they don't know about it.

And now there is a "deny all Google IPs, allow search and few other things like Maps, Reader and Picasa" ban across all Google domains.

This is funny and quite serious at the same time.

Ah, it cannot possibly have an effect on me, I think. I pay for servers in UK, Germany and USA. I can reroute myself however I want. But what about my friends... This is not a ban they can avoid easily. Oh wait... Check out my Nexus One. Bingo, all those sites don't mention it, but now I cannot enter Android Market or use any of Google's apps. The thing is almost bricked.

This is why things like Cynogenmod are a "Good Thing (TM)". Hey, YouTube on the Android works, which is most probably what the ban is trying to nuke. Ironic as always.

The reason is probably the way Google handles DNS and how it tricked the censors into banning everything while they were trying to "actually" ban YouTube IP block.

Now you got companies that are complaining because they cannot get into their docs.google.com. Most sites have their loading spinners stuck on spinning because you cannot reach analytics. Guess what, Google isn't just providing search anymore.

It maybe that it is time to react for most people now. The People. Oh wait, that includes me. Hmmmmmm.....

http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/blackboard/benn-l.htm
It was probably an off-hand comment, but it speaks volumes about where John's current psyche is. He said:

iPhone critics have seldom let facts get in their way.

It does say a lot about John's thinking. He's thinking that there is a lot of criticism of the iPhone is not based on facts. Not only did he link to an earlier article that very day that had 10 reasons not to buy an iPad that Gruber says got 9 out of 10 reasons factually wrong (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/06/03/warman), but the very same article that quote appears in discusses misconceptions about the iPhone that are factually wrong. (Can I load my own videos and music on it, or only stuff I buy from Apple?)
totally agreed. Most recently for me, I switched from VS Code to GoLand for Go development. Every search I do for learning how to use the ide gets butchered. "goland multiselect" (for example), Google auto-changes to "we searched for golang, did you mean goland?". Sigh. In any case, both search engines think I must want to do something with Grunt with that search, so maybe it is just me who does not know how to use search engines anymore.
Thank you, makes sense. Though this would require paying for a premium account on LI.
Avatar based communication seems likely to be a key tool for remote teams for a variety of reasons including informal hang-out time. We are developing hubs.mozilla.com to help fill this need while not compromising on privacy, etc.
In general, don't send out cold applications. Use the internet tools at your disposal and find someone inside each company that you're interested in, whether it's an in-house technical recruiter, engineering manager, or even an IC engineer who has interests related to yours. Don't send a resume, just make contact and feel them out about the potential of working there. This may lead to an initial "soft" screen before you can get to codin' but at that point you're in their pipeline for real. And you may also find out ahead of time that what they're really looking for isn't very closely related to the job postings you saw.
Speak out against the pathologies of the mob, or stand by and watch them become the norm. Watch those norms displace the value of evidence, due process, innocent until proven guilty. There's your choice.

Lots of people fantasize about what they would have done, had they lived in dark historical period X. Well, consider this a half strength test.
Application-specific macros make code unreadable, while common and standard ones might as well be a language feature. A well-designed language should offer suitable extension points in a structured way, rather than just allowing code to perform completely arbitrary transformations on the AST.