jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think its nice in that its a great example of someone having so much passion for what they do that even something as trivial as this fix is to them worth the time to remedy.
Just noticed their banner says, "Welcome Azlo Customers!" Pretty brilliant.
Here's about a hundred: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/20....
Aw, you beat me to finishing! Nice work, I was trying to learn rust at the same time as writting it.

github.com/bfrog/tin
The use of "Rockstar" reeks of self-importance on the part of the hiring company - obnoxious. I've seen it so many times it motivated me to write the following Job Ad:

http://blog.submitmy.info/2010/02/wanted-the-worlds-best-can...
> The handful of real "rockstar" programmers don't need to scan job boards.

The handful of connected real "rockstar" programmers don't need to scan job boards. One could be a completely awesome programmer at a company which does not realize his/her potential and could be looking for a new job. Of course, mentioning the word "rockstar" doesn't really mean anything if the pay/benefits are no different from average. My point is not every rockstar programmer has a fan-following, famous blog, and tons of open-source projects. Corollary, not every programmer with a fan-following, famous blog, and tons of open-source projects is a rockstar.
Not a UEFI problem perhaps, but I also had a dual-boot misery experience early last year. I kept on trying to make a Ubuntu and Windows 8 dual-boot set-up on the same hard drive, and it would be fine until Windows Update would destroy my ability to boot into Ubuntu. It was my work computer and I lacked the tools (I also tried Super GRUB Disk, Boot Repair and a few others) to figure out why or how this was happening in a timely manner so just gave up in the end and virtualised Windows instead...

It definitely seems like dual-booting (with the exception of Boot Camp) has become no more user-friendly in the last decade. It's as much of a pain as it's ever been.
Somehow Kaspersky (Russia) is in on it too? The similarities in toolchain and appearance to shamoon and darkseoul are meaningless? This is not regurgitation, this was out prior to the FBI announcement. Evidence has only grown since then.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/sony-pictures-malwar...
Add "waches" for all instances? There appears to be a misspelling in the main screen shot of the app - maybe the app itself, I'm not sure.
While I agree this is a good thing, the central issue in my mind is that AWS lead a lot of folks to believe that spanning their application across multiple availability zones was a way to protect against AWS's own failures. They spoke at YC a few months back and recommended this as a primary strategy for dealing with failure. None of their engineers or staff recommended spanning applications across different physical locations.

When all of the dust settles on this mess, thats the one question I'll be demanding from AWS. Also, how will they prevent multiple AZ's from going down simultaneously in the future?
this level of mental strength can't be gained purely from hard work.

Actually, research shows that it can, and has been.

http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item1172019/?site...

An interesting historical study of calculating prodigies turned up evidence that the famous nineteenth century idiots-savants with powerful calculating ability were often no better at calculation than department store clerks from the era when store clerks had to do calculations mentally or by pencil and paper (without any help from a cash register or other machine). Years of drudgery, steadily doing arithmetic in a variety of contexts, can turn into "chunking" ability that speeds mental calculation and results in apparently magical feats of mental arithmetic.
Stackoverflow is that way ->
Transcript provided by the author:

People can have philosophical views about…

[Questioner: unintelligible]

No, no, but look, I can’t conduct diplomacy on an open source. That’s not how…the world works. If you’re in the military, and…I have to abide by certain classified information. If I was to release stuff, information that I’m not authorized to release, I’m breaking the law…We’re a nation of laws. We don’t individually make our own decisions about how the laws operate…

He broke the law.

[Questioner: 'You can make it harder to break the law.']

Well, what he did was he dumped…

[Questioner: something about President Nixon's prosecution of Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg]

It wasn’t the same thing. What Ellsberg released wasn’t classified in the same way. So. Anyway. Alright.
For this conf, this is the best we got. :/ Sorry about that.
jQuery.Conf.BayArea.2011-720p.CAM.XviD-yayQuery will have to do for now.

The jQuery team is making it a big priority for subsequent confs.

All slides are available here, btw: http://events.jquery.org/2011/sf-bay-area/schedule/
It's not really worthwhile to try to code from first principles, because the context can always multiply in complexity. You want to make a tic-tac-toe game. What language are you going to program it in? Is it going to be cross-platform? Are you going to code an AI engine?

Trying to do anything in computing from first principles is like trying to code without mistakes. You're losing the value of iterative design.
Enable Sharing > Content Caching on one of your Macs if you have more than one.
I didn’t compare HEADs because I’m on my phone, but found reports that in 2019, LLVM was 7 million LOC, and gcc was 15. Both are C++ compiler projects. Why the double standard?

I also don’t know why re-writing an entire project and creating a compiler for it is somehow easier than writing an LLVM backend.
There's lots of active traders that aren't hedge funds (day traders, prop shops, bored retirees, bored reddit users), so it's reasonable to test/bet/show if the hedge funds confidently putting themselves out as deserving 2 and 20 are worth it, or if it's predictable which specific funds, rather than the aggregate, are worth it.
I think you need both the carrot and the stick.

The problem with low pay is, if you get out the stick, you're only left with people with nothing left to lose. The bottom of the barrel.

With higher pay, people have something to lose. But unless you have policies and incentives to make them fear that loss, they'll still just coast along and assume they deserve the money just for showing up. Some are, of course, intrinsically motivated to do a good job but that motivation can dry up seeing how coworkers act daily.

When I say fear, I don't mean the kind that makes you dread coming to work. Just the usual fear of failure that makes you want to do something well to avoid the downside. How to set that up? I'm not a teacher, but I bet teachers out there know who the bad ones are so there's probably a way to do it. The same for other jobs.
Read Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow. A relevant excerpt can be found at https://acquirersmultiple.com/2018/04/daniel-kahneman-the-il...

> Nevertheless, the evidence from more than fifty years of research is conclusive: for a large majority of fund managers, the selection of stocks is more like rolling dice

> the year-to-year correlation between the outcomes of mutual funds is very small, barely higher than zero. The successful funds in any given year are mostly lucky; they have a good roll of the dice.
I'm not sure if I edited at all, if I did edit it was within a minute or two of my original post.

Edit: Now that I am coming back and reading this though I am going to make an edit, and like normal for substantive edits I'm going to mark it clearly...

Edit2: Or I can't edit, so let's put it here:

A better example than any of the above might be infinite loops, `while (true) {}` (or any similar loop without side effects) is undefined behavior in C, it's defined behavior in rust.
We give politicians the power of life and death over us, they should be held to a higher standard. If you can't stop being greedy enough to give up your 7 mansions and get paid their equivalent in cash as everyone else who has to work and depend on a pension I don't see why you should be trusted with bombing Syria for the umpteenth time. It would almost look like you're doing it to get your shares in Raytheon a bump (something I thank Joe for since my shares in murder inc have done wonderfully since his election).

Doctors on the other hand don't go around cutting legs off for our own good. Do try and understand that last sentence, it would be dreadfully boring if you said the same thing for a third time.
I don't understand the distinction you are making between free speech and being able to speak freely. I'm not talking about an abstract concept, I mean posting certain things on your blog is actually illegal. And being spied on by the government is the the opposite of being left alone, so I think you should be against that too.
I've got one main side project that I work on every day in one form or another.

In addition I have four or five active projects that I work on at least once a month.

I also start and finish small hacks a few times a month.
> The content producers should be ecstatic about this.

The problem playing out now is that the studios don't consider you or me to be their customer. Their customers are Walmart, Blockbuster, and cable companies. (Things get trickier when you have "Cabletown" situations, where content providers merge with content delivery.)

Right now, Netflix exists at the pleasure of the studios. I liken it to early cable: Cheap, ad free, accessible, and not long for this world.
Well, several large organizations have already announced they're suspending or canceling business events in Indiana, so I don't think the economic argument is deceptive. Obviously, Cook's expressing a predictive opinion rather than a fact, but one that seems pretty well grounded in reality to me.
"Attack" has violent connotations; so does "harsh." There is more to language than prescriptive definitions. Have you heard of "meaning as use", Wittgenstein's "motto"? The first half of my college education was spent as a philosophy major, which I think was useless, both personally and economically.

Please don't call me arrogant. (However much you might dislike me I can assure you I dislike myself more.) I don't have any pretensions to being intelligent or having something worthwhile to say. What I wrote was a knee-jerk reaction to what I read, and I criticized his character because the idea of his existing as a person "made me angry", and because I could not fully articulate my problems with the content. Maybe someone else will be able to do that. Part of it is that I spent a portion of my life believing in things like "self enrichment through education" or "being a well rounded person" -- the general sentiments expressed in the article -- but now I think they're meaningless. I learned Homeric Greek and read parts of the Odyssey in it, but the idea of an engineer going home after a day of work and reading the Odyssey in Greek and thinking to himself, "boy, this really makes me think; I am a well-rounded person. Maybe tomorrow I will start Gravity's Rainbow" strikes me as ridiculous and makes me laugh, again for a reason I can't fully articulate, probably because I once had thoughts like that and I no longer do.

There is nothing wrong with that last quote about his writing style. It is vague to the point of meaninglessness. My experience with the humanities has taught me to reject most writing. In fact I have "unlearned" most of my writing style and now try to be as honest as possible. Many people assume I am uneducated, so I guess it's worked.
One thing I have never understood is how to apply TDD when the code that you are writing is nearly 100% dependent on external services and "black-box" library code. For instance, I rely on several more or less undocumented Microsoft APIs in my day job. How do I even know what correct outputs to code interacting with those components would be? It could depend on server policies, registry settings, firewall settings, SQL server settings, Active directory settings, and a hundred other things. My application code is bog-simple next to all of the code handling possible FUBAR states of all of this environment.
Trello. Its flexible, powerful, and easy to integrate with other apps you use via Zapier and more (disclosure: I work on the Zapier team). I use that with OmniFocus' email drop to keep my todo list and due Trello cards synced, for instance.
Not to nitpick, but to follow the precedent set by Inigo Montoya, "you keep using that word."
>The real problem is that the demand for good teachers far exceeds the supply.

There's a surefire way to increase the supply of good teachers, increase salaries & benefits. Reduce classroom sizes. Give teachers adequate time to plan engaging lessons and make personal connections with students, their families, and the community. Teaching is a miserable job with low autonomy, high stress, a low pay ceiling, a rigid pay scale, and is absolutely draining.

>We can support much better outcomes for far more kids by reducing the dependance on the quality of your teacher, school and school district.

Sure, but the whole point is that this is much easier said than done.

Do you have time in the classroom?
> There is literally no downside to using the IMGUI concept

There's a big downside, the performance penalty. For a GUI that renders moderately complex objects, the cost of not caching becomes overwhelming, the equivalent of losing 20 years in GL architecture advances. Pushing the VBO to the GPU each frame is the same as losing indexing. My own application doesn't render at 60 fps in immediate mode.

I find that people who believe that IMGUI is somehow faster than RMGUI are game developers who have been taken in by marketing, because basic knowledge of GPU programming (i.e. what is indexed rendering) is enough to see that this couldn't possibly be true. Their UIs are usually simple enough that the performance penalty is not important. And many RMGUIs have heavy styling, visually incomparable to their IMGUI counterparts, which makes the average RMGUI far heavier.
Looks interesting! Does RethinkDNS purely do DNS-based blocking and monitoring or is there an IP firewall as well? I'm not sure how prevalent it is but I suspect apps could hard-code their own DNS servers.
This is a recent thing though, it's only true (IMO) with absurdly large phones.
I agree that in the UK class system results in people believing that working class people will probably stay there so tries to make conditions tolerable. In the US people are more likely to believe that anyone can make it if they try hard enough, so aren't too bothered that workers often live in poverty.
All the people you listed would be great guests for sure.

My initial reaction was that, of the people you listed, Steve Wosniak would be the best fit. I attended a lecture he gave a number of years ago, it was very inspiring. He’s not very ‘corporate’ so I think he’d get on really well with Lex.

But I am perhaps showing my bias here, I’d also be very interested to see how versatile Lex’s interview style is with Gates, Bezos and Zuckerberg.
I think that statement was about the first three paragraphs and those are pretty clear and to the point.

Then again, I doubt most people are going to be particularly alarmed. The flaw means that people who know the nursery ip and the password to the camera could connect after they lose access to the website if they are tech savvy enough. Most people will probably shrug at that. It's a nursery cam for parents. What's the threat model exactly?

It might be of interest to people buying a new system however.
> If he wanted to call feminist voldemort then we would have used the word feminist

Sorry, you’ve lost me here. Are you nitpicking over the difference between ‘feminism’ and ‘feminist’? I don’t see how that helps. The comparison to Voldermort makes it pretty clear that he’s talking about people and not just an abstract ideology.

> If the New York Times Article had accused the author of being critical to parts of feminist movement it would likely been more true.

This is exactly what it said: “some feminists”. (“He described some feminists as something close to Voldemort.”)
Out of curiosity, why is viewing nursery footage seen as serious?

Should it be patched, sure. I see it as different than some random IOT device in the crib, this is at the nursery itself.

Why are parents given access to particular feeds at a nursery?

Why does it matter that they can watch other kids at a nursery if you’re already giving this access?

Yeah I get that now ANYONE can watch them too, ooh scary men in trench coats and top hats watching children.

I’m missing something about the wording of this:

“The issues with NurseryCam are about as serious as it gets.”

Is it though?
That and America should have a state funded, independent news organization similar to the BBC. It's not perfect, BBC has had some nasty prat falls but, like a supreme court, also not perfect, it's the best you can do. So when citizens are rubber necking around trying to figure out who they can trust there is at least a guiding star.
To load this on your Kindle, download the .mobi (http://craphound.com/walh/Cory_Doctorow_-_With_a_Little_Help...), and email it to your Kindle email address found here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/digital/fiona/manage?ie=UTF8&r...

For some reason, it has small gray-scale numbers between each paragraph, but it's not a deal-breaker, especially at the price ($0.15 to download over Whispernet)
I would have to say "probably not". Shell scripts (ksh in big corporations, bash elsewhere) get a lot of use, but managers typically see them as almost throwaway, one-shot code. For some reason, Immoral Megacorporation managers do not like non-compiled code, and shell scripts are not only interpreted, they're way more legible than Perl. So, even when you absolutely must write shell scripts for init.d startup and shutdown, or you write shell scripts to set up complicated environments and command lines for WebLogic Server use, writing shell scripts is still considered somewhat of a boring, unimportant task.
> liberals want to set the level of spending to match their preferred level of taxation

I've never met a single human being who thinks this way. I'm not denying that such people exist but it seems to be an absurdly broad brush.

Edit: thinko.
Full screen: http://fiddle.jshell.net/eterps/4Yacx/1/show/light/
If the USG wants to charge Assange with aiding/abetting Manning, then it is in their interest to not have the chat logs released. As long as the chat logs are hidden, the USG can claim that Manning admitted to Lamo that he received some help from Assange, and bingo! Assange can be indicted.
Wow! Thanks. I was so close to the project I never saw this.
I just fixed it
I don't think time clocks are normal in our industry. Every W-2 programmer I know is salaried.
Apple != Steve Jobs. Has it already been long enough that we don't remember the post/pre-Steve Jobs Apple of the 1990s?

Maybe I'm a pessimist, but I don't look forward to Post-Jobs Apple v2.
Steps, I've taken in order.

0. Removing myself from all active WhatsApp groups.

1. Setting the WhatsApp status to 'Message me on Signal or Email me' and not responding to non-important messages till they message on Signal or Email me.

2. When someone asks if we can continue our conversation on WhatsApp, politely informing them that I don't use WhatsApp and asking them to message on Signal.

3. Setting a Tasker auto reply for WhatsApp, informing the sender that I'm not available on WhatsApp and they have to message me on Signal or Email me.

3.a. Updated the reply message with 'My WhatsApp account will be deleted on Feb 8 for not accepting new T&C' and has set the status as such too.

4.Setting Signal as the default SMS client (Can invite people easily via SMS, perhaps added protection against SMS exploits).
That's because these simulations don't include inattentive drivers. They assume everyone behaves ideally.

Normally all those things you said would result in accidents. If the simulators randomly added delays for cars braking or starting up, and then kept a death count, it would be more accurate...
One other nicety I'd add that you don't get from the Python stacktrace is the ability to inspect each frame to see the local bindings, and even restart evaluation from a previous frame. I agree that the Python stacktrace looks nicer on a surface level, but I'd argue that in practice SBCL's debugger is more helpful.
Outside of race, gender, religion you can ban people for anything you like from your private place of business.
here it comes, power has changed hands and all mainstream social media is following right along.

It leaves a vacuum though, i bet parler's revenue doubles in 60 days.
I think the problem OP is referring to is that if you were proposing this design for a approved medical device for use in say US & EU, you might have trouble passing e.g. 60601 because of the communication channel. I haven't looked over the design in detail but EMI etc. can be quite tricky to manage in this sort of device.
One of the things that really sets them apart is Keiretsu[1]. Seemingly competing firms often work together for their common benefit in the name of Keiretsu. It is very "foreign" and strange from a US cultural standpoint, but it is also why so many Japanese companies last as long as they do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu
I'd love to check it out. Sadly, Twitter seems to be "overcapacity" at the moment. #failwhale
Still, for a startup, with potentially 3-6 months of low sales, its nearly $750 wasted. Many of us would allocate the funds somewhere other than "minimum fees" and "low sales penalties"

If we fail then we stop using Braintree, authorize or paypal (then use them again on the next startup). But if we succeed, we will continue to be a customer (and recommend them to our friends on HN) for a long, long time.

Seems like a slam-dunk to me.
There goes my morning. 15 minutes in and I'm barely at the 2020s.
That's actually another advantage of online interaction. In real life, you wouldn't be able to google something mid-conversation, so you'd basically need to sidetrack the conversation to be brought up to speed.
You should also checkout CallMeMeeting. Same weekend, same problem, same solution -- two different startups, two different cities. They won 2nd place winner at KC Startup Weekend. Mentioned in preso ... already selling service to large beta customers. Nice job to both teams. Love the concept!
I'm sure it's not new, it just seems to me to be flaring up recently.

A truly motivated individual is likely to realize that this question is Googleable and will find tons of information.

Agreed. And there are many other HN-related routes too - I've had great responses asking questions of HNOfficeHours individuals.

Making a nice resource, perhaps with some HN flavored info, would be really great were it to be referenced.

Do you think a compilation would be referenced enough to make it worthwhile? Sounds like a valuable side project if it would actually be used.
Facebook is designed to maximize engagement. With that goal in mind, what kind of user is more desirable? One who digs into deep issues, or one who spends all day chatting with friends? Sure, the research doesn't say what Facebook's intent is, but if they're seeking to maximize engagement, we can guess where it will go.
I'm a bit confused what this has to do with lisp. Seems more like a classic Smalltalk building pattern. If it's a reference to "code as data" from the Lisp tradition (which is a friendlier colloquialism for "homoiconicity"), then they bear only a tenuous relationship.

Which is not to say that this library wouldn't be useful. But it is to say that it doesn't really bring any of the power of homoiconicity or consequential techniques thereof to Ruby.
Thanks for clarifying. That really does seem like a more robust system than what I had in mind.
In places like Palo Alto all of the fiber to the home is done with fiber strung from utility poles. I believe the same is true of the fiber to the home setups in Washington state (east of Lake Washington at least).