jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've struggled to understand how the ultimate plan can be priced as high as $99/user/month. What kind of company can afford this service price?

It's the only way to have access to epics, a feature quite standard for Ajile project management. As a result, we're sticking to the Community Edition, so it's a loss of business for GitLab.
Parking tickets are primarily given to generate revenue for the city, so they have no incentive to make it easier for the user to park.
Can someone elaborate on this? I thought I had seen all the Python idioms but this one is new to me.
It doesn't have to use all those funny characters. But the vault at least allows you to use a different password for each site. Which, in this case, might be pretty important.
I believe they are obligated to by US law.
I love this idea, but why do you want permission to access and update my Twitter feed?
I think this will be huge for things like READMEs, where I'll often spot lots of typos or examples that could be improved.
Reminds me of 9/11 and no one in government taking any responsibility. Except Richard Clarke.
That is just the Google way it seems. Try getting help for an Adwords/Adsense issue and you get the same nonsense.

Sorry Google, not matter how hard you try, good customer never scales as easy as you'd like.
> Have you ever found it difficult to understand someone else's lisp project, because they have customized the language so much?

Yes. But that is not a problem unique to Lisp. It's possible to write unreadable code in any language. And in general Lisp's introspection capabilities and macroexpand make it easier to reverse-engineer things that in other languages.
The solution is pretty obvious; wrap the trees in tinfoil.
Also this is exploiting someone's inability to say 'no' and goodwill. Since I'm one who finds it difficult to say NO and would do things just for the sake of goodwill, I think this is too cruel to be done on purpose. Just how I think of it :).
Great article, most if this rings very true to my experience in one of the large old skool web businesses. It's a shame the rest of these comments choose to moan, IMO your just telling it like it is, not making a value judgement.
Refugees viz Albert Einstein & H1Bs viz Linus Torvalds contributed to the prosperity of America.
"Eventually, being a top guy in the corporate world is too bureaucratic, political, and constraining. One might even argue dehumanizing. But the average person on the outside looking in wouldn't understand this."
Measuring output isn't quite as simple as you suggest. Which janitor was more productive, the one who cleaned more rooms, or the one who did a more thorough job? Or the one who had to clean up the vomit?
This has been happening with every cycle. Media life-span got shorter and shorter. Just look at things like 16mm, 8mm, VHS and soon on the video front, 45, then 33 rpm vynil, compact cassette, DAT tape and CDs on the audio front.

With film it isn't any different and it should be no surprise that digital devices suffer from this too. There has to be some lower limit for medium+device longevity.
http://screenville.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/attendance-history...

cinema attendance has been growing for a while.

Not even netflix is killing hollywood at the moment.
i suspect he's correct, but it's strange to see an article on the subject, written by an apparent expert, that doesn't mention depth of field.
"What would it take for people to stop fearing an encroaching surveillance state?"

A trustworthy government? A government that does not consider secret courts and secret bodies of law to be acceptable? Prosecuting men like James Clapper who lie to Congress (perjury, obstruction of Congress, making false statements -- these are crimes)? There are a lot of reasons people are upset about what the government is doing and it is hardly surprising that people assume the worst.

If the Obama administration has even the most remote interest in restoring the public's trust, they should just come clean, now, about what they have been doing. With each new revelation we discover more lies about the nature and scope of the NSA's work.
> Who said it’s a crime for businesses to keep their own interests in mind

Nobody? Certainly, not the person you're responding to. This comment _almost_ feels like a non-sequitor to me. Someone saying to "keep something in mind" is _not_ them calling it a crime.
I am surprised we haven't seen more two seater vehicles - and I don't mean roadster sports cars.

The most common use case for cars for many (most?) people is driving alone or with just one passenger. Back seat is often treated as misc. cargo space.

Something like the old BMW Z3 Coupe (AKA "The Clown Shoe"). Essentially a two seater hatchback.
All the search results for iOS US market share give such wildly different answers, from 15% to 65%. I wonder what the deal is.
Yeah I hate when i click that button. if i want to do something else i close the video.
My favorite plain text protocol is HTML server sent events, within HTTP. It's really trivial to make a server produce these -- it's just some simple newline-delimited printfs() to the socket -- and they manifest client-side as simple event objects.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/server-sent-events.ht...
A Gigabit Ethernet Expansion Card is on our roadmap, though it is going to look a little goofy compared to the other cards, since it won't fit entirely in the current envelope.
This sounds like a phishing mail even, at least the way it's written.
Will you support Thunderbolt 3?

The use of going portable and then docking in with a top of the line video card, monitor and proper keyboards is so exciting.
How do you differentiate "the cult of youth" from "it is better to start from a blank slate"?

Side note: Neither of the two issues you mentioned are "one of humanity's biggest enemies to progress."
Euclid discusses this on their blog: http://blog.euclidelements.com/2013/07/why-wi-fi-is-right-ap...
"These screenshots are specifically designed to trigger a feverish commitment to stumpwm." http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/screenshot.html
And how do you explain the legalization of marijuana. No politicians or mustache twirlers want it to happen and yet it keeps occurring.
By all means, we should allow defendants to simply confess and plead guilty if they wish.

But we should not reward them for doing so. Never should a person be presented with a choice between a certain lesser punishment, or a fair trail and a potential greater punishment. That's the "bargain" in "plea bargain," and it's completely reprehensible.

You say, "few defendants would utter that phrase without there being either a benefit to owning up, or an extra penalty for not doing so." That's exactly how it is! A plea bargain isn't just, "we both know you did it, so just confess and let's skip all the lawyers and stuff." It's always, "We both know you did it, so confess and we'll let you out early. If you insist on taking this to trial then we will throw the book at you." A lot of innocent people will take the plea when faced with that choice.

Not every crime needs to go to trial, but every accused criminal needs to have the right to a trial without being punished for exercising that right. If you remove the punishment then you'll no longer have plea bargains, just pleas.
It, and a bunch of other Soviet movies are available on the Mosfilm channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/mosfilm

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47CNxwlt9U

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eti9Qn4bZDg
I might have found them personal had they actually been personal with me, but (apparently) utter failure on the codility tests earns a "no thank you" email and that's it.

I'll amend that - I had about a 5 minute conversation with someone pleasant at the very start who set up the web test.

Again, I get the idea of trying to weed people out, and this probably just comes across as sour grapes as I didn't make the cut. The tests just felt rather too abstract and nothing like any work I've done across multiple industries, company sizes and teams. I guess to someone who's (recently?) taken computer science courses, it's a walk in the park, and having never taken CS classes, I'm out of the running.
Doesn't it happen that lots of people use their Aunt's wedding ring, or a ring from a previous failed proposal? I feel as if I see this on TV pretty often (I'm 25 and unmarried and not particularly familiar with the diamond buying process although I'm always fascinated walking through the Diamond District in New York City). If that's the case doesn't it bring it back to a lesser investment? Although it's true that if it is your Aunt's Wedding Ring you probably hold it very dearly (which might make it more of an investment). But if you get five failed proposals for three grand it's not too bad.
I do the opposite. I find more value in the articles as they provide the full picture. I want to read all the information that the author laid before judging or making assumptions.

Also there are plenty of trolls who can troll me if I only read the comments. :/
Or people who don't drink?
Being a geek and of an extremely different mind and culture than most of my peers, I usually find myself alone. I just fail to integrate since I'm quite different. Being alone, at lunch for example, was very stressful.

Lately, I found a friend of the same mind (or close) and he also don't succeed to integrate smoothly into the community (although better than me, but has a girl friend). I then discovered that he does spend a good amount of his time alone. He'll just get a coffee and sit their browsing on his smart phone.

After that, I take it easy finding myself alone, even if there are lot of people near me gathering, talking and laughing... It doesn't bother me any more, I'm actually better off with it.
I think taking Joel's thoughts on lunch in isolation from his thoughts on workspace design is a mistake.

In my experience, when my workspace has been more quiet/isolated, I've enjoyed lunch as an opportunity to get to know colleagues, wrap my head around what's going on, and otherwise get my quota of human contact for the day.

On the other hand, in more "social" work environments, i.e. stereotypical startup open floor plan, lunch is a nice opportunity to escape, walk in the park, watch kids chasing pigeons, reset my brain, process the morning, and figure out the rest of the day.

As Joel is a huge advocate of private offices in the work environment, the social lunch is a natural compliment to that.
I always felt there is something special about sharing food with others, it gives a sense of bonding rarely seen elsewhere.
For building up a great company culture, food plays in my opinion a pretty big role on many layers.
Yes, immigrating to Finland or Ireland is way easier than States (at least if you are in IT).

Problem with Ireland right now is bad economy, difficult to find a job, but possible. Finland is much easier. And in both countries you become a citizen after 5-6 years.

Oh, and you don't need to know finnish to work in IT here.

Also I've heard Sweden and Australia is not that hard either. Canada was quite easy to get into up until few months ago (they removed IT from the needed professions list).

Basically, from what I've heard from my fellow Russian friends, States is not that favorable in terms of immigration.
I don't think anyone claimed it is wrong?
Does this go easier in any other ORM/DBs that you might have used? Sounds like the semantics of the real-world stuff didn't quite match up to the DB semantics.
Seemed like a normal and reasonable guide. Do you really posit that absolutely no men are sexist to them? I'm sure you'd agree there much be some. So then what ought they do about it to defend themselves and have a career they want? That's exactly what this guide is. Its target audience is clearly other women, that's the style it's written in. So why do you feel this is a ploy for sympathy? You should see if any specific criticisms you can supply from reading the article would hold up to analysis, I'm open minded enough to hear them if you want to give it a try.
> Don't not be impressed about number of lanes available on the board.

When you configure the system full-out with GPUs & HBAs, the number of lanes becomes a matter of necessity rather than a spec which you drool over.

A PCIe lane is a PCIe lane. Its capacity, latency and speed is fixed, and you need these with minimum number of PCIe switches to saturate the devices and servers you have, at least in our scenario.
How can it be an investment if you are the sole artificer of the outcome of your investment? An investor finds one or more companies that look good and are worth their money and then mostly wait for the profits. But in this case the same people who put the money are the ones planning and executing the business plan. What's the difference in using money earned by running another company rather than using money earned by working for another company? It's the very definition of hair-splitting.
> If you run a libre device without the Google Play store (non-Google android build) then the software cannot function

I think you mean either of two things:

1. running the APK they build on a device without Google Service does not work

2. running the APK they build on a device means it's no longer running only libre software

1. is not true, so I assume you mean 2. I guess that's true, but in practice I think that the compiled dependency doesn't do anything if you don't have the services on your phone (don't quote me on that). It's not free software, but it's still better than the competition.
> But if you're using MySQL 5.7ish or later, InnoDB, and some of the other Percona tooling for things like online DDLs you've got an extremely robust DBMS to work with.

Would you say that percona is a must when using MySQL in production? I have some experience with Postgres and the fact that pgbouncer is needed in production environments makes me think "why postgress doesn't come with batteries included?".
I don't think a survival guide is meant to elicit sympathy, it's just supposed to provide practical advice for people in similar circumstances.

If someone wrote a personal guide on how to survive if you're bitten by a snake, my first thought wouldn't be "man, they must really be looking for sympathy."
Back when Lyra was announced [0], I listened to the released samples and it changed an "m" sound to an "l" sound.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26309553
totes.

I really think this perfectly illustrates why I have issues with the coinage "Net Neutrality".

I currently pay Comcast an additional amount for an additional amount of bandwidth, over the minimum they offer. Before I go further, let's clarify that I am not defending Comcast, and that Net Neutrality is not the "Fuck Comcast" law. My old AT&T account that PG&E, oddly, sold me when I moved to Oakland was only 1.5mbit, and it was enough for Netflix, but you could expect Netflix to perform as it performs with 1.5mbit of bandwidth.

Certainly, I agree that on a lower-cost plan, services that may be hungry for bandwidth should not be allowed to be blocked, that's silly, and while noone has really ever substantially done anything like this, I agree that there is a very real risk of business interests being presented with such an opportunity.

What this humor kind of fails to address is the fact that, some people will use more internet, maybe a house with 5 roommates needs more internet than an individual - this is actually a way that tiered power billing hurts poorer folks, because 1 rich person gets the same alottment as ten poor people at one address, so using even 5 times as much power costs, oh, ten or twenty times as much. The law that forces power costs to be tiered is good, and it is motivated by the right reasons, but the way it is implemented puts no pressure on the actual people who waste the most power.

I think a more interesting argument would be to say, the free plan has facebook, and facebook subsidizes your internet (something AT&T is already doing with ads), and the median plan has twitter, and you can only use VPN to connect to your office on the highest plan, even if you use almost no bandwidth.

If we're going to have a conversation, let's talk about something of substance.
This isn't how it will happen. The basic package will give you access to these sites, but crappy access. Youtube, Netflix, et. al. will skip, webpages will load more slowly, etc. Meanwhile sites owned by the parent company of the ISP will be as smooth as butter.

That way it's not people calling up their ISPs saying "Why can't I access youtube?" instead it's people saying "I watch comvericastTube since it's so much faster than youtube"
Wow, they got there before Amazon.
They you don't have enough backpressure to need a cutout valve. Why even have it on there at that point?
Before you listen to any one connected to early Facebook discussing their “company culture,” I suggest you read the link below and understand what I am saying. There are deep, dark reasons why the word “consent” has never been part of Facebook’s culture.

There are a lot of lottery winners in Silicon Valley who leave out the “turned a blind eye to the sexual predator” part of their success stories, whether it involves founders or investors. You couldn’t be part of “the mafia” if you didn’t think that sort of stuff was okay.

The day of reckoning is coming.

https://numair.medium.com/15-years-is-enough-time-silicon-va...
if (x = 5) is standards conforming but every compiler that warns about anything warns about potentially confusing = and ==.
It seems MobileCoin went up over 500% days -before- the announcement... No doubt what is happening here
> there are 3 attitudes towards Signal

I am in group 4. I didn’t care that Moxie calls the shots and requires a phone number. And I was thrilled to have a secure communication app, from when Signal was TextSecure. I hate this to the point that I’m dropping Signal.

The only reason to choose MobileCoin is Moxie’s personal affiliation to it. Meanwhile, this integration massively increases Signal’s regulatory cross section.

Most Americans strongly support free speech. That support doesn’t exist for dark money transactions. If the CFTC or New York DFS wanted to open a money laundering investigation into Signal, using the full AML/ATF toolkit in the process, there isn’t a great argument anymore for why they can’t or shouldn’t. Same for the Secret Service or FBI. Moxie just sold out Signal’s First Amendment credentials.
Anyone else who finds the idea of having someone poke around in your IDE creepy or a potential security issue, it's possible to disable the Code With Me plugin which is enabled by default.
This is pretty much my experience.

People tend to perceive every piece of code as valuable, however useless or stupid it may be, because of the time and money involved.

Until the codebase gets so crippled that you hear the goto solution from these same people : complete rewrite.
> The assumption being that human lives are far more valuable than non-human lives

Is it even controversial that yes, of course they are?

I mean, Boeing and the FAA kept 737 MAX's in the air after brown people died in the first crash when we all know they'd have grounded them if it was a crash in Kansas. We value human lives differently let alone animals.

> How many chimps would you blind in order to prevent humans being blinded by the latest lash extension cosmetic?

None. But I'd blind as many as are needed to trial human eye transplants, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
That's an interesting formula.
Very interesting, thank you @bigpumpkin for posting it
Our school had 25-30 kids per class. How else does one manage that?

Dunno. The teachers (nuns, priests, and monks) in my East Coast elementary school had 30-45 students per class, and somehow we didn't run amok.

(Yes, 45 was not an uncommon number. When your performance in class is publicly ranked weekly you become acutely aware of how many students are in the class.)
https://twitter.com/hanni_abu
"Sorry to hear you're concerned about coronavirus (COVID-19)."

Sorry?? Why are you sorry to hear that I'm interested in using your tool?
I've been a happy LibraryThing user since since 2006.
Another way to say that "the limits of my language mean the limits of my world" (Wittgenstein). It is so true on many levels.
Yeah, I was just responding to a post. What you say must be put in context though. Sure, without Jobs there would be no modern Apple - it's a fact, let alone current growth. However, considering microsoft during and after late 90's you must take into account there was this thing called dot-com bubble. Take a look at Cisco for example, during the same period (late 90's) http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&...

I think they were the first company in history worth a trillion dollars if I remember correctly.

edit: or it was a talk about it being the first big T company, can't remember correctly, it was a crazy time with madness like DOW 36,000 and fantasies like that.
One of Warhol's films was a guy eating an apple and talking on the phone...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_Too_Fast
And those things are used successfully. For something else (Haskell, or whathaveyou) to have a breakthrough, there's going to have to be a prominent success story or two (or three, etc).

We're seeing a big jump in Objective-C, for example, because it has been all-but forced by Apple. This is still a market driven phenomenon, even if you don't like how it gets done.
It is also ~1/6 of Google's value.
I agree completely. Speaking of Clayton christensen I wonder what his thoughts are on Internet related businesses.

I am a firm believer in his be patient for growth not for profit. Yet most really big online companies went for growth before profit yet manages at least partly to still be in business.

I have my own theories but wonder if anyone knows where he stands on companies like FB, YouTube, google (who didn't really make money before later in the game. Is there a need to revise his theories?
Yes, and I may even get it, now that I have probably started reaching the end of the beginner stage where a super simple program suffices. (I squat 1.5 my body weight.)
Plausibly true...but on large social media platforms, you could at least get slightly sane about how much scale matters. If I share videos / photos / captions of my great-grandsons enjoying a bubble bath with a few older in-laws...the Brain Police do NOT need to check what I say about COVID, or whether a 1-year-old boy's nipple can be seen through the bubbles. Vs. if some content is suddenly being viewed by thousands or millions of people - maybe that's where 99.9% of the fact-checkers and well-intentioned censors should be focusing.

And maybe show some humor about it. Say, tag the COVID-fiction stuff with "This content is cool and getting really popular, but it seems pretty weak in the Facts Dept. If you enjoy it, you might also want to check out Night of the Living Dead, An American Werewolf in London, Shadow of the Vampire, and The Andromeda Strain. Sign up for Horror Classics now, and get your first month free with discount code 'COVID'..."
Anyone done a flappy birdle yet?
It's terrifying, the only thing that can combat this is to win at a critical thinking cat and mouse, that will become ever more in the favour of propagandists.
Then you're just being intentionally dense to wiggle out.
So, who did the hack? And why did original hacker transfer funds to Lichtenstein?
What makes hacking illegal?

What if they acquired the Bitcoin without using illegal means

Probably not possible in this case, but in DeFi where everything is ruled by smart contracts, what would make executing behavior allowed by those contracts illegal.