jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No, no. No no no.

Extremely bad idea. Cue cautionary tale; a friend of mine (here in the UK) wrote something similar on his form (that he'd been ticked off for smoking weed). They didn't refuse him but he has consistently had random drugs tests for the last 3 years (at a rate of about one every 2 months).

The fact of it is if you tick "yes" to any of those questions you're setting yourself up for a fall. The review officer is extremely happy if you ticked no - because he can just run the default checks and not have to interview you :)
...I don't know what's gained from having high karma (seriously). Could you explain that?

I dunno that you could say that someone has "earned" something that's primarily the result of their spending some spare time in a community and usually behaving in a way that the community likes.
When I began programming in the late 1980s, we learned Turbo Pascal running on 80286s that cost around $2000. I'd call $2,000 worth of hardware in 1980s dollars a pretty high barrier to entry, wouldn't you?

Now your only barrier to entry is a Mac mini and an iPod touch. Both of which can be had for less than $1,000 in 2010 dollars. The real barrier of entry is about 25% of the price we paid in the 1980s.
What does PHB mean? pointy haired boss ?
Why do some folks make it so hard on themselves, and for others, just to convey some idea? Just use some simple, concise text. You can even use 1990's era HTML to mark it up. It's dead simple. Concise. And do it all in one web page. The world will not end, honestly.
You're perpetuating a myth.

Verbosity doesn't equal less productivity. I would be really surprised if anyone here said their bottleneck in programming was the speed they can type.

Also, all languages have their needless verbosity - look at 'end' vs '}' (ruby vs java). Which is the more verbose?
If I were the South I wouldn’t be enthusiastic about that. West Germany had it easy. People in the East were never completely cut off, they weren’t starving, they weren’t even poor, they had educations and knowledge that would be useful in a united Germany and they weren’t ruled by a tyrant. Oh, and unification was still hard for Germany.

Just imagine how hard it would be to give the North in an united Korea something as ordinary as a working public administration. Those who now have that job in North Korea probably aren’t the best material for the task and I doubt that many other people in North Korea are sufficiently educated to put them to work immediately. You would have to ship thousands of South Koreans with the right training to the North – I have no idea how you could lure them – who would presumably have to stay there for years to take over public administration and educate people from the North. And that’s just one of the problems you would have to solve in order to unify Korea.
It's in the download area.

http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/pgubook/

Or if you prefer the dead tree version:

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ground-Up-Jonathan-Bartlet...
he doesn't want to show you those goods
I used Java until 2002, then used Ruby until 2009, then switched to Javascript (server side). 3 months ago I decided to switch back to Java and I really feel I lost a decade with experiments.

It turns out, I am really a static-typing ...type after all.

With utilities like Spring Roo, frameworks like Jersey (JAX-RS), IDEs like Eclipse and platforms like GAE, Java can be really productive.
Help! I can't find the book itself...
possibly, but Spring makes some things simple as possible :)
Yeah the analogy falls down for me because my uncle doesnt have the power to evaporate thousands of people on a whim. However cranky he is.
Our main product isn't a web application, but we're the oddball startup that's using Java/Swing to build a desktop application which is a visual designer for creating both Flash and most recently, iOS games.

Our ability to deploy to Windows and Mac is giving us a leg over some competition that's unable to serve the larger Windows market. Being able to knock out new features very rapidly (within minutes/hours) is another advantage.

Reminds me of PG's essay about how Viaweb was able to implement a competitor's feature the same day it came out...
This seems like they only have a "hunch" and not really a scientific evidence whether there actually is causal link.
It's not the first time scientists are being used as a weapon in information wars. Plenty of evidence when it comes to cannabis.
In my opinion it must hurt the EU officials that AZ jab is non-profit and so that they are unable to be make as much money as with other jabs.
I have the XM2 and the main issue is using the microphone on a laptop drops it to the “hands free” bluetooth profile where both the mic and audio out use a super low bandwidth codec that sounds awful.

When I disable the mic the audio quality goes way up as it switches back to a higher bandwidth codec. It’s super annoying.

I’m not sure how the apple airpods get around this, I think something to do with their custom chip.
How does Threema make or intend to make money?
Anecdote time - I use Apple music and am generally happy with it. However, some time ago I started putting on the 'Sleep Sounds' playlist before going to bed. That's messed up my recommendations for my 'New Music Mix,' a more valuable feature for me. Even after disliking the 'Sleep Sounds' and specifying that it shouldn't recommend more music like it, my recommendations are still messed up. Makes one wonder to what extent in the age of 'AI' whether everyone is an edge-case in some form, particularly when (as you point out) context is a big mess.
The requirements traceability matrix is usually built in excel cross-referencing requirements with tests. It’s a matrix at the end of the day. I am following industry best practices for this.
It looks like we're in similar industries then based on your comment and if that's more or less the level you've been operating at on a weekly basis for decades then without a doubt you are a significantly more productive individual than I am and really kudos to you for it.

My point is mostly that not everyone is you though, similarly I don't presume everyone works like I do. Hence arguing that because you've done something for 30 years that it reasonably follows that everyone else should also do it is a really poor argument.
ffmpeg isn't a library, just so you know. libav* are the libraries that ffmpeg use, which are what you'd include. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Using%20libav*
The truth is most news and media organizations who have established television networks (MSNBC, CNN, FOX, Whatever else) also have separate editorial for linear programming and digital news. They don't serve the same purpose or the same audience. It's why you can find CNN digital as less biased than CNN linear or Fox News digital might call a state early because their analysis says one thing but the talking heads say another.
Re the downvotes -- I guess this really just goes to show again that either (a) people really fundamentally care more about a 235Hz buzz on their TVs during soccer, than they do about real (by comparison) suffering as long as its someone else who's suffering; or (b) people would just far rather apply their brainpower to attenuating (or discussing the attenuation of) vuvuzelas, than to trying to solve actual issues that matter and would be of lasting value.
I think having users actually edit millions of files is unlikely, even for YouTube. Probably they are just storing markers. It says you can only trim the beginning and the end of the video.
Sorry, got wrong Michael Jordan - Google auto-completed my search and flashed that number, the basketball player is 6'6" as stated/
Someone needs to tell the Android Team that User Experience isn't a feature. It is fundamental design decisions early on that determine what the user experience is.

That's like arguing a poorly designed home will function better after a fresh coat of paint.
Just talked to a friend who runs a kitchen, thinks it would be ideal for a commercial cook.
Here's my quick review of the whiteyboard:

After seeing the techcrunch review climb the HN front page a couple months back, I convinced my office to buy two of the 4' x 6' Berthas. I left the actual ordering up to my office manager. Five days after ordering, we still hadn't received our order so we called the folks at whiteyboard who told us that they must have lost our order. So we ordered again, they apologized for the inconvenience, and we were told it would be there within the week. A week passed and still no whiteyboard. We called the whiteyboard guys and they told us, sorry, but your order is stuck in customs. We apologize for the wait, but we'll get your order to you as soon as possible. So about 3 weeks later, our whiteyboards arrived. Drumroll please....

We put up the whiteyboard last week. There's a reason they don't show the Bertha in their demo video. It took 3 of us to put that monster up. After we got all the bubbles out, I wrote on it with the dry erase and tested her out. Writing on a whiteyboard is, as you would expect, exactly the same as writing on a white board. Next, I took the dry erase eraser to erase what I had just written. This works ok, but not as well as a regular white board. The dry erase smudges a lot more on the whiteyboard and you're left with a tint of whatever color you had just written in. A slightly dampened paper towel takes care of this though.

Each day I come in the office, the edges of the whiteyboard are slightly peeled away and there are a few bubbles in the middle of it to iron out so this can get a bit annoying, especially if there is stuff written on it that you don't want to erase.

Aside from the ordering snafu, I would say that the folks at the office seem to think the product is ok. Since I'm the youngest in the office, I have jokingly been dubbed the "whiteyboard guy" so I get a lot of shit for all its little quirks. My fallback retort is that we paid 10% of what a comparably sized white board costs and it still gets the job done. And even though it seems slightly ghetto at times, that's what matters, right?
No, it's more like a gut and redo, while leaving the structural elements alone.

And they say they are happy with the structural elements.
s3cmd is a command-line tool for working with S3. You can use curl, wget, and other standard HTTP clients to work with RestBackup.

I would love to offer a tool that can automatically back up CPanel to RestBackup. Ideally, CPanel Inc. would add this feature into CPanel. Can you run a cron job in your shell account to do the backups? Please join the alpha-test and I can help you set this up. Submit the feedback form to request your invitation: http://www.restbackup.com/#feedback
Didn’t even think about that part because I don’t know too much about Hadoop other than it seemed impractical.
It's probably widely why Pokémon is so successful. It's not about the show, it's about selling all the other products. The show is one big advertisement. And it's good, too.

Or at least it was, when I was a kid watching it on a CRT. I have no idea what it's like now.
The three conditions:

- some regularity that can be learned

- lots of practice

- rapid or immediate feedback

Chess players and married couples are the two provided examples that meet these criteria. Curious to see if other situations come to mind that either support or disprove this idea.
I wholly internalized that there was a real problem when I started taking my phone to other parts of the house, placing it in a drawer before returning and shutting the door to have an in person conversation with someone.
Thanks for that info. That is the feature.
I think there's a lot of cargo-culting around books being magical in and of themselves, but there is a subtle trap in this line of thinking.

The micro-niche aspect of the internet is unrivaled for straightforward, practical information. I won't question that. That said, if you want the detailed thoughts of an expert on some topic, they will by definition be in a book or book-analog online format since no other medium allows for this sort of efficient and unforgiving long-form development of thoughts. Online courses and blog posts tend to refer to books anyway, or to summarize them. Videos can offer information as well but the format itself constrains the amount of information you can cram into the work, and the incentive to editorialize is greater.

But in a deeper sense it's not even about the books but the applicability and context of the information that is gleaned regardless of the format. Ten year's worth of HN can be impressive, but it mostly gives you perspective on HN users and which topics interest them to begin with. Just like the School of Athens gave a specific perspective, HN will give you a specific framework from which you may or may not have to escape eventually. To name another example, if you start reading non-popular history books it becomes clear that different experts can have radically different views of the same events. In turn you start to realize that the pop-history books you've read are so distorted as to be almost useless. Similarly, the internet can yield astounding quantities of information, but if they are optimized for views, reinforce an echo chamber, or are repeating ideas as a secondary source, it won't matter. It's seductive to feel this power at our fingertips but the end practical result tends to be the same, since developing thoughts takes effort. More importantly, time remains the true barrier.
Yup. The Powerbook 100 series is the first laptop with the classic clamshell design we all know.
The extent of integration imo depends on what kind of system you're running. For some systems, especially minimalist ones, I agree the BSDs tend to be more integrated, though they do still heavily depend on third-party stuff (the compiler, whether LLVM or GCC, being a big one).

However, once you start adding some additional packages, Debian tends to do the integration-testing more pervasively across the entire userland, "Debianizing" packages so that they all store things in the standard locations, are started/stopped using the same methods, follow the same configuration policies, etc. Once you get out into ports, the BSDs tend to give you more of an as-is set of 3rd-party packages, and are pretty lax about integration testing.
It's kind of organized ad hoc. If you're interested in putting one on, I'd suggest contacting the organizers. :)
Sure you may.

I operate on facts being something that can be shown to be true or false i.e. something that is not an opinion. Here's one I found on Google define that's close to what I've always used:

"Fact: a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts"

Thus, a thing that can be proven one way or the other given verifying information. Something that is factual is something that is of facts. Something can be false and still grounded in reality, because reality shows it to be false, hence your definition holds as well...because they're effectively the same thing.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1990612
I'm not sure if you guys have dealt with ISP blacklists before, but I think there is a good chance hint.io will never be able to reliably reach an inbox again. Sending emails to white-listed addresses is hard enough to get right, let alone sending to 1.5 million arbitrary email addresses.
I hope everyone can see that would be a very bad thing, regardless of how nicely it works.

Email is an open distributed platform where everyone can set up their own mail servers and have control of their own mail. There are tens or hundreds of thousands of email systems out there. To replace that with a system whereby one company has complete control of your messages? Bad.
If you add enough "real programming language" features, aren't you going to lose the "wonderful thing" you cite about CSS?
The question is if twitter is a private square or a public one.
That's because I provided the wrong link, lol. Here's the correct one: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...

You can ctrl+f the exact phrase I quoted earlier, I didn't paraphrase
at this rate, will there be anyone left using twitter??
> We were close to a congressional decapitation on live TV.

In 2017 a lone left-wing activist caused more Congressional casualties than thousands of militia boys invading the Capitol.
This is probably not the response you wanted, but I think it's an argument for decentralized and federated services, along with self-hosting.
This sums up my thoughts as well. I pay you $150k per year, you work 20 hours per week, there are no meetings, there are no politics; you're assigned work, we collaborate on that work via text, you complete the work, you log off and have a life. Most engineers (including myself) are only worth about 4 hours of actual work per day anyway, so if you can do a weeks worth of work in 20 hours, then so be it. I don't need to fill another 4 hours per day with bullshit emails, meetings, or anything else that doesn't involve work.
> Instead of using PayPal, they'll just send Bitcoin to them instead which that is harder to stop

If you have a technologically sophisticated user base who is on board with cryptocurrency, you'll only lose 90% of your payments switching from credit cards to cryptocurrency.

Don't minimize the damage that these bans and actions do merely because there is, in principle, a way to route around the damage. It's still plenty enough to kill off businesses, and anything with network effects that wants to be a platform will end up being stunted before it can take off.
Someone will build it. But it still just adds another proprietary API to the arsenal. Ugh.

I echo other sentiments here: what exactly is broken about XMPP that companies keep moving away?
A big problem for me is that there's no push notification standard. This means that a mobile device needs to keep the app running and stay awake to receive messages. This kills batteries faster than you might expect.
To an employer it shouldn't matter even a little bit. After your first job no one will really ever care about what you did in college.
what about this http://security.stackexchange.com/a/19625
I'm using the Fastmail nameserver for some private domains (you get full control for any records like A, CNAME, TXT etc through their interface). They weren't being resolved for a while.

It was a small inconvenience for me, but I guess it could've been a big issue if someone used it for their production DNS. Let's hope nobody did though, as I'm not aware of any SLAs wrt that.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. It's a simple reality that at a certain point of inequality and general unfairness, the main thing that the elite need to fear for is their own safety. Look at Brazil. The wealthy have bullet-proofed their Mercedes cars.
There's no doubt in my mind that nostalgia is a permanent phenomenon. Spencer wrote The Faerie Queene in deliberately antique english to appeal to people's nostalgia. And that was more that 400 years ago. There's been a market for classic cars almost as long as there's been cars.

How many businesses will carve out a niche in long tail tech is harder to tell. I expect it will be like many things, many enter, few leave.
Yep, if you use jshint/lint it'll warn you about creating functions within a loop. The performance difference is more to do with that than any inherent flaws in using anonymous functions as callbacks.
When I was in school to be an Architect, I was told that if I designed something, and I put my signature on blueprints and the structure I designed was built and failed in any sense, it is me, and me alone who is responsible.

So in a sense, this idea (while not nearly as extreme as yours) actually exists today. Architects and Engineers regularly take risks when they attempt to create something new. When it doesn't work, they are usually held accountable:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/11/06/mit_sue...
That's pretty cool. A natural step further is to automatically rebuff the dirty areas, but they probably couldn't go there due to their union having objections to it.

I have heard things as silly as employees being prohibited from doing office moves (within the same building) because it was in a union contract that a union employee must be given the job.
>Remuneration for such an undertaking would have to go up by a large multiple to make such work attractive.

This is the point. The cost of operating the plant would have to take into account what are currently deemed externalities. If that turned out to make the plant too expensive to run, that's the market.
Except they're really not different. Just because Android runs a distinct userspace and windowing system doesn't make its Linux kernel any less Linux. You can easily install a Busybox userspace on a rooted Android device, and on top of that you can start building an entire GNU/Linux userspace, complete with package managers and X server. Install a VNC viewer in Android, and you can even connect to your local X server and have a fullscreen X session.
Clickable: http://www.blurity.com/
Many of the points are valid (I really, really, _really_ would like widgets or something on the lockscreen), but the author's tone makes it seem like he's short AAPL posting on Yahoo finance. (Or more likely, inciting fanboys on each side to generate site traffic)
Tried on my iphone and iPad. The demos work at low framerate and is kind of slow. But its just a mobile device. I am not really expecting cpu intensive html5 application to work on these light devices. Thats what my macpro is for.
I get the feeling a lot of developers pick Ruby because it's cool, while businesses latch onto .Net because it's Microsoft. There really seems to be little more to it than that, most of the time.
Fact from Last week's Hindustan times Newspaper: Branded medicine pills sell for an average of 7X times Genreic medicines.
How much does smoking pot affect your health and fitness? Is it in same category as bad food (i.e. you can smoke a joint a couple times a week and get away with it) or is it worse?
Well, a disinterest in tropical islands and the sole requirements of power and internet opens all northern and souther islands, so it's a facet to be considered! Hell, so long as there was a source of food and a volunteer group willing to service the windmills when they froze, we could dig some caverns in Antarctica! The 'Frozen Hackathon', 24/7/365.

I'm thinking the inevitable resulting Linux distro could be called "Linux OnIce", or just "OnIce" for short.
Hey, it's William from Google here. You're right about the costs, I just wanted to point out that Autopilot does include one cluster in GKE's free tier. So you'll only pay the ~$73/month if you have more than 1 cluster.

There's (almost) no limit to what you can run in one cluster too, and Kubernetes namespaces can help to separate different environments to allow for sharing.

Cloud Run sounds like the perfect solution for your workloads though!
You may be interested in the category-theoretic presentation of quantum theory. Turns out we're in more of a monoid than a monad! :)

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/quantum/
Why? I've heard people say that but have never heard a valid argument for using something else...
I only replaced my logic board once before it died, but I consider it the best -and- worst computer I ever owned. Outside of the fact that the board design was $*#$#387 and that it didn't have USB 3, it was a great computer in that it was fast, solid, light and easily upgraded. As prices came down, I kept upgrading the RAM and storage.
Yeah, I considered that, but order volume is almost certainly not uniform over the course of the week. Any web company could tell you that load varies quite a bit over the course of the week, and I'm sure shopping is the same.

From everything I've heard, they're an aggressively frugal company, so I would guess that they don't have the packing capacity to handle their peak days of the week, but they do have enough to handle the total week's load. Their competitors are probably overprovisioned to improve their consistency, but that leads to higher prices.