jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Always relevant:
http://xkcd.com/927/
Figures that this got buried. Hooray for internet censorship!
I tell them: "We both know that how much I am currently paid has absolutely nothing [emphasis in tone] to do with how you decide to compensate me."

This lets them know two things: 1. You're not going to divulge your current pay no matter what, and 2. Gives them a face-saving 'out' by complimenting them that their company is "different" and special (and makes it sound as if your compensation is totally their decision; the negotiation over a number has not begun yet).
As a non-American, seriously was close to one of my first thoughts too. Then again, I think when my fellow Canadians use that format - it's inherently ambiguous, and most likely to be understood only/mostly by Americans.

(We're more likely to use dd/mm/yy, but that's still ambiguous, and is most likely to confuse Americans.... I always use yy/mm/dd in the completely unvalidated and taken on faith belief that it will be clear. YMMV, etc.)
Line's revenue in 2014 was ~600M, which is 20x higher than WhatsApp.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/29/chat-app-lines-revenue-doub...
We tried a lot of options at Lavaboom (including apiary, readme.io, swagger, etc) and ended up using Slate: https://github.com/tripit/slate
Yes that's exactly how it works, with shell options!

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html#ho...

I need to document things a bit better but the idea is here: https://lobste.rs/s/ritbgc/what_glue_lanugages_do_you_use_li...

In the case of echo, we respect -e and -n, but we also have "write -- -n" for correctness. I try not to "stomp" on existing names.

---

And yes there's an analogy to Perl: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/07/blog-roadmap.html#the-u...
Why doesn't someone just make a browser extension that forces you to read the contents of your comment before you submit it? Then we just bundle it in browsers.

Edit: Hmm, seems I plagiarised https://xkcd.com/481/, but worse. I'm glad I rarely write the first thing that comes into my head.
comp.lang.c is a Usenet forum, that Google Groups provides access to. You can access it from any NNTP server that provides the core of Usenet without using Groups, and it's better not to use Google's horrible interface anyways.
This video was posted to YT 11 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
It's very difficult to eliminate sugar from your diet. The food industry has almost 55 different terms for sugar to hide it. The easiest thing to do is stop, or at least restrict, eating things from boxes, can and jars.
This is hardly to first case of an industry flexing its muscles to fund science in a way that influences health policy & individuals' decisions in potentially bad ways. How the heck to you fix a problem like this?
Right. Do the obvious and right thing after you’re caught. No big deal.

A dangerous and all too common pattern of negligence. Willful or otherwise.
I'm not sure how my statement was a misunderstanding if you are confirming that function analysis is in fact lazy.
Add one or two interesting hardware twists, be compatible 100% with Android and aggressively get apps on the platform (pay developers to upload). Oh and be the hero by charging very little for the appstore (5% maybe).
Yep, I finally landed my first grant as a co-PI two months after I left academia for corporate data sci. Amusingly, or whatever, of the three grants I had up for review as a co-PI or contributor, two finally got funded -- but I was gone.
Who benefits from GMO prohibition? Big chemical and agtech would make a fortune on designer crops. I imagine they could easily lobby if that was simply a matter of money.
Edit: Twilio doesn't work with page plus cellular, bummer
Is it really that astonishing, given that kids are all but pushed through 'til they get "their" BA? Degrees are used as a quick proxy for minimum competency, right? Well, if our highschools act as little more than babysitting systems that push kids through no matter what (qualification to say this: I date a public highschool teacher in Maryland, which is supposedly the best public school system in the country. Consequently, I see it first-hand.), HS diplomas will be rendered irrelevant.

This, in turn, means that college degrees become the base level qualification required for a showing of minimum competency. Compare the ability of a recent college graduate to secure employment with that of a high school graduate in the 1970s, and I'd bet they're not far off...
This is what happens when a PowerPoint presentation is your presentation. PowerPoint should be an aid to a presentation, not the whole shebang.

You should be prepared to give a presentation even if the power goes out and you have to go by candlelight. do not rely on visual aids and make your audience wait if they fail.
HackerNews is an example of a larger problem: addiction to intellectual stimulation. Reality is, human brains move very slowly and most often in predictable paths. Therefore, the odds of you hearing of a breakthrough in your chosen discipline on any given day are approximately the same as winning a national lottery. But the probability of hearing on any given day about inventive false starts that will eventually lead nowhere or something some intelligent person said somewhere that might have a glimmer of promise approaches one. These constant bursts of stimulation are sufficiently pleasurable, if you can't clamp down on them, to occupy your entire day. Here's a litmus test: If you read HackerNews from start to dregs and are let down because you didn't find anything really new, you're reading too frequently. Don't read it or anything like it for a month. If you have the same experience after a month, extend the wait to two months, and so on. Genuine novelty comes along once in a blue moon. False novelty is an addiction.
In case it's not immediately obvious, you can "play" the favicon. Unfortunately, it only seems to work in Firefox and Opera (no Chrome, Safari, or IE).

"Press N to start a game or shoot, and WASD or the arrow keys to move your Defender over the humanoid city. If your browser struggles to update the favicon, press enter to toggle between favicon & canvas display."
Not necessarily. For example 60% of Americans have at least one chronic illness, and those often necessitate taking large amounts of time doing relatively little. Furthermore the average chronic illness takes 7 years to diagnose, closer to 10 if you don't count the blatantly easy to spot ones, so most of these people are getting either no treatment or else the wrong treatment.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OfferVoidInNebras...
Did the server go down? I want to play against the machine, all I get is a page not found/404 page. I'm on Firefox.
I might try it again now. My issue tends to be obscure programming related questions. I also occasionally click the shipping tab on Google to get a rough price for a product I'm researching.
The Wayland session is already available. It just lacks features. That's why the next step is the login manager. Though from reading the latest discussion on fedora-devel, there might be a few complications to correctly automatically fall back to X.
Perhaps we should consider that there are some countries where it is not proper for us to be offering such education? I can name very few countries deserving of nothing more than basic food and medical and North Korea is one of them.

Don't throw the guilt on him or others,their fate is already abysmal because of their government and sending them a few teachers is not going to benefit their society and if its for feels, well they are misdirected and other countries are far more deserving of our time
i am also live in beijing , is there any require skils to join to your hacker space?
I would imagine that this patent could be easily invalidated using prior art argument, the only down side is all the wasted effort and legal fees to fight the battle.
Yup, you can do that!

I had a friend create a pipe where he synced his fB to Yahoo, and then Yahoo to Gmail to put his contacts in Gmail... I was contemplating writing a Firefox (or Chrome) extension where you input your Yahoo / Google / Facebook account info. and the extension goes off and does the piping for you. But! this looks awesome, need to go test (by reactivating my fB account...)
Not overloading in the sense of Java and what not.

There is no dynamic dispatch based on types in the interpreter, you have to manually do it in the body of the method, of which you have one.
Nice, you're describing a part of our process which sits at the beginning at our decision engine: segmentate visitors in three groups: buying for sure (no need to persuade), not buying for sure (no need as well) and people that have not decided yet. That last group is most interesting: they can be persuaded. Question remains: with what kind of message and at what time. That's our challenge!
Here is a link to a video published yesterday with dashcam video of many sudden acceleration incidents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oAshG36dNI
These are mainly in Korea, where dashcams are the norm, and likely to be KIA or Hyundai vehicles (they also have big software problems, apparently). Imagine driving in some of these instances of close quarters. Would you be able to shift into neutral to stop in time?

Also, Dr. Antony Anderson, who closely follows this technical issue on his blog, recently published a paper in IEEE Access about how software can be fooled by mechanical glitches such as intermittent connections:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx7/6287639/6705689/06777269.pd...

(patience--this link is very slow)

Separately, speaking to your point about shifting to neutral, Dr. Anderson has noted that it is unreasonably risky to design a safety-critical system with the expectation that operator responses such as shifting to neutral can provide an effective failsafe. Would any of you here actually design such a system?
probably because of the back clash against automatic Google+ account creation.
I'd recommend either AWS or DigitalOcean. DO is a bit cheaper and easier to get started with (thanks to a real simple interface), while AWS has a bit more to offer in terms of non-hosting services (detailed monitoring, specialized storage and DB services, email services, etc.). Both have pretty extensive resources for getting started and good support.
Why are the 'masses' not capable of knowledge jobs?
It specifies how many arguments the returned function should take; in my implementation, it defaults to 1 (so you can use it like "but"), but accepts other values (so you can use it like "butt").

The reason why it's necessary to specify how many arguments are of interest is because

Of course, since this is just common or garden partial application in a language with first-class functions and a liberal attitude toward signatures, it could be trivially generalized thus:

function partial(fun) {
var applied = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1);
return function() {
var args = applied
// clone the already applied args, so we don't mistakenly modify when we...
.slice()
// ...tack on the args we received in this function's call
.concat(Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments));
return fun.apply(this, args);
};
}

var addThreeNumbers = function(a, b, c) {
return a + b + c;
};

var onePlusTheseTwo = partial(addThreeNumbers, 1);

var threePlusThisOne = partial(onePlusTheseTwo, 2);

assert(addThreeNumbers(1, 2, 3) === 6);
assert(onePlusTheseTwo(2, 3) === 6);
assert(threePlusThisOne(3) === 6);
// -> all true

It only looks like wizardry if you're not used to dealing with higher-order functions, wherein I think is meant to lie the joke, if any.
I've spoken to quite a few Russian tourists that were very vocal in their support for Putin. I'm sure he has his critics too but there are definitely people drinking the kool-aid.
providing interviews in video format only

At least in my browser, that page contains both an audio version and a transcription of the interview. Have you tried scrolling?
That is a horrible idea. California tried it ("Prop 13") and it made the NIMBY/takers-vs.-makers problem even worse.

Property tax increases are minor compared to asset appreciation. If your house goes up from $300k to $500k and your property tax rate is a typical 1.25% per year, then you made $200k for doing absolutely nothing, but you're paying $2500 per year for it. If you don't like it, sell your house and make a clean $200k (ok, slightly less due to transaction costs) and downsize or move.

What I would support is a law that allows retirees of low income to keep a locked-in property value, on the provision that the house must be offered for sale at that price upon the owner's death (and can't be handed down, though next of kin may bid on it). If there's competitive bidding, the government takes the excess. This would prevent low-income old people from being pushed out by property taxes; everyone else can either move or pay the higher taxes.
Nice post. But I left this as a comment:

I'm perplexed that in the midst of a piece about rising housing prices, no one mentions housing supply. The tools necessary to increase housing supply in the face of rising demand have been available since the early 1900s—as discussed extensively here, in The Rent is Too Damn High (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078XGJXO)—and yet this endless series of articles doesn't mention the obvious.

The solution to rising prices is to increase the supply of the good in question. Yet reporters rarely seem to mention this, and they treat rising housing prices as some kind of law of nature.
It sounds like you're asserting that Bitcoin is not secure because it uses SHA-256. i.e. a pass phrase that has been hashed with SHA-256 could be brute forced to find the master passphrase, thus, a Bitcoin private key could be compromised by a brute force attack.

That's an extraordinary claim. (I'm not gonna argue too strenuously about MD5 being somewhat dangerous in this context, as it is very easy to find collisions...slightly harder to find the exact passphrase, particularly if it is a very long/strong passphrase. A collision in this context is not enough to break the usage.)
Predictionio is the glue between, amongst other things, mahout and elasticsearch if I'm not mistaking.
I found tiny printf incredibly useful for this

[1] http://www.sparetimelabs.com/tinyprintf/tinyprintf.php
[2] https://github.com/cjlano/tinyprintf (32bit version)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/18/transformer/

The company replied:

Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention and for the opportunity to respond. The TRANSFORMERS brand intended no offense by use of the name "SPASTIC" for one of its products which has not and will not be available via traditional retail channels in Europe, including the UK. Thank you once again for notifying us about your concern. As a marketer of children’s products, input from parents, families and fans regarding their experiences with our brands is extremely important to us. Our goal is to have all families who enjoy our brands feel good about their purchases and experiences.
Thank you for mentioning Stephenson. I haven't read him other than Snow Crash, and I don't think I finished it.

Googling Anathem brought me to this blog review of it:

http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2008/10/thoughts-after-readi...

which reminded me of this NIH neuro anatomist who studied her own stroke, including during her multi-year recovery.

Her TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke...

YouTube of same:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU

She sees the right brain hemisphere as being our "consciousness" wetware connecting us to others.

Parts of the video are esoteric, but it's fascinating to hear this first-person account from a brain researcher, especially of the morning of her stroke when her left hemishphere was damaged by a spontaneous brain hemorrhage.

Edit: couple of typos
http://pleasespam.me/ and similar services are always handy for this
They're just not in the same left Obama is (if he's in the left at all, he's much more to the centre).
I don't think that's accurate. If you look at large, mainstream liberal community blogs like Daily Kos, there's frequent and harsh criticism of Obama on those issues.
It is likely that most of the people who worked on it did not know they were working on it, and may still have no idea.
Not entirely accurate title: they're only deleting the wifi payload data which they apparently accidentally captured, not the entirety of data for UK Street View.

I'm a bit relieved: despite the fact that I mostly see Street View when Google Navigation decides I've arrived and shows me a piece of blank wall or a view off a bridge where it reckons my destination should be, it's a great technical and logistical achievement, and one I would miss if it were nobbled by the controversy surrounding it.
For any web standard to be valid there need to be two different implementations. There is no second implementation for Web SQL.
I agree. That guy gets to interview so many cool people and he does such a piss poor job at it. His other interviews are just awful. I think he asks generic questions and he doesn't seem to have followed the authors work. The only thing that saves him is that most of the interviewees are pretty interesting.
And as history shows, doesn't matter much - users don't care how many chips are in their computers.

It just has to be cheap and run the software they want to use.
Same with 69 stars, must be a mathematical error not a actual arrangement problem.
It's interesting because Wolfram quotes Feynman as saying:

"Peace of mind is the most important prerequisite for creative work."

http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/feynman/
Depends. If he can now spend all his time doing what he likes to do, why he would want an additional burden of managing all those money? And even if sometimes in the future he will be in a serious need of money, many math institutions or universities will be more than happy to employ him. So even without accepting that money, he can still do what he loves to do all his time. Happy man :)
Hmm,

When work has all those characteristics, how long would it take anyone?

As far as I can tell, the hardness of programming is the old "you don't know what you don't know". If you could completely specify what you needed, you would have ... written the program that does it.

An example would help. I could still believe this is possible...
and what would tesla have accomplished if he had just taken money seriously, rather than spending years digging ditches (literally)? If someone offers you a million dollars and you don't take it, you're acting totally insane (unless you already have several million laying about).
Game programmers are presumably compensated with fun.

There is nothing preventing a game programmer from quitting to work at a bank, a rails shop or google. If a game programmer stays, it's because he/she enjoys game programming so much that it's worth the long hours and poor pay.

I'm not sure why you consider unions reducing productivity to be a good thing.
Anyone got a fake ID and a false beard?
Hi everybody,

Vessal's purpose is to change the way we ship goods. To start, we wanted to shift the paradigm by which packages are addressed; specifically, delivering to an individual or entity through their terms — without the need of a physical address. This is done quite simply by the sender using the intended recipient's username instead of an address.

In doing so, this allows users on either end of the spectrum to gain more control over what packages are shipped to them and how packages are shipped. The implementation at the moment is fairly crude, but the way I envision it is an extra layer on top of the preexisting shipping carriers' infrastructure (similar to PayPal or Venmo and banking institutions).

At the moment, we are only servicing the Greater Austin area, but are looking to expand in time. Thank you for reading, and this may go without saying, but we would love any feedback from you all. Please also ask us any questions you may have!
Giving and receiving feedback is one of the hardest things to do in a company. (Or relationship) There are books about it, there is training to do it, but sometimes it still just doesn't work. As such, most managers shy away. I will give this a try.
My knee-jerk reaction to this was at first laughter, followed by a deep sense of loathing as I dug deeper into whatever this site is supposed to be. This is fucking appalling. In some respects I might, -might- be able to get behind the idea of "meditation" as "SaaS" but for the most part I find this borderline insulting.
Totally! I've had some great recruiters reach out to me. I've gotten bad pitches that were actually personalized, too. But I've also gotten the shotgun.

Obviously, no hope for the shotgun. I hold out hope for the bad pitches.
I was thinking that too, but then came to terms with 'ours' version
First the "successful underdog" phenomenon is common in these shows. Look at any one of these reality shows and there's always someone who gets "picked on" by the judges (because they're in way over their head) and gets pity votes because of it. Nikki McKibbin, Diana Degarmo, and so on...

Second all the anecdotal evidence of cheaters seems to indicate the cheaters are idiots. ABC has already said they track IP addresses and block proxy sites so the guy who thinks he's a genius for voting 300 times with fake e-mail addresses didn't really impact the results.

Finally in my experience with people who actually have the skill to game this system I've found way, WAY more of them hate Sarah Palin than like her. I can't off the top of my head think of a "hacker" who counts him/her self as a Palin fan.

So this story is kind of stupid.
you'll need to contact a buyer at an agency. Be wary of being a 'remnant of remnant' ad network, your CPMs will be extremely low. Email me if you need any help.
> In my experience, the professor almost always tells students what they can use to study from.

No one have any say (if they have, they shouldn't) in what a student chooses to study. The student might choose to study from some cliff notes, class notes, books or test banks.

The professors, at best, can make a suggestion/recommendation which the student is free to ignore, because hell, he is willing to bear the outcome. It's his test scores that are going to be affected.

If the professor recommends a sub-par C book and I prefer K&R, no one can stop me from doing that. Similarly, if the professor suggests "Computer Architecture(Hayes)", and I think the book is a bit tough for me or I am not that interested in studying Computer Architecture, I will go ahead and use cliff notes or solve some test banks. A professor can't shove something down my throat just because he feels otherwise.

I don't really see why the professor is entitled to tell students what to read, or more importantly what not to read.
I think the Liebniz notation is confusing you. Therefore:

[U(G(W))]' = U'(G(W))G'(W)
[ln(AW)] ' = ln'(AW) [AW]' = (1/(AW)) A = 1/W

If G(W) = AW, then G'(W)=A.

So in that case [U(P)=ln(P)] your inequality does not hold.

The inequality I gave is a criteria, not a theorem. I didn't claim it was always satisfied, I just claimed it was possible.

If it is satisfied (e.g., U(P)=sqrt(P)), a NIT creates an incentive for work. If equality holds (U(P)=ln(P)), a NIT has no marginal effect on work. If the reverse inequality holds (U(P)=1-1/P), a NIT creates a disincentive for work.