jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I feel like this is also top-down status anxiety from the traditionally high-status people (lawyers, doctors, academics, managers etc.) who really don't like that these prole nobodies are suddenly making good money, without being properly embedded in the elite caste and their manners. So they keep kicking and biting down to say how what we do is really just some blue-collar monkeying around that any janitor could do starting tomorrow, and the real, hard, serious jobs are still in their realm.
I just wanted to quickly say thanks for taking the time to reply to my comment with so much insight.

I don't have anything valuable to add, but hell, your response was very interesting to read!

It also sent me down some fun rabbit holes on credit cycles.

Cheers from South Africa.
I can't help cynically read that as challenges with management, not the creative process itself.
You'll still have to configure gunicorn or another production-ready (w|a)sgi server to serve the app out of the container, but it's much easier to manage dependencies for django in a containerized environment. It's even easier if you use a deterministic package manager like pipenv or poetry instead of old requirements.txt files
I believe it's a reference to the phrase "The beatings will continue until morale improves" - https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/371325/origin-of...
Luck had nothing to do with the choices I made in my career and life.
Not a single comment... is this being discussed elsewhere on HN and I missed it?
I’m completely the opposite to be honest.

I’ve found working from home lonely and isolating, and am badly missing the structure of getting up, showered and going into an office!

For people at a certain stage of life, I’m sure working from home is great, but have some empathy for those of us it sucks for.
They may have chosen to let the annual 150-200 page PDF security technical reports speak for themselves, especially if their research suggests that the average United States consumer doesn't care about any of this. One recent time they went to the press to say "we defend against state-sponsored attackers", the United States FBI sued them for defending against the state-sponsored attacker Cellebrite. These prior posts may offer more context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26184793

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11135201
Why is this getting voted down? Look at the picture!
I really like the way mouse gestures are shown and "taught" - feels almost like a teaching game.
But I had to disable the URL parameter hiding..
The command structure may be there, but not the element of control.

An employee is free to resign if he would prefer to work for someone else. He can't be sent to a gulag. Customers aren't forced to accept a company's product or service, and can choose a competitor instead. Managers can fire incompetent or insubordinate workers. Customers can criticize a product without fear of being shot.

Customer, manager, employee, investor -- everyone is in the situation voluntarily, so they must negotiate on the basis of mutual self-interest. The company as an entity is more stable because its constituents aren't essentially at war with one another.
Makes sense to me. Excellent article, thanks.
I've linked to his first appearance in the comment thread, but he posted several more. All worth reading, imho.
Realistic dialog, characterisation, plot, etc, is lacking. Sure, I've read several, but they simultaneously annoy and entertain.
I know it when I see it. ;) And unfortunately - no, they don't, that's Symantec's job! :( All of the censorship management is outsourced, Sky don't have any direct control over it, they can't even log in directly to override and they barely understand it - which is going to be a big problem when it inevitably shits the bed (again). One of the biggest problems about this kind of thing is the absolutely brutal lack of transparency as a result of that sort of thing. (e.g. they've already falsely blocked the TorrentFreak news site at least once, not to mention the Wikipedia Virgin Killer incident when the IWF listed one of the pages because of the nature of the album cover, or the jQuery CDN a year ago, or…)

In truth, no part of this was a good idea. A very disappointing mistake. I did warn them, loudly. I'm not sure what more I can, or ought to, say, except that the filtering infrastructure is: beyond their control; vulnerable (no further comment); and, already in a uniquely-privileged network position on all Sky broadband connections regardless of settings (operating the blocklists you can't opt out of - the Internet Watch Foundation child porn blocklist, the court order ones like the Pirate Bay block, for example - something the High Court only felt themselves able to order because the blocking infrastructure was already there! - and shortly the 'hate site' blocklist).

This move is a complete U-turn from what was said at the meeting with Claire Perry MP - with whom I have some quite potent disagreements - that it would never be on by default. I wonder why that could be.

Disclaimer: I work in an affected industry, and I really don't like censorship. But it's not just "pornography and adult" this blocks: they're defaulting to the "13" age rating, which also includes blocks on categories including: "dating"; "anonymizers, filesharing and hacking"; "suicide and self harm"; "drugs and criminal skills"; "weapons, violence, gore and hate"; and "phishing, malware and spyware". There was a "cyber bullying" category as well, but that's gone now and is now included in the "social networking" category (not in the default blocklist). But remember: there are two, shortly to be three, lists you can't turn off, so the system is still in-path, and still vulnerable…
>shame others into not turning off the block is too great //

How are they shaming people who choose to remove content filters? It's entirely private is it not.
Wonderful write-up and I'm happy to see some details and work that didn't make it into production get some attention here. It's often those exercises that we discard that make us better at what we do.

Sounds like a stellar internship!
I wish I had a dogecoin for every HN comment where a study is rejected because of a possible confounding variable that the researchers did control for and reported.

From the news article:

> The disorders were significantly more common in COVID-19 patients than in comparison groups of people who recovered from flu or other respiratory infections over the same time period

They controlled for the world situation, lockdown and even being sick with another illness. Of course the knowledge that you have covid could be stressful in itself, but that's also a result of covid.
>Can the study result be: "A third of anyone suffer nerological or mental disorders due to the world situation/lockdowns'?

Mental health has a stigma and often little to no coverage/help. Therefore the 1/3rd is an absolute minimum. The actual numbers are likely far significantly higher.

World Health Org is against lockdowns https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/who-official-urges-...

This is because of the mental health concerns. The problem is that politicians are not going off experts but rather covid lockdowns are political and not based in science.
I found his “origin story” very interesting too. One theory I’ve heard for foot fetishism, which is the most common bodily fetish by far I believe, is essentially a neural equivalent of crossed-wires: Brain areas associated with the feet and with genitals being next to one another. His anecdote felt like an environmental thing though, with him having these foot-centric formative experiences. Though I guess you could spin it as nurture or nature - the experiences causing his fetish or simply this being the period when he first became aware of it as some latent thing.
They have a free tier with visible Wix.com branding. That it gets exploited with spam sites, just as Blogspot did, is why we can't have nice things.
Willing to bet that you're using at least one piece of software on a daily basis that's made by a company that - just like Spotify - files "ridiculous" patents all the time.
>quantifiably lower than say, visiting Chicago

I remember these arguments from the Iraq War, and there was the same flaw: They ignore how one avoids risk.

You avoid risk in Chicago by trying not to visit crime-ridden areas, rather than treating them as a tourist attraction. You avoid risk of being taken hostage by the Iranian regime by trying to avoid areas it controls.
Tivoization and Free Software are orthogonal issues. Having full system sources means nothing when the TV most likely locks out any third party OSes.
Nearly half of our genome is thought to have had a viral origin. It's a bit of a simplification to say that we "don't need to experience" any illness. We would not be what we are today without it.
Not company supported, though, just reversed and company-tolerated. The investment was made by brilliant people donating their personal time, not the company funding an initiative - big difference there.

I think a truly "open" documentation and compilers model (like what AMD have been up to with their graphics cards) would still be a game-changer in the industry.
Here’s a very biased source even admitting that Israel offered the vaccine to PLO workers: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/israel-to-vaccinate-pal... thus totally negating your claim that it’s mostly Chinese.
"In particular, Hunchentoot's session management capabilities are anemic out of the box."

Do you mean user authentication? What would be really nice to have is a user authentication library that offered a generic protocol that could be used with several web servers and persistence mechanisms.

"Hunchentoot also doesn't have any built-in capabilities for handling updates to the website's source code."

You just load the new code and it works.
I would say there are just so many unknown variables (probably impossible to know), to the extent that people can get away with pretending that it's non-deterministic, when it actually is deterministic.
Yep, pretty much. As long as he can talk with experts and understand their position he can lead.
>So upgrading them to an Aeron chair literally costs the same amount as you’re spending on their toilet paper,

Assuming you're still in business ten years from now. Sometimes this is a reasonable assumption; for a startup, probably not.

Granted, it is still a fairly small percent of the cost of an employee. But in early days, there may still be better things to spend that money on.

edit - of course, what I forgot is that if you're starting an office, it's probably not "early days" and the ten years thing becomes a lot more reasonable.
Has anyone else had a hard time figuring out what tumblr is even supposed to be? Even twitter's purpose is pretty clear next to them...
free food. every.day.
I'd rather not have yet another way for the government to track my every move and communication. I do like the concept of having a single destination for communication, regardless of my location, but I don't want the (US) government involved. What I'd really like is a way to receive physical mail at a single "address" no matter where I am. If I'm traveling, living in a place temporarily for short-term work, studying, whatever, I don't want to have to keep updating my mailing address with companies and a dozen government agencies.
A similar book is The Mom Test. You're not supposed to let the user find how they would've solved the problem (as had they known, they would've solved it themselves), you're supposed to understand their pain points and then design the most effective solution for them.
Thanks for clarifying. This is exactly what I was trying to compose in my mind as an answer, but unable to do so.
We're talking about printers - for most people they aren't exactly essential.
Could you point to a relevant article explaining that setup please?
From Canada to the US? Probably. But what about a crate that come from Russia? Or Brazil? Or Saudi Arabia?

There might be an investigation, but they aren't extraditing anyone!
> Most of the work is answering and making calls, updating documents, and making sure that nothing is out of the ordinary.

This is not a programming / automated position.
docker swarm is a good alternative for you then, comes out of the box with docker and you only need to add a few lines to your docker compose files to make them swarm compatible
May remind somebody of their school chemistry class. But this one includes more things: fluid flow, electric current, diffusion, and nucleation of bubbles. Reduced from a scientific code to run directly in your web browser.
There is an alternative and you gave it in the second half of your comment! Let the kids escape the zoo: let them create value in the real world for real people facing real economic constraints. Instead of grinding menial tasks in an artificial bubble where homework, tests, papers get swept into the bin right after they get rubber stamped, have kids create things that actually have value in reality.
"an you imagine the Seattle City Council keeping a secret like this and then acting on it in just one day? Of course not. We’d need to have endless community meetings and hearings and public floggings of Google Executives. Every citizen in a tinfoil hat who thinks fiber is just another cereal ingredient would have their three minutes in front of the Council. "

Ah, I see - democracy is a bug, according to the author.

Actually, reading further, it appears that anything short of kneeling and begging at the feet of corporations is somehow supposed to be terrible...

Seriously - here's the conclusion:

"Could we simply agree to pay for all the pole replacements and permitting as a city, and hire a few extra employees to expedite the process? Couldn’t we just hand over title to a few strands of the 500 mile fiber cable network we’ve built to Google Fiber?"

Translation: "Couldn't we just spend taxpayer dollars to subsidize profits for one of the world's largest corporations?"
Indeed. If software truly mirrors sports in this regard, we might want to think of elites as a once-per-generation thing.

But it is also interesting to consider the possibility that because we don't have a measuring system like sports, there is a Michael Jordan of software on the planet right now but nobody has ever heard of him/her.
> The part about money not being able to influence politics does not ring true to me.

Yeah, it's true that you can't outright buy an election wholesale. But rich people are rich for a reason: they don't just throw their money away on things that have zero results. They spend so much on elections because it has real results. Maybe it sways a race by 4%. But if the race is decided by 2%, then that's enough to win instead of lose. Plus, some of that money goes to campaigning, some goes to decide which candidates are able to afford to run in the first place, some goes to lobbyists, some of it goes directly to congressmen in return for favors, etc.
My understanding of nutrition regarding both intermittent and long-term (at least 6-10 days) fasting is that as long as your body can properly regulate insulin levels and you have fat reserves, you're not in danger of health issues from it. That's exactly what fat reserves are for.

A paper on obese women fasting for 6 days: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9330585

Effect of long-term fasting of obese patients on pancreatic exocrine function, gastrointestinal hormones and bicarbonate concentration in plasma (20 days): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6207670
I also believe that creating a CRUD RESTful API directly on top of your database schema is a very bad idea because of the potential impedance mismatch.

Normally, a REST API is formed of Endpoints (Objects), so this article should explain the problem fairly well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_impedance_mis...
It's particularly strange given that just prior to saying that, the person advocated learning how to 'hack' other people and to seemed to indicate that you should manipulate social structures.
I've done it quite a few times. Mostly it went bad. The last one though is going quite well. Why?

- very, very clear and limited requirements.
Because it's nice to be able to quickly find out what the name is once I do.
No. I think Google is still the best of its kind in many product areas, but every day I am looking for the new thing that wildly exceeds it, even if only in one area - I feel we're stuck in a local maximum right now that will look laughably restrictive later. In particular, I desperately want to find an alternative to Google for News. Google News is so laughably, self-evidently bad that I have to believe either nobody is working on it or that they enjoy pottering about in their IDE more than they like reading news. Well, it could also be that that whatever they are doing now maximizes revenue for Google even if it doesn't serve consumers very well, so that they know it's bad and don't care, but I don't want to be so pessimistic.

Seriously, I want to go and (metaphorically) kick in someone's door in Mountain view, wipe the nearest whiteboard with a startled junior engineer, and write a a new set of UI priorities for that project before security arrives to eject me from the building. It should be one of their best products, and it's a joke.
I see some are saying that holding someone handcuffed in a cell for 5 hours is not an arrest but is only a brief detention, aka Terry Stop. This is unequivocally false. The situation described was an arrest.

Here is some information about what an arrest is.

http://www.hendonpub.com/resources/article_archive/results/d...

> What, then, is a correct definition of arrest, for purposes of federal Constitutional law? An arrest is a seizure of a person in which the subject is 1) required to go elsewhere with police, or 2) deprived of his freedom of movement for more than a brief period of time, or 3) subjected to more force than is reasonably part of an investigative detention.

> So, if an officer has said or done things that would cause a reasonable person to believe that he was not free to leave or to decline the contact with the police and either the subject is required to leave and go elsewhere with police or a detention persists for more than a short while, or more force is used than is reasonable to simply restrain someone, then that person has been arrested.
I have definitely seen some tables + SQL used for hierarchical configuration spread across artifacts/modules. My guess is that this has probably seen more deployment than is at first suspected.
Show me a tv measured in cups.
Thank you, that helped me put it into perspective!
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." - Haruki Murakami
> The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia

Isn't this true though. If a country decided one day that 2+2=5 and wrote laws around it and enforced it then in that country you have to say 2+2=5 even if the laws of mathematics would disagree. It would be a dystopian place to live but that's just how laws work (assuming we're talking about some sort of authoritative regime where you can't challenge this law).

I think programmers are at a much greater luxury though because there is not really a thing called the laws of computer science. There are certain problems like P=NP or the halting problem but ad tracking is so far removed from that to the point that if we decided one day that it made sense to outlaw tracking, it could be done. It would kill a lot of businesses and would probably be a bad thing but to say that we shouldn't take into account lay people's wants when designing software systems is wrong.
this is awesome - congrats on the launch - I just downloaded it! personally I can't wait to be able to make my dream extension that blocks posts of cats on Reddit so that I can actually browse it.
1 MB = 1 million bytes. Formatted capacity less.

Somehow they're getting away with this.
Thanks for the feedback, I’m still playing with the coin system. A single coin isn’t too difficult to get back, but I did want to discourage skipping.

You can also just move on without ignoring but it may come up again.
I think you'll see a nationwide rollout in the coming weeks
This is so wrong. There is enormous value in data when you aggregate so much. Even if everything is about cats that tells you lots of things. That the economy is is good shape for example, that people are having so little bad stuff going on that they can focus on lunch plans. You'd actually have to do work on the data to really see it's value. Even if you only used it to generate markov chains it's valuable. Entity extraction, sentiment, brand feedback, etc etc.
The title is "What Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones?"
The subtitle is "A nighttime raid. A reality TV crew. A sleeping seven-year-old. What one tragedy can teach us about the unraveling of America's middle class."
I made is the HN headline something like "What one tragedy can teach us about the unraveling of America's middle class" since no one knows who Aiyana Stanley-Jones is...and the title makes less sense without the subtitle.
It has always been unclear for me if an instruction set falls into patent protection (20years) or in copyright law (a lot more).
I think (not a lawyer) that it is allowed to reuse ideas inside another instruction set after 20 years (patent law). But I din't think it is allowed to freely make a compatible clone before ~70years (copyright law)
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I've been doing front-end for an eCommerce site since January, I work with React and Typescript. I'm open to front-end and back-end development, but most confident in front-end.
A billion in VC? Or could that just be the high end of a range that they're preparing for? I'd never heard of a round done for that much so I went looking.

Only clear has ever taken on more VC than that in total after combining all their rounds... but apparently much of that was from industry partners, and they had a lot of spectrum to buy in small chunks. The second highest company in terms of total raised comes in just below the size of this round alone, with $949.85M.

In googling to find that list I came across another fact... 1 Billion more or less matches the total amount of foreign VC expected to flow into all of India in 2011.

Clearwire	$1,299.50
Solyndra	$949.85
Western Integrated Networks	$889.00
MetroPCS Communications	$733.10
Facebook	$677.70
Reliant Pharmaceuticals	$574.15
WildBlue Communications	$557.99
Force10 Networks	$553.42
Better Place	$550.00
Grande Communications Netw.	$507.40

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/06/01/the-top-10-ri...
You should really make some challenges that require the users to pass multiple tests with the same script. Sure, you can solve the reformat/refactor challenge by

jd2jVjj=f(ci)*a^]jcfda.join(',')^]

but it wont generalize anywhere. Having a full script though that will detect and do that automagically, now there's the fun part.
"But what if the USSR had managed to keep a high standard of living, comparable to how it did quite well in science?"

That experiment is currently being performed in China.
Go view the source of Google.com

No </body> or </html> tags for one.
their home page
LivingSocial, a Groupon competitor, is expanding aggressively.

http://livingsocial.com/jobs
That's a pretty nice-looking site; do they support Chrome-style messages.json files?
I think I don't really have a view about this, I'm accustomed to ghci's behavior from practice. It's clear there are other ways of resolving these problems, but don't they all have downsides? It does seem excellent that ghci's preferred type for "5" is Integer, rather than Int, as I think you would agree on reflection.