jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In my experience, most full-time permanent jobs are at-will, there is no contract, and you can get fired for snapping your bubble gum in the cube farm just as easily as you can be fired for being bad at your job.

There may be more to the story, but in the absence of other information, "fired for using Notepad to write code" strikes me as being more on the arbitrary and capricious end of the scale than the rational and justified end.

It's a lot like firing a carpenter for using a screwdriver instead of a power drill with a screwdriver bit.
Efographic is a web app for digital marketers and online content businesses to convert email newsletters (think mailchimp) into infographics. Hence, the name "efographic."

The startup plans to introduce “efographics” — a new form of digital media that combines the behavior of an infographic with the design of an email newsletter.

The web app creates image “snapshots” of an email newsletter resulting in one long, continuous image.

Once the snapshot of the email newsletter is taken, you’re essentially dealing with an infographic because infographics tend to be long in length as well. But then we run into a problem: long images do not share well to social media… how do we fit a long image into a square box?

Efographic has a formatting feature that allows long content to fit into a box shape through columnizing.

The Fit-to-Box feature allows viewers to see the entire contents of an infographic or an efographic without scrolling. This is beneficial when sharing to social networks.

We have made a tool that can do in seconds what it would take Photoshop 20 minutes.

We think this special feature of Efographic will increase click through rates by 22.7% for digital content companies.
It's a low power device (35mw), but it's in a radiolocation band, so they had to get a wavier from the FCC. That's an interesting read, because it lists the uses. They're getting surprisingly good range for only 35mw radar power.

https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-09-2482A1.p...

The patent is for a different device - that's for a better version of those wands used in security screening. The approach is similar, but the power is much lower.
Was coming in here to chime in on it not really being new with the same complaint. On an ancient phone (my first smart phone however long ago that was these days) this was one of the features the bluetooth dongle's driver came with.

Every time I got an SMS it must have knocked the bluetooth off for a moment because my computer would lock. Really annoying after the first few times, didn't last long!
People don't just utilize things in order to function: think iPhone. Wikileaks and gambling will sink bitcoin before it can mean anything.
Please see my other answer, I went into pretty good detail.
It depends on what you are doing. If you are losing money and not trying to transfer ownership interests you will have no problem. Once you start making money or want to do anything a tiny bit more complex you have created a hornet's nest for yourself.
People sell real stuff all the time over the bitcoin forums. Whatever you have (old computer stuff, time on your hands, ...), you can probably sell it for bitcoins.
grellas, these analyses that you post here are a treasure. I always learn from them. Thank you for sharing your expertise in a way that we can understand.
I do this too. You just have to make sure your passwords have sufficient complexity, yet have an algorithm that is easy for you to remember. Just start off a base, let's say oUb$r8!A. Now let's use a simple algorithm of taking the first letter and last letter and injecting it somewhere into the base. So your new password for amazon.com is oUAb$r8!nA. For facebook.com it's oUFb$r8!kA. To the casual observer it looks just like any other password and it beats using the same password over and over again. You can of course make it even more obscure by changing the algorithm, just as long as it's easy to hash out in your head.
Ok, how much is the yearly filing fee? How are profits taxed? How do you distribute ownership interest?

Super simple to set up, complex as hell to use.
Thanks for your thoughtful comments.
1.) It's not just the money, or even mainly the money (I lived quite happily on my $45k). I want a place where I can become a Top 5% coder and I don't see that happening in Eastern Washington.

3.) I do enjoy grad school, but I'm at a mediocre school and I've learned that I enjoy coding much more than research.

4.) I'm in Eastern WA temporarily due to personal reasons, my next stop is either Seattle or the Valley.

5.) That post was more in response to what I hear from other people, trying to encourage them to get out of that thinking. If that's how I came across I'd better look it over again though. I'm quite happy with where I'm at and I do try to take responsibility for my actions.

7.)Main reason I can think of is companies that value software pay those kind of salaries vs. companies looking for code zombies. I've been in a shop nearly like that and I don't want to repeat it.
I see what you’ve done here...and I approve.
I believe safe injection rooms are a net positive because they reduce strain on ambulance services. That's great. But what's next? Massage parlors and day spas? Im sure they'd be able to better find a job if they were nice and limber and smelled nice. Maybe we should just give them free drugs? Otherwise they're just going to steal and panhandle to get money for drugs. Maybe we should just give them cash so they can buy whatever they need? If they're finally out from under financial stress I'm sure they'll be able to turn it around then.
Honest question: how common is this in tech hubs? Is the talent level that much higher? I work in the enterprise world and few people have advanced degrees.

I mean, I know there are some shops that are doing really advanced stuff, but I'm talking about your normal tech hub employer.
> The moon is named for the mythological consort of Jupiter

The continent too yet their spellings differ. That is the weird part.
you need to know watts and lumens. It's not rocket science.
In other news: Epilepsy warnings don't help people cope with flashing images.
It seems possible to me that they may make Office usable from web browsers on non-Windows systems (probably with a few features missing, some of that just due to the limitation imposed by the web browser anyways), but probably not a native Linux program. I do not expect them to drop Win32 and DirectX; however, maybe later they might make a few contributions to ReactOS (although probably not enough). What they say about Active Directory I suppose may be done in the way mentioned in that article, seems not very unlikely to me.

I do not really think Microsoft "love" Linux all the way, although it seem to me they do "love" Linux more than they used to, at least.
What do you mean by "Deep learning still at least doubles?"
It's a lyric from the classic rock song "Stuck in the Middle with You."
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Besides my current role, I have been working in a company group with more than 100 employees and successfully introduced Scrum and self-management methodologies in one of their companies (40+ employees).

I can work as an engineering manager, project manager, architect, full stack developer, or in specialized projects that require C/C++ knowledge. I have experience in nearly all fields of programming and a good ability of abstract and analytical thinking.
The name is a little "racist."
Oh, I love this: "Smart Tags caused immediate and vocal backlash among webmasters and content creators who sill harbor quaint notions that they, not Microsoft, should be in control the content and advertising at the sites they create."
I'm actually trying to bootstrap my startup, getting people waving wodges of money in front of me to do contracting work instead is really distracting :P

Typically you get to keep more (generally 73%-75% of the amount), but you'll also need an accountant to minimize your taxes and that'll cost you about a grand a year. But in most cases it's worth it.
«45K if you have a couple of years of experience» LOL that's interesting because, you know, it's false :) replace «couple» with "more than 5 years" and I will begin to believe you.

It's true that in BCN and Madrid things are better, but not that much. And in London you can earn more than 60K per year.

Spain is near Poland in salaries, we have tons of people with CS degrees (which doesn't means that they are good at programming) that make the salary lower by offer/demand law.

To put in perspective: rent a flat (average in the south) 600 EUR/months, buy a car 10.000EUR/30.000EUR, buy a house 150.000 EUR. And that's the south, in BCN you can increase rent and house price nearly by 100%.
Without any intention to be rude trying to get in your personal life, you don't mention her at all. And I guess she played a major role in your "recovery", no?
Or it’s the other way around. Complacent Microsoft not working on a new, improved version because there is no perceived threat.
Notice that it is an article from 2007, and most of the points raised here have been fixed to varying degrees.
Yes, I experienced a significant shift in my worldview when I first learned Goedel's incompleteness theorems.
Most suburbs were built around 50 years ago, and the bills are coming due.
I don't know if the tool is called Massscan (I thought there is a tool called something with rabbit) but I followed a security blog a few years back and since then I had the impression that scanning all ipv4s is basically a solved issue.
It took a second or two to get going but it did load, albeit slowly!
Fancy! At first look it’s a no-brainer to go with, so either our setup existed before yours was public or I did a shoddy job at researching options.

Part of my idea was an actual web home for the server (leaderboard, map, etc.) so if we play MC again I will see if that is possible with your project.
I think we can wait a long time (not infinite hopefully) before people let go of complex syntax (order of ~yacc) for smaller, simpler yet more programmatic (sexp, forth).
Good question, I have been wondering the same for a while.

I have read somewhere the point is that one is anonymity provider, other - encryption to hide from your ISP.

If you think about it, you'd be using Tor to connect to either public or roll your own VPN. The issue with using Tor is that all exit nodes are (probably) monitored. Some websites even refuse to serve you, as they have a list of exit nodes. Use of public VPNs is easier, as semi-officially they track you, hence they can be trusted by websites. Your best option is use Tor & custom VPN with a clean IP address. Trouble here is leaving payment data and you'd still probably would trigger some alarms by connecting from a registered Tor exit node...
Not really, there wasn't even a category for France and several first world countries did not have any available phone numbers to buy.
Thankyou for setting me straight.
If you read the comments on that post, there's a guy with a pretty credible condemnation of what Diageo did to the single malt market (buying distilleries, changing the techniques in ways that muddle the geographic terroir-style qualities of the spirit, bottling in China, laying off hundreds of people, even artificially coloring the product).

On the other hand, another commenter points out that the majors in America have resurrected distilleries on the verge of bankruptcy, so Fortune Brands may well be a force for good; Basil is probably my favorite bourbon (and Makers is my go-to).
You can also use Vi for hundreds of challenges at http://golf.shinh.org alot of the newer challenges are stale but some of the older ones are gold.
Scare quotes are uncool man.

Anyway you can't just look at the supply side and oil in isolation. It doesn't matter what you're talking about, plastics nor energy, there are alternatives to oil. Oil can increase in price until it reaches the price of the cheapest alternative, and that's a hard ceiling. And since the price of alternatives are falling all the time, I think we'll be in good shape by the 10th gen.

It is literally impossible for a bigco or the saudis to overcharge for a commodity,

Oil is worth thinking about in terms of short term economic wellfare, but I am confident that there will never be a Malthusian oil crisis.

FYI: Oil is not used in fertilizer.
If I believe there's a good reason to help them improve, then I can do so and there's no need to also down vote, as my feelings will be on display for everyone to read.

Also, most posts with flaws do contribute to the discussion, I just disagree with the reasoning. That's not the right place for a down vote. IMO.

A down vote might be used for a situation where someone else has already explained why the comment is not helpful, or perhaps something beyond redemption like "Pwned, LOL" :-)
The conversion rate could be much better because people rarely see Merry Christmas any more. I'd have bought something from Walmart if they just said 'Merry Christmas' over 'Happy Holidays'. I'm sorry, I'm not celebrating 'happy holidays' I'm celebrating mother fucking Christmas.

I'm not religious, it's just the goddamn holiday. I don't say 'happy holidays' to a Jew, because it's flat out rude. They're Jewish, it's their religious holiday and I respect that. I'll say happy Kwanzaa if I knew someone celebrated it. I'll say happy noodle day to a spaghetti monsterist.

I like respect. If I'm spending money, I want some damn respect or I'll go to the little store downtown and buy something that's actually celebrating the holiday I'm buying for: Christmas.
Many - because they don't need a better online presence to get more business. Their tables are full - the only way to squeeze more profits is to charge more, possibly changing clientele, or act more efficiently, or both.

A cool website for reservations/tables/photos etc COULD be part of a themed restaurant or restaurant chain to differentiate them in the market... but for the most part, the food speaks for itself.
It's a sabotage weapon. Any weapon can be used ethically or unethically.
It also has a surprising number of WTFs, which was a great disappointment to me because it really seemed like MS had done scripting better. Of course, later versions fix some of the pitfalls if you use them right, but then you need to make sure you're always running machines that will have the latest Powershell on them.

(And, of course, it would have been nice if they could improve its interactive use to even be on par with the Unix shells of the 80s)
Even without doing the OPM arrangement, it's very sobering to see companies that fail on tech, product and people level hoovering up gobs of money due to their investor momentum. At some point, an IPO is the only way out (well, that's the best kind of OPM, isn't it).
Reasonable levels of inflation usually goes hand in hand with economic growth.

On the other hand, growing the money supply too quickly when there's no economic growth leads to a situation like Zimbabwe...
One really big thing they don't mention is that (AFAIK) CSS transitions jump straight to the compositing layer. I see a lot of developers jQuery-animating 'left' and 'top' which triggers a huge chain reaction and ends up looking like crap on mobile, instead of using CSS3 animations which don't affect the layout of the page and jump straight to the compositing step.
I'm currently stuck at 1233 after 250 generations. The last improvement was at gen 183. Walking gets part way down the first downslope, then falls. The current champions are far better than any of their mutations, so a local maximum has been reached. This is the fate of most evolutionary AI.

Once on the downslope, the controller for flat ground won't work, so now it has to jump to something substantially more complex to progress. Making such jumps was an unsolved problem with genetic algorithms 20 years ago, and I commented back then that whoever solved it would win a Nobel Prize. Still waiting.

I suspect that a solution lies in work on neural nets where one net is trained, then a second, smaller, net is trained to match the first. This is a form of "abstraction". Somewhere in that space is something very important to AI.
I always use archive.org to archive links so that if they break, I can always link back to them later.
I have used talloc for a medium-sized project, and it was quite refreshing. Of course, it all depends on your program's structure. An hierarchical allocator naturally fits hierarchical data structures and containers, so parsers for example can benefit immensely in my experience.

You are correct in that you can just write constructors and destructors, but then you still need to worry about error handling, double-frees and whatnot. With an allocator like talloc, you just state the relationships during the allocation, and afterwards only worry about the high-level structure.

One thing which can be somewhat cumbersome is the need to pass around those "contexts"; for example, if you allocate an array of some struct, and you need to allocate additional memory inside that struct, your context will presumably be the array, and so you need to have access to it. One solution I have found which is helpful in most, but not all, situations is to use the wonderful container_of[1] macro, which enables you to do upcasting using some pointer trickery. And of course, it does cost some performance as they say on their homepage.

[1] http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/container_of.html
Every culture that's experienced terrorism has different scars. The US was attacked using airliners; hence airliners are a target of paranoia. The IRA was fond of planting bombs in public trash cans ("rubbish bins" in the British vernacular); the British pull all the trash cans off the street and then invent a bomb-proof rubbish bin (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5051419.ece)
Again, it's safer to separate my actual life from my philosophy: why get off the track? Death is inevitable, and not inherently worse than life.

Hume's a tricky bastard, and with enough Nietzsche to back him up, depressingly formidable.

So I arbitrarily give value to certain things in pursuit of a pleasant system of beliefs and a nice-feeling way of going about life.
Keep in mind 600 is a high number, the barrier to discovery, association, research, reporting is pretty high.
You are the first person to use the phrase "white supremacy" in this entire thread.
This looks really neat for the ruby community. It being modular I imagine the target is for
Embedding when you know you only need X features of ruby so you get smaller and hopefully more performing builds? At least if I understand this correctly.

As an aside: is ruby easier to implement than other languages? It’s syntax and features seems more complex than say Python but I’ve heard from others that implementing a new Python distribution in say Rust is a real PITA
I'm a bit shocked here about people who expect LSD to make people code better or create better art and if it does not they complain it is "not effective".

Things like LSD (or meditating, running, ...) allow you to to get your mind into a state that enables you to look behind nature, people, society and everything else. It's not a productivity tool and should not be used as such I think :-)
If you've got all the data stored off up-front, the search should be near-instant. As-is, it's nearly unusably slow.

However, if the delay is caused by hitting the network for each search result on the backend (or something along those lines), maybe it would be nice to quickly return an initial barebones dataset and then the browser could do an async fetch of each record's details.
37Signals take on this: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2895-link-svn-flashback-essen...
You should be able to just edit your parent comment (for awhile longer at least).
> Because of Japanese continuous improvement, or Kaizen, it is difficult, if not impossible to do.

Oh great point! Yeah, the problem I think in most of these type of large systems migration choices is that they view only two discrete states, the present state and the target state -- and then try and build and plan for all contingencies. Some of the smarter ones try and define the target state primed to become the next present state with an eye towards a new target state, but in practice I don't think this style of thinking works very well.

In the Soviet example, they were looking at the present state of Japanese manufacturing capability and shooting for that as a target, while the Japanese were improving it every minute of every day. There is no goal in Kaizen, all that matters is the process of improvement. It's a very Zen way of looking at the world that I think thankfully is finding it's way into more modern principles of iterative development (it's amazing how ever-present Kaizen is in Western management training -- but I never got the impression that any of the texts really "got it", instead it's lots of discussion of studying it and trying to figure out how to adapt these two state processes to Kaizen principles without ever understanding the continuous nature of it).
For whatever it's worth, the print button didn't work for me in Chrome and Safari on OSX 10.6.5.

I was, however, able to get a clean read/printout using Safari's built-in Reader and then printing from there.
Coming from C++, this is very similar to what all C++ compilers do internally (i.e. name mangling). Python just opens a possibility to access that "mangled" names directly, which should never be necessary unless you are doing some metaprogramming and need full access to class internals.
So sick of hearing this. No, facebook is not going to 'win the web'. Go back to techcrunch.
inb4: this is an opinion piece
Does that still apply even if they're not a Canadian citizen, and not in Canada legally?

I'd think there would be a point where they might say "not my problem, not getting involved"
Exactly. The article doesn't clarify whether the prints matched multiple people, or the man had given false names and info to multiple countries/systems which might never have been cross-referenced before

One could give false info to Border Patrol and county or state police here in the US and not be caught in certain circumstances. Especially if we're talking about encounters going back a few years or more.

Needs more info
Crowding movie theaters.
Fast-growing trees, which are then burnt to charcoal (and some energy), which is then put in the soil as biochar.
Could be very cheap/low-tech and at the same time improve soils.
Neither. Both sides can be equally tribal without both sides being equally right.

But as for you, you seem to be playing language lawyer with the GP's words, to try to find a sliver of a way to accuse him/her of lying. Why?
But of course 50 g ethanol + 50 g water = 100 g
>That might work for a smaller country like South Africa, but China too big for that. China could probably make everything it needs itself, or learn in a decade or two. So it sounds to me like a new iron curtain, leaving both sides poorer and the people caught in the middle suffering from the separation. (And good luck fighting global warming.)

The majority of the US and Soviet population was better off with the iron curtain than without in real terms. The US median hourly wage only surpassed that of 1968 in the last 3 years.
> China could probably make everything it needs itself, or learn in a decade or two.

Even the elites want out... i'm not sure the system wouldn't eat itself before then.