jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And that’s why it’s so close to zero - because there’s the gov/fed safety net.
Hope meditation never gets any sort of pushback as it is so maleable and should be embraced and not sublabeled.
Why not? It's a publicly available link.
I like the way they've written this article as if it's an extended tweet. Short and to the point.
Sorry to be that guy, but your argument is totally flawed because it's such a blatant example of the black/white fallacy. The order of magnitude difference in corruption between different countries makes it obvious that it is possible to combat corruption, just as the sharp decline in all sorts of crime across pretty much the whole Western world shows that it is possible to combat other sorts of crime too.
But those things will never go totally away is his point.
You should really research & pick your "world axioms" wisely, if done so you wouldn't see paradoxes where there are none. There is currently no way for a whistleblower to publish any information that powers on different levels don't want him to publish. That naive "hollywoody" view that you just send some information to all major news outlets/police/your representative(s) and things somehow change for the best .. how many dead whistleblowers because of this 24/7 reinforced naive world view will it take, so much fakery and people are still in the dark(would expect more from this community - although I understand the temptation to fall for every false hero/honeypot organistation our powers throw at you in this medieval society)
I honestly think that lord of the rings is the worst piece of literature I've ever seen.
It probably would only take a month to get software to "just" fire the guns working. But the defence industry I believe (left it 7 years ago, but still know people in it) still largely use the waterfall model for designing software a lot up front, and for safety-critical software, there's a lot of static analysis done on the code, so you can't just write it and ship it.

I think what probably would take so long is integrating this new gun firing module into the entire software suite, or as you say, waiting for the next software version.
I posted it 3am and went to sleep. I haven't anticipated that I will land the front page. Thanks for PRs!
I imagine engineers at facebook get to use whatever editor or ide they like. There's probably at least a few using it.
For what it's worth I'm comfortable with the idea that you may want to switch jobs; there are an awful lot of fantastic software jobs out there.

If you do decide to switch I'd make sure you're willing to stick it out a few years wherever you wind up. There's very little stigma (if any) to changing software jobs frequently, but more than one ultra-short-tenure job can look suspicious on a resume.

Assuming, however, that you want to stick it out at this "desirable" job, the above are my answers to your questions. Starting a new job is always hard. If you stick it out you'll learn a lot. If you don't no one will judge you for it.
> That's not a feature, that's a limitation that forces you to change your behaviour.

... Like, say, limiting tweets to 140 chars?
Interesting, I've not ever seen a recommendation for bazaar over git or mercurial. I have heard that mercurial's CLI is a bit more sane than git, and I've also read that it's easier to extend in Python. How would you compare bazaar to mercurial?

I've actually only ever used git for professional and personal development, but I think I'll want to play around with both mercurial and bazaar now. Git's CLI is definitely a bit of a PITA.

I find this video summarises git's frustrations pretty well :) https://vimeo.com/60788996.
This argument doesn't make sense to me. Better wellfare lowers the risk of working at a startup, which would make more people try it. I guess work regulations and employee rights are make things harder in Europe than in the US, though.

According to Inc., "Norway has more entrepreneurs per capita than the United States":

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110201/in-norway-start-ups-say...

(Disclosure: I am indeed Norwegian.)

I think the more interesting question is how to create the next Google or Facebook outside the US.
Although I'm not sure if there is a revenue model behind this game aside from PR for their company, using the internet's landscape for a gaming environment definitely has a quirky upside for click through referrals.
What's the fear? Most startups fail, so you should be mentally ok with failing. (Of course, you should try with all your might to succeed, but just realize that even ALL your might may not be enough. :)

Save up enough money to self fund for a while. Put a lot of effort into it, learn a lot, do some cool stuff, and consider that worth your investment. If it succeeds, that's a great bonus!
Slashdot, Marginal Revolution, HN.
The need for the bracelet makes this a lot less attractive than it could be. I've been waiting for ring-based UIs since Pratchett's The Dark Side Of The Sun.

For example: contactless smart cards. Put them in ring form. Then you just have to wave your hand at the reader for them to work.
> Non-programmers don’t care about the aesthetics of software in the same way non-plumbers don’t care about the aesthetics of plumbing

I myself think the problem is precisely the opposite: people do care about the aesthetics of plumbing, and of programming. They just care about it in ways that have nothing do to with how well it works. We, as consumers, care far too much about "pretty" and far too little about "effective".

Well-crafted anything doesn't necessarily stand out, IME. It just works. This is an admirable trait, but it can't seem to compete with "beautiful". It's a shame that making things that work well is somehow less admirable that making things that look nice.
I don't see much point in the argument over whether or not programming is (or is not) a craft. In my book, you can imagine yourself as whatever you want as long as it gets the job done-- "engineer", "artist", "craftsman", "fry-cook", "architect", whatever works, whatever you what call it.

If anything, programming today is beset with workers who just don't care about what they're doing. Perhaps a little bit of the care and attention that a "craftsman" ethos brings would be a good thing. It certainly doesn't hurt.
I could see two directions:

1. A seminar-type class where interaction with other students and a (good) faculty member is important. I've had some good philosophy classes that I felt were hard to replicate outside a university, and an AI class that was like that as well. Self-teaching the material is possible, but it's relatively difficult to find a good back-and-forth with a genuine expert outside a class imo, because most experts, even those willing to debate on the internet and so on, aren't that willing to spend a lot of time engaging with complete beginners who are unfamiliar with the standard arguments in an area.

2. Something foundational that you could self-teach but, due to the willpower involved for something without immediate practical use, in all honesty most of us probably won't. Something like a good statistics course, discrete mathematics, theory of computation, computer architecture, etc.

If there's some way to get feedback from existing students on which courses are good, that might be more important than the specific subject matter; whether an intro-X course is a win over just reading the introductory textbook on X varies a lot.
I think Netflix is doing more to prove people are ok with renting rather than owning. Apple is still more own than rent with iTunes and the App Store. Heck, 37signals and their contemporaries proved a lot of people are ok renting apps.
Google limits you to using their own key/value store instead of a regular, relational DB. This makes it hard to migrate to and from GAE, so there's a fair bit of vendor lock-in.

A Heroku app can run anywhere else, out of the box.
Not exactly. If you target designers and developers, you'll have much lower IE6 market share. If you target enterprise users trapped by a fearful and incompetent IT department, it'll be much higher.
I wouldn't be too quick to assume that the idea of owning
media is dead, or even threatened. What would kill it? The cost of printing and shipping? That is lower than ever. The cost of production and editing and marketing? Those need to be paid for ebooks too, and once you
have done that reformatting for print is a minor task.

And readers aren't going to be forced to abandon old media. They must be coaxed. If you want readers on iOS, or Kindle or anything else, you need to offer an experience that is better than print, and better than the open web. Because readers have many alternatives.

I agree that the current ebook model is rental, not sales. We will see how that plays out. My expectation is that the buying of print books will persist, alongside the ebook rental market, until the DRM comes off the ebooks. Lending books is an important use case. Borrowing library books is an important use case. Shifting media
from platform to platform is an
important use case.
The second, black and white, example is a screen shot from the Apple website: http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/retina-display.html

The interactive examples further down appear to be realistic though.
For one thing, a visual portfolio can be looked through in the time it would take to dig into one complex method.
You're wrong. It's automatically legally permitted. If I request something and the New York Times gives it to me, I've done nothing wrong. If I distribute code that requests something and the New York Times gives it to my users, I've done nothing wrong. If my code circumvents access controls, then I might have done something wrong, but that is clearly not the case here. There are no access controls, and that's the problem the New York Times should be fixing instead of making legal arguments they know are incorrect.
Much as I seem to recall this feeling from childhood through my early twenties, surely I'm not the only one actively trying to avoid social interaction later in life. My wife and I have charming friends that we visit from time to time, and sometimes I attend business-related meetup.com events and conferences, but as a general rule, we go for months at a time without outside contact (I don't even bother with social networks), and are even considering moving to the middle of the woods. It isn't that we aren't nice or friendly, we'd just rather be left alone with our projects and animals.

Surely being a happy hermit isn't deadly; We find it quite gratifying.
In Google's case the quid pro quo would be what the US Govt doesn't do to Google.

I'd offer anti-trust action as one of those things. Thus far Google has been let off very lightly in most cases involving the DoJ or FTC, in most cases with fines that wouldn't amount to a few days of revenue for it.

In contrast, the European Commission is adopting a much stricter approach towards it's market dominance.
"The Google Search app will be able to show Google Now ads for nearby businesses". We'll that's good that at least Google get's to show its ads, because it's "open" and you are its product.
malicious software is programs that runs against the wishes of the person who owns the hardware. They try to illegally gain access to private computer systems and do this either through social engineering which depend on tricking the users, or by exploiting a bug. Toolbars are of the first kind, in that they depend on tricking the user into installing them, and by obfuscate how to remove them.

Ads on the washington post that runs code in my browser is in the same boat. They depend on tricking the users computer into running code contrary to the wishes of those who own the computer. Software like ad-block, ghostery, no-script, disconnect and many other are designed to prevent said malware from running. They are the antivirus tools of 2010s, and is thankfully so far free.

Last, lets just put down Micrsoft own definition of malware:
'Malware' is a general term used to refer to a variety of forms of hostile or intrusive software
No, PixelSense had nothing to do with it.

http://uxweek.com/2012/speakers/jensen-harris/

The antecedents to the Metro design were in Zune HD and the Zune desktop client, among other things.
If HN comments were IE8 JavaScript interpreter, you would have just created a stack overflow from too much recursion.
How about plugging the hole you made on Skype?
That would be a great start :)

ie.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/11/snowden_leak_shows_m...

http://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-docs-boast-now-we-can-wiretap-s...

http://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-unlocked-skype-chat-backd...
You can of course use things like:

https://github.com/nmrugg/LZMA-JS

But nothing beats native code for decompression speed and also if it is native it can happen asynchronously outside of the JavaScript's limited threading model (although it is always getting better) and most importantly, it can also happen outside of the JavaScript memory space.
cool job well done ...
The alias is just adding confusion. If I see such an alias in code, I would wonder where else that function is used in the function, and be confused that it isn't.

Not to mention it becomes more verbose once you make that alias a const ptr (which we do on all of our local variables).
This looks like a fun project, although whenever something like this comes up I have to wonder if providing ways to make passwords more memorable is in fact a beneficial activity, since ideally people won't be remembering more than one password anyway (the master password of their manager). Of course there are exceptions, like login/unlock codes for PC and phone, but often in those exception cases a long string of characters isn't practical anyway. The cases where it is would normally be very few.

That said, I don't think I really believe my own argument. Anything that gets people thinking about better ways to handle their passwords is probably a good thing. Once the ball is rolling, they might even land on a password manager. Perhaps even through this comment!
I'm not a scientist, but I imagine that they would use the emission spectrum[0] of the various elements. Perhaps they could sample the spectrum of all of the stars and that might give a reasonable approximation.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_spectrum
What matters is how you raise them, not why they were born

While that's likely true, I think it's also wise to consider that it is probably unwise to consider "having kids" as a _solution_ to a problem. Having kids is signing up for a half decade of never sleeping the same way again, never having "you" time easily, etc. It's a mountain of stress on both parents, and should not be entered into lightly -- else how will one manage to raise the kids well?
You're assuming the information being returned is a boolean. As a static typing fanatic, I would not return an int to indicate a boolean result.

if (0 == number_of_students(context, classroom))
Would you say these languages are impractical because of their stylistic choice to use operators?

I think people have a preconception that "Haskell is not practical" -- and then anything that they do not find appealing becomes a source of its impracticality. Despite the fact that the same traits are shared with vastly practical languages.
I have a hard time reconciling the fact you claim to be making a dispassionate analysis, and yet cannot find a single accomplishment of Janet Yellen that would merit her being an in-demand speaker, except her ability to ‘direct government largesse’. If you were trying to make a sincere argument, I suspect you’d find a few reasons people would value her ideas.
> proposed drinking bleach

speaking of trust. here's a PSA for those, who like myself, had trusted the media and thought that happened:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/11/joe-biden/...
> The life expectancy is 14 years vs 48

...which is still a factor of ~3x, which means my napkin math wasn't too shabby, which means this tangent was completely irrelevant, because my main point is unchanged.
> It's going to be hard to tie financial responsibility to individual officers in a way that doesn't ultimately come back to tax dollars anyway.

Replace individual officer with individual common citizen. Knowingly doing something wrong results in <insert anything> for egg
Knowingly driving a car into a building won’t be slap on the wrist and the tax payer will pay for it. It probably means you’ll be in jail, bankrupt etc. why shouldn’t same standard be applied?
If I'm debugging something I'm writing myself it's usually quite obvious where the problem probably is. With other people's code it takes a bit of digging, but is usually found without a debugger. Just print enough stuff, with interpreted languages this is usually really fast. Something like Javascript's console.log is actually really nice for this (and browsers have hands down best debugging tools anyway).

I'm not sure how REPL helps you out of this. You still have to somehow change the state of the program, but if you "monkeypatch" it using REPL, you now have to keep in your head what the state is.

In the end code is just description of how to bring the program to some state. I like to have that description on file so I don't have to keep it in my head.
At the time the instrument was manufactured, sea level was 120m (400ft) lower than today, and the whole area out to present England/Ireland from France to Denmark was dry land, although glaciated at the north end.

Doubtless most instruments of this type are at sites now underwater. We are lucky this was carried to high ground.
You are talking about a solution that might work[0]. But the issue is not that this solution has not been tried, rather no solutions are being tried because the police simply refuse to allow any potential solutions.

Most workers in the US are not protected by unions, the police are a stark exception to this. Their union contracts not only protect them as workers, they ensure protections that people absolutely would not believe, such as mandatory cooling off periods before police can be interviewed when charged with misconduct.

Even if the rules were nearly even for police and non-police the issue remains that most enforcement would have to come from their peers (other police or DAs, even other enforcement officers at state and federal agencies will see themselves on the same team). They don’t want to subject one of their own to the criminal justice system because they know how cruel and damaging it is.

[0] It actually won’t work though:

- Taxpayers with police forces that actually avoid incidents that would pay out will still have to pay the insurance tax

- Incidents of gross civil rights violations (such as intentionally arresting or killing someone when it was not warranted) are so injurious that nobody will insure the police forces that actually need it

- In the interim we may see one of the worst possible outcomes: a police understanding that violations are simply a dollars and cents issue
> But the London developer market has very broad salary range. It's not that many years ago I worked at companies where we hired senior developers around the GBP 40k/USD 55k mark.

Working in London in 2007/8 it was common for senior developers to switch to contract work since it was fairly easy to at least double your salary that way (GBP 500/600 a day was about the going rate then IIRC.) At the time I remember traveling to the US and everything seeming very cheap at the 1.90 GBP/USD exchange rates pre Brexit and financial crash...
I believe Cambia Health Solutions also uses Clojure.
Super impressive. I am generally not impressed with community hacks because, as every comment thread discusses, they are generally hacks that do not support all players and thus can’t be shipped.

But this seems pretty damn clean. And it’s egregious that no one at R* took a week to investigate and fix “correctly”.
I'm disgusted that all competition to k8s is dying a slow death. I'm counting the days for nomad with expectation and whishing something better will arise.
Does anyone else really want to see a version of Elm that compiles to React Native? Since Javascript is the de facto intermediate language of the 21st century, frameworks like React Native open a lot of doors.
At a glance, 34 of the 96 startups listed have "XYZ for ..." in their blurb (35%). Of these, there are 2 Ubers, 2 Slacks, 2 AWS's, and 1 each of Stripe, SolarCity, Nest, Siri, Palantir, Clever, AngelList and AirBnB...
Direct link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.13296
Here are some I'm aware of:

https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/issues/290

https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/issues/2081

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/issues/2145

Webkit devs are aware of these and they have been fixed in Webkit core, but Apple doesn't provide any info about when the fixes may see the light of day.
This is hilarious, memorable, and actually useful. Thank you zcdziura, may the wind be at your back.
For houses, America is somewhat an outlier. Most of the world builds concrete houses and America uses lumber.
"It is important to maintain the discipline of not trying to explain too much,” said Max Levchin, chief executive of Affirm. Adding human assumptions, he noted, could introduce bias into the data analysis.

This might be true, but I've heard this mentality before, and I feel like it draws this incorrect picture of completely fair robots scanning the universe of variables. Ultimately it's a [probably-white-upper-middle-class] human who intuits which variables are worth further study.

[probably-white-upper-middle-class]: pick your favorite adjectives to describe startup machine learning engineers.
All these people hate Facebook, but they still use Facebook. How many of those one-star reviews were written by people who still launch the app 20 times a day? What incentive does Facebook really have to change their QA practices?
Citing Section 215 of the Patriot Act is an unusual choice here, as there are many cross-covering legal authorities. (In the article's defense, it points this out).

Assuming folks stayed in for the entire tick-tock of the Somalia example, we're left with the impression that Section 215 hasn't really paid off that much. But where does that really lead us? If we get rid of 215, we still have warrantless collection of both metadata and data.

I think we're looking at this the wrong way. The thing I want to know is this: as an American citizen who is supposed to be in charge of these well-meaning but ill-led folks, how do I stop them from collecting data on myself and other citizens?

We debate these policies one at a time as each law or provision is discussed, but nobody seems to be wrapping it all up into a package or proposal that I can support or vote for.
How very sad. :( I am glad it is being brought up though.

Part of it is cultural. Men are culturally supposed to be manly and dominant and its hard to get out of the gendered mindset and both acknowledge it exists, it is a serious problem and talk about it. Both gender stereotypes (man and woman) can be harmful to the individual. In fact, Most stereotypes are harmful to the individual.

If we don't open up our services to men (and take men seriously) then we are preventing many men from getting help. Not only in a physical way, but in a psychological way as well. (They may think that they are the only ones or blame themselves because they think they are weak)

The good news is around here it is changing. Our "Woman's Shelter" was renamed to something generic and they now concentrate on providing services to men as well and emphasis men are welcome.

The bad news is rather than talk about it in a rational way I fear this thread will slip into a lot of visceral hatred.