jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well before going full conspiracy, I believe a lot of tech people are anti union themselves compared to some other fields. I'm not one of them but as long as there is demand like right now for programmers, the conditions and pay is good.
Hey there, this is the author of Fast Company's story. Thanks for the note.

While I appreciate your perspective, during the course of reporting, you have to understand that you're going to hear an endless amount of varying perspectives, especially when it comes to emotional finger-pointing and Monday morning quarterbacking. It sounds like you worked on the project for about a year, of a product with roots that can be traced as far back as 2009. It's also not clear to me what "team" you're referring to, since so many teams were involved over this long time period, not just in Seattle but in Cupertino/Sunnyvale/Cambridge/etc, as you know. So I just hope people can keep that in mind when reading about "inaccuracies," which, on the whole, I certainly would disagree with.

As for your complaints, it sounds like many of them are aimed at the hardware teams; during my reporting, I certainly heard just as many complaints leveled at the software teams (e.g. at former VP Howard Look before his departure).

I totally understand that current/former employees get defensive about these kinds of topics, especially when it comes to their work being under the eye of criticism (early Dynamic Perspective team members were especially defensive during my reporting). But it's important to separate fact from emotion, and present a narrative that is clear, accurate, and balanced.

At this point, I've talked to nearly four-dozen sources for this story -- current and former employees at all levels of the company -- and this is the story that's emerged. The feedback I've since received privately from insiders has been incredibly reassuring.

With that said, I'm not dismissing your comments. But if you'd like to provide more insight, feel free to reach out. I'm accessible online, and happy to connect on background, if that's most comfortable for you.

Best,
Austin
Yes!

That is the most popular feature request so far. https://github.com/amjith/pgcli/issues/19
Several programs get a commission _and_ charge tuition.
Sure, an out of court settlement suggests a losing judgement, but the article suggests this was probably due to some poor comments the dean made to the press. What I'm proposing is that this didn't exactly come out as a clear judgement that says there was political discrimination going on.

I also believe that diversity is important, but I feel like diversity in this case isn't that important. Take for instance my earlier preference for AoE over Candy Crush. Is there a reason why I should look to create a diverse distribution of Candy Crush/AoE players in my workplace?

Similarly, what is it about this distribution in academia that gives it a particularly quantifiable effect on Republicans? Is there evidence of an effect? Why aren't we talking about third-party candidates or non-voters?

What evidence is there that a lack of diversity in political views in social psychology leads to a lack of truth in that discipline?
Almost anything you encounter is an "ARM-based" chip. I'm not knowledgeable on hardware stuff but I do know that ARM customers are engineers that build on the platform; it's not a plug-and-play business.
Obligatory-long-yet-relevant-animation(?) on our educational system:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg

When are we (loosely speaking) going to realize that we're not teaching in the right medium.
It's right, that in theory I can't know what a C++ function call means.

But that's also the case for C. In C I can assign a function pointer to a variable. When the function is called through the variable, than I don't know which function is called.

Almost never the language is the problem, but their usage.
There's always context, and the quantity depends mostly on the complexity of the software. And regardless which language you use, you have to define a convention for the usage of the language, also in C.
All of the competition can only be good for us developers. This, ST3, Light Table, Brackets, etc. Bring on the text editor wars!
TextMate is still alive: https://github.com/textmate/textmate

But to your main point, I would assume this has really really really good github integration...
>Didn't he have a job, for many years, at Yahoo, before starting WhatsApp?

The article missed a trick, should have said:

"Whatsapp founder goes from being penniless and naked (just being born) to a billionaire."
I run a sci-fi/fantasy blog with a few other people where we review books etc.
So are you looking for more action/adventure type sci-fi, hard sci-fi, space opera, loads of alien life, etc?
Not all.

PyCharm has excellent static analysis capabilities for this. One just have to hint it with `assert isinstance(spam, Egg)` on occasions.

Catches me tons of bugs before interpreter ever hits them. Which is way nicer than getting an exception notification email with some live customer hitting 500 page because there's a TypeError in some obscure execution path you've never really tested.
Les vertiges de Pascal. Excellent choice.
Ironfish is just a testnet so there is zero liquidity there because it isn't even launched.

Tornado cash has about $700mm right now deposited in it, with the vast majority of that being in the 100 ETH deposit pool.

They absolutely could have done it over time. They could have bridged the Bitcoin using the RenVM protocol to receive renBTC, done a combination of selling the renBTC and let arbitrageurs provide the liquidity as the couple would have had to sell a little below market. They could then deposit the ETH in Tornado.cash. Simultaneously to speed things up, they could have deposited the renBTC into an onchain staking protocol to borrow against it, using the borrowed proceeds as their liquidity, and possibly even just forgetting about the collateral and letting the protocol take it eventually.

Even though they would be a large part of the Tornado.cash pool, it would actually only be "for now" because there are several other heists of large seizes that are turned away from Tornado.cash because it is too small. So liquidity begets liquidity. I would content that even if they had become 60% of the pool, boosting its size to $1.5bn, that it would have attracted many more deposits, I could see Tornado.cash being a $3bn pool by now, given the size of heists that I know of.

Tornado.cash of course is not good enough to reintegrate back into the economy, under your name. So then they could have employed the reintegration.

With clean money they earned from salary, they could have created a random token on the Ethereum network, lets call it SHIBA INU (SHIB), made sure to keep a bunch of the tokens for themselves, and then withdrawn tornado cash notes to 100,000 addresses which programmatically bought SHIB, and pumped the token 52885982.4% and just been a lucky trader that cashes out with long term capital gains they pay. They would have had many more billions doing that.

Its too bad that people could try to throw a "conspiracy to commit" charge at me too, the moment I use Tornado Cash or launch an erc20 token now, but its more important to me that my speech isn't chilled so that you all can have a better discussion about it.
A lot of suffering doesn't cause any growth whatsoever, especially the kind of suffering that ends in painful, horrifying death.

Challenges may cause growth, and I don't think anybody really wishes for an unchallenging, boring, uneventful life. But suffering? No, thanks.
The basic square hardware is about 1/5 the price you listed, but I don't think it's the price, but the effort – filling a form in the app vs waiting for a package to arrive in the mail, and setting up some extra hardware (What I must wonder is what Apple charges Square for this feature)
Yeah, what a waste. You should cancel your subscription to save all the money you wasted by reading those 20-word snippets of text.

What? It's still free? And people are still allowed to write about what they want to, and not what YOU want them to?

That IS weird.
Super cool.

The linked page goes to one particular world: msernst which allows you to enter coordinates to scroll to (as well as drop links to those coordinates).

Looks like you can create your own text world or explore others.

Can this be used for useful collaboration?
This essay from the right-wing thinktank Heritage Foundation is flawed. It attempts to argue that while food insecurity exists, it isn't a problem; those who suffer from it actually have too much to eat, and just don't know how to eat healthily.

It correctly points out that the USDA doesn't associate "food insecurity" with hunger. However, what it doesn't point out is this was a recent controversial renaming. This Washington Post editorial dissects the "Orwellian" 2006 renaming.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11...

In 2008, nearly 15% of US households experienced "food insecurity." Not only that, but this number explicitly excludes the homeless, as they weren't surveyed. (It may be also the case that it excluded those without phones and little free time, though I have to look more closely.)

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/FoodSecurity/

The CDC points out many reasons why prisoners of war and others whose food is restricted may end up showing obesity; and that cheaper, lower quality food is high in fat. Those who wish to pursue this further can google for "food insecurity obesity".

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5235a3.htm
Does every feature that posterous releases make it to the front page of HN? I mean, pages, it's not some super innovative new feature. Every friggin blog platform on the planet has the ability to create pages.

How is this newsworthy and why are people up-voting it?
I've been doing a lot of things at the same time for many years, school, work, studies outside school and stuff like that; but have never ever felt stressed or really "busy" either.

When people talked to me about how stressed out they were and all the stuff they had to do i used to think "Seems like you should just do it and not be so stressed and freaked out and everything would be a lot simpler."

But some weeks ago I actually felt stressed, for no apparent reason either; it was a really creepy feeling bothering me much, much more than I would have expected. It made it harder to sleep, i would almost get an upset stomach.

I could not figure out for the life of me why I was feeling that way, or how I could make it stop. It was completely new. The feeling have since passed and I hope it won't ever come back. But I have a bit more respect now for people who get stressed, it's not really helpful or useful to just tell them "Don't be stressed and everything would be easier."

And it's not really that easy to just.. get rid of the feeling.

The post is absolutely correct, stop "being busy" and you wouldn't be so busy.
But some real tips psychological or otherwise on how to avoid the feeling would be far more helpful than simply; in my opinion: stating the obvious.

"Stop being busy. Just decide to stop, today."
Has that ever worked? Has it worked for the author or is he like I was and have simply never felt stress?
Hat guy first occurred in comic #12, and then became a regular character in comic #29. xkcd is currently at #749.
> it seems as if facebook/twitter are in a real place to sell me stuff i might actually want, which could be a great service in and of itself.

As a programmer working in data mining problems, I can certainly concede just don't find the idea of working on an ad platform to be sexy enough to work on.

But when I put my consumer hat on, I think highly relevant ads are just fine and I'm far, far more likely to click them and generate revenue for the person showing them to me.

A few months ago I booked a trip to SF, and alongside the e-ticket confirmation mail in my inbox there was a Gmail context ad for zeppelin tours of Silicon Valley from Airship Ventures. I had absolutely no idea this was available, but it seemed awesome, and immediately went to book a tour.

If you can show me an ad for something I might be interested in (a tour) at the time I'm most likely to make a purchase (I already had my credit card out from booking the airline reservation) then that's awesome. In fact I might even perceive that as a service if the product is something I would have never known about before.
Here's another awesome breakdown of where we're at by former Digital Domain CEO Scott Ross -
http://www.awntv.com/playlists/scott-ross-fmx-11-presentatio...
Here's an outrageous example of how utterly broken the vendor verification is on Google -

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waefgrwegw...

It is hard to blame a user when they fall for garbage like this. The hundreds of fake reviews are the topping on the cake, and this is one of countless examples of this sort of horseshit.
…and you can unlock an achievement by repeatedly scrolling up/down/up/down/up/etc.
Modern processors are much more complicated than old at-most-single-instruction-per-cycle processors. There are techniques collectively known as Instruction Level Parallelism that enable a processor to execute several instructions in each cycle on each core. That, and a more efficient memory system, that keeps the processors from stalling, waiting for memory, are significant factors in performance.

End of the day, what matters is the number of instructions executed in the unit of time, not the number of clock cycles. Clock frequency is just one factor in processor performance. A more efficient microarchitecture can easily beat a "faster" (clock speed-wise) processor, as it's been the case with Pentium 4's NetBurst vs Core.
I've been hearing a bit about Colorado, so maybe you'll find something there. Boston has also usually been a hub for these sorts of things.
This pattern is egregious and shows a lack of knowledge of the architecture and language.

All these private methods are going to be duplicated for every object created. The whole point of the 'this' magic in javascript is to allow the same function, ie. the same memory usage, to be used with 1000s of objects with no hit. Here, you're going to get unique functions, extra memory, for just having the 'this' operator substituted by a variable named _elem. This code is fundamentally flawed and I severely suggest to never use closures for shared object methods when instead a shared method that is bound using '.bind' will ensure much better performance and memory usage.
It uses unix sockets. Latency is the same as the standard pre-forking model; the only difference is that file-descriptor passing lets you manage the worker processes independently instead of requiring them to have a common parent process (this is important when rolling out new code to a service with a lot of active connections, since it's disruptive to restart all the workers at once).

Here's a demo in Python: https://gist.github.com/bdarnell/1073945
This article seems to ignore one of the biggest, most basic issues facing hollywood right now - the demise of innovation in the VFX industry. Studios have carefully orchestrated an incredibly hostile working environment for people creating the biggest cash-cow it has left. For profit colleges are pumping out scores of young people every year with just enough training to get a low-paying job in whatever tax-incentive location is paying the most at any given time. Then you work 80-100+ hour weeks for a few months and are kicked back out on the street to start over in a new city (or country) at a new company, probably for even less money. It's a HUGE crisis and causing a massive exodus of mid and senior-level talent, myself included. Check out www.vfxsoldier.com or effectscorner.blogspot.com for more info.

All the while, film budgets go up, ticket prices go up, profits go up.

My point is that there IS a huge potential for disruptive influences in filmmaking, television and VOD, but it will likely come from the people that have been straddling the line between innovative technology and entertainment for longer than anyone - the VFX people. It's happening already.

Now if only I could find some time to work to work on that side project...
But the founders were lying about their identity when posting the links. If the user considers the service to be "links from other users" then yes, the content is fake. If the user considers the service to be "links", then you're correct. Personally, I consider the service to be "links from other users" and therefore, from my perspective, the content was fake.
As a reformatting tool should only change the formatting, you could check that the Abstract Syntax Tree is unchanged. The ast module in the standard library gives access to the AST [1].

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ast.html
Wanted to second the NICTA course as a top-notch resource for learning Haskell. It was only by working through the NICTA exercises that I finally understood functors, applicatives, monads, etc. and more importantly strengthened my intuition for when I could apply these functional tools to practical problems.
You should travel. Buy a plane ticket and just go. Don't even pack-- you can buy more clothes if you need them.
edit: This wasn't a productive comment.
I'm not sure we have enough data yet to say whether the people doing these jobs previously did or didn't have better paying or more secure jobs. Anecdotally, there are many people whose income and job security have severely declined, and who been relegated to low payed variable-workforce service jobs. I don't know to what extent people like that are represented among the taskrabbit-type service workers.
Apple are just pissed they didn't think of the hamburger menu first. This is terrible advice, the are understood by all and the few people that don't know where this mysterious control will take them can just click it and see. It's not like it's the rm -rf button.
What is a "little niche webshop" if I may ask? What exactly do you do?
> The tech shortage is present more than ever in every level of the industry.

In the web and mobile sectors of the industry, maybe.
Err... what? Maybe I'm dense, but if you want to cause instability in a dictatorship, a blatantly Hollywood-style comedy movie where some American dudes kill the nation's leader in a graphically gruesome fashion is not what I'd expect. If anything, it will help North Korean propaganda. ("See those American Imperialists insult our great country! Death to America!")

Besides, how many North Koreans would ever see this movie, anyway?
The figure I've seen is that typically 70% of a game's budget will go to art
Ooh, I like the design where there is no canopy and a propeller right in front of your face. There's a nice protective pillar.

I'm certain it's safe.
1) Amazon's outages took down multiple "availability zones"

2) Amazon is HIPAA certified, which means they adhere to the industry standard for storing private medical data. In this sense, they are as good as any other company that such data is being passed around.
Probably because he's not a Blackberry user... :)
tl;dr: he's young, he just got 4 mil, he's building an achievement-based mobile ad product. And once he becomes a millionaire, he's going to be a space tourist.
I think it's ironic that in the face of this failure, people are scrambling to figure out how to give Amazon more money.
In terms of reporting the news about establishing facts, where it domestic terrorists that stormed the building or protestors? What word are being used? Where it people spontaneously instigated by the speech made by Trump, or radicals who had organized the attack much earlier and who traveled to the demonstration. What is the narrative and story being told and why does one journalist chose one kind and the other a completely different one despite both using the same facts for it?

People sometimes say we live in a post-truth society. I would say that we live in a world where the narrative is more important than the truth, and part of the reason for that is that journalist are so well trained in creating narratives out of the crumbs of a few facts. I can even see the journalist students be given a handful of facts and asked to write a long article, each being graded on how well the narrative story end up.
“Here’s something that isn’t meant for your use case, but just ignore most stuff”

Vs.

“This does exactly what you want”

Of course, there are advantages to learning with the same tool you could also go on to use professionally.
How do you feel about the community Anki decks out there today (https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/)? I guess you've found some deficiencies with those?
For now. But will Renault be able to scale manufacturing to match VW and Tesla?

Just Tesla's Giga Berlin is going to push out 500k vehicles annually after the ramp up. And its max capacity is rumored to be 2000k/year, although that's probably at least 3-4 years away.

Both VW and Tesla will move to cheaper vehicles over time.
In the USA ~17% of GDP appears to be spent on health care. I guess that skews fairly heavily toward elderly people, but 10% on health insurance for a family of four doesn't seem out of the realms of sanity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_h...
You only have to "file" a federal tax return once a year.

What you are obligated to do is pay estimated taxes due at least quarterly. If you don't do this, you will have to pay a penalty when you "file" at the end of the year.

But, since current interest rates are near zero, the penalty is usually small and the IRS will even figure it for you and left you know the amount you owe.

My advice, forget the accountant, do your own taxes, pay everything due at that time (except the penalty) and let the IRS work the rest out and get back to you as they see fit.

Sales tax is a different animal that varies based on where you live.
I don't think the article frames it that way, really, if you look at the conclusion. I'd also highly recommend his book for an introduction to land use politics, centered around the bay area:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/585765/golden-gates...
I sincerely doubt that building towers lead to an increase in costs in the existing housing stock, unless something very strange is afoot.
It's funny to see the Perl comparison when APL-family languages normally have code that looks like that:

https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns/tree/master/cmp
BTC shouldn't be conceptualised as a killer app but a proof-of-concept. The world-changing thing the technology can do is eliminate graft, and I'm fine with it taking a while to get there.

Meantime, it's useful to keep track of who is most vocally against a technology that could eliminate graft.
>it disappeared to the 5th page despite its quickly gained popularity

I have seen this happen many times and have wondered the same thing. It is within the within the rights of whoever runs this site, but I not sure why they believe it would be required... if that is what is happening.
There is an EXTREMELY THIN LINE between "sponsored dissent" and "spontaneous dissent"

Shutting down opposing dissent usually means that all your press is now only good as toilet paper (like the Pravda in Cuba)

"inciting anti-administration feelings within the Cuban population"

So, the population love the Castro administration then? And whoever opposes is an US shill, sure...
This is a library I developed to make videos for my math site "Epiplexis" (https://epiplexis.xyz), and have now cleaned up for general use. Rather than recording a traditional video and then adding HTML overlays to achieve "interactivity", you create the video content in HTML/React and record yourself talking over it. This makes it a lot easier to work on content incrementally (and separately from recording), and also lets you do cool things like the interactive coding demos (see 1:42 of the linked video)

There's also a second tutorial focused specifically on math content: https://ractive-player.org/math/