jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that perspective is crucial, I think. When I was a teenager I worked at TJ Maxx for gas money. Retail/customer service type work can be and often is humiliating and somewhat dehumanizing, and of course it pays jack.

I have coworkers who not only didn't do that, they didn't work anywhere else professionally before coming to their jobs at our cushy employer. They're kind of double-screwed: they don't know how sweet this job is vs other jobs doing similar work, and they don't know how much they should be getting paid for it. So they have good jobs, that they bitch about, for which they get paid half or 60% of what they should be getting. (The pay isn't why they bitch, they don't even know they're getting underpaid.)
It’s a do-nothing lambda expression applied (executed). If it is one of many questions then it does help revealing what you know and don’t know.
I kept reading, because Windows seems to have survived and though I wouldn't call Jobs' prediction pure snake oil, I think the idea that tablets would wipe out the keyboard computer never came to pass.
Lol, if this all gets too onerous, I will just stick with my plasmas and CRT displays.

I have a few of each, they are in great condition and will be collecting a few more.

OLED may prove compelling enough to get me interested, but nothing LCD will, except as computer display.

I got super lucky on the plasma. It is big, beautiful and not all that smart. Got two of them, one seeing very light use.

Those things said, chances are the display tech that performs on par with fast plasma and CRT will probably come with the worst of this "smart" code.

Fine. I am game. Lets play. I will probably win, but it will also probably be a pain in the ass too.

Maybe I will just get a third plasma...

The other thing which has happened as a result of all this is I personally do not bother with TV much. Just hate the ads. Too much, too frequent, too repetitive.

I have never been happier. All that bonus time!
"The minute you start believing that you’re something special – that you’re the smartest, most talented guy in every room – is the minute things start to fall apart."

So true. Paranoia and humility are your closest friends.
I would. How does typing in the program name instead of clicking on a button teach you more about how a computer works? Maybe the kid might get more interested in computers, but it won't be from using the command line to run a program.

In the end the kid just wanted to play with tuxpaint.
I'll oversimplify my question, how will be possible for us to get useful information from a system based in randomness?

For my understanding, I can ask a quantum system: is this a cow? and it'll answer:

1. Yes

2. No

3. 72
I would bet that C++ and Rust and D and really any language that doesn't have a large runtime and doesn't generally box it's variables would also have less memory usage.
Although it wouldn't really be relevant for the level generation we're doing unless the memory usage was outrageous, I'm open to including memory usage in the table for comprehensiveness's sake. What would you say is the best way to measure ram usage on Linux; is there something as simple as 'time ./ThisExecutable' is for measuring time?
Do you have a statistic for non-diamond jewels?
One for santosh@mypad.in please
> The flaw is subtle, and hard to spot while scanning the code

The author can't be serious. This particular bug has made the rounds and is understood even by non-programmers.
Ireland has opted out too. UK and Ireland are part of a "Common Travel Area" (a region that doesn't require passports to travel within, and which includes other islands in the British Isles), but aren't in Schengen.
That may or not be paranoid, but it's not really on topic. The users in this case had were actively using their webcams and sending images over the Internet to chat partners.
>Once again: the only reason this bug got so much attention and press is that it's easy for laypeople to get their heads around. All you have to understand is how "goto" works.

I don't agree. Most people don't even have a basic understanding of coding. I think that it has more to do with the fact that there are about 500 million vulnerable devices out there, and that we are talking about Apple. Remember Antennagate, it wasn't even that big of a deal and look at what the press made of it.
thanks for mentioning these. They're quite sad, but touching and for a lack of a better word very human.

I can't help but read this and think about my own path in life and especially family.
That's what's so frustrating about this sort of thing, the perception that you have to have proof beyond a reasonable doubt before you build up anything approaching ire. This isn't a courtroom, and if you have enough circumstantial evidence that you're 60% sure something shady is going on there is nothing wrong with judging public policy on that basis.

Brings to mind the Valerie Plame scandal. We may not know for 20 years what happened and who exactly was involved, but in the meantime the administration at the very least gave the appearance of serious criminal behavior up to the level of the Vice-President and the President, and that's enough. Yet you have people who want proof beyond a reasonable doubt, i.e. a conviction, before they'll even say "Cheney might have been a bad VP".
Hi Tech dumpster diving is great! I've rescued notebooks which only needed to be matched up with a suitable but missing power brick, ditto for Sony monitors, even servers that were the "wrong" brand.
> Really no better than the average person who reads a lot of books.

That might be true, but of course the "average person who reads a lot of books" is not even remotely average. Most people don't read a lot of books, so if college were to make an average person nearly as knowledgeable as self-motivated individuals interesting in spending their personal free-time reading books, as opposed to watching American Idol, it is pretty successful.
A $900k home is ~$3,600/month P+I after 20% down. Considering that principal is actually savings and you can deduct X% of the interest, you are looking at a true effective cost at under $2k + real estate taxes and maintenance. The carrying costs are easily doable by a couple in the tech industry, let alone the actual effective monthly costs. What's depressing about that?

It sounds like you're brought up with a more traditional expectation of constitutes a house - 2.3 kids, picket fence, et. all. That's depressing.
Why opt out in the first place then? Isn't that like boycotting the bus up until the point where you realize you have to get to work and then deciding it is too much trouble to walk so you take it anyways?
Natural Language Processing.
Not a big fan of the ranch style, but check out #11, guy's got seriously good taste in those doors.
Sometimes you wonder how Microsoft could ever become that successful. But then you take a minute, think again, and understand.
Having a similar product (well somewhat) in the market it is great to see that there is quite a bit of interest in the market. I particularly liked the use of outsourcing part of your post. It is very obvious that the dream of one-man-shop is over.

One suggestion though, I think focusing on a single type of customer (mobile services that travel to the customer) might be more effective for the obvious financial loss they face for a customer who is not home at that time.
But it doesn't clone Groupon...

Wow has no minimum qualification to purchase the deal (unlike Groupon's "tipping point," where a certain number of shoppers have to commit to it), and Wow plans to "keep it simple" and avoid gimmicks and games.

This would make potential buying experiences very different. The secret sauce of Groupon is collective buying power. This looks like a simple race to the bottom for merchants, except they are not guaranteed to get a certain number of purchases.
I don't care much for the style of David Mark's rhetoric, but he is not only one to criticize Sencha in that thread. While David doesn't manage to get his point across very effectively, let's consider some of popular JS libraries:

Prototype.js: Messes with the prototype of all your objects, that can't be good.

ExtJS: Big enterprisey clusterfuck, though the widgets look pretty good.

jQuery: I do use jQuery but last time I browsed through its source I was appalled by all the dirty hacks. The plugin situation is an unmaintanable clusterfuck. The UI library is still lacking after years of development.

I hope the popularity of node.js will drive the development of new and better JS libraries, because our current situation is unimpressive.
Con Kolivas. He's also mentioned in the article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas
I'm curious, are you building your own parser from scratch? There are several existing libraries out there which can work with Java source code either at the bytecode or syntax-tree level.

Depending on your purpose, might be a whole lot easier to re-use an existing implementation and focus on whatever you're planning to use this parser for...
> Freedom of Speech !== Entitlement to a Platform

As it happens I wrote an essay on this yesterday: https://pontifex.substack.com/p/google-censors-talkradio , in response to an other act of corporate censorship.

My argument was that because of network effects there are only a few dominant platforms (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc) and that when these platforms take down content, they are in practise preventing that person's message from getting out, i.e. censoring people.

This gives them a lot of power: power to decide which ideas can be disseminated, power to decide which politicians can get elected. So if you favour democracy, you have to be against the power of big tech platforms to shut down discussions they don't like.

(My favoured solution would involve mandate interoperability using ActivityPub and similar protocols, which breaks the dominance of big platforms due to network effects).
What about the individual employees enabling the company to enable these campaigns? At the end of the day, the buck stops with every single employee that has been or is even tangentially related to the newsfeed algorithm. Mass quit in protest. Unionize. Reject this work that is destroying democracy.
Haha ridiculous, please tell me this article has been paid for by Hindu nationalists like RSS and their overlord, the PM of India, Mr. Modi.
I meant the author's workaround of adding a call to `this.getSize()`, not the JVM fix.
Even the amount of automation we have today leads to the very real danger of pilot boredom: what do they do to keep busy when the flight is on auto for most of the trip and they are stuck in the cockpit just monitoring things? At least if they could fly the plane, they would have something to do! Imagine if your job was just to monitor the computer program itself, you'd get paid (yeh!), but not having anything to do would take a toll!

Check out:

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/hazards-aut...

If we automate even more, the problem just becomes worse. We could pull back on automation to keep the pilots alert, but we are increasingly relying on it to optimize resources (air space, fuel, airport take off and landing slots, and ya safety).

And...that's just it. Computers don't get bored. I suffer from some depression also (who doesn't!), but I find that my job keeps me busy enough that I can keep it in check. Imagine being a bit depressed and sitting in a cockpit doing nothing for a few hours at a time.
The comment is quite relevant and it's not "rhetoric" ... it's precisely true. Israel may or may not be justified in its actions, but it has taken actions that have lead to all of the things the parent mentioned.
Of course the Mobile Carriers dream of charging per page, or for a tiered service or whatever. Just as I dream of getting a salary of one billion dollars a year!

But I don't get a billion dollars a year. Why not? Perhaps because other people exist who can do my job, and have the willingness to do it for less than a billion a year?

As long as competition exists, the telecomms won't get tiered service. But you can bet that the second some company survives the transition to tiered service as described, competition is non-existant, either due to collusion, or legislation.
Tell NH: don't worry about money so much and if you do want to waste time thinking/talking about money and the making thereof, don't do a PhD.
This implied that the real purpose of cities, and the reason cities keep on growing, is their ability to create massive economies of scale, just as big animals do.

Perhaps a better analogy: large corporations exist because they can lower the cost of transactions to produce certain products. Cities exist because conditions and spatial concentration can also reduce the cost of transactions.
I wonder how the reactions would have been if someone 'cool' instead of AOL had bought about.me. My guess is that a big part of the online rage is because of the "Beauty and the Beast" character of this marriage. s/AOL/Google/ and the reactions might have been different.

About.me had great potential as a universal businesscard of sorts, the stats were neat & they had a lot of street cred. But I guess that's all over now they lost their cool kid status. Oh well, at least they didn't get acquired by Yahoo. That would have been interesting.
Ljubljana is lovely for a vacation by the way. Slovenia is a very beautiful country. Unfortunately we were sick with a cold for most of our stay and I didn't partake in the beer fountain or drink nearly as much wine as I wanted to. Our landlady was a bit uptight and got upset that we were hand washing clothes in the bathroom sink, but with the communication barrier I don't think she fully appreciated that we were dealing with sick baby throw-up 3+ times a day...
OC has nothing to do with the question you posed an I answered
> Totally different.

I don't see how they are different at all. The talker is used to bring in a certain type of person they're looking for. How they convert that persons attendance in to a return for their business is irrelevant. Comic-on doesn't just make money on tickets, bringing those customers in also leads to them making more transactions inside

> In this case, we are talking about companies paying people exorbitant sums for no other reason that at some point the speaker may be in a position to affect the flow of government largess.

That's conjecture and no we aren't. We were specifically discussing “wall street speaking fees” and why they demand such a high rate. Which there are clearly other valid business incentives other than the one you've landed on.

As to whether this specific case had nefarious motives. I don't know enough to have a strong opinion either way.
> The best advice I've seen is to value stock options at zero.

I don't know. I understand that, but on the flip side I got lucky and currently my equity is worth money. In SV equity can make up a large portion of your compensation, it shouldn't be ignored.

Sure, generally equity from a public company is worth more money. But equity at startups can still be valuable. A better conservative approach to startup equity would be to negotiate first for a good base salary and then negotiate for equity. VC-funded startups can pay well.
>We are a long way from the type of simulations done for protein folding and materials strength and basically every other scientific field.

Have you not heard of alphafold?
I guess this comment will be burned to the ground [instead of people telling me why they disagree], and yeah a single username and password is bad, but the article smells like fear-mongering. "Zomg, strangers will look at your children!", even though the kids are in a place that is semi-public, and the viewers are mostly remote.

Hmm, then again, if someone was filming my children, I'd be creeped out. And if someone was using this to identify kids and their day-to-day patterns (e.g. pick up hours), they could theoritically show up 10 minutes earlier, say they're there sent by the parents to pick up someone, and "the kid is wearing a blue top and yellow shorts" or whatever. But IMO kidnap scares are overblown, and if a nursery falls for that trick without calling the parents first, they should be shut down for being too stupid.
I attempted to be clear ("amazon's original idea") that the original innovation was not a technical innovation -- not only AWS but various warehouse, fulfillment and other developments have been technology-based. I also agree that subsequent development at Youtube has been technological.

My point is that technology is neither sufficient nor even necessary for innovation and to assume so is to wear blinders. Sorry my brevity resulted in a lack of clarity.

And we even have a term for pre-baconian work: "pure science" which is the stuff frequently and foolishly pointed at by the usual gradgrinds as being a waste of money.
If you're writing software, and want the project to be completed faster, does throwing another $100B at a project make it go faster? Usually, this will slow it down, not make it go faster. A classic of the software engineering industry, The Mythical Man Month, is all about this process.

This is a similar sort of process. There's extremely specialized knowledge held by only a tiny number of people, and though there is a plan to vastly expand production, it's never been done before.

The bottleneck is not money, the bottleneck is people. People who have undoubtedly been working themselves to the bone to get this done as quickly as possible.
Now what if your points aren't IEEE double-precision floating point numbers? What if they are Unix time represented as 64-bit integers, and you'd like to format the tick labels according to your locale?

That kind of composability is what keeps me interested in Julia, so I hope that the community keeps improving the overall UX of the language.
I believe they are working on a mobile client.
This would already be true in the states if not for AMT. :(
Although I agree with your post, I still remember the Object Pascal, C++ PowerPlant/Carbon and Java Bridge days.
Do you really want someone to inject some js that says "click here to receive notifications about this project" that actually sends them spam notifications?
Is it enough to offset anthropogenic climate change?
While Nuntii Latini¹ shut down a couple of years ago, their back catalogue is still available². It won't put the new in news, but it is less stale than Latin ;)

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuntii_Latini

² https://areena.yle.fi/audio/1-1931339
6% return peak bubble to peak bubble is in no way reassuring.
I'd be more inclined to use react native with a cross platform native language backing it than touch flutter and with it dart.

Also, using google trends for this sort of thing with those terms is flawed at best and stupid at worst. Flutter is a generic word. React native is a fairly specific phrase in tech.
I suspect Emacs’s eshell sees more use than many of those that made this list. Doesn’t run without Emacs, though, which maybe disqualifies it?

Cool list though.
I've just started learning biblical Hebrew, and I must say I find it a fascinating language - especially its alphabet (or aleph-bet, rather). I'm particulary intrigued by the development visible in the writing: how it started off with only consonants as one of the very early writing systems, and then had multiple phases of "retrofitting" vowels with various systems (first the mater lectionis, then the vowel symbols). And then, finally, modern Hebrew writing, which has dropped all of those vowels again (don't quite understand that bit yet :D ).
Yes, this is very much a "dad's in charge, mom said so" moment.
There are regions of deserts though where there is no ecology. For example, there are huge portions of the Atacama Desert that don't even have microbial life forms in the soil, so placing a solar facility there won't impact any known form of life. Additionally, there are solar panels that are transparent [1] which could also help minimize the ecological impact of solar generation. Furthermore, one can spread out the solar panels, to again minimize the impact in ecosystems. Yes, blindly using solar can be detrimental, but done right, you can mitigate the impact.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-03-23/invisible-so...
Carl Sagan talks about this in his series "Cosmos":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq5qojfB4P0
Used Optimizely on my personal website. Increased conversions (click-throughs to my projects and blog) by 15%. Took 10 minutes. Worth it? Yeah.
Could somebody summarize what their special sauce is/was? Were they simply good game developers, or do their games do something special?
99% of inner-city youths don't do drugs...

If true, this means inner city youth do drugs about 50x less than youth in general. (Not asserting any precision in the numbers, just throwing out orders of magnitude.)

http://www.teendrugabuse.us/teendrugstatistics.html
Looking at that link, you're talking, in the Bay Area, about 185k + 2% with less than that meaning (significantly) more equity.
You acknowledge that you have a pedantic hangup over the semantics of the phrase "gender issues in tech", and then you construct this elaborate straw man about how the technology itself is gender agnostic (which is not a revelation, it is true of literally all inanimate objects) and that the gender issues are in society as a whole.

But what you haven't done is acknowledge that the tech industry has its own manifestation of sexism that is distinct from that of wider society, in some ways more pernicious, and in fact we've regressed in the last 20 years.

I also have to say, the way that you constructed this whole argument perfectly illustrates why sexism is tech is a difficult problem: tech people tend to be smart and well-reasoned, and often have a liberal and egalitarian self-image, so it's very easy for them to construct a solid case for why they themselves could never be racist or sexist. All the while blissfully ignorant of the reality other people are experiencing. I'm deliberately not using the hot-button label for white males in this context because I think it's counter productive, but just stop for a minute a consider that your experience might not apply to everyone.
What exactly did you patent? Phone in a suitcase? Phone with big battery in a suitcase? GPS .. in a phone? Phone in a suitcase, with big battery and no screen .. with a gps?
These days, most of the games I play are readily available and work well on Linux. All of the Valve Source games have been ported, Civ V works great, many independent and upcoming titles on Steam have good Linux versions. Steam has been really good for Linux games.

I pretty much have no reason to reboot into Windows. I used to reboot for Netflix, but now it works in recent Chrome versions on Linux.

That said, I've used Linux as my primary desktop OS since 1995 (but always with a backup Windows partition), so I'm not the ideal person to look to for whether Linux is ready for the desktop...it's been ready for my desktop for a couple decades. But, I think now I'm at a point where I don't feel any need to have a Windows partition, for anything.
Their revenue is flat and they make no profits. That's pretty terrible in this market.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=GRPN
The "Drive Happy District"? That sounds like something right out of Super Sad True Love Story.
This isn't exactly what you're asking for, but maybe it'll spur some kind of thought:

https://gist.github.com/ndarville/4295324