jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Your mileage may vary -

Depends on the target of the project. You probably want a name that works with what it does. Something easy to pronounce and memorable helps. If its web-based you might want to determine a name along with domain name availability. In the case of my local community web search it started with doitincalaveras.com and is now refined to doplaces.com, if you are persistent with word combinations you can still get good short web domain names.

Here are some I did:

Many just get a name of what it does, character set editor, librarian (library management), etc. If you don't expect it to be competing with a lot of other things, this works fine, (you could always rename it later like - Bookworm Librarian, without too much hassle)

Alliteration of existing words, names. Years ago I made a program to automate cleaning up text files, I called it "Alphamix text file processor" (play on Vitamix the food processor)

Second thought is an acronym, compile a long list of words that the project entails and then try to work up a witty acronym consisting of those words for the name. I did this for a databasse management system; I called it, WANDA: Web Accessible Nimble Database Architecture. I had intended it to have a female name as many of the application I develop with it would be used in an office environment and was thinking of a smart professional assistant vibe.

Some play on popular character or story names (WANDA's logo is a fish, thinking of a Fish Called Wanda...)

Mainly think of your audience - if its techies you can get away with a lot. If it is not, don't get too weird (you know Atari was originally Syzygy, not a great name for long term public recognition. It it is too obscure people may not know what it is and you won't get the browse-by traffic that a more pertinent name could provide.

If its something fun, you might go for the absurd such as my favorite game name "Chess Maniac 5 Billion and 1" ... or maybe some name Douglas Adams would have made up for your product.
"Can HackerNews please stop sympathizing with nationalist unions?"

Nationalist? There's nothing nationalistic about taxi driver unions. In my experience taxi drivers are usually foreign.

Not to mention that you've attributed all of hacker news to one hive mind that should agree with whatever you think. I would imagine most people here are rather insulted by that notion

You've also presented no real facts or arguments for why Stallman's article is pro-union propaganda. On the other hand, he's presented many compelling arguments for why Uber is an invasion of privacy when compared to a normal taxi service.

I agree unions are not helpful: what we should really have is a sound set of labor laws that oblige companies to treat workers fairly instead of leaving them to bargain for it.
>motivation at the length of time it takes for them to see results

This is why I think javascript should be a first language. Kids can see the results on a web page right away.
Sellotape in Australia also :)
Because you side against the blockade because you either don't believe the Israeli reasons why the risk of not blockading are serious enough to warrant something as harsh as a blockade, or you just don't care about the consequences for the Israelis either way. The former is far more complicated than a casual observer could know offhand and the latter is obvious one-sidedness which speaks for itself. Take you're pick.

FYI: The food restrictions were never of a nature that would cause malnutrition, that is propaganda. If you know even a bit about the issue you know the Israelis have reasons for blockading construction material, so the question is if you are neutral, why you don't believe them.
Definitely. This was the deal breaker for people. Why buy a more expensive device that can do less?

To keep it competitive it should have been priced low, and digital versions should have been competitively priced. Plus, sim-shipping the disc and the PSN version should have been done for every single title.

These are the same decisions that are killing Microsoft's 360 Games on Demand service. Delays to the service and uncompetitive prices just make the service useless.

I sort of wonder if there are B&M agreements that are causing this sort of behaviour. Otherwise it just doesn't make sense.
I just clicked your "Subscribe", and it turned out to be a link to a newsletter subscription. Nowadays, I equate subscriptions to RSS, so I would rename it "Newsletter" instead, if you want to keep it down to one word.
There's an XSS on the page:

Try to login or create an account. Enter this as your username (or password, as long as it's not valid: you need an error), hit submit. Error + XSS.

</script><script>alert(1);</script>

You escape quotes, which is good, so I can't break out of the JSON request. But you have to remember how the HTML parsing of a page works. </script> will break out from within a javascript string.
Yep, on quite a few things these days. One thing I would note that may or may not affect uptake is the pretty dire state of good docs/tuts.
The code is overly complicated and overly extensive, I could probably rebuild it with half the code and make it so much better. But I've been delaying as it is....
The reason for this observation has nothing to do with age and more to do with the nature of their jobs when they actually reach 30.

The bulk of the jobs out there are neither exciting nor challenging after the first hump and most people out there get disillusioned after they realize the Pareto principle seems universal when applied to themselves since they become so efficient now that they can generally do the most worthwile things at their jobs in 20% of the time.

The trick is to start applying that big brain of yours to other things rather than the problems that your pointy-haired boss tells you to. Like learning a new skill, or picking up a new hobby to keep your brain going.
Only the equity paid off on that $700k+ mortgage counts as net worth. How many of those people completely own their houses?
Accenture's market cap is 1/3 of IBMs currently however, so management probably isn't too interested in that route.
This article is way overthinking it. It's better to simply store the UTC time of the event, and nothing else. Local time zone conversions can be done when displaying/editing. Presumably at the time you are reading your calendar, your local software knows the current rules to offset from GMT.

We have Skype meetings all the time involving parties in different US timezones and/or different countries. There's no "place" or local time zone for the meeting. We schedule in UTC and our local software or calendar program knows what time zone we are in to display the correct local time.
We could enable node-webkit to generate a windows build too. Are you interesting in helping out?
120,000 req/s Just a really unfortunate comma that looks like a decimal point.
For now, but what happens as the bubble continues to grow and more and more people start seeing dollar signs amidst the irrational exuberance?
If you want to found a startup, I can think of a lot better ways to spend 2 years and $100k than getting an MBA.
care to share the unminified source? From what I can see in my inspector it looks like you've just made some HTML UIs that look like a couple specific Mac apps, which alone would be a far cry from "porting Unix" and not that original of an endeavor
You are absolutely right. Do you have a suggestion for how to make it better? I'm not a designer :)
The basic license is free now, so you can get basic authentication.

But I still wonder why that isn't part of the open source version, and why it isn't turned on by default....
Woah.

I'm completely against that.

The last thing we need is the government to step in and say, "This is our brand new Free Speech site! Come on in to post whatever you like and pay no attention to the lady in the blue FBI windbreaker behind the curtain."

Such a site could trap many an unfortunate idealist who actually believed they could put whatever they wanted on that site. To me free speech is, you can put whatever you want up, and the government can't stop you in any way. Including potentially, you putting the information up there completely anonymously.

A government controlled space will not allow that.
> the author stripped down Chromium for the UI in order to get something much lighter than an Electron app.

If an organization did this, I'd be all for it. An individual? I'd bet this is going to slow down updates to Chromium significantly, and eventually lead to either security issues or maintenance fatigue resulting in closure of the project.

I'm not saying it's 100% going to happen like that, but that's on the wrong side of my risk tolerance line for adding a tool to my everyday suite.
Funny enough, one of my favorite talks argues the opposite. "Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain." I won't attempt to summarize but it's well worth a watch.
Will tack QZ Tray (https://qz.io) onto this list. I've actually used it at my last two jobs for everything from dot matrix printers, laser printers, shipping label printers, and scales (Mettler Toledo.)

Worked great and support was phenomenal.
Define science the usual way, the essence of science is reproducibility: if you can't achieve that you are not practicing science.
Because that 70% still votes:

30% (increase) + 70% (decrease) = No difference

30% (increase) + 70% (no change) = Increase
Cohen is right. It's total nonsense Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc. can not and are not algorithmically remove hate speech and dangerous lies. If they can detect a nipple, they can detect a nazi.
Thanks. Through that search I found http://arclanguage.org/forum

Exactly the sort of thing I was hoping to find.
That's something that we are doing at APIMatic already.

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PS: My email is in my profile.

[1] https://www.apimatic.io

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I'm surprised that you (and the giant chain responding to you) haven't mentioned Discord. It's not taken over the corporate space, but it seems to have made a lot of inroads to one-degree away events: industry meetups for instance.
I'm sorry to say that but this article is not entirely true - an illustration "how does traditional raid 4/5/6 do it?" shows ONLY RAID 4. There is a big difference between RAID 4 and RAID 5/6 and former was abandoned a years (decades?) ago in favor of RAID 5 and - later - 6.

Of course, it gives "better publicity" for RAID-Z, but it is rather an marketing trick not engineering.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels
The last sentence of the edit the author provides is the key insight of this piece.

> the existence of experts using heuristics causes predictable over-updates towards those heuristics.

That's the essence of this piece. If you expect that consultation with experts will leave you with a more accurate picture of things than before consultation, you should first be sure that their heuristics are not equivalent to reading a rock with a single message painted on it, otherwise no matter what your conclusions will be biased towards that rock. "X is an expert and X says Y is good so I should have more confidence that Y is good than before" is not a useful conclusion if that conclusion came from X looking at a rock that says "Y is good."

The Queen example in particular, but all of the others as well, is a warning that looking only at the accuracy of predictions is not enough to avoid this problem. In order to make sure that those predictions are useful for yourself, you have to ensure that those predictions actually incorporate new information.
I think it's more likely that the MBA is simply renamed to Macbook. "Air" used to mean something but it doesn't anymore.

The true successor of the MBP 13 is the 14. There is no reason to keep the 13 around.
Facebook doesn't seem to like that misinformation is being spread on the internet!
mee to stuck in Kobe but 18th friday is working so its not possible to join...please plan the next one on a weekend :-)
On the other hand, Neil Sedaka didn't have to practice any 15 years to sound like Neil Sedaka.
If they are licensed to operate, why they are less secure than human driven planes? It is one more area where automation may drive human jobs away.

May be self-driving planes is next stage of aviation evolution just like drones for military purposes.
For me, that's barely cheaper than eating out, if at all. The portions are always big enough for two people - unhealthily so.
What makes you think it's a fad?
This guy who did this is from Russia. Last week he attacked only Russian routers and hijack DNS records to google-analytics and yandex.metrika (popular Russian analytics). We found him and shut down his servers, and even had a talk with him. He swore he won't do this again.

http://tjournal.ru/paper/antisanctions-safari-yandex-browser
https://gist.github.com/ValdikSS/2706f643bbfa0bb5158f
I made the switch because I started coding and studying CS in my free time and realized that I loved it, and that taking a detour was not so risky since software engineering would be a good complement to the skills I already had (it essentially meant "closing the loop" of the dev cycle).

I've worked as a freelance PM once, right after finishing my SEng masters actually, and the experience wasn't great - the choice of tech and the team in that particular project were terrible, the customers were really clueless and it was a fight against the elements.

There are also not that many freelance PM jobs, at least where I live. There is a massive market for companies who want to build stuff - and in most cases they want everything handled end-to-end, so being able to do everything responds greatly to this demand.

The projects I've coded have turned out great thus far. In particular I have built an internal product for a global leader in its industry and it's really taking off.

> I feel most of the value I bring is not actually writing code but managing the whole process and consulting the client on what to do and how to do

I feel the same. In fact I may need to outsource the coding on a couple of my projects very soon... Still the SEng experience would be invaluable in this regard as I can act as both PM and engineering manager. And I will keep coding the projects I'm interested in - I'm not sure if I'd like to turn into an agency for the foreseeable future, but rather look forward to improving my coding skills for at least another 3 or 4 years.
Cloudwatch costs have been the ones my coworkers complain about. The one that got me was sagemaker -- the console had a bug where if you went to a region without endpoints, it would pop up a tutorial screen and the tutorial screen would "stick," hiding endpoints in other regions. Which led to hanging endpoints, which were covered by free tier for a few days before costs exploded. We had alerts active, but they alerted when we span up the resources, which was expected, and didn't make it obvious that paging through all the regions ensuring there were no running resources (itself painful) and watching daily costs for a few days was insufficient to ensure that we weren't going to have a $700 bill at the end of the month (or maybe $1400 -- I forget if $700 was the half refunded cost).

When I shared this anecdote at Re:Invent, the sentiment at the table was "lol that's cute, here's my story with an order of magnitude higher price tag." There were 5 or 6 of us, and my story was the smallest surprise cost except for one other person who was even greener than I was.

> Can you provide an example of a service that the AWS calculator doesn't compute the correct price for?

Can you tell me how I should have used AWS calculator to prevent my surprise charge? You can't, because AWS calculator assumes you know exactly what you're asking for, and the problem with opaque pricing structures is that you sometimes don't.

Other clouds tend to be much more upfront about "this will cost X," "this is costing X," "you're out of free tier," etc.
thanks, that is massively helpful. so our core value proposition is providing an affordable option for the various long-tails; skinny tall guy, french cuff guy, monogram guy, etc. we have an incredibly high customer retention rate because once we get someone in, they usually don't want to order from anywhere else. and the best part, a good percentage will tell their friends because now they're proud custom dress shirt owners :)
Finish high school, but spend every waking minute working on your passion for software development.

Skip college, you can always go back. Anything you learn there is already 10 years out of date, and anything "new" you learn will be useless by the time you graduate. Seriously.

If you MUST go to college, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT get a CS degree. Go for finance, or liberal arts, even bio or chem, or some course of study where the instructors have a clue and have actually done something in that field.

I can't tell you how many BS/CS and MS/CS grads I interviewed that couldn't code their way out of a paper bag because they spent their college years writing compilers or some other such nonsense.

Get into a hot startup and listen and learn. The first six months will provide you with more experience than you'd get in a PhD program at any university (short of MIT or Stanford).

Cheers!
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You are badly misinformed. For the SS surplus, the U.S. government "buys" special obligation bonds, not Treasurys. These bonds are not tradeable on any market and do not represent an actual financial asset, the way a Treasury bond does. They are literally pieces of paper in a cabinet in West Virginia. They are truly IOUs on a sticky pad. There are no assets behind them, and there isn't even a legal obligation for the government to repay them or anyone "contributing" to SS. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemming_v._Nestor)

The interest payments in the budget are actual repayments to Treasury bond holders, but NOT interest payments on SS obligation bonds. The government makes the SS interest "payments" with additional IOUs to the trust fund, NOT actual tax dollars. This SS interest is an accounting tool only, and is not part of federal budget outlays.
Monopoly's instructions are printed on cardboard and are part of the box. Hard to lose unless you are loose with that sort of thing.
Opera 11.10 on Windows 7 scores 258 + 7 bonus points
You have a pretty piss poor attitude. I'm not trolling, just calling it as I see it.

I would work on that problem first before trying to get a cofounder.
Interesting that FF scored worse on Windows than OSX. I can't say I'm surprised by IE's performance, however.
Man that sucks. You deserve better for jumping in and helping. Hope you're in a much better company now.
Have you worked in this industry? Curious about more details of tricks from various list makers/sellers.
And there are teams, a very few of them large, where internal segmentation is strong enough to survive a compromised developer machine. But that's an extraordinarily high bar to clear and very few companies, even those with strong security teams, really manage to clear it.
So what color should we make the Picardía?
But there seems to be no guarantee that the person who registers the work as a NFT actually is the artist?
You can build a multi-platform docker container which runs on multiple platforms thanks to the buildx command:
https://www.docker.com/blog/multi-platform-docker-builds/
Already many docker images are published with both x86-64 and arm64.
I've done multiple txs in the last few weeks - all with "normal fees," 2 took 3 days to get a single confirmation. 1 took ~24 hours, although these were the outliers, several other txs happened in normal time frames.

It's possible the app I use is just bad at calculating fees, but I'm thinking yeah that guy got lucky.
Have you not heard of extradition treaties?

For example, that's what the US is using on Kim Dotcom.
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15340729

As an engineer, I appreciate the depth of this post. However, I'd also appreciate a more approachable version that I could share with a broader audience. E.g., without understanding anything about hashing, SGX, etc., how can we best explain the advantages of this approach over the "upload your contacts list" request that you encounter in other chat apps?
> With a virtual mind, you probably have a good understanding of how things work and be able to edit them trivially

We can't explain the inner workings of deep-learning NNs today (hell, it seems like we can't even explain emergent behavior in a simulation game), so you think we'll be able to understand and edit a mind? All signs point to the contrary.

> but there's no reason to assume that with artificial beings.

But there is. We can't even fine tune complex software that's a far cry from AI.

> Except guys like Musk are helping move that number farther and farther into the future

I seriously doubt that even the venerable Elon Musk could have such a profound effect on the progress of humanity.

> It just shows how easy it is for guys like Musk to make people scared.

Oh, Elon Musk scares me, but that has absolutely nothing to do with AI.
I live in LA. She's right. Thank God for her.
Welcome to the human condition. What you see as a problem is really the cornerstone of who we are.

Throughout human history there have always been those who believed in utopias. For a long time those utopias were religious -- people imagined either a humanity living in God's grace or an afterlife in heaven. Then, utopias became about removing injustice; communism is a notable example. Now you see, especially here on HN, people believing in technological utopias, where we don't have to work, a benevolent AI makes the best decisions for us, and extend our life indefinitely or at least spend eternity in a silicon afterlife as non-corporeal rational beings. Whenever I hear someone explaining how to achieve utopia, I ask them to do the following thought experiment: imagine their perfect utopia and all those who live in it and all those born into it, and ask themselves this -- will those people really be happy? A very crude approximation of what people are -- but one that's better than many others -- is this: once they've ensured their survival, people are happy when they get what they want, and what they want is what they cannot get.
Any plans to release it on Safari? :)
Maybe before trying to write (much less criticize) Python code you should learn how access control works on operating systems. Right click "Run as Administrator"
Ya, Pesce was insufferable. After berating a poor woman for "stealing" the generic title of his own unannounced, unpublished VRML book, I helpfully suggested alternate titles. From memory:

My Life as the VRML Poster Child

VRML - It's Neat!

The Utterly Exhaustive VRML Bible