jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My grandmother had one of these, as well. She lived in a small town in far west Texas, surrounded by pump jacks and oil fields. The shelter (or cellar, as it was later called) was always stocked with jams and canned goods, and as kids we would occasionally go down there to play, if we could manage to brave the spiders.

The thing I realized as I got older, though, was the psychological impact that the threat of nuclear war had on that generation. My grandmother was not wealthy -- she worked most of her life at the cafeteria of the local high school -- and her husband died when he was in his 30's, leaving her to raise 5 children. At some point they decided to spend not-insignificant amounts of money on building a bomb shelter. As I grew up, I realized that this had a subtle but profound impact upon the attitudes of my grandmother and her children: they were all just a little paranoid, careful to the point of it almost seeming neurotic at times. My cousins and I did not share the same fear about the world at large that we witnessed in our parents, and came to believe that this was due to the fact that we grew up in a world where nuclear threats were not so pervasive.

It all tied back to the bomb shelter. The mere existence of this cinder block-lined hole in the ground was a daily reminder of what could happen, and what they believed would very likely happen. Many of my aunts and uncles were also prone to believe in the apocalyptic scenario de jure, from upcoming depressions[1] to stockpiling food and water in preparation for Y2K, to more extreme beliefs about race wars and the second coming of Christ.

Anyway, this shelter had an impact on me at a young age, but in the opposite direction. It taught me that living in fear like that is no way to live.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Depression_of_1990
They are using it on the site, and it doesn't block users from leaving, it just throws up on of those overlay screens if the mouse tracking script thinks you're about to leave. For me, it showed up when my mouse moved up to the top of the screen and hovered over the URL bar (correct behaviour). But if it also shows up when people are trying to click on an internal link, which apparently happened to another HN user, that's unlikely to be good for conversions. At this sort of price there probably should be a good degree of flexibility in customising what ads get shown when people appear to be leaving based on the entry route, pages visited and time on site. But probably no way of filtering out the people likely to be really irritated, or the people who would have returned to the site and bought at full price...
you get the point. one or two or multi part is not important at all.
I am working on a large app based on angular (not my decision - I voted against it :)), and felt many pain points already, from poor design overall, to crappy extensions most of the currents apps are using.

It Kinda reminds me whole Wordpress thing. Really subpar codebase - but at the same time very easy to make simple things, and as a result - a lot of popularity. And this comes not as surprise to see so many blog posts comparing Angular to jQuery...

But perhaps this bothers me the most - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0VsStcCCM8#t=745

Guy behind framework openly admits he did not really pay attention to what other frameworks were doing (and Ember used to be Sproutcore and went through similar observe-loop pains in the past.) He just transferred his Java-server-side-MVC experience ($scope/$context - these are very distinct server-side MVC concepts) as is to the browser, which, as turned out, not quite well suited for long living in-browser apps..

And then whole dependency/packaging mess. There were already solution and tooling in place for AMD - but he decided to reinvent it, and as a result integrating any serious building process is a pain (i am not talking about 1 page apps here, i am talking about apps with 10Mb of JS code bases.)

While this all workable, and this is what I do at my day job, this should not be necessary. I call it "bullshit job" just like many "create report" type of jobs - where no real value is created.

If you know 100% that your app will never grow outside small prototype - go for it, otherwise either have plan in place to redo your app in sane framework, or do your app in sane framework from the start.
I don't think "many" jobs are flexible the way you describe them. At least from my experience.
The watercooler is a great idea for distributed teams who lean more heavily towards chat as their communication medium.

Because my teams are typically customer facing, we have enough team conference calls (both internal and external) that there are enough moments for people to perform a similar function, albeit most of the time truncated or abrupt.

I share your enthusiasm for chat rooms ala IRC but as you've already noticed this only appeals to a certain subset of [technology] people. #w00w00 is more of an exception in my mind; most IRC channels aren't exactly the hotbed of singularly driven participants, but then maybe the channels I frequented had a low SNR.

>Another thing I've done on some teams is after a major release or milestone achieved, everyone grabs a drink of their choice and joins a group video chat and virtually goes out to the bar to celebrate as a group.

This is a good idea! When a sufficiently important milestone is completed I endeavour to have geographically close clusters of folks fly/drive to meet up, if possible. However, joining a group video chat (hell, video chat in general) would be interesting to introduce. I think video goes a long way to closing the personal gap because you can immediately pair a face with a known name and voice. Sadly (in my view anyway), there are a few folks I still haven't met in my organization face-to-face despite working over 8 years together.

Re. small gifts -- completely agreed.
From your very own quotation, the people are explicitly condoning this. The government is doing a pretty good job of reflecting the will (or lack thereof) of the people.

Do you remember in the 70s and 80s that there was a raft of adoptions of Korean orphans in the US and elsewhere? That's because S Korea was still economically depressed and adoption was culturally frowned upon. Kids were abandoned left and right. It was the government that actually took initiative to push public opinion in favor of domestic adoption and it worked.
LIs close before the next LI, or the UL.

But the problem is that you now have a specific behaviour that depends on the tag name. DIV tags don't need to close before the next DIV, but LI tags do. So you've gone from a simple tag parser to one that needs to know the intricacies and rules surrounding every element type.

Personally, I feel that two extra characters per <BR/> tag is worth it.
Personally I think it's an awful idea to use meta-programming without an exceptionally good reason in production code

One of the less well known rules of thumb from extreme programming was to have just 5 to 7 "things you have to know" to write good code for a system. Only up to two of those things should be notably abstruse or automagically implicit. Preferably, it should be zero, and any fancy tricks should be transparent for most coding.

Really, this just follows from optimizing code for reading.
It should be called Launch Weekend, and if it was in San Francisco I'd be there .
From some cursory wiki reading it seems blood plasma is quite the blanket term. Electrolytes, proteins, CO2 removal, it's involved in quite a number of places.
> For example just look at the number of senior ex-Oracle execs in their c suite.

I'm not sure how Google would be able to do audits on large corps that may be accidentally using their software in an unlicensed way.

Because that's Oracles business model, sue your customers.
I use it in Postgres 12 mode.
I don't feel insulted, it is simply a statement of fact that I did not cherry-pick since I did not pick those examples at all. I did not presume you were suggesting I "did on purpose" what was done by someone else.

Of course you're free to respond to my comment, but I certainly did not imply that others do not assimilate their acquisitions (such is an obvious falsehood), I simply compared Apple's acquisitions to the examples offered to me in comparison. I understand you take issue with those examples but once again, they're not my examples.

Anyway, we're just going in circles at this point, I'm gonna bow out here. Have a nice night.
It is not. HN isn't a place that guarantees advertising or publicity. Readers and commenters will click on this thread thinking "is there a better way of writing markdown" or "I wonder if I should be using a different editor" which makes all editors relevant information.

And honestly, if I see an advertisement _without_ any criticism, it sounds too good to be true to me. Seeing a comparison between these editors is going to provide a thousand times better information then just people talking about one or saying "hm, that looks interesting, I'll check it out sometime".
No https?

No responsive design?

Weird for a Webshop called hackerthings...
I think it has an effect on people working for apple.

At some point acquiring other companies will affect the ability to hire and retain developers. It might also be a clue that their ability is diminished, or that internal ideas are not being promoted - whatever process Steve Jobs used to bring the good stuff to light.
F-35 is far from excellent and it had many engineering problems like massive software problems, fire hazards, structural weakness, engine problems, heating, high noise, low range, etc.

It failed to replace existing fleet of fighters, like the F-16, and on ground support, like the A10. That is not excellence.

All of the engineering problems of the F-35 have been well known from the early days of the project, I know because I have studied closely ever since Norway decided to buy it. But the massive propaganda from the weapons industry has clouded this debate from the start.

F-35 is a huge fiasco on multiple levels - policy, contracting, diplomacy, engineering, warfare, etc

Reason why it is even bigger failure than the F-22 is that the US decided to sell the F-35 overseas. This exposed the project to more scrutiny and increased the stakes. Can’t be hidden away like the embarrassing F-22.

If US decide to build a new fighter aircraft I predict it will be a failure too.
zom?
There are just 10^9 phone numbers in Spain. Say 0.01 sec/hash (which is A LOT), you have 10^8 seconds. You can decrypt all the hashes in 0.3 years...

"Cryptographic hash" is as bullshit as "MD5 encrypted passwords".
It may not be a good way of persuading people, but it seems there’s no good way of persuading you as you simply refuse to be persuaded. We could argue about the specifics all day, but I think you should ask yourself why you want it to be true. Do you seek community? Are you angry inside and need an outlet?

Here’s a video[1]. Of course from your perspective, your position makes perfect sense and isn’t extreme, and by no means am I calling you a white supremacist, but you should watch and see if you relate in any way. Please don’t dismiss it out of hand, there’s valuable lessons in it that apply to everyone, not just former white supremacists.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SSH5EY-W5oM
Coronavirus will grow exponentially IF you let it!

That's why we're all wearing face masks, limiting social interaction and even put whole countries in a full lockdown. WE all do this to LOWER the spread of the virus.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that scheme will protect you from at most one erasure.

Fail D1 and P1
There's no way to recover D1s data since P2 has no data from D1 in it.
Same. I've known about it for quite a while, used it a bit for a small side project. Highly recommend.
It's a good port. Alaska depends on tons of stuff shipped in from other places. The Alcan is a pretty shitty drive for trucking stuff up. Alaska's biggest city is a very poor port, and second biggest city is inland, so freight comes in on barges through Whittier, and then around the state via the railroad. Anchorage elites park their boats in Whittier's small boat harbor. In the summers, fishing and tourism are big.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8836065
That's a LONG way South of me :)
Because I, a hacker and the target audience of Hacker News, find it very, very interesting.
Let's agree that the tone of his article could use a little work. What about the substance of it?

I read his article as, "too many candidates don't realize that recursive solutions are better than iterative ones now."

If that's true, it seems like a big deal. He's not really arguing for knowledge of some arcane language feature or framework widget; this would be a fundamental aspect of programming methodology, something that might be broadly applicable.

edit: sorry, I just realized we're talking at cross-purposes. Yeah, his approach to interviews could maybe use some work. I just didn't read that as what the article was about, so I was ignoring that as a conversational topic.
To reiterate, the design of surveillance is population control,no more or less; terrorism is merely an excuse for technological implementation that was desired since time immemorial by the powers that be.

Counter-terrorism is a real motivation, but unfortunately the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
> let's enjoy them to the fullest, the hoverboard will be there soon enough.

My feeling is that we've been enjoying this wheel technology for quite a while already :/
Yeah, I feel luxurious every weekend I spend working on somebody else's code mess.
Here you go:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=587032
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=612276
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1483583
It's white. Here is the form which appears after you click on Signup page: https://secure.vendio.com/ecommerce/litelogin/hosted_store
I also plan to launch reddit india. If someone complains I will try to look for the owners to check if they have any problems.
NOTE: reddit india will be not-for-profit
Some education is expensive because you are paying for the name and
possibly for the contacts that you might make there. If you go to a big name
Ivy League school expecting to learn from prominent professors, you are
likely to be disappointed. Many of the big names at the big schools are
taking off one year in three in sabbaticals, and when they are there they're
focusing their attention on their own research first and their graduate
students second.

There are a lot of good schools that focus on actually providing their students
with a good education, and their costs are substantially less. There are a
couple of books that provide information about good schools beyond the
Ivy League:

1. Looking Beyond the Ivy League: Finding the College That's Right for You

2. Harvard Schmarvard: Getting Beyond the Ivy League to the College That is Best for You

An added bonus: the money you save by not going to an Ivy League school
can help fund your first startup.
I'm currently working as a programmer in London, and I'd love to know how do you go about finding them, and what I could do to be easily found. I realise it's a little off topic but I'd appreciate any response you may have.
So how is security and privacy dealt with in other countries? Especially the ones with a better security track record.
I can't say this with any authority, but looking at it, having the sign up form in the beginning is not good. They might have better results with an embedded signup if the signup form is at the end of the page.

Also the background of the signup form is a terrible dark blue color, what's the color of the signup form on its own page?
One of the best experiences I've ever had was dressing up as a Confederate general with very prominent Dixie flags for Halloween in NYC.

I spent the day walking around Manhattan. People (mostly white middle-aged women) went out of their way to tell me how offended they were. I told them to "think of the heritage." I'm not American (well, I sort of am, long story), so to me it was both instructive and hilarious.

What was really interesting in hindsight is that none of the Brooklyn hipster transplants at the parties I went to that night thought anything about it.
So I looked around for the cable you mention, and as best I can tell, government contractor Dyncorp was involved (I haven't seen a cable that says how exactly) in boy-play parties. The cable details how the Afghanis involved in the party were arrested and put on trial, and asks for help in quashing an article about the event. Is that accurate?

I'll admit this is probably the closest item I've seen to passing the test of something that might actually be worth whistle-blowing on. To fully pass the test, I'd need to see something that detailed who from Dyncorp was involved and to what extent.

My main complaint with the leaked cables, and the reason I have zero qualms about Manning being court marshaled (or even tried for treason) is that he in no way was discriminant about what he released. A whistle-blower needs clear concise evidence of real wrongdoing. Manning lazily dumped a huge archive of classified information without any real item to point to say this is wrong.
Jot down the various things which keep your mind distracted and follow your original goal at the same time.
Eg. if you want to learn Scala language and also wants to be updated about new technologies/frameworks/languages/news devote 2-3 hrs daily on updation, while 1-2 hours on your sharpening your primary skills. Once you are down a month you can easily visualize your current position and keep on refactoring that day by day.
Cool that grellas is quoted within :)
> P.S. Do you really think a guy who's done such a wonderful javascript plugin would try to leave fake comments? I refuse to believe that!

Well, he did submit his commercial product as a story, so... yeah.

Don't get me wrong, it's a nice plugin. But there are a lot of really nice jQuery tooltip plugins, and I don't see how this one is significantly better than the others.
20th century: "HIV is a virus, and viral diseases cannot be cured." [1]
21st century: "Counterexample!"

[1] My understanding of diseases is weak. I remember being told that bacterial diseases can be cured more or less trivially, but viral diseases can only be vaccinated against.
0C (32F) sounds high for anything but daytime high temperatures.
Sure. Being compensated still means they were bought. Compelled to sell is fine as an emergency police power and is fine. Being seized is a violation of the amendment against involuntary seizure without due process of law.
Can you expand on that a little bit. I started that book based on a very strong recommendation, but found the first 20-30 pages to be defining "art" as a sort of amorphous everything that felt like it wasn't going towards a point. I decided not to finish the book, but have wondered if it would have been worth it.
I’m deeply worried about the US food supply in 4-6 weeks time, not because of availability but because of a lack of healthy people to process, transport and distribute the food. Given the sorry state of migrant farm workers in the US [0], it won’t take much for infections to spread.

[0] http://www.ncfh.org/uploads/3/8/6/8/38685499/fs-migrant_demo...
Another study with SARS. Might be more applicable. Says masks reduce infection 68%, N95 91%.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190272/#!po=1....
But then they would have to write the office suite from scratch (unless there is some open source browser based office suite available?).
You're welcome, I'm always happy to share ALAB :-) The whole thing is pretty wild but one of my lasting memories of that episode is Craig losing his temper in a deposition because someone showed him a printout of an email he sent and he was claiming "that's not an email, it's a piece of paper". Incredible.

Also (unrelated to Craig Wright and Bitcoin) if you liked the style of that podcast they also did a two-parter on Alan Dershowitz called "The Bully"
I have recently been learning python after primarily coding in Clojure and Ocaml the last 36 months.

It has been a pretty frustrating experience, lots of the tools from functional languages are there, however Python as a language is extremely inconsistent. All these little quirks take up a significant chunk of cognitive overhead. Python also liberally add different syntax in places where it doesn’t seem to add much value (eg lambdas cannot destructure tuples, and don’t need to use return). Python has really showed me the value of keeping a simple syntax, and having value semantics everywhere). Mutation just isn’t a great way to write code outside of leetcode.
I'm positive of two things in regards to being a parent (and a human):

1. I have no idea what I'm doing

2. Neither does anyone else.
> it's not a bad idea to prevent apartments from being built such that they overlook a single-family dwelling's back-yard

It's totally a bad idea to say that once someone has built a dwelling on a plot of land, they have forever banned increased density near them.

This is more severe when we're in our current situation, where we punish high-value uses of land and subsidize low-value uses of land, like single-family homes and parking lots.

Obviously the core observation -- that there are harmful ways to mix intensity -- is certainly true. The thing Berkeley, Sacramento, Oregon, etc. are doing are not to allow apartment complexes built in R1 zone, but ADUs, duplexes, and other low-intensity suburban housing.

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The history of American suburbanism is a story of race. There are other players (cars, telephones, pollution), but race was a major pillar, and is why you didn't see US-style suburbs pop up in other countries without similar race relations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight

Race-restrictive covenants are still on the books for many older HOAs (obviously illegal/unenforceable) -- this isn't a conspiracy theory, these covenants were in black and white https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/3-...
Reading about accessibility on a website that uses JavaScript and <button>s for navigation is a tad ironic.
The person I am replying to used the phrase "literally no context" and you're saying I am ignoring the context in order to make an argument. My entire point is that the OP is throwing away context, and in so doing falsifying their own argument. The lack of context is the whole point of contention. You're attributing to me the very thing I'm disagreeing with.
We use both Milk and Descript at Macro for our podcast workflows.

Milk is really good at creating short (for us it's ~1min), impactful Twitter + LinkedIn marketing collaterals based on each podcast guest (we can add our logo, the guest's background, the guest's bio + picture, transcript, etc.).

Descript is amazing at editing the entire podcast and make sure we have the overall content needed to publish.

Can't imagine doing our podcast without Milk + Descript.
Long before that. I have to struggle with my 10 months old at times. She wants to crawl away and play with something (preferably something dangerous - it is amazing how easy it is for a plastic bag to end up in reach even when you are careful)
The one with the probability of the disease makes me always feel like a robot. Okay, so I know, I've to check for the prior. (Bayesian) Statistics 101.

The one with 'jack looking at anne' I glimsed already that 80% chose C, so I spend just a bit more time to consider going through the entire decision tree. It again makes me feel like a robot. :-)

There is something very mechanical to these types of questions and I would wholeheartedly agree that this probably is a dimension that is not correlated with intelligence.