jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You're the only one that can answer that question. Is it worth it _to you_ to learn with those old school restraints vs. modern architectures?
Obviously there is depression caused by events, that type is "easy" to fix because (usually) you can fix the external events, or at least talk about them and come to terms with them.

But there is also depression caused by nothing whatsoever. Nothing detectable anyway.

People tend not to believe it can be possible, until they experience it (personally or by talking to someone who is experiencing it).

Talking about it (therapy) does nothing, because there is nothing bad happening to talk about. The person is just depressed for no reason at all, it's like someone pressed a "be depressed" switch in their brain. The person is aware of it, wants it to stop, and has no control over it at all, and no ability to change it.

It's that type that they call "chemical imbalance". The chemical imbalance part is nonsense of course, but the existence of this type of depression is not.

> but I think its overused.

In TV commercials, yes, I agree. But in real life? No, I don't think it's overused.
Fantasia Mathematica, The Mathematical Magpie, and The Space Child's Mother Goose are collections of short fiction, satire, and miscellania assembled in the same era as A Wrinkle In Time. I enjoyed them when I was about that age. Wikipedia lists the contents of the first two. I see Rudy Rucker's collection Mathenauts is similar, but a bit later.
It's interesting seeing the difference in treatment for people from different countries. As an American citizen, I get to cruise through immigration in most countries, usually without obtaining a visa beforehand. This was the case in Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines when I visited. Most of Europe (Schengen countries) also have this policy. Maybe this colors my perception of those countries in a more positive light.
I'm in space robotics and albeit I believe that huge advances will be made in this area, we are still not anywhere close to human capabilities. Why else do you think, the Japanese are sending dozens of their people to lethal work at Fukushima?

I do believe though, that remote controlled and partly autonomous robots are already capable of helping humans on a mission like Mars exploration and colonization.

This is not to mention all the very successful robot programs like Voyager I/II, Spirit/Opportunity etc. But those are smal scale projects in my mind. They are cost efficient, but I doubt you could do what you could do with humans, just because you put the same amount of money behind it now. Of course, there could be breakthroughs in AI tomorrow that change that game. But putting a human on the moon is doable for decades now and its about time that someone has the balls to do it.

disclaimer: Elon Musk is my hero and I'm a hopeless fan boy.
I see we've finally come to a full circle. Here's a device to view the entire world in 2D: http://i.imgur.com/BjY53.jpg.
The problem isn't "the music industry" the problem is "the music industries".

Each country has its own little equivalents of the RIAA and MPAA.

And that is one of the 'secret sauces' underpinning the success of Apple's iTunes store... because nobody else had the sheer bloodymindedness (or resources) to sit down with and browbeat a hundred different "national music unions" into submission (read as: accepting that digital music wasn't going to go away if they stuck their head in the sand).
My suggestion for improvement would be:

"Don't advertise your project as a 'Dropbox Replacement' unless you actually are."
It's an April Fools Joke.
I'm using the Nexus S, on stock Android 2.3. Does the job for me.
Actually this is a good point. Could all the talk about bubbles from some investors be in part spiking this increased interest in founders wanting to take more off the table now?
History will save your ass at some point in the future. I'd bet money on it.
Are you sure Digg didn't sell because of the founders? From what I can gather from Kevin's interviews in the past, it sounded like he really wanted to exit Digg at that point, but his investors saw larger potential and it was tough to argue when they where still growing like a weed.
> Without proficiency here, a coder risks creating potentially dangerously inefficient solutions, that, at Facebook's scale, may well literally cost the company millions of dollars in server costs, or which could make the difference between a successful on-time positive-PR roll-out, & a failed highly-negative public-relations roll-out.

This is a common refrain, but juniors and mid-levels don't work on stuff like this at FAANG. If there's anything those guys are good at, it's making sure that you don't have too many cooks in the kitchen. Interviews like these don't find cooks, which is somewhat the point.
I used to do this, precisely because I feared losing my Facebook contacts. Messenger is very efficient & light, but once I realized how much I used other (although heavier) mssg apps instead, I saw no need for anything else. Mssg app for international family and friends, SMS for local, LinkedIn, Slack, Skype for work.

There are so many app alternatives out there (that are as well built technically) that you don’t need to rely on anything from Facebook's ecosystem anymore. Give it a try, no disappointments
Page 38 seems to take the opposite view:

PREDICTION: Keyboards still exist, but most textual language is created by speaking.
ACCURACY: Wrong
That may be, but I don't know of anyone else making these kind of predictions with Ray's accuracy.
> General-purpose computing is not being attacked or eliminated.

Yes, it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24866279.

> Hobbyists and specialists can buy products for them if they like.

Which phones can I buy to enjoy the freedom of general-purpose computing (and not suffer from non-mature ecosystem)? Which vendors manufacture hardware compatible with FLOSS?

> The monopoly discussion is a red herring because monopolies are bad regardless of whether those business offer fully customizable software.

If the phone runs free software, it makes it not a monopoly, because I can ask another company to write software for me.
This looks like a really cool project, but the comparisons of other webservers are uh, a bit on the negative side. No code is perfect, even if it's better than the rest. While I find myself falling into the same thinking, it's rarely a good idea, and it certainly doesn't help your project's image.
Yep, most of their questions are straight out of leetcode.
It's not really "delete facebook because my friends are toxic" but "delete Facebook because the company Facebook, Inc is a truly evil company"
I deleted mine several years ago, but was only using it once every few months for a few years before that. There wasn't anything there of value anymore for me. If I want to check up on someone, I call/text and have even been drug into a snapchat group.
Yes. Most good people know who the other good people are, but it’s hard to turn that into a plan fit for large companies.
The cardinal is the most common state bird, representing 7 states
Slightly OT, but I remember Incredible Universe, which Fry's bought many years ago in the Dallas area. Friend and I would hangout in the store, play video games and eat Pizza Hut upstairs for lunch. In the video game department they even had a Neo Geo machine connected with popular fighting games, so there was even a line sometimes. Super Tecmo Bowl was the game then and I had a running competition with one of the employee's on who was the best.
IoT is dead in the water right now because of the same reasons smartphones did not take off until iPhone. The dataplans suck. Steve Jobs insisted on unlimited data for a flat fee. If you go look at the M2M offerings for most data providers you will see they do not list prices. That is for a reason. I personally saw many of the actual prices. The ranged from 'not bad' to 'you got them to agree to that?!'

You can piggy back on customers networks to a point on 'home automation'. Everyone is trying to be the next modbus/zigbee on that one but charge a monthly fee for the privilege of using their protocol, or even better their service. The integration between services is kinda crap and the ecosystem is very shaky with no clear winners.

Bespoke systems are doing 'ok' but again no clear winners yet. Most seem to be setting themselves up to be bought out by some bigger player instead of shipping good product.

What we found with IoT was it was not the software or hardware. We had that 15+ years ago. The problem is integration and maintenance and connectivity. The integration phase you can see sales cycles of 2-3 years. Maintenance ongoing cost no one really wants to pay for. Connectivity is at the mercy of someone elses price plans.
This connects to something I call "code bureaucracy" - in my experience working on legacy code, upwards of 50% of programming is being spent on shuffling data from one place to another, converting its type several times along the way, because different parts of the system - both internal and third party - each define their own version of same or similar types.

I wish in particular we could reduce the number of equivalent types across libraries, but I feel the solution will have to involve tagging types with WikiData identifiers or equivalent. So "Color" becomes defined as type Q1075, or perhaps Q1075<Q166194> to show you mean an RGB-denoted color...
Unless you mean Aliens as in the film, any ET life, while interesting, is a-priori no more likely to be useful for bioweapon research than random new life on Earth. Possibly less so, as the environment it evolved for may be radically different. What good is kevlar skin (or whatever microbial equivalent of you want that sort of biowarfare) if the proteins which make it require a 130 C body temperature? They’d freeze to death here. Heck, even just a few degrees is enough to have people worried about crops, and until we find other examples of life that is here on Earth, we can’t actually be sure what the real limits are.
What's up with the stars in "A new pr*fessional n*twork for your independent journey" ?

Having both the colors and stars took me a long time to realize "n*twork" is network.
Yes, modern Linux kernel might have pretty much everything to run this laptop's hardware, however it is likely a very different story when it comes to graphical desktop compatibility.. considering it'll need upscaling to quad HD resolution, many Linux GUI's might struggle with that..
Our comments both address the issue of whether the wikileaks release "enhanced the US narrative."
I guess I should have been clearer. It has a focus on run-time replacement of properties on objects. Duck-typing with an object-oriented emphasis. It is a dynamic language that supports lexical scoping but does not focus on the classic functional programming stuff.
Greplin is cool, but I think it's cool for techies. I doubt my wife would bother to use Greplin.
I wonder what the odds are this is a planned suppression of their stock price.
I found out that the 'Bernoulli Effect' explanation was pretty much wrong through this TED Talk:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_drori_on_what_we...

Was completely blown away, and angry at my education. And at myself for believing it so easily.
However, also a dangerous one, used by many a crackpot to justify their theories. It only flies when you have sufficiently obvious experimental results at your disposal to cast doubt on a theory.
Dropbox worked great for me for quite a while. Then my Keypass password.kdb file got corrupted. This file contained all the passwords to my personal / freelance and office projects. Impossible to retrieve the data. Major PITA. So now I just use it for funny pictures and music but I don't trust it with really important things anymore.
Your comment makes me wonder if Dropbox has an exit strategy. Or if they're going to do like Digg and sit there until the entire industry moves on. With anything cloud-related being big busines right now, Dropbox should quit winners and either sell-out or go public.
hehe, fair play. <gets out the reverse engineering kit> :) just kidding.
Might want to read this for counter-balance: http://voraciouseats.com/2010/11/19/a-vegan-no-more/

I did try going vegan for a while - nearly two months. It made me feel cold, sick, miserable and lethargic. I have met some vegans and a lot of them do not look very healthy.

If you want to eat healthier, meat is not the problem. It's sugar.
This is nice. Though the visual appearance is a bit clunky.
I can't imagine anybody walking into a shop and buying something without knowing exactly how much it cost (not only how much cash he paid for it) and what his balance was with the merchant before and after the sale.

There are huge segments of the economy where that happens! Trying to make the customer think about the immediate or per-month cash expenditures instead of the long-term total cost is a big point of things like layaway, automobile leases, subscription-instead-of-purchase models, etc.
1. Google.

2. Search for: "start programming"|"learn to program" site:stackoverflow.com

3. Read:

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4769/what-is-the-easiest-...

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1858064/so-my-girlfriend-...

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/335063/whats-the-easiest-...
When i was in grade 12, I taught myself PHP/HTML/SQL and some JavaScript. I set up a forum (Which was a modified Simple Machines Forum) to stuff around in at school because i always managed to finish projects and tasks in computer studies early.

A few months before I finished year 12 I was having real trouble actually learning any more in the field of web development, because I had nothing to code. I walked into a web design place with a resume and some code samples of what i already did and they said they may have something for me to do, and a few days later i was given a job submitting links to websites to up the page rank of a site.

When I left school, I was asked if I wanted to say there full time and do some web development. I agreed.

That was about 4 years ago now. I'm 21, and I'm still in the same job. Id say i was quite under qualified for my current position, but I'm really glad I was given a chance.
This is just blogspam. The site is glassdoor.com.
Just something to note: I lost 40 karma points in a day when I was only downvoted 20 points... some of which I deserved, but still, something didn't work as expected.
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There are many jobs we take on thinking we fully understand until the bigger picture of the problem we are trying to solve starts unfolding : we will always be inadequate, and even forget what we once knew, that is why we keep learning to remain hackers.
You will clearly write buggy code.
Some guy I knew asked me if i could write him a programme to help manage his clients' investment portfolios.

Because I was too young to know I was in way over my head, I was able to complete the task and do it well. Pretty proud of it, actually; 16 bit windows (3.1) and the code was rock solid. I figured out on screen graphing, good db design, reporting (I wrote all the reporting and printing libraries, incl basic graphs (pie, line and bar)) etc etc. Now-a-days that sort of thing's a lot easier, but back then there was very little. oh, and no internet either, just the local bookshop.
And as a matter of fact just watched this on 60 Minutes tonight:

"Every once in a while, a story comes through 60 Minutes that has the potential to change lives. This week, Scott Pelley's report on a new medical treatment using the polio virus to kill cancer is that kind of story."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/using-polio-to-kill-cancer-60-mi...
Meh. I'm confused too.
What!? No JSON-LD?
If you have a good relationship with them and trust them: tell them as soon as possible -- even before you start receiving offers.

They'll respect your needs but will want to work with you to make a smooth transition to your replacement. That's going to take a while and they'll benefit from as much assistance and lead time as you can give them. You can work with them to make sure you have some paying work with them until you find a new job even once a new candidate is found.

If you're not completely burnt out, they might even try to address your concerns and make things more comfortable for you so that you don't have to look for a new job at all.
Trading involves a lot of risk, and people more prone to taking risks gravitate towards it. And it's been shown that overall men are more likely to take risks then women. Just a possible reason why there are more men.
It's an interesting post, but the copy is not very well edited overall. It's certainly part of what makes me question what happens with the quality of his projects beyond the initial sales.
From this point of view you can switch anywhere. But if you would like to avoid constant switching in the future, you have to think long-term and consider a distributed network, not another walled garden.

Edit: Matrix solves all problems I refer to.
Or... Why you shouldn't use any ride sharing company.

Numbers 4-6 are even more broad, they basically apply to any situation where you are required to use a credit card to pay (which identifies you), which is basically every single app.

I'm empathetic to the issue that there is no way to anonymously take an Uber (a real downgrade as compared to cabs), but for your average person where a massive upgrade in convenience offsets the slight loss of anonymity, this is going to be a tough sell.
Its "trivial" in the sense that with almost all the logic on the client (think of something made like a flash game) you'd need only a few core elements (auth, page hosting, user identities or not) on the server, while the majority of the work would be for the client. There's lots of features you might want such as matchmaking, valid move checking and tracking, but it depends on the scope of the project to begin with of course!
Well, he makes the point later that if Uber/Lyft/etc are sufficiently successful they could displace regular cabs. You can disagree with that point, but it probably deserves to be addressed rather than ignored.
Sure, but the point is that Twitter would be justified in proactively removing said content before a legal order to that effect got served.

More broadly, Twitter is not obligated to keep tweets up from anyone to anyone. It would be rather silly if, for example, all tweets from north america got deleted and people got up in arms accusing it of "censorship" (in a hypothetical scenario where unbeknownst to them, there was a catastrophic infrastructure failure).
All the horses left the ranch some years back, but if I close one of the stable doors maybe everyone will see what a great job I've been doing.
See Plato's Republic, or Chomsky's lectures on anarchism[0][1] for some ideas.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW7nnLNANtQ,
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5wuB_p63YM
IDEs and languages that an IDE can exploit are awesome. Especially if you don't really have such a good idea of a project (yet). It helps architects or contractors tremendously (as examples of people that might jump from one code base to another quite frequently).

What I mean is that I personally really like statically typed languages like Java and compile time safety. I even like some of 'verboseness' that people always complain about. I can take a modern IDE and a Java project that hasn't replaced everything with runtime magic yet (Spring comes to mind) and I can simply click my way through things to get the info I need and/or to build a mental model. However, I don't need a finished mental model already just to be effective at every task. Also refactorings that are really braindead simple and that you don't even have to think about are possible, precisely because they're simple and guaranteed to be correct.

Contrast that with other languages, such as Javascript, Python, Perl (yeah mentioning that because I loved Perl back when I was doing almost exclusively Perl - with a bit of shell scripting and lots of SQL - at my first 'real' job), where you have to have a mental model already and you have to know certain 'magic' to even be able to search for all the right things. Something that stuck in my head in that regard was AngularJS. I forgot the specifics but some type of identifier was use underscores in one place but dashes in another. How the eff am I supposed to find things easily? I have to know that magic conversion and grep for it specifically. If I come to a FE project written in Angular and have never done Angular, I will not find anything whatsoever and I have zero chance but to learn Angular to do basic things. And coming back to refactorings, even a simple rename can be a pain in the rear to do (and you won't do it and be stuck with really bad naming) because you can't be certain that you found all the right places to change until runtime i.e. your 2 a.m. batch run failed and you have users screaming at you. That teaches you to just stick with bad naming real fast.

Good languages and frameworks, if you ask me, allow someone that is senior in his role but a total noob with the specific language or framework to look at existing code and easily make certain modifications.

I wrote a simple T-SQL (Sybase, not MS-SQL) parser that output graphviz format to get a call graph of some backend job we had that consisted of a gazillion individual stored procedures strewn across a gazillion files and printed that and hung it up on the wall, just to be able to easily navigate that thing. Queue IDE where you just Ctrl-Click for the same end result.
Do you have any sources for this? I'd love to read more about it.
> "Summary execution" refers, not only, to police shooting protesters on sight, but also to sham trials with extreme and unlawful sentences.

There is an extreme version of a sham trial that could possibly qualify, but they were calling for a normal trial. They were very clearly not calling for summary execution with the phrase "arrested, tried, and if convicted"

It doesn't matter if the punishment fits the crime either. If I say convicted jaywalkers should get the death penalty, I am not calling for summary execution. It doesn't matter if I accuse them of the wrong crime either.
The thing is in the late 90s early 2000s if you complain to Domino's about a bad Pizza you just got another one for free it's called slippage. It was one of those college hacks to eat for free.
Say Goldman can beat the market by 20%. They sell you a fund that promises to beat it by 1%. The additional 19% return on YOUR MONEY they keep.

You are guaranteed alpha at exactly 1%. Goldman makes fees and infinity ROI for taking risk. Win-Win.
I use the "reddit is fun" app and filter nsfw content and images/video (by blocking a bunch of domains). It's alright like that, although it's still not a great use of time. I do find it annoying how much NSFW content gets close to the top of /r/all though. I don't want to be one of those "think of the kids" people, but I'm sure tons of very young kids use reddit and are introduced to extreme content (including gore) way earlier than they otherwise would have.