jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I’m 45 and I share your experience - no age discrimination.

But, I did hear my manager (50+), who is very technical and often gets so sick of the process to get things done, he will pull up an IDE and do a POC himself, bemoan the fact that older developers are good for backend development and architecture but not as good at modern front end development.

I’m not taking any chances. I’m moving more into cloud architecture but hopefully I can stay more in the professional services/development/consulting than the Visio creating/Project Management/Solutions Architect role.

But, I’m definitely not spending the energy keeping up with the latest $cool_kids front end stack.
This is fun!

Now I want someone to extend it, using a library/corpus/grammar of typical pedal components and circuit sub-sections - and simulate them in LiveSpice so we can hear what they sound like!
Then perhaps you should use societies systems in place to change the rules, since you're part of it. Ignoring the law because you think you're morally right is kind of meaningless when talking about law enforcement. That's my point. This isn't about morality. This is about reality. You know they will punish you, you break the law, get caught, then complain that it's unfair? That's what a fool would do.
> cerizos and besos which is perfect rhyme

Since letters in Spanish have only one sound, '-izos' and '-esos' cannot be made to rhyme without distorting the pronunciation of one of the words. I don't see how that makes 'perfect' rhyme.
Oh, I had missed that ! I thought GFW was for clients, never thought it would apply on servers too.
1. Akka, Erlang, Orleans are not using Actor Model. They are using something that resembles it, e.g. having primitive data types instead of using actors to represent them. Not everything in them is actor - just the very coarse code constructs.

2. To me Halo 4 is the client-side part. I seriously doubt they have used any Orleans there and would bet it is a very monolithic old-school C++ app, thus the title is misleading.
What you mean by "robotics" ?

You want to move a robotic arm so that it is fast and accurate (eg. don't break the crystal shield it is moving), that is automation.
To study automation you need a lot of math, matrix and vector, complex calculus, geometry, trigonometric and transformation (Fourier Laplace) and a lot of other stuff that I do not know.

You want a robot to recognize human face so it can make some particular action ?
Now you should be looking into AI, computer vision and classification.
You will need a lot of math, matrix and vector, calculus in more variable and a lot of stuff that I don't know.

You want to control n-thousand little robot so they can cooperate to make something great ? Now you should look at parallel computation and distribute system.

You will need a lot of math, matrix and vector, probably fuzzy logic.

What I am try to say is that "Robotics" means pretty much nothing and everything, however if you study a lot of math and matrix and vector you are pretty much covered...
Occupy Wall Street comes to mind as another example. NYC sentiment turned rather quickly against that movement once the public delectation, rape allegations and the inconvienient even caused by protestors started to boil over.
Actually, they never stopped being accessible from the "usual" link : https://github.com/greatfire . The alert was only sent for requests to https://github.com/greatfire/ (notice the leading slash).
Since this is the technique they used, the browsers would have sent referring URLs as part of each request. When traffic begins to spike suspiciously, why not send a headless browser to each referrer, and if any code on the referrer results in automatic loading of the domain you're trying to protect, blacklist it. I'm guessing that the bulk of the requests were referred by a relatively small number of pages/domains, so this would be a small processing task with a big payoff. This would effectively kill the use of this technique.
I mentioned that there are other places in the Book where this information is mentioned, but it's funny how the `?` is described in at least 3 places (your link plus my two other links), but the section you would expect most information about it, called "The ? operator for easier error handling" which is fully dedicated to explaining the operator, does not mention that fact.

My point, above all, is not tied to this specific example, by the way, hope you understand how an informal tutorial about the language does not replace a strict specification - and pointing out that such information is available somewhere if I look hard enough does not disprove anything.
Physics has given us the tools to understand our bodies.
I mean no disrespect, but I've never met another developer/organization that was happy using Oracle. I'm genuinely curious as to why someone would prefer it over PostgreSQL if they were familiar with both had the option to not use it.
Initial price tag: ICEs and HEVs win by a large margin

Acceleration: depends, not all EVs are Teslas; additionally this is a moot point, because we're not comparing race cars, and you'd be blocked by traffic anyways most of the time. You also won't save any time from faster accelerating, because you'll lose a lot more for charging.

Cabin noise: only in city driving, on highway most of noise comes from road and wind; HEVs are almost as good in city driving, because of driven carefully they use ICE only while accelerating.

Cost of driving: debatable, depends on the world region and electricity prices; the cost of driving 100km is lower in a HEV or diesel than an EV charged from a public fast-charger, at least in many regions of Europe
I don’t know how it works around the world, but maintenance of the property is normally factored into the rent. Large maintenance work won’t affect your rent so your expences are more predictable.
I had no idea that was a thing, though it's not altogether surprising given where Sharp was back then.

At any rate, according to Google it seems to be over[1] and Sharp took back control in 2019.

1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sharp-hisense-idUSKCN1SE1...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Model_Railroad_Club
Neither is "Hacker".
This works for something like doing an Ironman, where it's up to you and only you. That's how I did my Ironman.

But it doesn't work like that for things that don't just depend on you, like doing a startup or closing a deal, even of you "Commit to it like a madman. Plow through like a Klingon. No looking back. Celebrate." You have to be very careful about this, because when the "Celebrate." part doesn't come, you'll learn how low the lows really can get.
All-time top-vote list for submissions: http://top.searchyc.com/submissions_by_points
In college I lived with artists. A few of their artist friends come over with big sketch pads, pencils and whatever else artists use. They all drop acid while telling me they can't wait to see their amazing creations once their minds are opened. I went out for a few hours and came back to find them all sitting around the living room.

One sketch pad had a long black squiggle on it, the same design you'd make if you fell asleep while holding a pen to paper, and the rest had even less (One was literally two 1" lines forming a 90 degree angle). The next day they described the night as a huge success even though they never really attained any of their stated goals.

I don't doubt they had a good time, but seeing them utterly fail to use the drug as a tool kinda makes me skeptical of the productive benefits.

As a side note, if you want your ego stroked then ask a student artist for his opinion of your work. In the two years I lived with artists not a single negative comment was spoken by a student of anyone else's work. It was a guaranteed self-congratulatory feedback loop.
So some sort of public-key cryptography?

I didn't realize that the HN login page didn't send a password on a login.
Hi,

You've obviously put a lot of work into this, but what's the advantage of using your lean designs web site builder over Boks (a free Adobe Air App grid builder) for Blueprint CSS?

Also I like that you've left your jMockups code in as the high-fidelity mock-up builder, but it might confuse new users who aren't familiar with the history behind jMockups.

Hope this helps!
it doesn't have to be online, but it must run on a computer. There, I hope this makes it clear that pen (or pencil) and paper is not an option ... :)
If physical function is what makes us human, Stephen Hawking isn't much more human than a mind in a robot.
>In summer, cruise ships, charter boats, and commercial fishing vessels bring thousands of visitors to Whittier’s harbor on the west side of Prince William Sound.

Sounds like tourism is a large portion of income.
It's unfortunate that things didn't turn out better, but like you said, you're still young and you learned a lot. From your own selfish, subjective perspective, I'd say the YC experience was probably a good thing, no?

One thing about this stood out to me though:

On top of everything else, our mentors had just impressed upon us that our idea was stupid. So we pivoted.

I dunno, that just doesn't sit right with me. OK, maybe the idea really was stupid, I dunno. But it's the fact that you completely changed gears (that's more than "pivot" in my book) just because someone(s) told you the idea was stupid. I mean, even if those someone(s) included pg, sama, rtm, whoever... I couldn't see a complete reboot based on just their opinions.

Of course there may be context missing here, but I'm curious how much actual customer development effort you put in? Did you actually try to identify and interview the people you thought were in your target market? Was there any market research at all? If not, I can't help but wonder if the "pivot" here was a good idea or not.

Sorry if this sounds judgmental, and I freely acknowledge that there isn't enough context here to make many assumptions, nor am I in any position to criticize others. It just strikes me as odd to pivot so early and (seemingly) without sufficient data.

Looking back, we should have found a way to address the partners’ concerns. We should have found a way to use the code we’d written and the domain expertise we’d gained.

Looking at it from an outsider perspective, that sounds right to me. There's a lot to be said for acquired domain expertise and knowledge, IMO.
"a single scientist on the panel interrupted ..."

The response from the other panelist wasn't going to be the correct one, which is "Duh! Not helpful!"

Is that scientist making the claim based on evidence, or based on personal belief? If so, what is the evidence?

Do we train everyone to think the same way? Do we train them to think about problems in specific areas? Do we train them to think about historical problems? Would improved knowledge of the literature help identify unexplored paths, and keep students from revisiting old, well-trodden paths, or should some old things be left mostly unvisited?
US content firms also sell directly outside of the US, and local providers will still buy it from them as they are the one that localizing content in the first place.
Europe is probably the worse place for content distribution on earth due to the massive amount of localization, this means that while Universal might license the content directly in the UK it has to sell the distribution rights to 10 different companies in the mainland just to handle to localization which in many countries also includes full dubbing.
Intellectual property and distribution rights tend be quite messy in the unified EU market, especially since the translations are considered as individual intellectual properties, and the dubbing considered a recorded work so you have more and more red tape and various guilds and unions for both voice actors and translators to deal with.
And this really really sucks, there are like 50 VOD providers in the EU now but due to distribution rights none of them can get any good content coverage and under many cases cannot offer services across the EU.
It seems there would be a point at which you reach maximum information density with camera sensors. Not due to limitations of technology, but the nature of light itself and the optics.

Optics is nowhere near my specialty, but it does seem to me that you can only capture so much light with a lens, no matter how optically perfect it is, before diffraction causes you to lose information. Of course, bigger / more numerous lenses & sensors would alleviate this, but then that's probably not going to be stealthy. So, I don't see how improved technology (a sudden breakthrough in how light works notwithstanding) will fix this.

Please, could anybody in optics weigh in on this, perhaps with some math? I'm very much curious what the upper limit would be for a typical piece of 3" glass.
I recommend reading the follow up comments on Reddit. There are some real gems in there from current and ex MS employees.
I imagine fishing, oil and gas, and Alaska's (edit) $2,000 stipend for residents is what keeps them there.
"This also works for user-local installations (e.g. $HOME/bin) without root access in shared web hosting environments just specify the location of login_duo.conf with -c."

Sounds interesting. Does this mean that users can setup Duo by themselves? What happens if many (>10) users use their own Duo accounts on the same host?

edit: One more question: if users use the mobile app for generating passcodes, is the system still dependent on Duo's servers?
well, looking on what is indexed in google http://www.google.com/search?q=site:lifehacker.com/&hl=e... there was at least a partial SEO f*ck up involved (and yes, google referred traffic is important for tabloids and other technology blogs)
That would require they get it right.
With a 99.9999% failure rate.
That's a great observation actually. When I originally created StartupLi.st in my tent while servine the US Navy on deployment in Afghanistan, the only way I could "gain an audience" was to make the effort to contact each startup before I featured them. It worked brilliantly, and will still be a strategy I'll use as http://startupli.st grows. Thanks again for your comment!
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!
It would be interesting to know how much of this 25k/day trade is simply a kind of steady-state speculation, including attempts to exploit arbitrage. If somebody really wanted to change 100k BTC to $, it would likely have a disastrous impact on exchange rates.

The trade of US$ in the currency markets is on the order of several trillions per day. Now imagine what would happen if somebody truly wanted to exchange a few trillion US$ for Euros, and keep those Euros...
Unless you're coding Duke Nukem Forever. ;)
This error highlights a rather important point actually.

The migration of large chunks of commerce onto the web has hidden away a lot of the complexity of doing business, which can (as seen in this example) lead to massive errors of judgement due to ignorance. Nobody would imagine that owning a single bookcase stocked with books is equivalent to the operation of a brick and mortar bookstore. Yet here we see Friedman making the same error in comparing amazon with a one man operation.

In a sense they are comparable, and that's one of the things that makes the web so wonderful, it's possible for very low overhead business to exist on the web, and it's possible for them to look very professional. However, underneath they are as different as a home kitchen and a commercial restaurant line. Just because you can cook doesn't mean you can be a chef or run a restaurant. Just because you can pack, label, and ship boxes doesn't mean you can match the logistical capabilities of a company like Amazon.

Certainly many companies tried. Amazon built itself up quite rapidly with a heavy focus on logistics at scale and product fulfillment. A lot of companies mistakenly believed that you can get away with unorganized chaos and just putting together a bunch of guys with a bunch of boxes in a room and you'd get the same results. Those companies were very wrong, many of them have gone out of business.

Amazon, even going back to 1999, has several unique qualities which put it ahead of its competition, not least of which have been melding a high-tech web store on one end to an equally high-tech logistics and fulfillment process on the back end. If you look at a web business and you can't see what's going on with enough fidelity to tell a home maker's kitchen from a commercial restaurant kitchen then you really ought to avoid commenting on the subject.
Once again, a great Linus Torvalds statement! I especially like the last paragraph, which has so much truth in it, and can be applied to small as well as large software projects:

Don't just make random changes. There really are only two acceptable models of development: "think and analyze" or "years and years of testing on thousands of machines". Those two really do work.
Thanks for that.

Yes. We met back in Feb.
Thanks. Good luck to you as well.
Mortuus, this is a great reply. Thanks for the detailed points. Choosing a character name is something i'll be adding to the game shortly.

I definitely agree with regarding the 15 minute wait for turn play. My team decided to go with 15 minutes so users don't burn through content (chapter art) too quickly.

Definitely will consider the speeding up the turn play duration.

Thanks again, Mortuus!
What really sets GitHub apart, is not that it uses Git, but how elegantly it pulls everything together (source control, new API discovery, networking, site hosting) around a set of core social networking ideas.
It's just the way the xkcd comic was written.
Looks great Ryan! It's certainly come a long way in the last couple years.
Kinda sad considering OSX's history
Why is the white king represented by 5000 but the black king by -7500? All the other white and black pieces have the same absolute value.

(This really brought back memories. I haven't written a PL/I program since 1978.)
Well, it's getting a lot of attention now.
Can browsers or OSs not treat the corrupted Baidu analytics as malware?
We're getting to a point where it's just services supported by ads for other services which are supported by ads for other services and so on.
My high school was in the bottom 25% of NY State. We had kids carrying metal and glass. It's not ghetto, but it was low end.

I'd agree with the statement that most of the students there were not particularly motivated. But who knows, maybe kids become more motivated when you go from the bottom 25% to the bottom 10%.
It seems completely bizarre. At least the government has the wisdom to not publicly take credit for it. It looks really bad when one of the most powerful nations on earth, over a billion strong, can't stop a little 300 person operation.

Github is smart and talented, and i'm sure that bandwidth cost is horrible. But they are up against an organization 7 orders of magnitude larger, and seem to be holding up just fine.

I kinda hope China comes out and says, whoops, unauthorized sneaky hackers. Github's resilience makes them look like a joke.
The rules about registering as a data controller and restricting the use of personal data usually apply to organisations rather than private individuals, so as far as I know, the kind of situation you describe isn't illegal anywhere in Europe. Similarly there are different rules for things like non-profit community groups and the like.

A company doing the same thing, however, might need either the consent of the data subject or a good reason to process or disclose that data without consent. The actual laws cover this in much more detail. But again, this is a tricky issue, because on the one hand there are supposed to be rules about when an organisation is allowed to process personal data in the first place, but on the other hand, the legally enforceable rights of individuals to prevent processing can be quite weak in practice.

In any event, if you were processing data outside the rules, it's highly unlikely you'd wind up with the state coming to arrest you for it. Normally if an individual did object it would be handled via the regulator and you'd have to be a very long way down the path before any sort of police action was involved. I suppose if you completely ignored the regulator's decisions and any resulting fines for long enough, eventually someone would probably see handcuffs.
You have a higher opinion of the value of Amazon's guarantee and brand in this space than I do. You're talking independent contractors here (just like Home Depot and many others use today) and you can expect lots of outcomes between didn't show up or didn't do the promised task and did a perfect job. Even with contractors I know and trust, things don't always work out perfectly when you're dealing with unexpected problems on the fly.

For me, the potentially interesting aspect is "handyman" type tasks that fall outside the range of services you can have done through Home Depot, Sears, my local plumber or electrician, etc. Though I would guess it's significantly more expensive than you can get from giving someone local some cash (assuming you can find the right person).
This BLS breakdown [1] doesn't break down salaried vs. hourly. However, it does say that "A look at the chart reveals that semimonthly is the pay period in which businesses pay the highest average hourly earnings, followed closely by monthly." (And biweekly after that.) Hourly earnings are probably a reasonable proxy for salaried vs. hourly.

So the data suggests that being paid every two weeks is somewhat more common than monthly. (And, for larger businesses, biweekly is overwhelmingly the norm.)

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-3/how-frequently-do-priv...
Getting a 40-hour-a-week job and not having kids is my strategy. I don't have to relentlessly optimize my time management strategies.
Why not ideal for shopping list? When we go skiing with a couple of friends, we setup a long shopping list in excel, there each row has the name, category, amount and amount unit.

Before heading into the store we have a Pivot table sum it all up, group everything by category sorted by the order those categories are encountered when walking though the store.

This way it takes 2-3 people less than an hour to shop for a 4 day trip for 10-20 people.
One holds the list, and then 1 or two runners go fetch stuff.

It’s been perfected over the years:)
What about Criteo?
That's such a ridiculous overcharge. Even a dollar a month would be well into overkill.
Congrats on launch! This is really beautiful, but:

- rewards aren't as high as AMEX

- APY isn't as high as some savings accounts

Who's the target customer here?
What I'm doing is relaunching an older website that's already been developed - but not promoted/maintained for the last two years.

This means I can work on what I'm good at (design and marketing) and use any money coming in to pay a developer to make any changes I can't.

Was it Neil from CrazyEgg that does something similar? I remember hearing something like that on a Mixergy interview.
Great news, but... why do I need to email you to get anything beyond very basic pricing info (which was not too easy to find either)?
Thanks for the feedback. This is a new design (just done) so we are testing it out.
Depends on entirely the gadget. Some phones show up as one of a dozen different serial devices and work with ppp. Others will work as cdce, which is very nice.
I totally disagree as well.

I've bought my last 2 cars off the internet and it was a really easy hassle free experience.
I used zag.com both times. Let the dealers battle it out, pick one you're happy with. No need to go into the dealership, that's what a phone/email is for.

I was there maybe an hour to pick up the car. Of course they try to sell you the extended warranty and other stuff but they didn't push. A simple no and on to the next item.