jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'd lean that they are probably control freaks. But there's probably more to it than that and ultimately it seems it boils down to "I'm paying you to work thus it's my right to track your every movement"

Years ago I had a boss but set up security cameras. Normally, this is completely okay because you gotta secure the building you just never know who's gonna come in and rob the place or maybe track an incident (rape, violence, etc).

This boss of mine however went home or worked from home from time to time or sometimes he would go on a vacation and he would just connect to the video stream of the security cameras.

One day I was the only one in the building as I still had to finish my shift. He gaves me a call, he didn't say he was monitoring me of course but he seemed to know what I was doing and proceeded to ask the following question: is everything okay? how's the workload etc etc. Common questions, nothing out of the ordinary.

So it seemed he just called because I wasn't receiving a lot of support calls and sometimes I would just go get coffee he probably saw me standing a lot, maybe thought I was neglecting my job.

I can be incredibly outspoken at times. A lot of the things in the call just screamed "I'm monitoring you". When the call ended I was furious. There's nothing more damaging than not trusting your employees. It breaks trust and relationships. I've never in my professional life felt so insulted that I need someone to monitor me.

If you are this type of manager/supervisor: Kindly put, shame on you. I say kindly put because the words I want to say can't be conveyed here without getting moderated. Cease and rethink your strategy, we are professionals not kids or teenagers and doing this to teenagers remember you are growing professionals, nothing like giving them the ground to grow but if they find stuff like this you are destroying everything.

To workers that are aware I can only hope you find other jobs. It's stressful enough, no need to tolerate this behavior.
This subthread is about playing with it at home.
> "Another marked characteristic is the emotional shallowness of people who live in a world of ideas and have little contact with physical reality" - George Orwell.

Care to elaborate? This seems like a personal attack.

> "Even the devil can quote Orwell to his purpose" - me.

Well fair enough, that made me chuckle.
If I had an expanded budget I'd get something designed for this purpose. This was a bit of a McGyvering for hospitals that ran out of regular PPE suits.

If I was to change anything, I'd have more air go between the two layers, for comfort. Or use a less noisy air source than an air bed blower.
It's not going to work much longer. We've already seen the Fed make moves that are significantly beyond what it did in 2008, and since 2008 firms have been aware this would happen and have been less risk-averse as a result.

Creative destruction is nearly absent as an engine for growth in the US economy, and we are all suffering from the lack of innovation that would otherwise occur.
Part of why I used a blower rather than another type of pump is that you can still breathe in. You have to force the air through with your chest, which is tiring, but there's no danger. the idea is that you go out and get the blower replaced, at that point
I hate obtrusive ads but targeted ads? They are terrible at targeting me.
For every story about Target knowing a woman was pregnant before her family did there are a ton of stories about irrelevant ads.
Lost of people have talked about getting ads for things they have already bought.
Last fall Facebook suggested I join a group for liberal Asian Christians. I am not Asian or Christian.
I use Yahoo mail for signing up to things. I check it once or twice a year. I have a flickr account but wouldn't notice if it disappeared. I use Yahoo site explorer for SEO tracking though, and that's useful. I also use Delicious more or less daily.
Fascinating! It's sort of similar to "bootlegged" guitar tabs on alt.guitar.tab newsgroup and OLGA. There was lots of legal action by publishers and a lot of the content is now lost, or at least not easily accessible online anymore.

...except for an archive of the classical tabs, selflessly maintained by one guy:

https://www.classtab.org/index_old.htm

Don't tell anyone!
Hey everyone! I’m the founder of Budget Fu. After working with YNAB which is too restrictive in the style you can budget (it is YNAB way or the highway) and Mint didn’t give enough information.

I created Budget Fu as a means to allow multiple paradigms of budgeting styles and make it easy to forecast as far out into the future that you’d want. Predicting your spending in the future is the cherry on top for me which will be getting smarter as time goes on.

I’m using BF for my own budgeting and I love it. Got to the first 1000 users this month which has been validating. Looking to get more feedback and see what you’d all like to see more of!

Edit: For the changelog you can follow that on @budgetfuapp on Twitter or http://reddit.com/r/budgetFu/
> The result is that the number 1 way people get into Bitcoin is through a mechanism that has none of the attributes of Bitcoin.

Sure, but 95% of people don't care about that. They just want an asset they will go up. Everything else is just a story people tell themselves so they're not putting 20% of their net worth in trading cards.
It's definitely an American HO scale layout. The track looks like Atlas and I recognize several of the buildings as HO-scale Revell kits that were popular at the time.
There was a little footnote in my comment :)

> Obviously not actually dead - I’m taking a bit of license here. People are still running these things, and maybe they’re occasionally still the right choice
But banks have been in the wrong in how they used futures to suppress prices of precious metals like gold. A quote from the linked article:

> Precious metals markets have long since been subject to manipulation by large banks. Several banks have admitted wrongdoing and faced fines for manipulating gold prices. Many believe that the prices of gold and silver have been kept artificially low through the use of leveraged paper contracts.

>Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, the former economic advisor for the Reagan administration, has written extensively about this subject.

>In his view, some of the biggest banks in the world have been working to suppress the price of gold in Western markets for many years. They accomplish this through creating so-called “naked shorts” out of thin air (the term vapor contract term we’ve been using is analogous to a naked short).

>A naked short is simply a contract that allows an institution to place a sell order for a particular asset without having any ownership of the asset.

>In other words, it allows a bank to flood the market with fake sell orders, creating downward market pressure. Given that banks can create these shorts to the moon without any accountability, they can keep the price down at a level more or less of their choosing for quite some time.

Especially the last alinea seems to reflect some of the things you said about Tether actually.
That's how it happens to people. They believe they are right and it's others who have no self control. How do you know you have more self control than these people? Can you confirm it?
I'd love to look at your group's visualizations! Is it a private repo? because the link doesn't open up. It never stops to blow my mind that we can represent words and concepts in vectors of numbers.

Thanks for your kind words! It's a labor of passion, honestly. And while in previous years it was a nights-and-weekends project, I have recently been giving it my entire time and focus -- which is why I'm able to dip my toes more heavily into R&D like Ecco and the "Explaining Transformers" article.
Cities are obsolete
> Or have banner ads?

You do realize that this type data collection is almost always in service of displaying ads, in some way, to users, don’t you? There’s been reports about FB working to add ads to WhatsApp for a while now [0].

[0] https://www.techradar.com/news/whatsapp-could-be-getting-ads...
How about Helium? It is scarce and very useful for scientific research. He-3 is exceptionally rare and is not renewable at any kind of reasonable price. Is that still an artificial price?
The only people I know who buy drugs from comparative strangers do so almost exclusively in the food courts of shopping malls, for some reason. Presumably it makes it a little harder to get mugged.
After 5 years of growth in data mining at my giant pharma, this is exactly what I'm seeing. Most ML projects remain toys while the number of them that advance into something useful can be counted on one hand.

(Of course it's a bit hard to assess the impact of a revolution like ML (esp DL) when your company already has hundreds of statisticians who have been employing similar data/experiment analysis techniques for decades, thereby diluting the signal of how disruptive novel forms of ML are within the enterprise.)
Like, a no-op GC is a valid implementation as long as your code doesn't allocate too much in the first place. If you ran into that would you consider their implementation buggy and just give them time? Similarly reference counting based GCs _can't_ do anything other than leaking object graphs with circular references, fundamentally. It's not a buggy implementation, it's a fundamental limitation of the technique.

Also, I looked into it. PNaCl couldn't run OCaml, only NaCl. PNaCl (and wasm) doesn't really let you scan stacks, but NaCl does, so they had to drop a real GC with the semantics you'd expect on the transition to PNaCl.

"They did know it was impossible, so they didn't bother" ~ monocasa

And once again, explaining why your examples aren't valid and refuting them isn't "moving goalposts".
Cohen is advocating for political censorship in front of an ADL audience. The ADL, or Anti-Defamation League, for those who don't know it, is a powerful Jewish organisation claiming to fight agaist anti-Semitism- but mostly lobbying in support of Israel. Just to make clear where this is going and why the ADL is so happy to hear this speech, here is a recent press release by the ADL, praising a resolution of the House Foreign Affairs Committee against the BDS movement (which advocates political and economic pressure on Israel to force it to come to a peace with Palestinians):

https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-commends-house-f...

This means that currently the ADL is already lobbying the American parliament and government to obstacle, possibly even outlaw, a political and human rights movement that goes against Israel's interests.
It would be nice to be able to remove entries from the recently accessed key phrase list, and maybe there should be an option when creating a text to not let it be stored in the history, so it has to be typed in each time.
Running plenty fast for me on Chrome / i5 / Linux.
And GNU Emacs has to fork, absent getting RMS's buy-in, which is now not the way to bet. That's where the serious fork has to occur, I presume it could get by with LLVM output, right? Which of course would not be ideal if you're using GCC in your project....

Oh, if only they'd ignore the heathen fork of one of their marque projects. Not going to happen with EMACS, 99+% of its greatness is due to RMS by universal acclimation as of the very early '80s.
QBasic was also how I started programming.
When I found out you can edit the code ...

I printed programs on the school printer. Then typed it in when I got home, as we did not have any Internet. Sometimes I got banned for printing non-school-work.

I've heard similar stories from people printing machine code, so I guess it wasn't that bad writing QBasic.
Yes, TDD became popular many, many years after smalltalk.
So it's a Candy Crush clone?
Build a scraper that runs throught all the forums of the internet fetching the answers that were given any time someone asked the question: "how can a CS undergrad gain real-world skills?"
What an eclectic collection of projects.
As an infrastructure engineer, that seems like it would be overly complicated. You now need processes doing long polls or subscribing to SNS topics.

If you're polling the local metadata service, the longest you're waiting for an answer is 5 seconds, and you can immediately begin closing up your work properly to be most efficient about the compute time used.
No it isn't. Not for me anyway.
They're power limited by what a USB port can provide. It would make more sense to buy actual rack-mounted gear.

Also, you'll need to setup a cloud cluster... A nontrivial task.
It was....

https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=hover&src=typd
I shall dig up my copy (1996 edition) later to give you the chapter, but as far as I recall (and I have not read it again recently), the book details that 98% of combatants were observed to suffer some sort of breakdown when in a sustained combat environment for a certain period of time, which I think was 2 months. The other 2% were sociopaths, who did not suffer any emotional distress. That would seem to be behaviour consistent with someone who "enjoyed" the war.
The main problem with non-nullable types is that the static analysis involved doesn't work for object fields., so you can't write code like this:

if (object.some_field != null)
object.some_field.foo();

because the compiler is unable to prove that it's correct. Instead you have to do a clumsy workaround like this:

SomeType some_local;

some_local = object.some_field;
if (some_local != null)
some_local.foo();
How is Mozilla's control over the W3C HTML standards process proprietary in any way? Mozilla is only one of a number of vendors on the W3C, and is certainly not the most powerful of those vendors.
For headphones, I've heard wonderful things about pretty much everything made by "Grad Labs"

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...
I would make the public version of Save a static method on an abstract class (or a static method in a utility class) and avoid the whole worry over null. It's only a bit more work up front.

abstract class Foo
{
public static Result Save(Foo foo)
{
if(foo != null)
foo._Save();
else
{
//Do Stuff...
}

}

protected abstract Result _Save();
}

Then use like so,

foreach(Foo s in xs)
{
Foo.Save(s); //or s.Save() if Save() is an extension method.
}
One could argue that the measures the author advocates could lead to humankind being less resilient to virus mutations or other evolutionary crisis because of biological human harmonisation under a system that makes all humans behave the same.

In addition a global panopticon will, with a high probability, lead to an increase in depression and suicide.

Both could also lead to human extinction.
I'm a developer
I don't like the word "developer".
http://d3js.org/
It's amazing how this post has received 233 upvotes in 4 hours, and it's not even on the front page. There's something weird with the ranking algorithm.
Maybe he doesn't want to spend his time or his energy needlessly tinkering with a system for which the manufacturer doesn't give a damn about supporting linux, despite having used the code to build their own, proprietary operating system.

All these issues could also be solved if Apple opened up their hardware. We would also collectively have many more hours to develop other FLOSS software. Why are you putting the onus of blame on OP?
> the idea that you have a chemical imbalance in your brain is, still, a theory.

The idea that psychiatry believes depression to be a "chemical imbalance" is a myth. It's a common strawman argument against psychiatry or SSRIs, but the truth is that the field of psychiatry doesn't put much weight on "chemical imbalance" takes.

More information in this article: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/debunking-two-chemical...

> I'm more intrigued by the studies coming out about Ketamine, psybicilin, marijuana therapies, as a new angle to augment antidepressants and other prescriptions.

Ketamine is interesting as a short-term rescue for severe cases, but it's not a long-term solution. Some doctors are trialing long-term maintenance therapy, but the effects tend to wane over time and tolerance is a major issue. Most providers who use ketamine will use it to kick-start regular treatment.

Marijuana is not a treatment for depression and should not be viewed as such.
Tomorrow in the UK starts employment without rights - that is companies will be legally able to hire de facto employees and those people will not have any employment rights - so no unions, will be able to fire pregnant women or don't observe equal pay. It's a bit more complex paperwork, but once companies get a taste it can be streamlined. All this without Labour party nor unions saying a word... https://norightsemployee.uk/
To be clear, I think this is entirely legitimate. I used Linux on the desktop for years, drove a car with a manual transmission, etc. so I totally understand being in a spot where the broader market is moving in a different direction. I feel like we’re losing something with less control over our devices but totally understand the security & support dynamic which got us here.
Little do people know Red Bull is originally a Thai energy drink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krating_Daeng

Tastewise I also enjoy Jamaican Baba Roots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Roots
Gjb
How is it trolling? 9GAG is a YC company.
For elmers out there, what will a graph of Elm look like?
Here's the thing: bigger companies often buy "feature" startups to -- well, add features. So it's not necessarily a bad thing to start one.
Hopefully the file browser and the hierarchical file systems die. I've never liked them. It is a single limited view on how to organize your information. Severely limiting. Within a year of using a hierarchical file system, I've been waiting for something better to come along and get traction. Can't wait for it to happen, I just hope I like everything else that comes along with it ( and the privacy and security implications of the cloud give me pause ).

i still hope that something like lifestreams ( http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html ) takes off or a file system w/ the database like aspects that the BeOS had ( WebOS has a decent amount of that ).
You've clearly never ran 50 km in one go.

You're talking 5 intense months to safely train minimum, for a person who can run 5 km.

Training for a 50 km isn't "just aerobics", it's also about strengthening your bones and ligaments and developing the mental tools you'll need to finish. It's about learning what your body needs to stay hydrated. Learning how to minimize calorie use. Learn how to run through the walls (yes, plural, there's normally two of them on a 50 km run). How to eat on the run without throwing it all up or squirting it out from your shorts. Aerobics is the least of it, IMHO.

12 weeks is a laughable claim.

And yes, I've run 50km (and far beyond) in one go.
Because economic growth is the only way to pay off the massive amounts of debt that currently exist. The US needs to constantly grow and acquire more and more resources, labour and capital or else it will cease being the way it currently is...
I assumed this was an early April Fools joke, but it appears to be a real service! One of many in their recently-released "home services" platform http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=dp_bc_3?ie=UTF8&node=10192834011
"Even if you set the registration price to say $1,000"

Do you realize the impact that would have on innovating new web apps?
1. You can not really juge the source code of a language if you don't the language. Reading alot of functional code is almost always easier then OO code because of pure functions. Look at this video for example at the videos witch can be found here http://www.janestcapital.com/technology/ocaml.php

2. The learning curve of those languages is not bigger then the learning curve of other languages. Time time I spend with making pretty OO designs in school was way bigger then the time it took me to learn clojure and FP in general but this of course is a issue we can not solve. I just don't like it if people say something as if it is a fact.

3. Is it more convenient to do this
array.select &:even?
better then
(filter even? array)

The later seams more intuitive to me and I didn't have to learn more syntax.

4. In Lisp not every DSL looks like Lisp.
> I also find Lisp / Haskell and ML to be really ugly

Wow.

> I don't appreciate that ML doesn't have a simple concept like operator overloading

ML operators are nothing more than functions. The issue of "operator overloading" comes from the type system and the simplicity of the language.

> or that in LISP every DSL still looks like LISP

You might want to read on Scheme reader macros.

> I don't like that a Smalltalk application is not portable between implementations

It's true that you don't have this issue in Ruby as the "standard" is simply the original implementation (aka there is no standard at all, and not really any competing implementation).

> or that applications are big, monolithic images of the virtual machine with everything included, even the IDE.

That definitely isn't the case. That's not the case in GNU Smalltalk, and most commercial smalltalk let you create a stripped production image which contains only the necessary code.
How many lynchings have occurred in the US in the past 30 years?
Agreed. These revelations are not so scandalous by US standards but may well lead to the collapse of governments in some other countries, for which the US will be blamed.
To some extent this could be because the high value server installations are better managed/protected than the average desktop machine.

In the 3 large companies that I worked in, the people in charge of the server infrastructure had a fairly good grasp of security. The windows servers never got infected despite a few virus outbreaks in the company desktops.
Interesting idea, but most interesting is the retention of capslock. Is there ever a real use for capslock anymore? I can imagine turning it on by accident and promptly going insane.
From a comment on reddit:

Complete docs are not up yet ... The full schedule is as follows:

The first batch of documents that will be in part released Sunday night and the rest Monday will include "lively commentaries" by American diplomats on, among others, Nelson Mandela, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Af...ghan President Hamid Karzai, and Libya's Col. Muammar Gaddafi.

On Tuesday, documents will be released relating to Guantanamo and North and South Korea.

Wednesday will be Pakistan's turn.

Thursday will be dedicated to Canadians and their "inferiority complex".

Claims of corruption in Afghanistan will be aired Friday.
Saturday will be about Yemen, and Sunday, China.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/ecxhp/the_guardi...
I'm going on what the NYT reported which is:

>In May 2009, Ambassador Anne W. Patterson reported that Pakistan was refusing to schedule a visit by American technical experts because, as a Pakistani official said, “if the local media got word of the fuel removal, ‘they certainly would portray it as the United States taking Pakistan’s nuclear weapons,’ he argued.”

EDIT:

Unless you mean the casualty estimates? Those were officially released to the press during the crisis.

http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/05/31/kashmi...

I'm not really sure which bit of knowledge you're referring to, to be honest.
I'm wondering how casual map developers can be easily reached to tell them about the service.

Permanent ads don't sound like a roadblock. Product placement in a movie is also permanent.
i always liked moneybookers. sadly nobody uses them. why?
- more countries
- better support
- account and linked bank accounts are not chained to your location (im german living in america with an austrian bank account: paypal fail - german adress with austrian bank not possible same with us address. its the god damn EU i can open accounts where ever i want as citizen of the EU)
- higher limits
- way less bullshit
Petty perhaps, but it strikes me as a difficult name to pronounce: I kept reading it hɪk-ify not haɪk-ify