jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If only Yahoo had a search engine that could have made use of this data.
Though I normally would agree with you, Tinyurl was fundamental to the point of this person's post. So much so that even before clicking the random Tinyurl I thought to myself, "Nobody would tinyurl something in this context, it must link back to Y-Com."
I want a pink laptop!
Does anyone have a non-paywalled version of the story handy?
WTF is it the responsibility for private organizations to fund basic health care in other countries?

That is the responsibility of nation states like the USA to help other countries with basic health care like preventing Ebola so it doesn't arrive on their shores.

Except since all single single digit people stopped having Ebola in the USA, the news decides that people in other countries dying like flies didn't matter so all pressure on Congress to do anything stopped entirely and they went home for their many weeks of vacation.

The 2015 Congress most certainly won't fund a damn thing. It's just not as sexy to them as dropping million dollar bombs on people.
Everyone's a target for critics. Especially anyone with an ounce of success. The critic is jealous of the success and wants to validate himself by arguing against the actions or views of the successful person.
Nice article. It looks like, in the UK they're only on universities. On Brazil they're in charge of the nation.
> The nutrition raining down from the surface ultimately links back to photosynthesis

This is a key point. The trench lives on the spillover from the surface. If there was no habitable surface full of life, there would be no life in the trench.

Have a read of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall - the deep ocean floor may host ecosystems, but this does not mean that planets where the best conditions are like the deep ocean floor are "habitable".

Similarly, the presence of mosses and lichens in Antarctic dry valleys is interesting, but does not prove beyond doubt that such organisms could evolve if the best conditions were like that.
This is a great point and love the quote.
> GTK also supports customization via local style sheets.

They also break them at every release.
Most engineering probably just requires more actual engineering. Too many people with "engineer" in their title have had little to no exposure to what engineering is. Especially software where we think we've done engineering because we have automated tests. Its a mindset. And science isn't some optional extra either.

So "more science" implies something more to add, when it was probably something removed, diminished or more likely: never properly included to start with.
As I look at home purchase contracts every day, to me they are really simple - in most states, they are a standardized fill-in-the-blank form. So is it the contract or the mortgage docs that are concerning here?

I’m curious to better understand your co-workers situation as well - was it a case if overextending themselves or caveat emptor on some part of the transaction?
I’m thankful you posted those links, they confirmed that Square Enix’s tech library page is reachable, it contains some great stuff. Particularly the rendering overview for FFXV.
You can make it look prettier, but it doesn't make the underlying problem any clearer.

For example, few people would immediately be able to know where place the following into the table so that it still looked good:

['Infinity']

'0e1'

['infinity']

'0X0'

[false]

["+0.e4"]

[[[[1.,]]]]

and so on :) (A bit more time, and I could probably come up with even stranger examples).
If one writes Python using strictly list comprehension, then i guess python could-be-kind-of called lisp.
They missed the most important categories:

Works on millions of existing Windows XP installs:

FAIL Internet Explorer 9
PASS Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3
PASS Opera 10.52
PASS Apple Safari 4.05
PASS Google Chrome 4.1

Supports CANVAS:

FAIL Internet Explorer 9
PASS Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3
PASS Opera 10.52
PASS Apple Safari 4.05
PASS Google Chrome 4.1
A little bit of detail at the NYT blog:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/zuckerberg-on-the-h...
I attended community college for precisely this reason, I had no clue what I wanted to do right after high school and didn't want to spend a lot of (my parents) money on an education I might not use. I ended up leaving school and working instead, but I think it was a relatively inexpensive way to figure that out and I'd certainly suggest it for others
Specifically in the case of the Gulf, why is there so much pressure in the reserves?
I think the problem is, when Google screws up, you don't have one person you can pin it to. Who are you going to blame? Larry, Sergey, Eric Schmidt or whoever was charge in that particular project? With Facebook, Zuckerberg is the face of the company (similar to Steve Jobs for Apple), so its easy to point at him and show your anger when Facebook screws up.
I can't help but cringe when reading this. My biggest issue is the minutiae it seems to entail that is created in trying to balance the concerns of all the different parties. The complexity it adds creates ambiguity, and makes it harder for people to tell whether or not they are in violation of the law.
My human sexuality teacher in college complained that engineering profs are paid more money, she had no perception of market value.

I'm sure it would go over like the bay of pigs, but if the gov't and colleges starting subsidizing majors based on their projected income, there surely would not be as many post college financial problems and the US would benefit from more engineers, scientists, etc. China is doing it before our very eyes, the next 50 years will be interesting.
Highschooler with previous internship experience.
Shadowsocks is (arguably) easier to use for ordinary people and better informed. Most people don't even have command line experience before. After all this is one problem limited in one country which couldn't be freely discussed so choices may not be "optimal" in some sense.
The code doesn't document your intent. There's no way to tell if something weird is a bug, or a feature for an edge case that was never written down.
While you have good and valid points, I think some privilege is visible. Members of royalty likely know they are privileged, and in unusual circumstances. In a racially segregated community where white people own things and have money while black people work as the help and are poor then the differences in privilege are pretty visible, and part of the norm.
Just because someone is on a different kind of contract (say a monthly retainer paid by wire, versus employee of US company paid with direct deposit) doesn't mean you need to treat them differently. Every "Automattician" at Automattic is viewed the same regardless of how their employment contract happens to work, and as you scale larger you can set up subsidiaries overseas to directly employ people. (We look at this once we have about 5 people in a given country.)

Also remote work doesn't mean overseas, there is amazing talent all over the USA too that doesn't happen to live in the SF area.

I really liked this sentence: "The US has less than 5% of the world's population. Which means if the qualities that make someone a great programmer are evenly distributed, 95% of great programmers are born outside the US."

There are about 7 million people in the Bay area, 322M in the US total, so let's say 98% of the great people in the US are born outside of Bay area. There are no visa issues moving between cities or states in the US, but many many other barriers that have nothing to do with visas.
I think whoever originally architected the Apple Store website assumed that, because the Store carried a few third-party products on it alongside Apple's, it would end up evolving into a full marketplace where people would comparison-shop between different third-party offerings of the same product. In such a use-case, reviews and ratings would be useful.

Of course, that didn't wind up happening; the Apple Store website has basically exactly one product in each product category, with that product being a third-party one only if Apple themselves don't make a product for that category. There's no comparison-shopping to be had, and so no justification for reviews or ratings.
I'd want a zero for projects. I have a 3B for messing around with and wish I already had PoE out so I could just set and forget a Pihole box or something. At the moment my Pihole instance is on an x86 Raspbian VM for simplicity but I think tonight or this weekend I'll set up the 3B do be a backup and point my router to it as a secondary DNs server. At least it'd be using the Pi vs it sitting in my drawer.
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Good point. I would usually expect std::transform to be inlined, since it is quite simple - but it may not be and it's a very good point in general regarding the optimization probability for function pointers versus lambdas.

Ultimately, I ended up reverting the change, so using a lambda based on the advice the taking the address of a standard-library function is verboten, since they may introduce overloads at any time [1].

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[1] https://twitter.com/foonathan/status/1197051249822195712
Types go after identifiers because then the types can be left out when using type inference:

let nums = Vec::new();
nums.push(0_u32);
// nums: Vec<u32>
Yes, what you are saying, but that can be optimized very well after the proposals come through.
The wording of the article made it sound like it went thru the atmosphere only because it’s got high energy. Which is wrong, it should be despite of.
No need. Even as a hongkonger. Support thanks but normal business sense — that comes the point. I find all these world venture is a bit naive. It is not going to pay in the long term. If want to, why not Russia. At least you are aware and have alarm bell rang.
I think that really big and really small companies will go the way you describe.

Most places want to control capex and limit capacity wastage. Nobody wants to invest in datacenter facilities. Even the government, which has access to super cheap capital, is embracing cloud.

The shift is real. In my area, a major infrastructure OEM like HPE has like 2 CEs that cover the region. There was probably 14-16 20 years ago.
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5251791/Alternative-to-...
Google uses stack-ranking in a very different way. At Google the stack ranks of all your peers are merged and then used as a sanity-check on the promotion process, to catch cases where a manager may be artificially inflating the reviews of his favorite reports or where he may be overlooking a star employee who everyone else in the organization agrees is worthy of promotion.
I don't understand why hardcore techies wanted the start menu bad so badly.

I used Windows for a long time before migrating to OSX and the usage of a 3rd party app called Alfred. Now I just type what program I want to open, which is significantly faster and easier than having to navigate through an OS. I'm sure Windows probably has an equivalent.
Call me pessimistic but I am not actually sure a CEO can do anything. The face is that taking on a corporate culture in a place like Microsoft is a big and long-term task. It takes not only vision and talent but a light touch with the whip and a heavy hand with the spade.
and node-fibers :o
I love VBA, it’s so easy and powerful. My first job was being a developer/consultant at a big 4 firm, developing a disclosure management software with VB6. It even had a ORM to map objects from SQL queries. It was lightning fast, Office integration so superb. Later it was ported to .NET with a proper client/server architecture, still it never reached the speed and simplicity of the VB6 version.
Paging @dang, could we get the title changed? It’s clickbait in its current state.
Driving skills are literally to be normally distributed, which this distribution is not.
OpenSSH 8.4 added support for FIDO2. It's literally the same commands (with some different parameters) to take into use as a normal keypair. And FIDO2 tokens are becoming quite affordable. To me 2FA with SSH became a solved problem with that.
It is possible to create gold out of thin air - side effect is radioactivity.
Yes, nuclear fusion. But deployment on a wider scale will happen after (possibly long after) switching almost fully to renewables.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKCS_11
Seriously, what would you expect from Obama at this point? All talk and platitudes and no backbone.
Given that <titles> do matter for SEO, I wonder if there are any drawbacks to stuffing the <title> with keywords but, on page load, changing it to something short & meaningful, for a more pleasant bookmarking & browsing experience.
Untappd is pretty cool too, will be interesting to see these 2 duke it out.
By far my favorite way to read content on a screen is using Tofu http://amarsagoo.info/tofu/ which presents columns (of user-preferred width, font, hyphenation & justification, and leading) of text, and then scrolls column-by-column left and right. It’s especially nice when two or more people are trying to read from the same screen, because occasional scrolling of a whole column directly horizontally is much less disruptive than arbitrary amounts of scrolling down a page. On wide computer displays, it is a significantly better use of screen real estate than single-column web pages, which should stick to a measure (width) of not much more than about 60 characters to be readable.

Anything longer than a page or two that I plan to read on a screen gets copied and pasted into Tofu.

Edit: note that there’s a (quick) slide animation with scrolling in Tofu which helps maintain the impression of a single continuous surface, but there are no gratuitous animated flipping page corners.
He has a biomedical engineering degree and actually worked a 9-5 day job as an analyst for a few years while playing gigs on weekends.

http://stereogum.com/4530/quit_your_day_job_girl_talk/franch...
Put a RAID card with a BBU into your machine and 250 ops/second is irrelevant.
I have been building something similar as a side project. http://impromptudo.com. (also an even less polished mobile version at http://m.impromptudo.com, but it should auto detect your mobile browser)

At one point you could post your own stuff, but was removed after some feedback and I just didn't have the critical mass to avoid users posting something to do, and not hear from anyone else and then deem my app useless.

Edit: Ha, just noticed I replied in the comments when the original post went up that I had something brewing for his startup idea.
I couldn't help but observe that these lists, read independently, would apply to any aspect of life and not only to Programming. Sure we need to replace the technical jargon with their generic counterparts.
Currently from foursquare. But we have some ideas we want to play with in the future.
what kind of experience you have?are you interested to invest in a startup?I am in Morocco,me and my co-founder(Turkish with Business experience in Dubai),we are looking for investors for our statup aiming Dubai Market.
If by "good overview" you mean "often incorrect and sometimes extremely harmful" you are correct:

http://w3fools.com/
Don't use npm for deployment. that's even the recommendation by joyent.
> I came to believe that certification was more about barrier-to-entry than anything else

Still the case with most government procurement processes.

If you manage to jump through all the "certification" hoops, you can mark up your product to an insane rate and then lobby for certification to be expanded.

Then the government has a list of "approved" vendors who are basically in the "certification" club and sometimes you can only find a product of a particular type only by a particular company and when you ask them for the price, your jaw drops (especially if there is a 20x cheaper COTS one on the market at the same time).
> it is incredibly difficult for pilots to seek help for mental health issues. It's "career suicide", and puts them in a position where medical professionals are their enemy

Exactly. Except that not so much the medical professionals, but the employers are the enemy. In the meantime, evidence was found in the pilot's appartment which shows that he was in treatment for a mental illness and was certified unfit for work on that day by his doctor. And his employer did not have a clue about all that... (German reference e.g. http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/a-1025956.html )
Memory Networks: http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3916
I get it, laptops with touchscreens exist, but do people actually use them, or do they buy them because it's hard to find a laptop that doesn't have a touchscreen?
And yet they make a point to also take ICE's money as well.
KS has become a scam. I crowdfunded this one product, they kept delaying the shipping date, then they said they shipped it, no details of shipment, then they informed me that it was delivered. I gave up, scammy douchebags!
If you commit an offense that has a large financial penalty, no one will care about that, you'll have to sell assets to raise the cash.
You've had a formal developer job, you can get another one. Just because you got it through a friend doesnt mean it was any more valid. Remember that startups go under all the time, most of us who have worked for a startup have also worked for one that went under.

- Freelance work is a good way to build out your resume. Getting Python-specific work probably isn't as easy as something like web development but its out there.

- Does your local area have a startup-focused Facebook group? Join it and pay close attention to companies advertising for devs or make a post offering your services. Just don't offer them for free.

- Check out things like UN Volunteer[1], plenty of web dev stuff on there so I'm sure something Python related would eventually come up.

- Build some things with the Python web frameworks like Django and Flask. Many companies are still using them (Flask for data science, Django more for web app backends). You're far more useful with these tools under your belt.

Like someone else said, don't focus too much on being Python developer - languages come and go. You should definitely get to know at least one language inside out but don't become too attached to it.

Definitely don't work for free for other people, it never ends well for either part.

[1] https://www.unv.org/
> Economists solved that one along time ago: revealed preference.

I'm quite certain they didn't solve the problem of determining the correct long term value system for the human race. For context I have looked into the idea, I have a degree in Economics.

We don't even have a perfect optimal strategy for the completely bounded game of chess yet. But somehow we've solved the problem of determining optimal strategy for the unbounded game of social and economic interactions between millions of independent actors? It's a pleasant thought, but no, we haven't.

In real life what people are doing is making economic tradeoffs within a narrowly constrained section of a complex adaptive system within which no actor can do much more than guess at the prospective outcomes of their decisions.

Or put another way, in economic terms how would an economic actor express a clear preference for a sequence of events that leads to a personal connection with someone who doesn't have any money, when they are not aware that's even a thing they can do?
Kind of the opposite of your suggestion, but I have a long time friend who owns an audio / video production company. He has been using his box trucks to drive routes for Amazon this year (not last mile), as his core business is quite light due to COVID.
It's not a huge surprise. Farmville and it's ilk were always terribly dull games. People weren't staying for the gameplay, they were staying thanks to the social pressure of all their friends playing it too (and having to log in to help them advance).
I read Sim Wong Hoo's book back in 2002 and thought this metaphor was really apt to describe what he was talking about - the fear of expressing oneself without express permission by authorities.

However, although it still applies to a certain degree, Singapore and Singaporeans in general have come a long way since he coined the term. People are more willing to take risks and question authority these days. A simple way to highlight this is the dramatic increase in the number of entrepreneurs here - which by definition refers to someone taking risks and pushing the envelope when required.

Anyway, here's the excerpt from his book on NUTS, where he explains what he means and gives examples:
http://bit.ly/nouturn

Maybe it'll help elucidate why he coined the term and help decide how much it still applies.
Look at how stack overflow can answer most questions, how fast and at what time you can ask. People are bootstrapping each others education all the time
This might work as a way for adjusting wake-up time: http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2007/11/the_early_bird_g...
I can understand encouraging casual relationships with your coworkers, but tracking and giving seminars on improving them goes too far. I'll take my $2000 now, please.
> Animals don't do that.

I hope you don't really believe this. Animals are not automatons, they do think and they do plan.
Dash that hope. Dating adverts specifically targeted to people already in relationships:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/tv-advertisem...
I find your points interesting, especially "Prepare to shift from SaaS to shipping hardware". Can you elaborate on this? As in why and the situation that causes it? thanks
As far as I know, your tax records are private. There are however surveys and a lot of unions ask members to disclose salary (with no personal information) so they give out "average wages" for specific areas, such as system development, web development, general programming, etc. (these samples were taken from one of the IT-focused unions). So it gives you an estimate of where your average should be and you can work from there.

I still haven't been aggressively asked by employers what I make now, but I have been asked aggressively what I wish for (as in, you tell us first and we'll say yes/no/maybe).
Carl here (Minus co-founder). Thank you for the suggestion! Sometimes you want to drag, sometimes you want to pick files from a dialog. Look for this feature in 1.5 weeks or so. We'll also add the API (discussed in this thread) as well. People should be able to use whatever method is convenient for them. Thank you for your feedback!
I think that's a truer balance; not women doing exactly what men do (work 40 hours a week) but men working less and watching the kids one day a week, and women also working. (In Holland, 'papadag' is an understanding, that is, a day that fathers stay at home and watch the kids)
exactly. The money quote:
“In most industries, when people are paid too much their firms go bankrupt, and they are no longer paid too much,” he told me. “The exception is when people are paid too much and their firms don’t go broke. That is the finance industry.”