jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For all people laugh about the French and their vacation, they understand this. Life is not about work, it is about us.
Now for months, I've been reading some amazing answers on quora. Sadly, I'm unable to experience them myself because I don't have a !@##% invitation to create a Quora account.

Can any one kindly send me an invite?
Thanks! We're working on doing a demo video, but in the meantime the Twitter account access is to a. get all of your articles and b. to allow you to participate in the comment system on the site which is basically a Facebook comment system for Twitter.
> You even make events in the game affect the music

This is really what makes it _very_ interesting in my opinion. The whole super compressed non-looping music is nice, but having music that responds to your actions in real time can be amazing. More than having music for each level you can have music for each bad guy and even better how the bad guy is "feeling". Speed up the sequencer when they are mad. Start out with a bunch of cells and remove them as a way of showing the health left.
Can I carry it into the bath and read it there? I’m not sure why ebook reader manufacturers aren’t tapping this market.
SETI doesn't sell search for life, SETI sells "I have donated money to SETI." After you understand this, it is the Rosetta Stone for non-profit fundraising. (And the enduring support for the space program among geeks, which is non-profit spending using other people's money that actually funds military hardware R&D.)

There are many people who buy Ferraris to be the kind of person that buys Ferraris, rather than to drive. Seriously, there are like magazines you can buy so you can aspire to one day not driving a Ferrari.
Yes, but now you're comparing WebMachine and Mochi to Node, which is fine...
It doesn't scale.

If you make a software product (without support) which will be used by 1000 people, you need 3 programmers and 1 system engineer. If 100,000 people use your product, you need maybe 1 extra system engineer for a 100 fold increase in usage.

To offer a product including 24/7 customer support to 1000 people, you can get 3 people working from home in shifts. To offer the same support to 100,000 people, you need a department - maybe not 300 people, but you definitely won't get away with hiring two extra people from home.
The title of the post +HN post should be changed after the author updated his entry and clarified Dropbox' position.
What about side effects? Does eg timing of the computations leak data?
After Snowden and the Assange book, I strongly doubt that any idealists are applying to Google.

My gut tells me that when the machine went their way, they were obedient little soldiers. When it didn't, they took matters into their own hands.
You are getting a bit evangelical there.

I'm not an advocate for blockchain it has only one very narrow use case global distributed consensus on ownership of a virtual token that's perfect for money and domain names and nothing else.

I'm sorry if you bought some flim flam mans marketing spin but I only ever look at the tech.

All of these issues with people not using their domains just backs up my argument, that people don't care enough to use it, hell even the squatters don't care enough to use it.

Ultimately ICANN could have given them the TLD but didn't because they have no incentive to give up that control.

Thank you for backing up my argument with links :)
Is this the world you want to live in?
As if people that do have something to lose, try to not break the laws too much or too obvious.

As long as you have poor, horny and young male population you will always have high crime and organized crime (and some terrorists lately) will have no lack of recruits.

If high risk, high reward life of crime is the only shot at social status - the kids will take it.
> I wish all tabs idle for longer than 5 minutes would be collected by the GC

I didn't check if they still work with new Firefox versions but there are extensions that exactly do this.
>I've spent countless hours fighting against the layout >algorithm to get images to go in the right place

This probably means you were using it wrong :) LaTeX almost always knows better than you, and you should trust it. You are much better off "guiding" the image placement rules than trying to set them manually!
the getintopc.com claims its a "license: free trial" so whatever that means referring to xp
Very cool. Also if you want a wider view of the content, fire up the web inspector console and enter the following:

$(".main-column").attr('class', 'large-12 columns main-column');$(".hide-for-medium-down").remove();
I'm not sure why : has been chosen as the canonical fork bomb function name, but it's more readable with something like

resurse() { recurse | recurse &}; recurse
Last year? I downloaded a pirated copy of the movie Ink. I wasn't ever going to go to the cinema nor was(and won't) I going to buy it on DVD. I did however buy 2 copies totally about $30 IIRC from the creator directly. This is just one case from one person. Many people who pirate movies also buy the ones they think are worth their money. The think most people like you don't realise is that most of the people who don't pay for any of it in any form wasn't going to do so even if it wasn't available for free. And I too can just blanket everything under a misguided and biased argument; No it's actually more expensive to shoplift because if you were walked out with enough you'd very very likely get caught and you're likely to face some legall challenges not to metion the fact that many people won't hire you unless they have to. That doesn't even take into account the other point you so conveniently misse: it's harder. That point is actually more important than the cost as shown in my case of buying Ink for $30 which is at least 3 times more than it would have cost me to go to the cinema.
I don't think your metaphor fits. If I learned people really thought my documentation sucked, I'd fix it. As for countries, it's obviously not to be expected that North Korea's Great Leader or the Israelis and Palestinians will just "shut up and fix it", but I really don't think offering them monetary and weaponry bribes just to keep them at an "appropriate level of madness" is the kind of diplomacy I want our government to participate in, and any secrets that involve that ought to be revealed. Diplomacy is a complex issue and secrets leaking out can be damaging, but this is true about most government affairs.
You gotta be able to find 'fm to work for 'em :)
Spiritual solutions have not been demonstrated to work any more than biological solutions have — less so, actually, since there are drugs for treating schizophrenia with some degree of efficacy. We can't say, "Thing X is not proven, therefore Unproven Thing Y must be true" — that's illogical.
The foreign governments already know, more or less, which dissidents are being supported by whom. It doesn't take WikiLeaks to tell Kim Jong Il where his enemies are getting their M4s or whatever. Secrecy mostly gives governments the room to make deals with groups which the population finds objectionable: genocidaires, nazis, theocrats, thugs, etc. For example, Nixon secretly made deals with the Vietnamese communists to sabotage peace negotiations; Reagan was secretly dealing with the Iranian theocracy and with the Nicaraguan contras (who had a bad rep stateside due to rape, murder, and so on). It is in fact routine for the US government to make deals with violent extremists or autocratic governments, very often in direct opposition to democratic movements or governments.

Diplomacy is a very complex game, but you seem to be confused about which side the players are on. Politicians are on one side, you and I are on the other.
Would it be more expensive than what netflix has to do with physical rentals? No.
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE

I'm a computer programmer with skills in interests in low-level Rust programming (compilers, operating systems, emulators, etc.) as well as skills in data science and deep learning (pytorch, numpy, matplotlib, pandas)

github: https://github.com/bayedieng
email: bayedieng98 at gmail.com
I started visiting this site when I was 16/17 and starting off my IT classes. I still feel like I learned more browsing the site's daily news than my school. It's still my daily routine, nearly 20 years later, to visit it every day. I'm apparently in the top 100 wrt number of comments (mostly shitposts and arguing, kinda like what I do on HN)

Never did get on with the forums much, mind you. But some threads are fun to follow.
LOL nope. Humiliation works only on the level which target audience understands, like performance benchmarks. Security exploits are much more esoteric and tend to result in mudfights. It already did many times, like, how many businesspeople responsible for procurement have accurate understanding of spectre/meltdown/rowhammer vulns? Why do you think AMD isn't using it for marketing against Intel?
I've been working with and running remote teams for a few years. It takes some getting used to but basically it can work. And when it doesn't work, it's usually for the same reasons that local teams can fail. Which is of course a combination of communication issues, management issues, and sometimes simply not having the right people on your team.

Communication issues get amplified in a remote situation because you are dealing with cultural issues, timezone issues, and often poor tooling. And even when it works well, a video call just isn't a substitute to being in the same room. A key lesson here is to simply rely less on this and push your processes in a more asynchronous direction. E.g. having scrum related meetings over a video meeting is even more painful than having them in real life. They are inherently synchronous in nature. Going asynchronous reduces meeting pressure. We have a lot of tools to support that these days. Most of which came out of the OSS community which out of necessity tends to favor asynchronous processes because remote is a defacto reality in pretty much most of them.

Another lesson is that once you get used to this actually being a workable situation, hiring locally at greater expense becomes harder to defend. Basically it levels the playing field and your premium rate is going to be more related to what you can do then it is to where you are doing it.

When there are lots of qualified people willing to work at a quarter your rate, maybe that is going to be a challenge long term. In reality it's not so bad; you get what you pay for also remotely. Worse, you actually need a certain level of maturity and skills to compensate for people being remote. So, that biases rates to the premium end of the spectrum. But still, expecting San Francisco rates just because you are based there or used to be based there on a remote project that also has people from India, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere, would probably not be long term sustainable. You can literally get an entire team for those rates and it wouldn't be that bad of a team.
Ah, looking at the EEA 3 alert: http://www.ercot.com/eea_info/show/26464

In these situations, each utility is required to lower the demand on its system based on its percentage of the historic ERCOT peak demand. While each utility is responsible for determining how to implement the required demand reduction, most utilities use rotating outages for this purpose. Rotating outages primarily affect residential neighborhoods and small businesses and are typically limited to 10 to 45 minutes before being rotated to another location.
What I hate about the US system is every year I have to convert my brokerage tax statement into a schedule D line by line or the IRS duns me because they only know my stock sales, not my purchases, which is nuts.
Speaking of puffins... I've had my credit card skimmed in Iceland, at a pretty remote gas station on the ring road.
Yes! Such a great font.
I recently spent too much time reviewing mono fonts for programming and IBM Plex Mono was my top.

Office Code Pro was my runner up.

They would be more popular with cooler names like Fira and Hack. ;)
Cool, TIL - thank you
> Neither seems to have supporting exercises yet

I contacted one of the authors of the book. He confirms there aren't exercises yet, but says it's a work in progress and hopes there will be in the future.
Ironic that this article was published on a website that doesn't use dark mode.
Users also expect prettier designs than the standard GUI widgets from the OS nowadays. Custom themes also could lead to ugly visuals in apps and accessibility problems.
I've been using org-mode for about a decade now, and while I know there were changes made, I don't think there was even a single thing that just stopped working under me during the upgrade. I have a somewhat nontrivial amount of org setup, and there was never a case I'd have to fix anything in it after upgrade.
> The service and/or product provided by their business is providing significant value to society (lest they wouldn’t be collecting profit).

Making a profit is not proof of providing value to society. It's a tempting simplification to make, but it's false.
I think this product is really cool - the copy is not for everyone but I think that's because it's a piece of art (no hyperbole intended) rather than just a business project. It clearly says something about the developer's perspective on the market and startups/tech businesses and that's the fun of it... to me at least.

Anyway, as much as I can appreciate that aspect and enjoy the fun of it, I just can't see myself using CLI for quick and simple image hosting. Especially if we're talking about things like meme sharing.

I definitely do see the market opportunity, to some extent that's why we launched Fast.io to make managing static asset hosting really simple and scaleable by syncing with your cloud storage so you can upload and manage content there.

I like it but I think you need a better way to upload images if you want to be a valid alternative to imgur.
I know that point of view too - if you leave now, we would have to look very hard for a long time to replace you. We have many projects and you're the only one that knows X, however, we don't have the cash to offer you a raise, here are some more options for $0.001 each.

However, I usually found the minute you are inconvenient, you will be let go. Communication is important, but remember that businesses ALWAYS has their best interest in mind. Sometimes it is necessary to make tough decisions (bad for company, good for you - because you feel selfish) and quit a unwinnable situation.
> and that they're rarely moving the needle on that front

This is key. They're not the ones pushing to replace C/C++, even though you'd think that would logically follow. In that way, infosec is the DEA of IT.
The "apocalyptic claims" about climate change are actually consensus minimums from large numbers of climate scientists. Headlines should generally read something like this:

"Thousands of climate scientists come together and agree that the minimum amount of climate change we can expect is XXXXXX"

That's what consensus means, of course. The minimum that everyone agrees on is what is published. If you look at, say, median predictions of the group, it will probably be much worse than these IPCC reports describe (and indeed, the IPCC reports get much worse with each new edition as even the climate sluggards can no longer deny the weight of incoming evidence).

That should put the overall problem into very stark relief.
Microsoft is not a single entity; there is plenty of room for innovative ideas like what Steve has that challenges the status quo around formerly innovative ideas like electron. We certainly have no shortage of highly successful electron apps at the company either (e.g., VS Code and Teams).
Should American workers be happy to "simply let people come and work here" when their wages have been stagnant for decades? https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
good ole ronnie coleman.
Rephrased: “You gotta stop, we gotta continue our wasteful lifestyle.”
The mechanisms supporting those features are mandated by law and couldn’t legally be subject to user-selected permissions.

Those mechanisms are not running as untrusted applications on the OS anyway, I believe most/all of them are implemented in radio firmware.
> if the population is growing, the Earth is becoming better for human-life

That isnt logical, casting doubt on your absolute claims. Population growth in animals is relative to available resources not some mythical quality that can be interpreted as "better environment".
That's how it works and is why people buy reproductions. There is a huge market of reproduction. Every museum sells them in their shop.

For the original art, the main drive is its monetary value. Many piece of arts by famous artists are locked up in vaults. Not even locked up in expensive houses of the ultra rich for them to admire. In locked obscure vaults, gaining value until resold.
My advice would be to start with web applications and use for example Rust (because it is easier to get started on simple stuff) and build a TCP server (20-30 lines of code).

Then ask yourself what you are seeing and why. OSI model and such. Then try to find out what the kernel has to do to setup a socket and build something in C (just google Linux socket programming).

And after that, try researching how the packets you receive can be blocked by a firewall and why.

And go on and on. I am currently writing a book which touches the topic a bit and it helps to build stuff and see packages.

For example: Use Wireshark and try to find out how you can see the communication of the browser.

Google:
- Linux Networking
- What are sockets
- Socket programming
- Firewall blocks a domain how
- How to bypass firewall for domain
Most likely heating and cooling is what take up the cast majority of your bill, unless you have something more unusual going on.
A step in the right direction is to use encrypted backend data / databases. This is still fraught with problems, but it provides another layer of protection and can demonstrate the difference between "The data was just sitting there" and "We had to manually exfiltrate the encryption keys to read the data".

It's not perfect, but it adds another layer to prove malicious intent.
Btw, purchased!
Special request number 2, can you make a ZSH theme that doesn't require Oh-my-zsh? I hate using so much bloat when all I want is a cool terminal.
I’m not sure what fairly new qualifies as. But I’ve been a sysadmin in various companies and countries for 12 years now. (and a person who is on-call for nearly all of that.)

Maybe it’s a European thing, but my bosses have never shied away from the ugly truth that extracting value from humans requires that the humans are able to function properly. Which includes days off, good work life balance and proper rest.
Producers in this instance are fairly described as "software developers", correct?

I think you'll find we have more than two customers for our wares.
Ha me too. Today I am going to make a video tutorial of creating Connect 4. If you want the effects and all that jazz, shoot the lights in elevator action.

Edit: I won't charge you for it either ;)
Very much so. In my tutorials I mention a bunch of times that I encourage developers to write components or extensions and submit them. Just let me write the plugin database first :P
I've actually heard both good and bad about Netflix, but the the negative experience told was not as bad as stated in this post.

Maybe it's more or less the unit that you're with at Netflix?
neat idea. one way to monetize is to try selling it to CL directly. i don't imagine they'd offer a ton but money is money.
You may not need a load balancer yet.. you can't just get a new, bigger server?

We use rackspace's managed hosting solutions as well as their cloud. I wasn't here for the set up of everything, but I can say for certain the support is very, very good.

I would look into moving into the cloud as well if you don't have legal reasons for not doing it.
If the point of the sign was simply to abstract the thought of "please stop eating my yogurt" then you needn't put any thought into it at all and leave the default font of Times New Roman. What they've done is actively choose to use another font for some reason.

If it is unimportant which font we use most of the time then why have you set the font family in your website? What made you choose Georgia over Comic Sans?

Fonts and typefaces are important, and Comic Sans is misused frequently.
If anyone at Netflix wants to do a Mixergy interview about how this works, even anonymously, contact me.

If this is really how things are there, I want to understand why it works.
Yeah, and most quality watches are worth more than computers which are infinitely more complex. Do you have other questions about Value ?
1Password: https://agilebits.com/onepassword

Create an "Identity" for general stuff, and tag everything else with [startup name]. Done.
I recently tested my web-pages against a 4k display. The impression was horrible. One tiny column and useless word-wraps generated almost unreadable text. I would really like to see themes that can handle horizontal resolutions above 1900 pixels.
I think you could say that they are funded well, in the sense that no one should be paying out of pocket, but that is different than saying that they get paid well. It depends a lot on school, location, and (possibly) subject.
The programming world isn't as balkanized as natural languages. If Tiobe is to believed, the top 20 programming languages account for 85% of "use". By contrast, the native speakers for the top 20 natural languages only have 50% of the world population. Here's a spreadsheet with the data.

http://j.mp/hiPGXA

Other factors to consider: learning a new programming language requires less than a tenth the effort of learning a natural language (my estimate). That's for people. Getting my laptop to speak a new language is mostly a matter of downloading the interpreter or compiler. Granted the interpreter or compiler has to be initially ported to the architecture or OS. So not only is there less programming language balkanization, but the cost of balkanization is less.
Link to the actual export tool:

http://persistent.info/delicious2google/
My understanding is Blizzard plans to keep the details of the math secret because they don't want the system to be gamed. Considering how seriously people take SC2 I can hardly blame them for this decision.

This raises the question of what it would take to create a ranking system that wasn't susceptible to active "attack" by people trying to game the system.

One aspect of SC2's ranking system that doesn't seem to exist is some sort of skill decay. I used to be a Diamond level player but I haven't played seriously in months. Yet, my rating is still high as if I was that good. It seems like my only option is to log in and get destroyed for a few days to have my rating drop, which is not really something I want to do.
Had taken it in 1948 from who?

Also, remind everyone, when was Israel created?

Furthermore, isn't the article about Gaza at least partially also, and, isn't Gaza some sort of prison? Finally, is Israel not actually occupying these territories? I mean, is West Bank Israel and by the same token is Gaza Israel too?
I have a few projects on github. All of them MIT.

I don't care if someone profits from my work. Had O released it as GPL, they would have profited the same from something else. What difference did my chioce of GPL do, other than to prevent others from using my code? None.

Then again, having GPL licensing isn't the only incentive for recieving patches. A developer of closed source, using my library will want future updates to be easily applied without their fixed bugs getting reintroduced. Not sending me a pull request would be counter productive.