jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>>However, that is how regular taxi services work... and they're profitable.

That really depends on the location, and many are not profitable and in some area many only service some parts of the town / city.

Sure if you are in a large city like NYC, LA, Chicago etc, then it would be different but if you start getting out of the top 50 cities the profitability starts to drop

Also clearly taxi's are not providing the service at the value demanded of users or Uber would not exist
> Windows users lose their work to a spontaneous reboot, and sigh and move on with their day.

I keep hearing about this, but except for BSODs (which are super rare these days), but I haven't ever had this happen to me. My guess is that the people complaining about this stuff are the ones abusing their systems, and not telling you that part (the kind that would postpone updates for <<years>> and then wonder why Sasser or whatever were a thing).
I see where you're coming from. I'm used to hearing that kind of phrasing in-person so that's probably why I took it differently.
>"I mean he left the people in their homes."

This sounds more akin to a discussion about Oligarchs after the collapse of the Soviet Union than a discussion about an American CEO in California.

Kind of eerie, even if you didn't intend it to sound that way.
>Here we go again :D

Maybe so. There was a year between Bear Stearns Asset Management funds blowing up in 2007, and Lehman failing...
I'm definitely no fan of mysql. I have, like many others, been scarred by its misfeatures. However, not having DDL in transactions isn't really a barrier for being useful. Oracle doesn't have transactional DDL either, and say what you will about the company, the product itself has proven itself.
Classic example of justifying X with X (justifying capitalism inside the framework of capitalism).
It's not possible for someone outside of Facebook's executive management to state any of that as fact. What do you expect?
Applying updates is nearly painless in Chrome. Just hit "update google chrome" and the update is applied, the browser is restarted in a matter of seconds with all your previously open windows and tabs are retained. The only downside is youtube videos you had open might automatically restart. Firefox has a similar update process but it's so much clunkier that it eats up far more time and effort. IE's update process is a joke in comparison to both (sometimes requiring a full restart of your system).
Why do people always assume that being impressive and having a life are mutually exclusive? I kind of consider myself something of a winner (top school, top job, blah blah blah), and I've certainly busted my ass to get here, but I've also had a lot of beers, seen movies, dated girls, played [American] football, etc.

At the end of the day, I'm unconvinced that you can be a "winner" without doing all of it. I'm not completely convinced that the author is the huge virginal dork you made him out to be, but if it makes you feel better about your inner winner, more power to you, I guess.
Not publishing the email opens the door to "6 months ago, I emailed Theo about a backdoor, but he's trying to cover it up."
we don't autopost to facebook groups right now but we might add that in the future. You can also autopost to a facebook profile or page
Nice work! I'm also a big fan of Redis, use it extensively as a front-end smart caching layer in-front of an RDBMS. Compared to DB calls each operation is essentially a NoOp. Just like turning nitro on your web app - instant speed-up!
Because it is no longer the late 90's when everyone and their dog was building new IDEs.
Millions of dollars in Accel/In-Q-Tel money doesn't come with no strings attached, after all.

A business the size of Facebook or even 2% the size can't all be the work of one person, of course. They like to make it seem that way for marketing purposes. Why they don't choose someone less creepy, I"m not sure. I guess like a lot of other douchebag founders, Zuckerberg stays in the limelight to feed his ego.
interesting find. It's a wonder that JS is moving into everything.
Least skilled at skills western employers do not care about.

I totally disagree that literacy and problem solving are what employers look for today. Maybe in the 80s. Today it's about non-written communication and teamwork skills. In short: Networking. The ability to write a good memo doesn't enter into things because in today's climate information only flows top-down. Does anyone believe that Starbucks passed the #RaceTogether idea past even a single barista? A single store manager? Entry-level employees don't express ideas through writing. That's for management.

Evidence from local governments trying to help:
http://www.careers.govt.nz/plan-your-career/not-sure-what-to...

(1) communication skills

(2) customer service skills – in person, on the phone, and online

(3) ability to work well in a team

(4) literacy and numeracy skills FORTH!

http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/top-ten-skills.htm (Commentary by me)

1. Verbal Communication. ("Here!")

2. Teamwork. (doesn't punch people)

3. Work confidently within a group. (not afraid of being punched by others)

4. Commercial Awareness. (doesn't click phishing links)

5. Analyzing & Investigating. (doesn't bother the boss with questions)

6. Initiative / Sell--Motivation. (can work unsupervised)

7. Written communication SEVENTH!
Both are unethical, but there is a difference between spying (sitting with some binoculars by a window, or snooping around inside the building) and destructive actions (blowing up the entrance with a constant stream of TNT so no one else can get in). US does the former, China does both.
reprisals

How large are the github armed forces?
I see how it can be read that way, but it is far from clear. Not to mention that the design of the 'ad' makes it susceptible to misinterpretation.
I don't think excessive antibiotic use is exclusive to those who don't believe in evolution, but thanks for at least providing a few concrete examples instead of more hand hand waving.
>I'm always amazed people think a SOHO device doing WiFi, NAT, DHCP, DNS, etc. on gimped hardware is "fast".

I'm a big fan of my TP-Link WDR4300. I can easily max out my 250/60Mbps uplink while it's also doing NAT and some light firewalling, in software. It also runs all of my IPAM (DHCP/DNS). Additionally, it also runs OpenVPN (and can do ~20Mbps of encrypted bandwidth) and a BGP session (using Quagga) over that VPN to my local hackerspace. All in a single OpenWRT device that's sub $70.

Is it equivalent in performance to a hardware router? Of course not. But these start at a few thousand dollars (even Cisco ASA and Juniper SRX class hardware does its routing in software...).
I certainly agree that moving to a foreign country and getting a good job there is hard. Further I agree that buying bonds that gross 200K a year in interest is expensive (though it's not hard to select them). However neither of those things constitute "accounting games." They are extremely straightforward aspects of the tax code available to anyone.

They also won't actually save you any money. With the former you'll just be paying taxes to a foreign government instead. With the latter you'll get a lower rate of return than you would for buying other bonds.

I didn't mention "trusts or other tax schemes" because the Forbes article you linked to didn't mention them. It didn't mention them because those aren't actually ways to get out of paying taxes. That is, as I said upthread, largely a myth.

You bring up medical costs so I'll touch on those as well. People don't get sick or injured and pay lots of money for medical treatment to avoid paying taxes. Certainly one can debate whether such expenses should result in a tax reduction but we, as a country, have currently decided that they have in most cases. Again this doesn't constitute "accounting games." They are, again, very straightforward deductions available to all. Keep in mind though that you do have to spend the money on medical care instead of taxes though. So you won't have saved any actual money to spend out a house or a new iPad or whatever.
I'm seeing the same thing in Firefox/Win7. In Chrome, all the content is missing, except for the fixed-width text.
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Two thoughts.

a) Personally, I found that really informative, as well as entertaining. I didn't know the backstory of their feud.

b) I (still) have no idea if it's 100% true.

Yep, we'll probably see more of this.
I think the societal use for new/bad programmers is very painful for some good ones.
I like the look and feel of this product. I wish I could input a word where it says "Random", then press enter and have that affect the output in some way. To me, an interactive feature would add more WOW Factor to the product.
That's right, storage is all too often forgotten.

Some ways energy can be stored:

- kinetic energy storage e.g. spinning flywheel

- potential energy storage e.g. pump water at an altitude

- thermal energy e.g I read somewhere that molten salt can store heat for hours. i.e. steam can be produced to spin a turbine.
I did not enjoy your reply as it did not add anything useful, and overlooked the fact that the comment you considered silly was intended as a joke. Dismissing something funny as silly is a bit like dismissing water as being moist. ;)
Or unless they are owned or affiliated with a distributor of mobile devices, or unless they are owned or affiliated with a developer or distributor of mobile operating systems, or unless they are owned or affiliated with a developer of a mobile development environment, or unless their primary business isn't serving mobile ads. (And that's the advertising side. On the analytics side, it would appear to block all analytics software - the opposite of what you say above - but that's another discussion.)

Depending on how strictly Apple interprets 'affiliated with' and 'primary business', which aren't strictly defined in the license agreement, that's pretty much everyone in the space - even the 'independent' mobile ad networks have relationships with carriers, and carriers certainly distribute mobile devices.

It's a pretty typical Apple license agreement, really - it's extremely wide-reaching, open to interpretation, and the real question is how Apple will enforce it at any given point in time.
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Sony makes the processors :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)
We use hadoop at foursquare and it was set up and maintained by 1 person. It was a real bear of a job but he got it done.
Your description is too vague. I think you would get much better offers / interest if you added a lot more specifics.
Agreed on all above. Think it's important for them to know you've thought deeply about your space and the problem you're solving/product you're building. All of this comes naturally if you love, and are committed to, what you're doing.
That's awesome! I knew there were faster approaches to ref-counting, but I didn't know about that one, "sloppy counters".

The most common approach to speeding up ref-counting is to ref-count bigger objects — modules rather than individual variables, say.

The simplest way to speed up ref-counting transparently is to statically analyze the code and remove redundant increment and decrement operations. This can be tricky in practice, and I haven't heard of anyone actually doing it.
Well, we don't know how many 'brain resources' does 'normal' skills that autistic people lack require - and in my opinion they may require as much computing power and memory as Kim Peek's genius skills. We don't know how much of our potential is spent on everyday tasks, like parsing converstaions with other people.
While that is true, I do think that Apple runs the risk of becoming another Sony. In the 80s and early 90s, Sony was known for its great TVs and A/V equipment. Then, through the 90s and 2000s, Sony diversified into game consoles, PCs, MP3 players, movie studios and all sorts of other bits of consumer electronics and consumer content. The result was that competing priorities and diluted focus hurt Sony's dominance in its core market (TVs and A/V equipment) without contributing significantly to the bottom line. As a result, Sony has gone from being a big player in few industries to being a middling player in many industries.

The one hopeful difference that I see between Apple and Sony is that Apple is much more willing to kill off unsuccessful projects than Sony, as demonstrated by the EOL of the XServe line.
Uber to JFK is $66 right now. Taxis are a flat rate to JFK as well ($60 plus tip). There are car services you can call which will do it cheaper.

I've recently started doing Penn Station -> Jamaica w/ LIRR -> AirTrain, it's miles better than subway and almost preferable to car if you're paying for the car.
> the new HD release is already on Amazon Prime Instant Video

I'm having a hard time finding this... any chance you can link?
No because web advertizements are not cost effective for selling products and while being a poor source of money.

Noted in http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/farewell-dr-d...

>> They've come to realize that website ads tend to be less effective than they once were. Given that I've never bought a single item by clicking on an ad on a website, this conclusion seems correct in the small
At least it is commutative.
So there's no explicit way to distinguish between "new window" calls from other types of calls? I'm kind of shocked that, with all the effort that's been put into browsers in recent years, that the ability to "create a new window" hasn't been removed entirely from the API without explicit user consent. Again, I can't think of a single site that uses this feature legitimately.
IMHO adding the new camera angle is only half the battle. The other really important half is having a director that can use that angle to add value to the viewer.
I also wrote an NES emulator in Go https://github.com/nwidger/nintengo
3 down votes for off-topic blather. Nice try, though.
Tavis works for Google. He's one of their best-known security researchers.

Tavis published a Microsoft remote. Without waiting for a patch. That is unusual. Most researchers, Tavis included in other situations, don't do that.

Not at all surprising Microsoft took it personally. That doesn't mean it's constructive for MSFT to complain. But, there you go.
Wouldn't that be 3 SDs to the RIGHT instead?
Your eyes are sensitive to those areas in different amounts - while it looks like there is a lot more space to expand towards cyan - you probably wouldn't notice it as much as the extra R+G pop you're going to get with the added yellow.
And clocked at 2 MHz! Twice the frequency of the Apple II or the C64.
I strongly suspect that “BLM support” is not a normal distribution, and that the overlap between “BLM supporter” and “owner of a large commercial vehicle” is relatively small.

I’m from the US, and each side of the aisle has its own methods that it can employ effectively. The Canada seems pretty similar in this regard.
2$/month would pay for nothing essentially. You get unlimited classes for the 40$/month, which is cheaper than going to most fitness classes more than a few times.

Even in the middle of my small town, drop in classes at the gym at 8$ each, on top of your monthly membership.

Fwiw I dont own a Peloton, I prefer running, I just dont think its nearly as bad of a deal as people make it out to be
American merchants doing low customer volume (e.g. small shop, cafe, restaurant) are usually locked into using something like a terminal from First Data (~$150-200 USD minimum for the most basic device) and something in the ballpark of 2.2% to 2.7% in fees for every transaction. People paying the lower rate are doing over $50k per month in transaction volume.

Compare that to competitors in the space like Square, which costs ~$300 USD and charges ~2.6% plus a flat 10 cents per transaction.

If you're not doing over $50k in volume per month and already have an iPhone...you might as well just use the Square app and take NFC payments on your phone instead of investing in the reader (assuming you're operating in a space where consumers will readily have NFC payments ready).
I had my card taken that way five-ish years ago. It was on a ferry where presumably there wasn't enough service to use a digital reader. Or maybe the system was just down. I never knew that was an option until then!
> The problem with shell scripting is that nearly nobody is very, very good at it. The Steam bug doing an rm -rf / is an example

The steam bug is an example of of utter incompetence; not of someone not being very, very good at it. Whoever is happy with shipping `rm -rf $VAR/` without extreme checking around it should get their computer driving license revoked.

> The shell is just not suitable for extremely robust programs.

Incorrect. "The shell" can go as robust as you can handle. In bash, `set -e` will kill your script if any of the sub-commands fail (although ideally you'll be testing $? (exit code of prev. op) at the critical junctions), `set -u` will error on usage of undefined variables, etc.

A huge part of the "glue" that holds your favourite linux distro together is bash files.

> I would bet that 80%+ of people who think they're good at shell scripting... aren't.

The same probably goes for driving[1], this doesn't make cars any less robust.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority
The "war" on gentrification has in my experience been one of the most passive and apathetic wars, and like the article says, its mostly the first wave of gentrifiers that complain about it. In university, the local anti-gentrification movement formed food co-ops and local community groups, and hung out in tiny coffee shops with local art on the walls. I always felt like their passive, unknowing contribution to attracting further gentrification was greater than any resistance to it.
Do you really not consider yourself and family more important than most of the 7000000000+ other people on the planet? There are plenty of people more important than me, but I wouldn't sacrifice myself for any of them. In the same vein, it would be foolish for me, a US citizen, to say that my government should intentionally weaken itself for the benefit of the citizenry of other countries.
Not at all. In the US, we computer scientists have a wealth of opportunities to which we can apply our knowledge and education. Presumably in NK, you are limited to doing their government's bidding.
Why does the author need to care about “a community’s quality of life” as some kind of abstract ideal, or collect data about it? What “community” are we talking about? If it’s the community of artists and other weird/interesting people, then of course having other similar people around improves the community’s quality of life, since that’s what the community is.

Do artists improve the quality of life of a community of bankers? Who knows, and who cares?
If you plan on leaving shortly, what's the point in asking for a raise? I would not say it's unethical. It just seems like a waste of time.
The title music is awesome. I could listen to it all on its own. The in-game music is tedious and I had to mute it after 5 seconds. :(
I find the modesty in the title of this article refreshing. Most editors would have yanked "I Believe" to garner more clicks.
Agree completely. We saw a similar dynamic with the recent stepped up enforcement of the rules against blocking BART stairways and exits in the Bay Area [1]. When they finally took action against it, they had to use the pretense of safety. No one was willing to say,

"Look, we really don't want to look like a police state here, but there are about a trillion other places just a few steps away where you can sleep or beg, and where we will leave you the heck alone, so if you're unwilling to play well with passersby, we will have to physically move you."

[1] http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/BART-to-rous...
Would GUI programs be possible with this? I don't mean some cross platform framework monstrosity.

But if some least common denominator was found to be able to create window, add some input fields and buttons using the native UI elements of the OS?

Does the Win32 and Cocoa APIs for example, also have "magic numbers" that are kept stable?
“The problem is buying an iphone means i should be able to do whatever i want with it later on, including install additional software”

That’s an opinion. Apple has another one, and, AFAIK, doesn’t advertise that as a feature of their product.

Some people argue Apple shouldn’t be allowed to sell such a product, but I don’t know of legal precedents for that (could be my lack of knowledge in this, of course)

Certainly, the same situation exists for game consoles and, to a lesser extent because nobody can install additional software on them, cars, toasters, etc. (Cars may be even more similar. Tesla doesn’t give you the means to run your own self driving software on the hardware you bought, do they?)
At one time (forty or so years back) this was definitely so. I used to say that the closest I heard to college counseling was the obiter dictum of one of the secretaries that you needed a 1200 combined SAT to get into Notre Dame. The salutatorian of the class ahead of mine got into Princeton, deferred a year, and I don't know who put the idea in his head, but probably nobody at the school. Most of my classmates went to state schools--generally in-state, a few promising jocks elsewhere. I went to a local private university that offered some money, knowing no way to distinguish it from any other school.
I would love to see exponentially expensive overtime.

That first hour of overtime isn't "just an hour," it's a whole eighth of that day's "leftover" waking time. Four hours of overtime is half of those hours left after getting a night's sleep, which cuts deeply into the limited windows of time people have for family and friends.

Beyond that, "unpaid" overtime is worse than that. The costs in productivity losses, health damage, and mental imbalance are still paid, just by the employee and society at large. Expecting IT workers to work 60-80 hours equates to dumping economic and psychological "toxin" into the local water supply. The employers don't mind, because they're buying bottled water with the profits. In short, we need an "Employment EPA."
OpenID Connect is based on OAuth.
On the topic: http://startupmanagement.org/2014/12/27/the-blockchain-is-th...
firefox private browsing breaks it
the Sequence / Generator pattern in swift is analogous to IEnumerable, IEnumerator in .net, though I've found it's harder to implement.
Why not put the money in the bank only and skip the insurance then, if you're not going to use it anyway?

Don't be a sucker.
Echo devices work for this as well, and can be accessed via any other Echo or through the Alexa app.

Presumably much cheaper than HomePod Mini too; I’ve seen the Echo Flex for as low as $10.