jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Simply put, ruby is ugly as sin. I much prefer php's
syntax. Granted, I also much prefer other C style
languages, even objective-c.
*I mean, that probably says it all.*

Yes. If only you knew how true this was :P
> but the study was conducted by Amnesty International.
Why the "but" in that sentence? I would say 99% of people in the favela I grew up are afraid of the police at some degree, and would prefer to meet an armed gangster in a dark alley to meet a group of policeman, for sure!
> I can't imagine policing in favelas to be an easy job
The police is unequipped, undertrained, underpaid and badly managed. Most of the military policeman are from the lower classes too, therefore lacking a good education since childhood. Is hard. Sometimes they bring the Army with heavy weaponry and occupy the place for a while, but this is not a long-term solution.
As a person who uses OSX in technical environments that are not well-connected for long periods of time (at sea research) -- my strong perception is that a huge host of the 'not behaving as I would want or expect' issues have to do with the way cloud services are getting integrated 'transparently' into so many places across the various systems and applications. 'Transparent' integration of network services has always been a concept with oversold value -- take as an example: NFS, which, even when implemented in tightly controlled high-availability networks, comes with a lot of obscure failure modes that are basically unresolvable because the consumers of the service have essentially no visibility into the notion that there is a network involved.

Hiding the operation of the network completely from the user leads to application design where there is just no sensible way for the user to build an expectation mind for how things are going to behave -- or what the source of mis-behaviour might be at any particular time. It makes things these problems feel exceedingly random. I get to see all sorts of application quirks that pop up when the network is not behaving exactly as the application designer would've hoped when they decided that some cloud api call or another should transparently affect some aspect of their ui which wouldn't even necessarily seem like a cloud behavior to a user ... Just listening to music from your own iTunes library without a network or with a spotty network is an exercise in extreme annoyance.

I understand that the cloud's not going away -- but I would love to see apple add standard UI somewhere in all their applications to in some way indicate when network operations are in effect and something about the status. Attempting to build this kind of 'awareness of network activity' into the ui might really help application designers avoid including codepaths that amount to 'if network is bad: goto random-ruin' throughout their application's ...
My degree level areas of knowledge:

• BS Computer Science (including 6 masters level courses)

• BA Graphic Design Minor – The Minor was officially added the year after I graduated, I met all of the equivalent requirements but do not have an official minor.

In both areas I have have continued to take structured action to improve upon my skills and increase my knowledge.

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What was more difficult?

•Overall my computer science courses were more challenging in a mathematically academic sense – especially in the courses where I had the lowest levels of prior knowledge.

The graphic design program I was in was more challenging in the realms of self evaluation and critical feedback. Objective observation/evaluation/criticism were larges components in early GD classes. Evaluating the quality of CS homework is extremely clear – so clear it can usually be evaluated programmatically. This is not the case in a subjective medium like graphic design.
I just got done reading Tim Wu's Master Switch and it covers this theme. Excellent book on the future of the information age.
My advice: don't take a radical path until you control/manage your current path. I am also a web developer and can/have worked remotely but I think that deep down one needs social interaction (even more so if you have kids!). I was also looking to minimize expenses but instead of taking a radical path I decided to control my expenses while keeping most of my lifestyle and guess what? With enough discipline and team work (your partner, if any, must agree with the plan) you may get very low on expenses without having to change too much your routine. The formula was dead obvious for me and you've heard it a thousand times: pay down debt, get rid of credit cards (keep a couple for EMERGENCIES), get rid of unnecessary expenses, buy used, reuse, don't buy toys, don't eat out too much, buy wholesale, bike to work, walk to groceries, etc. Many times the solution to a problem/want/need is not money but creativity and rational thinking, e.g. do you need a backyard b/c you want a bbq on your 'own' place? You will do that bbq maybe 10 times/year. Is it worth it to buy the land/house for that reason? How about a public park for the bbq, or the outdoors? One final word: a mortgage is 99% of the time a bad (financial) decision.
>how much an M.B.A. degree adds to a person's salary, compared with how much it costs to obtain. At Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School, the nation's oldest graduate business college, tuition this year is $11,000, and the average starting salary for graduates is around $43,000. “That four-to-one ratio

I find it interesting that at first that sentence talks about how much the degree "adds to a person's salary", but then pegs the ratio at "four-to-one". Assuming the person entering the MBA program already had a 4 year degree, their salary potential wasn't likely $0, i.e. it didn't move the needle by a 4:1 ratio.

Factor in the interest on the loans, and the fact that the added salary (over their pre-MBA earning potential) would likely be taxed in the higher brackets, and I'd imagine the ratio jumps a lot lower.

And still - intuition tells me that value add of an MBA, from a salary perspective, over a person's career - is still quite good.
Please give me constructive feedback on my mental model relating to asynchronicity and programming paradigms. Thanks!
No, I know, I meant they should use it.
That was my thought a week ago. The kinect is limited in that it can only see the front of your body. Some movements obscure your body and it basically just freaks out.
Some background: in a thermonuclear weapon a fission warhead "primary" explodes inside a radiation channel which also contains the fusion/fission "secondary". The explosion of the primary provides the energy for imploding the secondary.

Quite a lot of unclassified publications describe the mechanism for this implosion as plasma pressure from the vaporized foam that had filled the radiation channel. In truth the overwhelming force causing the implosion is ablation of the secondary's container via absorption of x-rays. I'm not sure why this error continues to be so widely disseminated, I'd half suspect some government plot to spread misinformation.
Let's say you are a student who was pretty sure that no conclusive evidence existed which proved that you had cheated. The optimal strategy might have been to, in writing, state that (1) you had not cheated but (2) had no way to prove your innocence. You cite your concern that, if you do not confess, you could end up with a failing grade or worse. So, as a practical matter, you have decided to falsely claim that you had cheated. After all, the only penalty (other than your professor never speaking to you again) is wasting four hours of your time in an ethics course.

Note that I did not say above whether or not you had actually cheated. Sadly, this fact is irrelevant with regard to strategy!
^^ not an attempt to sell the URL for a profit - I would obvs give it to you for free.
>Do a lot of you work in the field or have degrees in business??

Chalk me up as one of those who works in the field. I'm a developer in the research department of a quant-shop.
The article touches on relationship desire among professional women a bit.

I know a few recent nursing school graduates, they tell me the running joke in the medical profession is that all the successful women are merely hunting for a successful mate(with a doctor being the brass ring).

Career as means to long term relationship might seem misogynistic, but there's also the common male stereotype of men chasing money primarily to attract women.

I'm not presenting real evidence here, maybe a survey of professional women and their relationship goals would be enlightening.
If we proceed on the assumption that the blackhats will find holes the white hats don't find first, it'd still be a good thing. At the limit of this behavior, the only software producer left would be Daniel J. Bernstein, which would be sort of awkward, but if you want things built secure you want them built secure.
I'm one of the members of the team that built this.

Some context about the project: We built this a few days ago at the PennApps hackathon during a period of 48 hours. We originally wanted to try to block out magazine advertisements and billboards, but didn't think we could quite get that working with the time constraints, so we chose to block out logos instead. We called the project Brand Killer.
local registers often have very cheap prices for local TLDs
for example for .it, gidinet.it has a way lower price than $14.99
Nope. When logging in, I use gnome + xmonad. The topbar from Gnome (with networking etc) stays, and I use dmenu for launching. I like to keep it pretty minimal.

My config is here https://github.com/simonswain/dotxmonad
that reminds me the lecture of Bernstein (The unanswered Question) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fHi36dvTdE
I absolutely love this article
Unpopular (or possibly popular, we shall see) opinion:

“Outsider art” is just a way for art establishment insiders to maintain their power over the arts, by controlling which “outsiders” are deemed worthy of notice.

Of the millions of amateur or small-time artists out there, a tiny number are semi-arbitrarily invited to a special and patronising dancing-bear role in the art establishment. The only qualification seems to be producing art which is technically not all that good so that the great unwashed can continue to be mystified by it.
Absolutely love this article. Couldn’t agree more.
I read the knife allusion to mean a tool of use, considering his stance made clear earlier on.
Such as? Not too familiar with the subject, would love to know how.
Apps are good for repeat actions. Repeat actions are good for retention. Having a Burger King app is likely better for customer retention than a loyalty card.
I'm glad Prozac didn't have noticeable side effects for you, but it's an SSRI - a lot of people have very noticeable side effects with drugs in this class, including Prozac.
Interesting. I always believed the name came from the 3M CEO at that time, William McKnight, who was of Scottish origin. There were other Scottish inspired product names as well. Today the 3M country club is still called Tartan Park.
With the way I see young developers shy away from anything-legacy, and the way new languages and fads pop up on a monthly basis, I can hardly believe ANY software is going to last 5 years, much less 10 to (yeah-right) 25.

I basically assume whatever I'm working on today will be gone in 5...now obviously, it's very dependent on how deep in the soup you are (COBAL is still being run on banking systems etc etc), but still...I don't see a lot of legacy-code maintenance and extending skills being developed as they once were.
Pacman doesn't do transactional upgrades and rollbacks. Nix does.
Tesla has not proved that at all. You are completely ignoring the fact that they have no cheap solution to the batteries going bad. That's why there is no pricing available on battery replacements and why they have to have the depreciation matching program with gas cars.
You can do something similar in a much easier manner with the committee for a responsible federal budget’s debt fixer site:

https://www.crfb.org/debtfixer/

It’s not quite up to date with the latest budget numbers, but still a good way to see the hard choices that need to be made.
I agree they won't do it, but it isn't laughable. I've worked at another FANG and have used a lot of the recruitment software you reference. That FANG rebuilt the software from the ground up internally and have successfully made their process much more effective to the point of it being a competitive advantage.

There's a tradeoff with building software internally and I agree is almost always isn't worth it. But the advantage is that the software has only 1 customer: yourself. That allows a level of product market fit that just isn't achievable with off the shelf software.
>> of course, cigarettes would help you stay slender

There is merit to findings that cigarettes act as an appetite suppressant and as such, enable weight loss (or slow weight gain).
I largely agree with this. LibreOffice is great, Octave is great, Firefox / Chrome, GIMP, etc.

There are already a ton of free and great applications on Linux.
It turns out the problem wasn't foreign investors, but investors full stop. The real solution is to institute a tax, much higher than 2%, on any second, third, etc purchase and make the very notion of an "investment property" prohibitively expensive. The housing market would look very different if everybody had to live in their property instead of engaging in transparently parasitic activity like speculation/landlording.

If there's still not enough space after these policies are implemented, maybe then we can entertain the YIMBYs' sqwaking.
I would make the case that it's like running a program on a PC with an unknown codebase.

If you don't have access to the source code, and you're just watching the program running, it's this magical thing that behaves in a way you're not entirely sure of. The software architecture is filtered through the UI, and so you can't be 100% sure exactly what's going on in there.

But, at the end of the day, regardless of the zeroes and ones, it's all just electricity flowing through logic gates on a silicon chip.

The program may mimic consciousness (and be indistinguishable from it in a practical sense - in which case, is it not conscious?), it may talk to you, it may display fantastical images, but at its heart is a silicon chip made of logic gates.

So, consciousness in a living thing may be something mystical and intangible when you're observing it, but drill a hole in the skull and biopsy the tissue, and it's just a collection of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus molecules arranged in a particular structure that conveys electrical patterns.

Similarly, I can eat a sandwich and it's somehow turned into me and that's magical. But if I open a biochem textbook it starts looking less like magic, and more like a complex interplay of biochemical pathways. I can administer some carbon triple-bonded to nitrogen and boom the pathways grind to a halt. I can administer a molecule with a ring structure and a nitrogen and a methyl group, and boom it ramps into overdrive.

I think that the word consciousness is part of the problem. It's a tremendously vague and ephemeral word. It comprises personality, memory, behavior, etc., all of which are variables that can be pharmacologically and electrically manipulated.

Reality itself, well, iono. I'm sure they have a pill for that.
I don't think an AI Justin Bieber is that far off.

AIs can create pop music in your virtual world if you like that sort of thing. All the other AIs will be talking about it, so you won't need some central source of anything in order to have common ground with people in your reality.

It will be fine if random permutations lead to people in your virtual reality listening to "Yeah, Girl" instead of "Girl, Yeah" or "All Right Girl".

Movies won't be very important when you can interactively experience anything you want. Climb K2 but without the risk of permanent death. Movies will just be a Machinima subset of the interactive simulation if you still want them.
Raldi, I made a change in response to your comment: "I think it would be a lot more ethical if you presented it openly as such, right from the start. For example, the big button at the bottom of the page could say, "Subscribe to our interview-of-the-week series!""

The button is changed. It didn't occur to me that people would think that this wasn't coming via email over time. I guess I was too close to this project.
What don't you like about angular?

i think it's here to stay.
I run a small information security consulting shop. I went from full time software developer to information security consultant about 8 years ago and I have not looked back. Consulting in particular is very challenging, and fun.

We don't focus as much on physical penetration testing, but if it has bits, we will assess it and break it.

Good software developers make the best information security consultants.

I have conducted a couple of physical pen tests. It is a mixed bag. It is more liberating in some ways than banging bits, but it is also a little more boring for me. It is almost too easy once you get down to it, there isn't a lot of challenge in it like banging bits with big rocks :)

(We are also, almost always, interviewing people for jobs as consultants, if you are really interested).
OK, so I can legally use React-Native in my app while suing Facebook for unrelated patent infringement. I also can claim the patent they are suing me for infringing is invalid while continuing to use React-Native.

Would it be practically advisable to do so?
I've periodically tried the consumer amazon cloud drive every few months or so since it's popped up on my radar and every time I get frustrated and remove it.

Dropbox may be reselling me the same storage at 200% markup but the interface is effortless, the software is very hard to break even with a large number of collaborators and group folders, it has a nice media browser, the public sharing abilities are top notch etc. Amazon could offer to pay me to use their Cloud Drive product and I still would not use it
As a student at Princeton, I know I'd never have been able to attend if it were not for their extremely generous financial aid. Princeton's aid package lowered the total cost to well below the other schools I applied to (mostly New Jersey state schools).
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "regular" or "professional", but the idea that normal professionals have six figures in their bank account is absurdly far from reality.
not every one, but plenty do. of course they're not going to tell you about it.

let me ask you something - how do you think people are buying houses in these insane real estate markets? do you think they're royalty, or aristocracy? no, they're professional people spending their hard earned money.

a good 30 year old lawyer easily makes 200k a year. the smart ones spend very little of that. the really smart ones invest the rest, and have been for years.

if imagining a major city like LA or SF or NY where lawyers and bankers and entrepreneurs have six figures to their name is tough for you, i really don't know what to tell you, dude.

even in tech, i personally know sysadmins and programmers who make ~100k but save most of their money and have done so for over a decade, who easily have 100k saved up. most of them are either trying to buy property, or pull the escape hatch with a huge cushion.

quite frankly if you're a professional (a REAL, ACTUAL, professional, with a respectable salary) in your 30s and you don't have at least one account with six figures in it or a house to show for it instead, you kinda sorta fucked up somewhere along the way. where in the hell did ~$1M of cumulative gross income go?
Well... you don't sell many papers when you put it THAT way.
For the same reason that anyone ever stays in an abusive relationship, because that is exactly what working for Rockstar is. Some people are strong enough to realize that they need to break free, others simply buy the statements coming from abuse and believe that they aren't good at their job, that no one else will employ them, that the rest of the industry is just as bad, if not worse.

What disturbs me most about Rockstar is more about the physical working conditions though. I think everyone working at a job will eventually deal with the kind of poor management and emotional abuse that was described in this article. But I've heard stories about offices that are in the middle of nowhere, horrible neighborhoods, musty and poorly ventilated. I heard one story of mold on the walls, and another about the company not paying to heat or cool an office space.

I honestly can't explain how rockstar continues to hire people, except for the appeal of working on a rockstar game. Personally, I have enough good friends and coworkers who are ex-rockstar that I have boycotted rockstar games. I cannot in good conscience continue supporting the company.
I just got the CR-48 today (really surprised, no clue it was on the way). Happy surprised with the hardware thus far, and as commented above, it was the easiest setup I've experienced in an OS by far.

Need to figure out a way to get dropbox to somehow work and would like to get a command prompt to be able to SSH into the server.
Since before it hung out with the hip words.
It is not faster, just parallel processing with the upload buffer. This would be a nice feature to add to most web servers/web scripting environments.
I watch (follow) three.js on github for a while and I see frequent activity (commits, pull requests) on the project. Compared to most of the other (2d, simple stuff) frameworks this one is a full blown 3D engine albeit it does only rendering (no collision detection etc).
This seems to mostly be about Chicago.concat, which appears to be somewhat different from an "HN meetup".

Also, Longman & Eagle? Really?
Nest is so great it simply CANT BE HUSHED!
I'm no DNS or security expert, but couldn't one application be increased security of connections? E.g. it's harder to do that 0day kernel hack with a buffer overflow if every URL request is sandboxed in a VM?

I probably got it wrong but I'd love to hear a more expert opinion on why/why not this could be used for security..
This is like pushing abstinence education to end teen pregnancy.
Newsflash: every time the government buys a roll of toilet paper, a private company profits. That is not, by itself, a valid criticism. If there was evidence that the private companies are charging more than what it would cost states to do things themselves, that might be a criticism, but that's not what is being alleged here.

And frankly, I'd rather have, e.g., Pearson certifying teachers in New York than have a government agency, which would inevitably fall into the pocket of teachers' unions, doing that.
Sounds more like he has an individual opinion about the things that work best for him.
The scale titles are terrible. Based on Kersey's work, I think of the four scales as answers to four questions:

(1) How do you get your batteries recharged: Extraverts do so by being with people, introverts by the world of ideas. (It's not about your social skills. I'm an introvert who can easily converse with strangers).

(2) How do you take in the world? Details, or larger, vaguer impressions. My wife's friend walks in after a 10 years absence and says "Oh, you got your couch recovered". That ain't me. You could paint the room purple and I wouldn't notice.

(3) How do you make decisions? From the gut, or by thinking about them. Thinking takes a lot longer, from the gut can be quick.

(4) How much need for closure do you have (firm plans vs playing it by ear, filing cabinets vs piles).

Anecdotally, I've found this useful to view myself, my wife, and the world, but it plays a little fast and loose with the science.
I find it amazing that anyone uses it in the business world. Next up HR will be adding tarrot cards and oiji boards

Then again I find it amazing that anyone uses it at all. It's complete trash