jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but this kind of thinking is bullshit. Treating cheating as being efficient and promoting code reuse is just ridiculous.

To actually be a good programmer one should learn how to write code by themselves, and then start thinking about reusing it. If you start with reusing code, you will never be able to code anything new but will always rely on copying other people. You will also always copy other people's mistakes without noticing.

I finished school long time ago and cheating was rampant, and it really pissed me off. All it did was prevent the truly exceptional from standing out from the crowd. Also it gave the faculty a really false sense of their effectiveness as teachers.
More precisely: people join companies, but leave managers.

There are good and bad managers at both small and large companies. One advantage of going to a small company is that you're more likely to get to meet the exact manager you'll report to during the interview process. One disadvantage is that there is a much wider range of how good a manager they are, because they probably have fewer peers to compete with. Managers take a lot of flack, but to manage teams at a big company like Google or Amazon you probably have to be at least decent at what you're doing, whereas at a small startup you might just be the person who got there first.

Years ago, I was hired to work at a small tech startup. After a few weeks, the CEO met with me and said it seemed to him that I didn't have a lot of respect for the opinion of my manager (who had never managed anyone in a tech company before, and never done any development themselves.) I told him straight out, no, I didn't respect their opinion - I didn't think they were qualified to be a manager. (Needless to say I didn't stay there very long.)
does this already exist? also, who are you?
Congratulations! Have a great time at Google.

On another note, the repl.it interview sounds awesome. It's a rare interview process where the candidate gets to do useful and interesting work (in this case, work with operational transformations) as part of the interview process. Kudos to repl.it for their awesome sounding interview process and to you for crushing it. :)
This is technically correct, but it's also true that if a group of dedicated Python enthusiasts (led by Travis Oliphant) hadn't created a Python ecosystem before they had users, we can say with certainty that Python would not have taken off in the numerical computing space. In 2005, when I was looking for a new language, I really wanted to use Python but it was simply not an option.
That's what "pork" means.
I had not seen this, thanks.
> What's fair about making people pay more tax just because the market value of their house has increased?

If you believe that, then why ratchet them up just because the property is sold? If you're going to detach property taxes from the value of the property, then do it for new homeowners too.

If we are scaling property taxes with the property's value, we might as well do it for everyone and not treat people special just because they were living there longer. Other costs people deal with scale at least by local cost of living. Groceries, electricity, water service, etc. all increase year after year. Do we let people pay 1960s costs for everything else just because they happened to move to the area in 1960?

Prop 13 as it currently stands, is a wealth transfer from young, new homeowners to elderly, established homeowners.
It basically ensured that Canada could do little to stymie resource exploitation projects that receive Chinese investment funds; this is a boon to Albertan/Saskatchewan oil companies, and BC coal companies.
Sorry you're right. I was just thinking about sign in. But at the same time it seems like the cat is already out of the bag on this one. Safari already blocks all third party cookies by default and it seems like other browsers are moving in the same direction.
Sometimes I wish I were in school still, so I’d have some motivation to play around trying to break these things.
And look were it has brought us in comparison. Moon, Mars ... living for ages.
>Or expressing voice through exit is much stronger than expressing voice through vote.

Expressing voice to what? To some greater power (ie. the government) to come and fix the issues?

What I said was about people HELPING solve the issues themselves.

>If I express dissatisfaction with my mobile carrier, should I work with my fellow customers to improve the conditions of the service we get, or should I just switch to a competitor?

See, that's my point. A society is not some company that owes you service, it's something you build.

For a better example, if you express dissatisfaction with an OSS software, you should very much work with your fellow users to improve its conditions.
Two use cases where C is often the only choice are OSes and micro-controllers.
I assume she/he refers to this: http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
> readability and flow

correctness is more important than readability, though good readability sometimes may correlate with correctness.
No. There are far more efficient ways to flag people that fit a certain profile. They should have checked all of his belongings and let him go, and not focused at all on his "attitude". That allows for more checks of other suspicious people with the available time they wasted questioning this one person.

The Boston bombers should also have been allowed to fly freely. Their actions had nothing to do with air travel.

Either way the situation described is unacceptable, either as "racist", or "Xenophobic", or, to your point, as an incredibly inefficient way to carry out profiling.
When it comes to marketing, this contact management software https://voiptimecloud.com/online-contact-management-software... is my number one marketing tool. It helps me to arrange my contacts and implement email marketing more effectively.
What is the best way to actually learn emacs? I'm a vim guy who is curious enough to switch but I'd rather just hack the introductory process and get to the fun bits.
That's aspergillus oryzae, which is a mold though.
I lost all interest in playing games when I was 20 or so. So many more interesting things to do.
Japan doesn't bother with tips in the first place.
> I don't know if Android offers similar on-demand permissions, but it would be a much nicer experience.

The answer is sadly no. Unfortunately this leads to developers pre-emptively asking for permissions they might need in the futiure at install time, in case the request for more permissions in a future update causes the user not to update.
Can someone could explain why "If you use Puppet, chances are you love Docker ..." (from Part 2)?
perhaps it's a trade off between UX and business model, catering for different use cases.
My understanding is that Jesus' sacrifice was for all sins, past and future.
Adding to my original comment:

Getting rid of leap seconds and being done with it -- effectively setting civil time to atomic time -- may seem like an attractive alternative that achieves the same effect without the complications of transformation functions and skew rates, but it ignores that since the Earth's rotation is continuing to slow down, the offset between atomic and solar time is going to increase quadratically. While the first leap hour is 900 years out, the next one after that is only another 400, then 300, then 250... Someone is going to have to solve this problem for good eventually, and that will either involve applying the correction continuously as in my scheme, thus eliminating the quadratic compounding of the error, or eventually re-defining the second at some distant point in the future to match the Earth's rotation (and thus starting the situation over from scratch).
Agreed. Thomas Nield has some interesting talks and libraries available for doing data science work in Kotlin.
At any given moment, half of developers have less that 5 years of experience.

I'm not just taking responsibility for my actions, I have to take responsibility for theirs, too. It's expected, but it would be the right thing to do even if it's not. Glitchy, dangerous tools make it difficult to grow other people into senior positions, where they can take responsibility for their own decisions. Every bad tool I use slows the process of creating a peer down.
The implication that engineers are capable of writing poetry
Here's my question: If Twitter is replacing all links with their t.co AND including the full URL in the API, why doesn't the API just put the full URL in most "full" versions (web, RSS, API) and only use the shorturl on extreme bandwidth situations like SMS (or arguably a very compressed mobile API.)

It will break the holy 140 characters, but as you said, the reason for the shortener is because the 140 limit.
Hey we're back on HN. I'm Bevy's creator / lead developer. Feel free to ask me anything!
bbcode: So you'll let people enter HTML, or do you just not think anyone should have to include an image on a forum ever?

quoting: Taking your thought further, what's wrong with retype quoting?
The Soviet Union shot you and your family if you tried to leave? Huh, that didn't happen to me or my family. Or any other person I know. I guess it's popular to spout bullshit like that though.
I'd just like to point out that "Mormon" polygamy is currently only practiced by Mormon fundamentalists, which make up only .07% of Mormons today.
/acknowledged
"...we observed that the GPS in Nexus S could function up to altitudes of about 60,000 ft..."

Has anyone tried using a phone's GPS on an airplane with any success?
Love it, when I did tech support I would always get in trouble for my customer appreciation letters usually involving the customer being happy that I did something that I wasn't allowed to. I eventually learned to tell customers not to write letters of appreciation as I feared it would lead to my termination.

Also, I was frequently in trouble for letting my average handle time fall below average, what I mean by this was that my AHT was 4 minutes instead of 6. Largely because I didn't waste the customers time doing things I knew they didn't need to.

It turned out that Berkshire Hathaway owned a > 5% stake in the company, a good friend of mine who worked there learned of this from reading the stock info on Yahoo. He actually wrote Warren Buffet and explained the insanities, a couple weeks later he was taken into a supervisors office and asked politely not to write letters to company shareholders. Oddly enough he now works in IR.

A few weeks after that the policy regarding reprimanding employees for below average AHTs was also rescinded.
Woah - how can people not know about this magazine? It is pretty much a chronicle of the earlier days of computing.

Byte gave us articles like this:

"The Impossible Dream: Computing e to 116,000 places with a Personal Computer" by Stephen Wozniak, published in Byte Magazine Vol 6, Issue 6 (June 1981, pp392).

Heavy-duty writing, some pretty hard core engineering stuff . I recall the mac review, as well as the chief hardware designer of the Atari 520ST giving details about its architecture, down to the memory access schemes.

It's the Beatles of computer periodicals :)
Woot you got minions now!
Remember how the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended -- with an extinction event. Something not dissimilar is going to happen to these streaming services, because they simply do not differentiate from each other sufficiently.
sounds like the kindle format (actually mostly .mobi) is moving towards html/css too
This is probably not the best place to ask this question, but as a solo founder or just to reduce costs/time are there some standard free software packages that are used when creating sites? For example most sites need a user sign up mechaism, a authN and authX mechanism to gate access to different pages. Are there open source projects that provide this? Or do site owners develop these from scratch every time?
a) have no obligation to vaccinate under agreements signed

b) despite "a", vaccinating some of them
This is a good case study in why one should never fight against something. When you fight against, you end up copying your enemy.

Thiel here argues that America, to counter China, needs to become a lot more like China.

The idea that "competition" is bad because it makes you copy your enemy is the most valuable insight in the book Zero to One by Thiel and Masters, yet here he doesn't seem to be using that insight at all.
Another operating system for Model 16s was RM/COS- a COBOL operating system. This was popular because it was smaller than Xenix on your 8 MB hard drive. There is not much information about it, but check out this cool catalog from 1986 (Model-II was "Tandy-6000" by this point- I see there is a punch card reader available..):

https://www.thecomputerarchive.com/Catalogs%20and%20Price%20...
If you checkout the client source, compile it, and install it on your own mobile device, you can then connect it to your own self-hosted server instance. However Signal's own server instance will then block your client (and there's no way to connect the client binaries they distribute to anything but their own server).

So you would have to then follow the above steps for any contacts you want to communicate with, distributing your own client to them. Signal devs have generally been extremely hostile toward anyone wishing to do this however.

The only way out of this situation would be if the Signal project itself was forked and people moved to that forked open-source multi-server client.
This is really cool!

Why Lua 5.1 and not 5.2 or 5.3?
What does the marshalling story between Lua and the builtin Go modules look like? What would it take to add more builtins or richer marshalling?

I love seeing other Lua implementations.
I think his argument is that we shouldn't just let the US companies essentially work for the Chinese government, while they're seeking to be conscientious observers in the US. In other words, we should do more to block the Chinese government's efforts and he's not arguing that we should do what the Chinese government is doing.
Careful! P2P streaming video is a (completely non obvious, according to the courts) infringement of the VirNetX patent that for example
Apple just had to pay a few billions of dollars for.

If you implement p2p video streaming chances are no company will want to touch it with a ten foot pole.
??

are you trying to equate the preparedness of law enforcement to prevent in advance a single mentally ill person's non-publicized surprise attack to the very publicized and clearly anticipated actions of thousands who widely published their intent in advanced?

I'm with you on likely more violence, yeah I also think probably from those considered 'left' tooe

but the better comparison between both events is that they both involve insane conspiracy theories bought into by a very specific slice of mostly white, mostly male, mostly MAGA and Q folks.
That doesn't stop it from spending a minute trying at every boot, or from using a cellular whispernet.
> No one wins. Except the banks.

Less theft, both from employees and others, less tax evasion, more automation needing fewer man hours for accounting, etc.

Businesses didn’t choose to accept cards for no reason.
Error 404. Correct link is https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/facebook-just-admitted-it-has...
Yes, I agree! My point is that using a "database" for storing your data is often an unnecessary abstraction, and sometimes even pernicious.
No, there are people there who are not of that view. The members of the server come from various backgrounds and experience. Join in and start a conversation, and see if you can help some budding entrepreneurs.
It would be fantastic to see a byte-by-byte breakdown of the universal header.
Topic being overrun by expat turks who are Erdogan apologizers. Not the first, not the last, but thankfully the truth is not subject to upvotes
How will they track you though, some sort of real time content id of everything you watch? Is there any evidence that they do this? If it’s in dumb tv mode and the display stream is coming from a separate device like an Apple TV then it seems much less trivial to track you than if you’re using the builtin smart features.
They're not just more difficult to build, there are only two options in an infrastructure like those. You can build a system where everything depends on one server (where if your internet isn't good enough everything breaks) or you use a Bitcoin-esque system to make sure that every computer on the network gets the messages. Which causes noise and inefficency.

Needless to say, it's harder than you've stated.
Isn't this a pretty strong argument against encryption?

Isn't this a pretty strong argument against cash?

Isn't this a pretty strong argument against email attachments?
Take email as an example, if basic mail delivery wasn't severely broken, due to dynamic ip addresses, lack of convenient encryption, spam and overall security concerns it would be extremely easy to self host everything related to email yourself, at least in principle.

Want to follow Lady GAGA? Just subscribe to a mailing list.

Some of the mechanisms of Twitter, Google Plus and Facebook can easily be mapped to an email like protocol. Friend requests correspond to whitelisting or a special filter on the mails you receive, same goes for "Circles". Hashtags would similarly correspond to potentially dynamic mailing lists, that could be hosted by basically anyone and indexed by a separate service.

To publish something on "your wall" just send an email to a mailing list you control, to make a post "private" just encrypt it using the public key of your indented recipients, etc.

The problem with todays services is that they don't rely on a publicly defined protocol and essentially dumb if somewhat elaborate implementation of that protocol, but instead offer a public "open" API to a service that is proprietary.

Also too many people are probably caught up in thinking about the web only in terms of http and neglect to think about the possibilities of services that don't fit neatly in that framework. Especially convenient save encryption is not implementable in the browser without plugins at the moment, as far as I can see.
Both ElasticSearch and Solr are services, and both are built from Apache Lucene, a set of Java libraries providing indexed search, with facets and many other features. Xapian is a C++ library with similar functionality, although it doesn't seem to have the same level of popularity as Lucene.
It's not about the testing framework, it's about not being able to access the inner function

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7054228/accessing-a-funct...
Hi, thanks for the reply! I think that, even though Java 8 is getting some nice features, alternatives like this are very worth pursuing. I've seen the tutorial and the LOC reduction is impressive, which speaks loads about the expressiveness gains of Clojure.
Logistic differential equations with a focus on population growth.
Nix doesn't have post-install scripts. (NixOS sort-of does, as its global "activation script".) In any case, nothing can force you to do anything - only give you tools to work in the right direction.

Nix gives you tools for dealing with the concept of an immutable system - there's very few other working tools that do the same. Perhaps it can't possibly get all of it right - database setup and schemas, for example - but that's alright, you can use other tools to deal with them! (There's certainly a glut of schema management tools that would fit right into a Nix system.)
By the same process, you can also hire a 15 year of experience software engineer from europe or south america for 80k a year, and doing it as a contractor would also mean no payroll taxes.

In the remote game, people living in the US have a formidable economic foe.

But there is a reason why companies haven't done this massively before, both for international remote and US remote. Very few companies pre-Covid were fully remote, and it might just stay that way.
To be fair, they launched the nice things after Amazon opened in Mexico and got the whole market. Before that they could not be bothered.
Thanks. That brought me to https://www.comicsrss.com/rss/calvinandhobbes.rss
> accuses the author of saying something so obviously correct

Perhaps I do; but my main "accusation" here is that the title is pure click bait, if it was replaced by this:

SQL - Don't fetch data you don't need!

Would anyone here bothered reading it?
I guess there is an audience for this stuff, among embedded systems developers or whatever, but after a brief look at the project it doesn't strike me as a project written with the care needed for C libraries. It is severely under-documented, for starters. For example, the word "thread" does not appear anywhere.

Not sure why one would choose this over QUICHE.
Then the threshold of what is "knowledgeable" has been mis-defined. There is clearly a level of knowledge that can articulate the distinction.
Isn't this working in the direction of a platform, something like WeChat? I mean, much beyond "chat"...
That's fair, but some database systems have added functionality to avoid this specific problem. In Oracle, MySQL, and MariaDB, you can mark a column as INVISIBLE to exclude it from SELECT *.

It's still not a great practice to use SELECT *, but at least this gives you a way to add columns without breaking existing applications. It's also useful when you plan to remove a column, to test in advance whether anything using SELECT * would break without that column there.
I was suggesting that as an alternative. It was right there as I ran this everyday. I was lazy to spell out other functionalities provided by `ls`, `cp`, `mv`, `ln`, ` grep`, ...
Not E-ink, but alternative tablet - Repaper:

https://www.iskn.co/repaper/shop/repaper

I got my wife ( a non-techie painter ) one for Christmas and just set it up last night on our iMac.

Adoption -> volume -> buying power -> lower component prices, better feature implementation

I think most of the alternatives suffer from adoption challenges, but I personally love Unix-model physical devices [ which do one job well and work well with others ]

So vote with your dollars, and feature requests
The EU had wider scale lockdowns that lasted longer, IIRC.
I can tell you directly that ADHD adults always had an ADHD when they were children, as that's not something you develop, it's just more like a skin color or a body build. Our minds just work differently.

ADHD isn't necessarily "hyperactivity" neither, sometimes it doesn't show till later years or even ever. Thus there are forms such as ADD, and ADHD in girls/women manifest vastly differently.

It's genetics. Depending on the study ADHD is genetic condition with 70%+ (latest high figure I heard is 77%) chance of passing down the children and around 30% occurrence in the 2nd degree. It's also additive, meaning that if both parents have mild-moderate ADHD the child has chance to hit a neurology jackpot. Based on family story I can exactly tell who have it in my family and it spans quite long. So when for example someone smashes a window or falls and bruises often it's quite often "oh it's always been like this with boys in our family" which is another gate preventing proper diagnosis and management.
OK, that's true, they're not static, but we're still talking about a few database queries which quickly hit indexed columns. If you're running a public website like this, it's not like each page takes several seconds to load.

The egress traffic is also trivial - a page seems to clock in at below 50k. If they're paying $0.02/GB, that's $1 / million requests.

More importantly, if it really were a DoS attack, there's way less obtrusive methods, such as a CAPTCHA or similar verification screen.
Why React at all? Is JavaScript really that horrific or does nobody know what they are doing?

I suspect the goal is to widen candidate availability to the maximum, cast the widest net. I find this odd because compensation is now absurd competence, experience, and product quality be damned.
Grant that some of them are more expensive. But why can't I visit any page?