jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
More accurately, they had a vision of Mark Cuban getting rich, buying the Dallas Mavericks, and hanging out with beautiful women ^_^
You think ISO Prolog and R6RS aren't "established" and "solid"?
They just recently acquired a trademark, now apple can do something...

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Because you would have to be a sociopath to read that many comment replies on a YouTube video.
It's amazing the absolute bullshit people will force themselves to believe when their might be some money in it for them.

All these articles gloss over the technical side (which is really not complicated, because there's very little THERE). And gloss over the demand side (sure, people want to "own" the art even when "own" means absoluely nothing in that context). I can only assume that on the demand side there's a mixture of stupid money ("I don't know what this is but it seems like it might be the next big thing so I'm buying") and people working one of various angles.

At least some artists are getting paid stupid amounts of money, if someone's got to get a windfall it might as well be them. But let's not pretend thing actually makes sense as an overall thing.
Reminds me a bit of PowerShell, which also tried the "hey, let's do shell but with object-streams instead of string-strings". Unfortunately PowersHell is less than the sum of its parts - it's very powerfull and expressive, but ungodly warty and inconsistent, mashing up a grab-bag of good ideas from POSIX, DOS, and C# to produce a complete mess.
WRONG! Lets let Conan field this one: "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!"
It even has a turtle
Assad runs a mass-scale torture state. Iran supported Assad from the beginning, without it he wouldn't have survived to 2015. The result of Assad's butchery is a mass displacement of Syrians, ergo refugee crisis, ergo Leave victory in Brexit referendum.

If the US was ever serious about not letting Assad and Iran get away with it all that wouldn't have happened, and there wouldn't have been Brexit. The US's decision to not get involved against Assad (they're there for ISIS I remind you) had a far worse result in human lives and geopolitical impact than any of the US's 'meddling'.
Well All 2016 - 2019 MacBook are pretty much junk. As shown by their resale value. So it was probably one of the worst Apple product ever.

But the Pre-2015 MacBook Pro and M1? They are great.
( Although M1 still have shitty keyboard )
At a previous company, on-call was optional and we were compensated for that week when we were on call (an extra $500, IIRC.) About 50% of the team of 12 participated, meaning your week came up basically every month and a half. This seemed fair.

If your company doesn't want to pay for the aggravation, put your phone on silent, make sure alarms escalate to your manager, and start looking for another job.
> Imagine tossing a coin that has a 0.001:99.999 probability split. Just 0.001% chance that you will be killed vs 99+% chance that you won't. Believe me, you don't want to be tossing this coin in a macro scale OR way too many times.

That has to be some kind of named law: As the volume of a system increases, tolerance for failure decreases. Used in cases of: 1% failure of a hundred might be acceptable, but 1% failure of a million isn't.
I refinanced last year for a 0.125% better interest rate, and the bank paid me $1000 to do it. It was the easiest decision I ever made. Basically, there was $5000 in closing costs and the bank paid me $6000 in points. If I paid money I would have gotten a lower rate, but I already had a great rate.

Now, I'm refinancing again, but I'm paying some money. All in all, my net refinancing costs will be around $2000, but I have halved my interest rate almost, and will now be able to pay my home off about 10-15 years earlier (we just bought two years ago).
I'm not impressed with the self-fellatio of how it should be accessible to all.

GitHub still denies access to those under 13 to comply with laws.

I understand that it has to comply with laws, but it should nevertheless raise the issue and take a stance of disagreement with the law, if it truly believe that all developers should be able to contribute.

But that that which is touted as a “universal right” excludes the young, is of course nothing new.
> the economy suffers whether or not governments institute lockdowns, mostly because people choose not to go out on their own

Yes, in a free country many people will choose to curtail activities. But that's still a lot better than governments shutting down businesses without any real data or science to back up their decisions, including many businesses that (a) aren't linked by any real data to COVID transmission, (b) are taking precautions to protect their customers, and (c) still have plenty of customers who would like to go there. Not to mention (d) allowing "essential" businesses to stay open, but "essential" often means "has political connections" rather than really being essential, and (e) politicians notoriously violating the very lockdown rules they impose on everyone else. Which causes further secondary damage by further eroding people's trust in institutions.

> The CDC didn't lie either, AFAIK.

To be fair, the CDC hasn't done a lot of public communication either--most of that has been Fauci, who works for NIH, not CDC. But the NIH is a government institution too. And the things he said were trumpeted by the media, who I also included in "institutions":

Masks are bad--no wait, masks are good!

Lockdowns are bad--no wait, lockdowns are essential!

The herd immunity threshold is 60%--no wait, 65% to 70%--no wait, 70% to 80%, or is it 70% to 80% to 85%? Fauci admitted to the New York Times that he was just making up those numbers based on no actual science, just on what he thought would manipulate people into doing what he thought was a good idea.

> The WHO is irrelevant in this case because they're not in charge of approving vaccines in the US.

We're talking about second order effects. The WHO refused to even admit there was a pandemic until March 11, by which time Europe was already weeks into exponential growth and the US was not far behind. No wonder people in January and February 2020 weren't thinking in terms of a vaccine (or, for that matter, of shutting down international travel to stop the spread, which the WHO advised against).
Ah—I knew (because the 4-colour theorem holds!) that there must be a meeting at a corner or a disconnection, but I couldn't see either! Thanks for clarifying.
>There's now more than enough history out there for users to know that if you install major iOS updates, you cannot easily downgrade.

Certainly, that is your version of reality. Only a small minority of users have any clue about downgrading.

>I don't think it's a valid comment, or a comment made in good faith, to say that iOS updates are a "bait and switch".

>that Apple supports its older devices MUCH better and for much longer than any competitor.

Well, it depends on your viewpoint. How can you 'support' a device by incrementally making it slower with each passing release? If all they were releasing was bug fixes and patches, and features which didn't adversely impact performance then YES I would agree with you. Or hell, I'd even agree with you with the current situation if Apple allowed downgrades.

Seriously, I mean don't you think its totally messed up that Apple has to give its permission before you're able to downgrade the OS to speed it up when its their own update that slowed it down ? Its ridiculous and should not be accepted as the norm.

> you cannot easily downgrade. (It's not impossible, it's just a huge pain.)

Cool, please point the entire world to a working bootrom exploit for the 4s. We've been waiting for a while :)
Thanks for the extra documentation. Been looking into your boilerplate and I really like it. This will help me to really use the depth of this.

Thanks again for the heads up.
Thanks for the recommendation! Long time ago I've uninstalled AdBlock due to the noticeable performance issue and have been suffering the ads on the news websites, will now try uBlock.
I had a quite bad experience with the schools in my country. I hated it and after 9th grade, I was thinking of dropping out of altogether.
Eventually, I joined a distance learning high-school in the US called "American School of Correspondence". That was my last attempt at school. These were the best 4 years of school. I went from being the worst in the class (by grades) to being one of the best in the school.

A big difference between that school and others was that there was no memorization or note-taking. Before, good grades meant you had to be good at memorizing and recalling exactly. There was a lot of note-taking too. In the US HS, every single subject was self-contained, meaning that you could get the best grade without prior subject knowledge. Exams were meant to be completed with an open textbook. All that was dream come true for me.
I don't know if it counts as “production”, but I quite often use it to develop small GUI utilities in academic settings.

Performances are bad, but when playing with relatively small datasets, the portable (Linux/macOS/Windows) GUI, the huge stdlib, the ease of deployment of fat binaries and the pleasantness of the language in itself make for a very seductive tool.
You'd also have to account for scooters and such.
I really liked this episode.

I think Brendan Eich has got to be one of my favourite people to hear anecdotes about early web history. He was around at some pivotal moments, was in with the business side of things but also super technical. He’s also just very good at talking, he never appears to talk himself into a corner, somehow always avoids getting into the weeds, there’s a lucidity to all his answers that’s somehow very impressive. I wonder how much preparation he puts into his interviews.

As for Lex, personally I really like his style. He operates at a different pace to many of the people he’s interviewing, but I find this often enables him to see interesting parallels and analysis. It’s not always perfect, and maybe there’s room for improvement, though it gives the whole show an authenticity that it might not otherwise have if it were too polished.

I feel like his style works very well with all the guests he has on. They all seem to get on very well, which has a massive positive effect on how the guest interacts. Sure he has some prepared questions, but he also goes off piste quite a bit, and when he gets back to the prepared questions, I generally find they are well researched and very relevant.

I’d also like to know how he gets so many great guests on the show.
It's really wonderful to see the care and admiration of technology manifested like this.
Kinda?

Workout clothes make sense, these are things that get sweaty and I don't want to sort through all my t-shirts and underwear to find a wicking ones. And fancy clothes (wedding/funeral) go together so I can just open the closet bag and have my suit, shirt, tie, and dress socks all there - one "go bag" for each suit color (black, blue, grey) with shoes below.

However, everything else is interchangeable throughout the year.

For paper, there is some basic sorting I'll do. Pets, cars, home, and tax related items. I just put the new piece at the end of the folder which is hardly any 'write cost' and makes for a much easier read later if the need arises. Besides taxes where I just need all of the papers, most of the time the thing I need to reference is near the end
This looks like a good idea. Picture your typical urban freeway interchange with left turn lanes to get onto the freeway. This design eliminates the left turns by moving each direction to the left on the bridge: English on the bridge and American on the approaches. There is a diagram that makes it all clear.
The bot tweeted it last week:
http://www.backtype.com/page/www.maximumpc.com%2Farticle%2Ff...
Maybe it has to do with the drugs being a felony?
I forgot to mention loads of apples, clementines, oranges, PB&J sandwiches and the occasional salad.

IANAD, but it did get me through a summer of bootstrapping. It certainly isn't the healthiest diet, but we were hard pressed to do any better without resorting to coupon scavanging or food co-ops.

Also if you don't exercise already, but decide to take it up - the health benefits will probably more then compensate for the poor diet...probably.
Always interesting to see who ends up getting cited in articles like this:

"David Perry, a virus expert at Trend Micro"

"Robert Siciliano, the CEO at IDTheftSecurity.com"

"Winn Schwartau from The Security Awareness Company"

... and that's it.

Any article about hacking that ends with "... and even the HUMAN MIND" does a fair enough job mocking itself, but I have to point out that the one thing the article goes out of its way to downplay:

For now, most of us are safe; the smart grid is more of an idea than a reality, although there are several test deployments across the country. Once the smart grid becomes common, Schwartau said filtering, a method of making sure the power is actually reaching the intended recipients, could help ensure the grid is not hackable. We'll see.

... is the least worthy of downplaying on the list.
You've got a non-utf-8 wink in there, Drew.
Maybe for certain business activity, like I dunno, HIPAA related stuff. But I'd be shocked if there are any statutes requiring email retention across an entire organization.
For your example, this happens to be relatively simple. The design is boolean - "Let the corporate network be accessible to the outside world? Y/N" and this is almost universal to implement because network access works the same way almost everywhere. What you're doing is essentially whitelisting access - you can simplify that to an algorithmic problem and solution space.

Web applications are not the same way. For example, enforcing policy restrictions between users of different permission levels suddenly becomes a custom project depending on what each user can do, what the application does, what functionality is mapped to different permissions, etc...it is not as simple as whitelisting. It is highly contextual.

Unfortunately, web applications are also where most vulnerabilities are found, not the network (at least not anymore).
Sometimes I wished all articles were written as:

Facts: Box, online storage co, CEO A. Levy, IPO set for xx/xx/20xx, previously raised $175M in x rounds, looking to raise $175M at PO, shares priced at $14, Underwriter is JPM.

Opinion: Blah Blah Blah
we're DOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!
I'd love to hear how this goes, please update us. :)
Make it cost a dollar more every time the image is changed, and put it under a better url!
Right, so someone trying to brute force the password into the interface is limited by the speed of the program (or any artificial limits it should have built in :)).

In fact, just one word with a couple of numbers has the same effect.

Don't forget though, you are trusting this password to a site. If they are hacked, what then? Your 2K years turns into minutes or hours.
I named fb as a counterexample. I think you can definitely succeed without validating or invalidating your idea first, but it's a much bigger risk, and you are building a very specific kind of company. How many facebooks and twitters are there in the world?
I'm not sure I'd want to take any advice that suggests starting off a business relationship by lying to the potential customer.

(Re: "Identify your target customer. COLD email 20 of them and offer to pay THEM to use your product if they are willing to offer some feedback. See how many respond. If anybody responds, tell them that the offer is oversubscribed and that it is no longer available. See how many of those people still ask about the product.")
Lying to potential customers is cheap in terms of development time, but costly in terms of reputation.
I usually have two passwords: A stupid one that I only use on stupid sites, and a good one that I use on crucial ones (Gmail, Amazon, bank). There's no relationship between the good and bad passwords, so I feel more confident that I'll be unaffected by data breaches.

I checked the torrent and I guess I never made a Gawker account.
This wasn't in 2002, this was back in the 90s, I want to say 1996 or 1997. The source code was back-doored. The advisory you found was for completely different break-in in 2002.
It looks simple and valuable, which is good, but I feel my needs are already more than met with Boomerang for Gmail.
Technically I believe the autopilot is a higher level in the system, and the anti-stall stuff (among others) is part of the lower-level fly-by-wire system. It's sort of like with a car and the difference between anti-lock brakes (fly-by-wire), cruise control (basic autopilot functionality), and autonomous steering to reach a certain location (advanced autopilot functionality).

In any case, you're right that the automation (by whatever name) can already override the pilot in many cases. But it's a really tricky problem because you can easily make things worse instead of better. For example, one reason that Air France 447 crashed was that one of the pilots was commanding the airplane as if it were in a fly-by-wire mode it was not actually in. The plane had already stalled, but he was flying it as if the computers would prevent him from stalling, rather than taking proper corrective action. A proper recovery maneuver would have saved it. This is ultimately pilot error, but automation is a strong contributing factor. For another example, Asiana 214 crashed because the pilot assumed the airplane was doing more for him than it really was, trusting the automation to keep his speed steady, which it wasn't set to do. Again, pilot error, but with automation as a contributing factor.

It seems likely that automation is a net gain when done right, but it requires careful consideration.
I think this is a fantastic interpretation and hits some of the nails on the head.

>The yardstick by which you've chosen to determine if a job is "worthwhile" is whether anyone would notice if those workers disappeared.

This is how I judge mine and others' work on a normal basis. As a result, I have always been jealous of those who are ultra-specified because they are the literal choke points of production or whatever effort is happening.

Thinking about it more though, it would seem to me to make sense that people should be fluid between capabilities. Much like you are instructed to diversify your investment portfolio, perhaps you should be diversifying your skill sets.

The trouble there is that you end up a jack of all trades and master of none. This leaves folks like me in a gulch - and generally always dependent on a subject matter expert to get things done in nearly any domain. On the flip side I can move between domains fairly fluidly at a reasonable if not sufficient level of competence to get the job done - making my core skill the skill of persuasion (to hire people onto my teams etc...).

I don't know if there is an answer to this problem here but I think it might be worth thinking about more.

Cheers!
Sure, but the point is that you don't hear Silicon Valley companies boasting about the length of their history.
DDGs bang notation is amazing. Now when I use other people's browsers It feels clunky.
Presumably, yes. How would you "show" a blind person your vacation photos?
I've spent most of my career servicing the financial services and investment industry. While I've enjoyed much of it, I also found a lot of it surprising to say the least.

What many people in finance haven't realized is most of the industry is an IT problem. Much of the work I see involves ingesting data, analysing it, and reporting on it. Most everything else is sales.

Most of the people doing this work come from a finance background and only have a rudimentary understanding of IT or programming. Many know Excel and PowerPoint pretty well, and those tools are pushed to extremes.

The work I see being done by junior analysts is often manual IT work. You wouldn't believe what goes on behind the scenes assembling the statements and reports that are sent to clients. It can be surprisingly difficult to sell software in this environment, because many stakeholders would rather get another junior analyst than solve the problem with software. There are some enlightened firms when it comes to technology, but I would say that is the exception.

Ultimately what I think is going to happen is that companies that are built from the ground up around a technology infrastructure will become more efficient and win business from traditional companies. It will take a long time to displace the bigger players, but it will happen. WealthFront is a good example of a financial company that is built around technology. Eventually these types of firms will win out in the market.

Update: Here is an example of the type of work I see analysts doing:

Manually copy data from 5 different systems into a spreadsheet at the end of the month. The data always has flaws, so go back and validate the data and resolve the issues. When the data is clean, do some processing on the data in the spreadsheet and create some graphs.

Then cut and paste output from the Excel spreadsheet into 150 client PowerPoint presentations, and combine that with commentary saved in an Word document from another department that is stored on a network drive.

At the end of the month an analyst will work 80 hour weeks to complete this in 3-5 business days. This type of workflow is not uncommon.
I used DDG for a while and really wanted it to work for me, but for any non-obvious search, it simply falls on its face. It's easy to take for granted how good Google is at determining equivalent keywords based on context, or at grokking context in general.

I only adopted DDG over privacy concerns, and StartPage is filling this need wonderfully. Hopefully it stays up.
Interesting: http://hubski.com/b
Oddly enough, among the four tech start-up founders I met in Japan, ALL of them were Korean-Japanese. They all shared a similar story:

* Their fathers and grandfathers were forced to become entrepreneurs because they were scorned (in various ways) by traditional Japanese businesses due to their heritage.

* These parents found success in sometimes seedy areas of the Japanese economy, such as casinos, love hotels, etc. In other words, businesses that "proper" Japanese did not want to be caught running.

* The parents converted these successes into more respectable businesses, like restaurants, etc.

* All of this entrepreneurial knowledge and spirit (and eventually capital) got passed down to the kids, over the generations.

Likewise, many of the other entrepreneurs I met were foreigners, from places like Ghana, Bangladesh, etc. It's just anecdotal, but interesting food for thought nonetheless.
Was thinking the same thing. Sounds expensive to repair. Leading to higher insurance premiums
By track you mean drag strip because mass and high C of G are going to make this thing difficult to corner/handle.
If you hide something on my car to spy on me then it's not reasonable to expect it back if I find it. Charging somebody with theft for something like this is effectively rewarding the police for being incompetent.

One of the worst mistakes in modern government is pretending that the people 'serving' have more rights and privileges then everybody else.

They should have less.